“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZoqhRGBzX
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6CB9K8gwJ
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQgM56dXxX
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUnbaFEGLN
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp95nVVtWy9
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfMudv91jA
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnqLNH9lym
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZKJAlykIv
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsgybsYWBr
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjObo2VV5o9
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72RUmCTHe2
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHp7erLqte9
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDhrEDVyFx
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPTsHouJvn
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWS5tspxKKV
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyr5YQdMuu
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SbKSGjLBo
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4Y9VNGhbI
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDyFdeAGzU
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9ER2XcwZm
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOOTSZedjz
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtK0nbwZbch
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4EWLdr199Y
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LsNWxCaex
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uNScHjcRT
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75aCuFJcgH
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7y7a3hHEP4
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yOMP3OEtx
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY95Rv134w0
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ79cUiLg8pz
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGuJXawZx0
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahpsqR5kv8
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxXrxWL1lZ
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRe76QM1JOf
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXZEdWQNNH
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuIL9j6uRC
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJm7YEIT43E
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuJNmJJixm
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQI5oSMcMW
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvQutVaG1i
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJC6qiFboT
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjPBT43FTk
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMTcPG0IY9
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWeL2QVvTU
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKewLMEwgY
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTu2EsPVXS
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkF4rGt2Va
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhtpO2uVq6
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNy6ObJ107C
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSIVgnYvuNi
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zwZ7MQe7I
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdTO3DPG0K
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXl2LFn6ST3
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37RLL3l8fw
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpDcONG4tt
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSiS7qjB9c
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27RBadTFwH
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqn2K8YpBi
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUsnq60FKE
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnyeB9KMGi
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCs2wCkZP7p
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtXZ7PICxAc
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYOJujDTgY
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsoa94oyfK
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3rxmt5E70
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHZdCI49rS
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJaIfwXRA2
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ25ZtuvHz8J
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡussiVh4HuL
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlv7DAb9lSK
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhg8gVjSZZ8
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9o2sDx3ts3
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJj6ZA2NFv
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5N1eb4WCi
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoG6Ka3gAlz
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVhbpJqKFK
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJz2ti4BmT
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAwnjd81Jz
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIatbQmjuAo
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FrgJv6KOA
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYyqJYvDRA
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiW6bqLmO3
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSihI2ZTPjH
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIClIP6t90T
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgO2PWzCigR
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMLeS5cnLL
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7MGhLUz9S
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBPjkgni7L
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcntcbYEmiw
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhF4vb3qFn0
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg11RXobYam
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡietARGHiGQ
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tSdWKBfxV
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6olbnRuaj
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbU0rtHNDw
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9puEqfwxe
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7LFaT9cVm
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHfgdu7EPB
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRdneJTosH
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXw0Hl4xYJ
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnFZbXbDY9v
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJDtTcVpow
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWcPfqdnZp
happened.
Forget it, because I think I548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk7kz5HPDr8
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxvGGMaf6T
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL39t66XnkG
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFZ4uo9dQt
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd1p1yWWVal
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfKDaKvoY3
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCYbXaFnrc
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the548Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp29cLTReNm
only one. My first and forever love.
