“Kindness is crying with someone who is crying and smiling with someone who is smiling. Kindness is being there for the person.”
[Jacqueline’s Pov]
I felt a hand on my shoulders. My sister. I turned towards her, smiled, and turned back again towards the window. Children were playing hide and seek. Every kid was trying their best to hide themselves and I felt resonated with it. Isn’t my life the same as the game of hiding and seeking? I heard my sister saying,
“What’s wrong Jacqueline?” My brain replied, “Nothing.” I saw her standing numb behind me listening to my reply as if speechless.
“Your eyes are red.” She sat beside me uttering those words.
“I accidentally touched it with my hands after eating.”
“Okay.” This time she didn’t utter anything at all. Just sitting in silence.
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“Did you have Lunch?”
“No.”
I bring it
at myself. At least I have two people
“Okay.”
it. Sometimes you don’t know what you are feeling. Sometimes if you do know, you don’t know how to explain it to
as the flowers swayed due to its
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one of the stalls of the washroom waiting for the bell to ring. And when it did I left the school for home. I chose to come back in the taxi and
was consumed with sadness before I heard this song. But now your beautiful song
yielded a fabric of love all over me, how his rhythmic flow of voice had managed to calm my heart. How his words had helped me to fade away some sad memories and brought me to a halt. How much I was thankful to him.
My sister is back with a tray of chapatis and Bean curry with chocolate of Dairy Milk. I loved chocolates as much as I loved anything. I tried to blurt out something to make her believe I was fine but my mouth doesn’t support me. I stood up to close
about our life and then suddenly says she believes we will be fine one day. But I don’t shake either. I tell her I
her feel I am laughing in reality. The bean curry burns my tongue but I don’t wince. One after another I take small bites. Guilt ties to my soul, settling on me like dust does proudly. I stay silent watching as she furrows her black eyes, then sighs then tries to make
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