“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one719Please respect copyright.PENANAIH3K0c2YcE
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 with719Please respect copyright.PENANAXIsaxNJlXV
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives719Please respect copyright.PENANAfDd6Ve6PzN
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses719Please respect copyright.PENANAuQyEMpMm0g
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate719Please respect copyright.PENANAlOJggBiqFk
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my719Please respect copyright.PENANAGuDt8dKIIC
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that719Please respect copyright.PENANAhAFCrxak7V
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from719Please respect copyright.PENANAdXgPAw0S5F
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for719Please respect copyright.PENANAXLQtI3dx7J
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,719Please respect copyright.PENANAhUrTLvNhmN
one of his assets.
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about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He719Please respect copyright.PENANADR8bxXg2wb
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just719Please respect copyright.PENANAh11oyaBmQF
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with719Please respect copyright.PENANAncsEnaixCa
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I719Please respect copyright.PENANAooRdXGosEH
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To719Please respect copyright.PENANAGkzZbFVdeN
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe719Please respect copyright.PENANA3u38lhZtD9
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace719Please respect copyright.PENANATq8CGQ1Zgk
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is719Please respect copyright.PENANAscVmTPTiwK
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got719Please respect copyright.PENANAPrXSewPuCq
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from719Please respect copyright.PENANAPbYxzAogNA
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,719Please respect copyright.PENANANDBZnXFP5O
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel719Please respect copyright.PENANAfgPQdvTUXP
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had719Please respect copyright.PENANAN6YsdUuMGZ
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back719Please respect copyright.PENANAezGsfjJvVu
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees719Please respect copyright.PENANAte9dzxS2By
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s719Please respect copyright.PENANAw5YJiz68gr
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You719Please respect copyright.PENANAZXRWgvsP3n
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.719Please respect copyright.PENANAeJSpiMNR5v
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.719Please respect copyright.PENANA6mWS8yHq1Y
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your719Please respect copyright.PENANAvK1XkiVho6
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking719Please respect copyright.PENANAihGBzdarSf
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll719Please respect copyright.PENANAf75jZ94Zfc
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before719Please respect copyright.PENANAfNeOuKoIFo
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that719Please respect copyright.PENANAiVosVSK7kZ
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained719Please respect copyright.PENANAe0UBBDoUM1
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to719Please respect copyright.PENANAFCdsmEwK82
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face719Please respect copyright.PENANAW194FGcHxd
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped719Please respect copyright.PENANAzIKqXMjYyy
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,719Please respect copyright.PENANAapGJQrkhMA
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,719Please respect copyright.PENANAiR6FC3ksEi
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,719Please respect copyright.PENANAyfY102vLUz
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment719Please respect copyright.PENANAgKUJILYfOu
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said719Please respect copyright.PENANAGVPqbAMoD0
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the719Please respect copyright.PENANAgzm6Haa3iu
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for719Please respect copyright.PENANAqV1eouTGEU
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek719Please respect copyright.PENANA3pTGrlxU0E
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not719Please respect copyright.PENANAL7UH7ElwvK
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you719Please respect copyright.PENANAyOFj4a0bxf
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?719Please respect copyright.PENANAQoNsgmX8rv
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that719Please respect copyright.PENANAxb8iFkDSAU
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,719Please respect copyright.PENANAMK8IVKL14S
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with719Please respect copyright.PENANAG3QZNfkHta
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to719Please respect copyright.PENANAx8PJ7BXMDt
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it719Please respect copyright.PENANA3E36QDR7Wk
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently719Please respect copyright.PENANArGQiBalJMb
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to719Please respect copyright.PENANAFAN275Yjgv
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my719Please respect copyright.PENANAqB8Di8jn81
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of719Please respect copyright.PENANAKLIGSkRyfk
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.719Please respect copyright.PENANAK4fyuhdQy8
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The719Please respect copyright.PENANAYqTVTTD0k8
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no719Please respect copyright.PENANA86veAGngCE
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near719Please respect copyright.PENANA1yysAimt8Z
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my719Please respect copyright.PENANATVCKLYua7B
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is719Please respect copyright.PENANACUremFMYDY
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to719Please respect copyright.PENANAKWekUARC35
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories719Please respect copyright.PENANA9dI0AlRHI9
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The719Please respect copyright.PENANAERnrYKzf4A
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were719Please respect copyright.PENANA8omoSmcrna
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer719Please respect copyright.PENANAvOjFVW1lZJ
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging719Please respect copyright.PENANA8UsM9evWyD
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from719Please respect copyright.PENANAdsAClnr19W
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made719Please respect copyright.PENANANWaAtsmjV9
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws719Please respect copyright.PENANA0faGnKWGDW
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
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brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.719Please respect copyright.PENANAUYKylCOek9
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I719Please respect copyright.PENANAVssz8Ii2wv
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re719Please respect copyright.PENANAIdD2LoiTxU
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you719Please respect copyright.PENANAvNFA08x83i
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I719Please respect copyright.PENANAIWFVbNTpWd
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting719Please respect copyright.PENANANQApQ7BqJF
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s719Please respect copyright.PENANA4Mqua9UYPm
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name719Please respect copyright.PENANAFfzTiW5y20
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was719Please respect copyright.PENANAS9T43mum3l
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks719Please respect copyright.PENANA9fdCZhTrBe
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my719Please respect copyright.PENANA3kh67JgjEF
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the719Please respect copyright.PENANAWPSk0sX3je
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.719Please respect copyright.PENANA2MIJurvsmb
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why719Please respect copyright.PENANALDJGDE5pPW
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like719Please respect copyright.PENANANd8XiAbcw2
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that719Please respect copyright.PENANAFpCRinqmun
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always719Please respect copyright.PENANANNiCZnwIMD
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as719Please respect copyright.PENANA9DkrewCJLi
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This719Please respect copyright.PENANAgzo1iKjxGf
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one719Please respect copyright.PENANAeKKF4oix01
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I719Please respect copyright.PENANA5c0EEwQ9Hq
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m719Please respect copyright.PENANALool6kprFA
sorry, I’m too late.
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face.
“Thank you. Thank you for719Please respect copyright.PENANA4pPgdcRmIe
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a719Please respect copyright.PENANAbjC0JwM6wn
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had719Please respect copyright.PENANAB7O0B1ER6N
happened.
Forget it, because I think I719Please respect copyright.PENANAOjElMZKLW6
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell719Please respect copyright.PENANAnC3XfgSht8
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and719Please respect copyright.PENANAFIYZrJx9nC
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from719Please respect copyright.PENANAN4MMMPk4j6
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you719Please respect copyright.PENANAHywQwZYE43
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own719Please respect copyright.PENANA1UawrqKqAv
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in719Please respect copyright.PENANAPGMovRzPpM
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the719Please respect copyright.PENANAlpjqoiqueP
only one. My first and forever love.