Living With The Scars

3.Lunch with the neighbors

This will be a very short chapter. But the next chapter will compensate for it.
Keep reading.
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A tap on my shoulder brought me out of my reverie, i looked at the source of my disturbance and found Vansh looking at me with his light brown eyes.

"I am bored." he spoke when he saw me looking at him.

"Me too bro. What should we do?" i said while looking at his bored expression.

He thought for a second and his eyes suddenly lighted and i knew from the shine of his eyes that he has some idea, i knew this because it is the same shine that comes in the eyes of sam when he thinks of some mischief or an idea.

"Why don't we get out of here?" i raise my eyebrow for him to elaborate. He understands and shows me his palm and mouths 'just watch'.

"Mum can i go and take Samaira sis to show my room?" his mother stares at him with slight astonishment but soon recovers and smiles.

"Of course darling , go i will call you when everybody is ready for lunch."

"Thanks mum." he said to his mother and then turned towards me and signed me to follow him.

I smiled at my brother who was watching me curiously and with a hint of joy because he knew how uncomfortable i am around people and more with a stranger. So me going with Vansh alone was surprising. There was a reason i was comfortable with Vansh, he was a kid and was quite unharmful. I also wanted to be independent again because i don't want to burden my brothers because of my fears, they have their own life and due to their love for me i cannot let them miss on those special moments.

I followed Vansh to the last room on the first floor. I looked at my companion and noticed him already looking at me with curiosity, i guess he wanted to see my reaction to his room  and the idiot i am didn't even had a look around because i was so busy with my thoughts. I felt guilty for not giving him the attention he deserved.

His room was a dream room for a 12 year old maira,literally. He had a twin size bed pushed at left side wall in the corner, it had a plain light blue colour bedsheet with a midnight blue duvet spread over the bedsheets, on the wall opposite to the bed was a led under which was a rack filled with games from what could i see there was my favourite game COD sitting on the top of the self. Did i mention that the wall adjacent to the bed was totally covered with shelves containing books of every shape and size, i think i just reached heaven. Even i don't have these many books as i read most of them online but paperback are incomparable, the smell of books brightens my mood. He also had a study table which was quite messy but i am not complaining because my room will look like a garbage house compared to his.

"wow" i couldn't say anything else as i was busy devouring the book shelf with my damn eyes. I won't be surprised if somebody filed a case of assault through eyes.

Maira you cannot be sued  for looking at books.

My damn conscience mocked me and i am damn sure it would be rolling its eyes if possible.

" Really you liked it." Vansh said excitidely and successfully stopping my inner conflict.

I gave him a blank look. When his started to loose its excitement i nearly shouted.

" I don't like it idiot, i love it. How did you collected so many books and can i please read them." i asked him with my hands folded.

He looked at me disbelievingly.

"Of course you can."

And then ladies and gentlemen started the bonding time of two book lovers. We were so engrossed in our discussion of our favourites that we didn't noticed the time. A clearing of a throat brought us out of our heated discussion. We turned our head to see Aryan standing at the door with a blank expression on his face. The same expression he had when we arrived, doesn't he know any other expression or he thinks he looks great in it, well he does look good but he will look more handsome with a smile on his face WHOA hold on a sec did i just thought like that.

I averted my gaze from him thankfully he didn't noticed me staring at him like a retard that sometimes my brothers think i am.

"Every body is waiting at the dining for you guys." he said while looking at me.

"Oh" i said and started collecting books with Vansh without another glance at him.

When i turned around there was no one at the door meaning he went while we were busy.

Vansh and me reached the dinning room and everyone was already there.

Vansh's mom say us and beckoned us to the chairs beside Aryan and aashi.
You got to be kidding, its like there is tiger at one side and a tigress on the other.
I went towards the chair beside Aryan, don't get the wrong ideas,the decision is totally logical that is I have heard tigress are more dangerous than their male version. Now I feel sorry for vansh he is such a calm kid but he has to sit with that hoompa loolla. I hope the meaning is as bad as the word sounds.
Looking at vansh I saw him frowning at aashi like she has stolen his favorite teddy.
"Sis you are sitting on my seat." Vansh said calmly.
"Really, oh I am so sorry I didn't know about that. Please sit I will just sit elsewhere."

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The last sentence by aashi might have shocked you but I would like to inform you that aashi is that kind of person who is only good to others when she is getting something in return. What is she getting, find it out in next chapter.

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