Feel left in

Girls’ day out? ME?? For somebody who’s actually more at ease with members of the opposite sex, spending time with the girls is not exactly part of my normal everyday activities.

Heheh. I was forced into it, actually. Today is Mika’s birthday and she wanted the old group reunited. The “group”, by the way, are the first people I made friends with in college. Three of them shifted out, leaving me and Salome in our original course. Even Sal and I drifted apart, though we’re together usually in class… but not like before.

So there was Mika, Salome, Butter (don’t ask), Fritzi, and the reluctant-but-fine-it’s-her-birthday-and-I’ve-got-no-excuse ol’ me at a cozy restaurant just outside the campus.

Of course we talked mostly about reminiscence: our daily lunch escapades that left us almost always late for our 1:30pm class and practically no money; our batchmates; our professors… eventually it led to more recent events. And while they gleefully talked of their other friends and suitors and boyfriends, I just sat and watched and listened. Apparently these four have been keeping in touch without me but I didn’t mind. I find amusement in watching them tell stories and laugh and shriek and gossip.

I’ve often wondered how I hit it off with these girls. They are so… girly. I guess it game with the circumstances on the first day of freshman year (actually they were the only ones around at the time). I never really imagined myself to be “one of the girls”, but here I am, with the girls, and I’m enjoying it. :)