Status: Forever Alone

I am a wedding planner. But, ironically, I have given up on love. At twenty-nine, tanggap ko nang no-boyfriend-since-birth-and-until-death ako. Tanggap ko nang ang misyon ko sa buhay ay ang mag-ayos lang ng kasal ng iba at hindi ng sarili kong kasal.

I am definitely not ugly, vapid, nor do I have a nasty personality. It’s just that I am unlucky with love. I have a love jinx. And I would die not knowing how it felt to be loved.

But one day, I met a guy who, for a moment, made me want to hope that I could still experience romantic love in this lifetime. But to add to my misery, he is an annulment lawyer.

I start marriages, he ends them. Great.

I know he won’t fall in love with me. I even doubt if he knows how to love. He only hung out with me because he was fascinated by our contrasting jobs and my being an NBSB. Pero isang araw, bigla na lang akong makatanggap ng isang kakaibang “wedding proposal” mula sa kanya.

“Marry me. I will let you experience a wedding.”

“Then you will make me experience an annulment afterwards?”

Maybe I have given up on love. But I wanted to experience being a bride. Kahit pa may expiration date ang marriage namin. Huwag lang sana akong mai-in love sa temporary husband ko. Please, god, no.