Nauman Arif

That Girl Inside Me

He always felt there was something inside of him. He talks to her every day and night. She was with him as long as he could remember. But he never showed her to anybody. She always wanted to see the outer world. He tried his best not to let her out. Because every time she showed herself the world gets mad. They belittled them with their striking laughs and cruel words which pierced through his heart like a sharp-edged sword. He didn’t want to face and explain them about her. He built a cage for her so she can live within him secretly. Little did he know she wanted to be free. Despite the cage, where she has been chased for years, she got herself out in the world again. Despite their laughs she faced them and bore all of their anger. He told her to be careful and don’t ever get close to someone. This world is cruel and everyone is hiding behind a mask. She was dumb enough to express herself to someone a little more. She fell in love and got badly hurt. With her broken heart she came to him, his body was so fragile and it was not able to hold all those tsunamis of unwanted emotions. He was deeply hurt because of her.