Chapter 12
Nothing feels worse than sitting in a room where the only sound you can hear is that of the clock on the wall. It feels even weird when that ticks and tocks of the clock meets the beat of your heart and at times you feel your heart beats even faster than that.
Reyansh was called inside the office and was in there for the past 1 hour. What is he doing inside? What are they asking him? Why did they make me sit in this other office? Why am I not being questioned??
"Miss Taani, come with us please" A lady with a well ironed white blouse and perfect black pencil skirt walked out with me.
"I'm Venessa Jackson, I'm the appointed attorney for this Rehab Center."
I uncomfortably smiled and greeted her as she opened the door for me. Immediately my smiled dropped. He sat there, on one side of the long rectangular shiny brown table. He was with his blue uniform and his favorite pale, grumpy, hungry vampire face.
I gulped as I walked in. A wave of cold air hit my face. Was it from the air condition or just Rey's feelings towards me? Well, we'll never know. I licked the inner side of my cheek as Vanessa asked me to sit next to Rey. Obviously he rolled his eyes when he heard that. I pressed my lips as I reluctantly walked towards him. Honestly the view from our side of the table wasn't that pretty. It was just two of us and they were like a dozen of them who kept whispering things amongst themselves.
I took a deep breath and whispered, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to.."
"Don't" He whispered angrily
"Look, I was just trying to help" I turned towards him, but he just wouldn't look at me.
Staring at the millions of attorney's on the other side of the table he answered me back, " Thanks Taani! Thanks for your help. Now I have a legal case against me, My foster parents are being informed about this issue and probably won't want to see my face for another decade. My stay in this rehab has been extended to another 12 months..."
I gulped as I glanced at Vanessa who was signing some papers and then at Rey again. I was about to say something when he interrupted me, "And also, I have been fined 5000 dollars for damaging the rehab's property , trespassing property and once I'm out of here I'll be in jail for a couple of month for buying illegal drugs. They wont let me out of jail until someone bails me, And guess what, no one will bail me out, you know why?"
I licked my lips and turned as he looked at me into my eyes, " Cause of your generous help my parents won't even think about it"
I sighed as I felt a drop of sweat tickled down my forehead, "You can't blame me for this. You knew if you ever got caught this would happen."
"yeah" he whispered as he adjusted his seat, "I would have never got caught if you hadn't betrayed me in the first place. What was your problem Taani? If you really wanted to help me, you could have spoken to me. Not to the authorities, I was your friend."
"You wouldn't listen to me"
"You should have tried"
Our whisper argument was interrupted as one of the attorneys spoke up, "Miss Taani Shikhawat, A fine of 2000 dollars has been imposed on you for leaving the rehab center without permission. Your family has been informed and they will settle it in the next few hours"
I nodded my head and heard Rey smirk.
"However" the attorney continued, "Mr.Reyansh we've tried contacting your family, but they refused to pay your fines, Is there anyone else we could contact who might help?"
There was pin drop silence. I felt like the worse human being in this world. What have I done? This felt so wrong. But there was something I could do which would make me feel less guilty,
"Maybe I could help" I answered the attorneys
"Hell No!!" Rey snapped.
"You pay me back some day when we are out of here" I looked at him while all the attorney just stared at us.
"What on earth makes you think I'll want to see your face when I'm out of here?"
I could literally feel his hatred penetrate through my body.
"I just thought.."
"Do me a favor and keep me out of your thoughts please"
We just looked at each other while the attorneys awkwardly stared at us.
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After hours of avoiding Rey, I entered the laundry room. I was welcomed with the sound of rolling washing machines, beeping machines, the smell of washing powder and the steam of the iron being pressed against crumpled clothes. Simple things which in ordinary life made no much difference, for an addict trying to take his mind off drugs was a great help.
Rey stood near the table as he neatly folded the sheets. They called this a therapy. Arranging things neatly, placing things where they are supposed to be helped us calm down our ragging thoughts about drugs. I picked up a pile of washed sheets and quickly walked up to him, He looked at me and annoyingly sighed. He was about to walk away when someone yelled,
"You're not done yet Reyansh. 20 minutes more"
He stared at me as he pulled the sheet and began ironing it, I quickly began arranging the tangled sheets,
" Look, I know I've put you in some really deep trouble but please try to understand, my intentions weren't bad."
He placed the iron on one side as he gave me a sarcastic smile, " No comments"
"Can't we start over? Like its your day one? Be friends again?" I stared at Rey as he neatly ironed the wrinkled sheet. After a long silence he looked at me,
"You were my friend Taani. Infact there was a moment when I thought maybe we could be even more than just friends." He took a deep breath and stared at the wrinkled sheet and pulled the iron over it, " I had a lot of friends here in the rehab, ever wondered why I took just you along with me? Can you imagine the amount of faith I had in you? Who does this to someone? Who goes behind ones back and stab them like this?"
What do you say in a situation like this? A situation where you realize that you've probably ruined a lot of things. Ruined a friendship, ruined a possible relationship.
"I don't know what to say" I confessed to him. He smirked.
We silently began arranging the pile of neatly ironed sheets in the shelves as I spoked up.
"So..." I raised my eyesbrows as I handed him the sheet, "You actually thought we could be more than friends" Abruptly he dropped the sheet. We stared at the sheet on the floor and at each other. As I picked up the sheet I asked again, "No...I mean you said like few minutes ago...So I thought it would be nice if we could just clarify.."
"Its messed up"
I stared at him confused, "No its not messed up, we could just talk and sort things out.You never know maybe I feel the same, maybe we were on the same page"
He sighed as he tapped on the sheet in my hand, "The floor was dirty, the sheet is now all messed up"
I opened and closed my mouth as I looked at dirty sheet and him, "Yeah...it is indeed...pretty messed up"
He looked at me annoyingly as he pulled the remaining sheets and stacked them one by one on the shelf. "And one more thing," He spoke as I turned to walk away, "We can never be on the same page ever again. I hate you, from the bottom of my heart. You ruined my every chance of reconciling with my parents. You're like a curse to me, All I wanna do is stay as far as possible from you"
I nodded my head, "Got it"
My voice was shaking, I felt a drop of tear roll down my cheek as I walked out of the room. For a moment I thought I could fix this, for a second I thought he would understand. But at this moment talking to him was pointless. But I had to stay positive, I couldn't lose hope. If he said he thought we could be more than friends than I had to remind him why he felt so. Even thou it meant being insulted over and over again.
Well, he called me a curse right? Now I'm gonna behave like one!
Edited by Andy_Dynamite - 9 years ago
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