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Chapter 13 - Borrowed Time

Day 81.

It was raining again.Not hard. Just steady.

Ren offered to walk me home.I said yes.

We shared one umbrella, close enough to feel his sleeve brush against mine.

I didn't know why,but walking beside him felt like something I'd always done.

As if our footsteps already knew the rhythm of each other.

Halfway home, I stopped.

"Wait," I said. "This street..."

I looked around.

"Have I been here before?"

Ren hesitated.Then said, "Yes. A lot, actually."

I nodded slowly, trying to reach for a memory that wasn't there.

All I found was fog.

I'm walking roads my mind doesn't recognize.But my heart… doesn't feel lost.

That night, I couldn't sleep.Again.

I walked around the house, restless.Ended up in the living room, where Ren had left his bag on the couch earlier.

It was slightly open.A notebook inside, almost identical to mine.

I know I shouldn't have looked.But something pulled me.

Something more than curiosity.Something like fear.

I opened it.

And read.

"Day 100 – She doesn't know yet.""Day 97 – She forgot her umbrella. I brought mine. She smiled like the world wasn't ending.""Day 94 – She asked if memories make a person. I wanted to say 'you do.'""Day 86 – She forgot me.""Day 85 – I fell in love with her again."

I stopped breathing.

Each entry was her.

Each sentence… a memory I didn't remember,but someone else had carried for me.

I returned the notebook silently.

Went back to my room.Stared at my ceiling for hours.

My hands trembled.

And then—

I started crying.

Not because I was afraid of forgetting.

But because someone had chosen to remember meeven when I couldn't remember myself.

Day 80.

I met Ren on the rooftop.

I didn't tell him I read the notebook.

But when he smiled,I smiled back.

And this time,it wasn't out of politeness.

It was something deeper.

A feeling I couldn't namebut knew I had felt before.

That night, I wrote in my own notebook:

"Day 80.I don't remember everything.But I remember this feeling.The kind that doesn't need names."

"I think I'm falling for him again."

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