Across The Heartstrings ♥️

CHAPTER 24

You and I:

Dan:
The smell of hot chocolate what she was preparing sent me to some sort of beautiful world. In this cold weather the hot chocolate serves as an ideal company...
I walked towards the fridge to see some sticky notes and mostly were reminders and there were few photos of Al and a lady beside her.

I couldn't hear any sound from the kitchen. I felt something was fishy and went to the kitchen..
"Al! Is everything okay?" But there wasn't any response from her side...
I went to the kitchen. The hot chocolate was on the table but she was nowhere to be found. My eyes fell on the floor and it was her. She was unconscious...

"Alice, Alice !!! Wake up... " She was shivering and her body was burning
... She was having fever all these while and then too she managed to keep herself okay...
I didn't know what to do... I wanted to take her to her room but she wasn't responding.. I carried her in my arms



And placed her in the couch where I was sitting all these while. I got a bowl of ice and a cloth and made an icebag and placed it on her forehead... This girl has been tolerating the fever and made herself sick again.
"D..DDA...daa..nnn.." she called me with her feeble voice, I went to her and caught her from falling again.
"Easy.. don't stress much... What is that u want..." I looked at her face, she's sick yet so adorable
"I've.m..made the hot chocolate.... Take and have it ... Aachhii🤧" indicating her finger towards the kitchen....
"Okay... "

There was the glass with the hot chocolate, it looked simple yet very intoxicating taste... Meant to say it was too good.
If I stay here for too long I might end up doing something bad. I decided to look up and search for her grandma's contact ...
I rang to them but they were too busy to speak properly.

"Grandma, this is Dan here... Al is sick, having fever and I don't know what to do"
"Hun. I'm so sorry... Neither Hubre nor I can come to Angel Grove right now. For now could you please take care of her."
"But grandma...."
" Son only this time... We LL come by tomorrow evening. Please take care of her"
"Okay....I'll give u the updates"

Now they put this responsibility of taking care.  I never did this job. I could've called any of the girls but they are unavailable. Chloe's going to Amsterdam for a conference. Soph has a death in her family.. and Grace went to her cousins wedding.

One of the doors opened, and I thought of going in... It was having a feminine smell more like a cologne.. there were few clothes lying here and there and most importantly the room was full of photos...
One corner was her family photo. She, her mom and dad. One photo was with another lady. One photo with her grandparents. One photo with her school friend whom she used to tell everyday stories, two guys who seemed like brothers. One guy was too young to her. Another one was elder to her.

Near to her bed was a photo of 3 people. She and the lady and with a cute hamster with a name plate on it, stating ADAM.
In each of the photos one thing was common, her smile. She seemed happy when she's around us.
There was another big frame lying under the bed which hit my leg. When I opened it, it was a pic collage with the title...
MARSHMALLOWS AND SUGAR CUBES.
It had all of our pics together, she with Chloe, with Adele, with her surf spot workers during a break, with the girl gang during the annual day, with Rowan, with Harry, Sam, George, Jacob. There wasn't any of our photo. I began to doubt myself regarding my role in her life.. does she even see me as her friend. But there was a cute photo frame near the hamster photo,  it had the title... "Irreplaceable Jerk" and there was our photo which we took on the day when the whole class was absent.

I totally forgot she was sick, so taking the medicines, I went to her, where she was peacefully sleeping without any trouble. After all the best reaction, this is the first time I'm seeing her sleeping and she looked angelic like the pure innocent soul, more  like a sea horse mouth. I tried to close that mouth orelse she'd end up having bunny teeth. Her lips were so smooth, like cream. I couldn't take my hands of it. I feared I'd end up kissing her...

Jeez what's wrong with me.... The movie influenced me or what??? Oh no... But then to turn away from the distraction, I switched on the radio to listen to some music..

"Evenings and greetings Angel Grove.. this is yr RJ Reynolds and we have a caller tonight... Hello pow pow..
Hey Rey.  This is Jerome.I am so confused about my feelings and listening to your words has always lightened my burden...
Awe that's so sweet  Jerome. So tell me what do you wanna share.
There's this girl in my school. Though we don't talk much I find myself weirdly attached to her. I don't know why. We had a  project work and I was paired with her. When I see her in a closer proximity I get lost in her and her talks, actions etc. What do you call this feeling as?
Jerome - for now I can call this as infatuation rather than love, because you are just 15 or 16 I suppose. If you'd have thought this was love then you see her beauty in her imperfections, sometimes her subtle reaction can bring a smile on your face. There's a demon lying within an angel and vice versa. All you need to know is to bring the angel out of her... This applies to everyone. You feel happy being with the person and everything of theirs matters to u the most no matter what. All right time to end my show. Thanks for the call Jerome.

So viewers and listeners I really hope you found this session interesting, see you next show until then this is RJ Reynolds signing off good night👆"

Maybe Reynolds was right. But whom. I grabbed an orange and sat on the stool. I checked on her, she looks better now,  I guess. But again her mouth became sea horse. I closed it again. Her warm breaths touched my palm... Tears were dripping from her eyes because of the fever. I replaced the ice bag and kept another one. I wiped the tear flowing from her eyes. Seeing her sleep is perhaps the most beautiful form of innocence, I've ever seen.

I held her hand and slept so that she need not fall to ground. Words of the rj was running in my mind and I think she was right. But in my case, I haven't had any one for now..

Next chapter to be updated soon
-NAVYA