We were walking down the hallway, the flickering fluorescent lights barely illuminating the way as we made our way to floor 3.
"Set, you're really good at this. You know almost all the passages and shortcuts. How do you know so much?", I asked curiously.
"It's simple, experience I would say. I've been at this for six years," Set replied with a smile.
"Seriously, six years. I've never met someone with so much experience," I said in amazement.
"Really? Maybe you got lucky," Set replied with a shrug.
"I think so, actually. Maybe things are finally working out for me," I said with a sigh.
"Why do you say that? You look pretty good to me," Set commented.
"Not that...," I said, but I was interrupted by a strange feeling in my chest.
Suddenly, I began to feel short of breath, and I lost my balance.
Set quickly held me up and offered me some water to calm me down. I felt my heart beating so fast that it felt like it was going to burst out of my chest.
"Yuzuru, are you okay?" asked Set, concerned.
"I'm fine," I said with a sigh of relief.
"I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have inquired. Excuse me, Yuzuru," Set said with an apologetic tone in his voice.
"Don't apologize, it's not your fault," I said, trying to sound calm.
"I just don't like to remember... my past."
I hadn't talked about it in a long time.
True, it's been a year since that day. I'm still not over it. Every day, at least, I remember that moment.
The anxiety I felt at that moment was just a reminder of a painful past that I would rather forget.
It's been a year since the accident I had. Shit, I don't want to remember. I don't want to remember.
Just let me rest," sighed Yuzuru as she lost herself in thought.
How did it come to this? I wonder as sadness and loneliness take over my being. I know this is normal at this stage of depression, but what will I do? How will I do it? What do I do?
Maybe I need a girlfriend - Yuzuru thought in her mind.
I looked at Set, who was sitting next to me, and asked him:
Set, tell me did you ever have a girlfriend?
Set was surprised by the question, but answered:
Yes, I had about 2 in these 10 years.
And tell me how was it?
It was quite complex. Women, maybe it sounds very normal, I don't understand them. They are annoying, they require attention, you have to be with them all the time. If you look at another woman sideways, they get mad at you, that's more than anything," Set replied, annoyed.
So it's annoying then," Yuzuru said quietly, trying to understand what Set was trying to say.
Yes... but in the end, they are warm, they have a lot of attention for you, they are very sentimental, they smell very nice, and they are, above all, always, at least for me, they listened to me in everything. I really appreciate that," Set concluded.
Funny, they are warm.
That must be true
Yuzuru thought as she reflected on what she had just heard.