It took me two months to realize that Benji was no longer in school, despite having myself staring at his empty seats in the canteen ever since he left.
I felt like I've sat at my own pit for months, I had no idea how time passed. That two months were like a race car that zoomed past me, I could not grasp the chance to take a look at it.
How much time I wasted...
It surprised me how much time I took, even longer than I took to be cognizant of Benji's disappearance, to realize that Dexter had been here all the while. He was looking at me intently, with the same eyes that I saw one year ago.
He suddenly stood up, carried my arms and brought me to his car. Since when did he get a car? Why was I ignorant of it?
"You have a car?" My throat trembled badly.
"Wow, you finally spoke! You remember me?" His voice was soothing. So soothing that I played it again and again in my head.
He continued, "I mean I fetched you to and fro with this car? You can't remember?"
Oh, I remember now...
He must have heard my thought, or was it was written in my face? "Do you remember how you were like for the past... two months?
"You're like a zombie. No, zombie is too nice a word. Let's just say you were... a living dead?" He smiled.
Somehow that smile melted my frozen heart. It warmed me up despite the chilling wind slapping against my skin. I felt the blood rushing to my cheeks. I think I smiled.
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