In A Day Or Two

Chapter 2: The Walk

Morning passes by in a glimpse and I haven't slept yet, and I wished I didn't went to that party but yeah regret doesn't always comes first cause my head hurts like a bitch right now, but still can't seem to get her out my thoughts, my curiousity just cave in and I wanna know her and her story.

She looks like a girl who wouldn't choose to live in this town if she has choices.

If Mr.Jack was right, I wonder whom she's running from? An obsessed lover? or a stranger? or a crime? but she's too innocent for that but still looks can be deceiving. There's a lot of questions in my head that only her could answer.

Without sleep, I choose to get up and take a walk outside until I reach the shore and she was there. Standing by the bay, her flipflops on hand, another hand on her hair and she was wearing a white dress... again. I took a deep breath and decided to just turn away.

I don't know but if she's really running from home she might be committed to something the last thing I wanted is to have another head ache.

"Hey!" A soft voice called from my back, "You're here again." now I can tell she's closer.

"Uhmm, was just taking my morning walk." I blurted out.

She looked at me with a strange look as if she was studying how to solve a crossword puzzle, I don't know if it's just me or I just see her smirked. I raised my eyebrow and release a heavy breath shaking my head, I advert my gaze to the sea.

"Much more like a sleep walk, the dark circles under your eyes are really obvious Mister..." she waited for me to say my name.

"Francis, I'm Francis." I extended my right hand to her.

"I'm Xianon, but I prefer Xia." she smiled and shakes my hand twice, not into physical contact, eh?

She looked at me again and I swear it's getting creepy already, she softly chuckled and sat down the in the sand, looking to the sea with a distant gaze. I stare at her for a while then I follow suit.

"You wanna ask me something, don't you?" she said without looking at me.

"Uhhh, how..." she cuts me off when she heard my hesitation.

"Everyone wants to, but they don't have the guts. Even Mr.Jack but he doesn't want to scare me or something..." she plays with the sand next to her. "But it's alright you can ask me anything." she look at me and gave me a small smile.

I took a deep breath and debated with myself for a second if I really should ask her. I looked at the sea the same way she did.
Gathering my shits together, I exhaled and started to ask her a few common questions she answered it without hesitation we were like that for almost an hour, until I finally voice out the questions I wanna ask to her since yesterday...

"So want brings you in our small town?" I raised a brow at her.

"Because something is after me." she quickly stated.

"Wait, It's not a who? Like a boyfriend or something?" I don't wanna say cops cause if my assumption is wrong I'll probably offend her.

"Nope, can I ask you something this time?" she look at me seriously.

"Sure, what is it? " scratching the back of my neck.

"If you were a fish and the water is getting poisonous will you stay on the water or would jump into a different world where you still can't survive?" she looked at me seriously and I knew she wasn't kidding, God how I hate riddles.

"Well... If it was me,I will jump into the different world, even if I can't survive at least I got the chance to take a glimpse into a place i've never been."