In the evening Neil brought his things to that apartment, he had already prepared his suitcase and bags so it didn't take long to come, "I wanted to ask something" Neil said, "yes?" The landlord seems so surprised by this as he thought maybe Neil changed his mind, "when will you take this furniture away?" when Neil got in here and realised that the rent is quite low so maybe the furniture is not included?, "haha, no the furniture is given with the apartment" the landlord had a relief expression, "huh?" it seems like this day is full of surprises, "actually it's a little bit weird but my grandfather left so much furniture back then so we made this new furniture from it and placed it in our house but there was not enough space, basically this furniture is all free, I regret though I wasted so much money on preparing the furniture only", "is that so?..." (seriously?) it is a lucky day maybe? When did Neil encounter something so good that suddenly his life is becoming so much easier?.
Everything was going so smoothly and fast, it gave Neil chills that what is gonna come next?, will that myth will come true?, 'if you are so much happy today then you will cry more tomorrow', but wait he already cried so much yesterday so generally it's vice versa?, all the work was done and Neil was not in the mood to move his things and place them, so he decided to go and work, specially when Ms.Rose is not giving him a pay cut and being so helpful, he should not take advantage and be grateful.
Neil messaged Ms.Rose about how he was coming because the shifting is done, when he arrived at the mall the sun was already set and there were so many customers, he got busy quickly.
While handling the consumers, Neil realised there were more people coming this way, he could hear them from far,
"good that we came today or we might have missed such a nice place"
"ya look at it so beautiful, to visit this mall was a good decision"
"you two guys came first right? why didn't tell us", there was two girls talking to two guys mean four peoples in total and they coming this way that mean Neil will handle them, while looking from far it he could only see the head of the four at first, untill they came closer, Neil's heartbeat was rising as soon as he saw that in between those peoples there was Daniel coming towards him, (D...Daniel, why again?) there was no expression on his face that might show what was happening in his mind and heart, his heartbeat was so loud that if a person was standing next to him could hear it clearly, his mind a mess, it felt like darkness covered him so intensely, so many questions were running in his mind, (why did you came here? not any other place but here? I was wrong it is not a smooth day...it is the most unlucky day of my life...maybe the universe was trying to prepare me?) so many thoughts and questions they were most likely useless, (why am I so anxious? it's not like he will remember me? he won't even recognise me now right? I don't have to be bothered by anything? I don't have to fear) this was untill he stands there and looked at the direction where they were coming from, not even got a chance to move or he forgot to move again they came so near standing right in front of him, all above everything Neil forgot to even greet them he was just continuously looking Daniel without blinking,
"excuse me, Mr.?" a girl standing beside said,
"he look weird?" another girl said while whispering,
"ya, Daniel what is...?" the first girl looked at Daniel just to see that he was equally weird, Daniel was looking at Neil with the same expressionless face,
"Daniel? Hey?" She moved her hands in front of Daniel but got no reaction,
"Why the heck are you standing like a statue?, are you playing a prank of something?" they keep talking about this and that but neither Neil nor Daniel responded
"Neil..." Daniel said after a long silence, Neil flinched, Daniel, Parth, Jenny and Ferida, this four peoples when entered Neil recognised them at once except for Ferida, when Neil was in High school this three were his friends, obviously it was easy to remember them? but the fact that except Daniel nobody recognised him, yes for Parth he was familiar somehow, before Daniel or anyone can say something Jenny said "Neil? it's you? you are so different from before? I couldn't even think you would be here, where were you all this time?" Neil didn't get a chance to respond, "stop it Jenny let him say something first" Ferida said, even though Ferida never met Neil she still knew about him, she heard it from her friends Daniel and Parth, Jenny too but she never told much, she might have forgotten most of the things about Neil, Ferida always felt curious about who is Neil? and why are they so much close to him?, and today with a coincidence when she met him then it was obvious for her to first listen to him.
They were discussing there and Ms.Rose saw them, she looked at Neil who was acting weird today, he never behaved absent minded while working, "I-" Neil was about to say something but got interrupted by Ms.Rose, "Neil are you well?", "y...yes" it was somehow making him uncomfortable to know that everyone's attention was on him, what could he say at this movement?, he felt like a kid who lost his way and, in essence he lost his words, Ms.Rose turn towards the four peoples staring at Neil uncontrollably and asked "Hello, What would you like see?", hearing this Jenny held Daniel's hand and pulled him, "let's go see something nice here" looking at her anyone could tell she was not interested in Neil to even hear him, Parth stood there for a while and looked at Neil, he asked "do you work here daily?", "yes?" Neil replied, "great" Parth left, Jenny kept pulling Daniel here and there but Daniel's focus was on Neil all the time, he glanced at him every minute and Neil could also feel Daniel's gaze each time.
After a while when their shopping was done they were about to leave, "you guys go, I will come in a while" Daniel said, he was moving towards the direction where Neil was standing, Jenny grabbed her leg and started screaming,
"Agh, my leg"
"what happened?" Ferida asked,
"I got a cramp in my leg I guess... can't stand it" Ferida held Jenny and helped her stand comfortably, Parth also helped and told Daniel to leave
"we will go and sit somewhere, you can go now",
"Ah, my leg" Jenny suddenly screamed and held Daniel's hand,
"it's ok, first help Jenny" Denial said, they went to a burger store placed in the mall and sat on a table together, when Jenny looked around she couldn't find Denial and asked Parth about it, "he went to meet Neil",
"why though?, what is the use of meeting him?",
"what do you mean?" Parth asked, he knew from the start that Jenny is acting different,
"he left without a word before and now he doesn't even say hello to us, so why do we care?, and most of all didn't you see him close, how weird he was looking?, we should not interact with him anymore" Jenny was showing an angry expression,
"is that why you acted there of having a leg cramp? he might have his own reasons" Parth was so furious, Ferida was looking at both of them arguing, cause she had nothing to do with this topic she thought better to not interfere.
Ms.Rose saw that Neil was not well so she told him to leave first, and when Daniel arrived he found no one, he his way back Niel's mind was messed up, everything that happened at the mall was so intense for him, he reached to his apartment and pull out his keys, just at the movement of opening door, he hear the elevator opening, someone got off the elevator, and again a pin drop silence.