I Dreamed of Love

4. Blue Verses Blue

ROMAN’S POV:

I got lost again as she sat across me, with a mere four-legged table in between. My gaze darted to her iceberg eyes and for now, there was a roaring mess in them. A will to devour and a will to rise. But when I first got familiar with them, there was nothing of the sort. They were empty and void. They were seeking something and now as I focused deep, I realized that she found what she hunted for.

To lessen the uprising tension that would cause havoc in a while, I questioned “Introduce yourself,” and her gaze reluctantly twitched in response. She was an enigma and that I knew. Just a little scratch to the surface may let her show me her true colors. Her beautiful red lips puckered a little and then a voice that I had heard before, echoed in the room “Ashk Harvey,” and I was amused by her wit. A Short reply for a two-worded question. 

“That might not be enough, Ashk,” I asked as I got amused with the shade of little nervousness smirking out of her eyes. Her gaze faltered a little between the decision to answer or not and at last, she did “I am Ashk Harvey and I have done Law from Cambridge. I am here for the legal advisor's assistant position. That's all,”

I scrutinized her for a bit and glazing a greasy smile on my face teased a bit to render the seriousness out “That may not be all. Tell me something I might not know,” and her eyes flared up. Those translucent hollows turned fiery as she bit her lips and gulped the raging storm inside and then spoke “That is all that I have to say. If you want to find something else then you might find it under the legs of the one gone, Sir,” and I was for a moment flabbergasted and then the next I burst into laughter. Laughter after so long. She was the one. I have seen this fierceness in someone’s eyes before. The amber ones and the translucent ones have something in common, a will to fight and a will to survive.

She was flaring up like a firework and I asked something out of the ordinary that made her stutter “Why do you need this job? Tell me the truth, Ashk. The real one,”. She was dumbfounded as she gazed in blues with her blues and then gazed down. She lost the battle on something this ordinary. But nevertheless, she raised her face and gazing deep into my eyes replied “I need this because I am alone, Sir, and I don't want you to get into details. The connection of somewhat you think we have is not here,”

That struck me hard. The five-letter word snatched my better judgment. Aloof was I as I looked into her eyes. A truth so subtle is hard to digest. A truth that lived in my being for years was in front. Someone like me. Someone who wanted to raise the curtains of loneliness and seclusion. So I had to ask her a question but more restlessness was inside me.

“Is loneliness justified as a reason to get this?” 

She looked up to me and for the first time or maybe the third time in my life, I felt something weird happening inside. Those transparent eyes. They were not blue, not grey but in the middle somewhere. Where I couldn’t decipher the change. There was numbness and a stroke of sadness in them. She stammered and then fidgeted her finger, as her lips tried to state something I already knew. Just a pinch in me to let her speak. So she did at last.

“It haunts me at nights and I want to get rid of that. I am afraid,” with that a tear slipped through her eyes and I rested myself with the back of my chair. 

“You got the job,” I replied as I gazed down this time. I was so lost. Why she didn't want to remember. Why is it so painful?

She is here for a while and I will explore her as I please and that she doesn't have to find out.

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