The Fruit of Forbidden Love

6 Red Eyes

After taking a look that Aaron is still sleeping I carefully rose up from bed. This is the time for me to leave before he notices anything. Slowly I open the door and sneak out from the bedroom. Just when I was closing the door I heard him speaking to me. “Good, you’re already awake. Get ready and we will leave to the shopping street.”

My whole body got stiff when he had noticed that I was already awake and trying to leave the room. Maybe he didn’t realize that I actually was running away. I really don’t want to hurt his feelings. “Uh..yeah. I’m all ready now.” My voice sounded awfully high, like a squeaking mouse, quickly I cleared my throat.

“Ha ha! You don’t say?” He laughed. “Somehow I could believe that you tried to leave just now.” Yep, he had noticed my poor try for escape. “You’ve imagining things,” I responded nervously and heard how he too rose up from the bed. The bedroom was dark since neither one of us needed light. He couldn’t see at all and I can even see in pitch black. Life is sometimes cruel but he kept on grinning to me which cheered me up.

When we went outside the apartment he quickly placed shades on his nose. “We will go to a café to eat breakfast while we travel to the shopping street in nearby,” he smiled. “If it is alright for you, of course,” his voice was playful. “Alright”, I answered and saw how a car drove in front of the house to pick us up.

The life in the shopping street was busy. There were lots of high fashion brand stores and the street continued as long as you could see. The driver left us to this street. “So how is it?” Aaron suddenly asked and I watched in amazement the busy life of the city. “Too crowded in my opinion,” I stated and watched how people were looking like ants. “Haha! Yeah, I do know what you mean.” Now I saw how hard it was for him to make his way through all the people. For me it was easy to just smoothly go between people. My senses are hypersensitive and if I feel like it normal people look like slow motion to me. When I am using my skills in fast speed, of course.

He on the other hand managed to get hits when people walked past him. His cane and black sunglasses were not noticed by many people or they could actually care less. “Take my hand,” I state to Aaron who nods and gives his hand towards me, waiting for my grip. I try to be careful when my fingers touch his hand first. I hold my breath when I finally clasp our fingers together. Nothing happened, his hand is still intact. I didn’t crush it. Air leaves my lungs because I feel relieved. As a child I always had trouble handling my strength, mostly I managed to crush milk bottles at breakfast and then mum had to wipe the floor when the whole milk bottle broke.

“So, me or you first?” He just startled me but I see how he grins deviously. “The café first,” I murmured back at him. “Oh, haha! So let’s satisfy your hunger first.” My heart just drop but I realize soon that he is just joking, like a normal person does to a normal person. I laugh awkwardly, if he would just know.

“Starbuck’s!” He wakes me up from my thoughts. “What?” I feel confused. “Well, I just said that let’s go to Starbuck’s. I really like the hot chocolate they sell there.” He smiles to me and only thing in my mind is now that what the heck is a Starbuck’s which he is so excited about. “Oh, yeah. Starbuck’s,” I emphasize the part of Starbuck’s and he laughs to my lack of knowledge. He cleared his throat after all the laughing he did. “Starbuck’s is a café. There are different types of coffee, tea and hot chocolate that they sell. Sandwiches and other sorts are also in their menus.”

Finally we found the café he was talking about. The sign is green and we walk inside. For breakfast I took the same hot chocolate as he did and a chocolate muffin which was huge. He took a healthier option, a sandwich filled with ham among other ingredients. I munched my muffin quickly. “Hey, look!” I pointed outside where a woman was walking with her Chihuahua. My heart twisted almost at the same moment and I glanced at him to see how he took my stupidity. He was just smiling and eating. After few moments of excruciating silence he spoke, “Don’t worry that happens often.” It was almost like he had read my thoughts. He can’t see and I am telling him to look at something. Now I really hate myself more.