Friend Bed

A Silly Story

"What's up, sir?"

"Tell me! Tell me about the locket."

"Do you really want to hear my story?"

"Do I have to repeat my words a second time?"

Maya is smiling too. 'Before I knew you were my knight, I felt very uncomfortable hearing a rude snort from you. Back when I didn't know you were my knight, I always felt annoyed when I heard hurtful words from you. But now, somehow it all feels so good. Is this stupidity? Or the love at the end of the wait that is finally delivered? Is this really the end of the wait? I don't think it is, because I still have a lot to fight, and a big question awaits, do I deserve to be with him?' mumbled Maya while staring at Vansh accompanied by tears flowing on his shoulder face.

"Sassy girl! What the hell is going on with you? Are you crying?" vansh asked when she saw the tears that began to fade.

"Oh... E... No, my eyes just put in a little dust."

"Oh," replied Vansh flatly. Maya then wiped her tears.

"Hurry and tell me!"

'I also actually felt very curious about the locket, like I had seen it. I even seem to have held it, but where? Does this have anything to do with my past?' muttered Vansh while staring at the pendant in Maya's hand.

"Okay Sir!" answer Maya who makes Vansh daydreams crumpled.

"Yes." Yeah."

Maya rubbed the locket with a smile. "This moment, for me, is a memory, a hope, and a dream that I never wanted to achieve because I realized, it was too high for me, it may sound silly but this is what is called love. When I was in school in a blue white uniform, I liked a man, but I felt very ashamed and did not deserve him. Then every day I send her a box of chocolate cookies through my friend. And, one day as I was about to deliver the chocolate cake, I almost got hit by a car, luckily I was saved by someone. But the guy got really bad wounds, and the bad thing that saved me was my first love, the first love that I always send a box of chocolate cookies," she said.

Hearing Maya's words, Vansh's feelings were so uncertain, wanting her to hold Maya's hand or hold her body in her arms, but she shook off all those feelings.

"What does this have to do with the locket?"

"At the time of the accident, the situation was so chaotic. Everyone at the scene rushed to help the man, and I? I could only be transfixed, and it really hurt to see the person I love so much lying helplessly between life and death. This heart felt so broken, I couldn't even see it. And that pendant, that pendant was the property of that man who had fallen out of the pocket of his school shirt. I took the locket and slowly my feet ran away from the scene of the accident with a soul so cowardly."

"Then what is your relationship with that man?"

"For twelve years, I have lived with fear, I cannot accept the fact that the man died saving me, Sir. So, during that time I chose not to find out the whereabouts of the man and live with the memories by keeping this pendant. For twelve years, I didn't know he was alive or dead."

"Don't I already say that this is a story that sounds ridiculous? But this is the truth, this is the reality."

"Then does the man know you sent the chocolate cake?"

Maya shook her head. "No, until now he didn't know that because when I left the cake to my friend, my friend told the man I liked that it was he who made it."

"So the man thought that your friend made it?"

Maya nodded her head. "Sweet!" grunts Vansh.

'Little one? The woman you call petty is your wife Sir, the woman you've always loved, ' Maya murmured.

"Maya, didn't you just say that until now the man you love didn't know the truth that ever happened between you? So, now that man is alive? Didn't you just say you were too cowardly to know where he was?"

"Yes, for twelve years I did not know how he was. But from today, I know that if she's alive, I feel very happy, but I'm also sad because she doesn't remember anything in her past" she said with a smile.

"Did he have amnesia?" ask Vansh.

"Yes, he had dissociative amnesia that caused some of his memories to be lost, a memory of a trauma experienced during the accident."

"I also had an accident when I was in high school, and had dissociative amnesia from trauma experienced in an accident, just like your first love."

'My first love? My first love was you, sir, and so far you never realized that, if you only remembered a little about your past, of course you knew that the man I was telling you about was you,' mumbled Maya while smiling bitterly.

Maya is smiling too. "So after the accident you don't remember anything?"

"No, I only remember about my childhood, I only remember what happened a few months before the accident. And, my memory stopped when I had the accident, not even I remember the woman who always took care of me who turned out to be my lover, she was Queen. My late wife" said Vansh with a smile that made Maya feel so sliced.

"So you never remember the chocolate cake I once gave you?"

"Hey, what do you mean? What kind of chocolate cake have you ever given me?" vansh grumbled while frowning.