Eleven:
"You, being a 'Questor'." Almos seriously answered which further confused my already confused mind.
'What the f@ck! I am more confused right now and I hate him even more!' I emphasize the words that I badly wanted to say to him into my head but I cannot so I just let out a very, very, very deep, deep breath.
"Alright… what is a 'Questor'?"
"A 'Questor'." He replied as he turned his eyes on me. "The one that can travel in time and space and because you still don't know or no idea of your own abilities, there are times you couldn't control it. Even the dream and reality you have not been able to separate cause to confuse you and your mind."
"Oh, alright! Now that explained. But why me?"
"That I'm not sure."
"What!"
"You might be a 'Maiden Spirit' that is why you were able to quest in time and space. Yet, memories of you being a 'Maiden Spirit' have been…"
Almos paused and it took him long which I decided to ask. "What?"
"Erase." He finally continued.
I sighed and then put my hands on my cheeks as I rest my shoulder to my knees. "What you said, confuse me more and more and more. I mean, a million times confuse."
"You will understand it clearly."
"When?"
"Soon…"
He was not so sure about his answer and I think I know why. "Well!" I stretch out my hands out of my cheeks and release my legs out of my fold. "If you were telling the truth… then, how can I prove it to myself?" I asked while seriously looking at him.
"Seriously?" he surprisingly asked and that was the very first time I saw him looks like that.
Amazement and awakening of interest is what I read and saw in his face up to his eyes. And it caught me off guard because my heart is literally falling for him. And it cannot be because he already had a 'girlfriend' and I cannot just ignore it because that is the truth.
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I finally wake up from the glittering lights that are coming from the spaces of my window curtains. For the very first time, I went out of the dreams on my own will. And it was all because of 'him', Almos.
"Shit!" 'I shouldn't feel this way about him because, damn shit! He already has a girlfriend, for Christ's sake!' I wanted to shout out all those words but I can't because my parents and my siblings will hear me.
"Please, stop cursing at the first thing in the morning."
"Oma." My younger sister, full name Paloma, and as always she barged in into my room without even knocking. "What are you doing here?"
"Informing you that Chadd was here to visit you."
"What?!" it was only seven in the morning and, "it's Saturday, right?"
"Yes."
"Then, why he was here in the first place?"
"To check if you were okay, maybe…" she answered. "Oh, well! Why don't you go and ask him yourself. Bye!"
"Ehhh!" I screamed under my pillow.
…
"How are you?" Chadd asked me as soon as I face him after fixing myself.
"Good."
He looks at me suspiciously then in a sudden it fades and normally looks at me before he answered. "You know you can tell me anything, everything. You can trust me, Jeanne."
Whenever he calls me to my full name, I know how serious he is. Yet, I cannot come out of myself because, really, how can I explain to him about the things happening to me in my dreams? He will, never going to believe me, no matter what I say.
"I know I can trust you but right now, I'm really fine."
Chadd intently stares at me before he takes a deep breath and said. "Alright, if that is what you said then," he smiled before he continues. "I'll believe in you."
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"You seem to be able to control your abilities, Jeanne." Suddenly my eyes open after hearing his voice and once again here we are under the tree although I'm standing rather than sitting and when I look at him, Almos was standing too opposite to mine.
"You again." I said. "Why did I see you here again?" I irritably asked and because of it I quickly walk away but to my surprised he grabs my hand and pull me back that put me in grave danger. Because the distance that we have was too short and his breath already touching my face and I didn't notice that I already holding my breath.
"Hey! Breathe!" he said and that, I was able to breathe again and push him away from me and away from his hold.
"Don't you ever do that again!" I madly exclaimed.
"What?" he simply asked.
Damn this 'guy'! I hate him!
"Anne!" suddenly I heard Dione's voice and saw him running towards me. "I finally—Almos? What are you doing here…?" she suddenly became suspicious looking to the both of us.
"Ay! Let's go!" I said and pulled her away from that place.
...
"What was that?!" Dione frantically asked me.
"Nothing."
"You are too suspicious, Anne." She said while intently looking at me. "Don't tell me you are falling for him?"
"Of course not!" I quickly deny.
"Oh," she answered while bowing her head up and down. "Unbelievable."
"Dione!" I scolded her that she just laughs.
"But seriously speaking, you shouldn't like him especially he's in a relationship."
"I know that." I replied as I rolled my eyes and yet my heart aches because of it. "And don't worry he was just there by coincidence."
"Okay, if you say so." She said with a smirk on her face.
"Shut it!"
"Whaaaat?!"
"Dione, I know you! So don't ever think of anything, okay?!" I said and go on first.
"Hey, Anne wait for me!" she called out but I ignore her because if I let her see my face right now, she'll read it clearly.
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