“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one517Please respect copyright.PENANAibbUNsmRWY
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 with517Please respect copyright.PENANAJuu7t1Ym6A
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives517Please respect copyright.PENANAhjsYwa4fyR
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses517Please respect copyright.PENANA6swXFoLVtr
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate517Please respect copyright.PENANADUNDj303fv
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my517Please respect copyright.PENANAWTXzXGr7B1
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that517Please respect copyright.PENANAeb43tSX4cM
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from517Please respect copyright.PENANA0YD6dEvXHn
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for517Please respect copyright.PENANACiSv5ip7wV
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,517Please respect copyright.PENANAVmqii9Cwii
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me517Please respect copyright.PENANAapdnlxlv3s
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He517Please respect copyright.PENANAvLU9VYIEmJ
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just517Please respect copyright.PENANAK8yToZU3gY
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with517Please respect copyright.PENANAA9Q4Os4flP
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I517Please respect copyright.PENANAsica5PKnwp
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To517Please respect copyright.PENANATe3o65la2I
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe517Please respect copyright.PENANAWDr7bjbckV
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace517Please respect copyright.PENANAgEibeH5KxB
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is517Please respect copyright.PENANAZaDL2tQE6M
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got517Please respect copyright.PENANA0V4LEKl5fv
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from517Please respect copyright.PENANAQYhUVv2IfF
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,517Please respect copyright.PENANAC0MX0U47kB
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel517Please respect copyright.PENANAKb4nitoQu6
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had517Please respect copyright.PENANAd1ftIfUkDo
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back517Please respect copyright.PENANAQHwvCmS8VW
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees517Please respect copyright.PENANAlWiE1cym9v
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s517Please respect copyright.PENANATYrYPCd4qQ
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You517Please respect copyright.PENANAo7ZG4Mhoad
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.517Please respect copyright.PENANAOtmoE12jmE
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.517Please respect copyright.PENANA7zaXoWu0hc
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your517Please respect copyright.PENANAAuacU61ek2
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking517Please respect copyright.PENANAAsXWKTvFcp
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll517Please respect copyright.PENANAkURlH14ltr
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before517Please respect copyright.PENANAZYiBJVSlOp
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that517Please respect copyright.PENANAsLaP41TWJr
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained517Please respect copyright.PENANAQAJwiI8wiy
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to517Please respect copyright.PENANALPUEj3nYNJ
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face517Please respect copyright.PENANA0MhZi3ErCI
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped517Please respect copyright.PENANAfrXc5FiFBp
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,517Please respect copyright.PENANAlxEQKEAHXj
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,517Please respect copyright.PENANASA6ofZbPM2
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,517Please respect copyright.PENANAxywuLCBLyO
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment517Please respect copyright.PENANAXvhduK6a7u
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said517Please respect copyright.PENANAK3puDmBocU
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the517Please respect copyright.PENANANhaXYZGmNF
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for517Please respect copyright.PENANAl50bfBN9P8
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek517Please respect copyright.PENANAmimDIFJgCL
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not517Please respect copyright.PENANArrgkXB888r
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you517Please respect copyright.PENANAU2YwpmL2he
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?517Please respect copyright.PENANAzXYRPiuRK4
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that517Please respect copyright.PENANAqhi3QMT4cj
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,517Please respect copyright.PENANADiRs6lSvhm
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with517Please respect copyright.PENANAgb0MX5hGaL
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to517Please respect copyright.PENANAKlNkBR7xUi
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it517Please respect copyright.PENANAdEqPmExPpW
with the cloth I ripped.
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closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to517Please respect copyright.PENANAxh4ZKuBBF7
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my517Please respect copyright.PENANAsVXvfiBBH1
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of517Please respect copyright.PENANAAWTrfU9KiV
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.517Please respect copyright.PENANAXFBF4mE94q
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The517Please respect copyright.PENANAbIU7fQboNm
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no517Please respect copyright.PENANApsPAwDyYFk
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near517Please respect copyright.PENANA9a3ouJpU4u
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my517Please respect copyright.PENANANmYyZYfEPX
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is517Please respect copyright.PENANA3bYy9vHP6N
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to517Please respect copyright.PENANA6VgdhQowGw
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories517Please respect copyright.PENANAd0ht6YR16L
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The517Please respect copyright.PENANADu7fe1OTBS
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were517Please respect copyright.PENANAtmW4tzo3fI
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer517Please respect copyright.PENANAIP3Ac1Igm9
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging517Please respect copyright.PENANA7KwNUCNhxf
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from517Please respect copyright.PENANATzuigWVIJo
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made517Please respect copyright.PENANATxQs5R7Moa
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws517Please respect copyright.PENANAXgeo98XOXO
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.517Please respect copyright.PENANAYcS92cB4KF
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I517Please respect copyright.PENANA83eptyRNMc
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re517Please respect copyright.PENANAhBIWR2f8Pl
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you517Please respect copyright.PENANAzqP1YM7rwm
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I517Please respect copyright.PENANACORAFzYg8g
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting517Please respect copyright.PENANAQnZw339EiV
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s517Please respect copyright.PENANAiBTEFFluJq
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name517Please respect copyright.PENANAlfqsocFvPP
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was517Please respect copyright.PENANAw5AsIOE3Av
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks517Please respect copyright.PENANAi9smxSjr7d
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my517Please respect copyright.PENANAZpEkH5t35C
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the517Please respect copyright.PENANAg4uQKsk00z
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.517Please respect copyright.PENANAhBhPCoY5Ya
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why517Please respect copyright.PENANAHBarpb3qbN
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like517Please respect copyright.PENANAhKnMtrC5cK
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that517Please respect copyright.PENANANLMBlmGFrA
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always517Please respect copyright.PENANAsHEst2BZ4j
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as517Please respect copyright.PENANAnRNwjfTnY0
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This517Please respect copyright.PENANA0lVWP6aliI
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one517Please respect copyright.PENANAbdE4zbZO6J
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I517Please respect copyright.PENANAakoo5LMfqt
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m517Please respect copyright.PENANAL1lxusw7rt
sorry, I’m too late.
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face.
“Thank you. Thank you for517Please respect copyright.PENANA6sk2Bbupn1
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a517Please respect copyright.PENANA5L9Mnw0WPO
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had517Please respect copyright.PENANALecojRpGEU
happened.
Forget it, because I think I517Please respect copyright.PENANAjxV8FcqYKb
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell517Please respect copyright.PENANA7QNxWW2Sva
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and517Please respect copyright.PENANAp1ddwysYPM
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from517Please respect copyright.PENANAAjoIvkDsNS
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you517Please respect copyright.PENANA3HIpUWrt3K
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own517Please respect copyright.PENANAArQNhV90uo
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in517Please respect copyright.PENANA6unuYlvQ4d
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the517Please respect copyright.PENANAKNE8OcArEo
only one. My first and forever love.