Curse of the Hidden Place

Episode 25

Mattheo

I'm just looking at her, while thinking about what she said, earlier. She is so beautiful in her own way. I can't stop thinking why, Austine chooses to leave her. If you will ask me, I can't find any reason for them to just give up that easily. But maybe, Hmm, I don't know. But all I know is, don't judge the book by it's cover. But no! . . . I can't stop myself thinking about it. And If you just think about it too, their love story is almost perfect.

I can't keep myself calm until I didn't know why they chooses to let each other go away from each of them. And now, I'm looking at her face while trying to look for the answers.

"What are you doing?" She asked while her face looked so serious.

I was stock for a moment because of it. What should I say? I don't want her to think that, I am so interested in her story. I don't want her to feel embarrassed because of me. I want her to feel that, she is comfortable at my side.

"Ugh, Hm . . . Nothing!" I answered.

I saw that she smirk.

"You can't fool me, Mattheo! I know that there's something that bothers you. What is it?" She asked.

I just answered nothing, but she didn't believe me. Instead, she keep asking me why. She didn't stop.

"Ahh, I know why you are acting like that!" She said while smiling sarcastically.

I just pucker my forehead while looking at her.

"You remember your Exx, right? What is her name again? Hmm . . . Ahh! Dianne. Her name was Dianne . . ." She added.

She smiled at me with a teasing smile.

"Stop looking at me with that fooling smile!" I said while looking at her.

"Mmmm . . ." She smiled, while pressing my waist that causing me to laugh so hard.

"Stop it, Collin! Please stop!" I said while still laughing.

After a few minutes, she stop what she's doing.

"I know you are thinking about Dianne, right?" She said.

She's looking at me and I know, she's waiting for my answer. I took a deep breathe while looking at her.

"Honestly, I never stop thinking about her!" I answered then I smiled.

She looks so confused at this moment. You can see in her face the curiousity that hiding in her eyes.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"I said, I never stop thinking about her!" I answered straightly.

"Until now?" She asked.

I nod at her.

"But I thought you like me?" she said with a stammering voice.

"If you're still thinking about Dianne, then, what about me! You said that you like me! So, I don't understand why you're still thinking about you're exx. No offense, huh! But, are you really consistent about your feelings about me?" she added. Her voice are still stuttering.

I chuckle and look at her before I spoke. I saw her face and it looks so affected for what I'm saying.

"Seriously!" I said while I'm chuckling.

"Now you're in doubt! Do you trust me?" I asked while straightly looking at her.

She just raised her shoulders as an answer that says, she don't know. I look at her, straight in the eye. I hold her shoulders and tell her that I love her. She just smiled at me and I saw her eyes become watery.

"What's wrong?" I asked, while looking at her.

"I'm just wondering! What if, we didn't go here . . . What if, we chooses to stay in our own house rather than to travel that time . . . That, what if, everything that is happening at this moment did not happen. Do you think, what would be the possible things that we're doing?" She asked. Her voice are serious.

I took a deep sigh before I speak.

"Maybe, if this, did not happen, I'm pretty sure that I'm just watching some movies at my room, Alone!" I answered.

"Why you're not spending time with your brother?" She asked while looking at me.

I smirk.

"Why would I?" I said.

"I know he's still mad at me! I don't know why he thinks that I want to stole his girl friend even if, I'm not really interested to that girl!" I added.

"I can't blame you. But, he's still your brother . . . Son of the man who raised you, to became who you really are, now!" She said. She looks and me and wait for my response.

"But you still have to be with him as a gratitude even if your brother, don't want to talk to you. Hm, it's still possible that you can go first, to approach him! Explain to him that, all thing that he thinks about you, was wrong. Maybe he needs to hear your explanation for him to understand you." She added.

"You just need to wait and be patience to get his trust again!" She said.

I look at her and took a deep sigh and take a deep breathe as I need to release all of the problems that I'm carrying.

"Why would I do that? He was the one who chooses to ignore me even if I didn't do anything! Why I need to approach him first? It's not my fault at all. It's him, because maybe, he didn't take care of his girl friend, so that was the result!" I answered.

"So now you're blaming his girl friend for loving you unintentionally? You're saying that it's not your fault at all?" She asked.

I nod and smile.

"Oh, Come on! A girl will never fall in love with the guy who didn't do anything just to fall for him! Where not that crazy! We have are own reasons why we used to fall!" She said. She's looking at me with a serious face.

"Maybe his girlfriend realized that, I'm cutier than her boyfriend." I said and laugh sarcastically.

She looks at me and raised her eyebrows. "Really?" She said.

"You're not that handsome! In fact, you're not cute, either. You're an ugly duckling, remember?" She said with a demon laugh.

"What did you do to make your brother's girlfriend, fall for you, huh?" She asked while looking at me and raising her eyebrows.

I smirk.

"I said, I didn't do anything!" I answered.

"Admit it, Mattheo! You seduced your brother's girlfriend!" She said then continue to laugh.

"There is no seduction happened! You're crazy!" I answered.

I am looking at her and she's still laughing. She's so beautiful when she laughs. Austine is so lucky for being her boyfriend. The girl that I dreamed of . . . The girl that I want. I can't stop myself for loving her even more. While looking at her, I can't stop imagining things between us. How I wished that, when everything is fine, I will still have the opportunity to court her and given a chance to be her boyfriend.

"Why are you staring me like that?" She asked.

I'll go back to really as I've heard her voice. I'm daydreaming!

"Ah, nothing!" I answered.

I look at her and she looks so serious now.

"Ow, what kind of face expression is that? As far as I remember, you're so happy earlier. What happened now?" I asked while looking at her.

"The question that i've said earlier is still bothering me. And this, this weird things that happening to our world, I don't want this. I want my family back. I still want to spend my life with them, Even if I know, that it's now impossible!" She said. Her eyes becomes watery again.

I rubbed her back and tap it three times as a comfort for her. She really love her family. Im hurt seing her like that. If only I could go back, I will bring everything to the time where we started. If only I could.

I look at her and I saw that she's trying to hide her pain.

"You really love your family, huh! That's nice." I said then smiled.

She took a deep sigh before she speak.

"Yeah! And if you ask me, what will I do if ever this, didn't happen, I'm spending my time bonding with my family! But now that they're already gone, the moment of spending time with my love ones, will never happen again." She said. She can't hide her tears that are falling anymore.

I don't know what will happen to us now, the only way to fix this, which is Mr. Manolo, is hard to trust now. And I don't know how we will face him.

At this moment, we are just seating here at the cutted tree. Waiting for what will happened next. I know we're in danger. In fact, the world is in danger.