Nothing To Lose.
It has been more than a week since Vulcan spoke to her properly. She never tried to initiate as well. Mostly because she was determined to solve the puzzle this man has become. Trying not to make it obvious, she silently kept observing him; his habits, his body language, his comforts, his discomforts and above all the triggers that make him snap.
This man is new to her, the old Manik was easy going, warm. One could approach him without thinking twice but this isn't Manik anymore. Now his close ones call him Vulcan, the world knows him as Vulcan. He accepted this new name, new identity. Very few people were left there to address him as Manik; remind him of Manik, the person he once used to be.
Her heart broke when she recognized that he desperately wanted to forget his his old self. He disliked his past, hated it to be precise. Earlier Pihu thought losing Teressa could be the main reason behind this extreme trauma he was still going through, because she was the one person he used to hold close to his heart but after spending a few days with both of them under the same roof, she became certain that there was something else. Something stronger and perhaps scarier than the mere misunderstanding between them.
Now, every day he looks more tired than the last day and his eyes look pained. The bags under his eyes are impossible to hide. He doesn't want to talk to anyone, he doesn't smile, he simply doesn't act like a normal human being. What has happened within the last few years? What could possibly change such a positive person into this cold and unapproachable mess?
He communicates to her though, in his own conceited way. He cooks meal only for the two of them in the microwave, rest of them eat downstairs at the supposed dinning hall she hasn't got the chance to witness, and she secretly requested others not to intervene into his attempts. Because she has observed that he likes doing these little things for her. Perhaps because she doesn't question his activities. It gives her hope that one day he'll open up to her.
He makes her bed, brings her coffee, arranges her temporary cupboard, even washes her bedsheets and towels; things she wouldn't have allowed anyone to do for her. But in his case she keeps quite. Every morning she hears a knock on her door announcing his arrival. She utters a small, "Come in" and he enters with a tray of coffee and cookies. His grey eyes remain downcast. What she finds curious is the fact that he speaks to others, might be very little but he does. But when it comes to her he hardly says anything.
This confuses her because if he is not in his studio, he keeps sitting beside her bed for the most part of the day, not uttering a word. As if he is avoiding something.
She remembers, on her third day here she got so bored that she looked at him pleadingly and asked him if he could bring her a book to read at the very least. He did.
That evening when she woke up her eyes fell on the name, "The Count of Monte Cristo." A childish smile spread across her face. When she looked up she found a busy Vulcan typing away important things in his laptop.
She has read the book before, a book one can read again and again. Somewhere in her mind she knew that he has read this book too. However, she intentionally started reading that aloud and her trick worked. From that day onwards he knocks on the door, enters inside the room with the coffee, takes his seat right beside her bed, places his laptop on the table and very hesitantly pushes the book towards her. Making it clear that he wants to listen to the next part of the story.
He, in general, is a calm person, specifically around her. But he gets irritated whenever someone decides to visit her while he is there, which is nearly the entire day.
She also learnt that whenever she hums a tune, any tune that can be, his concentration shifts towards that and he pauses his typing spree. That's why when someone visits her, be it Teressa, Leo or Arjun, she keeps humming some tune whenever she gets the opportunity and observes his facial expression. It works. Leo seems to have found out the trick because one morning he barged inside and said,
"Okay, I cannot hum a tune like you and he isn't calming down. What's to be done?"
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Romansa"You have intertwined our destinies. You involved her into this mess from the beginning of it all and now it's my time to intervene." He challenges. "You have taken away everything from me and I never questioned you. I never bothered. But now I know...
