Tara kept staring herself in the mirror, it has been an hour since she was doing it, and finally letting out a deep breath, she took hold of the comb to comb her already done hair! She kept doing it with no care of time until a knock was heard and he was in after a brief moment of wait! "I have served the soup!" said Aryan.
She just kept staring his reflection through the mirror, "Is it already evening?!" she asked putting back the comb on the dresser. Aryan nodded now reaching her, before even he could hold the chair, she turned it herself facing him up, "Aryan!" she called out!
"Yes?"
"Don't cook from now on!!"
He frowned, "Why? Wait don't I cook well?"
She rolled her eyes before looking up at him again, "Cause you don't have to, you are my doctor, so only treat me, don't serve me!!"
He nodded, "But you haven't denied when I said I will take care of you?!"
"I said you to take care of me, not to care for me!" she said calmly!
He stared her in silence for a brief moment just as she did, "Why?"
"Why do you speak like this suddenly?"
She looked away, "Tara... I am asking something!" he asked softly making her look back at him.
She took a deep breath, "You are my doctor Aryan! You will leave!!"
He went silent, why did she sound....."So only take care of me, don't care for me.....!" she added!
He just was silent, getting what she meant, she had clearly stated it to him! 'I don't let anyone in easily!' he recalled her saying, and her words again echoed in his ears, 'You will leave!', 'You cook well! It feels like.... home!'
Aryan probably had put the pieces together, "Do you fear?"
She still remained silent! He smiled and crouched down reaching her height, now kneeling "Let me ask you one thing!"
"Have you regretted me helping you change your vision?"
She frowned at the sudden question, before giving him a shook, "I didn't!"
"Then don't regret me caring for you as well! There may be a difference between taking care of someone and caring for someone, for you! But for me, they both are same!" his hand now rested on hers making her look down their hands and back up at him again, "This is how I care and I can't change it!"
She stared remaining silent, "Don't overthink everything!" he patted on her hand before standing, "It will get cold!!" he said then pushing the chair ahead, and they both came out of the room, she took the spoon and Tara can already smell the aroma of it, he seemed to be experienced in this all!
He doesn't own any means of transport because he knows he isn't going to settle at anywhere he travels, he knows how to cook as well! In total not at all dependant, unlike her!
She just continued to have the soup and even didn't appreciated it though it was delicious, and the other way, he avoided asking her whether she liked it or not and silently had his own soup!
He still couldn't understand how the lady always thinks, but he can understand this time! She didn't want him to do anything that can make her feel close, but, just a thought, she had trusted him with her secret, told him everything that she can hide as well, let him stay with her while also never had choose to keep things from him, though she let them out in a sarcastic way! Doesn't this already mean they were close?!
Or may be, that's what's fearing her!
They continued the silence until he looked up at her to question, making her look back at him! "May I know more about your parents?"
She frowned, "Why?"
"I want to know!"
She put her spoon down, as she finished it already, "I can understand you asking about my visions, which can help you study me more! About you knowing about my uncle and cousin so that you could have a knowledge in ahead to whom to reach when I am in danger or you need help from, who knows about my secret as well! About you asking about the company so that you could know how to handle things for me when I can't or am not in any condition to do so!"
"But my parents, knowing about them will not help you at all! As they already are....dead!" she swallowed as soon as she said it!
"Why do you think it will not help? Have you forgotten what was your first vision?" he asked.
She blinked, yes, her first vision, that is where everything started!
"Do you really want to know about them?"
He nodded while putting down his spoon as well!
Tara took a deep breath, looking her surroundings, "Actually....this isn't the house we used to live in!!" she began, he was surprised! No wonder he could only see all of her memories and nothing related to her parents, which actually made him curious to ask that question!
Though strangely he had started to see years ago memories from the moment he had met her, he still couldn't see any of her parent's memories in this house! "What do you mean?"
"We used to stay in the castle!" she replied!
"Castle?!"
She nodded, "My father though was a businessman, my mother was from a royal bloodline!"
"Surprising!" he said!
She ignored him, "My mother met my father through a meeting and later they loved each other! Father said that my grandparents haven't accepted him as he wasn't from a royal bloodline and they wanted their daughter to be wed with someone who's of their standard! My mother came out marrying father!"
Tara continued, "Though everything ended up this way, seems like my grandparents didn't hate my parents, my mother said she was gifted by that castle from her parents!" she shrugged!
Aryan nodded, still surprised by the tale, he hadn't expected something as dramatical as this!! "So you used to stay in that castle?!"
She nodded then a chuckle escaped, he frowned, "What was that for?!"
Tara shook her head, "People think it as a cursed castle!!" she chuckled again!
'Cursed castle?!'
"What....why?!"
She shrugged, "It's deep inside the forest, and even the day view there was terrifying, let alone the night view! It's obvious for them to think that way!"
He nodded almost shaking his head, "Well it was 12years ago! I don't know anymore!" she said with a shrug again!
He nodded again, and now she moved back, he frowned, she moved until she reached the room which he previously had assumed to be her parents room, she then looked back at him, giving him a jerk, saying him to near her! He still with a frown, stood and reached her!
"You wanted to know right, let me say you everything about me then!!" she said and nodded at the door indicating him to open it! He took a brief moment to observe her!
Whether he accepted or not, and she knew it or not, she really is now letting him in completely though it was fearing her! Now he feared as well, imagining the ways apart part, he wasn't sure whether he would be okay or not but he now doubted her being okay!
Taking a deep breath, he opened the door, and went in along with her, which strangely made him feel like he was beginning a new journey!
A journey to where his destination wasn't sure yet!!