Zenaya's remorse

Chapter 27: A Piece of Memories.

New York, 8 years ago.

Natalie ruffled her waist while staring at the two men who were still soundly asleep in their apartment room. His eyes stared around the room, which was very messy with papers and books on the tables and floors of the apartment. Not to forget, several packages of snacks and cans of drinks were also lying there.

Although the two men are different generations and majors, but they often do tasks together, including Natalie. He always made use of Reagents intelligence to help him complete tasks.

The girl stepped slowly towards the bed where they were sleeping, her eyes squeaking sinisterly as she took a step by taking a deep breath. Using all her strength, Natalie screamed while kicking Bryan down from the bed. While the Reagents were forcibly pulled by the girl to sit on the edge of the bed.

Bryan's scream echoed for a moment. The man got up from the floor while rubbing his painful back. "You're always rude to wake me up! Do something to Rey!" makinya while staring at Natalie sharp.

Natalie smiled cynically. "You deserve it, because you've got control of the bed."

Bryan could never stay still while sleeping, inversely proportional to Reagents.

Natalie then turned her eyes to Reagen. "Today you have a test, right? Quickly get ready, and you ...," his hand pointed at Bryan's busy face pitting. "your interview with Mr. Gilbert's gonna start in an hour, you know!"

Bryan Kontan gasped, as did Reagent. The two threw cruel gazes at each other, before getting out of bed to scramble into the bathroom.

Natalie shook her head. If this is so ...

"Sana, take a shower in my room! No need to make a drama this morning!" the girl shouted like a stepmother who was angry at her two mischievous children.

They also went to campus by public bus. They do not have a private vehicle there.

Right in front of the campus, Reagen, Bryan, and Natalie split into their respective faculty buildings. Usually, they just get back together when the afternoon comes. Natalie was always the earliest to wait for the two men in the campus garden.

Their routine is almost the same every day. Only the weekend is a little different, because the holidays from learning activities.

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The real reagent still wanted to be in the country, but Craig asked him to go to college there while overseeing the Walker Group branch. As a result, right after graduating from school, he immediately flew to New York to study there. A year later, Bryan followed the Reagents.

Knowing Bryan's departure, Natalie insisted on asking the father to allow the only daughter following Reagen and Bryan to New York. It took more struggle until Natalie finally managed to get her blessing.

There, Reagen lives in a simple apartment with no room. He invites Bryan to stay with him to save money. While Natalie lives right across from their apartment.

Bryan and Natalie get into the same campus as Reagen as new kids. So, Reagen is their senior, although the three are different majors.

Living in a country of people makes girls like Natalie who are usually spoiled and never do homework, forced to be independent. What's more, Reagents firmly apply simple living to them.

There are no fancy cars they drive. All three must be willing to go everywhere by using public buses. Natalie also inevitably had to learn to cook by herself.

The woman got her cooking knowledge from Bryan. She was good at cooking since childhood, because her mother was one of the famous chefs of her time.

Honestly speaking, Bryan and Natalie's presence was a breath of fresh air for the Reagents. For a year, she had to live alone without anyone she knew.

Indeed, sometimes Craig also stopped by there to see the situation, as well as supervising the branch company there. But still it feels very different.

That's why, since the presence of his two best friends, Reagen is like rediscovering his lost world.

Like three friends, they are always together wherever and under any circumstances. When Natalie has to be rushed to the hospital due to hypothermia, Reagen and Bryan will wait for her alternately in the hospital.

When Bryan has to fall and act like a madman because of the loss of his mother, Natalie and Reagen never move from the man's side.

Similarly, if Reagen is sad because he remembers Zenaya. The man still could not let go of his guilt on the girl for even a second. Reagents still keep a good piece of a photo of Zenaya that he took secretly while in school first.

Although jealousy is inevitable Natalie, but she still accompanies the days of Reagen and tries to strengthen him, with Bryan.

Natalie thought that all her attitude could make Reagents feel bad. He even believed a saying that said, that the stone alone can be eroded if it continues to be dripped with rain water.

However, the feeling of Reagents turned out to be harder than a lump of stone. For a second the man could never get rid of the shadow of Zenaya in his head and heart.

That made Natalie's hatred for Zenaya soar. However, Natalie never intended to hurt the woman further. She was no longer a unstable girl who liked to make trouble just for the sake of fighting over a man.

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Bryan patted Natalie on the shoulder slowly, so that the woman would wake up from her daydream.

"You crying?" bryan asked worriedly. Since then he only noticed Natalie who was busy daydreaming while playing her drink, until a drop of tears came out of the woman's fertilizer.

Natalie gasps. "Where? No!" He touched his own face. Try to say, that what Bryan saw was not tears.

Both are now in their favorite cafe.

Natalie stared at the empty chair that Reagen used to sit in, but now the chair was empty.

"Snat?" call Bryan.

" ... long ago, I actually realized that there was not a single bit of space left in Rey's heart." The woman opened her voice.

"My struggle has been in vain. My selfishness to keep insisting on loving that man, it only brings hell of its own." Natalie smiled softly.

"Nothing is in vain. You know, love doesn't have to have" Bryan said.

Natalie laughed off her head. "Whoever invented those words, I hate them."

He then looked at Bryan grudgingly. ""Can we go back to college" Natalie said, along with falling tears.