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All Helena has ever wanted was to be free. Free from the sadness
she had to go through every day. Free from the loneliness, that
no one could ever fill. Free from…
As the seconds ticked by, they turned into minutes… still the
weather hasn’t change. Like it was getting heavier by the minute.
And Helena was still standing at the exact spot she had been
since she came. She was standing still yet shivering at the
sidewalk of the park. She contemplated with herself of how long
she’d been standing there. But her mind just closed itself off. And
all Helena could do was pick up her carelessly dropped umbrella
and closed it. No use using it now. She began walking further
down the sidewalk of the park as if she was never stuck-up
earlier. Two joggers ran passed Helena hurrying to get home with
a Labrador on their leash. Then… Helena reached the part of the
park wherein another flash of memory hit her.
She was down on a swing set by the middle of the park. Wet as
she was… she let the water on her clothes run dry. And let the
rain do all the noise.
There it goes again. The rhythmic step that she’d heard earlier.
Helena thought nothing of it. She still thinks it was just a small
figment of her imagination. She kept her eyes closed and
contemplated hard. Ignoring the rhythmic steps her imagination
was creating. Still it continued…
She jumped off the swing, again the hard rain dripping her wet
when she was almost close to being dry. She snapped her head
toward the noise just to find a guy with hazel eyes, his velvet
black hair dripping wet and sticking to his forehead and his
clothes… was soaking wet just like hers. Helena could’ve had a
heart attack. Let alone, because she could clearly see his eight
pack beneath his v-neck white shirt.
“What the hell is wrong with you? Don’t you think you’re
trying to end my life just a little too early?” Helena’s serene voice
rang through the park and her hazel eyes dilated. And Evan James
vividly saw it. It was a sign that… she fancied him.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you.” His husky voice
made everything all sound too good to be true.
“Well… your sorry doesn’t help you that much.” She
snapped.
“Really, I’m sincerely sorry. I was just trying to—” his
apology was interrupted.
“Yeah, yeah, I know. Trying to end my life early. Ha-ha.”
Helena said with patent sarcasm.
“You have such sense of humor.” Evan James laughed. A
rich, husky laughter with pure masculinity poured in it. It melted
Helena’s insides.
“Uh-huh, whatever. You better leave it all behind. Not that
we’d see each other again and you’d get to hear some of it
anyways.” Helena walked away as soon as she finished her
statement. And Evan James followed her.
“Wait! What’s your name? I didn’t get to formally introduce
myself. I’m Evan James.” Evan tried to stop her walk by reaching
for her elbow and turned her gently to face him. Then held out a
hand.
“I’m… Well I am…” she stuttered but thought better that she
paused and tried to regain equanimity. “I’m Helena Cooper.” She
said with such emotion.
Moment of honesty
Someone’s gotta take the lead tonight
whose it gonna be?
I'm gonna sit right here
And tell you while it comes to me
If you have something to say
you should say it right now
Helena Cooper sang along. Just making the song sound more
addicting.
“You give me a feeling that I never felt before
And I deserve it, I think I deserve it
Its becoming something that's impossible to ignore
And I can't take it
I was wondering maybe
Could I make you my baby
If we do the unthinkable would it make us so crazy
If you ask me I'm ready”
Again, another day for them. Another secret told. Her sleep
amnesia was yet to be feared, again.
Chapter 3
Evan walked down the sidewalk and glanced back only once,
sadly with no Helena standing in the exact spot where she was,
waving goodbye at him.
He was quite exhilarated. Evan couldn’t wait till 6pm with
Helena waiting in her house. Probably reading an intellectual book
about the history of the Roman and Greek mythology or
something related to history. Evan wasn’t just the type of guy
who would ask something like ‘What are you reading?’ because…
well, it was never in his nature to do that.
Then all of a sudden, his cellphone rings. With blasting sounds
that could have been heard by someone a meter away.
“Hello?”Evan talked into the phone.
“Hey man! Its Jason here, you coming or what? Is some girl
keeping you up, player?”Jason answered; obviously Evan could
hear a smile forming on Jason’s lips through the phone.
“Actually, yes but this time it’s different… Just like Ria’s but
more.”Evan strained to say Ria’s name.
“I wanna meet this girl. What’s her name?”Jason asked eagerly.
“Jason, please do not ever do what I think you’re going to
do?”Evan asked annoyed.
“Trust me bro, I’m not gonna go after your girl, alright now?
I’m not like that. You’ve never seen me do that to you in your
whole life before. not when you had Ria, and certainly not now. I
thought you would have known that by now. I just wanna meet
the girl that my boy’s in love with. It’s been a while since I’ve met
a girl that makes you happy as hell.”Jason said with pure
bittersweet and obviousness.
“Err, yeah. I guess you’re right. I shouldn’t have judged you
like that. Her name’s Helena. And wait what?! You think I’m in
love with her? That’s crazy! I just met her yesterday. How do you
even know that she makes me that happy?”Evan asked in denial
of everything he just opposed to.
“Well, to answer your questions I’ll simply answer with, I-can-
hear-it-in-your-voice. It doesn’t matter if you met her yesterday.
Ever heard of love at first sight? Its sorta like that, except you’re
in freaking denial.”Jason stated with an all-knowing tone.
“Maybe, just maybe, you’re right. But I’m not sure yet. I have
to be totally sure that I’m in love with her before I can tell
her.”Evan said.
“That’s the best friend I’ve always known. So you coming
already?”
“Yeah, I’m on my way.”
“Alright, see ya then.”
“Yeah”
They hung up.
Evan walked home first, which was only going out on the road
and two blocks down. He was going to pick up his motorcycle. He
didn’t use it this morning to go to Helena’s place because he
wanted to have long walk and simply think before he came to her
house.
He arrived in a matter of minutes. He took out his remote and
went in and took out the keys. Evan hopped on in one single
motion. He started the bike, revved the engine and moved slowly
out of the garage. He took out the garage remote and it closed
the garage door.
He rode out the driveway and onto the road. He kept going
until he reached Jason’s place where all his friends were gathering
so they could go out to hang around the mall or something like
that. But they had something to talk about. Something important.
6pm would just have to wait.
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