Chapter 7 : Flashback (part: 6)

"I have feelings for a girl he said and he looked at me scanning me from top to bottom giving me a look. Alicia gave him a look and asked him whether it was me. I pulled his hand and dragged him to a place alone because I wanted some privacy. Then I confessed to him that I had feelings for him and ran away"

Darcy started biting the tip of her pencil. Her eyes looked like they were focusing on something far away. "hello Darcy, are you bored" I tried to get her out. "No, I am not, the lucky girl got a replacement so fast". I giggled and my face dropped. Memories of Marcus flood into my head. All the moments we had and now... I snaped out of it. I have to tell her about it anyway because I started it. I hate to leave people curious. Which is something I had pride in myself for, that's also what people say. She is happy and open all the time they say. But I have my secrets. My hands curl inside my back pocket to see if it's there with me. It is there and will always be with me. My dairy's key which I wrote back in those days. I am afraid of reading through it because it had a few things that could make me want to cry. Now I am strong enough because my dairy was there to let things out. It has some things that I wouldn't want to tell Darcy and neither have I told to Evelynn.

"He grabbed hold of my hand and pulled me next to his chest with his arms around me and we both started laughing for no reason. I can't believe that everything happened so fast. He said he loves me. I slipped out of his arms and pulled him out of the walls that covered us from the compound. Marcus's friends were waiting for him on the other side. Marcus ran to his boys and told that we both are in a relationship. They started screaming and jumping and going crazy. What I mean by his friends is his other group of friends, not Jordan, Adam and others. Marcus would meet me after school and would drop me home if I ever ran late. We used to spend hours after school together tickling each other, pulling cheeks and he used to nibble on my ear and I used to laugh when he did that."

Darcy's face turned from neutral to disgust "nibbling your ear" she laughed as her fingers scrolled down the bed her brown us tracing the patterns on it. She looked beautiful. She pushed herself to a corner and laid down rolling herself on a quilt like making a chocolate roll. "why did you stop, aw man, I want to know more" she said. "are you feeling sleepy honey" I ask her. " kinda yea but you are giving me ideas for my novel. I love listing to a people's love story so you should continue". I bite my lower lips like a warm-up before I continue the story.

" One day Marcus invited me to go out on a Saturday morning. He told me to get my skateboard along with me because the place is a little bit away from our meeting place. We planned on meeting each other at 6 A.M. I had to sneak out of the house at 4:30 catch the 5:00 am bus and reach the meeting spot by 5:30 and be home before 10:00 because mom wakes up by 11:00 during weekends which is an advantage. I quickly had a wash and finished my routine, wore monochrome pink tracks and black shoes and a cap of course. Our meeting place is exactly between mine and Marcus's house. He has to travel the same distance. When I reached the meeting place, I was surprised to see Marcus kicking stones. He was early. I called his name out and we had a hug, my cap disturbed his eyes so he pulled them off my head and let his fingers through my shoulder-length hair. The feeling though, it felt as though one part of my whole head was frozen and was melting. He wore a black T-shirt and white tracks and a white cap. He squeezed my face with his fingers as he wrapped his hands around my cheeks. His hand was heavy and I couldn't stand straight because of this. He then took his skateboard and told me to follow him. We glided across the roads gracefully pulling out leaves and throwing it on each other. Marcus collected flowers on his way. I tried to brush his hair while skating but he didn't let me. We laughed even for that. We went on the bridge and finally, we came to a place where no one was found. The pleasure I got from gliding through the morning air was indescribable. Marcus let me through a place which was almost like a forest. It was a little dark but looked like a place which is hella fine to spend time with a person you love. We walked through the forest holding our skateboards and then what I saw before my eyes was paradise. It had flowers ranging from violet to the most delicate yellow. It had leaves which were green and red and a beautiful pond in between filled with leaves and petals and of course green from the presence of algae. I screamed and ran like I was let loose like a child this. I can take you there someday Darcy, you will be amazed."

"yes, I would love to see it," Darcy said with her eyes twinkling.

I smiled "Marcus told me to remove my shoes. He told me, his old neighbor, his mother and his father planted flowers to fill the patch of the place since it had no trees next to the pond. They used to go there and maintain the place and it used to be their hobby. But they abandoned it for two years because their neighbor moved to a different country and they lost motivation to visit it often. But Marcus remembered and visited the place last week and he was amazed to see the bloomed flowers. He said he was looking for a spot for us to spend time and that reminded him of this place. I removed my shoes we soaked our legs in the pond. Splashing water on each other. Then I laid down on the flowers because the place was more green than muddy. Marcus laid opposite to me only our nose brushing each other and our bodies far apart. our faces opposite to each other perfectly fit over each other's shoulders. We looked up at the sky and talked about the clouds. He planted a kiss on my forehead his lips were near it. and trucked few flowers he collected on the way here in the gap between my head and my ear. We smiled and we fell asleep without knowing we were asleep. When I woke up it was noon and Marcus was still asleep. Which means my mom would start enquiring once I get home. I didn't have an excuse."

.............To Be Continued