She blinked twice to check if she is seeing him alright or not. But then again thought why was she being this much dramatic. Everyone is normal, what's wrong with her abnormal behavior she pouted at her own behavior scolding herself in her mind. She lowered her eyes when she saw him walking towards the podium. Miss Aylin knows nothing about me, already literature is running through my veins. Expression is over-expressing.
She fixed her focus on him again, slowly taking her eyes upward, and this time his beauty caught her off guard. She cannot deny the fact of how beautiful a human can be. How come he is so unreal, noticing his sinewy body, wrapped in a brown tuxedo, black brushed hair, forehead exposed? He is no much less than a character written by a woman. His aura screams perfect. She was gaping at him shamelessly already forgetting how to blink. No wonder everyone got their mind lost over him. Come on Enola get it together, she warned herself not to eye fuck that naive human being. He was just standing there.
Well, she was obviously not aware of his naivety. Who will tell her? How much dominance he holds and how deadly as a person he is.
She was lost in her thoughts when Ruth bumped his shoulder with her.
"Stop gawking at him like that, you fool."
He noticed how she was looking at him. Enola came back to her senses fixing her posture and looked at him who was now on the podium, busy talking with the principal and Aylin.
"Now I would like to request Mr. Damien Adler to say something for our precious students, to motivate them."
"But let me tell you students the person who is standing here is the most extremely talented person you have ever seen in your life I bet. He achieved so many things on his own capability. He is a businessman, painter, and he is an efficient human being an idol you youngster shoul…."
Damien interrupted holding the button of the mike taking matter in his hands. The principal took that as a hint and left the podium. Damien fixed his gaze on the students.
He was monotonous, and calm, eyes cold, no warmness, no smile. He was not interested to even speaking for us I can see that. Why is he looking so tough and iced, she thought. Maybe he is just like this. Cold and arrogant and does not show any reaction to everything. He fixed his mike and___
"You should never actually pay attention to that podium that spreads motivation."
He stated everyone was more than attentive maybe because he knows how to draw the attention of others. Surely he does Enola thought.
Enola was attentively listening to whatever he was speaking, each and every word he was uttering, the way his lips were synchronizing she found herself getting drawn to him as if he knew how to hypnotize people by his diction. She again frowns cursing herself realizing her simping over him was getting out of her control. What is happening with her?
"Unless or until you do not fight your own battles you earn nothing"
"Also no such things exist as fate, if you want your fate to shine, create yours"
"Be a winner in your way no idol you needed."
Enola was busy listening to him with her curious eyes not wanting to miss any details he is saying.
"And one more thing, to become a winner you have to clean all the obstacles in your path and do that and no matter…."
He paused for a moment roaming his cold eyes in the entire class finally stopping on her. He caught her off guard making Enola to froze in her place. She suddenly felt terror in his eyes the way he was looking at her, she got nervous and a sudden kind of pain she started to feel in his absence as if he just had done some spell on her with his eyes.
She lowered her eyes and then again looked at him whose eyes were still on her and it was not something normal. There was something that his eyes were telling him and why he was looking at her like that, she felt terrified to stand there, but why she was feeling uneasy, what with him not knowing why still she refused to take her eyes off of him. Finally opening his mouth
"No matter if you have to commit sin for that."
At the end of his sentence, Enola's heart twisted what he meant by that! Even the Principal and Miss. Aylin looked at each other stunned but too afraid to talk before him. They looked at the students who were impressed to hear such things, filling tension in them. But no one dares to say anything to him.
"Have a good day."
He just got down from the podium. The whole class clapped for him. He looked at The Principal as he nodded and took over the podium. He Again wore his cold expression and further saying anything just left the class sending one last glance to her.
Enola this time lowered her eyes, shaking her head closed her eyes tightly, her breathing was abnormal. Flashing back to what just happened in those last 2 minutes.
"He is something else Eny, whatever he said no sane human being will ever do that that too in a class full of students."
Ruth laughed sharing his thoughts with her who was busy puzzling why she felt this sick suddenly. There is definitely something wrong with her. She excused herself and left the class in the middle of the lecture because she didn't want to stay there anymore.
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She left her class in a hurry and ran straight for the washroom. She locked the door of the bathroom. Standing before the mirror she realized everything was normal just the paleness of her face made it obvious that she was not in a stable mind. Closing her eyes, she held her head the slow pain was running through each of her veins in her head stopping her from processing anything that was happening to her. She does not even know why she felt like this the moment their eyes met. She shut open her eyes recalling the first day when she encountered him for the very first time.
"What's with him I neither know him nor ever seen him before, but why I am feeling like this."
She questioned herself totally not knowing what was wrong with her. Then she remembers how she thought him so ethereal, calm, and unworldly but as soon as he looked into her eyes his entire aura got changed. He was looking straight into the soul, sending electric shocks to her every nerve. How cold and ruthless his eyes were. No warmth only fire was reeking in his gaze.
"Why God why? Why he looked at me like that."
"Who is he? Am I just being delusional, maybe he was not looking at me I am just wondering as I was practically drooling over him"
She again thought, flashed before her eyes. She slapped herself bringing her back to reality.
"No no no… it's not my delusion he was actually looking in my direction. His eyes were so obvious his every gaze was right on my eyes it could not be my delusion. But why he would be doing that? He does not know me, nor me."
She stomped her feet on the floor. Her mind was baffling. She was not able to think anything rational, any reason was not helpful for her to connect the dots of her confusion.
"Wait, it is normal, maybe he was just normally seeing me, it could be anyone in my place, it's just me, who was standing straight in front of him. Yes, that makes sense. Stop giving so much importance to yourself Eny its harmful, maybe it was just his eyes which was something else."
She scoffed, splashing water on her face, and relaxed. Whatever it was. she chose peace over overthinking.
"Overthinking kills happiness Enola you know that."
Saying that she looked into that mirror she smiled, how capable she is of controlling her own emotion. She is improving, she thought patting herself in the back she left from there.
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Damien was standing against the glass window, eyes fixed on a cat, who was trying to eat a piece of meat a boy left there. It was struggling he could sense that. It was changing his position to grab that meat so that he could eat it. But he was wondering why he was struggling though. Or he was just ridiculously being dramatic over this. He put both of his hands into his pocket, and paused himself there counting how much time he was wasting over this mere creature.
Austin had noticed him for so long. He was sitting there observing him why he was being so irrational all of a sudden. It was clear for him to see he was just indulging in some random street cat. What is going on inside his head? He thought. He was not the type of person who would waste his time on something like this. He knows him well. Austin not just his right hand but a family to him. He knows him more than Damien knows himself. From last day after they returned from that Saint Colony, he seems kind of lost but why, even he visited the students of literature which actually was beyond his understanding. Sighing he decides to break his trace
"You feeling alright.?
Nothing. He got only silence in reply, as expected. He stood up from his place and walked for him where he was standing. He looked at that precious cat who got his attention and this time before he could ask something Damien uttered
"Don't you think he is being dramatic over that piece of meat?"
Austin was dumbfounded listening to such a foul question from his mouth.
"What???? Dramatic what are you talking…."
"What could be its gender anyway, Austin tell me what you think that cat is he or she."
Austin blinks in shock, no he was more than shocked with his behavior. From how he became interested in these silly things. He shakes his head to calm himself down.
"From how you become concerned over a cat, are you okay?"
He looked at Austin his face was straight. Both of them were holding their gaze on each other, but the only one of them was puzzled right now.
"I am serious tell me. He or she?"
He was serious to ask that really? Austin thought. He gathered his senses and coughed to clear his throat to answer him
"By its appearance, it seems like it could be her, It's little pink."
Damien nodded hearing him again looking at that cat.
"But what's gotten into you, can you clear for me, you have been behaving really oddly since yesterday. Even you visited that literature class. Why?"
Yes, again silence. Austin was waiting for him to open his mouth even knowing he wouldn't but, he needed to know why he refused to go to his meeting. What he never missed for anyone but he did today.
"Tell me. You just canceled a whole ass deal, 50 crore deal tha….."
"Why did you burn down the house Austin?"