To the moon and back

Chapter 10.2

Chapter 10.2

To a certain level since he is the one who encouraged me to bring Annika along with me, Eddie was to be awed. He did not know i was coming with Annika for the party he had invited me to. The thought of telling him had slipped off from my mind. My mother knew. I had told her over the phone when she had called earlier that morning to tell me that i was still not welcome at Klacont hospital by Jennifer. She said the side effects were slowly fading away but still, her only daughter wanted her privacy for until when she was in a good shape. The truth was that sympathy towards her was why Jennifer never wanted me or anyone to pay her visits after she had received her chemotherapy treatment, Annika had shade light to me on that. The behavior is a common thing among cancer patients despite their complaints on being sidelined by their friends and families, somehow in a kind of a way a mental disorder the cancer causes.

One train station away from the one we were to come out of the train, Annika woke up. She was for a short time young again, her voice like that of a young girl and her eyes stretched opened as if they belonged to a baby that had just being born.

"I haven't slept for that long right?" she asked me, sitting upright like a lonely passenger, her sight focused on me.

"Not really" i said to her. "You have only made the trip short for yourself." I gave her back her hat and sunglasses. "It is so unbelievable that you had to take off your clothes just because of a nap."

"You did right?" she asked me in disbelief while touching her hair and frowning at me. Her seriousness was unreal. She was only playing with me. "Answer me before i scream."

A smile of pride written on me i remarked, "you removed off your hat."

The day was aging, the sun was reddish and close to the deep horizon at the northwest. The train was about to reach Bel - heavens but before getting there I and Annika were to come out of the train which we did with a few others at Blantyre train station.

The air so fresh, the land a stranger to my feet and the roads old but yet almost brand new to my seeing, Blantyre was all new to me despite having set my eyes on it a couple of times on my trips to Bel - heavens. I was more like an explorer there, a Christopher Columbus of modern days. Annika was just like me in every way, clueless of where we had to go. She was much better off on one part. She had a big camera which she brought out from her suitcase just before Blantyre train station had happened.

Almost all the things we did then after were to remain frozen and its memories kept in pictures on walls, photo albums and maybe also under pillows. Taking the pictures made it seem like it was just us at the train station. It shaded out the crowd that was there. Eddie and his girlfriend were among that crowd, holding a flyer with my full name on it while spreading their eyes to spot me. Annika was the one who saw them first. She had known them because of the flyer. They were there to get me and her even though they had no idea that she had accompanied me. Being there was how we had planned things to happen and for them to hold a flyer was what they thought was right to do considering the crowd that was there.

Eddie and his girlfriend, a slim natural redhead with blue eyes, had stood in a position they could not see us. Patience was not dry on them, taking a note of the looks they had put on display. I and Annika walked to them and that's when they saw us. Boom! There occurred an explosion at the train station. It wasn't a bomb explosion. It was that of ecstasy. Ecstasy Eddie had. The fellow young man was so over the moon when he had seen me. I was excited too but couldn't compare to him.

"Nigel Purnell my brother! I see you, i see you" he chanted happily, hopping to me in a fashion that was funny enough to leave someone laughing. He gave me a hug so strong that i suddenly lost some of the breath that was in me. "It's so good to see you brother man."