“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one338Please respect copyright.PENANAVlYUp7d41Y
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,338Please respect copyright.PENANAtPEYJ4fQcF
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with338Please respect copyright.PENANARTbILshKu1
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives338Please respect copyright.PENANAP8GMITG53x
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses338Please respect copyright.PENANAyAknSZ1Ofq
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate338Please respect copyright.PENANA3p93rQpFtA
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my338Please respect copyright.PENANAgM59xh4VDB
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that338Please respect copyright.PENANAX5iNu1VISx
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from338Please respect copyright.PENANAXnW3wlrKhV
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for338Please respect copyright.PENANAFZ8mtMQo51
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,338Please respect copyright.PENANA1fMnukA57J
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me338Please respect copyright.PENANAs7WboewwfZ
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He338Please respect copyright.PENANAiuS22QSXkV
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just338Please respect copyright.PENANA58xkj0Ja4c
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with338Please respect copyright.PENANA7VxAzMCdHc
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I338Please respect copyright.PENANA4WOT9cGZzW
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To338Please respect copyright.PENANAFS1p9wgP19
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe338Please respect copyright.PENANAI6yHw1OxZk
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace338Please respect copyright.PENANAyViICHOxMe
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is338Please respect copyright.PENANAAzcH3lG5jx
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got338Please respect copyright.PENANACSNicnUqGi
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from338Please respect copyright.PENANA1jFTb2nDBA
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,338Please respect copyright.PENANA69fr303kGN
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel338Please respect copyright.PENANAThGAUKKonU
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had338Please respect copyright.PENANATNXPxzSFnp
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back338Please respect copyright.PENANANr4tzb71mW
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees338Please respect copyright.PENANAAr9OZDY3vw
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s338Please respect copyright.PENANAtrq49fB9wn
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You338Please respect copyright.PENANAX0WIrAm2yL
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.338Please respect copyright.PENANAx6al1OaEDg
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.338Please respect copyright.PENANAO1vtJk1nQH
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your338Please respect copyright.PENANAsacAzvXC1S
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking338Please respect copyright.PENANAgtXzGZXC8F
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll338Please respect copyright.PENANA7b2vEU9pXv
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before338Please respect copyright.PENANAAzm40fTMUJ
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that338Please respect copyright.PENANAXTmAeKSdVf
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained338Please respect copyright.PENANAUT8BnHTkOU
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to338Please respect copyright.PENANAmj3PcpcFIv
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face338Please respect copyright.PENANArIE94Eo6GH
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped338Please respect copyright.PENANAze1XXl89gl
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,338Please respect copyright.PENANABQKpZOo48q
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,338Please respect copyright.PENANAuywC4x37k9
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,338Please respect copyright.PENANAkQKvViwCrv
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment338Please respect copyright.PENANAK7iMfL7Zwd
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said338Please respect copyright.PENANALvZGWmnNsk
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the338Please respect copyright.PENANAa9v1dwHQLg
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for338Please respect copyright.PENANAxOXerM5m18
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek338Please respect copyright.PENANAx05uGLH6lP
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not338Please respect copyright.PENANAMFlEoNqab9
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you338Please respect copyright.PENANATwtTQ4ompZ
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?338Please respect copyright.PENANAMYBqhq1kvY
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that338Please respect copyright.PENANAsMkXVFAb4U
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,338Please respect copyright.PENANAkoCw9NIOot
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with338Please respect copyright.PENANA5Z9ktMioha
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to338Please respect copyright.PENANAypxu2Z01gn
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it338Please respect copyright.PENANAL6H0b2nNEb
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently338Please respect copyright.PENANAvkn5GjspaC
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to338Please respect copyright.PENANAIXtKlkumx7
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my338Please respect copyright.PENANAGgU9NownDk
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of338Please respect copyright.PENANAoatO4SeIVp
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.338Please respect copyright.PENANAbV743CXF4r
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The338Please respect copyright.PENANAp0TyBtUQ8W
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no338Please respect copyright.PENANAoAy0Wl4fx5
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near338Please respect copyright.PENANAvhiqE7ZM0N
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my338Please respect copyright.PENANAxPNfNTNplI
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is338Please respect copyright.PENANAuzVlLopHaH
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to338Please respect copyright.PENANA4yNkGB8R0j
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories338Please respect copyright.PENANALD87Maec3i
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The338Please respect copyright.PENANAJiyptmnktF
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were338Please respect copyright.PENANARO8lmcMKQF
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer338Please respect copyright.PENANAhfmBsH4rZs
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging338Please respect copyright.PENANAzwZTpDbimU
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from338Please respect copyright.PENANAU2fVnif5Ni
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made338Please respect copyright.PENANA1UcLKNo17n
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws338Please respect copyright.PENANAbp86y1a2bZ
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have338Please respect copyright.PENANAjxTJpNqqxi
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.338Please respect copyright.PENANAyfKuTS4Wag
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I338Please respect copyright.PENANArR8eqgnZNA
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re338Please respect copyright.PENANAX2AlovcGuE
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you338Please respect copyright.PENANA6iInuoZ2Ef
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I338Please respect copyright.PENANA9yrAvUfVHo
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting338Please respect copyright.PENANATFJF5r0ofA
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s338Please respect copyright.PENANAmJC97jHbK4
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name338Please respect copyright.PENANAhoXnOrVkEf
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was338Please respect copyright.PENANAkrC1merqvf
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks338Please respect copyright.PENANAYttntiQ0be
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my338Please respect copyright.PENANAaDjO6Z5oiF
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the338Please respect copyright.PENANAJgfZ0XnOzY
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.338Please respect copyright.PENANA9kyybJdfiQ
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why338Please respect copyright.PENANAnTtkwxwLQv
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like338Please respect copyright.PENANA4j14J3KGrb
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that338Please respect copyright.PENANAVhvc0Lbs4r
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always338Please respect copyright.PENANAW7cCF1prm8
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as338Please respect copyright.PENANAvpIhyCDqeV
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This338Please respect copyright.PENANAcV2vnQqHLO
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one338Please respect copyright.PENANAzROxHKVnxc
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I338Please respect copyright.PENANA1KPm6DJZh7
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m338Please respect copyright.PENANACVjtm21cDE
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my338Please respect copyright.PENANA7UYQNdPK0z
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for338Please respect copyright.PENANA5SWCbRRt28
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a338Please respect copyright.PENANAkNK9XScRh9
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had338Please respect copyright.PENANADXCT4VVsDU
happened.
Forget it, because I think I338Please respect copyright.PENANAMbpb9UV69p
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell338Please respect copyright.PENANAdqiPBlpKFi
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and338Please respect copyright.PENANAgrtNDyT4P8
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from338Please respect copyright.PENANAZr3lFPNzua
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you338Please respect copyright.PENANAyAD3QIU98G
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own338Please respect copyright.PENANAWpCmmlhVvW
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in338Please respect copyright.PENANADpJH9L1Kh1
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the338Please respect copyright.PENANAP6cPdz5nLV
only one. My first and forever love.