An old chest of drawers and a blurred vision.

It's not exactly picturesque view from atop but I always liked to climb up that rock to be alone , to read what I liked, to study or to finish my homework and I knew why. It's because that's one helluva place to enjoy the sound of silence!

It was like any other day and I was up there as usual doing my homework after class hours. Once I was done I looked up at the sky turning reddish orange. I smiled bracing myself but felt sad soon realizing that I would be missing all of it once my exams got over. I sighed and reached out to put my books back in my backpack when someone pulled one of my long plaits plopping up next to me. 

" Why are you here? what do you want?" I asked 
" I just came to see if you forgot to get home" he said winking at me.
" Thank you my caretaker but I don't need your help to get home" I twisted my mouth mocking him and started to pack my bag.
" Yeah right, just like how I don't need your help" he said, still smiling and pointing at my bag. 
" What?  what are you  talking about?" I said trying to act innocent.
" Tell me you don't have my notebooks in your bag and say I'm wrong if I said you were completing my notes as always" He wore a mischievous smile on his face and pulled my plait one more time in sheer confidence. 
" Nonsense, I don't need to hear your stupid stories"  I said closing my bag in a hurry as if in a fear of being proven wrong and got up to go.


He held my ankle and pulled me down " I want you to stop writing my notes, copies and lab records" he said once I settled down. I looked at him puzzled. I had been doing that for a long time now but it was all going to come to an end soon.
" I'm not taking up the exams. I'm dropping this year." He had finally said what he wanted to say and I was at loss of words. " Buuuuut, until you leave for your graduation, you will get this everyday as usual" he continued holding up a lollipop in his hand and grinning. 
" Why?" is all I could say. 
" Why??? because you like it " he said laughing at his own joke but soon realized I wanted answers, so he continued " Well, I'm still deciding where I want to end up later but you will know where it all ends when it does." He got up to his feet , took my backpack and put his hand out. 

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That day when I went home to visit his parents long after he had gone, I found myself in his room. I opened the unlocked chest of drawers to find dozens of same notebooks and a pair of ribbons. There was a small note stuck inside the lid of the chest and it read ;

" There are a hundreds of ways to show your love and affection to someone but your's is the best so far. There's not a word about feelings in these books here that you wrote for me but you chose to say it without using the exact same ones ." 

I closed the lid and didn't look around much after that because I knew even if I wanted to I wouldn't be able to see anything through my blurred vision. 

Now all I can think of is ' I miss my lollipop!'