“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1pkJRG6jdZ
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Ly7BKuL4p
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQas5Ajv7zb
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfK51hRKKow
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2iG6IuUZs
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ37KdfAvQ7
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX6EErnRj3
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxohkyijE6
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNVo60xpdka
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklSgUnKchq
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WIBHl5xVm
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhn3PmyVKIk
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrI4i0rFu4B
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjd2qxAFEW
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORv7QBoQhd
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9cXDiab0R
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAEcjSTuGu
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVVtAWNfMK
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaU9uwlSs2
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUZOHf4mpES
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj23Y9oE1XE
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyH3wRsfDQT
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGy6BaYaH0l
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiAbUKkcTF
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIUiRJVTdI
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatMhQGMnGl
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKcxGZPtvhk
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTRvW9iEbP
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0Cdi21LXb
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9lOITc0Q7
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdRmmf0d9O
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22MExJ2r4P
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8MNA5xtXU
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrTSyhU0br
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fOsHLIItU
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYicYFGfNe6
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPkaibsFh9
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqgaeE4Ely
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgfRxGM3LG
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkwMZUv9we
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7E0D7pLDJh
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OUXSEBmNH
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAPPwUaFus
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgqkvrKeWi
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0rOvHelJy4
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdzvY4pwTOW
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyJURDRG9W
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8hC9udQBt
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3h0EWFryM
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspmXh3IGH5
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFf0VlJbT5
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTmgylANTL1
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIVMTcvQbG
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhQX6akGae
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjuvJmvxMb
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMTKriRjEKJ
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCxQNTVej5
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbOPyLLVjL
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOmg7GBdQD
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaMefBpCtl
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡysYE9vwCBq
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkh3Vb55TXz
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmHkL3S3fO
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDCUDDApvQ
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTQOCmzIoZ
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAfw7CgC0B
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrbEfPaKNH
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjNK5qeLi9
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUWqHyPLAL
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5NIi7RAuT
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUudoSm25W
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiRYZnyLGN
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYlNHVK24q
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0k9FC8l9Qt
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79vqhHJoPb
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nXoU2Unp4
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkycB8ioAhl
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oQ2LssLB1
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGbB6mI3EX
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsE0ebqFoT
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKCXGUr3Ll
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQW6s55Gfm
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoJ1bJ0ofP
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqoWdmbom3
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyIv2k5z3L
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bjepnARBj
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMlMRe68ydb
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkpQX35GTq
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdH7mZHexfp
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItHgrhGgG2
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdP08greC5k
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPArUTEZkeX
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqlFnqee1Q
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEvwwWNn9u
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmR2vTOQQ4R
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4OiGnkkhN
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhmQWTxSq4
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHx4pzBorN
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzv3VZMybZ
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDKo0nrpE6
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEbvdPaLQt
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmGysynGOw
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUbQwzmyWnp
happened.
Forget it, because I think I692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQBKSZ3S7k
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvElIZLUvb
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpaRXvdWVL
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BCTv3JZo1
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3Lqp73T3A
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLEuXemooWB
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxblzM2gBc
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVn3c8kCBv
only one. My first and forever love.
