"Here, Mr.Peter, here is your coffee." Sofia kept the cup with coffee and smiled at him.
Looking at her face, he could easily say that was a fake smile.
"Shouldn't you thank me?" asked Peter with a smiley face teasing her.
"Should I thank you for ruining my day or for not giving me leave?" she was angry. She left the office with an angry face with sad eyes.
He had a kind of weird feeling to see her sad. The feeling was quite painful and also made him sad.
He thought that it was just a feeling of humanity and tried to think that he was happy. Happy enough to hide himself behind the fake smile caused by revenge.
He was deep down in his thought then his phone rang. It was his father. He looked at the phone and after he saw who was it, he answered with a happy face.
"Do you remember me now?" he said the first sentence.
"I'm your mom." It sounded like a lady.
"My mom is already dead." he hung up saying these.
He felt bad. He went to washroom in his room, locked the door and started crying.
He had a father but he had lost his mom at the age of 3. After the demise of his mother, his father married a new mother which leaded him to be a kid with his scary past and leaded his life to loneliness. He always used to talk less and always was better than the son of second wife,James.
As both of them were of same age, both of them used to compete in almost everything and one day, ended up to fight. Having the strong backing of his mother, James got a clean sheet but Peter, being a person who never explains for himself got blamed for nothing. He was punished to live in dormitory for student life and strictly follow the routine made for him.As for James, he could live with his mother and have all the luxury of the house.
As time passed, they grew up. James, the person with special care from the family turned into someone mysterious. A mysterious, spoiled child who dropped out from his university instead of graduating from it. At last, Peter's father turned his head to Peter as for he was always the outstanding student in study and resulted into him to carry on the family business, current position C.E.O, where now he was tortured by his family especially second mother and James for grabbing the opportunity and becoming more outstanding.
They were so jealous of his success and were always thinking how to let him down.
He had a really scary past, due to his family situation, he never saw bright side of anyone near him and always thought of them as his enemy and same thing happened on the case of Sofia. She always thought of him as her best friend with whom she could play, enjoy, laugh together and she also was an open-minded person to think that she was teasing him for only enjoyment but not to make him sad, but he always thought that she liked him being sad and bullied because his mind couldn't figure out any other thing positively because of his situation till now, rather than being bullied or being scolded.
He wasn't taught to be happy and smile with happiness but was taught what sadness is in every step of his life.He was an alone and successful person until now, because he was someone who never expressed himself to anyone else except Sofia on the day of school.
He was crying sitting at the corner of the Basketball field again. Sofia was searching for him because they used to have lunch together and she was hungry. She came to the ground and saw him crying at the same corner again.
She forced her mind to remember how she teased him to make him cry. She could hardly figure out what she told to hurt him but then she suddenly remembered that she shouted at him for not bringing her chocolate that morning.
She went to him and sat in front of him. She put her hands in his hair and asked softly,"Are you sad?"
He looked at her eyes waiting for his reply with his teary eyes, shook his head that he isn't sad and again hid his face between his legs.
"I will not ask for chocolate tomorrow, please don't cry." she said with the eyes filled with tears.
He looked at her face and nodded, he gave her the chocolate that he was meant to give her today at the morning."Do you have mom?" he asked with a sad look.
"Yes, she is so pretty, she cooks so good.You know what, I'll be like my mom when I grow up." She started telling him about her mom."Why are you asking me? Don't you have mom?" she added a question to her answer.
"Are you mocking me for not having mother?" He asked with an angry face.
"Where is your mother?" she asked in a small voice seeing him angry.
"She died." he started crying, he again buried his head between his knees and started crying.
"Don't cry. I feel so bad to see you sad." she said in soft voice. He didn't listened to it.
Sofia thought of what could she do to make him laugh again. She went to classroom, took something out of her bag and went to the same place where Peter was crying.
"Here." she handed him her answer sheet of the maths exam with the marks of 4 out of 50.
He started smiling looking at the answers she had wrote to questions and started mocking her.She was glad to bring him out of the sadness and started arguing with him again which resulted to end of sad moment for the day. That was the first time, he showed his tears to someone, and was also the first time he laughed after crying in a minute. He was also broken from inside until now from when he had his step mother at 3.