“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4SLLjAcBD
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrygA8JI4y0
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV62oCMEvFq
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUrP1htwQM
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8zirgNYne
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1T9gCTSjM
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITx6p4uVPe
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4dVy7FUwo
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFjm2v7odg
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMBxcQgpWN
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9rXWburkz
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2bYErFmXU
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnaSOt5CCgi
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckcmatSLJk
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UHXN8T1rA
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKat4cDylL
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡis6jbS8tz8
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbb33bKkch
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7bxraoSz3
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9iIwplWXX
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbxTo5FWEY
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlODsRUyfF
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm2AY9XZdf
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8wf4NWiEH
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWAgelAO52f
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzUMHI2SuV
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6IR2kSbnU
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0H9Sgxt7JU
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3JVchYMeU
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUJaZ57g3V
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJUvS4Yiqx
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WiO6LkIcM
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAaMWFVAgr
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKE7TV1xvRv
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoXpgV2uq0
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MQIFwmsGn
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYxjghnbvr
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMYsG3IVyS
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXZjlQ5rZg
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrP7OwrEwil
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DsvSf8Bzi
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFLkPq0ZWI
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1C9PCIeLGO
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7rhYxdfkzz
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzUEc9zTKD
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOiN27iV5K
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhgzUj9W0H
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzG4juD0lyz
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfXyqxTk8l
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxL7pWaQcO6
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64DTEdCC0t
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFotwQAVzhg
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWIErtZT3Ct
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSc9PjwKlJ
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcv9HmWqtb9
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCJ1Dry4ZL
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6aWnaUmCW
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGTCeyTmdM
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxl1wBPcpuI
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJiYEWjhAP
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplUPtEOIxv
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy60b3VxmK
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUqJnOWPT8
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GLDFPYElP
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16SMWr8aJn
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHfVCvWgpS
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUKV4xk1h1
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqHvxMCa6Z
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmNVWRah5t
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrAdSPopDk
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqzCy7o9Q0
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69jTWU2NnW
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXZnywTF64
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wcq1vsQuV
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLIvpQKgHT
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCBCFG3fuh
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rv1jwYjCY
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypYYmbluoi
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnb9zop9wn
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi40QGb5crf
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyjbBmpiWN
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkPsQP7lDL
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdENTP4qPuQ
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHQfl9D1z9
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XfPjxIqcH
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMiqxcSM4eD
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiEB1oi80W
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNNZFan6WNs
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyYGVqk6OQ
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYC6rOAYKn4
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0oQsKyrpD
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwkSvd8qtp
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5YXuWnPuK
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOjcqwlBYr
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyVvxgjobN
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGgGywceqF
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnEsjtXScB
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrKGzJtctD
sorry, I’m too late.
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face.
“Thank you. Thank you for549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQ15Tyjv3j
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJzltZ2oqp
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshGDZi1zue
happened.
Forget it, because I think I549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmzL5OwmKG
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6Fsb3NeyT
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBHmdf3VOW
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7KXYmb1HAt
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gA9h582lW
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEX4XOcFvu
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMPRi6vrYn
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the549Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9H71wNZd9T
only one. My first and forever love.
