“To the East!”
“To the West!”
There’s a crease on my748Please respect copyright.PENANAtc4h9oiCdV
forehead, I can vividly tell. Who would’ve not had such confusion if your one748Please respect copyright.PENANAd48HJ8ienL
and only company is opposing the map? Exasperation expelled out of my breath.
“That rectangular paper isn’t reliable,748Please respect copyright.PENANA8H5NXizaZL
believe me.” Arms crossed anterior the chest, he had vented the statement with748Please respect copyright.PENANAwBMSHySow2
whole confidence.
“How come that thing survives748Please respect copyright.PENANAaA5H7p2lVk
on your pocket? Don’t just brag that it has a cover to resist water.”
“And besides, who still uses748Please respect copyright.PENANA1FbgCbFQmM
that thing? Come on, this thing is much more updated.” Subsequent was a quadrate748Please respect copyright.PENANA4WA7wCucuD
mobile phone shown before my face. With an automatic reaction, I rolled my748Please respect copyright.PENANAqEb9xVyCyF
eyes.
“Right, not to mention that748Please respect copyright.PENANArbtyi37FR1
this place catches no communication network. Who knows if that still works from748Please respect copyright.PENANAUf5G6e4O00
the massive water earlier. Brilliant.”
“Oh shoot, thanks for748Please respect copyright.PENANAbi0Xs0weKM
reminding.” He smiled, and a deep crate had become visible on his cheeks. Asset,748Please respect copyright.PENANAR5oY5ToSyR
one of his assets.
“But at least just trust me748Please respect copyright.PENANADhqKdjlV1K
about directions. I believe I can make myself familiarize with the path.” He748Please respect copyright.PENANArlizuLOKH5
added but this time with no arrogance, instead with sincerity.
“Whatever. Just please! Just748Please respect copyright.PENANAiLwzFEEZaJ
please make sure you were right this time.” I made the vexed face still. But with748Please respect copyright.PENANAjx7FZLCftl
just few seconds, my annoyance had rapidly turned into surprise as soon as I748Please respect copyright.PENANAf3dHvzAUua
was lifted from the grounds.
“Hey! Bring me down!” To748Please respect copyright.PENANAzpGSPHyxw9
tagged as a child throwing tantrums is out of my concern anymore for I believe748Please respect copyright.PENANAy6Rq4GY5PF
that it is impossible for someone to reside into this. We’ve took a long pace748Please respect copyright.PENANACc9fnwvqBq
already from the squad. And primarily, if there’s someone to be blame, it is748Please respect copyright.PENANAMJLHBgUMcb
me. I made him get lost with me inside this unsure woodland.
“You’re still soaked, you got748Please respect copyright.PENANA2pCie5tBzW
bruises and I can tell that you’re not able to make fifty steps anymore from748Please respect copyright.PENANADIlqAe2IwL
the trembling of your legs. Stop nagging anymore and just utter your gratitude,748Please respect copyright.PENANAdz8VUoDtjx
I’ll surely appreciate it.” From every words he conveyed, I can definitely feel748Please respect copyright.PENANAzuNWCJOzYj
the heaving on his broad chest to where my hands were resting. Screw it, he had748Please respect copyright.PENANAiFctq1RNqy
made my hands clasp together inches below his neck to attain the piggy-back748Please respect copyright.PENANAvn6Cskqd8e
position.
“I’m sorry.” A soft utterance flees748Please respect copyright.PENANAzOOb0XF9aJ
from my mouth. I sulk my face on his back to hide my reaction even though there’s748Please respect copyright.PENANA7SaXZ6l2bJ
zero chance of him witnessing it.
“Shh. It’s not your fault. You748Please respect copyright.PENANAuaPJXDCimP
were just confused after waking up from the tent assuming that everybody left.748Please respect copyright.PENANA3OeYipdydm
You looked for us everywhere and ended up seeing me, doing uhm- unnecessary thing.748Please respect copyright.PENANAbM7IMK8Kgv
To your surprise you fell to that immense waves of river and of course, as your748Please respect copyright.PENANAfwSkEfdK62
very best friend, I’ll undoubtedly rescue you.” I remained silent. I am looking748Please respect copyright.PENANA2vyutE1bvX
for the room of sarcasm to his voice but there’s none. Knowing Bryson, he’ll748Please respect copyright.PENANAMdCMYsyBPf
continually insult, tease and mock me. Or at least he will first, before748Please respect copyright.PENANAbZvAhNfh1N
proceeding to such genuine statement. We’ve survived our friendship with that748Please respect copyright.PENANAhhDda0Ynzz
kind of setup. Mockery before apology.
“But you should’ve remained748Please respect copyright.PENANAJEhhambdor
still.”
“Chasse, stop. No one was to748Please respect copyright.PENANAFAl2twLUxw
be blame.”
This time, I removed my face748Please respect copyright.PENANAvKrdTIOV3j
from sulking on his back and let my eye roam on the environment. Hence, it stopped748Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZvbJt0vZP
immediately on the left side of his torso. Although the sky is getting dusky,748Please respect copyright.PENANAXiC1RXJ3EI
my eyes can clearly perceive the wounded part.
“You’re bleeding!”
“Huh?”
“You’re wounded! Damn Bryson,748Please respect copyright.PENANAU8Y8Hdt3k5
you should’ve told me. Bring me down, now! I’ll treat that first.” Fortunately,748Please respect copyright.PENANA4eB2HUNW45
he didn’t make any more defiance and made me land back on the ground.
“I think it bled the moment748Please respect copyright.PENANAcEvY82ToGE
you carry me.
Undress yourself.”
“C-Chasse, I’m not read— “
“Cut the bullshit Bry.” I said748Please respect copyright.PENANAwtGHwACiJq
and tore the lower part of my black shirt that was slightly ripped from the748Please respect copyright.PENANAxLszeqAtko
accident earlier.
“Woah, we’ve been friends for748Please respect copyright.PENANAbp66GBnaMx
fifteen years and this is the first to see you getting wild.” Dimples on cheek748Please respect copyright.PENANAJCESHdxB43
is waving again to me.
“I always thought you are not748Please respect copyright.PENANAKVOwX6QMXc
interested to men. You didn’t even settle a gaze to those jerks eyeing on you748Please respect copyright.PENANAS7QqMek1mP
on the campus. You even told me that you’ll not marry anyone. And what again?748Please respect copyright.PENANAfLGsxRCANA
You haven’t fell for anyone yet? Ha! Joke’s on you Chasse, never thought that748Please respect copyright.PENANAjYTRfPkV47
you’ll fell for— “And I hit him, on the head.
“You’re the death of me,748Please respect copyright.PENANA2q2PVIm4vT
seriously. Do you really want to treat me”? He protested but followed with748Please respect copyright.PENANAgO07Am9H2e
chuckle thereafter. I didn’t pay much notice on his statement and started to748Please respect copyright.PENANA2BiZQjuh7U
treat his wound, stopped the bleeding by applying pressure and then covered it748Please respect copyright.PENANARINApaEHMk
with the cloth I ripped.
I rid a deep sigh subsequently748Please respect copyright.PENANAgqls74XsTG
closing my eyes with my head leaning on the near tree where we had decided to748Please respect copyright.PENANA9pJ9aFjrL8
stop. I can slowly feel the cold touch of night from the breeze caressing on my748Please respect copyright.PENANA7itQG8Scxy
dermis. But with just a minute, warmth is now lingering before me. A scent of748Please respect copyright.PENANAzeAxCpT6aW
mint is brushing on my face, so I made my eyes opened again.
I saw a deep enigmatic portal.748Please respect copyright.PENANAAf5EqYlVvP
It is so deep enough to enchant me, enough to drain my whole soberness. The748Please respect copyright.PENANAUChFIbFFzk
pair of hazel orbs were seeming to be communicating with my eyes. And with no748Please respect copyright.PENANAWzXf4Mb0An
further explanation, I think, at some point, I was charmed.
“Chasse.” He’s leaning so near748Please respect copyright.PENANA30pL6bR4b7
enough to presume that it was just an inch between us.
“Thank you.
Thank you for coming to my748Please respect copyright.PENANATJmmURileN
life. You’re the best thing that happened to me since age five.” His gaze is748Please respect copyright.PENANA0tRlSzcvsQ
penetrating to my soul.
“Thank you for allowing me to748Please respect copyright.PENANATgmlFcicEG
come on your life, for allowing to know you better and for spending memories748Please respect copyright.PENANAuzAvmC0qIE
with me. Chasse, you’re my treasure. You’re my precious gem, believe me.” The748Please respect copyright.PENANA57n0PqoNI9
place is not magical, there are no fairies, no pixie dusts, but his words were748Please respect copyright.PENANAH65miBRobr
enough for me to dance on the melody of enchantment. I chose not to answer748Please respect copyright.PENANAnaM43Fr8Ot
verbally hence I close the remaining gap between us to savor the rampaging748Please respect copyright.PENANAooIiwZPVLa
feeling on my chest as I tasted his lips against mine.
I feel like exploding, from748Please respect copyright.PENANAkiKRf0GzdF
this strange feeling I haven’t felt this ever since. It was just Bry, he who made748Please respect copyright.PENANAmg0odQ1cpI
me feel every notable first of my life. It took ten seconds before he withdraws748Please respect copyright.PENANAeaweeRKGED
from the kiss.
“No, Chasse no. This is wrong.”
“Bry?”
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have748Please respect copyright.PENANANc0zg4m71x
brought you into this situation. I shouldn’t have made that kind of atmosphere.748Please respect copyright.PENANAUOQse1lW8a
I shouldn’t have made- “
“Bry stop it!
Can’t you see? I-I want you. I748Please respect copyright.PENANA7jr6dfXyLf
want you wholly in my life. Stop apologizing. I am starting to think that you’re748Please respect copyright.PENANAMEeUZmynqi
sorry for kissing me.”
“No! I love that! Damn, you748Please respect copyright.PENANAqTZS2j51uS
don’t know how much I like to kiss you all the time, you don’t know how much I748Please respect copyright.PENANAsOvckw6jpb
wanted to spend every second with you.”
“Then why? Why are you acting748Please respect copyright.PENANAfli72fJf3y
like showing my feelings was the greatest mistake I’ve ever done?” Tears, there’s748Please respect copyright.PENANAccmrkoN2LB
tears gushing now from my eyes.
“Eleanor.”
“Eleanor? My cousin?” The name748Please respect copyright.PENANAcvkRbpVnNz
he mentioned feels like a bomb that’s now ticking inside my head. A nod was748Please respect copyright.PENANAEzYiUzoW62
followed from him.
“Two weeks. She’s two weeks748Please respect copyright.PENANAimufEYlgxh
pregnant.” And from that moment, I think I lost my sanity. I felt jellies on my748Please respect copyright.PENANAmI0piIsgmM
knees. And on my chest, it was so heavy that I just wanted to lie down on the748Please respect copyright.PENANAzGVQ54T3uh
ground. This is the first that I made myself surrender to the notion of love.748Please respect copyright.PENANAmH9n0RVzZ7
This is the first that I entrusted myself into the feeling of romance. But why748Please respect copyright.PENANAf9oA0qe86Y
does it have to be chained so immediate with hurt? Was love supposed to be like748Please respect copyright.PENANA03RhjgrJAz
this? Was love supposed to be this heart-breaking? All my life, I assumed that748Please respect copyright.PENANA5RYHk6m9AO
love was the very best one can feel. It’s always stated on novels. It was always748Please respect copyright.PENANAJy14A4HJMC
stated by greatest authors.
I made my gaze to him firm as748Please respect copyright.PENANAlxamxZtGuJ
possible albeit the streaming tears.
“Chasse, I’m really sorry.” This748Please respect copyright.PENANA8mTjuPvuX2
time, he’s also crying with knees now on the ground. Silence befell between us.
Bryson, I think I was the one748Please respect copyright.PENANATc6DPp3oUC
who must be apologizing. I’m sorry If it took me time to realize about how I748Please respect copyright.PENANAwOXilRC6mL
feel. I’m sorry If I made you wait. I’m sorry If I keep on denying myself. I’m748Please respect copyright.PENANA3jMWSWydEB
sorry, I’m too late.
I plastered a smile on my748Please respect copyright.PENANAD74kwq3wIc
face.
“Thank you. Thank you for748Please respect copyright.PENANAUD5semdx3V
allowing me to feel how to be in love for seconds.” I turned my back. It was a748Please respect copyright.PENANATBTK3L9RXM
genuine utterance.
“We should call it a day.”
“Chasse.”
“Bryson, forget what had748Please respect copyright.PENANAc5niPOzb5w
happened.
Forget it, because I think I748Please respect copyright.PENANAeFYySgBT7k
cannot do it. So please do that favor for me. And I’m glad. I’m glad to tell748Please respect copyright.PENANAHj6gV6jZnH
that you’re my first love, I’ve no regret.”
You’re my first love and748Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2fCaCCc9W
surely my last. It’s really a miracle that I’ve survived the huge current from748Please respect copyright.PENANAvvUysVjpSr
the river earlier despite my condition. Maybe, maybe it was meant that you748Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2PjKXULSM
should know how I feel towards you, before it’s really too late. Before my own748Please respect copyright.PENANAwagmvgeswO
breath escaped my lips. Before the destined death visits me. I am glad to be in748Please respect copyright.PENANAxQcDYidmn4
love even with seconds of my life.
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Because Bryson, you are the748Please respect copyright.PENANAWnqI83AEXn
only one. My first and forever love.