In Search of an Endless Summer

The day was very hot, the sun was at its highest, and I climbed the stairs of a small building to get an ice cream. It was my first day in Spain and, as I entered the old shop, I saw him. "Hey Michaela." he said.

I turned around surprised. "Dex?! What are you doing here?"

"I am on vacation too." he said with a smirk. He wore a white shirt, black pants and had his long brown hair tied in a ponytail that showed off the sides of his face and went down to his shoulder blades. I can say that he looked really handsome.

"So what have you been up to? How did you get here?" I asked paying attention to his every move even though I thought it was rude. I just couldn't help but stare at him, just like when we were kids. We used to play together all the time until we grew up and our lives separated us for some reason that only God knows. "Been working hard?" He continued smiling at me.

"Yeah, studying for my exams."

"I've heard about your university abroad." He said sitting in one of the chairs outside the shop. "You're so lucky! We should hang out more often." He then looked away from my face and stared at my chest as if he wanted something from me. I blushed and looked away embarrassed. "So how is Mark doing? Is he well?" Dex asked taking my hand into his own big one and making me blush even more than before.

"Mark is well...but things have changed between us." I managed to say while blushing harder than ever before in my life. Dex then leaned towards me closer than before and whispered into my ear: "I know everything about you...and maybe even more." His breath made me shiver as it ran down my back giving me goosebumps all over my skin making me feel cold despite the hot weather outside of the shop. Suddenly I felt something cold fall onto my neck, but dex didn't let go of me yet making me look into his big eyes which were now red instead of their normal blue tone that used to stop my heart whenever our eyes met each other's but this time felt different...his eyes were scary...they scared me even more than they used to do when we were little kids playing together in front of my house while our parents used to talk inside...they used to be so full of love whenever they met mine but now they looked so empty...as if they held nothing but emptiness inside them...maybe because they were missing something or someone important inside them? That was strange because last time when our eyes met each other's it was different too, but it wasn't so scary like today...when he hugged me after six years not seeing each other he didn't scare me like today...but why did he scare me so much today when we first saw each other after such a long time? Why did I feel so weird whenever he talked to me? Why wasn't I able to move from where I was standing? Why did my heart beat faster whenever he talked to me? Why did it start beating faster today too? And why did his hands make mine freeze even more than before whenever we touched each other?

As if we hadn't seen each other for years! But we had seen each other only yesterday! Oh no! Today was very hot and Dex hadn't showered since yesterday! Was his scent making me feel like this?! No! It couldn't be just that! Maybe it had something to do with what he had said minutes ago right into my ear...? Maybe it had something to do with what he had whispered into my ear like if someone else could hear him...? No! How could someone else hear him!? We were alone inside this old shop! Was that whisper actually meant for someone else? Or maybe it was just a coincidence!? But why would he smell bad if it was just a coincidence!? Something inside me told me that it wasn't just a coincidence or just a bad scent from him because everything about this situation seemed too familiar somehow and took my mind back many years ago when our friendship started...

We used to play together every day in front of our houses on the street near ours ever since we were two years old until we were eight years old, and then everything changed after an incident happened between us two which made us grow apart from each other for six years until now that day when we saw each other again...*Flashback*

It was raining heavily outside the house when Dex knocked on the door asking for shelter from the rain, so I invited him inside...we played inside for hours pretending we were pirates until suddenly there came an explosion outside making both of us jump away from each other frightened by the loud noise. Afterward, another explosion followed by another one, causing us both to run out of the house as fast as possible without telling anyone where we went and kept hiding under