Shal opened his eyes slowly. He looked at the ceiling that was white and turned to his left where Mila was sitting.
"Am I having another illusion?" He thought.
Mila saw him waking up, " Shal! should I call the doctor?"
He realised it must not be an illusion. She grabbed his hand tightly, " The nurse said you will get better. You are not severely hurt."
Shal pulled his hand away and tried to sit up but couldn't as his head felt dizzy. It felt like splitting due to pain. He grabbed his head.
" You should lay down, you must be feeling weak due to a lot of bleeding" She said holding him from his shoulders to support him.
"Don't touch me!" He yelled as he pushed her away.
Her eyes got teary at his harsh behaviour. The nurse arrived, " you should not get up yet" she said injecting a syringe. She helped him lay down again and his eyes slowly started to shut down.
" He must be feeling sensitive, if you two are on bad terms, you can talk it out later. Don't force things on the patient yet" Nurse advised.
" Yes" she replied with a weak voice.
She sat down beside him and started Looking at him with teary eyes once again.
" He will get angry when he wakes up and sees me here again. But I can't leave him alone. Why is no one coming? No matter how much they hate him, he is still their family member" She was still deep in those thoughts and a man in black suit approached them.
" Is he alright now. What did the doctor say?" The man asked.
" He must be his family member" she thought as she stood up," He is out of danger. Further results will come out later." She stepped aside, " would you like to sit?"
" No , it's okay. You can sit comfortably"
She looked at his expressions . He was not as worried as he should be. He just stood there nonchalantly.
" If you don't mind, can I ask your relationship with him?" She asked timidly.
" I'm his personal driver. He insisted on driving a scooter today. Although it was dangerous, I couldn't really stop him"
" No wonder he looked too relaxed " she thought and sat down beside Shal .
She kept playing with Shal fingers as the Shal driver waited for him to wake up while sitting on the seat outside the emergency ward. Hours later Shal eyes started to flicker. She quickly held onto her bag and ran out toward the driver.
" He woke up" she informed.
The driver headed inside. She slowly walked out of the hospital. She was standing outside the hospital and looking inside. Hesitant to leave she walked back to the emergency ward. Right before entering she remembered " Don't force things" .
She stopped herself and took fast steps to walk away.
Sun was going down and she was walking slowly looking down still thinking about Shal .
She entered home.
" Where were you? Why are you coming so late?" Her sister asked.
" My friend got injured" she answered in a weak voice and entered her room. She sat down on the floor putting her head over the bed and started crying loudly.
" What happened?" her mother who was preparing dinner asked.
" She said her friend got injured" her sister replied settling down on the chair.
For next week she wasn't able to see Shal . She was hesitant to look for him at his apartment.
The Monday Mila entered the room with same gloomy face. She saw Shal sitting at his seat. She quickly walked to him but stopped in the middle . His head was still wrapped in a bandage.
Shal noticed her standing two chairs away looking at him, " Did she really broke up with Martin" he thought as he diverted his gaze out of the window ignoring her.
She slowly walked back to her seat. After class ended, Mila followed Shal to the outside.
" Shal!" she called holding his hand.
He pulled his hand back, " why can't you leave me alone"
" Why are you avoiding me?"
" Because I am ashamed of my actions" Shal blurted out his thoughts.
"What ?"
" Nothing, just don't follow me " he said and walked away. While taking fast steps his mind was running wild, " how could I face you when I forced a kiss on you. More than that the way I see you is different from the way you see me."
He turned around to look at her, " Maybe I fell in love with you at first sight that's why I misunderstood your friendship into love and saw you in my world."
He sighed and started to walk away again, " But it's okay, I can still find you in my world "
He entered his room. Removed his shirt as he had to shower. He turned around and Mila was standing in front of him.
" How did you..... Ahhhhh! Yeah you can enter every where you want to " he smiled slightly," I knew you would come "
" What are you talking about" Mila asked.
" Nothing" he hugged her tightly.
" Did you miss me "
" A lot"
" Now I am here "
He stepped back and looked at her, " Yeah you are finally here. You are the real Mila , the Mila I wanted to be with "
" You seem tired"
" It's just a lot happened. But you are here now so it's okay "
" Are you taking a shower?"
" Yes"
" Should I come with you " she whispered.
" Sure " he said as he held her hand and walked to the bathroom. He opened the water that started to fill the bathtub. He settled down in tub .
" Come" he extended his hand towards Mila.
Mila removed her shirt and entered the tub.
" You don't really need to remove your shirt. I just want you to be with me" he said looking at her beautiful face.
" Are you sure you don't want this"
" Oh right it's my illusion , I must have wanted it to be like this" he thought. " Of course I want" he said kissing at her lips and smiling.
She leaned at him through his legs. He closed his eyes and sat there like this for a long while.
He got a feeling of being alone and opened his eyes. Mila was not there. He looked around in the bathroom but no traces. He quickly got up and headed to the room then outside the room but Mila wasn't there.
He felt so empty inside. He headed back to shower.
The next morning as he walked to his seat Mila caught his attention.
" This Mila don't disappear , but she will never love me" he thought while walking to his seat.
The teacher called Mila to solve the problem. She was standing in front of Shal solving the problem. Shal imagined her naked as in his illusions. He quickly closed his eyes, " what am I doing?" He quickly got up walked out in the middle of the class.
Students started to gossip " how rude of him" " Teacher is standing in front" " what's wrong with him"
Mila was still looking out of door curiously.
" Don't mind him and continue" Teacher advised .
" Yes" she said and got back to the problem.
Shal washed his face again and again in washroom. He looked in the mirror.
" Thats sexual harrassment, how could I do this to her" he hit his head repeatedly closing his eyes. He took a deep breath and turned around to go out and recalled Mila in his bed again. He turned around to the mirror and started washing his face again.
" Ahhh ! What should I do"
He took his cell phone out of his pocket and called his driver.
" Ryan Uncle, get me more pills. I ran out of them"
He headed to playground as the call ended. He sat there for a while waiting for his driver. He saw the car approaching and walked to it. Ryan handed him pills. He came back took pills and lay down on his bag.
Someone touched his hand that was placed on his belly. He woke up. It was Mila.
" What happened earlier?" She asked as he sit up.
" I told you to.... "
"I can't do that! I can't ignore you and mind my own business" she intrupted. " I'm willing to date with you, if you are angry about it. We can try going out. If it doesn't work then we can go separate ways" She was looking down.
" If you think that it's your fault I got hurt then you are wrong, it's not your fault. You never asked anyone to hurt me."
" It's not entirely because of that. I always want to greet you ask you about things but you keep avoiding me. Maybe if we are dating you wouldn't ignore me. Moreover you are ignoring me because I pushed you away right?"
" No ! It's not like that. It's because....." He stopped talking as his mind rang a bell. " What if she hates me and finds me scary like last time if I tell her the truth"
" Never mind, but I would never date you just for the reason that you want to please me and want to be friends with me again "