PHOEBE was just shocked to see Sawyer's face suddenly darken while frowning and stared at her lips.
"Tsk! No thanks! " He stood up and without saying something he came out of the kitchen.
What happened to him again? He just always walks out. Is he a walk out king?
Phoebe just scratched her head. Why did she seem so comfortable talking to him? Really? How many hours have they only know each other? She shook her head and just continued what she was doing.
By night come Phoebe's face could no longer be painted. She used to be happy to help Sawyer but now she regrets that she helped him. She couldn't cope at his attitude. She is having a hard time handling him. He's arrogant and jerk.
"Get off at my bed Sawyer! You will sleep on the couch. Agh! I'm sleepy!" she said that for several times but as if he heard nothing, he hugged her pillow and closed his damn eyes.
She didn't care if he had a wound but she really didn't want to sleep next to him. She didn't want anyone to share with her bed. She's not comportable.
Ever since he came out of the kitchen earlier she has had a hard time talking to him. She's as if she become crazy to understand his behavior. They just met earlier but she's now was a little annoyed. The man was possessed by an evil spirit she thought. She wanted to kick him out of her house. Even her liver is throbbing with him. Something he would answer her hit-or-miss and something he's ignoring her, even if she does nothing he is peevishness.
"You sleep in the sofa if you want to?" He said rudely before covering his body with a blanket.
Phoebe couldn't help but to frown, her eyebrows was meeting because of his behavior. She looked tearfully at the couch in her bedroom. The space in her room was large so she inserted a sofa that was previously in her living room. That was important to her and she didn't want others to sit nor laying on it even though it was her friends.
She please Caldwell to make a long wooden chair and that's what she put in her living room. Only her friends come her house, they are not really artistic. Then the people in Isla Berde became accustomed to wooden tools. The house made of cement in Isla Berde was only counted. She thinks only only eight or nine houses her was made of cement.
She enters the couch because of an important person made that. It was his Father. Phoebe is now an orphaned. Her parents died at the same time as they were on their way home to the Island from another country. They were already in Manila that time and were on their way home when they met a car. It was running fast and instead of turning his car, he crashed the car into the taxi that his parents were riding in. They think that the driver was not in control.
It was really hurt. She had not even been with her parents for several years because they both worked abroad to get out of poverty. And it was as if she could continue her education. She just graduated from High School. She wanted to continue her college education in Manila because there's have many opportunities to her.
Phoebe was smart so the mayor of Isla Berde hired her as a teacher for children who did not have enough money to study. The salary was small but that was enough for her household expenses and she he could buy everything she wanted.
The couch in her bedroom was her father's favorite. That's where he always sleeps when his tired from fishing. That couch have many memories from her father. She is afraid to lay there because very time she will sit or laying down there her worries with her parents return.
Phoebe sighed. She shouldn't have to to remember her past. But every time she tried to forgot that memories one day but she's just fails. Everytime her eyes landed on the couch she remembered her parents. It's too heavy on her chest when she e lets that memory stay with her.
She wants to forget it all, she wants to be happy but every time she's alone the memories of her parents haunting her. She didn't want that, she's like crazy shaking her head and shouting to stop it. She heavily sighed and without any noise she took an extra pillow from her cabinet then went straight to the couch.
She stared at the couch for minutes. 'Why is it that whenever I avoided you he always make an reason to bring us closer?' she murmured in her head.
She sighed deeply again. She can do it. She just hope she sleeps well. She has no choice anyway. She didn't want to sleep beside him.
"What are you doing?" Phoebe heard the voice of her naughty visitor
She want to beat him hard because of this jerk but the question is if she can do it? So instead of answering him she just leer. She is annoyed very much. He's just a visitor but why his acting as if its his house? Doesn't he know how to feel? She doesn't want to be on the couch and she's hoping that he can feel that. He was so shameless and jerk.
She quietly put her pillow on the couch. He could feel Sawyer's warm stare but she ignored it. She's still annoyed, isn't she?
"Tsk! What? " He was even more annoyed that she did not answered him.
Ahh she don't care. She closed her eyes tightly and slowly sat down on the couch. She thought she could do it but when her butt stuck to the couch she already shaking. She couldn't do it, she never could.
She couldn't help but cry silently. She covered her face with her palm and stood up again. She failed again. She think she would sleep outside, in the hut.
"What the?" She felt Sawyer quickly approach her. He grabbed both her shoulders and face her to him. "Why are you crying?"
Phoebe shook her head and tried to walk away but she failed. Sawyer just pulled her closer to him. Her whole body feel numb. Her chest tightened as well. Until this day she still feel the pain. It seems like everything happened was like yesterday.
"Fine! I'm the one who sleep on the couch," he suddenly decided.
She still hasn't stopped crying. She didn't know how long she he would calm down. But she knew she would only stop when she was asleep. As her eyes open Phoebe could feel how much pain she was in. The cheerful Phoebe suddenly disappears and that's what Sawyer doesn't want to see.
When Sawyer hugged her she was momentarily stunned. What was there in his embrace to calm her down so quickly? When Sawyer stepped forward, she was able to follow him while he still hugging her.
"W-Where are we ..." she couldn't finish what she was going to say as Sawyer gently sat her on the bed.
He pulled away and stared at her. His gaze also lasted until he sighed and wiped away her tears.
"Rest," he said softly. He even supports her to lie down.
Sawyer took off her slippers and adjusted her lying position. Her heart is going crazy again. She wanted to feel how strong it was beating but she was confused. As Sawyer adjusted her position he was still staring at her and also she.
"Close your eyes and sleep." The expression on his face disappeared again.
"You're so rude!" she muttered and covered herself with a blanket.
She felt his action. His footsteps were on the couch in her room. She didn't know if Sawyer would fit in there. He's bigger than his dad so she think Sawyer won't really fit in the couch. He didn't speak anymore so she he just shrugged it.
A few minutes of silence. None of them attempted to speak. Phoebe thought he already asleep. She just notices that he asleep as fast as when he is lying down.
'Dowsing man, psh!'
As Phoebe close her eyes the memories of her parents come to her memory again. She remembered how happy they were at a time when they had never gone abroad. They may be poor but they have a happy life. This is what always happens to her when she is alone. Their memories come back to her causing him to wake up.
They only thought of working abroad because she wanted to go to college in Manila. She really wanted to study there an architecture course. If she hadn't told them that she was going to study in Manila, they might still be together until now.
'Mama, papa, I miss you.' Tears streamed down her eyes again.
Phoebe inevitably sobbed and was not unaware of her knowledge that the Sawyer had heard that. Why is she still so affected till no? It years have past. She wants to be happy right now. Although she can't forget everything but hopefully it won't come up suddenly or everytime she's alone.
"I said you sleep, not cry." Phoebe was stunned to feel Sawyer sitting on her bed and stroking her head. It was outside his blanket. "I don't know why you're crying but I'm here Madee, I'll watch over you as long as I'm here. When you wake up tomorrow every thing will be alright. So she now." He just kept on stroking her head.
She cried even more but she stopped sobbing. She didn't know that there was also kindness hidden in his body. Earlier, she almost kicked him because he was useless to talk to.
"Thank you!" She closed her eyes and savored his caress on her hair.
She became even more drowsy as Sawyer began to sing softly. She wanted to open her eyes. His voice is very soft but beautiful. Sawyer sang so well, she couldn't help but tingle. Her heartbeat was no longer normal. She seemed to be out of breath.
Phoebe giggle and Sawyer feel it. He looked at her rudely even she's inside the blanket she felt it. "Tsk! Sleep now. "
She sniffed and wiped away her tears. "G-Good night, Sawyer Zane!"
He did not speak but continued singing. Smiling Phoebe just listened to him until she feel asleep. She still wanted to hear his voice but she don't think she could. It was as if her voice was pulling her away.
Moments later Sawyer could feel Phoebe's deep breathe. He stood up and went to the couch. He didn't know why Phoebe reacted like that as she stared at the sofa she was sitting on.
She shivered as she attempted to sit down. He couldn't want to see her like that so he approached her and she started to cry.
He wonders to himself. He felt differently. He couldn't bear to see her cry, it was as if he was hurting. He didn't want to feel it to her. He was no longer young to not know why he felt that way.
His heart was beating so fast as he stared at her. Even though he doesn't remember anything, he felt it's the first time he felt it. That feeling was new to him.
Sawyer shook his head. He bitter stop what he felt for her. What he should focus on is how he remembers his lost memory. He could not stay with him any longer.
THE next morning Phoebe woke up early. She needs to go to the market before going to his friends house. She forgot to shop the other day because she went to her bestfriend house and slept there. She first cooked Sawyer something to eat and left a note for him. He might find her.
She couldn't bring him yet to town she's sure that people there will be surprised. She's is not used to lie with other people. She might be able to tell them the true condition of Sawyer. She have a race of being Marites.
'Hey Sawyer Zane! Good morning! It turns out that your breakfast is on the table, I cooked you before I left. I just went to town to go to market and then I will borrow your clothes with my friends. Hoping that you will eat the food I cooked for you? '~ Phoebe Madeena