"How have you been, Abi?" I asked.Actually, I was really ready to face her anger. If she would be rude to me, it would absolutely be okay and I would accept it without getting mad. After all, I deserved getting the subject of their anger because of what I did to them years back.But instead of rolling her eyes and ignoring me, like what I expected, she actually did the opposite. She smiled a little but it was genuine and there wasn't any hint of sarcasm. "I've been doing great, Camila. How about you? How are you? Wow! I didn't expect I would see you here today! It has been such a while since the last time I, I mean we, saw you."I wasn't able to speak at first or comprehend because I was trying to sink it into my mind. She didn't get angry. She was actually nice and she didn't seem to have any kind of bad blood on me.About to answer her, Barbara talked, trying to pull her. "Abigail, let's go!"But Abigail cooly smiled and gestured my direction. "Can't you see? I'm still talking to C
"Are you going to choose me or Noah?""Trey, why are you asking this kind of question?"He shrugged his shoulders. "I just thought about it, totally out of the blue." He looked away. "If you don't like it, I'm sorry. And if you don't want to answer, it's alright. I would understand—""It's you, Trey." I cut him off. I knew he was dismissing it because he thought I couldn't answer directly, but actually, I could because I knew very well what I wanted.I wouldn't want him to think that it was necessary to dismiss it without getting answered, and then later on, we are going to be feeling awkward towards each other, most especially from his side because it was him that asked such question."It's you that I'm going to choose, Trey, if I have to pick between you and Noah," I continued.He was staring at me, yet I could see from his eyes that though he wasn't saying anything, I knew, and I could feel that he felt pride. He was glad to have heard that I would definitely choose him if I had to
"Noah, it's really you!" I surely stated.I didn't know how this happened and how this was even possible, but even with his tone as he speaks I could recognize very well that he's really Noah!I stood, went to him and embraced him.I cupped his cheeks after our hug. I couldn't be wrong! "Is this really true? Are you really him, Trey?"He nodded with his eyes staring at mine. "Yes. I am him, Camila. I am Noah and Noah is me.""But h-ow did it happen? Am I dreaming? Tell me I'm dreaming, Trey, I mean Noah, urgh! I don't know exactly what to call you!""Just call me whichever way you want, Camila. The most important thing is that you now know the truth. We now know it. And no, you aren't dreaming. This is true. This is really happening, and this is our reality."I nodded.He held my hand and once again brought me back into sitting at the swing. He gently moved and pushed it and it felt great."Even I, honestly, when I found out about it, I couldn't believe it. I refused to believe it. B
(Trey's POV)"Where is Camila?! Where did you take her?!"In my anger, I gripped the collar of Noah's shirt tightly and forcibly.He took away Camila from me! He took away the only woman I've only loved!I saw it with my own two eyes! How he forcefully dragged her arm to take her with him though she cried and she didn't want to go with him! She wasn't even willing to do it!Camila cried and called for my name, wanting me so badly to go to her and save her, but I couldn't move my feet so long as my whole body was as if an invisible wall was preventing me from running into her because I wanted so badly to protect her, but I couldn't do anything, and it almost made me insane!How I hated that I was helpless and powerless at the times when my love needed me the most!They walked, and Noah continued dragging her away while she was crying my name as she didn't want to be away from me."Camila! Camila, don't go with him! Noah, don't take her! She doesn’t want to go with you! Let her go! Free
"Thanks, Noah! See you tomorrow!"I smiled and waved at my classmates.We just had a meeting for the upcoming presentation on one of our minor subjects. We were in our second year in college, and yeah, life was a bit hard and busy, but we needed to survive and extend extra effort to pass.I waved goodbye to them after our mini-meeting outside our building, and everything in the presentation was agreed upon. They remained there chitchatting with their friends, going to the canteen, and others minded their businesses.Walking at the campus as I was heading to the gate, suddenly, a girl sitting on one of the benches around got my attention.I stopped walking for a while to stare at her, and I didn't know I was smiling while doing so. She was beautiful like the rest, but she had this effect on me that I couldn't understand why yet I already felt fond of her though it was even the first time I had a glance at her.She was not familiar to me, but obviously, she also studies at this universi
When I revisited places where Camila and I used to spend time together, I got carried away by an upsurge of nostalgia for the good times I had with her back in the days I lived my life being Noah.I walked around the school grounds and on the benches I could even hear our sweet soft-spoken voices together. They were vivid and it felt like it all happened just yesterday…"Noah, don't forget you have an assignment to pass on your Basic Statistics, okay?" she reminded me while we were sitting on a bench, and she was looking through my notes to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything like assignments to pass, projects to make, presentations to prepare for, and etc.I smiled as I nodded to her like a young boy. "Yes, mom!"She was really a wife material, and I would love to see her being around me even after we finished our studies, after we got to be on our professional jobs, after getting married and starting our own family.I could imagine myself living under the same roof with her, at w
(Camila's POV)"Noah? Trey? What seriously is going on?!" I asked very confused while shaking my head and looking at the two of them.Two men with the same faces were standing in front of me, and yet they were different from each other!"Camila, they lied to us! He deceived you and claimed to be me so that he could get you and your heart!" Noah explained to me in despair.Mad, confused, and frustrated, I turned to Trey. "What's the meaning of this, Trey? You lied to me? Is it true that you deceived me, and you claimed to be him when all along you knew you were not him?"Trey, almost teary-eyed, went to me. "Camila, I didn't know either. Yes, I lied to you but believe me, I was really planning to tell you, but I just couldn't find the courage to do so because I was so afraid I would lose you when you found out and you would get mad—""And you think I wouldn't get mad and you wouldn't lose me by continuing to make me believe and fall for your lies?!"He shook his head. "Three days befo
(Trey's POV)Noah followed Camila. My hands turned into fists.I looked at my family, my cousins, who all seemed to be keeping this thing and my own brother a secret from me!"You all knew this, didn't you? You knew I have a brother and after that incident in the afternoon we battled through the gigantic waves of the sea. We had our heads hit hard which made me lose my memories about him, and he remained unconscious, you didn't bother to tell me about him when I woke up and I was wondering what happened because I couldn't remember anything. You all hide it from me!""Trey, let me and your dad explain this to you and to Noah…" Mom, so saddened by this scandal, spoke to me.I wanted to get mad at my parents for hiding this, for depriving me of the thought that I have a brother and they kept him away from me and I was all this time actually clueless that the man that Camila used to love was my own sibling!I glared at my cousins."You knew this, Rain?"He looked away, obviously guilty.I