"... I guess no." He muttered.
"Hmm. It won't. Nothing here can help us."
After another few days, Ryan had to go back to his home. Nora never intended to take his help from the start anyway. Ryan isn't someone close to her anyway.
Although their parents were close to each other, and they both go to the same school, Ryan always kept his distance from Nora there. He preferred to either stay with his own group of friends or in class. He never liked Nora to join his group of friends.
If they meet at home, he would accompany her silently. But when she visited his place, he would ask her to stay at home, as he went out with his friends.
If Nora ever did try to break into his boundary, she has been scolded by him a number of times. By that time the distance between them was as big as the strangers are used to have.
None of them talks to each other or bothers themselves with others' matters. Nora at first did want someone or him as her elder brother, but later she understood Ryan's privacy and his distant behaviour towards her too.
After what all happened, Nora also expected those pity concerns for her. And Ryan was just one of them. His concerns were nothing but condolence for her loss.
Going through such hardship, one becomes an adult in just a click of a second. Nora also saw the truth of life and death in an instant.
She began to see the difference between right and wrong. The difference between true sympathy and facade sympathy. And the true example of that was Karan Gill and her uncle, Rahul Steave respectively.
But in such a condition, Nora needed no one's sympathy or empathy. All she wanted was assurance. Assurance of her brother's wellbeing. Assurance of their future. Assurance of someone's support.
She needed guidance. A kid, age eleven, knows nothing about the world's true face. She does neither. At such a young age, when she should be playing around with her brother, she has to start thinking about her future and start making decisions for their future.
She needed guidance, but she got no one. In a week, Karan has to go around the world to attend a number of meetings after the NK company's CEO, President's sudden death.
When Karan had said that he can't be with them, he meant it. Acting CEO with being President and Vice president at the same time was something which is an impossible task for anyone.
With him, she was release of one concern atleast. She was comforted that she and her brother were safe under him.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve as CEO and President were a vital role in the company. After their sudden death, he can't select just anyone for the post of President and Vice President. And until he found one of them, he has to take care of everything alone.
Although he had thought about sending kids to his place, but, his wife was against it. And somehow Karan knew that the outcome won't be good either.
In the end, he had to leave them alone. Only he knew how tough it was for him to take this decision.
He loved Nora and Krish heartedly, however was helpless to the situation and by the fact that he has to train Nora for the company. Even if it's too soon, she has got to no one to company her.
Nora watches her brother playing in the park with his other friends. After everything quietened down, her mind was running wild.
A number of times she had a thought of giving up. Frustrated by every memory she has of her parents, she wanted to end all of it. But every time, her brother's voice stopped her.
The thought of leaving him alone and giving him all the suffering she is facing was more heartbreaking than anything.
Her idea of sleeping with her brother every night is precisely so that she will be able to stop herself from those unwanted thoughts. Those haunting nights would become less painful by having her brother by her side.
"Uncle." She called him.
"Yes, Miss."
"After a week, we will shift to abroad."
Butler's eyes widened in surprise. He looked at the girl with inexplicable feeling. This decision is very big for their future. Being totally disconnected from their homeland has its own pros and cons. Does the kid even know what she is asking for?
"Miss, are you sure?" He asked.
Nora looked at the boy on the swing. The child was playing happily with his friends. He wasn't aware of any situation. By time he forgot to ask about his parents, but, he didn't forget them. And he will never until they stay at that place.
Giving it another thought, she nodded her head in affirmation.
"Hmm. It brings us no good to stay here and torcher ourselves with those memories. I want us to go. Just far away from all this." After all those days, this is the first time that she spoke so much from her heart.
"What about the mansion?"
"For abroad only you, me and Krish, will go as a family. For your assistant, you can take as many people as you want. But here… dismiss everyone. I want this place to be locked. No one in, no one's out... And once we are settled, you can come back to your family. I'll only need your couple of months."
"What about Mr. Karan? Does he know about this? Your decision?" He asked seriously.
"No, he doesn't."
"You don't wanna tell?"
"He will know eventually." She pathetically answered
"But he is your guardian."
"On paper. It means nothing anyway."
"But-"
"Uncle. I am bound to stay alone. That's what he said to me. And that's true too. I don't wanna complicate things with anyone anymore. Please?" Nora spoke.
What she said was what Karan had told her a number of times. And she accepted reality too. If she can't have anyone, she rather leaves everyone... everything.
"Are you sure about this?" Butler uncle, Carter, asked again to be certain.
"Yes, uncle please do so."
"Okay miss." Carter nodded respectfully and walked towards the kids to carry the boy to take him back home.
Nora's eyes again turned misty. Leaving her family, her home, her everything back, to go far away makes her feel like crying, distressed, helpless, and weak.
No child would have the courage to do such thing on their own. She was scared, doesn't know what to do or from where to start.
She can't give up, but at least she can run away. And she badly wants to run away from everything. Even if it's childish for those adults she wants it to be over and a break from all of this.