COMMANDER COBRA

I rarely had really close guy-friends to be honest. Even though I really trust some of them, this “trust” I wouldn’t consider as that “I’ll-tell-you-the-things-that-had-been-happening-in-my-life-including-my-secrets” trust but rather the "how-would-you-react-on-this-situation" trust. Honestly from all the boys in my senior school I’d tell you that I know everyone but only 4 boys I would consider trust-worthy and I feel can give me considerable thoughts if I had to ask one from them. Sadly, this story isn’t going to be about one of them because I think I have just found another guy-friend to whom I can share stories even though we’re continents apart.

“Hey Gloria, which one would you prefer”, he would ask. Most times, I will find him jumping off here and there, making up his hair, or mocking people. Yet still so many people have asked me whether he had ever been serious for just even one second in his life. My answer is yea, he’s been VERY serious in his life except for the moment he’s called me shorty. Dang.

His name is Cobra, a 15 years old boy with a pair of glasses, black hair, t-shirt, short pants, and shoes as his everyday attribute. There’s nothing much you would consider as interesting out of this boy until you saw it for the first time. Yes, that “it” everyone else would’ve consider as an unimportant detail of someone. But in the way I see it, this is a very rare feature young adults have – especially in boys who will always be immature when they are in contact with their friends. Only few people are able to see this special feature as there is one out of the 4 guy-friends I found doing the same kind of thing; and that’s exactly what I saw as a potential.

Let me say it to you this way: he'll most likely be serious around you, even though it also means annoying you in some sort of things he'd known would annoy you; he’ll help you if you need help – even if this “help” is just simply helping you to do something small; he’ll be there when you want him to accompany you for a little adventure; he’ll support you when you’re cracking a joke on someone; he’ll hug you when you ask for them; he’ll be standing next to you even if it only means to shut up and listen to the wind howling; and he’ll protect you as if you’re his own little brother (except if you’re too annoying).

I don’t know if he’s raised this way in his family, but it surely is a good thing you would’ve want to extract out of a man you’d marry one day. His girl is dang lucky to have him I’d say.

We first met each other about 6 months ago when I had my trip to Melbourne, Australia. One of my friends got to stay in his house and I would say I was really impressed with his family. I loved his dad a lot because he’s really warm to us when we had what I call as ‘the last supper’ and his mom is a really calm woman I would admire. They have a really nice family with 3 boys and such love. If you were I that night (on the supper), I believe you would be feeling the same feeling with me: I was really jealous. I’ll type the word again in caps so you would remember: I was really JEALOUS. I’m thinking, ‘what a nice life they’re living. I should live that kind of marriage someday’. I don’t even tell Cobra what I thought that night. I wonder from whom did Cobra get his good genes tho.

I guess what Mr. Lucas’ statement about why girls really like it when boys ask them for advices or asking them for help when they’re feeling a bit unwell is simply true. If you think about it rationally it would definitely be it.
I started thinking when does this "I trust him" thing starts, but I guess life is just doing its thing when it comes to certain friendships that are meant to last. The only thing that made me wonder about these type of boys were if these good things you love about them will stay as time pass by and ‘growing-up’ takes place. Will I still see the same Cobra I’ve seen today? Will these things I love about him fade as he grows older? I can only hope he wouldn’t. -red

“Why do you think girls like boys who ask them advices on which clothes to buy, how should girls react on circumstances, or how boys offend them in specific situations? EXACTLY, girls loved to feel that they’re needed” –Mr. Lucas