Snow tears

Homeless and Hopeless

12-11-2019

1 year 5 month back

I was holding my guitar and singing a song I composed at a railway station when a shadow pass by me and sat beside me it was common for people to sit and enjoy while waiting for their trains so I didn't mind it.

One hour passed, second hour and just like that the person sat next to me didn't move for a second in last 8 hours.At last at midnight I completed my day and started packing my stuff and decided to go home.

Just then a sweet voice entered my ears " Mr the way you sing can give life to the dead and the amount they pay you is not enough to compensate for even one stanza of your song".

I paused she was the same girl I met yesterday. She said the same thing yesterday, she had fragrance of Lilly on her. He had doubts since she sat beside him, but he kept quiet till she herself started speaking.

" it's enough for me " my voice was rough since I was singing close to 8 hours now, I slung my guitar bag and started to move for my house, it was fifteen minutes already and the same girl was following me I turned towards her and said irritatingly " stop following me are you a stalker".

she paused for while but she increased the distance between us, so I could not understand that she was following me but what she didn't know was that I was not complete blind but partial blind I could see shadows of people and each person had his own shape so it was easy to distinguish between them.

" Are you a thief, are you planning to attack me, let me tell you I didn't earn much as you yourself saw earlier" this time I was shouting at her annoyed at the little pest. she ran towards me I put my stick in between us as a warning.

"ohhh Mr you can see, were you tricking people out of their money, but don't worry I won't tell anyone about you" she said it patting my shoulder like a pet I shrugged her and tried to focus at this pesky girl but again disappointed as I couldn't see anything other than blur which was making me angry. So, I used my stick and tapped at her knee and shouted " get lost don't irritate me".

instead of replying she started groaning loudly " Mr why did you hit me where I was hurt are you sure you are blind". This instantly made me anxious for her wound which I don't know she had, I immediately bend down and started touching her knee to feel for injury.

" Hey Mr stop touching me I am still a maiden you know if you will touch me you have to take responsibility for me" I snorted at her response " Are you sure about that because I don't think you are more than 13, what I think is that you are just a child who ran from her house".

" Mr I am 18 years old I can vote legally you know, when I can choose the president why can't I live alone" she replied. I shrugged and said " how would I know after all I am just a blind guy it's your words against my blindness"

" Mr trust me I don't lie, infact I hate those who lie at me, I prefer to be stabbed by truth rather than cuddled by lie" her words surprised me I was curious for her but I decided to curb my curiosity and directly asked her " then why are you following me, what are your intention".

" Mr I am a young maiden what intention I would have for you at this age , it's just that..." she paused after saying that and I started moving forward showing her that if she didn't tell me then he had other thing to do.

She ran towards me pulled my hands and said " wait wait I just want to ask if I can live with you for few days, you see I am homeless and hopeless right now, Mr please help me!!!"

I raised my eyebrows at her " how do you know that I am not a homeless person who sleep at road side and how can you trust me?"

She giggled" Mr if you are homeless than I live in castle, do you know the clothes in your body would easily cost an average person his 6 month salary"

I slapped myself and grumbled at Aiden my brother for that and asked her " what about second question" she was quite for a while and said " Music never lie Mr, and your song can convince a person to live then how could the person singing it be bad". After listening to it I let her follow me , from that day I never asked for her to leave and she never decided to leave. We lived in a perfect harmony for 1 year 5 month.