They say that love doesn't come, it doesn't happen, until you least expect it. And it's not just any kind of love. It's that raw love filled with truth, open-mindedness, freedom, compassion, and desire for one another. Oh, and it feels so warm and tender.

Call me crazy but they were surely correct. It was unexpected and it's left me jumbled all in the matter of a few weeks. This went by so fast and this wasn't supposed to happen, okay?

When you go on a trip with your girls, you're there to have a good ass time and do grown people things, right? You're on vacation to relax, let loose, have a drink or two, and whatever else happens on the trip stays there.

What I was feeling was something you feel when you're a teenager. This happens when you meet somebody, you have your fun, and grow attached in the first instance. Then again, it probably wasn't a teenage, puppy love feeling because this feeling was stronger than my 16-year-old self could even handle.

But this wasn't supposed to happen for somebody like me. I'm too old be feeling these butterflies, the curling of the toes, the goosebumps, and the shivers, okay? Heart beating faster than a damn racecar and sweating.

Me? Sweating a guy? I don't even flip through magazines looking at male models like my co-workers do. There's no love interest in my life nor did I want one. I didn't have a type because I was focused on myself. This is the era of self-love people. I am my type. Who can compete with that?

Well, that somebody could be in this person here. My inner hopeless romantic teen is screaming with joy because this is something I had only ever dreamed of feeling back then. BACK THEN. The 27-year-old wasn't worried about Prince Charming because she had to get her feet off the ground for her career to begin.

Then BAM! I never saw any of this coming. It's like being blindfolded and only focused on what you think is going on in your head. Blinded by strong feelings. I couldn't call this love...could I?

My poor heart couldn't catch a break at all as it is and my mind was caught up in the excitement of everything. Head was pounding, invisible hairs standing up straight on my skin, cheeks flushed, joints growing stuff.

How do you feel something for someone so fast like this? My time was meant to be spent with the girls but no. Instead of shaking my ass with my friends, my heart's lead me into the arms of this guy. Falling head-over-hills like Jack and Jill with no bucket of water because the heat is there. It was hot as hell.

What is happening to me? Falling so hard for somebody I barely know. I can't do this, especially during this time in my life. Just starting my career and focusing on myself. That's what my main goal in life is right now. Breaking generational curses and setting up new opportunities for the future.

But this feeling won't go away and the more it grows, the more I want to just linger and go with the flow. Why did all of that fade away the moment his fingers intertwined with mine? The moment his left hand gently placed itself on my backside?

And when he gazed into my eyes, I became dumbfounded. His smile was contagious as my cheeks filled with pleasure and enjoyment. This song should never end. Why did my mood shift after these little things happened?

My world, that I worked so hard to build the past several years, turned upside down in the matter of a few weeks. Buildings destroyed, statues and decorations washed away, and a whole new world came to be. Fresh vegetation, clean water crashing into the sand, and a smile still on my face...with him.

This can't be real.