ESCAPE

Chapter 5

We got back to our room after dinner and even though I wanted to sleep out of exhaustion, Pete suggested to meet the guys living beside our room.

"We'll get back in 5 minutes" He said.

And even though I barely had any interest in meeting other people, I followed him to the room.

He knocked on the door and a tall, lean boy opened it. He had a quite serious looking face but his gaze softened at the sight of Pete.

"Pete!" He said, inviting us in.

"Porsche, this is Vegas and Vegas this is Porsche-my new roommate." Pete introduced us and we both shook our hands as a formality.

"Um...where's he?" Pete asked while looking around.

"Who?" I asked.

"He's talking about my roomate" Vegas explained.

"He's probably dying somewhere in his room. Oiih! Come out, Pete and his roommate are here!" Vegas shouted.

"Does your throat never pain from all that screaming?" His roommate came complaining.

He yawned while coming to us and looked like he had just woken up from a good nap. His hair was dishelved and even in that state, he looked pretty breathtaking.

'Why do I feel like I have seen him somewhere before?' However, I couldn't remember where I had seen him.

"This is Porsche. And Porsche this is 'Kinn'." Vegas introduced and the moment he took the name, a bell rang in my head.

'It's the bracelet guy!' I thought. He didn't look like he remembered me and it was normal since we had just seen each other once that too on a dark bridge.

"Why don't you two talk a bit?
We'll be back in a minute." Vegas suggested and Pete gave me a nudge towards Kinn. He looked fine with it but I didn't know what to say.

After they both left, we two were left alone in the room.

"Um...let's sit down" He suggested and took me to the inner room. We both sat down on his bed and were sitting silently for a couple of minutes waiting for the awkwardness to dissipate a bit.

"Um...you probably don't remember me but we've met before." I started.

"What? Really? Uh sorry, you are right, I don't think I remember." He said.

"Well, here's your bracelet, you gave this to me back then." I handed him the bracelet

"I did?" He looked confused.

"Hm. That night...I was determined to jump off the bridge, but you came in out of nowhere, saved me, gave me this bracelet and asked me to promise you to live on and return this to you someday." I put the memories into my words.

"I think I remember it faintly." He said while trying his best to remember all the details.

"You seemed pretty troublesome to me that night." I chuckled.

"Hey! I saved you!" He looked dramatically offended.

"Uh...but why were you trying to jump off?" He had an awkward expression on as if he didn't want me to feel uncomfortable.

"Well...when people feel like ending their life is the only possible solution, usually there are more than one reason behind it. It's not different for me." I kept it vague and smiled softly hoping he would understand that I was reluctant to reveal the reason.

"What if you get the reason the live?" He asked an unexpected question.

"I...don't know..." I said truthfully. I genuinely didn't know the answer to the question. I had no will to keep living on and wasn't sure if I would ever get a reason to live.