Both of us reacted quickly and turned our heads away. I stood up from the couch. Celia was about to say something, but I rushed towards my room quickly, leaving a dumbfounded Celia alone lying on the couch. She had a sad look on her face. She muttered, “Am I that scary?” But what she didn’t know was that she wasn’t scary at all. I stood in front of the mirror, holding my face in my hands. I turned the tap on and splashed the water on my face. Then, raising my head, I looked at my face in the mirror. I wiped the water dripping down my face with my hands.After taking a bath and brushing my teeth, I changed my clothes and walked downstairs. There was no sign of Celia on the couch. With a sigh, I walked into the kitchen. Grabbing an apple from the refrigerator, I took a bite. That’s when I remembered the notification chime , because of which I woke up in the morning. I rushed to the living room and picked up the laptop placed on the table. It was probably mom who had kept this laptop on
Tears streamed down my face. Mom was confused at first. She touched my face and asked, “Mike, why are you crying?” Seeing her now, it was like you won’t say that she was crying a moment ago. With a sniff I said, “Because I am weak, I cannot even live in peace. This world is very cruel. It needs sacrifice now and then. Why can’t we just have a world which is peaceful? “ She smiled and said , “If we can get everything we need in our life, then would it be called life? “ I looked at her with confused eyes. Seeing my dumb expression, she said with a kind smile while caressing my hair, “You know, Mike, life is just all about the difficulties. If you get all the ups and no downs, then you would get bored with such a life. Similarly, if you have all the downs but no ups, you would get bored again. So now do you understand? “ I nodded while pursuing my lips. She nodded at me, because she understands me better. She knew it I had something on my mind.With a frown I said, “Mom, why don’t the su
reincarnation 73Few days have passed since I saw mom sobbing. From that day onwards, I spent most of the time with mom. Mia had come to our home , early in the morning. It was to call me because she was going to the park, and lacked company, so she wanted me to accompany her. I had nothing to do, so I agreed to accompany her. After informing mom I was going out with Mia, I went outside. She held my hands and strolled. Seeing her act like this, I smiled and asked curiously, “Why are you so sticky today?” She was flushed when she heard my words.She stuttered and said, “No.. Nothing. I am alright, what’s wrong with me ? Does it look like I am I'll? I am fit and fine. “ I smiled and rubbed her head and said, “It’s okay. You are quite different today. Not that I don’t like it. “ Mia smiled when she heard my words. Her hand gripped around mine tightly, while her body almost hugged me. I sniffed the air and asked, “You have changed your perfume. “ She nodded slightly and said, “Mom gave me
After lunch, Uncle Alex left in a hurry. He hasn’t spoken with mom about the sacrifice thing and all. Because if he were to say it, then mom might get worried. Since dad is strong, he shouldn’t have any problem to protect himself, right? So I asked him not to speak about this in front of mom. And for the first time, Uncle Alex didn’t argue with me about something, thankfully.We were talking in the living room. While talking, mom said about me releasing a song professionally. When Uncle Alex heard this, he laughed, like it was a joke. But when he saw no one was laughing except him. He looked at me weirdly and asked, “You.. You sing?” I nodded and asked, “Why? With my handsome face, don’t you think I can eat for free my entire life? “ Uncle Alex gave me a weird look, which was enough to make people understand his feeling. He still refused to believe that I can sing. So I walked upstairs and brought my laptop downstairs. I hadn’t taken the disc out of my laptop since the last time, so I
The song ‘Toxic Friends’ had just released, before my death. But the thing was that I don’t remember the entire lyrics of this song. So I had to use my creativity and complete the lyrics, which was a little hard for me. Since this was the first time I am writing parts of an incomplete song. Even though it was me who forgot the lyrics, it was still an incomplete song. It took me an hour and a half to complete the music track of ‘Toxic Friends’ I pushed open the door of the studio and walked out to see Mia and Celia talking about something.I asked them, “What are you two talking about? “ Celia was about to say something, but Mia stopped her and said ,”Nothing. It is just our girl talks. You don’t need to worry about it. “ Giving me a sly smile ,Mia said, “Well, if you are a girl, I can tell you what we were talking about. Want to know what we were talking?” Shaking my head, I said, “No need to. “ Then I sighed a breathe of relief and said, “Well, I have almost completed my next track.
Uncle Alex had to return to their stronghold the next day. So he had to leave almost by evening. After hugging Celia, and crying for some time. He broke into the hug. Celia was a little depressed, because her dress was wet because of the snot. But she couldn’t complain to anyone. I forced myself not to laugh at this funny picture. Covering my mouth with the back of my hand, I tried to suppress my laughter. But this action couldn’t escape the eyes of Uncle Alex. He just glared at me.He then turned towards Celia and said, “Celia, if this smelly boy dares to trouble, you just call me. I will make sure that he won’t be able to trouble anyone. “ Celia snorted and said, “ Mike doesn’t trouble me. But you sure are troubling me. Can’t you just stop your runny nose? This was my new dress, and you spoilt it. “ Uncle Alex had a bitter smile on his face and wiped the snot with the help of a tissue paper.Shaking my head, I walked out to accompany Uncle Alex to the cab. Uncle Alex talked along th
I sat down on the couch in the living room, still thinking about how to deal with the problem I had created. The history is repeating in this life. I clutched my head and sighed in defeat. The surrounding sound slowed down, while my brain was quickly thinking of a way to solve the relationship problems that were created by me. Mom saw me sitting on the couch while clutching my head. She frowned and walked towards the couch, and sat down beside me. When I heard someone approaching me, I instantly acted as if I was normal and there was nothing wrong going on with my life. But since when can such things escape a mother’s eye?She patted my head and asked me, “What is wrong sweety?” I smiled bitterly and said, “I don’t know.. I don’t know what to do. It’s like my life is out of my hands. “ Mom nodded and said after some thought, “It’s about Mia and Celia, right? I have to admit that your relationship with that two girls is quite weird. But I understand you. I know you love both of them. I
Celia thought about how she had opened the door. She had to agree that with passaging time, her ability to control her powers has increased by leaps. Before she couldn’t control the nature. But today she could easily open the door with the help of the vines from outside. If Mike were to hear how she had opened the door, he would have smashed his head on the wall at how stupid he was. Unknown to all this, I walked back to the couch , hoping I could find mom. But mom wasn’t there. I called for her a few times and even looked for her in the house, but she wasn’t in the house. I guessed that she might have gone outside.It has been many days ,since she has gone out. The only time she had gone out was to buy groceries. And it has been days since she had gone out. I turned the TV on, and switched the channels to find something interesting, but where could I find such things?All the channels were about an actor’s affairs with a model, or super villain’s attacks. And I was in no mood to list