“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one723Please respect copyright.PENANAPX9FGhFkLE
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
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believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with723Please respect copyright.PENANAPl43v6wRJY
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives723Please respect copyright.PENANApHsirJWC5k
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
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that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate723Please respect copyright.PENANAL3UOpKieE8
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my723Please respect copyright.PENANAUPFGheAXjM
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that723Please respect copyright.PENANAVaTDyzP3CQ
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from723Please respect copyright.PENANAYARGVeMB0W
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for723Please respect copyright.PENANAn9jd9Uoaqp
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,723Please respect copyright.PENANAsJKGUWqro0
one of his assets.
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about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He723Please respect copyright.PENANAVTok7xdWMZ
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just723Please respect copyright.PENANAtdPsh69Ikc
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with723Please respect copyright.PENANAikTiGGrDcf
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I723Please respect copyright.PENANAk7XKYNkgri
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To723Please respect copyright.PENANAibMTW0TW82
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe723Please respect copyright.PENANAiL0LUrTHQV
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace723Please respect copyright.PENANAEYGsw8NaEo
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is723Please respect copyright.PENANAnpnX4mbu8G
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got723Please respect copyright.PENANAISjNo6AXzf
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from723Please respect copyright.PENANAj6bLZz7A0V
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,723Please respect copyright.PENANAD1w2KSI74a
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel723Please respect copyright.PENANAHXu5N8IlrH
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had723Please respect copyright.PENANAk19Ly6EFUY
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back723Please respect copyright.PENANA64yP5uJsqe
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees723Please respect copyright.PENANAhLp785499J
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s723Please respect copyright.PENANAPcc9621EbN
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You723Please respect copyright.PENANARPlVhlNC0u
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.723Please respect copyright.PENANAFdfHqg7haR
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.723Please respect copyright.PENANAdDUMGfnLqQ
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your723Please respect copyright.PENANAg3di8wLd6w
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking723Please respect copyright.PENANAdPlKvX19Fr
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll723Please respect copyright.PENANAKVa8UrQT7s
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before723Please respect copyright.PENANAqWSyzedxk2
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that723Please respect copyright.PENANAsb58Uy4ET2
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained723Please respect copyright.PENANAiUa4pPZ8YS
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to723Please respect copyright.PENANAjhEZzvbvae
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face723Please respect copyright.PENANAHLITHpE1m3
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped723Please respect copyright.PENANAjR46NWwbac
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,723Please respect copyright.PENANAoyPfzEKdrm
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,723Please respect copyright.PENANAMdUFyoIvTa
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,723Please respect copyright.PENANAoy7iUm5lJk
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment723Please respect copyright.PENANAp08UTL18ar
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said723Please respect copyright.PENANAeymUkCc04G
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the723Please respect copyright.PENANAsDeBRDZcFX
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for723Please respect copyright.PENANAaSj0fXfpGy
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek723Please respect copyright.PENANA1e79XjIQ19
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not723Please respect copyright.PENANAs7rQHhJ4um
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you723Please respect copyright.PENANA6dF1wEd5xW
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?723Please respect copyright.PENANAA13LRXjPIz
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that723Please respect copyright.PENANA3gQdyvpVrn
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,723Please respect copyright.PENANAEazSDHhaM3
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with723Please respect copyright.PENANAad3ZAf4z2M
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to723Please respect copyright.PENANAkxOG0Smdbu
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it723Please respect copyright.PENANA3yNRVXrYmt
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently723Please respect copyright.PENANAYt7GduSv6z
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to723Please respect copyright.PENANAASIJBla2CO
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my723Please respect copyright.PENANAStOWFNBonC
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of723Please respect copyright.PENANAj8cdDkgppl
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.723Please respect copyright.PENANAZN8NyLbfvX
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The723Please respect copyright.PENANADghnHbyAGU
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no723Please respect copyright.PENANADGYDvTm3Tx
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near723Please respect copyright.PENANAiVSREsq28z
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my723Please respect copyright.PENANASNchYHqWfI
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is723Please respect copyright.PENANAISAkfbVaEg
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to723Please respect copyright.PENANAO1pDIJLgVM
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories723Please respect copyright.PENANAJWAWFThTQr
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The723Please respect copyright.PENANA3Xs3MiDIay
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were723Please respect copyright.PENANAS0TkhpAF8p
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer723Please respect copyright.PENANAVcyFlKL0yv
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging723Please respect copyright.PENANAFdM07uPCkW
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from723Please respect copyright.PENANA8cdO1oZ0ot
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made723Please respect copyright.PENANA7Bs7S0AIpf
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws723Please respect copyright.PENANAntfMHwqFYR
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have723Please respect copyright.PENANArhYI76ebRk
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.723Please respect copyright.PENANAfclkzXHKir
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I723Please respect copyright.PENANAOTwWvA4PAX
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re723Please respect copyright.PENANAeqwn2JGIUJ
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you723Please respect copyright.PENANAB1kDsgwsAW
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I723Please respect copyright.PENANApuJzGdBs8Y
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting723Please respect copyright.PENANAtbhI8tJjGN
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s723Please respect copyright.PENANA47R8AweCGU
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name723Please respect copyright.PENANAfC40PtvyB3
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was723Please respect copyright.PENANAHVEsrGvCAB
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks723Please respect copyright.PENANAwM9YDzC104
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my723Please respect copyright.PENANAeCtTx7iAXM
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the723Please respect copyright.PENANALFpXpgcEkv
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.723Please respect copyright.PENANALtrNnMGy9j
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why723Please respect copyright.PENANAhtRpY2voGH
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like723Please respect copyright.PENANA5vAUtkWbf5
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that723Please respect copyright.PENANAVzJDDgpp3Z
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always723Please respect copyright.PENANAyrzO6fKIXX
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as723Please respect copyright.PENANALiTL3d01Rk
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This723Please respect copyright.PENANAK0r0LRZcWj
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one723Please respect copyright.PENANAI9NlWomMha
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I723Please respect copyright.PENANAFoHCm8JVbx
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m723Please respect copyright.PENANAATE1VpBLmN
sorry, I’m too late.
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face.
“Thank you. Thank you for723Please respect copyright.PENANAUVkXShx3cv
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a723Please respect copyright.PENANAIoqtdpzra4
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had723Please respect copyright.PENANAdcOBH0L3XG
happened.
Forget it, because I think I723Please respect copyright.PENANAiui9bWDZkQ
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell723Please respect copyright.PENANATgryHvHGJU
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and723Please respect copyright.PENANAEAh2q6hLoF
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from723Please respect copyright.PENANAi2eWMm1zVb
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you723Please respect copyright.PENANAxSLc6V5eCW
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own723Please respect copyright.PENANA6GOgtCAZ9i
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in723Please respect copyright.PENANABAe34SxUOj
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the723Please respect copyright.PENANAzWllMljHV2
only one. My first and forever love.