Ruins of Autumn

45• Secretly From You

    Anila placed the laptop on her bed next to Visara, who was lying at the end of it, and picked up the phone to continue working there.

    She looked up when she felt her sister's gaze on her and tried to understand why she was being looked at in that mysterious way.

    "What?" she surrendered, so that Visara could tell herself.

    "I can't get over the fact that you have really given your number to Flutura to get to know Eltoni."

    "You're still thinking about that?" Anila focused on her phone.

    "No, but you don't even know what his physical appearance is like."

    "I found a photo of him on Instagram, at the account of one of his sisters, Adriana."

    "Oh, but why don't you say so?" Visara immediately took out her phone. "What's her username?"

    "@adriana__domi , a public account."

    Visara found the photo in a few seconds and studied his slightly round, light sandy beige face, short black hair, and clear brown eyes.

    "He does look like he's thirty years old," she admitted. "And a very positive person," she added, influenced by Eltoni's seemingly natural smile, and then shook her head. "No, I don't believe that I could agree to be in a relationship with someone as you have agreed. It seems like Flutura has convinced you, to officially admit, that you are ready to legally sleep with Eltoni."

    "Visara!" Anila shot her with a wild, criticising look. "How can you talk like that?"

    Visara laughed. "Well, this is the truth," she excused herself.

    "Out!" Anila commanded firmly. "I agreed for you to stay in my room because you said you wanted to spend time with me, not talk about these kinds of topics."

    "Ugh, and you!" Visara hung her mugs plaintively. "One conversation you don't accept from me. As if we're in blood with each other."

    Anila kept to herself the reason why she didn't feel well at all when she heard such conversations about intimate topics and regretted that she had talked to her sister in that way.

    Both looked at each other when the main doorbell rang, as if to find the answer from one another as to who was visiting them.

    "Has someone announced that they were coming today?" Anila stood up.

    "I know not," Visara followed her towards the exit of the room.

    "Oh, come in, Flutura."

    Their mother's voice told them who the visitor was.

    Visara laughed at her sister, knowing why Flutura had come, while Anila kept a sullen expression as if she didn't care at all.

    "How are you, girls?" Flutura approached with a happy tone and shook their hands.

    "Very well." Visara smiled at her, and they entered the living room.