Those Memories I'll Remember : the different world

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

I let go of his hand and turned to leave. He held my hand again as soon as I was about to leave.

"Are you going somewhere?"

-"to the lobby, why?"

He let go my hand. "nothing....it's just nothing."

I smiled back at him and turned to leave. Till I get past the lobby, Ethan came out of his room as well.

"Quinn!"

I turned back. He looked a little worried.

"can you tell me it's okay?"

-"hmm?"

"can you just tell me this whenever I feel down?....nothing else, only this?"

-"umm...what's up with this tone." I said smiling at him. He smiled back. And turned back to his room.

-"Ethan!" He turned his head. His eyes meeting mine. "Everything's okay. It's all gonna be fine. You'll rewrite your stars, I know that." He giggled. A bright smile came on his face.

"You remembered." He said with a smile and turned back in.

Just after that, my eyes suddenly became stiff. My heart started to ache. I had no more strength to even move. And all this happened within a second. I tried hard and got into my room. Luckily I was just beside the door. I laid on the bed. My heart continued to ache. It was hard to open my eyes. It was hard to even listen to something nearby. And before I knew, I was asleep.

I woke up in my room. It had been only 2 hours. I did my homework, half of my brain thinking, and other half thinking even more. I can't even count how many thoughts come into my mind in a minute. All reasonless and worthless.

But most of the time, all I ever wished was to get to sleep and just stay in that another world. Maybe it was my greed. Greed to live a happy life with the one's I want to be. Greed to be happy, to have fun. But on the other hand, the fear of its circumstances were eating me up inside. Aaron asked me not to get along with anyone there, but unintentionally, I was becoming close to Ethan. I didn't have a choice, it just went that way. 'Aaron would have noticed, if something would go wrong, Aaron would help me out.'

I've been so lost that I didn't even noticed what was going around me. And for that, I forgot of all the misery I had to face in my this world.

I went to bed early. But it didn't helped much as for a while I was just staring at the ceiling. I didn't get to know when I fell asleep, all I know was that I waited quite a lot for that. And as I hoped, when I woke up I was in bed, of my that world.

As soon as I woke up, I saw Ethan sitting on the chair beside my bed. I started rubbing my eyes, it felt as if I was sleeping for days.

"You sleep a lot, do you know that?" He teased and started laughing.

-"Why do I always find you here whenever I wake up?" I was still rubbing my eyes and trying to sit.

"I just find this seat really really comfortable."

-"as if" I finally stood up and started to go towards the lobby.

-"Aaron back yet?"

"no, I guess he'll take his time."

-"hmm...what time is it?"

"My favourite."

-"What does it mean?"

He held my hand and ran towards the stair. We went to the terrace. It was sunset. Like always, the sun was setting, still bright; while on the east, the stars started to twinkle. And the moon just above all.

-"now I remember." I said while taking my hand back from his.

He turned to me, with a little dim look in his eyes. I knew he wasn't okay. He was just pretending. Just like me. His eyes were trying to say so many things, but he just stood there, looking at me.

-"are you okay?" His eyes filled with tears which he was trying hard not to show.

"it's nothing." He smiled while trying to avoid me seeing his tears.

-"I know it's not." Looking at him, somehow made me remember of myself. Of all those nights I had alone. Of all those smiles, which I put on my face, which sting inside.

"no..."A smile came upon his face. "I wasn't till now. But now I have you. Someone who would listen to my stuff." He stepped towards me. And sat on the floor beside me. I was just standing beside him. He leaned his head on me.

"Can I tell you something? You won't hate me, right?" He said with a low voice.

-"I told you... I'll never."

He took a deep breath.

"Do you know the accident that Aaron talks about sometimes?"

-"no...But I just figured out there would be some connection with his parents."

"He lost his parents in that accident... And I lost my mom."

-"It means the car of that accident was.."

"yes, it was my parents." I was in shock. My mind went blank. I wasn't able to figure out what I should say to him.

"And the worst part was...it happened just because my dad was drunk."

-"What happened to your dad?"

"Nothing."

-"Nothing?"

"He is in a high position. He just gave a little sum of money and the incident was forcibly closed. Both Aaron and I were too small for that. They weren't able to protest that because of their relatives and business issues."

I sat beside him. He leaned his head on my shoulder.

-"Then,...How did you both became friends?"

"I don't remember as well. I don't know why those memories are so blurred." He took his head off my shoulders. "Maybe because I wasn't really his son."

-"not his son?...What does it mean?"

"The reason I don't live with my father."

-"hmm?"

"After the accident, my father got scared. I don't know of what. He took a blood test and with that he took mine too, for just in case. But my blood group was different from both of my parents. My father became suspicious. I still don't know why it all happened that way. And the DNA report didn't match."

I face turned towards his in a jerk. He tilted his a little lower, looking towards the floor. The whole sky was dark, and we were just under the light of the moon.

"After that...everything just changed in a glimpse of a second...I remember how they used to keep locked me up for days."

-"It was kept a secret?"

"hmm. Because of which I was sent to school, so that no one could suspect if something's wrong. And there I met Aaron."

I started to look at the same direction where he was looking. On a blank floor.

"He hated me. From the starting he used to hate me so much, but I knew he had a right to."

-"hey! It isn't your fault."

"But still,.." He looked at my eyes, "Why do I feel so small then?" Tears came from his eyes rushing down his cheeks. "I'm still not able to face Aaron sometimes. It's hard for me. I feel guilty whenever I see him. I feel like trash."

I put my both hand on his cheeks. They were warm. Wiped his tears.

-"you don't have to feel that way... You did nothing wrong." He put his head back on my shoulders.

"Can we just stay like this for a while? It feels nice." He said while wiping his tears.

-"hmm."

We just stayed like that. Sometimes looking at the sky then sometimes towards the floor. Suddenly I noticed a figure of someone's shadow. It took a while as I just stared at it. It just stood there. I looked behind with a jerk; no one was there. I noticed the shadow wasn't there anymore as well.