A RAY OF LIFE

16.

Why do we make walls? Perhaps to confine those things which might cause destruction once unfettered.
But how do we know that something might cause destruction to some certain one? Actually, there's no some certain one being saved by your walls, it's you only. You create walls around you to keep yourself safe from the destructive information/secret/forbidden sin or whatsoever. You don't know who's gonna support it or who's not but you definitely know you are never going to embrace it that way so you make the walls. You don't let anyone step inside the wall, you don't allow your possession to come outside the wall because by hook or crook, you are getting destroyed by it.

I was one the verge of Derek's wall and as much as it was causing curiosity or hurt in me, it was causing more harm to Derek. Someone reached his walls and that jolted current in him only, as I said, you save yourself and not anyone else.

"Oh it's just Derek's school friend" Naomi said taking the picture from my hand and putting it back in the last page of the album. Alex seemed calm too, actually everybody was calm with storms inside them, so was me.
"Oh alright...hey dont you think we should leave now...I mean it's evening already..." I tried to change the atmosphere as much as I could and felt proud of myself for being tad smart.

"No one's leaving..." We heard the voice coming from the door, we turned only to find Mama Woods standing on the door with a box in her hands.
"But mama...how can we...." Derek raised from his place and sat beside Alex to make space for her. I moved aside a little too.

"Nope. You move out of here and I'm showing your nude teenage pictures to her" well I was happy she came at the right time as it took her seconds to spread joy all around. We all were laughing while Derek looked at me and turned his head....was he like blushing..? Perhaps. He was cute though.

"Not that she hasn't seen him already...stop blushing dodo" Alex said muttering under his breath yet hearable to all of us. God knows about Derek but I was blushing so hard.

"Don't you dare Alex...I'm 28 now, cut this dodo shit out now..." Derek said and that's when I realized about dodo.
Dodo? SERIOUSLY!? 

"Oh bugger off you two, I have got things to show Iris" mama Woods came and sat beside me. I was excited to see what she got and was also hoping that maybe she would let me know more about that girl.

"Oh nooo...here she comes with her embarrassment collection" Derek,Sarah and Alex said unanimously and the rest three of us just laughed over them.
"Shut up you all, it's a tradition. You date children of this family, you will have to see these stuffs. Mama showed me these too four years ago remember" Naomi said looking at me and the others. I was very excited to open that damn box as their faces were already frowned for the upcoming embarassment.

Mrs.Woods opened the middle sized wooden box. It had alot of different things like pictures, socks, a small championship cup, rubber bands, bracelets, a leather ball, a scarf, two hankeys and many more things. I was getting the idea that she collected all these favourite things of her kids and saved them in this box forever. She picked the brown socks out and showing it to everybody says" who remembers it?" Alex and Sarah chuckles while Naomi tries to remember it.

"I stole it from a general store and put it in your purse...fine....leave me alone now I was 7 and I liked it" Derek said like a crying baby. I couldn't stop laughing, in fact everybody started laughing.

"Yeah he did, he could have simply asked me to buy it but perhaps he knew mama will find it ugly and won't buy it. And fun fact is, he himself never wore it..found it ugly the other day....moron did the robbery to embarrass mother only" said mama Woods and I was already clutching my bump with farce. Derek was all red by now. Sarah pulled his cheeks saying "poor dodo" and got whipped on neck.