Episode 5. A night with the stars

Hello lonely chair, are you awake? Can you even sleep? Though you have no eye, does it mean that you don’t deserve it? At least not tonight, stay alive and listen to me.

Why you look so happy today? Am I your clown?

Here somebody to cover up your emptiness, a thief stealing my private space. My chair is now his, so does my bed.

But I can’t ask them to throw him out of the house; I can’t say that at all. What made his parents deciding him to send so far from them? He must be an evil child.

If he gets admission in my school, is he going to follow me like an inauspicious shadow? No, it’s impossible, this can’t be happen. We can’t read in the same school, can’t stay together dawn to dusk. If he passes, I immediately have to shift to any other. I have to get an admission form. Don’t know what Maria would say. Hey, what do you think, if I ask, Sofie will understand, right? Well, you can’t reply. Useless!

Better go back to the roof.

Woah, so many stars! They are all dancing, seriously!

A small piece of cloud just blackout the question mark stars, some say, they answer somehow... Hey cloud, pass away, let me ask to the stars, do they reply?

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‘Zahid, wake up. Zahid….’

Shit, Sofie! Her voice disrupted my dream; I thought some angel’s calling my name.

‘Have you spent the whole night here?’

Nodding my head, in a sad face I have to say yes though I am not really.

‘And why did you do that?’ such a frightening voice! But I am not scared. I could laugh unlimited if she couldn’t have killed me. It’s a good morning indeed!

‘I can't sleep….with him…’

Shit! I thought I would say 'with him' in my mind. But I can’t talk like this, I know, he did no wrong. She might scold me, but why we are so silent!

Are we grown up!

‘I never said anything you, Zahid because always Maria was there to control you. But that doesn’t mean that every time I appreciated you. Can’t you understand?’

Do I?

‘Why are you always trying to isolate youself? What’s wrong? Don’t you have a single friend?’

Do I have any?

‘Unbelievable! SAY SOMETHING.'

Well, ‘We need to talk.’

She sits next to me. Smells like sweet Cherry flower, waiting to hear something important. Is that any important to her? I wanted to say Farabi is ugly, the way he chews and swallows and digests is disgusting and I want my space back, wanted to say that I hate him because he slept in my bed a whole night and the odor of shithole can’t be omitted from that place. But I now just want to say, Sofie, you are beautiful.

‘I thought your hair is black but the sun light have made it brown. They’re shining.’

‘I am not Maria. It’s Sofie Zahid. You can’t spoil the conversation talking silly things. We were about to discuss something serious, you said. Now tell me, what the issue is.’ I was serious, she didn’t get it.

‘Is Farabi going to stay here forever?’

‘No one can stay anywhere forever Zahid. Look, he is your nephew. Our brother and sister-in-law are so much busy that they can’t take care of their child. So they have trusted that we would give him love and affection he needs. So they send him here. Are they wrong Zahid? He is our own, don’t you think? Listen, he is suffering depression because of loneness. His parents could never look after him like others. He needs our support.’

Is it possible in real to be upset for being alone? Must be a photocopy of Miss Maria Mirza and this is his fault that he yet not learn to be happy alone. I feel pity for him.

‘Well, so this is fixed that he is going to stay here. Now, listen, I can’t sleep with him and can’t waste my private time. I have to read books, practice guitar and other things to do, I need alone time. You understand right?’

‘No, I don’t understand. It's only been a night Farabi has come and what you are behaving is not normal in any sense.’

‘Sofie, I always wanted to live in this garret and now I’ve got this opportunity, just need your support.’

Why she is staring like that!

‘Sista…’

Where is she going? A new drama? No, she won’t do that. What’s in her mind? God save me, if there's any you!

What should I do now? Go downstairs! In my room? Is there any left?

Well, she is here, with the key and the broom. What she’s doing?

‘We don’t need any permission from anyone. If you wish to live here, then surely you can. This is your house, Our house. We are brothers and sisters and Farabi is our beloved nephew. Okay? Now do you think you will be okay alone here? Won’t you feel afraid?’

‘Absolutely not.’ this is what actually Sofie can do. She is an angel in real.

But the room is full of dust. And we need another space to store the things.

‘Are you sure you want to stay here? It must be warmer here. Think again.’

No more wasting time. I have to clean it up before Maria wakes up. She must be sleeping till now.

‘Zahid listen, you can use the sofa…. and we need to repair this bed. Move it out of the room, we will fix it later.'

‘But Maria…’

‘I’ll look after that.’ I know her word does mean.

‘Can I listen to music.’ so that I don’t need to think what to say more during this cleaning up…

‘Sure’

She is not angry anymore. As if what we are doing, is normal. But I have to ask for another thing, shifting school. I’ve not think much about that. So this is not the right time.

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