SEBIAN

With a loud thud I closed the door of my room. ‘Oh God! What was I doing?! What would have I done if Mrs. Jones didn’t disturb us?! It makes me mad that I lost my self control and led all this. I am very sure Mrs. Jones noticed that something was wrong as I literally ran out of there with a red face when she entered the room. I just hope that she doesn’t get to know what that something was. My heart is still beating frantically fast and my face feels hot. I poured a glass of water and gulped it in an attempt to calm myself down. After a few deep breaths I went and lied down on the bed. Tomorrow I have to meet Alin and say sorry to her first otherwise I will not be able to face her. I don’t even know what she was feeling right now about what happened. I took my phone out to cal her but then decided against it. Let’s just deal with it tomorrow. I need time to think about what to tell her.

In the morning I got ready to go to Alin’s house for breakfast. I kept on practicing the words of apology till I reached there. Mrs. Jones opened the door with her usual welcoming smile. It looks like she hasn’t suspected anything. The other members joined us and we had a nice breakfast. Alin looked rather calm but didn’t seem angry with me, that’s a good thing. “Aly, can you go with Sebian and pick up some groceries for me” Mrs. Jones said after breakfast. “Sure mom.” I started the car and we drove to Poppy’s Mart. She didn’t like to talk while we drive, just listened to music and chill was what she liked. I knew that so I didn’t started any conversation. We reached at the mart and were welcomed by Poppy at the front. “Hey Sebian, how are you?” “I am great Poppy. How are you?” “Just usual. Any news about your grandma?” “Yeah, the doctors say that she can be discharged in a week.” “Oh, that’s great!” Poppy stopped talking to me and paid attention to the customer standing in front of her. Today was Saturday so the store was more crowded than on week days. I gave her an understanding smile and went inside where Alin was already picking up the items in the list. “You are alright?” I asked her in a hushed tone, near her ear. “What are you talking about?” she answered without looking at me still busy with the items in the shelves.”About yesterday Alin, are you okay?” I noticed her hands fumbled a little and expression changed to that of embarrassment, her cheeks started turning red. “I am sorry. I am very sorry about what happened yesterday Alin. I didn’t mean it to, it just happened. I promise that it will never happen again without your consent. I am sorry, don’t be angry with me.” I blabbered out. She looked at me blinking her big green eyes. “It’s okay Sebian. It’s not like you are the only one who was responsible. I mean, it’s not like I was trying to stop you either. We both were equally involved in the act and I am not angry at you so stop worrying about that.” She smiled “And since we are in a relationship I think things like that are common but let’s just make sure we don’t get things this out of control the next time.” I nodded at her and sighed in relief while she got back to her list.

We got back to her house and I helped Mrs. Jones with cooking. After the lunch I decided to skip on studies today and somehow made Alin agree to watch movie with me. We sat on the couch watching the cartoon movie and laughed to our heart’s content. I love to see Allin being so carefree like that. It’s not a regular thing so I cherish every moment she acts that way. I think I watched her the whole time rather than the movie and somewhere in the middle just dozed off.

After I don’t know how long I felt a nudge on my elbow. “The movie is over; shall we go and study now?” Alin who was sitting beside me asked. We got to her room, grabbed the books and started. I am pretty sure Alin is going to get that scholarship and live her dream, she works so hard for it. Meanwhile, I still haven’t decided what I will do but as long as I get to stay with her I think I will be fine.

A knock on the door made us both look up from our books. “Dinner time” Ronin poked his head and announced. I kept the book aside and yawned. Finally food! I was so excited that I ran past Alin and reached down inhaling the delicious aroma and praising the skills of Mrs. Jones. A loud thudding sound made us look back to see that Alin had fallen and rolled two steps down to the floor. I ran to her along with Ronin and was horrified to see her face all pale. We both tried to shake her calling her name but she won’t wake up. At that very moment I had a feeling that this was going to end up badly, very badly.