NIPD: Team Alpha

Questions

A few walks after, we reach the Park where kids are everywhere. Playing.

Chase sits one of the benches under the tree and pull me beside him.

He is silent for a moment and then sigh again, like remembering something.

"This is where we usually play before." He said silently.

I look at him, stunned. Did I heard him right? He's been here before, playing on the park where we are now.

"W-what?" I asked with shaky voice then clear my throat. "What?" I ask again.

"I know you heard me the first time." He look at me with a small smile on his lips for a second then look again to the playground.

I don't have answer to that. I can't formulate or gather any words that can make a smart answer. A fake laugh reverberated on my mouth.

"Is that the only thing you can manage to do?" He mutter, a smirk on his face. "Where's the smart Skye I knew?" He bump his shoulder to mine.

He is opening up to me and telling me his past. Does the group knew he's from here? Zuma or Rocky maybe?

"Cat caught your tongue?" He ask again.

"W-Why are you telling me this?" The only I can think is that, me and Chase are always fighting every time we seat beside each other. But opening up from our past is never an idea to the both of us.

He shrugged, "Because you're the only person around?" he simply answer like it is the very obvious.

My eyes never leave his face now. And he kept his eyes train on the playground in front of us. I can't take my eyes off of him. The blue striking eyes I saw when I am fifteen are still there. His jaw and pointed nose. His lips. Oh jeez, his lips.

"Like the view?" He asked. The muscle on his neck move.

I nod without thinking what he meant. "Yeah! Very." I say in a small voice.

"Did you now?"

I look at him and meet his blue eyes staring back at me.

And then everything dawn on me. He knew that I am looking at, that's why he asked me if I like the view. Oh good Lord. I blink rapidly and shake my head. "No, I mean the park is beautiful." I felt my ears heat and i know it is red now.

Chase laugh louder and nod. "Yeah, It is." He stops laughing and hold my chin so our eyes meet again. "You are amazing as ever Skye."

My heart are beating faster than normal, He thinks I am amazing, when was that?

A small smile show on my face that reflects on him too. He let go of my chin but not my hand.

"She usually play at that side." He mutter, pointing at the seesaw.

"Who?" Who is he talking about? My eyebrows met with questions.

He smile and a reminiscing look appear on his eyes. "She loved the seesaw. The swing too."

I look at the swing who's currently used by a little girl, pushing by a little boy like her age.

"We are like them before. She is cutie even before."

I glance back at him and think who's he talking about. His sister, a friend?

And then it hit me. Hard.

"You and Eve-" before I said her name he cut me off.

"Athea." He mumble. "She is my childhood friend, my strength when I needed one." The sadness on his face is now obvious. He look, vulnerable.