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He wordlessly left from there. Thus, leaving me even more confused.
Why didn’t he fight me back? Was it my imagination, or did his eyes looked hurt?
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Aariz
Her words, ‘Why do you care so much?’ were like a punch in the gut. I couldn’t live with them.
Did she not understand, if not her, whom else would I care for?
I had never tried to force her, to hurt her. I just wanted to be there for her, but she stops me every step of the way. She runs away from me. Is it so wrong to love someone? Am I so bad that she can't even let me ‘know’ her, give me the time of the day, try to know me, ‘see’ me for just a moment?
“Aariz dear, at least have some lunch. You already skipped breakfast.” Granny barged into my room with a trey in hand.
I had lost the count of times I told her I am fine!
“Gran this looks yum!” Zidaan dived into whatever she had in the trey. “Ummm...Even tastes yum.” Munching on the food, he took the plate from her hand and settled on the beanbag near the window, where I stood.
Zidaan continued with his mouth full,
“Aariz, you want some? You can go have it from the kitchen I guess.”
God this is frustrating...
“What has happened to him? He was with you last night, right?” Granny enquired.
On his nod, she went on shaking her head, “What went wrong then? Since he returned, he is not himself.”
I took a deep breath to calm the hell down. But before I could open my mouth, Zidaan opened his,
“He is bummed about a girl.”
“Leave.
Me. Alone.” I punctuated each word with a glare at the pair of them, halting Gran mid-step in her consolatory speech she was preparing for.
She scurried out of my room looking heartbroken.
Shit!
“No sausages for you.” Zidaan snarled biting on two at a time.
On my continued silence, he stood up and came towards me with his arms crossed and a serious expression on his face.
“What are you doing?”
“Just leave...Please.”
“This is the Aariz from two years ago, who killed himself and treated everyone like trash because he was hurting. Don't let that Aariz overpower you. You are better than that.”
I closed my eyes unable to bear the memories.
Opening them back up, I snapped, “What do you expect me to do? It’s over. I'm not gonna go crawling back to her.”
He just raised his eyebrows, looking right through my pretence.
I sighed heavily and gave up, “I have lost it. I have lost her. I have no idea what to do.”
