“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my518Please respect copyright.PENANAlcmLIQXYii
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one518Please respect copyright.PENANAX4RLmCpnrf
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,518Please respect copyright.PENANAUAWW4vdXs7
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with518Please respect copyright.PENANAUpRRCZ6tk3
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives518Please respect copyright.PENANAb2P4QBmzlF
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses518Please respect copyright.PENANARpuRWkIc0o
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate518Please respect copyright.PENANAV01uMcYrYt
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my518Please respect copyright.PENANAqGH5ZVIZGw
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that518Please respect copyright.PENANA1NpeeCTNQd
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from518Please respect copyright.PENANA9hHljFnij6
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for518Please respect copyright.PENANAFqcn79ihV7
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,518Please respect copyright.PENANAJH1nHSAn2S
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me518Please respect copyright.PENANAmVodXQJrkD
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He518Please respect copyright.PENANAPNwMf3Fw0k
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just518Please respect copyright.PENANAc8usvS4yY7
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with518Please respect copyright.PENANAfBqia1VfKL
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I518Please respect copyright.PENANAqpphie1xhN
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To518Please respect copyright.PENANA3T6230xqFp
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe518Please respect copyright.PENANACkje3RPaQu
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace518Please respect copyright.PENANAPKngKWLnrj
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is518Please respect copyright.PENANAZWYkvG9L4x
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got518Please respect copyright.PENANAMDDvPz3Yfy
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from518Please respect copyright.PENANAet8I5iu0Xu
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,518Please respect copyright.PENANAyWEzSmX6u7
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel518Please respect copyright.PENANAIJHcFuJKAM
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had518Please respect copyright.PENANAbJQjbuYYCL
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back518Please respect copyright.PENANAYzFf9jIl1n
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees518Please respect copyright.PENANAZo1kQsdgro
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s518Please respect copyright.PENANAHsMAuti5HJ
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You518Please respect copyright.PENANAnaUIjrO3EM
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.518Please respect copyright.PENANAKbTgKLgi1D
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.518Please respect copyright.PENANAUBSaES1CyH
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your518Please respect copyright.PENANAuH9gWdd3Oh
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking518Please respect copyright.PENANA2aLXszDQZL
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll518Please respect copyright.PENANAgSvnX0rpfM
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before518Please respect copyright.PENANAwVNTnPhhH9
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that518Please respect copyright.PENANAQzZlXDzUlX
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained518Please respect copyright.PENANAxIB70uyFuG
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to518Please respect copyright.PENANAyz2EiACsU7
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face518Please respect copyright.PENANAACRIuyzGg2
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped518Please respect copyright.PENANAnstgMIf7BK
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,518Please respect copyright.PENANASM0LV7fFEz
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,518Please respect copyright.PENANAvCWLLSEa7Z
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,518Please respect copyright.PENANAzYLNF7pV1U
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment518Please respect copyright.PENANAUsPPkqFu23
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said518Please respect copyright.PENANAjNy1pbHJOk
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the518Please respect copyright.PENANALe1k0aHNKu
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for518Please respect copyright.PENANAI6onag0lOZ
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek518Please respect copyright.PENANAuZMHacdVox
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not518Please respect copyright.PENANAsMOoQVWtav
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you518Please respect copyright.PENANA9Njnb6SLDn
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?518Please respect copyright.PENANAw2CTXsF2pA
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that518Please respect copyright.PENANAJagFxHc34U
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,518Please respect copyright.PENANAeqDZFuMfAD
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with518Please respect copyright.PENANAqRH15iW3wX
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to518Please respect copyright.PENANA1cV3ajTs2V
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it518Please respect copyright.PENANAVR3T5QjJT4
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently518Please respect copyright.PENANAHzCsu9szIl
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to518Please respect copyright.PENANA5UVwK1fsBd
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my518Please respect copyright.PENANAAMfWNmi5XQ
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of518Please respect copyright.PENANAsNdmaw6Dyr
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.518Please respect copyright.PENANAexMZ8mvSHJ
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The518Please respect copyright.PENANARMCvwMUf4l
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no518Please respect copyright.PENANA3BfryX3KPz
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near518Please respect copyright.PENANAM6dIy7SrdE
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my518Please respect copyright.PENANA3UyYZfn5H3
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is518Please respect copyright.PENANAMDJgl9yQNu
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to518Please respect copyright.PENANAUAB8v5Gs6w
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories518Please respect copyright.PENANAPG6RzoXzzV
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The518Please respect copyright.PENANA5cgasjTIme
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were518Please respect copyright.PENANAw3YVo0o0sa
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer518Please respect copyright.PENANA8YTmkyh7Mv
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging518Please respect copyright.PENANA5IYi511bjN
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from518Please respect copyright.PENANAvWRiLgq5ZE
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made518Please respect copyright.PENANALSMiSMse4v
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws518Please respect copyright.PENANAcpZ9W7xASf
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have518Please respect copyright.PENANAE4n3b2eDjO
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.518Please respect copyright.PENANAXQ2aQh2bjw
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I518Please respect copyright.PENANAavf237cS50
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re518Please respect copyright.PENANA3LrPTSXYsX
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you518Please respect copyright.PENANAfBFhmWLEbv
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I518Please respect copyright.PENANAKf7iivRGQr
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting518Please respect copyright.PENANAs5mSf9Xqv0
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s518Please respect copyright.PENANAoMKbEHiDGp
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name518Please respect copyright.PENANApLmzg3mogl
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was518Please respect copyright.PENANAh98DNMnGeL
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks518Please respect copyright.PENANAuirocjJkNJ
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my518Please respect copyright.PENANA5eGf1LHWW5
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the518Please respect copyright.PENANAMHFk5Kx7Te
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.518Please respect copyright.PENANArTUZIVSeDO
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why518Please respect copyright.PENANAYwaxPpKqkG
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like518Please respect copyright.PENANALORTPRWxd2
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that518Please respect copyright.PENANANd33qjWee9
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always518Please respect copyright.PENANAmc9HWtAAfE
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as518Please respect copyright.PENANAtDF5mXVXpZ
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This518Please respect copyright.PENANAV3HSA8SkVF
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one518Please respect copyright.PENANAkmNeF0f6oH
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I518Please respect copyright.PENANA7qOqcG6brL
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m518Please respect copyright.PENANAcR7YZJlBDi
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my518Please respect copyright.PENANADYzvgyWV1A
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for518Please respect copyright.PENANAhR2HJ564ez
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a518Please respect copyright.PENANAdUE3oaZ1oz
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had518Please respect copyright.PENANAh21j5KZDoN
happened.
Forget it, because I think I518Please respect copyright.PENANAdzsEc5x5T3
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell518Please respect copyright.PENANAY8vSEpWGap
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and518Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8A2qAHi4W
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from518Please respect copyright.PENANAWsCtKf5g0p
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you518Please respect copyright.PENANAQS7UdRB7rM
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own518Please respect copyright.PENANAMfWhJtnsyC
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in518Please respect copyright.PENANA5NqQbQiDSm
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the518Please respect copyright.PENANAVQyvP7imPX
only one. My first and forever love.