“To the East!”
“To the West!”
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forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one328Please respect copyright.PENANAnd9NHsdOWx
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,328Please respect copyright.PENANAJzu3kUSEWY
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with328Please respect copyright.PENANAzQKcgMXrRA
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives328Please respect copyright.PENANAnPMsnxRJyw
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses328Please respect copyright.PENANA6rB2lp3qU8
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate328Please respect copyright.PENANA9JxwXpZqK0
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my328Please respect copyright.PENANALfJeUNEWWM
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that328Please respect copyright.PENANArzSwxTeG58
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from328Please respect copyright.PENANAKltp621yyV
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for328Please respect copyright.PENANAmh7k4siBnk
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,328Please respect copyright.PENANA5Y8IFMA2NK
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me328Please respect copyright.PENANAVkDr08oEnZ
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He328Please respect copyright.PENANAco68hj1tj1
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just328Please respect copyright.PENANAw98ouEjHXY
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with328Please respect copyright.PENANAYWPoMdOUK9
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I328Please respect copyright.PENANA6Dbxi4FrIk
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To328Please respect copyright.PENANATJDF4z9ACU
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe328Please respect copyright.PENANAEA7GyQNXsY
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace328Please respect copyright.PENANACZysb1rm1i
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is328Please respect copyright.PENANAecX20zPhcy
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got328Please respect copyright.PENANACMbw8spZcI
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from328Please respect copyright.PENANA2RbQavI1Ha
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,328Please respect copyright.PENANAU0hNHnEqZB
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel328Please respect copyright.PENANA4ZFATG8Ptl
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had328Please respect copyright.PENANA3Bnz3fSpZE
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back328Please respect copyright.PENANAPzHm4F3xZI
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees328Please respect copyright.PENANAiU02EB4lQe
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s328Please respect copyright.PENANAH5T9pjA9ua
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You328Please respect copyright.PENANAUBWv9U3d2s
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.328Please respect copyright.PENANA7Wjnll3XL1
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.328Please respect copyright.PENANAgzyuPtHbse
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your328Please respect copyright.PENANAodCMCnBQS6
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking328Please respect copyright.PENANAfoNbj3POCU
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll328Please respect copyright.PENANADGgsmpByUN
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before328Please respect copyright.PENANAMCvcgLMJ4K
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that328Please respect copyright.PENANAfHjvtkkjiV
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained328Please respect copyright.PENANAibVrtjUBLH
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to328Please respect copyright.PENANApMEiPET7at
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face328Please respect copyright.PENANAxmO0YM67XD
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped328Please respect copyright.PENANAQJiWTeltG8
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,328Please respect copyright.PENANAZyiPPnhCgc
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,328Please respect copyright.PENANAEcDYMArH7R
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,328Please respect copyright.PENANAi13tNSWNeP
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment328Please respect copyright.PENANA0rjYmYd5tu
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said328Please respect copyright.PENANASYKedv4wfS
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the328Please respect copyright.PENANADEwQ9HmmJ1
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for328Please respect copyright.PENANAH22wHeotgU
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek328Please respect copyright.PENANAhYnHbeBZE6
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not328Please respect copyright.PENANADhmDH91JnT
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you328Please respect copyright.PENANAjTrTOD7zZe
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?328Please respect copyright.PENANAbzLQluMOSp
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that328Please respect copyright.PENANAt2W9tf0KAV
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,328Please respect copyright.PENANAvWZUfFbbcP
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with328Please respect copyright.PENANA9BggqRg5XH
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to328Please respect copyright.PENANA8dqzH8gnPU
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it328Please respect copyright.PENANAjRhSzGvM6p
with the cloth I ripped.
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closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to328Please respect copyright.PENANAOHrq83O7ok
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my328Please respect copyright.PENANAkrUQ2P8fe2
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of328Please respect copyright.PENANADzg3Jn7TRR
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.328Please respect copyright.PENANA0vD3QMSWrT
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The328Please respect copyright.PENANAyX6Ufjsivq
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no328Please respect copyright.PENANA8gCzLTSuqG
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near328Please respect copyright.PENANACrJTGAhr6a
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my328Please respect copyright.PENANANItEv4vTDM
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is328Please respect copyright.PENANARXFoqdbXBn
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to328Please respect copyright.PENANAlm9NmLnOqX
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories328Please respect copyright.PENANAcPPzzMrLZy
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The328Please respect copyright.PENANANTzWlE8sAa
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were328Please respect copyright.PENANA8hlKhu6uvI
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer328Please respect copyright.PENANA2s4cxFmQ3u
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging328Please respect copyright.PENANA7DPtgy4pxi
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from328Please respect copyright.PENANAEZow2Lc0dJ
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made328Please respect copyright.PENANAFNQ2YDlRXB
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws328Please respect copyright.PENANAzhxruF9Osw
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.328Please respect copyright.PENANAXrveJQSyuc
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I328Please respect copyright.PENANA2pUHZTplpU
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re328Please respect copyright.PENANASNrC0IHVgC
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you328Please respect copyright.PENANAKWEUzP32jn
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I328Please respect copyright.PENANAncVzAbQjPc
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting328Please respect copyright.PENANAgkedecN4oY
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s328Please respect copyright.PENANAfci1KgWvpL
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name328Please respect copyright.PENANAi9ZYthMqfq
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was328Please respect copyright.PENANAXLovbTfaoN
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks328Please respect copyright.PENANAe1rn7RXCBZ
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my328Please respect copyright.PENANALgE4HQNhin
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the328Please respect copyright.PENANA0WWkE2AO2l
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.328Please respect copyright.PENANACgKIhnLWoD
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why328Please respect copyright.PENANAHq5JxPW4Cr
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like328Please respect copyright.PENANAyikO981oUb
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that328Please respect copyright.PENANAymPqtQzWD7
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always328Please respect copyright.PENANALNvH8AC9xY
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as328Please respect copyright.PENANAe92tjrZmK0
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This328Please respect copyright.PENANAsvBYiJdW44
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one328Please respect copyright.PENANAGmIRSUHFGR
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I328Please respect copyright.PENANAEiF7FRuxPT
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m328Please respect copyright.PENANAL1uv6U3479
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my328Please respect copyright.PENANAE8vKafzwGh
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for328Please respect copyright.PENANA8762HUd9wm
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a328Please respect copyright.PENANAJI1TETVKdp
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had328Please respect copyright.PENANA641L9WCVB1
happened.
Forget it, because I think I328Please respect copyright.PENANAkIJnE0bl1f
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell328Please respect copyright.PENANAiCKhuXLN5j
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and328Please respect copyright.PENANA6eEEfcH9Wy
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from328Please respect copyright.PENANA7owClsP9wY
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you328Please respect copyright.PENANA90roJnvcsT
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own328Please respect copyright.PENANAQzNNykIWjt
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in328Please respect copyright.PENANAGkn2q0RORX
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the328Please respect copyright.PENANAEAcSevCH17
only one. My first and forever love.