“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my726Please respect copyright.PENANA13KaBMR4Sq
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one726Please respect copyright.PENANA4jrlytU81T
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,726Please respect copyright.PENANAEcRASKjAZs
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with726Please respect copyright.PENANA5N2Na8xCfw
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives726Please respect copyright.PENANAbVGk4NhOE2
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses726Please respect copyright.PENANAwNMd3qStww
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate726Please respect copyright.PENANAfgyo5ddHHA
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my726Please respect copyright.PENANARTOjRTNwpw
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that726Please respect copyright.PENANAIfOCisxxFj
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from726Please respect copyright.PENANAwECbvpNzwH
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for726Please respect copyright.PENANAwIxhdk7DIr
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,726Please respect copyright.PENANAiCvQxKDKxe
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me726Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1Sw9FraTN
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He726Please respect copyright.PENANAOKjDVtSQEg
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just726Please respect copyright.PENANA5IiUkiIrZ3
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with726Please respect copyright.PENANAameRZlTGyd
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I726Please respect copyright.PENANAkaXdgDL4OQ
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To726Please respect copyright.PENANA5Tj68yTSOw
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe726Please respect copyright.PENANAEazpmc5mpZ
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace726Please respect copyright.PENANAlEE1WeIju6
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is726Please respect copyright.PENANAA8qXrJFWuy
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got726Please respect copyright.PENANASMwbSQhlvV
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from726Please respect copyright.PENANA9qEm2qTLq1
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,726Please respect copyright.PENANAgfiYB1bqLA
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel726Please respect copyright.PENANA6VpG4sxmAj
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had726Please respect copyright.PENANA9QmAkDtEYv
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back726Please respect copyright.PENANAmenwotMYeY
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees726Please respect copyright.PENANAcHJyBsQA4Q
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s726Please respect copyright.PENANAilXSeQmC4z
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You726Please respect copyright.PENANAs87uMtDGl2
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.726Please respect copyright.PENANAVQ5lHVyBDX
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.726Please respect copyright.PENANAoQmp7YX5ZT
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your726Please respect copyright.PENANAyi10S954f1
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking726Please respect copyright.PENANALOCcQEk3Th
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll726Please respect copyright.PENANAKtVLIQc8Cr
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before726Please respect copyright.PENANAZFEzwYE22V
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that726Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4ALWfFgoH
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained726Please respect copyright.PENANAlTWGxOHNUv
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to726Please respect copyright.PENANAFsiTUFwrOg
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face726Please respect copyright.PENANAHEqPZkWoHn
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped726Please respect copyright.PENANA1m00eYSK5e
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,726Please respect copyright.PENANAyjKDIH93l8
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,726Please respect copyright.PENANA6JYcXd2vx7
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,726Please respect copyright.PENANAmbn4rYppkr
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment726Please respect copyright.PENANAXb97WUsCgz
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said726Please respect copyright.PENANAn7Tgu7f61X
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the726Please respect copyright.PENANASmyyLFB6yj
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for726Please respect copyright.PENANAnFxLmcrW02
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek726Please respect copyright.PENANA6h6lzqE2S2
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not726Please respect copyright.PENANA7B1OAzytER
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you726Please respect copyright.PENANAlwB6z7muJX
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?726Please respect copyright.PENANAj2TOeYkbpf
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that726Please respect copyright.PENANAHLV41jLx6L
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,726Please respect copyright.PENANAbKeA489xr3
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with726Please respect copyright.PENANAg6aCOwxU1p
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to726Please respect copyright.PENANAHcqQVwZ0hw
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it726Please respect copyright.PENANAUDSUwmYAuP
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently726Please respect copyright.PENANAdIOG10trWT
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to726Please respect copyright.PENANAYCwdbHXsQW
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my726Please respect copyright.PENANAMBuUo42DHN
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of726Please respect copyright.PENANALeCvxzLPar
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.726Please respect copyright.PENANArusaI7yfa1
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The726Please respect copyright.PENANAG0pz2CUghR
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no726Please respect copyright.PENANAKrkQTTkPPJ
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near726Please respect copyright.PENANA5APesAqKaT
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my726Please respect copyright.PENANAR99H8f4Kbc
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is726Please respect copyright.PENANA3kNGFv7kVP
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to726Please respect copyright.PENANAQvDWjKfRLX
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories726Please respect copyright.PENANAoWPFrhbo9z
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The726Please respect copyright.PENANA9l3JEMwwv8
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were726Please respect copyright.PENANANmLKdVx9cn
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer726Please respect copyright.PENANAuxdiuL1eq6
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging726Please respect copyright.PENANAjgJHYTvgdH
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from726Please respect copyright.PENANAIVYoJcljrO
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made726Please respect copyright.PENANALWfIH6MM36
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws726Please respect copyright.PENANA7i4z2xycUi
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have726Please respect copyright.PENANA9nisKToV8c
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.726Please respect copyright.PENANAiDhJR8D1Ft
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I726Please respect copyright.PENANApsT6UD1svI
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re726Please respect copyright.PENANA88S4H6XFZ5
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you726Please respect copyright.PENANAZQwr6zjzta
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I726Please respect copyright.PENANA7RhNO9qa9h
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting726Please respect copyright.PENANAgSbSAbRG0N
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s726Please respect copyright.PENANAtNGS88hQcx
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name726Please respect copyright.PENANASjgNVHFfap
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was726Please respect copyright.PENANATxfTl8EMAM
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks726Please respect copyright.PENANAD71uOJpT30
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my726Please respect copyright.PENANAqQWyFLhLmY
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the726Please respect copyright.PENANAihiW3kZ4sv
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.726Please respect copyright.PENANAlMjLv6FpzN
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why726Please respect copyright.PENANAoEeAAJW4Jt
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like726Please respect copyright.PENANAmdxBJaufF9
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that726Please respect copyright.PENANA4O7iE82IM7
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always726Please respect copyright.PENANA5w2gnV16M2
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as726Please respect copyright.PENANAGcUOpXlvEP
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This726Please respect copyright.PENANAOlj5cUecbL
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one726Please respect copyright.PENANA7F7TEiFyKF
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I726Please respect copyright.PENANAMyPj8NMxPx
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m726Please respect copyright.PENANAM7cm1Uu7Th
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my726Please respect copyright.PENANAsYYviJj3No
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for726Please respect copyright.PENANAq7nMjiFzKQ
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a726Please respect copyright.PENANAw9P15bhcOO
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had726Please respect copyright.PENANAOHn7dFXyK8
happened.
Forget it, because I think I726Please respect copyright.PENANAt6SKcD6wzH
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell726Please respect copyright.PENANAZBGkWemgpT
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and726Please respect copyright.PENANAAXHB6FuRPg
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from726Please respect copyright.PENANAT7zlgR8XiR
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you726Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZuasQ9Nyx
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own726Please respect copyright.PENANApgJeI4UcYp
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in726Please respect copyright.PENANAEHgH0hSnYu
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the726Please respect copyright.PENANAI5XEphRr4x
only one. My first and forever love.