In-between
BETWEEN US : PART I Ch1
5 years gone as an international student. Finally, I'm going back.
To the place I missed yet dreaded so much.
Reina
📞 Are you sure about it?
Reina
📞 I can push my appointment for later, you know.
Melee
📞 And what? Miss the appointment with the doctor?
Melee
📞 my family is coming to get me, so it's okay.
Melee
📞 so go get the okay from the doctor quick. We can hang out as much as we want after the green light.
Melee
📞 yeah, hurry!! Isn't it that time already? I'll also board off the plane now.
Reina
📞 Already? TT okay byee
Melee
📞 Yeah, I've safely landed, mom.
Mom
📞 Good. Have you met uncle Bren?
Melee
📞 Mhm. I'm on his cab right now. I'll be there in an hour.
Mom
📞 Yeah, come straight home. Don't stop anywhere, okay?
Mom
📞 So, what're you gonna do now? Looking for a job?
I've not even reached home yet, and she's already started.
Mom
📞 Reina already has a job as a teacher at a nearby school even tho she's just graduated. So, learn from her and don't just sit around when you get home, alright?
Reina this, Reina that... Some things never change...
Melee
📞 ...Can't we talk about this after? I just came back-
Mom
📞 Yeah, so that's even more the reason to say this to you. So you don't laze around once you get here.
Melee
📞 mom-...Let's stop this conversation. I'm hanging up now. bye. *hangs up*
has lost its meaning. It doesn't feel like anything now. Yet it's still 'home'.
The next few days go as thought. Resting, resting and hanging out with Reina.
I look at the time on my watch, and it's already near 12 pm. I've told my mom that I'm staying over at a friend's house.
She believes that. She's sure the daughter she strictly raised would never lie.
Well, I'm not the same as before.
Right now, I only want to shake these thoughts off my mind.
Simon
Melee? Is that really you? You- you've...
It's fucked up how the world works.
when tonight's the only time I'll ever be free,
Ch2
Simon
Melee, it's you, right?
Simon
I'm not hallucinating..
Melee
What are you doing in this kind of place, Simon?
The first and only boyfriend I've had until now. The boy with whom I broke things off with, after high school ended.
Melee
Don't tell me you're back to your old lifestyle?
The boy whose heart I crushed with my two hands.
Simon
Oh you mean like, in a bbar? *slurring*
Simon
I'mm... what about you? what are YOU doing here?
Simon
Does your mom know you're here?
Melee
My mom has nothing with what I do. And I asked the question 1st, Simon.
Simon
It's my brother's bar... And I sometimes come for a drink or two.
It doesn't look like it's just one or two drinks, tho.
Melee
You didn't even notice? You're so clueless.
Melee
..You're still the same, huh?
That's right. It's the same.
Your beautiful black hair,
Those piercing jet black eyes,
And how you look at me with them.
Simon
...I've changed, Mel. It's not the same anymore. We're no longer in high school anymore.
Melee
I'm surprised you recognised me at all.
And even more that 'I' immediately recognised you.
Simon
Heh. How could I ever forget?
He's still got that same sheepish smile.
Simon
After the way you left...*suddenly gets teary*
Simon
Why...why didn't you even... at least call...
Simon
That message you left for me... *droplets overflowing*
Simon
was the happiest and saddest I'd ever felt...
It felt like a crash. - A head-on collision.
Like the ocean waves slamming against the cliffside.
Simon
*tears falling one after the other*
It's always been like this. I see sth I shouldn't have and I can't help but give in.
His dark eyes glistening through those tears,
Ch3
Humans are foolish creatures.
Simon
*quietly sobbing(drunk)* Melee..
Simon
How could you... do that to me... *crying*
Isn't that why they are so prone to making mistakes?
Simon
after all these years, you're back infront of me again...
Simon
you want to hurt me all over again.. *sobs*
Melee
*frowns* What the heck are you talking about?
Isn't that why they end up regretting everything in the end?
Simon
You know how I feel, Melee..
Simon
Don't act like you're oblivious
Simon
You know all too well how much I love you...
Simon
You were...everything
Melee
..do you still feel the same way?
Why is still he so readable?
He doesn't need to speak a word
Simon
After you left, after no contact like that.. it was so hard
As I see this man infront of me
Simon
I was so resentful towards you... yet I could also never stop myself from thinking about you..
As I see his vulnerability
Simon
Don't leave me.. *tears falling*
I see the past in this present
My one and only boyfriend
Simon
*looks at her wide-eyed*
Melee
*extends her right hand and cups Simon's cheek*
Melee
You don't have anything to say?
Melee
Are you that shocked?
That's right. Things were never bad between us.
Simon
*says softly* I could never dream of this day...
Simon
N yet it's right here... *lightly touches her hand*
Simon
It feels so unreal..
His fingers are long, and his hands are big. The teenage boy that he once was is now a grown man.
When I notice those very hands shaking and reaching out to me, touching me like I'm a fragile flower - like I'm a precious masterpiece – I melt into sth I shouldn't.
I resign to a thought that I dare not entertain.
Simon
*kisses her hand* you're right here... Melee...
Simon
*tearing up* I'm so happy..
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