When I entered my room, I wonder what I'm going to do now, as I had a long evening just for myself. And as usual, I went towards my laptop and the first thing I saw was an incoming call from Spider. He even has his profile pic of a spider. I rolled my eyes at that.
Why is he calling me now?
I usually studied or learned at 2:00. But then I was having dinner with Mr. Arrogant and I'd miss my session with him.
"Damn it!" I whisper to myself and I don't realize the call has started. "Nice welcome." His soft voice comes from the speaker.
I've never seen his face but with the few interactions I have with him. He seems like a nice person. But I won't tell him that.
"Sorry!" I said in an apologetic tone.
"You should be." His voice serious.
And then I start babbling to convince him.
"I'm really sorry; I didn't miss our session on purpose. I just had to eat my lunch early and I didn't realized this time I'm supposed to....."
"You were having lunch and I missed my lunch waiting for you to come online." He said, again serious.
"I'm sorry," I said again. I felt guilty, though it was not my fault that Mr. Arrogant decided to have lunch with me earlier than usual.
"I'm just teasing you, clueless kitten. I knew you would be late today and just to take your guilt away, which I judge from your voice you are feeling, I had a delicious lunch today."
He stresses his delicious in a way that makes me laugh. I forgot that he called me with a name he knew that annoys me.
"Great! Now your good mood is back." He said enthusiastically.
"Yes, it is". I replied while smiling.
"So now we should start our session."
"So soon." I said in a whiny tone.
"What? Should you prefer we discuss weather?"
He was teasing me so I played along.
"Yeah, I should tell you." I said looking at the window.
"The sky is bright and there are light clouds...."
He cuts me of by saying:
"It is 24°C and the sun is at 45° angle, the humidity is 30%. The sun strikes right above at..."
"Okay! Okay!" I said. "I get it. I know the cool app that you made lets you know a lot more details then just the weather. Computer insect!" I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, that's why I call myself Spider." He said proudly.
"Okay, you win, I lose. Let's start learning." I said defeated.
He laughed and we started or session.
My screen shows, presentation file pop up and my pointer starts moving by itself, as he has started sharing his screen. He showed me how to decode a set of codes and explained me through his voice. It was fun studying with him. He made me love programming and my choice of subject more than I already did. We laughed and made jokes throughout the session and in the end I realized, I learned a new thing while just laughing and having fun.
"I guess that's enough for today." He said.
I have a huge grin as I de-coded the toughest code.
"Yeah, I guess." I said cheerfully.
"You want to study more?" He asked.
"It will be fun" I replied.
He laughed. "Sure it will be but I have other work pending. All of us are not free like you, you know."
He meant to tease me but I realize he is right.
"Free and alone." I whispered to myself involuntarily.
There is silence for a while. I guess he had heard it.
"Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow and we can continue our fun learning then." He said cheerfully.
"Yeah, okay. Talk to you tomorrow. Bye!" I said trying to sound as cheerful as possible.
"Bye, clueless kitten." He ends the call.
Spider is the third person I talk with, in this place. It's strange that I had a closer relation with him than any other person here even though we were strangers. I didn't even know his name.
When I asked him about his name so he told me to call him 'Spider'. I asked:
"Spider, as in the creepy spiders on the walls and caves of haunted houses?"
And his reply was:
"No. I'm the Spider who rules the Web"
I was impressed by his personality and confidence since then. He definitely ruled the Web. He told me about how he could hack through many websites and all the funny pranks he did. He cared, even though he never mentioned it. Whenever I'm upset, he somehow knows it from my voice and then brightens my mood. But at the end of the call, I always realized how alone I am. As I realized then.
I usually read a novel to relax myself after the session but I couldn't find the will to pretend and engross in the imaginary world. This wall here felt like a cage to me and suddenly I was angry at Mr. Arrogant. There was Spider who didn't even know me but still cared, and then, there was Mr. Arrogant who didn't give a damn. I wanted someone to care about me, someone with me, but I had no one and that thought made me want to shout and cry in rage. I was shaking with anger.
The mood swings... I hated them, I hated myself for being weak but I couldn't help it. Loneliness was eating me and I wanted to get rid of it.....
And I knew how.....
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Out of The Cage
Romance"You shouldn't have been there." He says. His voice cold. "But I was. It can't be changed". She said boldly. "I can't take the risk of letting anyone know." "What are you going to do about it?". She challenged. She knew she was playing with fire but...
