T a l e o f t e a r s

f o u r

V I R I D I T Y

(n.) Naive, innocence.

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The room was filled with evening summer air and shades of orange. The atmosphere was lifted up with adorable smiles when sun suddenly kissed their eyes. They were playing with shadow by using hands to making it into a dog, a bird, hearts and many more. Some played with the dolls, some with puzzles, cars, drawing, cricket and also wrestling. He gave a not so serious glare to a boy who almost knocked his opponent in the wrestling, but the kid just smiled showing off his toothless mouth.

Yahya laughed sitting on the window side and just admired them all. He took a deep breath of the fresh air and exhaled, relaxing by closing his eyes for a second. Within few minutes, his duty will finish and he'll have to sign off. Leaving was the most difficult part of his job, because he couldn't bear seeing the teary eyes they would give when he tries to clock out.

"Doc Yaya ?"

"Are you sleepy ?" Yahya opened one of his eyes and looked at the sunshine next to him.

"What is it crabs ?" He asked with a teasing smile and that was enough for the Little one to rile up. He saw the way the eight year old straightens up and twitched his left eye, nostrils flared and then suddenly punched Yahya.

"I'm not crabs ! MY NAME IS KABIR." Yahya laughed grabbing him in his arms so that he doesn't punch again.

"Okay okay I won't." he said in between his laughs but Kabir still had that angry face.

"What can I do ? Kabir ryhmes with crabs, so I can't help calling you crabs or crabby."

"No it doesn't !"Kabir said huffing in annoyance. Yahya just ruffled his fluffy black hair and admired his chocolate brown eyes.

"Are you going to see her today ?" Kabir asks as he play with Yahya's stethoscope. Yahya knew who he was talking about so he sighs saying,

"Yes I'm going to see her."

"What are you going to get her today ?." Yahya ponder over what to bring, but then Kabir brought Yahya's face close to his with his tiny hands resting both on his cheeks and said,

"Tulips !" Yahya frowns and says,

"Crabby we've been giving her flowers every week now. It's useless."

"No no, Mama always said, 'Flowers are way to a girls heart'. We just have to pick the favourite flower." Yahya after a pause says,

"We have already given roses, baby breaths, lavender, lilies, dahlia, forget me nots, and many more but it wasn't successful."

"Yes that why I strongly believe that this time it's gonna be tulips." He fist punches the air and Yahya says,

"Yeah I'll think about it."