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Chapter 6

Do you remember?

Another week goes by. More messages follow.

We talk about our past. We relieve the happy moments. It feels so good being able to talk again. I start to fall back in that comfortable bliss of our easy going friendship. That is exactly how it happened the first time around. Is history repeating itself?

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We started spending every moment we could together. We were trying to hide it from everyone for a while. At the end, we were so tired of sneaking around, we just stopped pretending we weren't together.

It was our first official date. We were so happy. You asked me to move in with you.

My family didn't take it well. Do you remember the first time you met my parents and my brother? I thought my dad was going to kill you. It took them some time to realize that we weren't going to go our separate ways just like that.

Your brother approved. Your father hated me. He said I distracted you from your responsibilities and told you not to run to him when I got hurt because he'd warned you.

We couldn't help it. I was your drug and you were my air. How did that happen?

The winter turned to spring and the spring to summer. As university let out for break I started travelling with you sometimes. I took over the management of one of your bars. I found out more about what you did and got more and more involved.

We both loved animals and we ended up with two – a little Pekinese and a German Shepherd. I loved them both – the little one was great to spoil and play with. The Shepherd I loved dearly but you gave him to me for a different reason. He was trained to protect me at all cost. He only took commands from you and me. No-one else. Do you remember him attacking my mother one day because you told him not to let anyone close to me?

Do you remember me whining one day about how I wanted to go to the seaside? That I wanted a walk on the beach and to swim in the water? Few days later you woke me up and told me we had to go very early in the morning. I had never been a morning person, so I started complaining and asking questions. You said we had to go to a meeting and all was packed. I only needed to get dressed. You carried me to the car and told me to go back to sleep.

Five hours later I woke up to you shaking me. We were at the seaside! We couldn't stay long. We had to go back the next day but I couldn't believe you did it for me.

We spent the rest of the day on the beach. And in the evening, after dinner, we went for a walk on the private beach and made love under the stars; first on the soft sand and then in the sea. We were there all night. That was when I realized that I loved you. But I promised you I wouldn't fall in love with you, so I just swallowed the words. I almost choked on them. I knew you were thinking the same. I could read you like a book. And you knew I loved you. I was so scared you'd leave me. But you held me closer and I knew you would stay.

We fell asleep tangled with each other. We woke up at dawn and watched the sunrise. We headed back to the house and took a long shower together trying to get the sand out of unimaginable places. We left after breakfast with regret but happy we could have that short break away from everyone and everything. Do you remember?

Do you remember how happy we used to be?

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