Seasonal Promises

Chapter 2: Then - 4 Months Ago - Fall, October - After School

A windy, lovely, beautiful day. The noise of the trees blowing and the sound of the wind going into your ears.

Finally school is done for today. I just wanna relax, I wanna lay down on my bed.

Alayla comes from behind 'Vi, wanna hang out with us?' She's a friend of mine, she had always been by my side since we started high school and wouldn't leave me alone even if I asked her to.

I'm so exhausted, I'm not really trying to literally hang out with energetic people right now. They'll just keep dragging me to different other places and it'll never end. So I nicely declined.

Alayla left to her friends as they waved at her to come over where they were.

Well maybe I could hang out with someone though..

- "Hey, wanna come over to my house? We could finish the movie we were watching yesterday."

Brian - "Sure."

That's it? He's usually so happy when I invite him to come over.

- "You okay?

Brian -"Yeah."

- "You seemed to be thinking a lot half of the day."

Brian - "It's nothing."

He says it's nothing with his head down. The words show it's clearly bothering him.

- "Tell me, what's wrong?"

Brian - "Fine, I'll tell you just so you could stop asking about it... Are you sure you won't love anyone else other than me?"

What. Where did he get that idea?

- "What makes you think that?"

Brian - "Well, I just had a feeling you were losing interest in me, especially since we usually disagree on more things than usual and today, you were with some guy in math class and... you looked like you were having so much fun talking to him."

Brian's always been insecure and sensitive, so it was my job to assure him.

- "I don't like him, and I probably never will, because I love you, and I'll never do anything that'll hurt you, we'll be together forever, because I'll never stop loving you as you wouldn't for me. We'll work things out like this always and we'll both be happy together."

Brian - "You promise?"

- "Yes, I promise."

Brian - "I promise too then, we'll work things out. That's another promise to our list."

He's been overthinking again. Sometimes I wonder if I am ever enough for him to stop overthinking and coming up with conclusions that I'll leave his side every time. It hurts me to think that he has such ideas in his head. But I can't really blame him with what he's experienced. The only thing I could just do is reassure him, love him and be loyal.

Just seeing him smile once again makes me feel reassured.

I trust him so much to the point we wouldn't be talking for a whole month and I'll know that he had been loyal the whole time.

- "We should really get going now."

After the conversation we walked to my house. Everything between us was so silent yet so loud.

End of Memory.