Afterlife Of Ember And Rhea

Chapter 65: A New Someone Who Shone Brighter

It was another evening and another night but things still seemed so distant.

"Oh, forgot to tell you." Alicia said to Rhea over a cup of tea at her house. "That day I came over, I crossed paths with a strange man. Really strange and he was in disguise."

"Oh." Rhea chewed the cookies Jessica made for them and noor sat with them, playing games on his sister's phone.

"He was looking for a girl who has short brown hair and brown eyes. God, I match with that description. But he said it wasn't me. How rude." She complained.

"He must be looking for di then." Noor laughed when he finally took a bite out of a cookie.

Rhea heard him and paused doing everything. "Which language was he speaking in?"

"Obviously Hindi! But sounded weird as if he was speaking it for the first time." She laughed and Rhea laughed along but kept wondering who it might be.

"Array, I almost forgot! Neel invited us to his football match tomorrow."

"Us?"

"Yeah! And also Noor." Alicia said.

"What the- I'm his teammate! Why would he need to invite me, geez." He scoffed.

"So are you coming, Rhea?"

"No."

"Come on. It'll be fun." Alicia insisted. "There will be hot guys." She controlled her laughter.

"You talk like Nikki nowadays." Rhea averted her eyes.

"Oh! Yeah, you must introduce us!"

"Sure sure, but she's abroad. It'll only be possible over a facetime. Someday later."

The next day was bright and sunny.
Noor was prepared to defeat anyone on the field.

Rhea, their cousin and Alicia set out with Noor to reach the playground. It wasn't such a huge football match but Neel, as a captain would really lower his dignity if his team loses. Rhea was only there to support Noor. Or at least that's what her determination was all about.

The match went on and the opposition team seemed as if this match would be counted as their 5th losing streak.

And during the match, one of their best players was seriously injured and was to be replaced by some random guy they could find. Cause the show must go on.

Neel and his teammates were already celebrating their victory as the score was 5-1 and there was only, like, 6 minutes left before the match ends.

The new guy joins their opposition team. But their was something unusual about him. He was taller than any other player on the field, wore a cap and sunglasses but that made him the attraction of the match.

What more did was his skills. In no time, the score was 5-5 and only a few seconds were left.

Neel stood at the goalpost, with his focus on the ball. He watched that guy running towards him with the ball. The ball was being snatched but soon returned at his feet.