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Chapter 3

I woke up with a slap on my face. I stood up and i found out that it was a pillow. Aria was sitting in the opposite corner of the bed with another pillow in her hand. As soon as i saw her i could help but say "wow" i was awestruck by how flawless her skin lookes in the morning and got another pillow on my face as a response.I dodged the pillow effortlessly but not the hidden attack behind it. Behind the pillow Aria jumped onto me and started hitting me. Though she was trying her best to hurt me , i couldnt help laugh at how cute she was. Maybe she was too occupied by trying to hurt me, she didnt know that she was sitting on my stomach. After a while of her cute attempts i grabbed her by the waist and turned. Keeping Aria under me . I gently adjusted my whole weight on my arms and above her. She was staring it to me. Without any movement. I decreased the distance between my face and her face even though there was a few inches between them at first. i wanted to kiss her so badly. But i wanted it to be special. Not with my morning breath. Instead of kissing her lips i placed gentle kiss on her forehead and looked it to her eyes. She looked surprised maybe  because she was expecting me to kiss her. Then i started to tickle her. Real hard. She was frantically randomly moving her hands and feet to push me away but i was too strong for her. I was tickling her so hard that she couldnt stop laughing. After a while when tears started coming out of her eyes i stopped and just stared into her eyes. And she was staring at mine too. 

After i dont know a few seconds or so , she pushed me off and ran to the bathroom probably to take a bath. And i laid on the bed , the same position Aria had pushed me and i dozed off again for a few minutes or so

I woke up to find Aria near the mirror  drying her wet hair with a towel. She was running her hand through her hair repeatedly. I found myself walking towards her and stood behind her. She saw me coming from the mirror but yet decided to ignore. I slowely touched her shoulders and turned her so that she was facing me.I slowely lifted her face and kissed her. She didnt kiss back but didnt even push me away. After i was done i lifted my head and looked into her eyes and said. " Since i first saw  you i really wanted to kiss you..." she nodded midsentence and walked out of the room. 

I smiled to myself remembering how her soft lips felt on mine and went to shower. When i came out of the bathroom there was a message in my phone. It was from Aria. 

" SInce you got what you wanted , i guess i am not needed here anymore, so i ll just leave. Bye"

WHAT!? i almost shouted. I quickly put on my denim jeans and blue polo shirt and didnt even bother making my hair ran down the stairs to find her. I found Alice in her room and i asked where Aria was. Alice said "Didnt see her this morning. what happened?" I told her that she left and that it was all my fault. "Its okay , go find her she wouldnt have gotten much further" i quickly grabbed the keys to my car and raced. I was driving from the path i take while going to the library looking both the side of the road to find her. 

I found her near a bus stop. I grabbed her hand and tried to pull her to my car and she slapped my hand away, I got so frustrated that i kissed her, Right in the bus stop where everyone was looking. Obviously she didnt ilke that and she pushed me away rather roughly and started to walk away. I ran after her and i called out to her to just wait and listen to me once. She did. She stopped in middle of the road. I took her hands and turned her around and lifted her face to meet my eyes . SO she could see the truth in what i say to her. I said to her " yes i did say that i wanted to kiss you. But i didnt say i wanted to kiss you once. i want to kiss you forever , everyday every single minute...." She was looking into my eyes and i continued "...So you cant leave. I need you. I know your in pain , let me help you" That broke her silence and she said (gestured) " You cant help, You dont know anything about me. So stop making false promises and just leave me alone"  " i know that you can talk" That made Aria shut up. She looked at me confused. She refused and said that she really cant talk. But i  didnt believe her . Maybe she didnt know that she could talk. But was that possible?

"come with me." And to my surprise she did, I was happy that she did. 

 I took her to our family doctor, Dr. Jacobson who is a very good doctor. I took her to him and said to him to check why Aria couldnt speak . Dr Jacobson made Aria open her mouth so that he could check her voice box. After diagnosing her for a while he turned to me and to speak. Before he spoke i asked Aria to go out and sit in the corridor because i didnt want her to hear what the doctor said. 

When Aria left i turned to Doctor and asked what happened. Dr Jacobsen was at his mid ages but had a small beard which he was busily touching with his hand while he sat in his doctor;s chair and asked me to sit as well. He looked clearly into my eyes and asked. "you say she is mute?" i nodded . "are you sure son?" I asked him what he meant by this. he stood up from his chair and slowely started ti walk and explain at the same time. "I am not a specialist, b. A couple things can cause muteness. People who are deaf and hard of hearing can have deaf related muteness because they never communicated verbally. Disability of the tongue, vocal chords, lungs, or the mouth in general can cause muteness. Sometimes autism can play a role in causing muteness, or selective muteness due to social anxiety. Injury to the frontal lobe of the brain, that controls motor and sensory function in your body, can cause muteness due to the inability to move your mouth over time. You even have a special area in your brain called the broca's area that allows you to mentally process language and communication: stringing words together and the ability to assign sound to meaning and what-not. Injury or disorder to this area would greatly affect your ability to verbally communicate, and thus could cause muteness.But there is no such problem with her tongue , vocal cords and mouth and she is not even autistic which leaves selective mutism and the brain. in my personal opinion and observation i think it is selective mutism." i asked him why he thinks so and what it was. he said " dont u notice how uncomfortable she was and she was having a hard time understanding what i said and her response time is very slow which means she had trustinf issues and things about things a lot right? and selective mutism is  is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech does not speak in specific situations or to specific people. It might be due to social anxiety and even post traumatic stress like due to somethig of her past." He replied. That makes sense. She talks in her sleep and cries , something really bad might have happened in her past. I have to find out . I though tot myself. i had just one last question to the doctor. "  Can it be cured" "yes ofcourse" he replied with a smile. Before leaving the doctor's room the doctor called out to me and said, "it's nice to see you worried about her. she seems like a nice girl." I gave him a genuine smile and nodded.

Aria was sitting in a chair just near the doctor's room. Like a statue. No movement at all. She had her glace fixed at something distant.Maybe she was thinking about something really hard or she was just trying to avoid the things around her. I walked to her and sat in the chair next to hers. She looked at me. I smiled and said "Doc says that you really are mute, Sorry i unnecessarily made a huge fuss" Aria relaxed a bit and smiled. 

"Lets go home" I said and Aria nodded. So we headed back home.

 When we came back home, Alice was waiting for us. "what took you so long? and where is Aria?" I didnt have to  say anything as Aria was just standing behing me. Alice quickly went and gave her a warm hug. While Alice was busily trying to be mad about leaving without telling her, Aria was busy convincing her that she would do that again and would always tell her , and i excuse myself from there conversation and headed to my room and laid on my bed ,staring at the ceiling thinking about what the doctor said.I was about to surf the internet about selective mutism but i had to go to college . And after college i had to take Alice to her badminton classes and i had my gymnastic classes. All this time Aria was home alone though all the time i was thinking about her.

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THAT IS A PICTURE OF ARIA IGLESIS :)