Unwanted Relations

Chapter 20

It was new year's eve, the world was preparing for yet another year ahead. A new year-a new beginning. But for some people new years aren't always for celebrating.

Noor knocked the door, she was nervous and a little hesitant. When she heard his voice. She opened the door stepping inside.

Her gaze fell on him, he was standing near the book shelf, reading through a file. He didn't looked up at her. She stood there, looking at him. He seemed like a character painted with great art in a painting. She was still holding the door's handle.

" are you busy?" She asked him, still standing in the doorway.

He looked at her, closing the file and coming towards her. " no, why?"

" actually I was studying and I couldn't understand a few questions, in physics." She told him. But still, she didn't said she need his help.

" okay. I can help you." He said, extending his hand to take the book. She gives the book to him. Taking it, he walk towards the couch, sitting down.

" which one?" He asked flipping through its pages.

Noor went towards the couch. Sitting down at a distance from him. " this one. I can't understand this numerical."

Umer nodded, he takes the pen from her. Reading the question. He then looks at her. " Look you have to calculate the velocity of..." he was now explaining to her while also writing down to demonstrate. She was listening to him attentively, and she confessed when he explains something it becomes easier. Whether it is an equation of physics or a life problem. And in between his explanations whenever she questions him, he answers her, when she presents a confusion, he solves it.

" should I solve this one?" She asked him after a few minutes.

He gave her the pen and the notebook.

" done. Look." After a few seconds, she said to him, putting the pen aside and giving him the notebook.

Umer checks the solved equation, Umer's attention on the notebook and Noor's on Umer. She looks at his eyelashes which she couldn't deny but confess, they compliments his eyes perfectly.

Noor was unable to look away. He was like this. If someone looks at him once, they won't be able to take off their eyes.

She was 10 year old when she first saw him. And in these years she saw him only a few times. Most of the days he wasn't at home and when he does, she would be busy or in her room. But now, looking at him close enough she was amazed.

He was writing down on the notebook. Wearing a white shirt and a sweater on top of it. The color of his outfit was perfect for his fair complexion. She then looks at his hairs, they weren't so neatly combed like he used to do when he goes out but still the messy look of them was making him more attractive.
Noor felt a sudden urge to touch his hair, but she knew this was something she cannot do.

She wanted to keep looking at him, but her mind was continuously telling her to look away, to not stare luckily she had to look away as there was suddenly a noise from outside, followed by another. Like firing. She glanced at the clock. It was exact 12 o' clock. Umer was explaining something but Noor didn't cared, she stood up. " It's new year." She said, going towards the window. Her eyes widen up with amazement as the night sky was filled with bright colors. The scene from the window was no less than a dream, there were colors and lights everywhere. It was magical.
She could see the lights reflecting on the water, that was flowing down in the water fountain, that was in the garden below.