Chapter 6 [END]

I gave a gentle smile before walking down from the stage and going straight to the restroom. I stared at my reflection that was filled with tears, the more that I looked at myself the more I thought of how pitiful I was. The more that I looked at myself the more tears would gush out of my eyes,

"I'm still running away, huh?"

I wiped off my tears and shed my face, staring at my own reflection. I mumbled a few words before leaving the restroom. I didn't go back to where my friends were since we won't be the ones who will play next. I wandered around the event place and I found a small playground further to the back, I sat down and stared at the pitch black sky.

"Must be hard to remember her, right?"

A familiar voice called out to me. I was Tyler, I didn't notice him until he spoke up. He was smoking beside a tree to my right. I looked him in the eyes and denied his words.

"What are you talking about?"

"Lying to me is stupid, but if you don't want to I'm not interested. Still trying to talk to her wouldn't be that painful, why not give it a try..."

He looked at me as he threw his cigarette in a trash bin, his phone suddenly rang and so he answered. He waved at me before leaving while continuing to converse with the person at the other end of the line.

A few minutes passed when the crowd started to celebrate like children, their laughter echoed around the event place. This place is isolated from houses so no one would complain about some party going on. I still had a little view of where the crowd was so I knew what they were doing, they were jumping and drinking as some band played a hype song. Suddenly a figure emerged in my eye sight, she had this confused look on her face, I was about to leave when she walked towards me while waving her hand.

"Hey! How are you?"

She immediately asked me, my eyes were locked on hers when she tilted her head to the side. I immediately averted my gaze while stealing glances at the clothes. She wore an off shoulder dress that was a little fit on top and flowy at the bottom, it also had a yellow color that had a darker hue towards the end of the dress.

"I'm alright..."

An awkward response was the only reply I could give. No matter how much I tried to think of those dreams differently, it already made sense inside my head.

"May I sit beside you?"

"Sure..."

The awkward silence was deafening, I remembered my past, and I knew how everything happened before. And in my current situation it's extremely awkward to converse, my whole body was fidgeting as he stared at the ground.

"You remembered me earlier at the grocery, right?"

"Probably..."

"Why didn't you talk to me?"

And so here it comes, the questions I never answered in the past are now being asked to me this evening.

"Didn't feel like it..."

"I see, so you didn't feel like talking to me for 12 years?"

"Perhaps..."

Minutes went by as she continued to ask me question pertaining to all the actions I did in the past, I gave a vague and stupid response to all of it. I still had no courage to give an answer, this event already happened before. Once she gets irritated over me not answering her questions then the next thing she'd say is...

"Well there's no point in continuing to force an answer from you... I'll be returning now, please tell your family I said Hi"

Her voice was in pain, I could tell since we've spent most of our high school days together. She stood up and started to walk to where everybody was. I unconsciously tried to reach her as she got closer to where they were, this view... was the view I had when she walked away that day. But this time it wasn't her fault for not noticing, it was mine for not answering. I stared at her as she arrived at the event place, the cold breeze blew against my body as tears started to gush out of my eyes once more.

"I'm such a coward..."

--Fin--