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"I went to the U.S. as a last resort," Stacy said after I finished telling her what I knew.

"Matt--he's...oh, I don't know. There was something...almost frightening about him during those years. In college, he was so possessive. Yes, he had me erase my Friendster and Myspace accounts. He even asked for my password in Hotmail and kept track of my emails. Yes, he wanted me to 'disappear' from the internet and, because I was young and so much in love, I did what he asked. I even stopped talking to some of my friends that he didn't know."

She paused before saying, "I was just a young writer then and he was already the editor-in-chief of our school paper."

It almost felt like she could see the past shifting into focus right there at the park's open space, where kids ran around with their yayas hot on their heels.

"He was just so cool to me and I fell for him easily," she said. "I graduated ahead of him and got a job in a big broadsheet. I guess that was around the time you met him, when he shifted to Journalism from his Nursing course. Yes, I knew about his girls in college."

"But..." I started, in a slightly unsure tone that was new to me. "...we didn't get together 'til after college."

"There were many," she said firmly. Quietly, she took a few sips of her coffee and looked serene, almost lost, as the past came back to her.

"I knew about those things, believe me," she continued. "And we were on-and-off. But, I never cheated on him. He was always jealous and I was getting tired. Long story short, I couldn't take it anymore. I guess he finally learned his lesson because he promised me that he would change."

She almost smiled as she said, "He wanted to settle down, so he proposed." I stole a short glance at her ring finger. No band. She caught me.

"I'm not married yet," she said with a laugh. "Thirty. And single. Anyway, I was only 23 then. I didn't want to get married yet. There was so much I still wanted to do, and he got mad because I told him that. We didn't talk for a long time until that night when I saw him last. He told me that he would wait no matter how long. He told me that he would change his possessive ways and make me fall in love with him all over again."

"I wanted to believe him," Stacy sighed. "I really wanted to. After all, we had been together for so long. But at that moment, I remembered what it was like to be his girlfriend and I just didn't want to live like that anymore."


To be continued...

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