Chapter 1

(Kazumi’s POV)

Every person has secrets which they want to hide from the world. Some secrets are innocent and sweet like having a crush on someone or secretly dating someone. But there are several dark secrets of a person which he/she tries to bury deep inside their heart because once it’s out it can turn their life upside down. But what if you have the ability to hear these secrets? This obviously sounds impossible and weird but believe me I do have the ability to hear a person’s secret just by looking into his/her eyes. For some people this ability may sound as a boon but try putting yourself in my shoes, to be able to hear all those weird and even scary secrets of people who have innocent faces. For me this is the worst curse of my life I’ve ever received, I never wanted ‘this’ ability even in my wildest dreams.

Let’s start with introducing myself, My name is Kazumi ,a high school student ,poor in studies and to make my life worst I have this weird ability to hear others secrets. But the only thing I’m grateful for in my life is my best friend, Ren who never avoids or gets agitated. We are childhood sweetheart. We share our every secret from tip to toe. Yeah, I know I can hear his secrets just by looking into his eyes but I want him to tell me his every secrets from his own mouth. And from me ,I don’t have anyone else to share my secrets other than him. My classmates think I’m weird and hard to talk with. So, they never talk to me. Ren is famous, rich and handsome as well, many girls has secret crush on him and boys envy him and on top of all this he is a genius student. An perfect example of an ideal student ,totally opposite of me. I’m an introvert with bad grades and belonging to a poor household. And because Ren is always by my side others don’t wanna talk to him either but he doesn’t bother. I used to feel guilty for it but now I’m just used to it.

 I first came across my ability when I was in elementary school. At that time, I was not able to understand what was happening with my surrounding as I suddenly heard the voice of a girl saying she has a crush on Ren and wants to know about his likes and dislikes. When I asked her about this, she ran away from me, crying .Till this day I can still remember the expression she had in her face. She was confused and scared at the same time. Later, I started to discover many more secrets of my classmates, teachers and all the people I met. I was scared I don’t want to listen to all this. I tried covering my ears and to run away from all the voices but it was all in vain. I didn’t wanted to tell this to others because they would have surely taken me as a liar.

 I began to avoid people including Ren and made myself isolated. No one tried to talk to me as well but Ren approached me during the lunch with his sweet smile and sat beside me with his lunch. I tried to pretend that I didn’t notice him and continued eating my own lunch until he said, ‘I know you have some problem which you don’t wanna share with others but avoiding me won’t give any solution ‘ I was petrified. Before I could say anything he continued, ‘I am always here to listen to you even if you don’t want me’. I wanted to speak but no words left my mouth, I was just staring at him with teary eyes. He held my hands and led me to our class which was empty at that time. After entering the class he made me sit in one of the seats and sat beside me, patting my head. At that very moment I lost it ,I began to cry hysterically. Many thoughts came into my hand and one of them was to tell him about my newly found ability.

But, the question was Will he believe? What if he thinks I’m a liar? Would he also leave me and think of me as some weird guy?