Down Memory Lane ✓

9- The Discussion

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The Discussion

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THE LIBRARY wasn't my favorite spot in Glory Bells Prep, but it became my most cherished after Kai asked me to be his girlfriend here. It had been a long time coming, yet it took me by surprise. Naomi liked to say we had been dating long before and we just didn't make it official yet.

I could see why.

Whenever I wasn't in class or the dorm, I was with him. We spent whatever free period we would have together.

I remember one time Mariana and Naomi had talked to me about our time together dwindling. I had found it ridiculous given how I was always with them in the dorm. Even at that time, we hadn't started dating.

When he'd asked me if I could go through some flashcards with him, I'd been skeptical at first. Kai never had issues with flashcards and could finish them in minutes with everything pasted into his brain. When I got here, it was anything but flashcards.

It was simple, really. He sat there with a single red rose lying horizontally on the circular table and his chair facing mine. I'd asked about the flashcards and in return, he asked if I could be his girlfriend.

Now, seated at the same spot, but this time on his chair so I could see when he came in, another thing weighed on my mind, pushing the romantic memory aside.

My mind had been playing through the whole thing and how I was going to tell him. I was fortunate that there was no one nearby to see my consistent mutterings and slight gestures and just hoped I wouldn't chicken out at the last minute to lie to him.

Though, if I told him the truth, would he think I was crazy? He might—no, no. I couldn't think like that. I needed someone's opinion and I could trust him. It's Kai, my boyfriend. Well, not yet, he is.

I saw him walk in and waved him over. I was in the back and had to stand before waving so he could see me. The other two people present in the library were far away from us, and the librarian had gone into the back room.

That made things perfect for the talk we were about to have.

"This is gonna sound weird," I started, getting straight to the point, "But I'm in my past." As expected, his face didn't give away anything.

Kai was someone who would guard his expression very well. If you didn't know what to look for, you wouldn't be able to tell what he was thinking.

I knew I had to explain further, so I did. I told him everything, from how we had already graduated and I was at my grandma's. The gap in my memory. Mrs. Morris, what she had said, the artwork, and Mariana's recent behavior.

When I finished, he sat there with a slight furrow in his brows and a small frown on his lips. It was the same one he had when he was thinking.

It did not surprise me when it took some time before he replied. If he gave me this amount of information at once, I would take days, seeing how I've had it for a while now and was still having a tough time processing it.

"So," he started. "You need to uncover the reason they sent you to this specific moment in your life, which, according to you, has passed."

"Yeah exactly."

"And how are you sure that this is the past?" he asked. It didn't sound like he was in doubt, just that he wanted clarity.

"When I had graduated, we were already dating. You had asked me out at the beginning of eleventh grade, here in the library," I said, a part of me wondering if that was too much information.