"I cannot go against my family to marry you. I am all they have." She told him with a heavy heart.
He couldn't be more happier that she was not the same kid anymore who used to believe in fairy tales.
Mario still doesn't know if fate has a different plan for him and the princess Peach.
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"Hug someone tight and cry your heart out." She laughed seeing this on the top of his bucket list.
"Not everyone wants to go for a Europe trip." He tried hard to hide his emotions.
Hugging someone by a grown up boy was still a taboo for a lower middle class family like his.
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"Why don't you post Instagram stories? Don't you believe in creating memories?" She asked.
"Those fads are for the kids these days." He laughed.
Only the box full of polaroids in his cupboard knew how beautiful his memories were.
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"What?" She was puzzled why anyone would even think that.
"Think about the Universe; without any life forms, no earth, no sun ever and time flies endlessly." He mumbled again.
Making him talk in his half-asleep state while caressing his hair was still her favourite thing to do.
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"Why do you still travel by train when you can easily afford flights?" She asked.
"I have fear of heights," he lied.
She would never understand how wonderful an overnight journey is with a window seat, moonlight, cool breeze and those heartful songs in his playlist.
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"Hey Bandar, what are you doing? The train is still running late na?," her text popped up on the screen.
"Yeah, 4 hours," he sighed.
They smiled, they laughed, they walked down the memory lane together until the train arrived at 3 am.
A girl who used to sleep at 10pm, didn't care for the dark circles under her eyes that night.
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"Last call duration = 01:11:03," popped up after he disconnected the call.
He couldn't believe how that was even possible.
Life taught him to have a heart-to-heart conversation with his mother.
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"Watch my back, I don't wanna die," he screamed while shooting at the enemies.
"I will always be watching your back, my little brother," he replied.
They cleared the last boss stage of Contra for the first time.
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"Do you even know that you have a mother at your home?" She said over the phone after 8 days of their last conversation.
He knew what he had to say.
"Ok Google, remind me to call my mom at 9:00 pm daily."
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"Why my WiFi is not working," she sighed.
He silently unblocked her IP.
His geek little heart shared the bandwidth with her.
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