“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one592Please respect copyright.PENANA9MkUj5hblP
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,592Please respect copyright.PENANAxYiI6kPHs9
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with592Please respect copyright.PENANA2Cb8qjFFYR
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives592Please respect copyright.PENANADOG85CXJh1
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses592Please respect copyright.PENANAz10r4cIovi
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate592Please respect copyright.PENANATzNjNTgMzQ
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my592Please respect copyright.PENANApUl4R0H5hH
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that592Please respect copyright.PENANA5l66nfsvPS
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from592Please respect copyright.PENANAfdgHbj6Kf2
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for592Please respect copyright.PENANAsEzK0RhFCc
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,592Please respect copyright.PENANAJQ1wnVfzQe
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me592Please respect copyright.PENANAaMkC3IAsmD
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He592Please respect copyright.PENANAOb8vjixiam
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just592Please respect copyright.PENANAd58ciraqXT
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with592Please respect copyright.PENANAa3PnSNOo8A
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I592Please respect copyright.PENANAE9O08Xm7tM
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To592Please respect copyright.PENANAG1CaIk4DpG
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe592Please respect copyright.PENANA0QkEJM2wYu
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace592Please respect copyright.PENANAMlEuv6q90F
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is592Please respect copyright.PENANALFoWN8HcyU
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got592Please respect copyright.PENANAk8UMUdsb3P
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from592Please respect copyright.PENANAi9IIN2FSok
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,592Please respect copyright.PENANATWwEEPUD2v
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel592Please respect copyright.PENANAU6HySkdkLK
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had592Please respect copyright.PENANAdrYlojN8kT
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back592Please respect copyright.PENANADB6B358SJo
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees592Please respect copyright.PENANAXjQCELNPFk
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s592Please respect copyright.PENANAvCVivZkHa7
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You592Please respect copyright.PENANAXn2lbefZ69
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.592Please respect copyright.PENANAyIgmKjkKMW
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.592Please respect copyright.PENANAutgJmu2wtW
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your592Please respect copyright.PENANAFMIkonV3fL
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking592Please respect copyright.PENANAj9CsTqP2v6
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll592Please respect copyright.PENANA6aRazB3h8Y
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before592Please respect copyright.PENANAYmXAwcNCFE
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that592Please respect copyright.PENANAAXoqI3R8Wv
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained592Please respect copyright.PENANAJfdXQF0dDV
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to592Please respect copyright.PENANAK7fgPEEJeu
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face592Please respect copyright.PENANAm1qlTVwuYj
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped592Please respect copyright.PENANAcBCjrCwyt3
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,592Please respect copyright.PENANATpv1STCUsU
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,592Please respect copyright.PENANA8nK59M6sQQ
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,592Please respect copyright.PENANASnSgocU7W5
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment592Please respect copyright.PENANAHx4SK3jRxJ
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said592Please respect copyright.PENANA35YopZ9WDb
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the592Please respect copyright.PENANAWLKT6dWH3p
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for592Please respect copyright.PENANAEjOdQfDbsr
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek592Please respect copyright.PENANAvB3CnjL6f9
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not592Please respect copyright.PENANAky4hJVFNg6
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you592Please respect copyright.PENANAvN7eaZg33W
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?592Please respect copyright.PENANArW9ZOD6eNI
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that592Please respect copyright.PENANAWOXClVmT0F
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,592Please respect copyright.PENANAGAHrMpyHfw
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with592Please respect copyright.PENANA44X5XWmDLP
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to592Please respect copyright.PENANAGK4pCSacfE
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it592Please respect copyright.PENANAOzIMSHN8bE
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently592Please respect copyright.PENANAVUUd3Jj0XY
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to592Please respect copyright.PENANAj2I7cm8mN9
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my592Please respect copyright.PENANAvRIZDSqVI6
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of592Please respect copyright.PENANAmWDYWANcjX
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.592Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZyARbrtuT
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The592Please respect copyright.PENANA83eQMZtiRu
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no592Please respect copyright.PENANAYx2upXHtcB
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near592Please respect copyright.PENANAMyD8TEq6f4
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my592Please respect copyright.PENANAMkwKFDkkse
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is592Please respect copyright.PENANA5TL9GaRTlr
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to592Please respect copyright.PENANAxOPPvKh3qS
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories592Please respect copyright.PENANAzs3eL2rgG1
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The592Please respect copyright.PENANAs1Btl7WEDN
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were592Please respect copyright.PENANAya9stIvVRH
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer592Please respect copyright.PENANAlk6THxewD2
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging592Please respect copyright.PENANAUI1OH5DT0k
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from592Please respect copyright.PENANAEE0Xi3NscM
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made592Please respect copyright.PENANAghMbuY211O
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws592Please respect copyright.PENANAwtBmfgoBJc
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.592Please respect copyright.PENANAQA59GIpLTT
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I592Please respect copyright.PENANA0R3DcI3nZF
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re592Please respect copyright.PENANAczLJTHRS2x
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you592Please respect copyright.PENANATYhzqX7kwv
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I592Please respect copyright.PENANAWNNY5axkmM
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting592Please respect copyright.PENANAN7rkWIxaMk
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s592Please respect copyright.PENANAIeeZz6qi4i
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name592Please respect copyright.PENANAav1ZcBNpca
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was592Please respect copyright.PENANAyf6fErnWUs
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks592Please respect copyright.PENANAdg8GLGFmh7
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my592Please respect copyright.PENANAwaB3xtDTDY
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the592Please respect copyright.PENANAXy61vTEMVS
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.592Please respect copyright.PENANAwQ8SUXbSMm
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why592Please respect copyright.PENANAHvVZGlpboS
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like592Please respect copyright.PENANAXDyyZ5Y2iR
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that592Please respect copyright.PENANA11jAgoQyVq
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always592Please respect copyright.PENANArdAWvTozrf
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as592Please respect copyright.PENANABvNgLJohFf
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This592Please respect copyright.PENANAQl1UxIZAIC
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one592Please respect copyright.PENANAsnik0dCMn9
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I592Please respect copyright.PENANAcDHmdLX5r5
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m592Please respect copyright.PENANACfI8Q4pYry
sorry, I’m too late.
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face.
“Thank you. Thank you for592Please respect copyright.PENANAuxSTwzx2X3
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a592Please respect copyright.PENANAqYfCePn7Yh
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had592Please respect copyright.PENANAFr3DfaAMEc
happened.
Forget it, because I think I592Please respect copyright.PENANAZoV6LxZHly
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell592Please respect copyright.PENANAqQ4QfrlXmn
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and592Please respect copyright.PENANAy9WkPtTyFF
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from592Please respect copyright.PENANAJz9V8Wxoiu
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you592Please respect copyright.PENANAKUkC3MTqp5
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own592Please respect copyright.PENANA6kHDYeHcRQ
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in592Please respect copyright.PENANAxR5Y2xRBNj
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the592Please respect copyright.PENANAxJIVVbbeEv
only one. My first and forever love.