Love You More

CHAPTER 5

Next day I did force myself to think about the embarrassment of last night but it was too trivial to overpower the excitement of having went for a party for the first time.

Whole day I was joyful and bouncing with happiness. By evening I was tired with all the happiness and jumping around and I was lifelessly sitting at my counter lazily looking around the café when my eyes fell on the couch at the far end. A person in a black and white hoodie, not just hoodie his whole costume was black and white. He looked exactly like a zebra. I just wanted to click a picture and send it to Eva. I zoomed in and that's when I realized that he was no stranger. That's my stupid pig for a human guy. That guy at the party.

"who are you stalking?"  Eva came up from behind with such suddenness that I dropped my phone on the table.

"you scared me."

She laughed and sat next to me.

"Eva you see that zebra... no, I mean that person dressed up like zebra?"

She looked at his direction and both of us started together

"he is..." "who drake?"

"drake?" I asked confused.

"Oh you dont know right? He is josh's twin. Un Identical in all manners."

"TWIN. THAT MEANS IT WAS HIS HOUSE TOO."  I did attract a few glances with my voice.

"what's wrong with you? Don't shout." She said looking around.

"Eva, I fucked up really badly. You remember last night I told you how a guy shouted at?"

"oh yeh that. Are you not over it yet?"

"he is the same guy. That apparently means that I went to his house, went to his room without even knocking, interrupting whatever he was doing and shut his own door right in his face." I said holding my head.

"uh oh you missed a part. He shouted at you." She said laughing "listen Zahi it's nothing. He does that all the time he just walks around throwing punches, he literally beats people to pulp and shouts at people all the time. He just has two moods angry or sadness. He talks to nobody not even his own brother, oh by the way they hate each other, sits alone walks alone and.... "

"how do you know so much about him?"

"oh, he is in sociology too. So what I was saying is that don't mind him he is like that. Nobody talks to him, so you must not either his existence doesnt make any difference to anybody. Exact opposite of his brother. Can we leave now?"

"no, I am not done yet."

"k then I am leaving. And don't waste your time thinking about him."

"yeh."

I stared at him for a few minutes Eva's words running in my head. And then I went back to my laptop.

After an eternity somebody came to the counter with a book. I looked up and it was none other than zebra.I mean drake.

"hey, I just wanted to borrow this book. I am new here so what are the procedures?"  his voice and his face were so different from yesterday it was clear with no trace of evilness. I must say he was not as handsome as his brother but he was not bad either. Quirky. But the most surprising of all was he didn't even show a single sign of recognition.

"oh. Umm. you need to take a membership. 5$. We will issue a card and you could borrow with that card. Membership is to be renewed ones in 6 months."

"so, can I get that card now?"

"yes, sure could you just wait for 5 minutes?"

"yeh"

With that he went back to his couch. I was weighing each of my word I don't know what made me feel that something I say would piss him off and he would just stab me with a knife or something.

But what made me so curious was that all through the conversion right from when he came to the counter till the time, he left the shop he didn't for once show anything to make me believe that yes, he knows me. that pissed me even more. Like how can you forget a person you shouted at just 24hrs ago.

And by the way his name is Drake Aquilla. Quite majestic. Much better that Josh Asher.