"What's happening?" he said with a bit of confusion in his voice. But suddenly, he started to rub my back as I cry in his chest.
The next moment were unexpected. As I released my arms in his body, he immediately hugged me.
"Ivy?" he said when he released his arms from hugging me, too.
"Yes, I am Sean. But, I thought..."
"You thought what? You thought that I died already? Is that what you mean?"
"Actually, yes. The last time I saw you, you really look lifeless already. That memory of the past kept on haunting me, but now I think it won't hunt me anymore, 'cause you are here already. You are here in front of me, alive and smiling." I said exhaustively while still holding my tears again.
"Shh, don't cry. I am here now." he said while holding my face and smiling at me.
"But, how?"
"What do you mean by that question?"
"I mean, how did you survive?"
After throwing that question to him, all I heard was silence. I think, I have just made a wrong move.
"I am sorry. I did not meant to ask that question."
"It's okay. It's just that I tried to forget that thing. But now it's coming back again."
"Sorry, I am really sorry. It is okay if you don't want to tell it."
"No, it's alright. You need to know it."
"So how?"
"I thought you do not want to hear it anymore. But it seems you are very eager to know it."
"Sorry for that hehe. I am just curious about it."
"Okay. The story goes like this."
The moment I fell in the deep part of the pond, I thought that is my end. I just closed my eyes and waited for the next thing that would happen. The water started to enter my mouth as I get nervous from drowning. Before I lose my consciousness, I felt my body float. After that, I just woke up in a white room. I was just there standing in that endless white place. I don't know where it is.
I tried to find someone there. I am calling on your name when somebody appear in front of me. I stopped in a large entrance. Someone is standing right there with a rooster on his side. There is only one thing I thought about the person, but what shocked me the most is the possible fact that I am dead now that time. I am about to enter the entrance when I thought of you and my family, and then I fall. The next thing I can remember is that I vomit with water while I am lying down in the ground.
Actually, I have had an amnesia after that. I do not even recall my name. That is why they bring me in the US. When I am fully recovered, I studied there. One time, while we were playing basketball in the gym of the school, my classmate accidentally thrown the ball in my head. I felt the pain due to the impact of it. With that, some memories started to run in my mind. That memories are the memories we shared together and the memories of my family and I.
The next days, I was able to fully get back my memories. The moment I remember you, I have decided to go back here in the Philippines. At first, my parents did not allow me because we already have a good life there. But, I made a way for them to allow me. I stopped going to school and I just go anywhere I want. Eventually, they have found it out, when the school called out my parents about the fact that I am no longer going in the school.
Of course they do not believe because I still wear my uniform when going out, and I go home just in time. When they see that I am really determined to go back here, that is the time that they allow me. But with a condition. I need to study well here and eventually, I will go back there once I finished my degree.
I have chosen to study here, and in fact, it was my first day as a student of this university. Then I met you. And now, I am here beside the person I wanted to see for a long time.
"So that's it."
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