A Night to Remember (A Night Trilogy Part 1)

CHAPTER 14

"Zach!"

Alexis approached me while I was on my way to the library. I turned, and I saw her.

"Oh, where are you going?" I asked her.

"You? Where are you going?" she asked me back, and I chuckled. She's so bubbly.

"Library," I said, and she smiled at me.

"I wanna go there too," she said, and we finally got there.

We were reading our own choices of books and sat down right beside the bookshelves.

"Do you accept and respect who I am?" Alexis asked me out of the blue while still looking at the book she was holding.

"Yeah? Yeah," I answered shortly.

"Then, I also do," she said while still gluing her eyes on the book.

"You must really trust me, Alex," I answered, and she looked at me smiling.

"But why are you talking about these things recently?" I suddenly asked.

"Here. I am reading a book entitled Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," she said.

"And then?" I asked.

"It says here that if men and women can respect and accept their differences, then love has a chance to blossom," she seriously read the passage on the book.

"So, what now?" I asked, for I am confused about what she is telling me right now.

"You accept me as me, and I accept you as you, so I think we also have the chance to experience love together," she answered.

"What? Do you like me?" I asked. It is the only question that matters about what she just told me.

"Isn't it obvious?" she asked back and smiled widely.

I was forced to blink again, and my eyes went wide open when the scene just disappeared, and everything came back. I am still beside Alexis' car, and she's still sleeping. She looks innocent when she sleeps.

I started to think of another place again while my eyes were shut closed, but I was interrupted when I felt an unusual breeze touched my skin.

"Are you ready?"

I almost jump when I heard someone spoke behind me. No! I'm not yet ready. I still have someone to see. I turned around, and I saw that grim reaper or guardian who told me about that twenty-four hours and everything. I responded.

"No. Not yet," I said. There was thick smoke covered him, and he immediately disappeared.

There is still someone whom I wanna see for the last few hours. She's just one among the reasons why I continued moving, no matter how bad life gave me before, and no matter how miserable my life became when I started loving her.

Only the moon knows how I totally fell for her. I told everything to the moon every night before I sleep, all the things that happened between us; between me and Vielka. Mom even scolds me every night, every time she checks me inside my room and finds me staring at the moon at exactly ten o'clock in the evening where it sets perfectly in front of my window.

It's still dark, and the night is present. I could still see how the rain poured down through my soul. I felt how the rain made me comfortable over the past years, but now, the rain just makes me even more miserable. It goes with the emotions I am currently feeling. It's not comfortable anymore. Tears started rushing down again from my eyes.