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Kevin

Kaima was right. The fresh air I breathed in, the wind gently kissing my skin, it all felt perfect. I did need to step out and it helped clear up my messy mind. We didn’t go too far, only walked a few blocks down. No matter how good and free I felt I still couldn’t get that tinge of worry within me out of my system. It continued looming in my mind like some wronged spirit seeking vengeance without any thoughts of stopping till its goals get accomplished. I sighed heavily…

“Zara are you okay?” the concerned voice of my sister pulled my out of the reverie I had let myself get lost in. I beamed at her

“Of course I'm fine.”

“It must all be confusing-” she suddenly stated. Her eyes were looking straight ahead yet they were not focused on anything in particular. She looked so wise and much more mature. She must have noticed my confusion so she explained further

“Waking up to two years in the future...”

“Technically I woke up five years into the future” I laughed sadly at thought, if only I could remember. Kaima turned to me with a smile

“I know you have a lot of questions and I just want you to know that you can always ask me anything. I will honestly tell you whatever I know but please, don’t ever hold yourself back, don’t stop yourself from wanting to know about…” she paused as she looked me in the eyes “… you.”

I breathed out heavily attempting to calm myself as my over thinking brain began to go haywire with thoughts. Of course I wanted answers and it was obvious that mum and dad had their reasons for giving me vague answers. Even Emelie always found a way to evade my questions, he must be doing it to protect me from something, they all are. It warmed my heart to know that my little sister was at least willing to give me answers but as much as I wanted to know I was equally frightened of what I may discover. They put so much effort into to hiding things from me, to protect my mind from something which may be beyond my bearing capacity. Whatever it was, it must have been traumatic. I convinced myself that things would be fine, that things are fine.

I wasn’t paying attention to any other thing due to the thoughts surging within me and next thing I know, I end up twisting ankle and falling forward. Knowing that I had already lost balance and couldn’t steady myself, I braced myself for the upcoming impact with the ground and my eyes were tightly shut ready to take the hit which never came thanks to my hands reflectively giving me much needed wedge. I could feel the skin on both my palms and a knee scraping due to the impact with the rough ground but at least I didn’t fall entirely. That would have been a lot more embarrassing, jeez.

“Are you okay?” I heard an unfamiliar deep voice say. I tried standing on my own but the pain from my leg kicked in. A pair of arms held me firmly giving me support to stand but the sweet yet manly cologne from the stranger made me momentarily forget the discomfort from the pain.

 I heard my sister’s voice behind, apparently I was so lost in thought that I even walked ahead of her without taking notice of it.

“Are you okay?” She looked appalled “…Oh God, mom’s going to kill me” she muttered to herself fearfully, but was I fine until-

“Hey don’t worry your sister is fine...” that deep, smooth masculine voice reached my ears again and that’s when I realized that there was someone else there with us and this someone still has his hands on my shoulders. The realization made me jerk away but upon moving pain shot throughout my body from my ankle. God, it hurt so much.

“Well I guess she isn’t entirely fine.” His voice rang out once again with concern. Ignoring the pain I looked up to see his face. Tall, dark and handsome, with a killer smile that made me stiffen. He was such a looker; I have might as stop hurting entirely if my shy, blushing self hadn’t looked away. But that got me thinking again, did I ever get to have a guy in my life? Or was I single the whole time? Not that I would be surprised if I had almost died single. ‘May be you’ve even done it’ a voice in head said teasingly, weird much. Besides, what does ‘it’ mean? I need someone to explain these weird thoughts.

“You're bleeding…” I stared down at my palms and sister was right but I only had scratches, there was much blood. Even the scrapes on my knee slightly bled but they didn’t hurt as much as my ankle. Maybe I broke something….

The handsome stranger asked Kaima to support instead while he crouched down to check my ankle-

“Good news is nothing is broken but you sustained a sprain.” He looked up at me

“Is your home far from here?” he asked focusing on Kaima who shook her head in response

“I can walk you home” then, he stood staring into my eyes “that if it’s okay with you of course”

Kevin walked us home. Yes he told me his name, Kevin (geeky cute) and turns he is a medical student, not only is he really cute but smart too.  

He did sound nice and the air around him was very welcoming, but something was kind of off. He continued glancing back like there was something, or someone, behind him. His movements were so subtle that they could go unnoticed but though I'm ashamed to admit, I was too focused on him and could his every move. Then again maybe it was just my imagination, there’s definitely no one behind us. I even looked back occasionally just to reassure myself and everyone seemed to mind their own business and so I told myself there was no reason to worry ‘it must have been in my head’

Roseane Clare

does Kevin sound suspicious or is some random good guy?

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