***

Perhaps we could take a step forward together.

"Hi," he says, "I'm Daniel."

"Hi," I reply, "I'm June."

***

Maybe after having called Day 'Day' instead of 'Daniel' for a long time made it weird for me to be calling him Daniel instead of Day. However, maybe that was what he wanted everyone else to call him now, besides, it's been 10 years.

I can't ever deny the fact that I've missed him and had a slight yearn to get Day back, my Day. The one who'd go all out to protect me, and stuck by me when it seemed like I was the one coming up with crazy concepts, but he still believed me.

I often thought about Day during our 10 long years of not seeing each other. My mind usually lingered on imagining what he'd be doing, how Eden would be doing, whether they're safe, basically I just thought about Day-a lot.

I remember yesterday very clearly, the events of meeting Day for the first time in ten years kept replaying in my mind, like a broken recorder. I felt something when we shook hands. A part of me hoped that he'd feel the same, that he'd remember, and we could be together again, yet, another part of me wanted him to not feel anything, as sad at that would sound. That part of me wanted to keep our past locked away, in some hidden chest deep in my heart, at the deepest ends that he couldn't reach even though he tried diving, all because of my emotions emotions-fear and guilt.

I feared that maybe if he remembered, he'd also remember what happened, he'd relive everything again and the thought of reliving the events of things that happen like a decade (literally) ago made me shudder. The other part was that he would remember all the horrifically major changes I made to his life -from getting his mother and brother killed to going to the Colonies, together- and thinking of it often gave me a horripilation of remorse.

Tonight, I'm going over to Tess' and I suspected that she'd also invited Day over, seeing that he just came back yesterday and it was a last minute invitation for dinner, it didn't really need much figuring out that Tess wanted us together.

I wasn't sure if that was what I wanted though.

Sure, I mean I love Day, so much. But, I don't know for sure if I want to get back with him because I don't want to burden him with the past.

And then, another thought struck me, what if he doesn't remember me? It was a possibility.

I guess I'd just have to go through the dinner tomorrow to find out. One thing's for sure, I hoped that Tess wouldn't blurt everything about our past together tomorrow, because I imagined seeing Day's confused face-turning to hurt, because of two reasons-one, I didn't tell him about us, two, he remembered, he relived those days.

The content in between both "***"s is from Champion.

I actually apologise for this really short chapter, but this book was in the drafting period for like the longest time and I hadn't written a thing, because I was busy doing another draft, and because today's Marie Lu and June Iparis' birthday, here's this chapter to celebrate! 🎉 Anyway, I'm just gonna tell you that this book's next chapter/update will only be like after I have prewritten another 5 chapters(and who knows how long that'd take) so it will take a long time. Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed!