My Life is a Perfect Lie

Episode 9

Mr. Carter sits in front of me. Kabir sits in a corner with his hurt back and Teena continues to work with paints and palettes.

"Yes Miss Candace. You wanted to meet me?"

"Yes sir"

"Please say"

"Actually I wanted to return the cellphone. I can't take it. It's... ",( I was about to say "it's too expensive to be accepted as a favour")

"This phone", he interrupts pointing at my cellphone on the table.

"Yes sir"

"No problem", he says taking the phone in his hand.

"Okay" , I say in surprise. I was expecting some friction but nothing happened. I thought he would insist on keeping the phone.
One by one I stare at the phone, his hand and his eyes. I continue to stare at the phone as he drops the phone in the dustbin. The empty blue metallic dustbin makes a good audible noise as the phone hits its bottom.
The noise is followed by silence.
Teena and Kabir turn their heads to us.
My jaw drops just like that phone.

"Anything else Miss Candace? "

I shake my head like a dog after bath. He gets up and go.
As soon as he leaves, Teena comes to me.

"What happened? "

"He threw the phone in the bin. He threw the freaking phone in the bin"

"What? "

"Yeah. The phone of the price of a bike. He just threw in the bin. It's like throwing a bike in the bin. would anyone do that? he did that. without even thinking twice", I freak out.

"Okay. Candace, You are stupid"

"Guess what??? I just realized the same"

"Okay chill. Do your work don't think about it now"

"But... "

"It's okay"

"I don't know what happened to him. Is he angry? is he going to ask Andy to fire me? "

"No, no. Candace you are over thinking, okay. Come on get back to work"

"Shall I apologize? "

"I think you should let it rest. Let this thing settle a little"

"You sure? "

"Yes, I am"

"Okay"

"Hey Candace, if you didn't need the phone you could have given it to me, man", Kabir jumps into our conversation.

"Kabir", says Teena raising her eyebrows and giving him *This is not the time* look.

I laugh.

"I think I should have done that, Kabir", I reply giggling.

"See Candace is a nice girl. she always laughs on my jokes. You never do", says Kabir to Teena.

"Yeah because you have a bad sense of humor"

"You mean I have a bad sense of humor too?" I reply raising my one eyebrow.

Kabir laughs out loud and I join him in it.
Teena rolls her eyes and gets back to the work.
I grab my brush and begin to draw the remaining design. I draw small, big, tiny, huge lotuses and mandalas as their background. I colour them in different shades of black and white. I draw details with markers. I get so lost in the work I don't realize that I finished almost one fourth of the wall.
I turn back to show my happiness to Kabir and Teena.
I witness Kabir sleeping on the floor and Teena is busy with some papers.

"Hey Teena, look"

"Yes Candace", she says without looking at me

"Look here, I have done almost one fourth of the wall", I say smiling ear to ear.

"That's fantastic. Good job", Teena smiles back.

"Oh thank you"

"So are we done for today? "

" Yeah. I think we should leave now", I say as my eyes fall on Kabir. "Or may be we should work a little more" I get up from the floor and walk slowly towards Kabir.
Teena stares at me.

"What are you thinking? " , she whispers.

I keep my index finger on mouth, points at Kabir and then the marker in my hand. Teena laughs without making noise. Teena walks slowly to me without making any sound.
I make a moustache with black marker on kabir's face. Teena takes the marker from my hand and draws whiskers on his cheeks. I grab a red marker and color his nose with my shaky hands. I could hardly control my laughter. I and Teena giggle. Kabir does not move at all. he sleeps like a dead man. Teena writes *I AM STUPID* on his forehead.
We burst into laughter together.
We laugh so loudly that Kabir wakes up.

"What's going on? " he asks trying to open his eyes.

"Nothing, Candace was telling me a joke ", Teena says trying to maintain a straight face.

" But you said she has a bad sense of humor "

"Not her, I said you", says Teena getting up.

"Get up Kabir, we are leaving ", I say.

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