At the very beginning of the true love story...
♥ April started having a blog when she was still in junior college and Linus was one of her first few regular readers. They communicated frequently through the blog's comment function, as well as the then-popular tagboard.
♥ As years gone by and Linus still stayed at April's blog, they began to become part of a group of close blogging friends. They started chatting regularly online through MiRC/MSN, joking and teasing each other. As April had her photo on her blog, she started complaining that it wasn't fair that she had no idea how Linus looked like. The first photo that Linus sent over to her was of him making a really, totally, ugly face. -__-" They remained as close friends for many years, but only online. They never initiated any meet-ups, nor did they attend the same blogger outings before.
And the true love story started...
♥ In 2004, April had a very nasty breakup from her 7 years long relationship. Feeling really depressed and completely at a loss, she started a private blog about the failed relationship, and Linus was one of the readers invited to this private blog. He started giving her advises, and stayed up late just to make her sleepy and thus can fall asleep easily. At the same period, Linus started having problems with his then-girlfriend too.
♥ On 27th June 2004, April was invited to her friend's 21st party at East Coast Part (ECP). She was chatting with Linus on MSN, as usual, when she started complaining about ECP being very far from home. She jokingly requested for Linus to come and send her home, and Linus took it for real, and he really did appear! She was sitting around a table with her friends chatting and laughing when a SMS came in, "what are you all talking about? You are laughing so happily." She looked up and saw two guys from a distant staring at them. She walked over, unsure, as after all, all she had was a distorted face of Linus for a reference! It turned out to be Linus (indeed!!!) and his friend, Jonathan, and they had a quick chat before April went back to the party.
♥ Linus hanged around ECP area with his friend waiting for April, and when April was ready to go, he asked if she was in a hurry to get home. They ended up at Changi Village for a drink, and they had a joke exploring the area, looking at the ladies standing at the roadside, *cough* who were actually men. They went to Changi Airport next, and spent the night enjoying the cool breeze, nice music, and the planes that were taking off/landing.
♥ As it was getting late, Linus sent Jonathan home first before sending April home. They ended up chatting in the car until 3am. April was feeling happy and completely at ease with Linus, and even felt a little heart-a-fluttering for him, but she pushed it aside. Linus was talking about being very confused about life, and April happened to be a little thirsty and hence started licking her own lips. Linus stared at her for a moment, and kissed her. Shocked, stunned, but totally enjoying the moment, *blushes*, April returned the kiss.
♥ They arranged to meet up again on 3rd July 2004 for a suntanning session. As Jonathan was around, April got shy and decided to just laze on the benches instead of stripping down to her bikini. *hurhur* The two guys decided to go for a swim instead of suntanning. Linus was worried that she would be bored, so he took out his iPod and passed to her. They met up with another of Linus' friends, Ricky, and they went down to Sim Lim Square together to get some IT stuffs. While on the escalator, Linus put his arm around April and held her tight. April felt so happy by the action, yet embarrassed as his friends were around. He let go of her when they reached ground floor and April felt a little disappointed, but he picked up her hand again when they were waiting for the taxi, and he asked, "Can I hold your hand forever?"
♥ And thus April and Linus officially got together on 3rd of July, which made the 3rd of every month very special as it became their month-iversary. And the fairy tale just gets sweeter each and every day.
