“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one642Please respect copyright.PENANA4IyZfs7o9k
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,642Please respect copyright.PENANAKUbuXWE3La
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with642Please respect copyright.PENANAuPYWFYbVfI
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives642Please respect copyright.PENANAMhM9DDm0gk
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses642Please respect copyright.PENANA0OVmK0TJvg
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate642Please respect copyright.PENANAXAe0FjYgKg
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my642Please respect copyright.PENANAJE6nHH6Kws
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that642Please respect copyright.PENANAN1KP22ymIN
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from642Please respect copyright.PENANAgN5VoIms5Y
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for642Please respect copyright.PENANAWlktiADg4U
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,642Please respect copyright.PENANANpsf85OLwV
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me642Please respect copyright.PENANAeTuZQrJKia
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He642Please respect copyright.PENANAuqBa0xT6Tm
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just642Please respect copyright.PENANALv2U1zcwBS
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with642Please respect copyright.PENANATUB5kXgyPG
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I642Please respect copyright.PENANAER9nn6DvyR
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To642Please respect copyright.PENANAVvav5mx4Vs
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe642Please respect copyright.PENANAhjalS0VYcB
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace642Please respect copyright.PENANA1y2Ui2QP10
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is642Please respect copyright.PENANA1jhI0Zagsz
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got642Please respect copyright.PENANAhzBDMDGNrn
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from642Please respect copyright.PENANADQJjxnEhLv
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,642Please respect copyright.PENANAbO5LEnUdTK
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel642Please respect copyright.PENANAf0NTx2WwZ5
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had642Please respect copyright.PENANAXb5Q16oGUH
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back642Please respect copyright.PENANAk8EwtbgAJE
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees642Please respect copyright.PENANALfssY7OqhJ
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s642Please respect copyright.PENANA7URwMdM1l4
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You642Please respect copyright.PENANATIAAlOejCo
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.642Please respect copyright.PENANAMGmeoVhtgk
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.642Please respect copyright.PENANASciQYOAGMr
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your642Please respect copyright.PENANAXV4D7CKVYB
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking642Please respect copyright.PENANAKhB2j8vyiz
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll642Please respect copyright.PENANA8B2Rgw3rW8
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before642Please respect copyright.PENANAiqDuVE57A2
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that642Please respect copyright.PENANAhx5VdEnxld
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained642Please respect copyright.PENANAan1l44q4dE
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to642Please respect copyright.PENANAjCcZoRRR8o
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face642Please respect copyright.PENANAPm0TGeYwT9
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped642Please respect copyright.PENANAMRu1bFXttA
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,642Please respect copyright.PENANAyKXkTCxRYQ
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,642Please respect copyright.PENANAbKTXJZWi1H
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,642Please respect copyright.PENANAGLCuu6qkwt
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment642Please respect copyright.PENANA2aOsBXB7vQ
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said642Please respect copyright.PENANALWn6tmnzKf
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the642Please respect copyright.PENANAG979NtJuvM
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for642Please respect copyright.PENANAKCHWzxQADz
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek642Please respect copyright.PENANAATrXS01SJG
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not642Please respect copyright.PENANAOBXwnKlNfr
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you642Please respect copyright.PENANAWQZAzMRo8j
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?642Please respect copyright.PENANAXHhjWrD950
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that642Please respect copyright.PENANAvpwKKcI3EV
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,642Please respect copyright.PENANAxR6KPyR9aL
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with642Please respect copyright.PENANAZQuSbrOZP3
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to642Please respect copyright.PENANAKwcDLAxz1K
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it642Please respect copyright.PENANAgfsga6LanN
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently642Please respect copyright.PENANAerg8Cy6fZH
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to642Please respect copyright.PENANAxmIplclE9i
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my642Please respect copyright.PENANAnQTO9kW8GT
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of642Please respect copyright.PENANA1os02lrv7t
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.642Please respect copyright.PENANAUfzOMRHQtQ
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The642Please respect copyright.PENANAnjLCWwvOt2
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no642Please respect copyright.PENANAMPVGSFMxvu
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near642Please respect copyright.PENANA01DEo0xtEU
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my642Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8IAutDLHy
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is642Please respect copyright.PENANAhKm0i4aioG
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to642Please respect copyright.PENANAUjvdYJNVG4
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories642Please respect copyright.PENANApQ5vrx86pU
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The642Please respect copyright.PENANAn3UvkIMB4E
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were642Please respect copyright.PENANAqYsztKHBNw
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer642Please respect copyright.PENANAA1rAfBDEGK
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging642Please respect copyright.PENANACBbn2fEuYU
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from642Please respect copyright.PENANAnNHJGnxvh7
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made642Please respect copyright.PENANAfq1VkKNTjR
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws642Please respect copyright.PENANAsQ2Qc6gWwH
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have642Please respect copyright.PENANALN0O4KuRUa
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.642Please respect copyright.PENANA5Kh6AMCC7L
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I642Please respect copyright.PENANAwrXjxaLHFf
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re642Please respect copyright.PENANA4nG9hHZvvK
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you642Please respect copyright.PENANAWzb72I8i91
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I642Please respect copyright.PENANAti0lP9NITK
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting642Please respect copyright.PENANAqJfI3RATqM
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s642Please respect copyright.PENANANnOuPpa4Ai
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name642Please respect copyright.PENANAcT8HLfCkO9
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was642Please respect copyright.PENANA3APwtCuYNk
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks642Please respect copyright.PENANAhESsCiR4EE
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my642Please respect copyright.PENANAyXIUxZgtPg
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the642Please respect copyright.PENANANpW2BwBHgv
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.642Please respect copyright.PENANAriC10gx6gs
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why642Please respect copyright.PENANAhrdr9k53Nl
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like642Please respect copyright.PENANAw23L3ilcDV
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that642Please respect copyright.PENANAzP1jdbt1d3
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always642Please respect copyright.PENANAIl2dSmaViQ
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as642Please respect copyright.PENANALu00FUNBff
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This642Please respect copyright.PENANALE764CCMLx
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one642Please respect copyright.PENANAllBOqXLwzP
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I642Please respect copyright.PENANARAs6K6eM9s
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m642Please respect copyright.PENANAL91Xgu87oZ
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my642Please respect copyright.PENANAwSWIJniMlg
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for642Please respect copyright.PENANAKhCDRbp2dV
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a642Please respect copyright.PENANAchDz9UB7TO
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had642Please respect copyright.PENANAPt7KgsytCK
happened.
Forget it, because I think I642Please respect copyright.PENANAuFCVQZJFes
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell642Please respect copyright.PENANAWdTEvQjgmU
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and642Please respect copyright.PENANAjG3CepTHtT
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from642Please respect copyright.PENANA23fBAx5460
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you642Please respect copyright.PENANAH4jpsgkcvg
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own642Please respect copyright.PENANApXwS2nVxa3
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in642Please respect copyright.PENANA4H3vx7zHRV
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the642Please respect copyright.PENANAsZBy3TUXT3
only one. My first and forever love.