“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my717Please respect copyright.PENANABisyCtbJVs
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one717Please respect copyright.PENANAA4JIozCChp
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,717Please respect copyright.PENANAogXAlFPjwM
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with717Please respect copyright.PENANABxjsF2sKWG
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives717Please respect copyright.PENANAJJOUP8Fvht
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses717Please respect copyright.PENANAB03pJyRcaL
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate717Please respect copyright.PENANAuSxNDJ2WmW
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my717Please respect copyright.PENANA9kNl0jXhTy
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that717Please respect copyright.PENANAIz4VN4tQKD
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from717Please respect copyright.PENANAPWYllWvmBK
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for717Please respect copyright.PENANAIlb3dc7TgV
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,717Please respect copyright.PENANAEaXPBkBYAx
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me717Please respect copyright.PENANABLCCG8srzc
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He717Please respect copyright.PENANABrOaczUnV7
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just717Please respect copyright.PENANAbA06GsuM3I
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with717Please respect copyright.PENANAxH16AUAru9
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I717Please respect copyright.PENANAmsbtAXIY74
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To717Please respect copyright.PENANAwtRUvdxjT6
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe717Please respect copyright.PENANA9YKhtiAYwx
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace717Please respect copyright.PENANA18AzFZZ9ET
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is717Please respect copyright.PENANAbZGd5OK6xP
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got717Please respect copyright.PENANAIC85rcAXOJ
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from717Please respect copyright.PENANAxcN7NU8nGD
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,717Please respect copyright.PENANAE9RlX1Pn2z
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel717Please respect copyright.PENANAmIRGEWoQfM
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had717Please respect copyright.PENANAiu7siLvz1V
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back717Please respect copyright.PENANAY0l9SjX9lq
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees717Please respect copyright.PENANAuDoAMmqWFs
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s717Please respect copyright.PENANAGk4fh5KpPL
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You717Please respect copyright.PENANAU4s0c23Vu2
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.717Please respect copyright.PENANAKEiE2mzpD0
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.717Please respect copyright.PENANA4syHeNMnPc
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your717Please respect copyright.PENANA3o1kebHNzi
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking717Please respect copyright.PENANAMntn6GrBOg
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll717Please respect copyright.PENANALljTjzcwsu
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before717Please respect copyright.PENANAcvaDrh7s1p
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that717Please respect copyright.PENANApsdW0LgQbj
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained717Please respect copyright.PENANAE4ncf8vSUf
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to717Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1qD4lvqF2
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face717Please respect copyright.PENANAGHEtNgIJNL
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped717Please respect copyright.PENANARudpzYhkH9
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,717Please respect copyright.PENANAvCavtpsoGT
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,717Please respect copyright.PENANATjI8WmBgqQ
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,717Please respect copyright.PENANAtPXrWJDI3F
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment717Please respect copyright.PENANAKQmqpJg28C
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said717Please respect copyright.PENANAYZzM1tgEqD
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the717Please respect copyright.PENANA1hF0NYpT1Z
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for717Please respect copyright.PENANAqez4ka0flr
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek717Please respect copyright.PENANAtUSJkLs7zl
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not717Please respect copyright.PENANA6IDcYHhWOR
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you717Please respect copyright.PENANAwmZXTV64p7
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?717Please respect copyright.PENANAgsJg9bz4mb
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that717Please respect copyright.PENANASGd7M6PPKD
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,717Please respect copyright.PENANAEBKkVaHIJq
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with717Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3bwF9w7h6
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to717Please respect copyright.PENANAERfueax1x4
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it717Please respect copyright.PENANAVnrcD5lPfX
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently717Please respect copyright.PENANARbpgbMjAE7
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to717Please respect copyright.PENANAgiNbJ7zKKp
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my717Please respect copyright.PENANAWUEHf7qWG0
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of717Please respect copyright.PENANA7rYVPglATG
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.717Please respect copyright.PENANAzsK73Yz2RB
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The717Please respect copyright.PENANACRjFVdileu
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no717Please respect copyright.PENANABo4u4uM8hw
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near717Please respect copyright.PENANAAFyjoD9cxA
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my717Please respect copyright.PENANAfqh0dutCjP
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is717Please respect copyright.PENANASoj2NidiTQ
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to717Please respect copyright.PENANAvgZOuZDy3S
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories717Please respect copyright.PENANAr5dpCe9aLD
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The717Please respect copyright.PENANA6DnVoW7NNA
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were717Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3zYYX4Uen
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer717Please respect copyright.PENANA6dhpAyj20a
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging717Please respect copyright.PENANAhIU6D3goGh
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from717Please respect copyright.PENANAO6evlz2PbX
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made717Please respect copyright.PENANABzFLKFQcI7
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws717Please respect copyright.PENANA036Jl9qrSE
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have717Please respect copyright.PENANAycFbFuXLEo
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.717Please respect copyright.PENANA2DssSoSpPn
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I717Please respect copyright.PENANAjXmNECCfMT
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re717Please respect copyright.PENANAtw9qzXiM93
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you717Please respect copyright.PENANAaeCz8kOWnb
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I717Please respect copyright.PENANAiwhpADhnuG
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting717Please respect copyright.PENANAEdWxvVjc4S
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s717Please respect copyright.PENANAQdH86vV2zq
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name717Please respect copyright.PENANAGJ3UKeqjT1
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was717Please respect copyright.PENANA3w3gvtHdiU
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks717Please respect copyright.PENANAfBOHZFQKhS
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my717Please respect copyright.PENANAs0wVKh2tND
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the717Please respect copyright.PENANAh6Y3FytxYE
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.717Please respect copyright.PENANAYdSaMKZXUr
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why717Please respect copyright.PENANATv8jN6u9RL
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like717Please respect copyright.PENANA3uCPrk676w
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that717Please respect copyright.PENANAI0xERGS6Om
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always717Please respect copyright.PENANAWFvQPajJIw
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as717Please respect copyright.PENANAi9QXwyoHpT
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This717Please respect copyright.PENANAucgMn4Xffj
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one717Please respect copyright.PENANAo8ygen0R7A
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I717Please respect copyright.PENANAMJWlxxenbw
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m717Please respect copyright.PENANATN6go69ICa
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my717Please respect copyright.PENANAVIch3JLjcG
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for717Please respect copyright.PENANAz3p2iT9NOW
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a717Please respect copyright.PENANA64zIOZSqRa
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had717Please respect copyright.PENANAk6OQz32Sgh
happened.
Forget it, because I think I717Please respect copyright.PENANAtcAD9dDGrw
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell717Please respect copyright.PENANAcD2fh4GQal
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and717Please respect copyright.PENANAKKEMvDGIj9
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from717Please respect copyright.PENANAfk5BWGKnTA
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you717Please respect copyright.PENANA3gZr1M2bf6
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own717Please respect copyright.PENANAXUdiqaX1Us
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in717Please respect copyright.PENANAers2nlAT7P
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the717Please respect copyright.PENANAq623rCcYq4
only one. My first and forever love.