This 'alien' feelings!

Friend

"What!? Do you even know what time it is right now?" Mike pick up his phone after ringing loudly for the fifth time, he was having his sweetest dream after all.

"Believe me when I say I don't like calling you either... but you need to come and pick this guy up..." One of their friends who owned a bar called Podd.

"What again? I thought he stopped going there already?" Mike asked.

"Well he did briefly stop coming, then suddenly here he is again. Only this time, it's a little bit weird."

"Huh? How weird can he gets?"

"He has been drinking like there is no tomorrow and also... he's been quiet, too quiet to my liking..."

"Okay, I'm coming over." Mike said as he hangs up.

"What in the world happened? I thought he was getting better..." Mike said to himself before going out from his bed.

"Mike over here..." Podd called him, when Mike got closer he was surprised to see the amount of alcohol on the table.

"What the hell, did he drank all of this?" Mike asked... Podd can only nodded then let out a long sigh...

"I thought he was getting better..."

"I know me too, this is ridiculous." Mike said with that tone of a worried person and sad combined in his voice. He looks at his friend laying on the table, with that dejected vibes.

"I'll go take care of the counter, let me know if you need any help..." Podd told Mike as he walks away. Mike gives him a nod.

"Bright, Bright dude, wake up." Mike shakes Bright only to earn him a very sad smile forming from his friend face. Bright was quiet.

"What the hell happen dude..." Mike asked knowing he won't get his answer.

"....." The only reply he gets is nothing other than Bright looking elsewhere with eyes that lost his will. Mike has seen this eyes before, he could only remember so much as it happened years ago and it was right after Bright learned that he can't do anything to redeem himself.

"Come on, let me take you back." Mike said as he slings one of Bright arm around his neck. Bright just followed, willingly. No resistance, no will.

After putting him on the passenger seat and tucked Bright safely with the seatbelt, Mike then went over the driver side and drove away safely.

Along the ride as Mike threw few glances to check his friend, he noticed that he wasn't sleeping.

"Bright, what the hell happen? I thought you were getting better..."

"...."

"Is it perhaps about.... Win?" Upon mentioning that name, Mike immediately got a response from Bright. Though it wasn't a verbal response. After a moment of quiet... a long sigh was out from Bright mouth, along with a few frustrated grunt.

"I met him... today." Bright was supposed to be drunk, but it seems like his mind was too preoccupied that he don't even feel drunk. And Mike, hearing that pressed the brake. Stopping his car. Thank goodness there wasn't much car around.

"F-for real?" Mike couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Yeah, and you know what happen?" Bright continued. 

"What?" Mike asked as he starts to drive his car again.

"He was there infront of me." Bright speaks again... Mike keep quiet hoping to hear the rest of it before Bright changes his mind to keep quiet.

"He was there...but. His eyes, when he saw me... oh God." Bright voice was trembling right now, as he brings both of his palm toward his face. Suppressing the incoming surge of emotion.

"Y-you know, how it felt? Seeing his eyes that filled with fears and hurts. I know now, how much I've hurt him. I want to say my sorry, I want to apologize to him so much. But... I don't know if that's even enough. I don't even know what to do..." Bright was trembling as he said it not just his voice, but his whole body. Mike could only sigh before he replied Bright.

"You saw him right, then how hard it is to find and talk to him again?" Mike asked, only this time he didn't know, for the first time his friend would cry. Holding off his voice from breaking out but failed to hold his tears.

"Dude what's wrong?" Mike asked.

"Y-you don't even understand Mike... When he saw me, he runs away."

"Then this time when you see him chase him."

"I wish I could do that! but you know what happen? It will be better if he keeps running away from me. But to think that, that.." Bright couldn't bring himself to say it, because he knows how bad it was. He wasn't stupid, he was smart enough to know that. Based on Khao and Aj reaction alone confirmed his fear.

"I don't understand Bright." Mike said as they were nearing their dorm.

"He didn't even get to run... he fainted. You know what that mean?" Mike keeps quiet, he don't want to say anything to make things worse.

"He is suffering, so much and just by seeing me it must've hurt him so bad to the point of losing consciousness." Bright voice got louder. Mike, don't even know how to calm him down, because no words are good enough to makes him calm. They were silent.

Mike parked his car then stops the engine...

"S-should I just die?" hearing this makes Mike mad, again. This isn't the first time Bright voiced out his dark thought. And each time Mike was there to knock some sense into his head. The guilt Bright was having was eating him little by little.

"Maybe if I die, then he will hurt less." Bright continued.

"And then what? What if he know that he was the cause of you dying? You think he won't feel guilty? HE WOULD FEEL EVEN MORE GUILT THAN WHAT YOU'VE EXPRIENCED!" Mike shouted his last sentence before he continued.

"If you were brave enough, back then and now. This wouldn't even happen. If only you were open enough with your feeling for him back then and accept it as it is. What would you think will happen?"

"...."

"This time, you are given a second chance Bright. Think carefully, there is no space for cowardice. Be brave, be better. Think slowly. And if you ever feel like giving up, come and find me. I'll punch you anytime of the day just to make sure you keep on track."

"...."

"You hear me?"

"Yeah...."

"Cool, let's get you to your room then..."

"Thanks..."

In that moment of silence, Mike knew Bright had make his decision. Because right now. Even with his tipsy look, eyes that are half closed, red from tears. He can see the determination. Only this time he hopes that the Bright and Win don't get hurt too much.

After sending Bright to his room, Mike's phone rings again.

"What is it now?" Mike answered.

"I forgot to tell you, Gun is here too. He came right after you guys left."

"And? what do you want me to do about it?"

"Aren't you gonna pick him up?" Podd asked

"No I am tired, just splash him with some water or throw him outside. He can manage himself, I am not their babysitter or servant." Mike said as he hangs up.

"The fuck the think I was? Their servant. God someday I hope I have the chance to punch their faces."

A/N : Next  would be Bright's PoV just to see what he have been up to... until he met win again.