Placing the flowers on their grave feeling intense anguish I stepped back as everyone looked down. I watched their bodies getting buried lifelessly. Significantly few people were there. Leo was staring at me with no emotion but regret.
I step back and back and turn around and run my life out, wiping my tears...
walking lifelessly and looking at the sky I stopped at the end rail of the bridge. setting myself down on one of the benches I sighed and cried hugging my knees. someone sat beside me and handed me a handkerchief. I looked at the hand owner and it was none other than Leo. he gave me a reassuring smile and I put my head on his shoulders.
after crying for like some minutes I cleaned up and looked up at him. I said, " why do you always stay with me when I want some solitude but ignore me when I want some attention?" he shook his head and said, "I never ignored you..."
"you did"
" no... I just thought that you will be happy without me... and I was also jealous of hank because you used to be with him all the time"
" That's when my life turned upside down" his eyebrow crashed down as he became confused and I kept all the things before him.
after some eternal, I completed explaining and started crying again. he said, " I was being jelly jelly for nothing but just a stupid reason... I know my teddy bear will never do any such thing" I looked at him giving him a look of disapproval and said, " you are in a mood to joke around?" he just laughed nervously and slide his hand over my shoulders.
I kept my head on his shoulder and looked at the sky. I stated," the moon is beautiful. isn't it?"
he stood up hastily and said, "where!? why can't I see? I think I gotta change my specs. why Imma able to see only stars?" after hearing what he said I burst into laughter. I said, "dumbo you really don't know anything. let it be. btw see those stars are looking very puzzled just like the riddles which you used to give me."
he replied, " oh yes, you still remember. but you used to cheat!"
" hehe. I am not that intelligent what shall I do..."
"do you remember all those things?"
I replied, " hmm, all those things. making me fool with those stupid pranks"
he said, "those small fights we used to have "
I said "those secret dairy exchange things"
"That confession that I am very valuable to you when I was just your friend"
"Writing messages in about/bio "
"Tickling you on your foot by my foot when SSC teacher used to teach us in tuition"
"Sharing each other's dream"
"suggesting each other our favourite songs"
"keeping my head on your shoulder in tuition and sam always used to ruin our moment"
"Stealing away each other's math notes so that we could not do it anymore"
"snatching away each other's pen too so that we could not write"
he stated, " noo. just you, I never take your pen, just you jealous teddy bear..."
I chuckled and said," yeah yeah just me. " I stood up and said, "I gotta go... I need to head home." he just nodded and turned around and started walking away. while I was busily admiring his fading back he stopped in middle, turned around and said, " siam, yes it is. the moon is really beautiful." after saying this line he started running fastly and got faded in no minutes.
I chuckled at his silliness and looked at the sky. some tears left my doe eyes as I whispered, " dad, mom and peter I am already missing you all"
entering the house I received a warm hug from my aunt(my dad's sister). I received her hug and said, "I am fine aunt...don't worry." she broke the hug and said, "dear you know how much I care for you?" I just nodded. she continued, " then you are going to come with us to our house... I know we live in another state but you are brave enough to adapt to it aren't you?" I shooked my head and said, "I can't aunt. I can leave alone. I will work part-time jobs and will earn enough to keep my soul and body one. I just don't wanna leave this city..." she shushed me and said," pls try to understand dear. I can't leave you here alone..." I just sighed and went to my room.
NEXT MORNING
I opened my eyes from deep slumber and met with two pitiful eyes. it was my aunt. I sit up straightly and she said, " siam, someone has called you and it was one of your friend's mom. your friend is no more siam."
I quickly jump out of my bed hoping that it's not Leo. I quickly snatched the phone and dialled his phone number. the number started ringing. it was ringing, ringing and ringing but no one was receiving the call. I dialled again and finally, her mom responded with a gloomy hello. I whispered, " don't tell me that..." after hearing this she cried anguishedly and said, " he is gone siam, our house got caught by a fire, we were out of the town yesterday night. when we came home he was..." tears were continuously flowing from my already-dried up eyes. I whispered, " why aunt? why did you leave him alone? how can he die? he can't right? why me?" I hang out the call and started shrieking thinking about why life is so unfair to me ?"
A FEW DAYS LATER
staring at the closet I sighed and moved to the bed as I have not seen the sun's rays for days. I got startled by a knock on my door and when I opened it and it was none other than my uncle. he hugged me and said, " dear have you made up your decision about moving out with us?" I stared at nothing for some good minutes and said, " there is nothing left for me in this world except those nightmares." after saying this I shut the door in front of him. I took out my suitcase, hurriedly put all the clothes and books and took out my piggy bank and after breaking it I found sufficient money to take a train and rent a small mini apartment. yeah, I am going to run off. I opened the window and jumped out the window as my room is on the ground floor. and I ran, ran and ran not knowing where I am going but I know that this time I am not wrong...
𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫. 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐝. 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.