FOUR

I left before she can say anything else. I mean, before I say something harsh in return.

That woman was my ex. Isn't it funny?

What a weird encounter we had.

"Gale" hearing my name from her filthy, lying mouth makes me sick.

Yes. I used to love her so much that I nearly committed suicide when she left me.

Who would have thought after all this years I will still feel pain when I'll see her.

I used to think I am over her. Oh yes. I already am but it still hurts. Of course she used to have a special spot in my heart after all.

It started when I was 9 years old. The time when my family migrated in this place due to my dad's work.

I am aloof, unsociable, and somehow reserved.

But after living for a week in this neighborhood, I started to break out from that shell of mine.

I became active, sociable, a bit goofy, and playful. I had met play mates I couldn't even dream of having!

I started to enjoy outdoor activities with them and talked a lot.

I did transfer schools, and there's this little girl in our neighborhood who lives across our home whom I really love to tease and make fun about.

She's gullible but friendly, snobbish yet kind, and what's so obvious its as if she is having hatred toward boys - or so I think.

She's younger than me.

Even though we quarrel most of the times, we go to school together and go home together.

This continued until our middle school years.

People from our school gossips about her and makes fabricated stories but she doesn't care at all - which is I loved about her.

But there's this one time I accidentally saw her kissing with a girl from my class.

That seriously made me feel the hots, thrilled filled me yet disbelief won over.

I talked about it straight at her on our way home and she didn't even hide it.

From then on, she started opening up to me more - about how she like girls, how she's finding them attractive than the other sex, and how she's never been interested in boys or so. I did the same as well.

We started talking to each other more but the day come. It was after the midterm examination of the first semester when I started dating someone - yea, that was the girl who grab my arm earlier.

Due to this, we started drifting apart. The bond that we had started to fade away.

We went home separatedly - even when there are times I asked her if we could go home together, she refuses me and gives me reasons that she must do or errands she have to run.

Sometimes if I try to make conversations, she find any means in excusing herself and later on she started avoiding me at all cost.

She doesn't even visit our home even more and all that - which made me so sad.

Not until the day of our migration again, she come over. Accordingly, her parents asked her to bring some apple pie and berries in our home before we leave.

I nearly missed the chance to talk to her again as she grumpily turned her back when she saw me!

All thanks to my mum who asked her the favour to bring the sliced pie to my room, so I ran back in.

After a while, I heard a knock and the knob turned - and as the door opened, she hastily went in.

"Have heard your family will be leaving for good, Gale" her voice shaking as she asked.

"Yea. That's how it is", she smiled in response then turned her back.

As she was walking away, I grabbed her arm and wrapped my arms around her as I speak "I'm sorry for the past months that I left you all by yourself and for choosing her over you - my best friend. I will miss you so much. Please take good care of yourself from now on."

I didn't get a word from her. She nodded and tried to break free from my embrace when I felt drops on my arms - she's crying.

I hugged her even tighter as she sobbed "I will miss you even you're a piece of shit! You're a good guy so be safe too" she broke free from me as she said those and looked me in the eye.

I patted her head and she smiled, she asked me a question and I responded "Promise me?" she giggled in return.

She's about to leave as I pulled her to me once more and kissed her goodbye.

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