How much pain you can bear

"How much pain you can bear"

" What does it mean"

"Nothing special I just wanna know what makes you different" old man walked away with a smile on his wrinkled face. singing an old melody with his old woody voice.

the rain just had stopped it's wet all around even the brushes and the roads like they just had a bath and bright than normal days. it's been one hour since school ended but Cristine is not at home. She is at the bridge looking down the river, she was in middle school when she started to come to the bridge every day after school looming at the slow river. it's relaxing for her to be alone for some time. it was like a daily until someone starts a conversation with her, it's not the first time that someone asks her something but the questions of the old man were quite strange. He looks like any old man in his 80s with fully polished brown shoes and a brown hat he was looking like kinda gentleman but with a weird smile and some strange questions.

Christine decided to headed home. she walked slowly on the slippery roads thinking about that man and the luxurious car he left in at.

"I told you not to put your nose inside my matters

" Ohh! is it your matter or. you just want to hide your mistake"

"yeah because you are the....

Cristine's mom and stepdad are arguing again at home. Now it's like your daily routine to fight but Cristine is used to these fights. She was eight years old when her Dad died in a car accident and after two years her mother marry her new boyfriend and become business partner. But now business just brings the fight to their house. She walked directly to her room with a quiet and innocent face.

Grey-colored beautiful room with some golden lighting and a comfortable velvet bed. A wall full of her childhood photos tells a beautiful story. She lay down on her bed and starts scrolling her social media where she found her crush on her new girl. Christine off the phone and decide to go for a walk to change her mind. She walks through the streets wondering about her crush's social media post and then makes her mind not to think about it. She reached quite far from her home. She saw a couple flirting with each other on the streets and a boy riding his bicycle. A girl with glasses has come for a walk with her dog.

she was near the bridge when it starts raining heavily. in the search of the shelter, she runs to the bus stand. the big droplets were shedding and she almost gets wet she was trying to dry herself when the person sitting next to her extended a white handkerchief to her. She didn't turn at him but take the handkerchief and thanks to him. Suddenly the stranger gets up and tries to catch the rain in his hands Cristine looks at the stranger he was wearing a white shirt dark blue jeans and a strange bracelet on his left hand which she had noticed while taking the hankie. He was wearing green shoes which do not fit with his outfit, His hair was light brown curly hair. She feels a strange smell which was quite attractive at the bus stop.

"have you doing well," the stranger asked while looking away from her, Christine find his voice a little husky and deep

"yeah it's been good" Cristine replied because there was no one else there

stranger doesn't reply for a couple of minutes suddenly he said ..."forget him he doesn't belong to you" Cristine get shocked but she said confusingly " whom are you talking about?"

The stranger doesn't say anything and just walked away in the rain.