Addicted

Chapter-7

All the things has changed now, to control all these, Noah don't have the power. His was floating on a boat which didn't had it's oars. And where ever the storm carries him, that becomes his goal.

He has never forgotten anything.

Noah didn't felt good at home. After school, he used to hang out alone all day long, and at dusk he used to come home. His mother's concern for him was decreasing, day by day. When his mother asked him about something, he used to become more rude and harsh. Maybe he has antagonism towards his mother. The forbidden love and affection he has searched for in a broken world, in that world he has became a ignorant and sorrowful character.

After losing all people whom he cared, he needed a partner, a comrade, to lead him, to guide him, he was in search of the shade of love, he is opening his arms like people who are about to drown in water, and searching for a simple rope.

At that time, he met that shopkeeper. Noah used to talked to the shopkeeper and spend time with him. After getting the touch of love and understanding from the shopkeeper, he used to tell his sad life story.

And one day the shopkeeper held him a cigarette. At first he refused to take it. But the shopkeeper encouraged him, "Just smoke it, and you will find that all your pain is gone, and you will feel better."

In between shivered fingers, he took the cigarette and tried to find a familiar face in his memories, who can stop him from doing this.

But he failed.

After the cigarette finished, he found that a wave of happiness has came to his heart - in that wave his heart got relief from all those painful memories.

After many days, he got a peaceful and long sleep. The next day after some tine he got up, Noah found himself that he was becoming restless. His past was haunting him even more badly than ever. He was mad for getting another cigarette and reached the shop. The shopkeeper looked at him and smiled with a evil glint in his eyes. He didn't liked that smile but there was no one give him a affectionate touch to hate that smile.

Very soon Noah realised that, with tobacco, some kind of prohibited drugs are also mixed with the cigarette. And now Noah has became addicted. One day the shopkeeper said Noah,"All these are very expensive. Bringing all these, has risk and one might get caught by the cops. So from now on, give money and take your thing."

One day, when Noah's mother went to the bathroom, he stole his mother's gold necklace. When he took the necklace and hand it over to the shopkeeper, at that time, the cops took their homemaid and put her in the lockup.

There was a strong feeling anger and hatred burning inside him. Good-bad, correct-wrong, the innocent face of the homemaid and his urge for addiction- between all thus confusion, in the sleepless night, he thought-  the person inside him has died a long time ago.

Nowadays, he don't think about all these, what his mother give him as pocket money and when his mother carelessly kept the money here and there, Noah used to give all these to the shopkeeper. And sometimes he had to steal money from his classmates.

He looked for the pencil box near the pillow in the darkness. He hold the box in his hands. Once there were wrappers of those chocolates, which his father used to give him and he used to collect them with great hope and joy. He opened the box and touched it- cigarettes, powdered drugs were almost finished. It's been many days he has not gone to the shop. And he is not thinking about going to school now. He thought of once going to the shop tomorrow;

"You have tell me, what has happened!"
Sara's voice suddenly came up from the middle of his dark heart.

Noah saw a small firefly since he slept on his bed. Maybe without Noah's knowledge, one window was open. Maybe from that way only the firefly came, and trying to light up the room with thousands and thousands dots of light!