My other half

A mystery

Nolan's P.O.V

We were just on the way to the cafeteria when I heard Daina taking deep breaths.

''You okay?'' I said.

''Yeah....wh.... I mean yeah.. I mean why?" she turns back and replies, her cheeks flushed red on her pale skin. She is quiet beautiful.

Jade is looking from the top of the flight with a hint of anger and disgust in his eyes. The glint says ''she's mine''. All of a sudden I feel like I too am bonded with Diana with the strange intenste emotion when I have not known her for more than a day. Jade starts to walk towards us and I towards hims. A loud groan comes out from both of us and we both take long strides. How dare he look at her with disgust? He'll see.

Then, a scream of Diana stops me. I turn back. Diana is leaning on the floor sitting and looking at us as if she knows whats next and she can't really talk.

A flash of a scenario crosses me. Diana is in Jade's arm in a completely white room. Jade has got his unusually large muscles which he doesnt really have, a black tatoo which looks like bone of the fish starting from the left side of his neck till his torso in the right. There are smaller tatoos that bend as the major one both towards the upper and lower side of the main line of the tatoo. Diana has her nails of hand and toes as blue as sea and also all her extensions in the hair are blue and both are smiling as if its all of them.

I don't know why, but I back up. As I turn her extensions in her hair look slighty blue which again turns to brown as the fallen leaf. I turn back and see that Jade too has got a fading tatoo which disappears while I try to figure out and he looks unusually hairy and is taking off his jacket. It was my imagination and now I see in reality, Daina with fading blue extensions and Nolan with fading tatoos. Is it real? Are the wierd things happening to me also happening to them?

I turn back and face Diana.

''You don't look well.''she says.

''Lets go and grab the coffee.'' I say.

''Yeah.'' she says.

We reach the cafeteria and take a table in the corner which is normally gone unnoticed by others. I pull her chair and make her sit. The elegance of her takes my breath away, even when she is about to sit.

''What will you take?'' I ask her.

''Moccaccino.'' she says.

''Burger? Fries?'' I ask

''No.''

I turn back to order when Diana says'' I would take an espresso.''

''Ok.'' I say.

As I bring the coffee, Diana is staring at the table, her gaze nowhere.

''Here'' I say.

''Yeah.'' she says looking at me when out eyes meet. Her hazel eyes appeal something, like she doent want something to happen. Not just a fight, but a bigger thing. Diana is now sipping the coffee as if she is damp and cold from her insides.

''Pass me the cubes.'' she says.

''Ok.'' I say and pass her the sugar cubes. Her fingers are so cold that I shiver by touching her finger.

''Hey, you are cold.'' I say

''Yeah, winter is starting.'' she says as if nothing has happened.

''Both you and I know that its not because of this slight whether change.'' I say. I don't know what I am speaking.

''Then why are you pretending?" she says shivering more.

''Pretending?'' I again don't understand what she is talking about.

''Jade, its Jade. why were you so angry wih him? Why?''

She wants the answer but in reality, I too don't know what really happened there on the way to the cafeteria.

''I have a lot to talk but for now, lets go home.'' I blurt without knowing what I am talking about.

''No, I'll have coffee.'' she says.

''Diana, I'll make it for you , at your home.'' I say.

''No, Nolan''

''Yes Diana.''

''No''

''Yes''

''No, no,no''

I get up and grab her, lift her in my arms and walk out of the cafeteria.

She is cold that I shiver but gradually as she lets me carry her in my arms, I feel as if I was made to absorb this cold from her. I take her to my car and I see that she is already asleep as she gets my warmth. What is it about

Jade and Diana? Why did the colour of her nails and hair change to fading blue? Why was she all of a sudden so cold? Is there something between both of them? Why was the same scenario of both of them converted into reality? In the first place, why did I imagine the scenario? My mind is bursting with questions. At somepoint, while driving, I believe that supernatural things do exist and on the other, I feel like I have a serious mental problem. I wonder why she told me that I was pretending. I just want to be with her and that's all I was pretending but I know she was not talking about it. She barely knows me. It meant something else for which I am attracted to her like a magnet.

Whatever it may be, I take her home.

I put her on my bed and cover her with the sheets to make her warm.

The guitar is just on the side of the bed and I think that I am finally completed ,with it and her. I take my guitar and slip to the balcony. I start to play the same song I started playing 3 months before I came here, a mysterious sound too soothing for me then I see that every flower in her balcony is fading blue.

What is it? Am I having some vision problem? Is there something else? I'll ask her as soon as she gets up. What is it about her? Mysterious but not creepy, soothing instead. There's something about her that she is hiding which attracts me like Icarus towards sun. I know I am supposed to run away but I run towards it.

Get up soon, Diana. I wan't to know about you, who are you or what are you? I am so damn confused. I peek at her and then start playing the song which makes me forget everything except her face.

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