Chapter 15: Moments with you (pt.2)

Aurelius Azure POV

It's been almost a month since I woke up outside Asha's house and I am starting to think of the life I temporarily forget.

How long am I gone from there? Was it also a month too? A day? An hour? How long?

I was still in deep thinking when a knock on the door disrupted it.

After the knock, I saw Asha peeking on the door with a small smile and I smiled back

"Is there a problem Asha?" I asked her when she entered the room where she let me sleep.

This was an empty room with two big windows that help gives lightning, a bed made in bamboo near to the big windows, and a cabinet on the side of the bed.

It is small compare to my room in the mansion but this feels like home.

Although the bed was hard to sleep on at first because it has no cushion for the first two days of sleeping on it, but as the days passed by, I got used to it even with or without a cushion.

At first I ask Asha why there's no ceiling fan or anything to help ventilate air to make the room cool,

but she just shrug her shoulders saying 'you won't need it, the weather here is not that hot and less bill on electricity'.

I wanted to protest that time but I kept my silence.

I just remembered that I'm not going to live the life I'm used to.

Still it became my problem, how am I supposed to sleep without even just a ceiling fan?

But when night came, I was thankful that there really were no fan, I instantly wrapped around my body the comforter she gave me when the night breeze becomes much colder.

I swear, the night breeze here is way more colder than the air conditioner could give.

From then on, I don't sleep in night without wrapping the comforter around my body and closing the windows.

"There's no problem, I-uh I just want to say that starting next week will be the first day of class" Asha said and stood in front of me

"Oh?" was all I could say "I wanted to enrolled you but then I don't have the requirements to enroll you" she continued and again I couldn't say anything but just nod at her and smile

"Thank you Asha but you really don't have to, letting me stay here is already enough" I said sadly as I remember how long I have been here.

I wanted to be with Asha, moments with her are priceless but as I stayed here longer, it pains me.

It pains me that this is might be just my own selfish imagination or just a dream but if not, then, it pains me that this might be just temporary.

A temporary happiness are too painful for me to handle.

"Is there any problem Azure?" Asha asked "Is there something I could help you?" she continued and again, I smiled at her.

"It's just that" I replied and stand up to get the towel hanged on the back of the door and readying the clothes that Asha let me borrow, it was her father's clothes.

"There's just some things I wanted to say and do but I couldn't, not because I don't want to, but because I am not allowed to, I might destroy what might happen" I continued.

I wanted to say Asha that I came from the future and I don't know why I am here maybe because of the blue butterfly.

I tried not once but many times to tell Asha who I am but I notice that every time I do, she wouldn't move and a blue butterfly would fly above me.

I realized that, I am not allowed to tell Asha everything but there's one thing I could tell in which she believed in me.

I told her about my experience with a blue butterfly and she also told me about hers, maybe that was the reason she let me stay and hasn't found me crazy.

I even tried to travel to where my home is in this time, but the blue butterflies wouldn't let me.

I remember it was afternoon when I decided to go on a bus and Asha was inside the forest on the back of her house.

I dozed off just before the bus leave the terminal and Asha found me lying outside her house when the moon was about to rise while she was carrying a basket full of wild edible mushrooms

"What do you mean Azure? Do you need help?" Asha offered but I declined "Thank you Asha but I can manage and I'm not sure you would understand" I replied.

"Then try me" she insisted "I wanted to but those blue butterfly wouldn't let me" I said in frustration

There was a moment of silence between but I broke it first

"Look Asha, I'm sorry if I'm acting like this" I said while putting down my clothes and reach her hands to hold "I appreciate your concern I really do" I said and this time cares her hair.

"Remember the blue butterfly?" I asked her and she nodded "They were the reasons why I can't just tell everything to you, do you understand now?" I asked her and she nodded again

"Okay I understand" She replied and I smiled at her.

I pulled her for a hug, we were like that for a minute until when I felt her hands on back and I was expecting a hug from her but it was the opposite.

Asha reached for my ear to pinch and just like the last time, I shouted in pain and released her from my hug.

This is too much for an expectation

Asha giggled and I looked at her with eyes like daggers but she stuck out her tongue playfully while half of her body was already outside the door.

"I was just hugging you" I exclaimed and this time she laughed at me "No hugging Azure" she replied.

"Fine" I replied and laughed while remembering how heavy my feeling was earlier and now, she made it lighter.

"Thank you Asha for understanding" I replied after calming down "You're welcome Azure" she replied and smiled.

She was about to close the door and I was picking up again my clothes at the bed when she said something that warmth my heart

"Hey Azure, how much things get worse for you, I'll always be here for you" she said and closed the door.

I didn't even realized tears were flowing on my cheeks not until it I felt it fell on my feet