“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one545Please respect copyright.PENANAtx7f5PYfvl
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,545Please respect copyright.PENANAeas4JpVOBm
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with545Please respect copyright.PENANAOOu8x70N7q
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives545Please respect copyright.PENANArVevmgCDQW
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses545Please respect copyright.PENANApm5RGPigdF
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate545Please respect copyright.PENANAv4jAHm81pg
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my545Please respect copyright.PENANACaYgC9Iqz7
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that545Please respect copyright.PENANAFOsoOtesrl
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from545Please respect copyright.PENANA85X7mWduj6
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for545Please respect copyright.PENANAVpMpUOt4MH
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,545Please respect copyright.PENANANRBxTkmyxt
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me545Please respect copyright.PENANAY2eRkHYno4
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He545Please respect copyright.PENANAT27d5re0H6
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just545Please respect copyright.PENANACu7g8I8W2r
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with545Please respect copyright.PENANAGXsfBQMpQZ
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I545Please respect copyright.PENANAQtNOni2eS9
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To545Please respect copyright.PENANACC4AhzqC8K
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe545Please respect copyright.PENANAqZsi2DBA5E
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace545Please respect copyright.PENANAgoehdP99ts
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is545Please respect copyright.PENANAbrG6Ht9dyv
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got545Please respect copyright.PENANA6XNpL7L1dv
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from545Please respect copyright.PENANAbumro2zx8y
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,545Please respect copyright.PENANAXxQjTqZR0P
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel545Please respect copyright.PENANAJf6THuUHdP
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had545Please respect copyright.PENANAsYtbl0uzVw
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back545Please respect copyright.PENANACP2sovIDRj
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees545Please respect copyright.PENANAmYBU1mojUw
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s545Please respect copyright.PENANAlU2JdoSy3u
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You545Please respect copyright.PENANAnKlRsIqrcE
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.545Please respect copyright.PENANAJTpj2Wucg7
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.545Please respect copyright.PENANAYXI0XydwWa
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your545Please respect copyright.PENANAxJhJQ3GeEV
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking545Please respect copyright.PENANAwPakas2hIk
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll545Please respect copyright.PENANAw0RdKSkkfm
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before545Please respect copyright.PENANAwHhuDa4FBJ
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that545Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0Hbl22UGk
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained545Please respect copyright.PENANACPazubH4Cl
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to545Please respect copyright.PENANAbZsRJ4V4iW
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face545Please respect copyright.PENANAj13AfjOq1O
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped545Please respect copyright.PENANAJZtxgK4nyc
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,545Please respect copyright.PENANAECN0q8gWbA
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,545Please respect copyright.PENANAySTM8SGfkh
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,545Please respect copyright.PENANAIXPQuWMG7C
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment545Please respect copyright.PENANAJLHYOjretP
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said545Please respect copyright.PENANAv06e4F6alo
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the545Please respect copyright.PENANAw2tnHtXr98
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for545Please respect copyright.PENANAxFSC1nIIQt
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek545Please respect copyright.PENANAMsyYuYSSow
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not545Please respect copyright.PENANApDlFg79lEA
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you545Please respect copyright.PENANACckj3JE0Bg
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?545Please respect copyright.PENANAlVdlIAPKox
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that545Please respect copyright.PENANA941Jrp5cAm
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,545Please respect copyright.PENANAb2P1tcl4hV
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with545Please respect copyright.PENANAdIc0HMHlEE
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to545Please respect copyright.PENANA3bdwizVy3k
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it545Please respect copyright.PENANAQXH6aHkYPt
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently545Please respect copyright.PENANAClNcQrLD0u
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to545Please respect copyright.PENANALc3VzvUlQa
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my545Please respect copyright.PENANALW9bjYb0yP
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of545Please respect copyright.PENANA282PH8EMGI
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.545Please respect copyright.PENANAKGBfE73gXC
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The545Please respect copyright.PENANALydiP47uTj
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no545Please respect copyright.PENANAVzdKmnNSH9
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near545Please respect copyright.PENANAjZSS4soXFf
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my545Please respect copyright.PENANAPSk4PLBO8X
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is545Please respect copyright.PENANA2nDajrOp3H
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to545Please respect copyright.PENANALQ7O9pzOrj
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories545Please respect copyright.PENANAClVbgs9yFc
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The545Please respect copyright.PENANAX8pxGJOWAK
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were545Please respect copyright.PENANAVWXFHv83eY
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer545Please respect copyright.PENANABoe9IeYEZp
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging545Please respect copyright.PENANAs66SGOpd47
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from545Please respect copyright.PENANAvh2CTawQZU
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made545Please respect copyright.PENANArqrOhybdvu
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws545Please respect copyright.PENANAGvntyuOOhE
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have545Please respect copyright.PENANAi6BwPEkXwm
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.545Please respect copyright.PENANAgCTY7dkCe2
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I545Please respect copyright.PENANA9aZ8SNTra4
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re545Please respect copyright.PENANA0k7UFpbSWL
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you545Please respect copyright.PENANAvkwyThV2gF
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I545Please respect copyright.PENANAJxQQwiYxeQ
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting545Please respect copyright.PENANAl8EYdFdCBv
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s545Please respect copyright.PENANAhWLvinHojM
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name545Please respect copyright.PENANAY7h1W8gMzz
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was545Please respect copyright.PENANAnCxWG29b9k
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks545Please respect copyright.PENANAYcCjhh1wZ6
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my545Please respect copyright.PENANA2r4nRJkHcm
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the545Please respect copyright.PENANAASWgUA8hWZ
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.545Please respect copyright.PENANAeXLLIgdHCe
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why545Please respect copyright.PENANAr1oePaNbBP
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like545Please respect copyright.PENANACI0D808P7o
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that545Please respect copyright.PENANAkCmdkQHRVZ
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always545Please respect copyright.PENANAxZAcqGhTg5
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as545Please respect copyright.PENANA1x5BvTORXi
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This545Please respect copyright.PENANAQwa42IzqVR
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one545Please respect copyright.PENANA4xuImaCT0f
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I545Please respect copyright.PENANACPAftSTJym
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m545Please respect copyright.PENANAmFknoOhUB1
sorry, I’m too late.
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face.
“Thank you. Thank you for545Please respect copyright.PENANAR7KvjuFbT1
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a545Please respect copyright.PENANAhkQkcja0Dx
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had545Please respect copyright.PENANAydl2S0gcjP
happened.
Forget it, because I think I545Please respect copyright.PENANADablZbWLTO
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell545Please respect copyright.PENANAE7793u37ps
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and545Please respect copyright.PENANAmrCNxJ1zxn
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from545Please respect copyright.PENANAtLbMEjjCZB
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you545Please respect copyright.PENANA2PiqtGA7Jw
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own545Please respect copyright.PENANAwLFqMSHLBc
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in545Please respect copyright.PENANAIXJwgSJBBw
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the545Please respect copyright.PENANAxq7XUFphWz
only one. My first and forever love.