Teen Dream
My imagination sets me in school days. I'm 16 or 17. After shifting to this house, this has become the most suitable place, though I've staged this right from childhood.
I'm a girl who is perfect in things she should be, ie, academics. So I just portray myself here just as how I was upto high school.. going to school, update with h.w, no genius but a good grader, not much communication with parents, no friends, early maturity.
Now, as outlandish as it may seem, there is some huge outburst, a catastrophe in some countries. People have spread to far off places. A group comes to my place and live in refugee camps. Of course for the sake of living they interact with local people and make friends.
They sell stuff to others and come to our houses to do petty household works.
One day river and his family came to our street. They do some knick knack work in the next house. I'm standing in my terrace. I'm, well, drying off my hair.
I look at them. Only mother, elder sister, a aloof young brother. That house owner wants river to do all types of jobs knowing he's the pushover.. his mother, a responsible woman, was busy being that. Selling her son's physical labour in order to meet the ends. The owner's wife views him like a pest. Common situation faced by a refugee servant. I see her talking to, or, rather ordering River, mostly through hand gestures always giving grunts and pssts as response to him. Then there is their son, a typical, average, college going guy, as distracted as any guy. No, he doesn't seem to like river at all. I could see from here, he doesn't talk but look at him like one of those defensive street dogs, obviously River with his milky skin and perfect blon hair, not to mention those blue eyes, is way out of his league.
So the poor boy will be working in a torturous, humiliating and most importantly lonely condition.
As I'm contemplating the melancholy future of this beautiful stranger I could feel a pair of eyes resting on me in a searching way, to the extent that my skin tingled and I'm driven back to conciousness. The pair belonged to River.