(Be careful not to be hurt by its thorns)
Angel retracted her hand at the sound she heard She quickly turned to the person coming towards them and said in astonishment: "Mark, Didn't you go to the company with your father?"
Mark, who was wearing a suit consisting of dark brown trousers and suit jacket, and a beige shirt, smiled. He was not wearing any tie.
Mark didn't like to wear anything that would suffocate him, as he said. And he said: "Yes, but I came back since I felt bored."
He asked, "Tell me, what are you doing here?"
She shrugged her shoulders and said: "As you can see, I'm looking at the birds, caressing the flowers and listening to the sound of the wind."
Mark said sarcastically: "you are listening to what?"
Before Angel could answer him, he turned to Charlotte and said: "Can you bring me a glass of water?"
Charlotte said hesitantly: "What about Angel?"
Mark said calmly: "I'll stay with her and won't move from my place until you return."
Charlotte nodded her head and said: "Okay then. I won't be late a few moments and I will come back."
While Angel said, looking into the distance: "You might think that I am a childish if I told you that I sometimes talk to flowers since I find no one but them to talk to. at least, I feel that I can talk as much as I wish and they'll never be bothered by what I have to say."
Mark looked at her with astonishment and confusion. She was talking to the flowers and listening to the wind. Is this girl crazy? while Angel added, closing her eyes: "Loneliness is a difficult feeling that makes you talk to everything and anything around you.. "
Mark said calmly, not caring about what she was saying: "It's cold. you should go into the house now."
Angel shook her head in denial and said, "I don't want to."
Mrs. Charlotte suddenly said: "Leave her be, she's stubborn. She will only do what she wants."
Mark took the glass of water from Charlotte and started drinking it, while Angel opened her eyes again and said with a smile: "otherwise, Should I miss seeing such a beautiful view? At least before the teacher arrives and am trapped at home for more than an hour."
As soon as she finished her sentence, the wind returned to hit her face, but this time more strongly and with a cold breeze.
Mark said as he exhaled sharply: "Are you going to stay outside until you get sick? Come on, get back into the house or at least wear something that will keep you warm."
Angel said with childish stubbornness: "No."
Mark smiled and said: "You are right, Mrs. Charlotte. She is really stubborn."
At that moment, Angel extended her hand and caressed a pink flower similar to the color of her dress. Mark said as he took off his jacket and approached her: "Why don't you pick it since you like it?"
Angel said with objection: "If i picked it it would be away from the rest of the roses and will wither in my hands, but if it stays in place, it will always bloom."
A smile appeared on Mark's lips and he said as he placed his jacket on her shoulders: "You're right. She'll be fine if she stays where she is."
Angel turned in amazement to Mark and raised her eyebrows in surprise at his behavior.. But she soon remembered her father and what he did for her whenever she felt cold, He would take off his jacket and put it on her shoulders just as Mark did!
Angel looked at him for a moment before saying With a shy smile: "Thank you."
Mark said with a smile: "Don't worry about it."
He remained silent as he straightened his stance and looked at everything thing around him. while Angel found herself saying: "But won't your father be angry if you leave work like this?"
Mark said sarcastically as he pushed a small stone away: "Yes, but it was what he wanted."
Angel said, wondering: "what he wanted? how so?"
Mark said while turning to her: "He was the one who wanted me to work with him. I didn't want to, but he forced me to do a job that I hate. even though he knew that it is impossible for me to find myself in a job that I hate and can't bear to do."
Angel looked at him for a moment and then said: "But you have to help your father."
Mark said as he put his palms in his pants pockets: "And here I am helping him, but in my own way."
Angel hesitated a little before saying: "But this is considered deceiving him."
" So be it. I want to work in a job that I find myself in, not to work in a job that I am forced to do. All that matters to my father is that I am by his side. but what about me, does he think that I have no dreams that I hope to achieve."
Angel was silent and could not find anything to say. Mark said calmly: "Isn't it time to go inside? The weather is getting colder."
Angel took the jacket off her shoulders and handed it to Mark and said with a faint smile: "I know you feel cold, so take it."
Mark said disapprovingly: "No, you are a girl and I have to.."
Angel interrupted him to say calmly: "Fine then. I will go inside. so that I can relieve you of my burden on you."
She said it and moved the wheels of her wheelchair with both hands, and the memory of yesterday came back to her and what happened between her and Liam, she wondered for the million time, why?