Hello! I'd like to say a few things before you continue reading this. Firstly, thank you for being here, I appreciate it haha. Secondly, english isn't my first language, I just decided to translate it, just for fun, to try to improve my english. So, I'm sorry if there's some grammatical errors, or if some expressions don't fit here. Please, be free to correct me, you'll be helping! It's was kind of hard honestly, the dictionary helped me with some words. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, this first chapter is short, I know it, but the next one is way more longer.
I was still looking through the window, seeing death and destruction slowly giving place to nature, as if nothing had happened. The only remembrance of what had happened were the trails of my own thoughts that made sure to follow me. I didn't expect to block everything so fast, on the contrary, I was sure that this would be etched in my mind for the rest of my life.
I feel a hand grabbing mine, but not any hand. Chloe is by my side, with a simple touch managed to make all the tension get off me. It's incredible how even after so much time apart, she just needs to look at me to know how I'm feeling, and so quickly, solve the problem.
I turn my head to able to look at her, and that makes all the feelings that I was trying to restrain inside me come back in full force. I knew that behind her calm face Chloe was feeling destroyed inside, like me. The guilt is consuming me, while the girl at my side didn't even associate my name to the destiny of Arcadia Bay. At least, I hope, even if it's wrong. I don't know if I'd be able to deal with the fact of knowing that Chloe has something against me.
She opens her mouth, but after some time she closes it again. I could hear in my mind what she wanted to tell me. Is everything okay? She and I knew that, this question, right know, it's a dumb one. Of both parties.
During all this torturing car travel, I kept asking myself what I was feeling. At first I felt numb, my body as much as my mind and especially my feelings. Until I realized that actually I was, I am, feeling to many things at once, I was incapable to name it all.
My throat was closing. It didn't take long for my eyes to do the same thing seconds later. So ironic. Such a beautiful and sunny day outside, but just bad things inside me. I squeezed Chloe's hand, unwittingly, and I regret it at the same time, because I got all her attention. How could she still be here with me after what I did?
I couldn't process in my mind what came first, if it were the tears or the sobs. Pathetic. I sent everything to hell and my best friend, who lost so much because of my is the first to comfort. Reality really struck me in that moment, and the instantaneous happiness went away. In the end, there wasn't a right choice, I would be in that same situation.
"Max, are you-" I hear Chloe's worried voice and feel the car stopping. Everything was wrong, almost everything. At least I still had her. I can't be a coward right now; I need to face the consequences of my actions.
"We need to go back." I open my eyes immediately after saying it. She looked surprised, I don't know if because of my words, or my sudden change of attitude. After a while I noticed the consent is her expression. She was as determined as me. Her tears also threatened to fall and bring with them our reality, but they were replaced by a will that just someone like Chloe could bring out. One foot pressing the accelerator meant more than many words.