Chapter Twenty: Flashback Memories

What happened in the library has nothing to do with his purpose of following her a while ago. And as far as he remembers, he’s just a good Samaritan who helped her when he saw her suddenly faint in front of him.

“The stalker. Are you the one stalking me at the library?” Cara answered his question frankly. He did not know what she was talking about. The important thing he intends to ask her about got suddenly switched. He wants to blame his slipped tongue for it.

“Right, let’s clarify the misunderstanding. First, I wasn’t the one stalking you at the library and earlier in the corridor. Second, why do you think someone was stalking you like you’re always being paranoid? And last, what really happened to you at the library? Do you have a death threat? I just found you looking frightened and when I came near you, you suddenly fainted.”

She’s not suspecting him. She just needs someone to blame for her little absurdity.

“Maybe because you happened to be there twice when I thought there was someone following at my pace strangely.” She reasoned for him to understand her question.

“I’ve been following my instincts lately, yet it got me wrong twice this time. But it’s not my intention to blame you. Sorry if I offended you.” She continued while gazing at his handsome face. He reminds him of her dream. She’s imagining the face of her dream is him, though she forgot it.

“Just please, forget what happened. I had my personal reason.” She’s thinking to tell him and yet she decided not to tell him about her psychological state.

……..

“Give me all the chocolates and candies, Aurora. I want to give some to my playmate Cara.”

“How about Vince?” The thing he hates the most is when his nanny treats his cousin like he’s a brother of him.

“Don’t give him anything. His teeth will tear apart. And my mom buys that for me, not for him.” He said to her with his bossy and brat-like attitude.  

He went outside with excitement to see Cara in their house to give her the bag of chocolates and cookies.

“Cara, I have something for you.” He went straight to her room as her mother told him she was waiting for him to play with her. 

“I know what it is.” She knows him very much to think that she already knew the thing he would give her.

She went close to his side, then she thanked him with a kiss on his cheeks. Her sudden gesture stunned him.

Her pretty smile yielded energy to play outside with other children. Because his snobby mind doesn’t wish to play with Cara's muddy playmates.

Remembering the time when Cara was being sweet to him is such a memorable thing for him. He is her best friend back then. But her character suddenly changed when she met his cousin. One reason she dislikes Vince.

Before his parents decide to go back to their old neighborhood, he wished to meet her again. He can see her in school, but he doesn’t have the courage to go near her. He’s not a coward, he’s just making a sweet plan to get close to her again.

But he thinks someone is getting ahead of him, even closer to the finish line. He needs to surpass him. That guy whose name he despises the most. But his personality differs from his cousin's. Still, his presence is more annoying, like he wants to give him some knock. Particularly every chance he could get to cling on to Cara.          

He followed her into the cafeteria to see who’s the person she was going to meet. Then he saw her face, looking pathetic and jealous of those cheerleaders around that chick boy.

He went near her and thought to comfort her. But he’s already late when his rival was born with the horse’s feet.

Now that he knew there was another rival, he will surely win against him. Like what happened in the past, he can get rid of him. However, Cara is always avoiding him.

He called her the night after she gave him her number. She talked to him but he felt like she was not interested in chatting with him. Until he brought her a topic about their childhood memories. The memory of him making her smile through the chocolates he gave her.

“Are you telling me, you’re the one giving me chocolates when we were young? Are you sure?” He remembered her voice suddenly becomes interested.

“Yeah, I’m the only one. You thanked me with your kiss. It was a delightful feeling to make you smile.” He answered her with his beaming face as he remembered it.   

“Do you remember it?” He asked her, hoping her answer was yes.

“As I told you, I remember nothing about my childhood. But I have a dream about it and I remembered Jean telling me.”

……..

“Cara, this is for you. I brought you a bag of chocolates and cookies. I give you all my share.” 

She gets up suddenly as she awakened with the sudden thought in her subconscious mind. Even if it was a quick nap, her mind still dreams.

She dreamed about the boy’s version of Will. But it felt strange that she has this instinct that he wasn’t Will’s boy version.

Speculations brought her mind to call her childhood friend. She asked him to send her a picture of him from his childhood.

“Finally, I found him!” she voiced out as she solved one of her problems. The boy in her dream is Will’s face. Yet, she suddenly remembered the man’s version in her dream, and it wasn’t Will.

Her face went back to an exasperating mood. Her dream was like a hard puzzle she still can’t able to comprehend.

The boy’s version is Will but the man’s version is Vince. Although, the latter has not yet been confirmed. Because she can’t still find the sketch drawing Jean was talking about. And the last dream she had with that man has no clear details of his face.

“Is library your nest?” A sudden male voice stunned her thoughts. She looked perplexed, seeing the man she was just thinking about a while ago. Her dreams that she forgot and her dreams before she lost her consciousness in the library, flashbacks in her mind suddenly.

The thing this man’s face did in her dreams. And the memorable things they did in her dream become the reason her cheeks blushed in front of this man in reality.

“I’m not sleeping. I just got myself a nap. To restart my brain from tiring activities I had lately.” She went back to her senses, explaining herself to this man but her mind really is in chaos right now.