Amnesiac

Thirteenth

Pushing the disturbance that still crept in my system for the past hours; I walked my way to my mother's study.

Liz and Darren went home, but the fact that Liz almost slipped something out earlier still lingered in my system. Since she said that she was still friends with her ex, and that her ex's name was Darren, it just really baffles me to the max.

Were they former lovers?

"What brings you here, Andromeda?" my mother asks and snaps me back to reality.

I decided that I should focus on what I will do for the moment and push the thought of confusion aside. This is what I should focus on for the moment, and not the possibility that my best friend and my boyfriend are former lovers.

"I uh, I wanted to discuss something to you," I said and put my laptop on my mother's desk. "I just really thought I should tell this to you before considering it."

Mom adjusts her eyeglasses as I open my laptop on and direct it to the screen shot photo file I saved just earlier. It was actually an advertisement for some sort of a college university nearby. I was definitely interested because I have been in the sleep for five months and I actually woke up in the midst of school days. I thought that maybe make myself useful and study, so I won't have to be a year late next school year.

"You plan on getting in that college?" she asked and looks up at me.

I nod. "It actually has the course I want to pursue and there is just a few documents needed to get in." I rambled, adrenaline slightly pumping in me as I hoped that my mother would consider this. "If I could take the exams sooner, I would get in sooner as well,"

She purses her lips in a tight line before speaking. "Are you sure you're stable enough to go to school already? I mean, the stress, the pressure, everything is in school Andromeda."

"Of course I am stable enough, I even got into a party and got grounded already, remember?" and I even got laid already, remember?

"Right," she muttered. "Maybe we should try to ask Doc Karla for the matter."

I rolled my eyes. "Mom, I am okay! I don't need to ask for some sort of help from Doc Karla. I can go to college already, I swear it."

She sighs. "Fine, maybe we should try to prepare for your papers, then?"

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I decided later that night that maybe I should go to the same branch of 7-eleven. Mom was out for work. Darren said that he won't be visiting tonight and Liz was busy with something.

Funny that Darren and Liz aren't available at the same time.

I shuddered lightly with my own imaginations. Liz is my best friend and I should trust her, same as to Darren. If Liz said that the Darren she mentioned is not the same Darren that is my boyfriend, then I should believe her wholly.

But I cannot help it. Is there something that should really bother me if they were indeed past lovers? Should I really be affected?

What if they were past lovers? If they were, why did Darren become my boyfriend if he knew that I was Liz's best friend? Is Liz angry to me that I am the present girlfriend of Darren? Is she planning some sort of scheme to me, knowing that I have amnesia at this very moment?

How about for Darren's part? If he knows that Liz and I are best friends and Liz is his ex-girlfriend, why would he go for me? Is he planning to destroy our friendship? Is he trying to go for us both then end up having our friendship broken?

This love-triangle scare is killing me.

I decided that if I think any further for that matter, I would go mad and I should stop thinking about it already. Shaking my head, I pushed the door of the 7-eleven store open and slipped myself inside.

I went through the racks to pick out some chips and a bottle of soda. A part of me told me that I haven't actually taken anything unhealthy since I woke up, so I bought myself some junk food.

After paying up the items I bought, I went to the same stool I sat to last time I was here. Little did I know that the same company I had that time would be the same company I'd be having at this second.

"When you said you'll see me around that actually didn't meant you'll see me here, right?" I asked Karlos when he sat beside me, the same warm smile on his face as he placed his own foods on the table in front of us.

He looked up. "Not actually, I'm honestly astonished that I will be seeing you here again."

"You don't stalk me, right?" I ask.

He looks at me and blinks and then ends up bursting into laughter. "Stalking, goodness." He breathes as he laughs. "Sorry," he apologizes as he composes himself again. "I do not stalk. I just go in this 7-eleven a lot. I spend most of my time in here."

"Okay." I said. "Well, at least you aren't drinking Slurpee in the middle of the night."

"When you called me silly for drinking Slurpee, I was bummed." He says and it was my turn to laugh. "Honestly, you have a way to hit a nerve, woman."

I smile. "Thanks, I tend to offend someone when I cannot stop my mouth from blabbering too much."

"I can tell." He answers and then opens his own bag of chips. "Last time, you said you were here because you were on your way home from somewhere you crashed into. You do not have the same story as now right, Andromeda?"

I shook my head. "I was a little lonely in the house and I thought that maybe I could get used with some chips and soda. I've been eating a lot of healthy foods lately, you know."

"I never thought girls like you prefer eating junk foods than vegetables."

I knit my brows together. "Girls like me?" I asked. "What kind of a girl I am in your perspective, Karlos?" I asked him, amused with whatever he'll answer me.

"You seem like the type whose very conscious. Very vain, if you'll ask me." he says.

I laugh at him. "Dear Karlos. You dare to call me conscious when I actually dyed a precious dark hair with blue, out of all colours?" I ran a hand through my hair. "But to clarify it to you, curly head, I am not a vain type of person. I barely even look to the mirror."

He grins at me and I took notice of how his small eyes would get some crinkles at the side. "Well, it was my perspective anyway. But now that you told me that, I will do my best to start thinking of you the other way around."

"And that other way around is...?"

"Is that you are not a vain type, as you've said it." he says, nodding like some sort of a gentleman from an old English novel.

I smiled at his dorkiness. "Say, Karlos, since we can consider each other as friends, may I invite you to our house?" I asked him. "I don't think having small chats in a 7-eleven store is appropriate."

"I believe the same way, Andromeda." He says. "And yes, you may drag me to your house, no matter how far it is from here. I am ready to walk." He laughs at his attempt to talk like a noble.

"We seriously have to stop with the formal language when we speak at each other." I laughingly told him as I slipped my way out of the store and he follows. "We sound awful."

"I second that." he laughs.

For a second, I did quite forget about my problem over Liz and Darren. Karlos was so fun to be with that my problems over them were like pushed aside and never to be talked about. Maybe Karlos is just gullible that he is so capable of doing just that.

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