When Azai returned home, he saw her smiling, and she was looking at her phone.
He shrugged, whatsoever activity she was doing was none of his business but he was curious.
He peeked from behind and what he saw actually broke his heart. She was going through dax's pictures that the vet had sent to her that morning.
He paused for some seconds and looked closely at her. ' I thought she didn't like him?'.
He took his food upstairs to go eat and there she saw him.
"Where were you?". She asked getting up from the couch.
He didn't reply but rather walked away in silence.
She saw him with the food package and yelled.... "your food is on the table".
He stopped abruptly running down the stairs.
He is not used to eating food outside home so hearing that was kind of a relief.
He threw the food into the trash can and walked to the dining table.
She was shocked to her bones. She walked slowly to the trash can and looked at the pitiful meal.
"You literally did nothing to him". she whispered this but he heard her.
He still hadn't forgotten that she took pictures in his phone and without his permission.
When he was done eating he went to his room to take a short nap after his shower. He was so exhausted.
A day had passed with both of them having no conversation or proper interaction.
He was bothered if to delete her pictures from his phone but he planned to use it and pull up a fight with her some day.
The next day and for the first time they both had breakfast together. Although there wasn't much conversation but they stayed together.
The silence echoed in her ears, causing a slight ache in her head. She deliberately hit her spoon on the glass cup which was present.
He didn't spare a glance at her and she didn't do it for attention.
They were both done with breakfast but they both sat down, doing nothing.
They were seated in the smaller dining room, there were only four chairs so she sat beside him. He didn't care at all what her intent was.
She requested for some fruits and it was given to her.
She offered it to him but he refused. He was soo focused on his phone, she wondered what he was up to. Probably some girl she thought.
She looked idle and it bothered him. On top of that, it was dead quiet.
"Don't you have a phone?".... he finally said something to end the silence.
"It's boring". she replied to him eating the apple, which looked nutritious.
He wondered if she was doing it in purpose. When she was done with the fruits, they took the bus back to the graveyard.
He looked at her for sometime then brought out his pinky finger. She looked at him with a creased brow.
And after a long gaze at his long and slender finger, she had eye contact with him
"What's that gesture?"....
"Hold my finger". He said flatly. "Why should I do that?"....
"Just do something with it, make yourself busy, with it".
'He isn't such a bad person after all. I'm not used to being this lonely and bored but since I got here, my life has changed'.
She conversed with herself.
She took his arm and drew it closer to her. Their physical contact made them both react. Goosebumps crept on her skin, this did not escape his sight.
His almost popped but he remembered vividly he is with Nyla. He wanted to retract but she already took in his finger.
He murdered any triggered emotions when she caressed his hand slowly. He gave her his pinky but she took in his hand.
He slowly retracted his hand from her hold just to his fingers. He stopped when it got to his pinky. She quickly understood and massaged only his pinky.
She peeked at what he was doing with his phone and surprisingly, he was scrolling through the news.
She looked at him and asked herself, 'is he this weird or is he old?'. She giggled.
Slowly she lowered her gaze, ' but his hand doesn't look old. And he's got the veiny arms, I love that'.
She became curious, 'how old is he'?.
She didn't want this to bother her so she went back to massaging his finger. Unknowingly, she grabbed his hand once again and massaged it gently. Causing him to steal glances at her.
It's not her fault, she can't massage only a finger, and the smallest of them all.
She ended up reading the news too, although it was only a headline. Her eyes were slowly giving up until something got her attention.
It was the news about her father. She noticed he hadn't seen or read it yet, so she was still.
He scrolled up quickly and suddenly scrolled back. It was what he was looking for, news and update on Mr Reign Dale.
Before he could tap on it, she quickly lengthened her arm and refreshed the page. Mistakenly holding his other hand tightly. He finally looked at her wholely not in quarter, only to behold a tittle of her beguiling beauty from her side profile.
There were no words or actions expressed by him. There was no way he could find the exact headline he just saw now and with the same content.
"Why did you do that?".... he asked with an almost slightly angered voice.
"Actually, it looked like like you couldn't find what you were looking for so I refreshed the page".
She spoke in a composed manner.
He heaved a heavy sigh. There was no way he would take the stress of looking for that headline once again.
Surprisingly he was quite relaxed but dizzy at the same time. Her massage made it easier.
He rested his head on his other arm on the table, although he tried to resist the sleep, not soo long, he dozed off.
She kept on massaging his slender finger not realizing that he slept off. She admires his tinted pink nails.
About few minutes later, someone came in through the front door, without knocking.
She wasn't frightened but was shocked, 'how did he know the password?'
He stepped in fully and closed the door behind him. He didn't smile nor laugh and so did she, I mean a stranger just walked into the house.
She didn't ask questions because how else would he know the password if someone didn't tell him, she looked at Azai, that was when she realized that he was asleep. Otherwise he would have released from her hold.
He looked at his hand that was being caressed by her gently and slowly. He could tell instantly why he was asleep.