For the love of Tennis

During my first semester in UP. I entered an organization. A sports organization. Tennis UP.

Why? Initially I was looking for badminton and found tennis instead. Also my mother has a tennis racket that was given to her by her co-worker before kept at the storage so I thought it best to use the racket.



I first entered by paying a session with a trainer in UP and then entered the org because I see the possibilities of more friends and also my money for a trainer is not enough anymore.

My application process was tedious but fun. Stressful but worth it. I got to meet great people like my buddies Ate Kate and Kuya Tol and got to be friends with my co-applicants.

My buddy in green Kuya Tol and Kuya Nathan, my member crush
(no he is not the guy I am pertaining to..)

I also found a guy whom I really liked. He was part of the varsity team and he was a good guy. My orgmate and I initially planned to make me and him an item but sadly that didn't work. He is a good guy but it was never meant to be in the beginning.

But what I did not expect is that I fell for his friend who was also in the team and was a book reader like me. Also he was kind and handsome. We started out as he suggesting me to read a book because I was making a book database that time. The book was entitled : A Separate Peace.

Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.


Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair- from the initial butterflies to the soaring heights- through to the devastating plunge. Lang Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world.

I didn't fell for him then because I still like his friend but as time passed by I grew to like him then fell for him and his boyish way. He was being nice to me and I assumed--that is what I hold onto right now.

Then one day I told him I liked him and he instantly ran the other direction, figuratively. I tried to connect with him but he declined every effort.

It has been a year and I still haven't talked to him. I was hurt and he was surprised and (I guess) hurt so it was better to leave it. Up to the point that I left the organization because of him. I could not handle the emotional turmoil I was having so I took off without being a legit member in the organization.

What's funny on all of these is the books he and I shared. He told me to read A Separate Peace and I did, even bought a copy, and I told him to read Love and Misadventures and he borrowed my copy which until now he holds in his possession.

TENNIS UP VICTORY PARTY