The Heart Remembers What the Mind Forgets

Chapter Three- Breath-taking Moment

Coach Marquez had finished taking the attendance. He instructed the boys to take a piece of paper from a hat that he brought, "I want the boys to take one of this. You partner up with the name on the paper. We will have a 40 minute workout. Everyone should have partners".

The boys passed the hat around. Dylan opens up the folded paper that he took from the hat. MINDEL CHIVERS. He looked surprised. He got up and hesitantly came toward Minchi. He shows the paper, "Minchi", he paused. Minchi takes the paper. "How great! I get to team up with the strong Dylan West! Rachel said that you're into sports!"

Dylan looks away and looked conflicted and guilty. "You were the one who suggested that I should do a sport" he thought. "Dylan, are you okay?" Minchi asked. "I'm fine, come on, lets get this over with".

The two found a spot in the northwestern corner of the gym. "Everyone will be doing push ups, face your partners and do 30 of them, ready? Start." His whistle blows.

"one...two.." Everyone counts.. Minchi stares at Dylan who was focusing doing push-ups. As he stares back, she quickly looks away. 30 push-ups went by quick. Now the boys were instructed to assist the girls in doing sit-ups.

"Well, this is embarassing", Minchi blushes as she gets in position. Dylan hesistantly touches her feet and holds it down. "I know it's awkward, but let's just go through with it for the sake of our grades", Dylan's sweat rolls down as he spoke with such a serious stare. "Haha, you're funny, and you're right", Minchi chuckles as she lays down on the floor.

"Ready?" The whistle blows.

"One...two.." Everyone counts. Now, everytime a number is mentioned, Minchi raises her upper body. As Dylan holds both of Minchi's feet down, they couldn'y help but meet each other's face everytime Minchi raises her body up. As the the number count goes higher, the two comes together closer- Dylan perspires, and Minchi blushes. As the breathtaking moment seemed to go by slower, Dylan suddenly lets go of Minchi's feet. Unfortunately, his action caused Minchi a hard fall as she lost her balance when her feet had gone loose. As she starts to loose consciousness, she sees a blurry vision of students surrounding her, specifically a guy who is seemed to carry her. 

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Minchi opens her eyes. She realized that she's in the nurses office. Dylan was in the distance, standing. "Are you feeling better?" he softly spoke.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about it", Minchi smiled. "I'm sorry about what happened. I was irresponsible", he spoke. "I know that you somehow feel uncomfortable around me. Please don't let this bother you", Minchi tries to cheer him up.

"I don't want to hurt you again, I'll take my leave", Dylan sadly steps back and disappears to the shadows. Minchi sadly tries to reach her hand even though she had realized that he was gone.

Suddenly, the door is slammed opened. "Minchi! are you feeling better now? you were knocked unconscious!" Rachel screams worriedly. "Good thing you weren't dead", Faye spoke calmly.

"Thanks guys, but I'm fine now", Minchi grins. 

"Did you know? Dylan hurriedly carried you here. He looked so worried!" Rachel happily explains what happened. "But, where is he? You've been unconscious for 2 hours, and he'd been here the whole time", she said.

"Dylan did?" Minchi wondered. Her thoughts filled her head, Why would this boy do so much for her? Why did she cause him so much trouble? But her thinking was interrupted by a sudden phone call. It was Kassidy.

"Mindel, I won't be able to come home for a week, my boss asked me to inspect our small branch in Massachusetts. I will be gone for a week. Will you be alright?" Kassidy worriedly asks. "Don"t worry about me, Kass. I will take the chance to go sight seeing with my friends. Have a safe trip", Minchi replied in excitement.

"Alright then, but don't forget to take your medicine", Kassidy said.

"I won't", Minchi ends the conversation.