Chapter 286: How Long Will It Take? (1/2)
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I was being an idiot. I shouldn't have had such a dream…
I was already happy with what I had.
I was being… just an idiot.
”You're right, I have to move on… It hurts but… I have to leave behind this, and move on with our lives… With my new self.”
”Yeah, that's right, dear… Did it take you a while to get it? I got it faster than you…” she sighed.
”Sorry again…”
She stopped, as she kissed me.
”I love you more than anything in my life… I know how much it hurt, but you have to know that I am here for you, right? To heal your pain, and alleviate your sorrow, the same way you've done to me all this time.”
”Benladann… Sometimes I don't know if I really deserve you…” I sighed.
”Eh? I've thought the same with you… Do I really deserve him? After all, he has done for me? After all the amazing things he's capable of? So I thought… That I also had to be just as great as him. To try to be the best me that I can be…”
”And to deserve you… then I have to be… the best me I can be too?”
”I guess? We'll find out together.”
”You're right…”
She held my hand tightly, as we walked towards a tunnel of light.
”I've seen more than enough… Let's wake up now.”
”Yeah, there's a lot we have to do…”
FLASH!
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[Day 158]
Yesterday was way too long.
We did too many things and too many things happened.
It almost seems as if it were all set up somehow… But we managed to get past everything.
Even my own dreams… I never thought I would end up using this same power against myself.
And all of that dream…
God, I am so stupid.
I could never replace my past life with this new one.
All the amazing things I've lived… and it has only been half a year.
And perhaps in my previous life, I wasn't able to find the love of my life.
But in this life, I sure did…
Benladann is sleeping soundly at my side, I guess I woke up earlier.
She looks so beautiful…
She ended saving me and everything…
Damn, she's really an amazing heroine.
”Benladann… I love you…”
I whispered to her ears, as they suddenly twitched a bit, and she slowly woke up.
”Hhmm…? Ah!”
”Good morning.”
”Drake!”
She suddenly hugged me tightly.
Ahh… She's so cute.
”Everything's okay now?”