Fates Of Obscurity

Dinner

Dinner

Four-year-old Aaron was happily walking in the playground of his school, when he noticed that one child was sitting alone under the tree looking down, the child looked really lonely and sad. So Aaron decided to approach her.

"Hey," Aaron said and the child looked at him, the child's face was covered with mud. It looked like she fell, the child didn't say anything but turned to look at the other side.

"Hey, I am talking to you," Aaron said with a smile, although he was a little sad that the child ignored him he didn't mind "come on why aren't you replying," he said and reached out his hand to touch the child but the child moved back and avoided the contact.

"Hey I will not beat you okay, I just want to be friends with you," Aaron said and the child looked at him with a surprised face, this made Aaron quite happy "yes, come on let's be friends I am Aaron, " Aaron said and moved his hands towards the child's direction.

The child looked at Aaron's hand and after a few seconds she held Aaron's hand and shook it "friends"? the child said "yes friends, come let's meet my other friends" Aaron said and tried to pull the child but the latter withdrew his hand.

"what happened," Aaron asked "don't wanna meet?" the child replied

"Okay then, let's sit here, where is your lunch" the child didn't say anything she just pointed towards a specific direction, when Aaron looked in that direction he saw that there was food lying on the ground.

"Is it yours" the child nodded "did you fell?" the child shook his head "did someone push you" the child nodded

"no problem here have mine," Aaron said and they happily eat their food, "you are so cute I will call you Panda"

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"Aaron get ready, the guest would be coming anytime" Diane reminded him. bringing him back to reality.

"Okay," Aaron said and went to his room still thinking about his Panda.

" Did something happen?" Bryan asked and Diane Shook her head

"Why?"

"No it's just that he looks a little lost today," Bryan said," anyway I will go and get ready."

*

"Welcome, please come inside," Diane said as he opened the door for the guest with a wide smile.

"Thank you, Miss Diane," Hayden said as he and the other two entered the house.

"Welcome Mr. Shroff," Bryan said and shook hands with Hayden and Felix "hello Amber it's nice to meet you," Bryan said.

"Same here," Amber said, she was wearing a simple black top and black jeans, and her hair was tied up in a ponytail.

"Let's go inside, everyone wants to meet you all," Bryan said and then went towards the living room followed by the rest.

All the family members and the guests were seated in the living room. They were talking about various news and world affairs and what not mostly Hayden and Felix were doing was talking while Amber was just sitting in a corner silently listening to the conversation.

Everyone in the house admired Hayden's calm and collected personality and Felix's naughty personality overall both of them had a very good impression on Shaws as for Amber, well it looked like everyone forgot about her Hayden tried to bring her into the conversation now and then but Amber had no interest at all.

Bryan noticed that Amber was not talking so he decided to talk to him "Amber? why don't you tell us something about yourself" Bryan asked with a gentle smile, and Amber can not be rude to him Amber really respects Bryan and at the same time Aaron also came down and greeted the guest and sat down beside Bryan.

"There is nothing much about me," Amber said

"Amber don't be shy, come on tell us something about yourself," Diane said with a gentle smile, Amber's personality was so gentle that Amber can never turn her down so she replied.

"I am 23 years old and I am the youngest one among the three of us," Amber said with a poker face and in a cold voice, after listening to Amber a mischievous smile formed on Aaron's face

"Amber, Amber it's hard to believe that you are the same age as me, you behave like an 80 years old woman even though my father is more talkative than you, as a woman you should say a few more words."

Amber had the urge to roll her eyes, but she controlled herself, she knew that Aaron said it as a joke but it really annoys her when someone tells her how to behave.

Aaron said the others somewhat agreed with him "let me give you an advice Amber even if you are not interested in the conversation you should still at least say few more lines while introducing yourself"

Aaron finished and Amber looked at him with a poker face as if she just didn't care at all about what Aaron said, Aaron became somewhat uncomfortable when he saw that Amber paid no attention to his words, but he ignored the feeling. If it was someone else Aaron wouldn't care this much, he wouldn't even pay attention to them but something about Amber attracts Aaron.

As for Amber she really didn't mind it because Aaron was not the first one to say something like this but when Amber saw Aaron's smile she became a little nostalgic it was like she had seen that smile before. So she looked away and didn't even look at Aaron anymore.

"Aaron, don't waste your breathe I and Hayden have done everything we could to make this brat a little sociable but this person is like a rock she wouldn't budge, " Felix said with his signature smirk "she is so arrogant he won't listen to anyone"

"I also know a person like that," Rafael suddenly said and Aaron rolled his eyes. He knew who Rafael was talking about.

"Really?" Felix said and Rafael nodded "wow then you can really understand my pain."

"yeah I can understand your pain very well, that arrogant brat doesn't listen to anyone and always do whatever he wants without thinking about the consequences, he really likes to make everyone worry about him," Rafael said while looking at Aaron towards the end of his sentence Felix understood that it was Aaron that Rafael was talking about.

Felix and Rafael get a common topic to talk about and in no time they become friends. Both of them were talking about the bad habits of Aaron and Amber.

"I didn't know that my brother loves me so much that he only thinks about me 24x7, I have touched brother " Aaron spoke

"Who loves you it's more like I hate you," Rafael said

"Whatever but one thing is clear that you have only me in your mind," Aaron said

"You!-"

"Okay shut up both of you we have a guest here so behave yourself," Mr. Shaw said

"See Mr. Shroff I told you that you are not the only one dealing with adult kids," Diane said and Hayden nodded while everyone else smiled

"Oh yeah we were talking about Amber, since Amber is so poor at conversations let me ask you a few questions let me start with your hobbies, tell us about the" Aaron said

Amber just looked at Aaron. She really didn't understand why in the world this person is so interested in talking with her. Hayden decided to answer for Amber since he saw that Amber had no intention of speaking

"My little sister here is skilled in martial arts and dancing, she also likes to do social work"

“Oh you forgot one thing,” Felix said,” Amber is also a biker.”

"That's nice," Bryan said.

"That's cool." Aaron said " I didn't think that you would be so talented when I first saw you I thought you are really arrogant and had no talent like what Felix said, " Aaron said

"Aaron, behave" Mrs. Shaw reminded him." you should talk properly with the guests."

"Sorry I should really stop judging a book by its cover, " Aaron said.

"Aaron although Amber is indeed arrogant and boring when it comes to skills and talent she is unbeatable, she is the smartest among the three of us, " Felix said with proudness in his eyes and Amber looked at Felix although she didn't say anything but Felix understood that Amber was happy. Hayden and others smiled gently.

This was another thing common between Rafael and Felix although they like to diss Aaron and Amber and pretend that they don't care at all about the two in reality Felix and Rafael would declare war against anyone who dares to hurt their siblings no one can diss their siblings except they themselves anyone else who dares to harm Amber and Aaron will have to face the wrath of Felix and Rafael.

Both Amber and Aaron knew it and they were really grateful to have brothers like Felix and Rafael.

But in a second Felix's lips turned into a mischievous smirk and he said "but Hayden you forgot a very important detail" Hayden looked at Felix confusedly but after seeing Felix's smirk Hayden knew that the latter was again back to his naughty self.

"Let me tell all of you this person here who is so skilled and talented is afraid of bugs," Felix said and Amber looked at him with a sharp gaze, ready to murder him, the others smiled.

"Really," Bryan asked, he was not able to believe this piece of information.

"Yeah really let me tell you one day she saw a bug on his window sill and she screamed so loudly that we thought something big happened and when we asked her what happened she told us that he found a bug and that day she didn't go to his room at all and stayed in Hayden's room," Felix said and everyone laughed while Amber still had a poker face and looked indifferent but she really wanted to drown Felix in a river.

Soon everyone went to the dining room to have dinner. Everyone was chatting and laughing. It was a good atmosphere. The Shaw family really loved the presence of the three Shroff siblings.

In the middle of dinner, Aaron kept stealing glances at Amber , because he just couldn't take eyes off her.