Ready for it

Iris laid down beside Eros, who is yet to open his eyes. She kept thinking about what Ojas said a few hours ago.

'He loves you more than himself. You are his strength and he will not be the same without you. Leave him if you don't love him'

It is a sleepless night for her like the last couple of nights. But she is not tired. She is restless and couldn't make her mind settled. She wanted to know about her past.

'The human world was never yours. You are not born there '

She began to come to terms with what the priest said. She has a hazy memory of being called a red-eyed girl during her young years by her classmates. She remembered how her grandfather relocated them to a new place and taught her to control her emotions.

When she innocently asked him why her classmates became scared of her in her previous school, he lied to her.

'They were kids just like you dear. Just like how you get scared often by things which I am not scared of, they must have seen something and must have assumed