“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.”
about I bring it here and we can
myself. At least I have two people who give a
“Okay.”
I was thankful that she chose to not talk about it. Sometimes you don’t know what you are feeling. Sometimes if you do know, you don’t know how
the wind from the window was enveloping me as the flowers swayed due to its pressure side by side. Everything
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ring. And when it did I left the school for home. I chose to come back in the taxi and not the school bus. I also had sent a text
I heard this song. But now your beautiful song has consumed me like a
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. But there was no response at least not yet. He must have been busy. Maybe he would have
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 the window but she stopped me and brought a small table towards it. Placing the tray of food
as she jokes 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 don’t believe
after another occasionally responding to her words. Fake laughing but trying to make 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 me laugh again with a
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