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As I lay motionless in the hard and cold concrete beginning to be filled with something warm that was coming from my body slowly covering everything, I heard a faint crying and shouting, with the warm rain-fall falling on my face. It took me a while to recover my senses which was still going numb. I looked around and saw an angel hugging me and crying. And a thought run across my mind, "How could you be so beautiful even though you are crying? As I thought I am really in love with you. I can't help it". That girl, who has been with me since childhood. We were always together, we were even born at the same time and date at the same place and even now when I am dying we are together but I am afraid I was the one going first. Even though my every body parts hurts, the pain I feel the most was in my heart especially knowing the truth. It really hurts. It really, really hurts. It's not due to that I am dying or going first but it's because she was crying in front of me. Because so far I remember she never usually cry, she always used to have a bright and smiling face. But now she is crying now, in front of me for me who doesn't even deserve her single tears but even though I can't even cry. Tears just won't fall. Because I know that she will hate me if I cry. But why will she hate me if I cry? Ah! I remember now.

I used to be a cry-baby back in the old days. Even the smallest things made me cry. But she was always there to make me laugh and protect me like an angel. She was always there. Once while protecting me from other kids bully she got badly hurt and was even admitted to hospital. She was admitted for almost like one month which looked like ages to me. Time passed so slowly without her by my side that it looked like the time has frozen itself as a punishment for me for being weak. I always went there after school and after meeting up with her, I always went to the toilet and cry blaming myself for what has happened to her. "It's my entire fault. I am so weak. I want to grow stronger. It's all my fault." These very words echoed in my brain. But then one day as I went to the restroom to cry as usual she showed up unexpectedly and she slapped into my cheeks saying that if you ever crying again I will start to hate you, then surprisingly she embraced me having tears in her eyes saying "It's alright, it's not your fault. I will always be there to protect you." That day I cried so hard resting at her shoulder that every people of hospital must have heard it and after that I never cried again. I always wondered how did she know what I was doing there and also she was so bold enough that she just barged into the men's restroom. It's still a mystery to me. Ah! She was crazy indeed, my crazy little angel.