"You just creeped me out, what the f*ck?!" I cussed unintentionally and it was purely because of my initial reaction upon shock.Mom raised her hands, making a humorous gesture of giving up and not fighting while chuckling because she had unintentionally scared me!"Chill, dear! I'm sorry, okay?""Mom, it was you! I thought it was a ghost!" I said, feeling guilty and regretful.She smiled.I hugged her. "I'm sorry, mom."She caressed my back upon responding to my hug. "It's alright, dear. No problem. I understand.""Anyway, what are you doing here?" I asked when the hug was over."Well, you have mentioned to me in our call early this morning that you're going to visit Noah, and I immediately knew which place you were talking about. So, I decided to come, too, and followed you. And of course, to visit him as well since he had been long gone," she explained.Oh now, I got it. I nodded. We both continued to look at the sea while silently talking to Noah's soul where he was last seen bef
"I'm sorry…" I said."What are you apologizing for?" Trey asked."Because I've been thinking about the past, particularly about my late fiancé while with you. I shouldn't be doing it. I shouldn't reminisce and instead focus on the present, focus on you.""You're thinking about Noah?"I nodded guiltily. "Yeah.""It's alright. No issue with that," he assured me and drew me closer to him."Still, I should be sensitive and think only about you, especially when we're together."He put his arm around my shoulders and caressed my hair.We watched the scenic view together."Why? Does this place remind you about him?" he continued to ask while our eyes were still at the mountains.I nodded honestly. "This became one of our memorable places together because there was once a time that we were riding at a school bus, going on a school trip but we were left by that bus in here, so, instead of blaming each other and getting ourselves into a nonsense fight, we took that as an opportunity to enjoy an
I was so shocked upon hearing from Trey revealing that he had the same nightmare I had on the same night! "W-hat? You j-ust had a nightmare exactly as mine that very exact night, too?"He nodded surely. "Yes. I dreamed about coming back to your place and then we walked together to the shore, but later on, I realized it wasn't me you were with all along but it was rather Noah. I was only watching you two from afar and I tried calling you, shouting your name, going and running to you to get you but I couldn't move my feet and there was no voice coming out from my mouth no matter how hard I tried to make a sound. It was as if I had been silenced and I was chained on my feet. I really wanted to save you, to protect you and to take you away from him but then there was nothing I could do…"Hearing all of them, and realizing that I had been experiencing a similar nightmare he had, caused me goosebumps. And how we couldn't be together in both our nightmares!I felt my throat starting to get s
"How have you been, Abi?" I asked.Actually, I was really ready to face her anger. If she would be rude to me, it would absolutely be okay and I would accept it without getting mad. After all, I deserved getting the subject of their anger because of what I did to them years back.But instead of rolling her eyes and ignoring me, like what I expected, she actually did the opposite. She smiled a little but it was genuine and there wasn't any hint of sarcasm. "I've been doing great, Camila. How about you? How are you? Wow! I didn't expect I would see you here today! It has been such a while since the last time I, I mean we, saw you."I wasn't able to speak at first or comprehend because I was trying to sink it into my mind. She didn't get angry. She was actually nice and she didn't seem to have any kind of bad blood on me.About to answer her, Barbara talked, trying to pull her. "Abigail, let's go!"But Abigail cooly smiled and gestured my direction. "Can't you see? I'm still talking to C
"Are you going to choose me or Noah?""Trey, why are you asking this kind of question?"He shrugged his shoulders. "I just thought about it, totally out of the blue." He looked away. "If you don't like it, I'm sorry. And if you don't want to answer, it's alright. I would understand—""It's you, Trey." I cut him off. I knew he was dismissing it because he thought I couldn't answer directly, but actually, I could because I knew very well what I wanted.I wouldn't want him to think that it was necessary to dismiss it without getting answered, and then later on, we are going to be feeling awkward towards each other, most especially from his side because it was him that asked such question."It's you that I'm going to choose, Trey, if I have to pick between you and Noah," I continued.He was staring at me, yet I could see from his eyes that though he wasn't saying anything, I knew, and I could feel that he felt pride. He was glad to have heard that I would definitely choose him if I had to
"Noah, it's really you!" I surely stated.I didn't know how this happened and how this was even possible, but even with his tone as he speaks I could recognize very well that he's really Noah!I stood, went to him and embraced him.I cupped his cheeks after our hug. I couldn't be wrong! "Is this really true? Are you really him, Trey?"He nodded with his eyes staring at mine. "Yes. I am him, Camila. I am Noah and Noah is me.""But h-ow did it happen? Am I dreaming? Tell me I'm dreaming, Trey, I mean Noah, urgh! I don't know exactly what to call you!""Just call me whichever way you want, Camila. The most important thing is that you now know the truth. We now know it. And no, you aren't dreaming. This is true. This is really happening, and this is our reality."I nodded.He held my hand and once again brought me back into sitting at the swing. He gently moved and pushed it and it felt great."Even I, honestly, when I found out about it, I couldn't believe it. I refused to believe it. B
(Trey's POV)"Where is Camila?! Where did you take her?!"In my anger, I gripped the collar of Noah's shirt tightly and forcibly.He took away Camila from me! He took away the only woman I've only loved!I saw it with my own two eyes! How he forcefully dragged her arm to take her with him though she cried and she didn't want to go with him! She wasn't even willing to do it!Camila cried and called for my name, wanting me so badly to go to her and save her, but I couldn't move my feet so long as my whole body was as if an invisible wall was preventing me from running into her because I wanted so badly to protect her, but I couldn't do anything, and it almost made me insane!How I hated that I was helpless and powerless at the times when my love needed me the most!They walked, and Noah continued dragging her away while she was crying my name as she didn't want to be away from me."Camila! Camila, don't go with him! Noah, don't take her! She doesn’t want to go with you! Let her go! Free
"Thanks, Noah! See you tomorrow!"I smiled and waved at my classmates.We just had a meeting for the upcoming presentation on one of our minor subjects. We were in our second year in college, and yeah, life was a bit hard and busy, but we needed to survive and extend extra effort to pass.I waved goodbye to them after our mini-meeting outside our building, and everything in the presentation was agreed upon. They remained there chitchatting with their friends, going to the canteen, and others minded their businesses.Walking at the campus as I was heading to the gate, suddenly, a girl sitting on one of the benches around got my attention.I stopped walking for a while to stare at her, and I didn't know I was smiling while doing so. She was beautiful like the rest, but she had this effect on me that I couldn't understand why yet I already felt fond of her though it was even the first time I had a glance at her.She was not familiar to me, but obviously, she also studies at this universi