THE EYES DON'T REFLECT EVERY TIME!

CH-6 THAT WHAT YOU THINK!

"You didn't tell me why do you have Toris's and that hidden behind your cupboard ?" I could not held myself from asking the question which was taking a run through out my head.

"I told you I met Swen. The next day he came to me, though I had not wanted to interact with him. I was trying my best to ignore him but then when he started saying about your past.... I mean he didn't say how your past was, he just said me about your brother.And that he needed to talk to you.When I didn't let him, he asked me to hear the truth from your mouth."

"I still don't get why is my brother's face portrayed in your room?"

"That.... I said you just now, Toris was the only person whose name he had taken, after yours.....so I thought he might be an important person to you, and what's important to you is technically important to me. That's the reason for what you are seeing in this piece of canvas."

I was astonished to hear that she had already met Swen,not that she could not.....but the fact that Swen had come here! I thought I would never meet him again.

"What is cooking up in your mind? I mean I am sorry for not saying anything about Swen.....please don't be angry about it......you can take your brother's picture instead."

"Can I?"

"You really want?"

"I don't joke around like you. Won't you give?"

"No....what will you do if I don't? Steal it? " Shailey's words keep on puzzling me.

"What? You are serious............I was kidding."

I hold her hands, I can't say people how much Toris is important to me."I really miss him a lot."The words brought itself out weeping. I had not cried the day my parents went away, my eyes didn't shed tears on hearing our parents death, neither did it when I heard the news that the only family left for me was no more. But I wish I had cried back then, when I was alone, and now when I have her in front I don't know why is it not possible for me to hold my tears back, I don't know why the inner me is keeping on pinching me to cry out, to scream to the world what grief is running through my body.I keep on crying with my head put forth on her hand.

"Enough of emotions , now I want a straight answer and I don't want any questions in return.Will you?" Shailey said.

"Can I answer tomorrow? I really am tired of this question-answer section."Shailey delivered her reply, "Well,I am letting you go just because you look exhausted. But, I would not leave your house unless I get my answer tomorrow.Is that fine?"

"Do I have any other choice?"

"No, because there,you see, in the third drawer of my hidden shelf, behind the cupboard is a gun which may pass right through your forehead if you deny."

"Really?"

"Don't challenge me!"

"Yes, of course. Who is going to fight with a psycho?"I laugh a little and she gives me a look.

I run to the outdoors , saving myself from the psycho friend whom I discovered right now. Coming to the emotional side of this incident, the reason for running outdoors was not only to save myself from the sarcastic side of Shailey, but from the curious Shailey too. I am really afraid of answering the questions that she puts forth every time. God knows what's her next question whose answer she is so much desperate to get!

I went home with the picture on my right hand.I hugged it tight,believing it to be really him.I closed the main gate when I saw my father walking past the garden. I approached him as soon as my eyes went towards the crystal-type thing he was carrying on his left hand. I don't know if it was true but I felt very familiar and also, as if he was trying to hide that from me.