I'M Not Perfect
companions II

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"Hhh ... Haah! Hhc ... Haha!"

Audrey gasps in her sleep. His head was moving restlessly. His entire body was filled with cold sweat.

The nightmare is coming back. Again and again. Almost every night. Again Audrey woke up from her sleep with a sitting position, her breathing was hunting. Audrey was crying while burying her face between her knees.

Audrey was tired of this nightmare. A dream that reminds him of his dark past.

Audrey lay back, trying to get back to sleep. But it can't, the nightmare is always imagined in his mind. Until finally the shadow of a tall, handsome person whom he had met so often in the last few weeks, was looking at him with a smile. Audrey's heart warms.

The thoughts of his nightmare slowly disappeared. Audrey finally closed her eyes. He began to fall asleep, entering the world of quiet sleep without the nightmares that had haunted him all along.

***

Audrey begins to get used to the presence of Eric who suddenly appears nearby. He did not try to avoid it again as before.

While in the cafeteria, suddenly Eric was sitting next to Audrey, he no longer dodged like before, Eric just sat next to him, no chatter or a word came out of the mouth of the two. But that meant a lot to Eric.

Even when the clock was empty, Eric always stood outside, looking at Audrey's class right next to the field. And even back home from college, Eric sometimes follows her from behind, just to keep Audrey safe at home.

***

This afternoon feels very hot.

After lunch was bagged, Audrey went behind the economics faculty. He took shelter under the big trees, his legs crossed forward, with his head leaning against the tree. Audrey enjoys the cool breeze and the music that comes from the aerphone. Audrey was about to fall asleep, and she suddenly felt something slashing down on her thigh. Audrey who was about to fall asleep immediately opened her eyes.

Audrey saw the man named Eric closing his eyes on his thigh without feeling guilty in the slightest. Audrey looked at Eric's face from a close distance. His eyes were closed, making his eyelashes more visible long. Her nose was sharp, her skin was flawless white, and also her lips were red.

Slowly Audrey's hands were raised up, touching her chest. The sound of his chest getting stronger. Suddenly Eric opened his eyes. They stared at each other for a few seconds. Until finally Audrey realized and suddenly moved her legs to make Eric wake up, then sat down next to her.

Audrey lowered.

Trying to neutralize his increasingly powerful heartbeat.

Eric smiling.

Then slowly he opened the aerphone in Audrey's ear.

"Sorry to bother you. I just want to enjoy this quiet atmosphere with you. You don't mind?"

Audrey fell silent.

"Audrey ... Can I be your friend?" Eric asked softly.

Audrey raised her head to look at Eric. Eric smiled gently, Audrey again lowered her head.

"It doesn't need to be like a general friendship, just that you allow me to accompany you to eat in the cafeteria, accompany you home, and enjoy the wind here is okay. You can ignore me but don't avoid me. I just want to be around you, so you don't feel lonely." Eric.

Audrey raised her head to look at Eric's eyes.

"Why did you do it?" Ask Audrey flat.

The deg!

"Because I want to enter your world. Allow me to get to know you further. Let me be near you. I beg ..." Eric is slow.

Audrey stood up. Eric was surprised, and he stood up.

"I'm just an invisible figure to no one, don't bother approaching me. Assume I'm not in your life, like everyone else who never considered me" Audrey said, leaving Eric behind.

Eric stared at Audrey's departure, until he disappeared behind the building.

"Unfortunately I cannot assume you do not exist. Your existence has filled my heart, I will not give up so easily. I'll try to get you" Lirih Eric quietly.

***

Audrey woke up in the middle of the night. Not from a nightmare anymore. But another dream.

Ever since the terrible events that hit her a few years ago, Audrey has never dreamed of anything other than that nightmare.

But tonight Audrey suddenly dreamed of something else. Audrey saw herself at the edge of the ravine, and then suddenly a man came up to her, then reached out to her. Audrey hesitates to reach her, and Audrey slips suddenly, almost falling into the abyss. But the figure of the man quickly pulled Audrey's hand towards him. Audrey fell on the man, then they stared at each other at a very close distance.

His face, which was not very clear, slowly began to become clear.

Audrey gasps.

Audrey recognized that handsome and calming face.

Eric!

That's when Audrey woke up. No longer with breathless breath and cold sweat soaking up his body, but with another feeling of warmth. His dream this time made his heart and mind feel calm. Audrey glanced at the clock in the corner of her room, it was only half an hour one night. Audrey lay back trying to fall back asleep.

Suddenly Audrey heard the sound of footsteps. Audrey was scared and very panicked. Then he got up from his bed. Audrey was standing by the door of her room, the voices becoming more and more clear, like she was looking for something.

Audrey finally decided to leave her room. He walked slowly to the main door. Then he opened the door carefully. When the door opened, Audrey was shocked to see a tall figure in front of her.

"YARRGHHHH...!" Audrey shouted while covering her face.

Suddenly the person in front of him touched his trembling shoulder.

"Audrey! It's me!"

Audrey felt familiar with that voice.

Audrey slowly lowered her hand, trying to recognize the person standing in front of her. His face was not too bright because the atmosphere was dark.

"It's me ..." Smashed again.

Suddenly Audrey's fear slowly disappeared. Audrey began to recognize who this person in front of her was.

The person who had been around for a few weeks was always nearby.

The man who had offered him friendship last afternoon.

The only person who thinks his existence exists.

The one who had just appeared in his dream.

Eric Phiravich's!

Audrey felt harrumphed and calm in her heart. Audrey's feelings are overflowing.

Audrey pounded Eric's body without hesitation.

Audrey was crying in Eric's arms.