A DIFFICULT DESICION I HAD TO MAKE
Name : Ummu Athirah Bt Elias
ID : 16186
So here I’m having so much hard time to choose. Half an hour sitting in front of the computer spending my time just to think which subject should I choose. Oh no, this won’t do. I need to ask someone’s opinion. Or else, I might end up lying on my bed, again. I don’t know why my bed seems being most comfortable in time when I don’t need them. Maybe I should sleep now. Apparently, I guess I will continue my essay tomorrow. Good night.
“Hey”. There, my classmate, course mate, old-schoolmate, tablemate, Nadiah, come. Without knocking the door, obviously. Or maybe she did. I don’t know, only I can hear now is the song on my playlist. She comes to ask about our upcoming holiday and such thing. Honestly, I don’t really think about it already. Pity her, off topic. But we can’t really off topic to each other actually. We got a lot of thing to share. Well most of them about Harry Potter, that magical movie. Very spooky magic I think, for how it affect people life. She is one of the fantastic fanatics. And all my sickness to Harry Potter is due to her. Even my playlist now are playing soundtrack from Harry Potter movie, all because she downloaded it. So, while she is around, I ask her about my essay. I need to ask her which one I should pick. And yes, as I thought, she tries to relate those topics with Harry Potter. What a pathetic. I think she must gone mad or something. But then, I must thank her. She gives me an idea.
At first, I decide to write about this one gentleman, Matthew Lewis. He had a very pity looking. Very innocent looks that make you feel like crying even though he was not being wept. The face when you look and automatically knew he had no such girls in his life. And make every teacher in this world feel depressed of teaching him. With tuck-in attire, protruding braces front teeth and M-shaped hair, I guess he only being friend with his pet, Trevor.
But, behind all this joke-face, he had a very sincere heart, very white. And all this time, 5 years in high school, he had to keep living with his constant pain, loving someone who he already know, never loves him. He never spoke it out not because he afraid of being hurt, but because he waiting a very right time to say it. Until one day, Mrs. Oliver, one of the teachers, announces the date for very occasional Yule Ball. This ball is rarely held, only invited for 5th year students and for whom another batch got a date with 5th year student. This ball usually held on the last day of the senior year.
And since Matthew is in his 5th year, he feel very bless. Thus, he decides to take one step forward; one step forward towards his love. He thought this is final chance, now or never. So,he writes a letter, with unknown identity, and sends it to his first sight love, Ginny, invite her to the Yule Ball and ask her to wear her very best dress. What a brave decision. How on earth he can assure Ginny will accept him with all his appearance? And what if Ginny leave him alone in the middle of the ball? And even worst, what if Ginny didn’t come at all?
Day after day pass. Matthew is the one who got nervous to death. Tonight, the Yule Ball will decide everything to his life, everything about his love; either Ginny will come or not. As the clock strike 8 pm, the Yule Ball starts. Matthew faithfully waiting in front of the huge gold door to gently takes Ginny hand and bow to her with full of love. How romantic, he had been practicing it since the first day he met Ginny eyes to eyes. But this is different, this going to be very real, very alive, not the hand of skeletons in his Biology lesson class, or the hands of statues wearing fancy dress. He waits in sweats. All men get their couple already. But he still waits, alone, in fronts of the door.
A couple minutes later, a girl in pink dress walk inside. Very mediocre, not so much like another girl with their fancy dress, Ginny walks slowly while her left hand lift up a bit of her dress. She is looking for her secret inviter around the main door, and all she can see is one man, wearing a very bright red suit, standing alone, smiling at her. The handsome man slowly walks towards her, asks for her hand and says “I thought you wouldn’t come, I’m Matthew by the way, Matthew Lewis”. Hush. “I used to know one man named Matthew Lewis, but you both not so much alike”, she says while looking at him, this ‘new’ Matthew have all spike hair, very white regular teeth and well-shaped body. Matthew get a bit shocked for how Ginny can knew a person like him. “Yes, I’m the one. The nerdy Matt. I’ve change a bit I guess”. And they laugh. Matthew can’t tell how happy he is when they dance. To hold the one he loves the most who he knows he has waiting this time long enough. All he does is just looking inside Ginny’s green eyes. But everything seems perfect for him. This is his final year and he going to end this perfectly.
The Yule Ball ends at midnight. But the feeling between Matthew and Ginny not ended there. The years pass by, but they still contact each other. Ginny needs to finish her 5th year. As he listened to the melody that was being aired through the small radio in his room, he realized that this particular song was the first song played during the Yule Ball and the first song they danced together with and since then , it had been his favourite song. Funnily, he could remember how he gather all his confidence he possibly had just to try to ask her to accompany him to the Ball. After that night, he knew, some magic happened to him, to Ginny and to both of them. He swears to never let the magic dies.
After all this time I’m drafting this essay, I don’t know which one of title should I choose which will suit this essay. And here, this is the difficult decision I had to make; choosing a title to a very common love story.
