Chapter 149: The Splitting Headache
The moment Aiden grabbed Barnes by his arm, he was startled by a sense of familiarity with him just from a small touch, leaving him spellbound for a while. Without paying much heed to Barnes’s question, Aiden found himself intensely gazing at his soft palm which had a few deep old scratches engraved in them, as if Barnes had gone through a series of old wounds.
The second he touched his cold palm, Aiden also felt a stirring unusual ache deep inside his chest, as if he had mistakenly touched an old scar that might have been buried in his heart from the past memorylane.
That unfamiliar sense urged Aiden to pressure his mind and reminisce something about the past, which might have been lost within the memories he was unable to retrieve since he was 7.
But now, he was certain this wasn’t the first time he had touched Barnes, and the way Aiden was holding onto him tight without answering made Barnes a little fretful as he urged, "Sir, is there something wrong?"
"Ugh!" But when Aiden tried to reminisce a bit harder, a terrible throbbing ache stirred on the back side of his head, making him groan in pain aloud. He quickly unleashed his hold from his hand and grabbed his head tightly, dropping the sandwich bread on the ground.
"Sir!?" His disheveled groan let out a concerned shriek escape from Barnes as he quickly wrapped his arm around Aiden’s shoulder, watching him tremble while grabbing his head on both sides with his palms. His expression had shrunk into a pained look, and his body language couldn’t hide the distress he was going through, making Barnes turn restless, "Sir! What happened? Please tell me...where are you hurting?"
"Ugh...water...J-Just get me some quick..." In a low shivering voice the second Aiden commanded him, Barnes sprinted ahead deliberately to grab a bottle of water from any nearest vending machine. In less than a minute, he came back with a bottle of water and hurriedly handed it to Aiden, huffing hard from running too fast.
Aiden quietly accepted it and emptied almost half a bottle of water in one breath. The tremors going all over his body calmed down a little bit when he finally lifted his gaze on Barnes whose facial complexion had turned redden from the harrowing anxiety inside him.
"Thank you...what’s your name you said?"
"B-Barnes Weikfield. Anyways, are you feeling a little better now?" In a concerned low voice, Barnes spoke while kneeling down before Aiden on the green grass, fixating his gaze deeply on him. "You seemed to be in a lot of pain... If you’re comfortable in telling me, I want to know what happened to you all of a sudden?"
"It was just a fit of splitting headache that happens occasionally whenever I try to retrieve those memories I lost from the past. Maybe, I tried to remember them a little harder and that’s why, it occurred. Nothing serious at all."