Chapter 16

FOUR YEARS AGO

Cassiel was parked in front of the pavement of our dormitory building, waiting silently for me to go ahead and get inside safely. But I didn’t want him to go back yet. I can’t recall the last time a guy waited for me to get inside home safely.

He gazed at me in silence with an intense look in his eyes. “Why are you waiting here? Don’t you want to go in?”

I was standing on the pavement captivated by his blue eyes. I know that I wanted something, something more from him to remember this moment as pure, unembellished and whole. I wanted the moment to last forever and become infinite in my imagination.

I leaned against the driver's side car’s window. “I really don’t know what I’m waiting for, Cassiel."

“Have you forgotten your keys?” He scrunched his nose, showcasing faint freckles splattered on the skin and as my eyes traced them, I realised a small section of these orange-brown freckles were hugely evident on his cheekbones. "Can you do something about it?"

I chuckled. “Y