Unfiltered Story #313659

In February 2021, I confessed to my crush. We’d gone to high school together, and had remained close friends even after graduation.

I got rejected, which was fine. But our friendship fell apart in the aftermath, which was horrible. I’d really valued that friendship, so I was pretty crushed that it was ruined.

After the falling-out, I threw myself into work, and my crush went overseas for university. And neither of us really spoke to each other over the next ten months. It was a *horrible* ten months.

Then one day, in December 2021, I had a dream.

We’d gone back to our old high school, for another year, and while queuing up for registration, ran into a mutual friend of ours. [Friend] didn’t know that [Crush] and I had fallen apart, and was rather baffled at the split.

[Friend] then basically ordered us to make up, or she’d silent treatment the two of us, so I basically apologised for confessing to [Crush] and for a bunch of other things I didn’t even realise that I’d did to her. [Crush] was silent for quite a long while, but then she finally nodded and accepted my apology, tentatively.

I then woke up, and half-delirious with sleep, immediately texted [Friend], telling her about my troubles with [Crush] and asking her advice.

[Friend] then promptly repeated exactly what her dream version said, nearly word-for-word, which basically convinced me to try reaching out and apologising to [Crush] once again, after all that time.

Still, I hesitated for almost the entire day before deciding that I’d lose nothing from the attempt.

So I sent a text over to [Crush], with the apology I’d come up with in the dream. And she received it. Right as she got off the plane back to Singapore for Christmas.

It was an amazing coincidence. Fate, some of my more superstitious relatives called it. Whatever it was, I wasn’t complaining.

Anywho, [Crush] accepted my apology, and agreed to go to hang out with me. We did that, and during that outing, we reconciled and both apologised to the other. We both could have handled the confession better. And while we could not and would not pretend it never happened, we agreed to let bygones be bygones.

So while we didn’t become boyfriend and girlfriend, at least we were friends once again.

I counted that as an unequivocal victory. A joy in a year filled with far too little of those. Goes to show, that there’s a light at the end of every tunnel. Just gotta buckle down and keep going.

Signing off on 2021. May 2022 be a brighter future for all of us.