MY SWEET ALYNE

CHAPTER 5

ALYNE

"you need to cover yourslef."said the firefighter to me, and pulled a blanket over me.

I gave an side eye to noah who was just looking at his shoes wearing a blanket himself, holding ava beneath it.

Aunt laura stood there with a mug on her face and a cigar in her mouth. "well well, your first day in the building and you told the entire buliding you have came noah. well thats an entry." she laughed and clapped loudly.

I guess that what tokk the attention of the guard and came yelling at her. "hey, dont you understand the building is on fire, and you are smoking cigrattes over here." he tried to took the cigar from laura's mouth but she holded tightly betwenn her teeth, the cigar torn off in her moputh only.

the man looked at it and looked at laura in horror who was now licking the tobacco buds off her lips and gave the fire fighter a sinister look.

the fighter backed off and looked at her with horror. "holy christ." he saiud and went off to tell about laura to one of his collegeus.

she turned to look at us,"they will get over me, what about you dumb shit." she called out noah who was looking at her with a weird questionable face.

which was true, laura has always been like with but noah, well there was no actual fire but dude was making, i really dont know what, she smoked the entire kitchen, and before I could react the fire alarm went off. 

and thus, the explaination of our critical condition right now, just in time the noah truck came.

the guy in the truck was so happy, I have never seen a worker this happy in my life. he waved at noah, "yoo, man, are you homeless right now."

noah sighed and gave a non chalant look to him, "yeah man, got inspired but your, 'lying under the stars' propaganda, lets just live together pal." noah turned and started looking at the building with a very serious look.

after all the noah comotion, we were ssuccessfully rescued and the fire department tooka picture with us for their reception pion board, apparently someone from the crowd told me, it is very rare, of any kind of fire emergency here in the locality, and thus when the fighters recieved the false alarm, they did it with full honour, as if they were just praying every day for a building to catch upon na fire ou any lunatic burning his breakfats.

their dream came true after all, there angel in disguise has arrived.

the lunatic Noah.

he didnt lookd in my way ever since the charade began, I will deal him later, but right now we were helping set up ava's room. the one painted by me and laurie, for her comfort.

After all day hustle and a fight arguments with noah we all sat on the sofa, all exhausted from the drama of today's episode.

Laura worked did little of toil work as of her age and me deliberately asking her to sir and let me and noah do the heavy works.

But I must say all of Noah's furniture and stuff were nice and classy picks. But man has ego of thag class as well.

Its been exhausting and I dont have energy to make dinner. Noah stood up and in my mind I already slaped him if he ever steps in kitchen.

"Lets order pizza." He said worh Exhaustion amd eyes of apology. I nodded at him with all the stress and sprain in my ankles thats the least he could do for us.

With the pizza arriving at the table, we all ate it like we were starved for weeks. The pizza was heaven for us in that moment.

Suddenly I felt cold liquid all over my butt and feet, and as we all startled and looked over the couch, ava was sitting in the middle with spilled bottle of coke in her hands.

She was so tiny for a second I thought to myslef if she was being crushed under  three adults. She looked at us and then the couch, her eyes started watering as she understood she ruined her dad's favorite couch, as the face of noah was so much crumbled and deranged.

Its just a soft drink dude, not acid.

I went near ava and cupped her face, "its fine sweety, so spilled it by mistake." She looked at me with so much helplessness, I broke my heart.

Noah came from behind ans tried to pick ava, but there was sometjing strange in the way he carried her, as if he didnt knew how to hold her, or caress her. And in the same manner ava was too not so comfortable with him.

He didnt say anything to her and locked the door. He was not going to beat her obviously. That was my first thought.

I looked at laura who was noticing me poking holes with my eyes in ava's door. I looked away from the door and went to kitchen, i picked up and rag.

I tiptoed slowly back to the living room. i sat down to clean the spilled drink from the floor.

As i was alone now, not that laura left a few minutes ago with even saying bye and night to me and noah, not that i mind it, she has always been like this.

I was again in that room.
That studio.
That suffocating wardrobe.
And in my eyes there was water again.

I was busy whole day may thats why I didnt remembered it all. This day was a little bit easy I could say.

But now with everything over I have to go back to my room. I looked at the door of my room. It never feels home.

It never had, no matter where I go ut never felt home, earlier I considered sam as my home. But it burned down.

I have nowhere to go now.
No home, no people to call mine.

Suddenly I felt someone tapping on my shoulder i turned around, it was noah.

He looked at my red eyes and suddenly I was too conscious to be seen. I turned my face and rubbed my eyes franticly.

He stepped away from me and I stood up.

He didnt looked at me at all, but he carefully took the rag from me.

"You have done enough for today."he said.

I looked at him but he didnt looked up, "its fine. Is ava alright?"

"Yeah, I guess you should go and rest" and he pointed to my ankle.

The bandage was off again, he asked me to sit and then he bent and wrapped it arpund my ankle again.

There were few glances between us. "Thank you for all your help today, you were hurt and you still helped me with a lot."

"No problem." I replied stood up and then went straight to my misery pit.