He OR She?

Part 1

The crowd gathering in front of the luxurious mansion, their whispers blending with the haunting sound of someone crying echoing through the rooms. The cops had just arrived at the location.

Inside the mansion, the atmosphere was thick with tension. On the polished marble floor lay the lifeless body of a young boy, his eyes closed as if in he is in his peaceful sleep. Beside his dead body a middle-aged man was sobbing and crumpled on the floor, tears streaming down his face as he holds the boy’s hand saying “come back son. Don’t leave me all alone, please weak up.’ He sobbed, his voice breaking with every words. From his tone, it seemed as if he had given up in everything.

The officers moved swiftly their expression grim as they observe the scene. When they gently lifted the boy’s body placing it on stretcher after seeing his son’s body is taking away from him, his cries transform into heartless scream. From outside, the crowd watched in despair as the weight of the incident burdened even them.

As the ambulance doors closed and the sirens wailed, the man fell to his knees his heart shattered and broke down into never ending tears and life time sadness of his only son leaving him alone.

In a room, books were half open on the study table, and clothes were all over the floor; it looks totally messy. Next to the study table on the bed, a boy (August) lying in his deep sleep was awakened by the sound of an alarm. He slowly opened his eyes and turned off the alarm. Take a shower and get ready for college. When he tried to find something to eat, there wasn’t anything he liked to eat, so he headed out to the grocery store.

He picked up something he liked; he just took a lot of chips and fruits. He is barely holding on to it when he checks out from the mart. On his way out of the mart, his hand slipped on one of the bags of fruits, and as he was picking it up, suddenly one hand approached the apple, and they both caught it at the same time. August slowly turned his head up to the boy next to him; his eyes were sparkly and bright like marbles (marbles sparkle when sun rays hit them). After seeing his eyes, anyone could immediately fall for him. The time was frozen for August while watching him, and he couldn’t hear what he said. He is wearing a white shirt with black pants. Someone from behind calls the handsome man, saying, “Sir, here is your coat; we are late for the meeting.” He took the coat and put it on. He looks so elegant in a suit. At that time, August was too stunned to speak by the beauty of that man in front of him and just watched him walking towards his car. August snapped out and tried to say thank you, but it was too late; the boy was already gone. The boy smiled from inside the car when it passed by August. The car glass had privacy glass, so August didn’t see when he smiled.

August said, ‘Oh potato, I’m late for my class; forget the breakfast I will eat in the canteen,’ and he hurriedly put all his stuff in the car and drove away for his class. This was his first day of college, and he is already late and running for his life. He saw 3 groups of boys also running, saying, we are late; just run. They were running and greeted to August. They said, ‘Oh! you are also late?’ Which faculty?

August said, ‘Yes, Arts.’

Three groups of boys said, “Oh, we are in the same faculty; let’s run.”

They reached in class in time of attendance, greeted the professor, and the professor granted them to attend the class and asked them to take a seat wherever they liked. After class ends, they introduce them to each other.

Three boys: Two are extroverts (Joe and Danish), and one is an ambivert, Dan (mid extrovert). Joe is the cheerful person in their group; Danish is the innocent and cute one, and Dan is just a little concerned about study and his scores.

Joe said, “Man, I’m so hungry. I haven’t eaten breakfast; I woke up late.”

August: “Yes! I haven’t eaten, so I’m also hungry. Let’s go to the canteen.”

They all went to the canteen and ordered food to eat. Joe digs in, and with his full mouth of food, he asks August.

Joe: “August, why is your name after a season? Were you born in the August season? After hearing Joe’s question, August seems a little off.

August said, “Actually, I was found by the caretaker of the orphan house in August, so he named me August.” seeing August off, Dan pinched Joe, saying not to ask any further questions and say sorry to him.

Joe was sorry to ask about his bad experience in the past; August said that it is not his bad experience, but he took it as a blessing because he found such a loving and caring father that day. They finished chatting about the ups and downs of events in their lives, said goodbye to each other, and went to their places.

Way back home, August recalled the event that happened to him this morning. Thinking about that beautiful man’s eyes. August: “So dazzling, eyes anyone could dive into them.”

Thinking this kind of thing, he was about to be hit by a car; suddenly someone pulled him by his arms, and he fell over that person’s body.