Repay

"Ugh...." The man groaned due to the his throbbing head. Along with his deep growl, he felt pressure on his wound which added to the bearable pain his body felt.

      "What? What? Where does it hurt?" Panicking, peace scanned him as she instinctively raised both her hands, afraid that if she touched him, her clumsy hands might touch his sensitive areas.

        The man weakly let out a series of low Lamentation as his palm slowly held his head. He could see that there was a person in front of him but his vision was still a blur. His eyelids fluttered sta feeble pace and slowly, Peace's face got more well defined with every blink of his eyes. And soon , he could clearly see her inquisitive countenance.

      "Browny...?" Peace carefully called out, staring straight to his pair of tertiary colored eyes , russet . She could see her reflection by the clear hooded orbs that have a mixture of brown tinged with a reddish-orange hue.

        She had a glimpse of them last night but, upon closer look, the depth and solitude of autumn flustered across them.

     "Browny?", He asked, knitting his brows. His voice was hoarse and he felt a scratch on his throat with that single word he uttered.

       Just then, favour returned with a group of medical staff behind her.

     "Peace?", She called her friend which caught Peace's attention, and peace just nodded her head as she stepped to the side and let the doctor examine him.

       "Seriously, browny?" As favour snuck beside her, she asked in dismay.

      How could peace give such a ridiculously nickname to a person she doesn't even know? Does she think that she could name him so easily like he was some kind of pet?.

        "What? What should I have written in his form? David? Charlie? Or even Jackie chan?. I don't know his name". Feigning innocence peace whispered back with a shrug.

      "Also, life is never flawless and fair. If he has a good looks, his name must be something far from what he looks like, okay?". She reasoned out, which in her opinion made a little Sense.

      After all, peace was considered a beauty. However, her name doesn't have anything of beauty attached to it. It wasn't that she hated her name but, if she had to be the one to name herself, she would unhesitatingly choose Empress or beauty.

      "Oh , poor guy", favour could only shake her head as she pitied the man whose name they didn't know. Whatever his name was, browny would be forever engraved to her head.

       They watched the doctor examined the Man and soon, they were finally finished as the doctor turned to Peace's direction and smiled.

      "Mr. Brown's condition is doing well and if he continued to rest, he will eventually recover".

      "That's a relief. So he is not in any harm anymore, right?". Peace heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing the doctor's note. When she saw him nod, peace stride to the man's side only said one word since he woke up.

        "Hey, did you hear that?". She asked the man as she stopped at his bed side, the man slowly gazed up to see the bright smile on her lips.

        "Who are you....?" Yet , instead of answering her, he inquired.

         "What?" Hearing such  question from him, peace slightly widened her eyes as she blinked many times. Without responding to him, peace turned to the doctor.

      " Doctor, he doesn't remember me, is it possible that he had amnesia?". She asked to be sure of what she was dealing with now.

         Just like her expression, the doctor furrowed his brows. The man had inflicted a minor concussion but, not to the extent that he would have a memory loss.

       However, before the doctor could take action and proceed with extra examination, the patient looked at peace side profile again. And opened his mouth, 

          "No, I don't have amnesia but, I really don't know you." His tone, though still hoarse, only a tingle was felt on his throat.

        "Oh......" Nodding her head in understanding, peace awkwardly chuckled as she glanced at the confused doctor before slowly turning her gaze to the man and glared daggers at him.

         "Ha ha ha, I think they were having a misunderstanding", as if on the cue, favour awkwardly, and loudly laughed as she approached the doctor and his assistant nurse.

         " You know, they were ex-lovers and their relationship ended in a bad term", she added through a whisper.

         Fortunately, these medical professional bought her lies as they nodded in understanding. "Alright, I'll make my rounds later and check on Mr. Brown's health again". The doctor courtly informed.

       Since peace was threatening the unfazed, deity looking guy by her gaze, favour volunteered to send the doctor and nurses off.

       "Waw, how can you be so honest? You almost got me in trouble". Peace said at of anger.

         Luckily, favour was quick-witted and acted accordingly. Or else, she would have been in trouble for giving out false information.

         After all, peace wrote his name as. " Browny brown" and all information she wrote were what she had guessed. Well, she could have jotted down a manly name but, recalling how embarrassed she was last night because of him, peace was pretty and did an harmless revenge.

        Now, that what she called quits.

       Indeed, peace has always been like that. Do something bad to her , she would return it equally. Do her good and she would double the kindness.

         "And my name is not Browny". As if not hearing her, the man resumed to speak his collected train of thoughts.

         "Whatever Browny". Peace snorted and then she plopped down on the edge of the bed. Both her palm rested on the bed, as she tossed her head to the side and cast him a full look. 

       "Any idea how you ended up here and not in the heavens call funeral home? Yeah, the woman you held hostage last night is me."

         Upon hearing the name of the funeral home. The man remembered that he had a glimpsed of that funeral parlor last night. He scrutinized Peace's ' I really don't care about you' expression.

        Since Peace's car was dark, and he was just fighting to keep his consciousness intact, he couldn't remember the woman's face last night. However, the more he listened to her voice, the more it sounded familiar.

        "I see.....  I am sorry about last night". The man nodded in acknowledgement and his tone was as stiff as a bamboo.

          "Sorry? Huh", arching her brows, peace was quite surprised that he seemed to be the type of person that was easy to talk with. Regardless, she wasn't that easy to appease.

         Slowly, peace leaned closer to him, her eyes fluttered and narrowed with allure. Her hand that was on the bed   raised using her forefinger, she slightly lifted his chin and coquettishly dawdled.

      "Mister, I don't accept words as a payment. Say , how will you repay the damages you had caused me?".