An Orange Cloud

  Chapter 9     “Why do you even care, Aditya?” Nakshatra huffs at me, barely reaching my shoulders. I stand there in shock, towering over her, my eyes wide, brows scrunching in disbelief.   ‘Why do I care? What do you mean why do I care , Nakshatra?’   My fists clench on either side of my body. My breath catches.   ‘Of all the things you could say, you’re asking me if I care ?   Let me remind you one thing, Nakshatra. Every single day for the past year, we have been walking to school TOGETHER. And I know you wait for me so we can go together. We always walk together. Usually we would talk or I’d be listening to music while you speed walk with me; we do it nonetheless.   But today, you just randomly decided not to walk with me? When I was passing by your home, I glanced out of habit and didn’t see you outside like usual; many reasons for your being late rushed in my mind. I thought maybe you overslept, or you got sick w...

   This is the story of how I got into reading again. It is a big deal for me. Sto-rini-25   After some vigorous studying for my level 2 exams, I had 40 days of rest till the results. I did nothing the whole time, by the way. I wanted to start hobbies. Guess I did something.   I bought a water colouring book. Yes you’ve heard me right. There is a thing called water colouring book. The book has the pigments, they give you two paint brushes. It’s so easy and amazing. I painted few. I got the unicorn themed book. The fun thing is you can actually tear the painted picture and use it as a bookmark which I will not be doing because they’re too precious for that. Here are the pictures. It gets progressively better, I swear.        [1,2,3] [4,5,6] The 6 th  one shows the pigments on the side. The other 5, I tore them out after finishing it. The 1 st  one was, hmm umm, an experiment of sorts. As you can see, there are fish at the bottom so o...

If I told you, you’d go mad. If I told you I don’t want to go, you’d go mad If I told you I want to go, you’d go mad If I told you what I wanted to wear, you’d go mad If I don’t wear what you want me to, you’d go mad If I stayed up late, you’d go mad If I don’t finish my chores, you’d go mad If I do what I want, you’d go mad If I do what you want in my way, you’d go mad If I told you I was heartbroken, you’d go mad If I told you I was burnt out, you’d go mad If I am depressed, you’d go mad If I don’t say anything at all, you’d still go mad. What would you do if I told you that I loved you? Would you still be mad? I would. . This piece is not intentional towards anyone but a mere imagination brought into life through words. Imagine an over-controlling person in someone’s life. They love them but it is bad love and they know it. “Life goes on”, everyone around them says it. But that shouldn’t mean they should accept it, right? So at the end they realize it is bad (f...