“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my582Please respect copyright.PENANACbqWESVRjJ
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one582Please respect copyright.PENANAV75FG197ji
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,582Please respect copyright.PENANA1eFCtkDTfD
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with582Please respect copyright.PENANAkPE6N6B81F
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives582Please respect copyright.PENANAeNJh2UlVu2
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses582Please respect copyright.PENANAWJ7hl7m8Rd
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate582Please respect copyright.PENANAoWzZEFdezI
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my582Please respect copyright.PENANA3nUNDmYdAy
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that582Please respect copyright.PENANAhEiydEYJvr
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from582Please respect copyright.PENANAFM7YmKwBNJ
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for582Please respect copyright.PENANAnZHDWl5ZXt
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,582Please respect copyright.PENANA1UkFu7UcHl
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me582Please respect copyright.PENANAIdUEQmQCjw
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He582Please respect copyright.PENANARg4qiu5ND3
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just582Please respect copyright.PENANAD6scuoiuZc
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with582Please respect copyright.PENANARRC78S1qIn
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I582Please respect copyright.PENANABGplNiiEwp
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To582Please respect copyright.PENANAtbERjQPSrj
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe582Please respect copyright.PENANAm669GPBJK7
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace582Please respect copyright.PENANAMqDgKzOMbs
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is582Please respect copyright.PENANANqQR3M2YqB
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got582Please respect copyright.PENANAFcJy92EPD2
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from582Please respect copyright.PENANA8oHcTUEgoN
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,582Please respect copyright.PENANA76TAMNxqqK
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel582Please respect copyright.PENANAAH6tW6oJhZ
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had582Please respect copyright.PENANANPZQHNUxEH
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back582Please respect copyright.PENANAURZoEtBBT9
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees582Please respect copyright.PENANA33sy7ZgODD
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s582Please respect copyright.PENANAtQh0ulaALC
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You582Please respect copyright.PENANAMSiDpwgUav
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.582Please respect copyright.PENANAgji82KYEuA
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.582Please respect copyright.PENANAKmPtKzpWd8
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your582Please respect copyright.PENANAxlBNZ12w7S
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking582Please respect copyright.PENANAbebK6fwJ7O
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll582Please respect copyright.PENANAb9cKXVlKEd
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before582Please respect copyright.PENANAJbhIbMB8wX
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that582Please respect copyright.PENANAcC8YZHxaM2
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained582Please respect copyright.PENANAw5TeJs9xfq
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to582Please respect copyright.PENANA3uHUZHG0YR
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face582Please respect copyright.PENANAeRxihBd3la
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped582Please respect copyright.PENANAoKJvnfK0CQ
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,582Please respect copyright.PENANAbTRoFHmZaF
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,582Please respect copyright.PENANAIfivy9DGUb
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,582Please respect copyright.PENANAfi9aIhzytI
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment582Please respect copyright.PENANA8Op7Y1RvUE
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said582Please respect copyright.PENANAick1CLGcVX
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the582Please respect copyright.PENANAAbbPE3E8cz
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for582Please respect copyright.PENANALYtQvzC63Y
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek582Please respect copyright.PENANAUOCaHLqMQP
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not582Please respect copyright.PENANAkDuAyQw8vE
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you582Please respect copyright.PENANAvirVxaOl4s
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?582Please respect copyright.PENANARNW4hoIk2a
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that582Please respect copyright.PENANAxB80SD6APy
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,582Please respect copyright.PENANA86MaHMqBfN
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with582Please respect copyright.PENANA3ndSkuivF5
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to582Please respect copyright.PENANAGBw5CLAFB0
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it582Please respect copyright.PENANAYXbPvVjszn
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently582Please respect copyright.PENANAdHaojoesH6
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to582Please respect copyright.PENANAm0nbD108Oc
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my582Please respect copyright.PENANAWfQyHBKCmO
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of582Please respect copyright.PENANAu5tzDzAED9
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.582Please respect copyright.PENANAZTs8xGDmwz
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The582Please respect copyright.PENANATZtAg5hLRg
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no582Please respect copyright.PENANAIlGRMSfLfZ
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near582Please respect copyright.PENANAowZTpwzw13
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my582Please respect copyright.PENANAP52EFwwFt4
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is582Please respect copyright.PENANArdNDmCPCm3
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to582Please respect copyright.PENANAdHuhcSZqdW
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories582Please respect copyright.PENANAEsDYVIZ1pP
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The582Please respect copyright.PENANAfoaNpSoMvw
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were582Please respect copyright.PENANATmuVZaPO4u
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer582Please respect copyright.PENANAQFEczrdurU
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging582Please respect copyright.PENANAt2kuMjkOwn
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from582Please respect copyright.PENANAuTdxJ8O3mk
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made582Please respect copyright.PENANAERKJjqHRSa
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws582Please respect copyright.PENANAmCv7cehRIP
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have582Please respect copyright.PENANArfFxOlp6PW
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.582Please respect copyright.PENANAFl9cK3Jy7E
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I582Please respect copyright.PENANAMjB5cjjrun
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re582Please respect copyright.PENANAKNaRxrerN3
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you582Please respect copyright.PENANAgAmH6e8fqV
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I582Please respect copyright.PENANA8z1mEgF71v
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting582Please respect copyright.PENANAhjjB6LtQqx
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s582Please respect copyright.PENANAOeUy9NqI9E
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name582Please respect copyright.PENANACtFLFJFmER
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was582Please respect copyright.PENANA24b1nXb7qP
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks582Please respect copyright.PENANANnXcU5xDJT
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my582Please respect copyright.PENANAO8jcpoWRY2
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the582Please respect copyright.PENANAtQ4sbdQ2OX
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.582Please respect copyright.PENANAsJSB3aZwhQ
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why582Please respect copyright.PENANASj64BH2VTg
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like582Please respect copyright.PENANAaWd4yo9G41
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that582Please respect copyright.PENANAqUeVRdcQ3H
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always582Please respect copyright.PENANAMEPxlFEym9
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as582Please respect copyright.PENANA3lH1IdG3Ol
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This582Please respect copyright.PENANA6B4g8KB9RT
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one582Please respect copyright.PENANAZvpeBgQYqd
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I582Please respect copyright.PENANANhN4jn7dow
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m582Please respect copyright.PENANAbWsZxqMaaM
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my582Please respect copyright.PENANAGYyNmUeucr
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for582Please respect copyright.PENANA3X8sIWfCxF
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a582Please respect copyright.PENANAgi3QzKaSci
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had582Please respect copyright.PENANANd7kHIu27T
happened.
Forget it, because I think I582Please respect copyright.PENANA8Z2cUxTvYm
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell582Please respect copyright.PENANAEQkJ3rH6La
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and582Please respect copyright.PENANAF6lYQg4q5u
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from582Please respect copyright.PENANAfzgqMcfixJ
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you582Please respect copyright.PENANAt8wIH2Ko5p
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own582Please respect copyright.PENANASqSSvsAOAO
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in582Please respect copyright.PENANAituYupP9F4
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the582Please respect copyright.PENANAoeNq4OkHVw
only one. My first and forever love.