Promises Made and Broken

Reading and heart-to-hearts

Currently I am just one moment away from shitting my pants. All thanks to Arihant. He made me watch The Conjuring even when I didn't want to. Ughh! Ok,fine I wanted to but he forced me!!

I'm home alone. Now see most of the time, being alone at my place isn't really that big a deal but today..today is creepy. Really creepy. The clocks are ticking a little too slow, the silence is a little too loud and the emptiness is a little too absorbing.

My house is turning into a haunted one. Every single creek and I'm suffering a mini cardiac arrest. I don't believe in ghosts and demonic spirits but the movies work their magic these days.

I picked up my copy of 'Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, my sweatshirt, locked the house and descended down the flight of stairs.

I saw a lot of kids playing, and the bench where I meet Aryan for the first time.

Oh, how I sound like a lovestruck teen.

Its been a week since I last saw Aryan. His mum told me he is at his grandma's place.

Ignoring all the hauling and the screening and the laughter of the kids, I made way to the roof of the community hall.

The roof of the community hall is one of my thinking spots. Whenever I'm in doubt or am sad I come here to think. And it works like a charm.

I sat on the dome of the structure and stared reading. 'Me Before You' is all about a man who suffered from a car accident, which led to his body being paralyzed from neck down and a girl, who happens to take up the job as his care taker. It is a beautiful story about how these to fall in love and how their love for each other turns their lives around.

I don't know for how long I read but it was getting darker. And I noticed something or someone sitting besides me. I have no idea for how long that 'someone' has been sitting besides me.

I turned my gaze form the words written like melody on those pale pages to that 'someone'.

Much to my surprise it was Aryan who was sitting right beside me, with one of the prettiest smile on his face.

"I didn't know you were back" I queried. His smile turned in a grin.

" I didn't know you kept tabs on me."
He thinks I'm keeping tabs on him.

Quick to recovery I said "I wasn't keeping tabs on you. The other day I was talking to your mum and she told me you were at your grandma's. And besides I have better things to do than to keep tabs on you." A blush was setting up its tent on my cheeks, turning me crimson.

"Ok, alright. I'm sorry." His grin turned into somewhat in an amused smirk. God he's annoying. "So what have you been reading so carefully that you didn't notice me sitting here for the past half an hour or so..."

"Half an hour?!?" My mother must be home by now. "Why didn't you just say something? Why were you sitting there like a creep then??"

"Because I was scared that you'd jump and screem at me the way you did last time." His voice had no emotion, as if he was bored or something.

"So you are scared of closed spaces and you are scared that I will shout at you..what else are you scared of, huh?" Amusement crept over my face and his bored expression turned in a surprised one.

Didn't think I was capable of comebacks, did you!

"I'll let you figure it out."

"You do know you're annoying me right now, right." I turned my eyes back to where they belong, on the pale pages of this beautiful price of work.