- Familiar Stranger
I clicked the shutter too forcefully.
The sound made him glance my way.
He looked directly at me—and smiled politely. A tight, impersonal smile. The kind you give to strangers.
Of course he didn’t recognise me. Not with this face—a stranger’s face, reshaped by surgeons after the accident had stolen everything.
“You, okay?” someone asked.
" Yeah,” I lied. “Just light-headed.”, I blinked. Tom, my colleague, handed me a glass of water.
“Here. You look pale. Take this , it will help .” Tom spoke while he handed a glass of water