“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my718Please respect copyright.PENANAr4LxhBjW5K
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one718Please respect copyright.PENANA56WBRJos5v
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,718Please respect copyright.PENANAmTww2tr8sv
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with718Please respect copyright.PENANAKH6nasH4W7
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives718Please respect copyright.PENANALoGU4uPkx1
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses718Please respect copyright.PENANAWZJ0IXfnLv
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate718Please respect copyright.PENANAZgl28kpwdy
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my718Please respect copyright.PENANA7lr0WksuUr
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that718Please respect copyright.PENANAZ3nOQkY5z3
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from718Please respect copyright.PENANA2wqSsUr4ba
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for718Please respect copyright.PENANAmYHIFVWzr1
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,718Please respect copyright.PENANASvhRKJHRTO
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me718Please respect copyright.PENANAKE0bAuC87s
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He718Please respect copyright.PENANAhcIwk1djvk
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just718Please respect copyright.PENANAkrZ4fyycSC
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with718Please respect copyright.PENANAkgik1fnn8y
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I718Please respect copyright.PENANAaUQwvGtR98
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To718Please respect copyright.PENANAGX3UqUHHgr
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe718Please respect copyright.PENANAf7YZSM9jBi
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace718Please respect copyright.PENANAa6w2KnPMA1
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is718Please respect copyright.PENANAc1rKR4PNOW
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got718Please respect copyright.PENANA08Dp7XryM0
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from718Please respect copyright.PENANABH6EinqGDz
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,718Please respect copyright.PENANAArig9pMcNZ
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel718Please respect copyright.PENANACfW5R2TPhk
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had718Please respect copyright.PENANAkt8cBg6klo
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back718Please respect copyright.PENANAR5yKyVfmCX
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees718Please respect copyright.PENANASxoUpimhFq
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s718Please respect copyright.PENANAm2OBAU2vtG
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You718Please respect copyright.PENANAo87Itn0Xzw
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.718Please respect copyright.PENANAD9KMsVpdKh
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.718Please respect copyright.PENANAla79skTbzl
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your718Please respect copyright.PENANATpUZjoWfaK
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking718Please respect copyright.PENANAV8YySwYgcU
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll718Please respect copyright.PENANAlIN1gcvBcN
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before718Please respect copyright.PENANAqwWkeQ2xJ0
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that718Please respect copyright.PENANAFHWjUV2gP6
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained718Please respect copyright.PENANAIHu9YIJ8Oa
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to718Please respect copyright.PENANAsPc2wLNYyc
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face718Please respect copyright.PENANADnsYsdIgre
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped718Please respect copyright.PENANAx9I6WObQWV
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,718Please respect copyright.PENANAyQueTxHY6r
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,718Please respect copyright.PENANAkHNliiVlro
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,718Please respect copyright.PENANA5jbUFORUJr
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment718Please respect copyright.PENANAOfktJT4r7G
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said718Please respect copyright.PENANAxyJ9EPXJvM
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the718Please respect copyright.PENANAqVCUCVOCHf
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for718Please respect copyright.PENANAfC3Jg1NjKV
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek718Please respect copyright.PENANAT0ZiJMzzSn
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not718Please respect copyright.PENANAz6mlTU4ISR
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you718Please respect copyright.PENANAFXHTUAdD7a
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?718Please respect copyright.PENANAV8ay3qDbzn
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that718Please respect copyright.PENANAPueJC9ZcIx
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,718Please respect copyright.PENANAdAJP913Ofe
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with718Please respect copyright.PENANA9AmrVq0ETS
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to718Please respect copyright.PENANA74XUKBe6ol
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it718Please respect copyright.PENANAGh1MflFkJI
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently718Please respect copyright.PENANAxSrjtJRreW
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to718Please respect copyright.PENANA20ifzOso14
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my718Please respect copyright.PENANAh3v2QsU44D
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of718Please respect copyright.PENANAovCM2hvJfa
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.718Please respect copyright.PENANAxLIgauBWLo
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The718Please respect copyright.PENANAGo4RPdRlqm
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no718Please respect copyright.PENANAEVZBM6aju4
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near718Please respect copyright.PENANAkSQ2Wluisd
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my718Please respect copyright.PENANATe1LvOT96U
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is718Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8SoxZre0U
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to718Please respect copyright.PENANAJdHhsjZwQN
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories718Please respect copyright.PENANAtQJiZbPD7I
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The718Please respect copyright.PENANA0buh5mdqsU
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were718Please respect copyright.PENANACtJgsh3LYk
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer718Please respect copyright.PENANAaSfa7YXtfi
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging718Please respect copyright.PENANA2k0tBZbqiy
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from718Please respect copyright.PENANAgJJaQrhPBF
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made718Please respect copyright.PENANAwXDsFvbepb
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws718Please respect copyright.PENANAVkCweHae9G
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have718Please respect copyright.PENANAOYME247N5s
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.718Please respect copyright.PENANAlr7nulmOfJ
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I718Please respect copyright.PENANAiLuJ7nR9E4
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re718Please respect copyright.PENANAonwPBP3aQv
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you718Please respect copyright.PENANA3iS79s3FrL
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I718Please respect copyright.PENANA8efpLZ89rB
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting718Please respect copyright.PENANAfyQgZk2qvd
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s718Please respect copyright.PENANA0Bnb2XkhBM
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name718Please respect copyright.PENANAXfw4K78zX0
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was718Please respect copyright.PENANA3WzYu4O2rp
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks718Please respect copyright.PENANAdVvehNJcnx
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my718Please respect copyright.PENANAApkW3xiD28
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the718Please respect copyright.PENANA6EXFWP8NVE
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.718Please respect copyright.PENANABXrh3GtDCv
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why718Please respect copyright.PENANAZ44FD2Gn7M
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like718Please respect copyright.PENANAYl5Wjdhk0r
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that718Please respect copyright.PENANAsQf3J89XS1
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always718Please respect copyright.PENANA2Uc2vVQLut
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as718Please respect copyright.PENANAINjhMAoPti
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This718Please respect copyright.PENANAPhGDRJ5AKl
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one718Please respect copyright.PENANAHjWyKe6RcO
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I718Please respect copyright.PENANAS2mTVG672r
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m718Please respect copyright.PENANAVOMHdxNkPP
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my718Please respect copyright.PENANARDfQGxANKC
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for718Please respect copyright.PENANASXJy5DkooA
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a718Please respect copyright.PENANA598bpopUfO
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had718Please respect copyright.PENANAAxQSj8AYfz
happened.
Forget it, because I think I718Please respect copyright.PENANAqq4kITBYdI
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell718Please respect copyright.PENANA6BUUXVvChy
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and718Please respect copyright.PENANAYes8YmsrIL
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from718Please respect copyright.PENANACzTsZgmVGl
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you718Please respect copyright.PENANAMt5nJo38rD
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own718Please respect copyright.PENANAKwzO1rU3XI
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in718Please respect copyright.PENANAqTnqYcZZJN
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the718Please respect copyright.PENANAP0u3jckOOM
only one. My first and forever love.