Echoes of the Infinite (Short Story Series)

One: The Blueberry Ice Cream

*Kaboom!
*Wataahhhh!

He throwed me his metal chair. And I took his bag and stamped at it.

"How dare you? You such an asshole, bitch! Lemme give me my deathly revenge!" I said.
"So what do you think of yourself? A saint? Or a fallen angel?" He replied.

And were liked that. We were like cat and dog, cat and mouse. My whole elementary life revolved on how would I escaped from his sight to skip from a new fight. He liked to teased me very much.

One day, on a school field trip, I saw him. He was eating a sandwich beside a fountain in the Park's Atrium. So I came to mocked him

"You! What are you doing here, big ass? You don't belong here."
"You aren't either, little eyes," He replied.
"Can we just stop fighting for a while for now?" He requested.
"We're destined to be like this. So why stopping?" I told him.
"Because we should enjoy this moment." Aski replied.

And I noticed his left hand was moving at my back. He put his arm on my right shoulder.

"Don't you want some ice cream?" He offered.
"You're nice naman pala." I replied.
"Of course I am. You're the only demon who can stay at land of the living that long."

"Argh! I hate you!"
"I like you." I hear him saying it.
"Ha? What is that?" I said pretending not hearing it.
"No, nothing."
What is it nga?!"
"Nothing nga,"
"Ugly face, run!"
"You!!!"

So I followed him running. And we arrived on the food park where everyone could buy many kinds of food. Including different flavors of Selecta's ice cream.

I was running against my breath.

"You're such a fast runner ha." I said.
"And you're like a snail following me."
"Just treat me. You promised. So we could go back to the group as soon as possible."
"No, I don't?"
"What?!!!"
"Joke. What flavor do you like?"
"The blueberry one."

"Ate, give that blueberry ice cream to this bitch please."
"Don't you want an ice cream too? You didn't buy anything for yourself."
"I am happy to be with you today." He said while looking directly in my eyes. I could melt in a minute if he would doing for a long time.

"You're a little kind of cute naman pala." I told him as we sat on one of the couple table.
"You are too. I really don't know why we are fighting in the first place by the way."

And we laughed together. He offered to clean my cheek messed because of the ice cream.

"You looked so mess."
"I know."
"But at least, I enjoyed eating this right?"
And he nodded at me.

Then somebody called us.

"You two, what are you doing here?" The teacher asked.
"Didn't I made myself clear earlier that don't be separated from the group?"

We walked going back and smiling.

We go home at exactly 3pm. Just before we even took separate ways going home, he gave a piece of paper saying:

'Add me on FB: Yoshiki Nakamura'

I arrived at our village. I saw mommy waiting for me at the gate.

"Your kid is nice today, Mrs. De Castro." My teacher told to my mom.
"Right, Sophie?"
"Yes." I replied as I wore this lying smile on my face.

We waited for the school bus to go. As we are walking inside of our village. Mom asked me. We arrived at the house. I saw daddy dranking coffee and holding his iPad reading Forbes Online.

"How was your day, sweetheart?"
"It's fine, dad," I replied.
"I'm tired. Can I go to my room now?"
"Yes sure, baby."

I ran as fast as I could to go upstair so I could searched for his name on my tablet. I opened the door of my room and throw my things on the shelves and looked for the iPad.

'Searching: Yoshiki Nakamura'

"Oh my gosh, he's so handsome!" I found myself chuckled on him.

"No, he isn't. He just asked me to looked for him. I still hate him. But maybe he's a little bit cute. Hihi."

When I saw his displayed photo, I clicked the add button and lie on the bed. After a minute, he already confirmed it. Then I had that smile again that I did earlier. I messaged him just to said 'Hi' as a respect for the ice cream treat.

Me: Hi, big ass?!!!
Him: Hello Ugly Betty!
Me: Shut up!
Me: I added you already. So what's next?
Him: What do you mean?

"Sophie, dinner's ready!" My mom said.
"Coming, mom!"