Chapter 5

I don't know what gotten into me. I do think of leading him to that place I sure wanted to forget...yet now thinking of filling his presence.

With a memory of him.

Strange, he quite down, gone the pervertness in him. I can't really forget how he says his body will be a payment. So seeing him looking at my butt, with awe and excites shiver me. 

All the excitements...yet with fear of after a year I'll come visits the place, it's gone.

I disfgusted, not for him...but myself.

For even such a sin-incited jerk!

Though I know he's joking earlier. It's kind of a disappointment to me still. 'cause inside I know, I conside the idea of his body as a payment. But what's there from granting wishes that I deserve such a joke?

The idea of it...sick me. 

That's not me receiving a peace of mind I really want in this lifetime...if I continue this madness. 

I have to stop this... Starts in myself!

"Just follow me as a payment, Pyro," I said to him earlier, as clear as the stars fully shine in the sky. I thought he understand how he's lucky to have that as a payment. Just imagine how lucky he's to follow someone like myself?

Though it happened without one expectating... As we neared the place, trees surely is a natural sight, which brought me into the idea that someone, as good as me, plant this trees a century before.

But Pyro...or was it Pryro? He tremble on those and I mocking him for that. Yet he didn't even flick. Then he kind of hiding those...hates upon the sight. 

But that's not the reason of my shock...or the strange it's brought me. It's something...distant.

"Are we okay?" I ask, trace the madness in his eyes.

"I'm okay," his voice shaky and he couldn't look into my eyes. "I don't know to you, Arsy..." 

What he truly feel is hidden deep, I thought. Though this kind of sight...is familiar to me. 

It's once I'm dealing with for the century. 

And I late to realize why that someone...don't appreciate the sight to be hold.

Pyro...is so much alike that someone. Someone who hate trees for all his life. 

"Why hate this pity seedling of mine?" I burst into fiery when he don't regrets a thing. He's cold to the dying plant, especially those of fully grown that he heartlessly shove from the soil. 

My hatred raise into unprecedented height, especially when he look at me as if I was the one he'll next to kill. I mocked him, sighed the deepest. "Don't you know I work my ass on them to create a wonderful atmosphere that this place lack about? Huh! You sure know nothing!"

He stare blankly all this time, however there's a glint in his eyes the moment I fully embrace what I really wanted. Or was I mistaken? This place lack trees... and I'm trying to surround it with one someday!

I realize that...yet it's too late. My seedling destroyed by this freak!

"I'm sorry," he murmured and I almost choke to my own saliva that dripping. I blink numerously, as if deluded and distant. This person don't even say a thing all this time, just cruelly look everything I like with madness. 

Yet the first thing I hear from him...is his apology?

Surely I'm distant! No way he has a heart to even understand where I coming from. 

"Forget it," I said, gone the hatred. I just wish he will stop pestering the things...don't even belong to him. Hate that or it...but don't destroy something just because of it, you freak!

All this time I wonder...if my aspiration to have those seedling surrounding that place was achieve or it's remain as wishes? I grant, just like the townspeople thought I'm doing, but I have never grant my own wishes!

Atleast the memory that kinda incomplete. 

It's even seem...disappearing. So how to know that I even aspired to fill the town with breezing atmospher cause of the forest near it?

Pyro finally look at me. "You sure you know what's this place is?"

"Why are asking?" There's a terror in his eyes...and regrets. There's fear that he able to hide within his glare.

"Just asking cause you are seems fallin in your sleep," there's a frustration in his voice, yet it only making me laugh.

"If I'm sleepy then I should have been here with you," I said and his jaw drop. He remain his stares at me for awhile. I can't help but smile, close the distance between us. "You know, Pyro. You should not afraid-"

"Who afraid here? Where? I don't see anyone, Arsy!" He cross his finger across my nose, trying to tell me I am story-maker. 

I gasp. He's frustrated and I can't believe that it cause me a smile. His eyebrow raised and I chuckled in my heart conent. 

"I thought you hate the place," I said and it's a shock that he gasped, and as if remembering his fear, his eyes fill with terror as he look around.

"Pyro-" I paused as my ears boom in a shivering way. It fill once again, the cry of the bizzare entities! 

Though I'm kind of worry why he's kind of sad to the extent of hearing the cry so clear and loud this time. I am curious and wonder if it's the reason of his anxiety this whole time, or it's from within him...

"Pyro, listen," I said, trying to observe something. I look at him with determination, flock our hands together. It cause his eyes to widely open, stare at me as if waiting for explaination. 

"W-what's this, Arsy?" he stuttered, yet the cry fades away...like a stuttering.

I smile gently. "You are suppose to wish now," I inform him with a glint in my eyes.

His eyes narrowed, until he breathe normally, fell to the deepest of his thought. 

I wait with anticipation, even realizing the cry continue I don't seem minding. This time I realize the strange and mystery while looking at him, with his deepening eyes, the regrets, a powerful feeling of all, lies there at the deepest!

And his wish... It stop my heart from even breathing. 

"I wish to change," he said warily, eyeing me with no emotion, "my mistake..."

It struck my heart, beating weakened. I thought I hear wrong and possibly wrong to think it's about me. Yet the forest vanish together with the smile... and I witness once more the distant.

There infront of me...is the sinner of the town.