His Angel

The first meeting

I am broken out of my thoughts when someone says 'Arianna that's her name'. I turn around to see a old women sitting in front of me looking at her as well. She then looks at me her eyes telling me enough about her experiences in life.

I wait for her to continue and she does after a few seconds. 'She has been here for about 6 months. The most quiet one and reserved one of all but again ones past does affect the way they are now." I look at her confused. What does she mean by the last line ?

Before I could ask anything the same lady who greeted me approaches us and says 'Mother wh....oh Mr.Raymond looks like you met my mother. She is the real owner of this Orphanage infact I got to know Anna through her only.' She smiles at us.

Why the heck she keeps smiling? Which fucker has this much happiness?

The old women looks at me and says 'Oh so you are Anna's brother. She talked about you alot. Anna called me this morning and told me about her not coming but didin't tell me about you. Oh well must have slipped off her mind. So how do you like it here ?'.

I reply to her in a less professional voice 'Yeah you have quite a place here'. She nods with a smile of her own as  she looks around with admiration.

The real meaning of my words still revolving around Arianna..

Then her daughter takes her and leaves again after wishing me. I sit at the table not knowing what to do before my eyes automatically find there way to the play area just to see Arianna's absence. I get up to get a better look at the area as I start moving towards in hopes of seeing the little girl perfectly fine..

Even though I have no idea why I am doing this..

I start walking towards it when suddenly something or more likely someone bumps into me. I look down to see none other than my angel standing there. Then she quickly apologizes as she quickly looks up which is enough to tell me that she is on the verge of tears and then runs away.

What the fuck why is she crying again?!

I quickly follow her forgetting about everything as a wave of anger hits me for no particular reason. In that moment all i knew was that she was upset and I need to calm her down. I follow her inside the building and into an hallway as she dissappear after that. I stand there trying to figure out where she went when I hear a sniffle followed by a few more.

I follow the sound to a play room. I quietly stand in the doorway to find her sitting on the window side. Her hair now open and the band laying beside her on the small couch which is placed in front of the window where she is sitting. I walk towards her and crouch down to her height  as she quickly wipes her tears when she hears my footsteps.

Why does she keeps hiding her tears..

I say in the most softest tone I have ever spoken in surprising myself 'Hi princess ! I am Raymond. What's your name angel ?'. Okay I do know her name but she will get creeped out if I say her name and I don't want her to be scared of me.

Strangely I don't want her to be scared of me? It doesn't even make sense..

She looks up at me and says nervously 'Arianna' while playing with her hands and flashing me another small fake smile. I pretend to not notice much of it as I say 'Wow its such a nice name angel' she blushes a bit whenever I praise her and this time she also muttered a small thanks.

Thank god she is fine with talking to me..I thought she might be scared which didnt really want..

I then say breaking the silence 'Arianna you want to know something interesting ?' She looks up at me and then nods as a hint of curiosity appears in her cute chocolate brown eyes. But I can still see that somewhere inside she hasn't let her gaurd down which disappoints me a bit.

But why I am dissapointed ? Why the hell am I trying to bring a smile on her face ?

I just ignore these logical questions as I smile and say 'Well you see I saw a pretty girl crying earlier and I felt so sad. You know she was so beautiful and the way she calmed herself down when I saw her was actually kind of brave of her. But do you know that sometimes crying out and sharing our problems helps us alot. So if you meet that girl can you please tell her that ? So that I can help her when I meet her?'.

I look up from her hands which I was holding and making patterns on to calm her down to see that her eyes are again full of tears. She finally let's her gaurd down as she looks at me with so much sadness in her eyes that I wanted to hug her but I stop myself from doing that.

I see as slowly the tears start making there way out of her eyes as she closes them it's as if she is afraid that the world will witness her weak side and hurt her. This time I let my body work on its own accord as my hands wrap around her while I rub her back soothingly. But I do notice how she flinches when I raise my hands to hug her. I just keep the fact aside for sometime as I focus on calming her down. We sit there for sometime and she calms down a bit before suddenly someone runs inside the room and says 'Arianna.

Arianna breaks from the hug as the woman who greeted me's mother says her name. She goes and hugs her as she apologizes for leaving without telling her. The lady smiles at that and asks her not to do that again. Then she asks her to go and join the others in the hall to which angel nods.

She turns around one last time and gives me a beautiful smile the one which actually reaches her eyes as if she was thanking me. Then she turns around and leaves as I smile looking at her retreating figure. Totally forgetting the fact that there is someone else in the room.

When I realize the fact that I am not alone my smile vanishes as I get up and look up at the lady as I say 'I will take your leave now. Pleasure meeting you' She looks at me with a knowing smile and shaking her head says 'Trust me young man the pleasure is ours. I am glad I was finally able to meet Anna's infamous brother. Now I won't keep you any longer. Good night'. She smiles and leaves the room.

I do the same as I make my way towards my car convincing myself that I should stop thinking about the little girl for now and start to drive away.

■■Time Skip■■

I finally let my head hit the pillow as I close my eyes. I smile at the thought of today's events. But my smile vanishes when I remember the way angel looked at me when I talked to her. At that time she had looked so broken it felt like she had experienced sadness which should not be faced by someone of such an young age but again life is not fair..it never is..

That day was far from ordinary for Raymond. He didin't knew but his heart had decided to protect the little angel without him knowing it. But everything dosen't turns out the way we expect it to be as someone far away was smirking holding a picture of a man hugging a child whose face was half buried in his shirt. The person smirks evily and says 'Well looks like we finally found a weakness. Find everything about her right now !' .