"So, Romeo has gone and Juliet was sad thinking about his Romio's arrival. Isn't she?" Claire teased me.

"Claire!!" I warned and walked further.


"Hey! Hey! Don't mad at me. I just want to lighten your mood. That's it." She exclaimed.

I gave her a smile and hugged her, immediately she returned the hug back. "So how is thing going?" She asked.

"Perfect! Everything is perfect." I admitted truthfully though perfect is just a small word to describe my contentment.


She smiled at me. "I am glad for you Riya. Finally, you find your happiness." Her smile was pure.

"Yeah." I chuckled, yet the long tears pooled down through my cheeks unknowingly.


She knows my hard time and how my parents treated me like trash. All the time she was there for me, supporting me and encouraging me as a sister.

"You know what? You are such an annoying. See! You made me cry." I wiped my tears.

"Ahhh! It's not my intention." She cooed like I was a small kid. I slapped her hand playfully and we both walked into our class.

~~~

It's been just 24 hours but I started to miss him. I called him but the line was engaged on the other side.

I curled my body and wrapped my arms around my knees. He has gone for two days and here I can't able to function. All my body parts were shut down and refused to work properly.

How I am going to survive without him. I shook my thoughts and a smile played on my face when I remembered the day he made me a promise. "I won't leave you." His words were a cure to my boiling blood.

"Hey!" I ran towards him and jumped into his arms. "Oh, baby! I missed you." He said settling me down and caught my lips for a passionate kiss. "I really missed you." He moaned.

"You're the light, you're the night

You're the colour of my blood

You're the cure, you're the pain

You're the only thing I wanna touch"

The annoying sound ruined my dreams. I groaned loudly and looked around for the source of that sound.

It's my phone ringing. Excitement took over my body and I grabbed my phone from the nightstand.

My heartbeat doubled when I saw the caller's name. I pressed the green button and put the phone to my ear.

"Hey! Hi." I breathed.

"Hey, beautiful! Looks like someone had trouble to sleep." he teased. I can say he was grinning on the other side.

"It's because of you!" I said in a slight tone not wanting to wake others.

"I was wondering how you are doing. Because here I am dying without having my girl in my arms."

I blushed at his statements. "Same here." I giggled. We chatted for a while until sleep consumed me.

*

"Mom! Where are we going?" Sweety asked in nth time through the driving.

"Baby! We are going shopping and then we will go to the park." I said to her meanwhile my full attention was on the road.

"Hey! Hey! We are going to the park!!' She squealed happily.

Oh, my cute baby!

Once we reached the mall, I parked the car in the parking area and unbuckled her seat belt.

As usual, Sweety claimed out of the car and ran away. "Sweety!!!' I called her name and walked towards the direction of where she had gone.

"Here, you are!" I let out a sigh of relief when I found her but she didn't turn, instead stood there like a statue. Her shoulder was shaking and I heard a small whimper coming from her side which immediately alerted my motherhood.

Is she crying?

Different types of scenarios started to play in my mind and I ran towards her. I lifted her in my arm and she wrapped her arm around my neck and buried her head on it.

"Baby! What happened?" I asked rubbing her back up and down. She had been gone five minutes from my sight, and here I'm seeing her with red eyes.

"Mom! That uncle is very bad!" She cried, tears occupied her entire bubbly face. Sweety is strong as Mount Everest, she won't cry for unwanted reasons.

"Who? What did he do?" I asked. Who has the cruel mind to upset a kid?

"He... He trampled my chocolate and didn't even ask me sorry. He said it was my mistake and mumbled something like--" She hiccupped very hard.

"And mumbled like same as her mother." She tried her best to stop her blabbering but her baby heart didn't take the issue easily despite she has a strong mind as Mount Everest.

Hearing her words my blood boiled but I stayed silent for a minute. How I am going to explain to her that he did this purposely.

"Baby! They are like monsters, so there is no use in expecting some manners from them." I found a way to explain her.

If he is harsh to my baby then I don't care who he is.

"Ohh! But he wore a suit, monsters won't wear clothes right?" She rubbed her eyes and looked at me innocently.

Who said, answering a child's questions will be an easy part? I shook my internal thought.

"Shall we eat ice cream?" I asked her to divert her mind. And to my fortune, she nodded her head eagerly.

Thank God! She simply let that incident go from her solid mind.

We had our girl's time in the mall and now we are heading our way to the park.

Once we reached, Sweety ran towards the other kids to play and I took a seat on the bench. After a while, she ran towards me and stopped in front of me, panting so hard.

Even before I get a chance to ask her a question, I saw him standing behind Sweety. What is he doing here? Did he follow us? Did he get any suspect? My heart thundered heavily against my chest.

What did she do now?

"Mom! I saw a monster there," she said and clutched my hand which partially snatched me out of my own apprehension.

"What?" He shouted. His expression was unreadable like he lost his best project for being careless.