Ilonggo Express 2

The ex-online boyfriend from Iloilo is someone I still have not met F2F. I was supposed to meet him here in Manila, had he kept his promise to come home in the summer of 2001.

It was a business move for his dad that took him and his whole family there sometime in the 1990s. This guy was five years my junior and was in third year college when I met him on mIRC.

I met him during what I consider was a dark year in my life, when I was physically unattractive, had the worst boss in the world, and my spiritual life had taken a major blow.

A cyber romance was not even on my mind when I met him. Chatting simply meant whiling away the lonely hours, even if it meant laughing, alone, in my room.

Besides, I didn't like him, at first, but ended up liking him after he persisted in talking to me in private, using creative opening lines, and all the more because we shared the same spiritual beliefs.

Everything was going well in the two months of our nocturnal relationship. We had exchanged pictures, by then, and so I know how he looks like. Not my type, actually, but my heart had taken the plunge. Everything was going well until he disappeared, stopped going online for weeks.

Other friends there later confirmed a third party was behind it, which he himself eventually confessed to. What was I to do? She was there and I was here.

I really loved him. I just thank God I have moved on, with no desire whatsoever of ever seeing him.