The Secrets To Be Told

Chapter 14: Mysterious Man

I was sitting in the brown warm couch in my living room. I felt the warmth on my palms and hands due to the heat coming out from the fireplace in my room and I got lost in my thoughts. My face was covered with sorrow and glum. It has been days ever since I could see a smile on my face. I was overwhelmed with sorrow. There was no place for for peace and freedom in our house. We were hiding something from each other. Even when we sat together for dinner we had a very dull conversation.  But whatever was happening between us was only to protect each other and our intention was not to disappoint each other.

Robert entered the room holding those bundle of papers in his hand. Even he had the same feeling as mine. He also wanted to solve everything  so that he could see the smile back in our face. He was brave but was not depressed like me. He wanted to put an end to this and he put all his efforts to find a solution to it. 

I too was trying my best to solve things  out and hence took a deep breath to relax myself.

"I don't think so that there's any puzzle in it. It looks like it is in some other language. We have to find which language it's in, so that things will get easier to solve the mystery" said Robert. But this sounded difficult to me, when an another plan cropped in my mind and I said, "Maybe we have to go to aunt Kyle".

"Aunt Kyle, but why?", asked Robert. 

"I feel so like she can help us and even if she doesn't know about these papers I have some other things to ask her about " 

He nodded his head. His face reactions showed that he wasn't fine with this idea. He never trusted Kyle maybe because he thinks that she is crazy.

I had so many things to ask aunt Kyle. When I met her last time, I tried to avoid her because I didn't believe her but now I feel like it's worth to talk to her and I should give it a try. Maybe she will knew about  the album.

I walked into the hall, my father was sitting there on the wooden chair. I felt like I had to talk to him because from the day I knew about the album I didn't talk to him properly. I walked towards him but even before I could talk to him, I heard a noise near the gate and it was like someone opening the gate, but my father did not notice it.  I peeped out and saw a man standing near the gate but I couldn't have a clear view of him due to the trees lined up in the garden. The long branches and leaves were covering my view. My father stood up from the chair and walked towards the door. Maybe he too saw the man standing near the gate. I rushed towards the window in my room so that I could have a better view of the gate.

But I could not see the man near the gate. Then I noticed that he had already walked in and I could hear my father greeting him. So, I knew that the man was a known person and hence I felt that it was not my concern now.  Many people used to come often to our house to meet my father. So I felt that, he must be one of them".  When I was about to close the windows in my room, suddenly I noticed a middle aged  man walking towards the gate. His face was like a wrinkled parchment. This man wore everything in black and he was a bit fat too. He even wore black gloves in his hands. Removing his gloves he rubbed his black hair.   His grey deep set eyes was staring at my house for more then a minute. I could see his eyes turning red. That look wasn't so friendly. He looked like he was angry at something. He looked up and he saw me peeping from the window. He started staring at me like giving me a threat and then he ignored me like I was never there. 

WHO WAS THIS MAN?

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