A Blind Scheme

Lily was holding her hand which was CONTINUOUSLY bleeding while she was also pressing her scalps because of the pain in them.

She got up slowly and weakly and walked in search of the first aid kit.

She wrapped a band-aid on her injured hand when she found it. Even though it was hard to do it with one hand.

She then did the chores while sobbing and thinking how can a person be so heartless.

She couldn't comprehend what just happened, she was scared that this might happen but still had a little hope regarding Zared. She thought he wasn't a monster like her parents, that maybe he won't hurt her just like her parents did.

Lily always thought her parents were cruel,cruel for torturing her for something she had no control over. She grew up hating her parents for what they did to her. She thought of them as heartless beings because who did that to their own child ?

But now she wonders if they were to blame, or if it was her all along. What if she was the one who deserved it? Why would everyone in her life treat her in the same way? It was her ,she thought ,she was the problem ,not the people behaving the way they did towards her.

She held her head which was now hurting from all the contemplating. She didn't want to worsen the situation especially when there was no one to take care of her so she went to her room and layed on the bed trying to distract herself and sleep.

It was 4pm when Lily got Zared's text.

Zared : "Stay in the room and pretend you don't exist, I'm bringing my friend tonight and dinner should be ready by then"

Lily : "Okay" Lily replied and then sent a smiling emoji but Zared left it on seen

Going back to 4 months ago, Zared longed for someone who would love him and care about him for who he is and not his money. One thing he wasn't aware of was, he already had someone and it was Lily, his very own wife. He wanted someone who would love him like his mom loved him and now he was bound to find someone. So he made a plan.

He decided there was only one way to do that. It was a pathetic idea but a practical one for him. He decided to transform into a poor man and beg on the streets of London. Wearing a large amount of makeup with filthy tore clothes would be a good start to act like a beggar is what what he thought. He wondered if any girl would help him, the one who helped him, he would marry her and divorce Lily.

He used to have a girlfriend in high school but she turned out to be a gold digger and left Zared with a broken heart, he was deeply in love with his first girlfriend and didn't handle her betrayal very well. Even his friends' girlfriends all turned out to be gold diggers, they used their money and cheated on them. This is when Zared started having this mentality about women that they were all gold diggers and nothing else.

Zared didn't care about the looks of the girl but her heart. All he longed for was kindness and love, genuine love.

No one knew about this plan of his but his secretary who helped him getting ready for pretending to be a poor man.

His secretary arranged all the things he needed for it in his cabin and made sure no one recognised him while leaving.

He sat on the road begging in the scorching sun but no one would help him. A few men helped him. No women who passed by cared to even looked at him but instead shook him off feeling grossed out when he asked for money.

A few weeks passed by but he didn't find the kind of girl he was looking for. At home he got irritated easily when Lily talked to him. He decided he would stop this poor beggar drama if he doesn't find anyone until the end of the month.

Zared was heading out of the house until Lily stopped him

"Zared"

She called out

It always did something inside Zared when she called his name out,even though he had no feelings for her ,it would always stir something inside him. He somewhere liked when she called his name out.

Zared turned to look at Lily,his ocean eyes met her hazel ones.She approached him and handed him a box which looked like a lunch box.

"What's this?" asked Zared raising his eyebrow

"Lunch box...for you,I don't if you have lunch or not and even if you do,it's not healthy to eat outside everyday.So I prepared a lunch box for you"

She said smiling a bit hoping to get a kind response from Zared ,at least a thank you would do,she thought.

"I don't need this" said Zared with a straight face ,he would scream at her in anger if it was a normal day but this action of Lily didn't make him mad enough to react in that way.

He was actually quite a bit moved. He felt like he had someone who cared for him but again his thoughts got the best of him and he handed the lunch box back to her.

"Please don't force me"

He said and went out the house.

Lily, who was a bit shook by his actions stood there staring into the distance as she saw Zared dissapear from her sight.

She felt happy as he talked to her politely this time, really politely. She was beginning to think if Zared was finally ready to look at her as his wife.

It was 11 in the morning the next day and there Zared was, being roasted under the sun sitting on the side of the street.