"Y U...?"

Chapter 24

     'I don't know how I ended up with this three. We're here having a good ti...

     "Is it really a good time to be with them?"  Asking myself silently and let out a deep sighed.

     This is insane and definitely not me but I'm starting to think that I can be used to this kind of new life with them... bit by bit maybe. It's not that bad, isn't it!?

     I'm always on my own. I used to be alone... a lot. Never used to be around with many people. Never had the courage to face them. Call me a coward co'z I am. I'm just trying to protect myself. It's my way. Afraid to be part of their lives. Believed that I was only a mess. And a big one. So I was letting myself go too far away out of reach of people who's trying to get me closer from them.

     Not until a very troublesome one  reached out and pulled me back to where I am now, Khao. The warm that had been long lost I thought I never needed, was once again felt. The trust that was very hard for me to just give easily, I let him have. He let me realized that I can be a part of his life too.

     I remember the first time he approached me when we were in our grade school though he actually offered me to be his best friend when we both in 10th grade.

     I was sitting alone in our room that time.

     "Hello." That's what I heard when he first greet me in his joyful voice and sits beside me. But stunned when he noticed that I was covered with mud all over my clothes, my arms and my face.

     "What happened to you?" He asked with worries showing on his small face.

     I just looked at him and didn't say anything.

     "Don't cry." He said then I felt his little hands trying to wipe away my tears on my dirty face.

     "Did they did this to you again?" He assumed while still wiping even I try to move away from him.

     "Don't worry. If they don't like you, I'm here." He said after and rubs his nose with his hands.

     That's when I heard myself laughed for the first time... Again. He looked at me confusingly and scratched his left cheek and nose again.

     "Why?" He asks amusingly.

     "Your face...." That's all I could say because I was laughing while pointing my forefinger at him.

     He touched his face with both hands and I can't help but laugh harder. He stands up and went to the comfort to look at the mirror there. Then I saw him got out and approach me again, smiling.

     "I never thought this would look good on me too." He happily said.

     "Don't cry anymore okay? If they would do this again, I'll come to you and share this smelly thing with you."

     Those were simple words delivered by a kid like me. The moment I felt that there was someone that I could laugh with even in my most miserable days.

     Troubles comes my way but never did he left me alone.

     Days had passed until our 10th grade and he's still trailing like a shadow behind me. He never get tired of me and eventually I accepted him as my best friend.

      Until we're both admitted in the same school in college with the same faculty which is another cycle of my not so complicated life. So was I thought.