When I'm With You

Chapter 21

Rishma's  Pov :

"I --- know --- who --- you --- are " I said strongly in my stuttering voice.

He still stared at me without any word. And I said,

"You are..."

" SHUT YOUR MOUTH RISHMA" he yelled at me.

All my courage was drained. I stood dumbstruck again. The tears flowed continuously like a river.

The only sound in this room right now is my heavy breathing in fear.

There is a fire in his eyes that can burn me to ashes.

I stared into those eyes without uttering a word.

His lips slowly curved, it turned to a smile. Then it turned into laughter. I had no idea what was going on in front of my eyes.

He laughed insanely. Laughing and laughing, his stomach began to ache, and he gripped his stomach tightly.

Controlling his laughter, he came to me and said, "I don't know what dialouge to say anymore."

Dialouge?

"Oh... my dear..." He slowly wiped my tears.

He grabbed my wrist and walked over to the dining table. He told me to sit as usual and I looked up at him without realizing what was happening. He made me sit on the chair.

Now, there is no anger on his face, no hatred, no fire in his eyes, no harsh in his voice. Everything, everything vanished in a matter of seconds.
He sat down on a nearby chair and explained,

"Actually Rishma, I--- I was scared What if you find out that I'm acting. But you believed it all."

He burst into a loud laughter.

"In fact, when Sir told us in class today, we all thought it was a simple task.
I was a little relieved when you did not ask for anything in return, I have to admit you."

He sighed while saluting at me and continued,

"I won this task. Oh no I forgot the name of this." He closed his eyes and tried to remember the name.

"Prank" I said in a 'dying' voice.

"No, it's not prank ---" he tried to correct. "--- YES IT IS" I said aloud.
He looked at me blankly. My eyes filled.

"What happened ?" He asked, touching my wrist.

I briskly removed his hand away from mine and shouted, "DON'T TOUCH ME."
I got up angrily from the chair.
"Rishma" he muttered.

I ran to the bathroom crying. I opened the shower and soak my body in the cold sprinkling water.
My legs are weak. I felt tired. But tears still comes out of my eyes like the first day the Malampuzha dam was opened.

I put the nearby bucket upside down and sat on it. But that didn't seem comfortable to me. I leaned back in the bathtub.

He silenty came inside. Knelt down and asked me, "Rishma, I did it as part of my task, not to hurt you."

He tried to calm me down regardless of the shower being open.
"Sorry. Please put all the anger aside."
"Is this how you play jokes?" I asked little angrily.
"I thought you'd be angry with me too. Then I could use you for a while because you're silently listening to everything."

"Use?" My voice didn't come out properly.
"Chris you--"

"--- No. I didn't mean that. I thought I'll play with you for few minutes. After that ---uhmm after that I could tell you that this was all part of my profession. I believed you would understand."

"You thought a lot."

"Sorry tiny" He held his hands to touch my shoulders.
" DON'T TOUCH ME AND DON'T CALL ME WITH THAT NAME AGAIN"

"Okay okay, I'm not touching you. Please come out" he pleaded.

"I will be here tonight. This is not only your house."

"Here?"

"Aaaahhhh"

"In the bathtub?"

"Aaaah. WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM WHEREVER I AM?"

"What?" He asked confused. Maybe I said that wrongly.

"WHATEVER IT IS, YOU GOT THE POINT" I yelled.

"Tiny Please ---"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT," I shouted.

"Sorry sorry." He said in peace.
We did not say anything for minutes. He sat looking at me.

"Chris, do you know how happy I was. I came up with an opportunity for you, to act." I said that sadly, then I yelled,

"BUT YOU LEARNED ALL THE ACTING VERY WELL AND BRILLIANTLY ACTED IN FRONT OF ME. If any Oscar was here I would have given that to you right now."

I took the audition notice out of my jeans‌ pocket.
" Now no need for this "
I tore it to pieces and pieces and put it inside the wet tub.

"Okay. Are you happy?" he asked blankly.

What? I tore the notice for the audition, but he looks cool. Does he have any desire to be an actor?

He took my face in his palms and said calmly,
"Tiny you are important to me. The audition is yet to come. But I can't lose you in the name of audition and acting. Because I love my friend that much."

We closed our eyes and put our faces closer and closer.

"Did you like this dialogue? Then please get out from this bathtub." he said.

Again dialouge?

"Poda patti" I pushed him with a fake anger.

"If you wanna say something, say it in a language that I know."

I picked up pieces of notice from the tub without listening to him.

It's not so wet. Only here and there some alphabets dissolved in the soap water. I was just tested the Ph of soap by using notice paper. I swear !

                      ***********

So my lovely friends,
I hope you all enjoyed
And
As a special day---
Yeah Yeah Yeah, Today is a special day
And that is.....
❤Happy Birthday Twh❤

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