Yellow Trail Slippers

I was on the way to Marine Parade library today and I met an old friend. Lets call him Yellow-Trail-Slippers (YTS). I've known him since I was sec2 and when he was sec4. We were both from the same secondary school and got to know each other through IRC, a place where the whole world knew each other then. I saw him in school a few times, thought he was quite cute and decided I wanted to know him. So, the best way to get to know him was IRC. I pretended that I didnt know who he was and said "Hi, intro pls" (Im sure I wasn't the only doing that at that time) and started talking to him. Or wait, did he message me on IRC first. Whatever it was, we got to know each other. He stayed pretty near me in sec sch and we would somehow take the same bus 16 to school on most days. Yadah yadah, we were both interested in each other and his good friend then was the bf of my good friend. But thats not the point. So one fine day on a youth day (it was a school holiday), I had band practice back in school and somehow or another my senior told me that "YTS is coming to find you!". I panicked, didnt know what to do, scared. He came to school in his yellow trail slippers and told me he liked me by typing it on his phone and showing it to me (HAHA, I cant believe I actually remember all this). I was a super scared and innocent person last time and this kinda things really freaked me out. I was like "Errr" "Ooohhh..." and guess what, I rejected him in the end. WTH was I doing right? Rejecting a guy I was interested in (and not to mention that there was another girl interested in him then as well). Against my stubborn nature, I kept telling myself that I didnt regret it but obviously I did. Guess we werent meant to be and didnt get together. I cant remember how but he went to TPJC while I struggled to complete the last two years of my sec sch life. Somehow, we made plans together to get into NUS to study Business. Obviously, only I did so while he went to NTU's Business course instead. I bumped into him today on bus 16. He just collected his convo gown and it triggered my memory of what happened with him in the past. How time flies and how we were supposed to study Business together etc etc.. And I used to think how my life would have been so much different if I got together with him because I knew he is a good guy and definitely good for me. Probably one of the regrets in my life I that I wouldn't be able to forget.