my blood

'Have you ever gone to some family trips?' I asked him fidgeting with my fingers.

'Yeah, a lot of times. Once to Deoghar and another to Raurkela and all. A lot of places. Why?' 

'Just like that, i was wondering. You have a loving family, right?'

'Yeah. But not so much. I also get rebuked at a lot of times, and when that happens i tend to take an escape to the study rooms in FIITJEE. There is a lot of silence there, so i feel good.'

'Hmm, it's good actually.'

'What about you?'

'What?'

'Do you think you have a loving family?' He moved his hands in a wave. 

'Umm, i don't know. I...just don't know.' He chuckled.

'Yeah, i think i know that from today's surprise ASL speech of yours on family. Were you about to cry?' 

'NO! Why would I?' He chuckled again.

'It should not be funny.' I glared at him in disbelief.

'Ah, yeah, yeah, i was just...your almost crying face was hilarious.' He smiled a wide one. I narrowed my eyes at him.

'Not like yours when you must do. I think i can imagine it well.' 

'I don't cry.' He said bluntly, shaking his head at me.

'I think you do. Might be often for the red lines i see sometimes beneath your eyes.' I pointed.

'You are lying, there is nothing in here.' He stretched his eyes and i laughed loudly.

'You are funny.'

'I guess so.'

We walked further.

'Do you have a blog?' I asked.

'No, why?'

'I thought you must write a lot.'

'Umm, no i don't write a lot, but yeah i do sometimes.'

'What's your favorite piece about?'

'Umm, it must be 'blind', a snippet i once wrote long before i knew that romance novels were actually written that way.' He giggled.

'Have you read that genre?' 

'Ah, only once on Wattpad. I got to know about this book site so sought to read something but i accidentally read a lovey-dovey one and it was cringey of course, but i noticed that the skeleton of it was just the same as my 'blind' one.'

'Oh! What is 'blind' about though?'

'Well, it's about a blind date where the boy knows his blind date who is his school friend, but wonders if the girl knows it too, but couldn't be much possible, right? Since it's a blind date. So they meet and then when they go about and around, the girl pulls up talks about his past love and things start going down from there. It's short and weird but i guess the writing process is really good in that.'

'Oh. So do you have any?'

'No, i couldn't