A Game Of Hide and Seek(3)

Leila and I started to walk home, we were silent all the way. Even though she and I didn't fight it was hard for us to talk. I understand that Leila cares about me but sometimes it's hard for me to accept the care of others.

It might be because in my mind I thought that Leila was being kind to me because I had saved her, I knew Leila was not that kind of person but even though my brain knew that my heart still refused to accept it.

The wind was blowing in my face on this dark night, They were cold and chilly even though on the day they were hot. The wind blowing on my face was very clean and unlike on Earth I didn't get an itchy feeling while breathing, This might be because of a lack of carbon emission compared to Earth, The amount of greenery and most of all because humans are not the dominant race here.

I secretly sneaked a peak at Leila's face and thought that she was so beautiful that she might make famous Actresses on Earth look ordinary, I wouldn't even be able to see someone of her calibre if it was Earth. I had doubts when I first saw her about her origins and why someone so beautiful was never introduced in the game.

My doubts about her were to such an extent that I even thought she might have some other race bloodline in her but there was no way for me to know or check the authenticity of it.

She looked at me as she walked and broke the silence between us.

"Dustin"

"Hmm"

"Do you think I am a nuisance to you"

"...."

Her words froze me for a second, I stopped walking and looked down at the ground. I didn't know what to say or how to respond to her words, It's true that I sometimes got bothered by her attention to me and If I told a lie here I would become one of the hypocrites that I hate the most.

We started walking and the silence between us was again as strong as ever, We reached my house after some time, Thomas saw us from the window of the house and walked out of it. He walked toward us looked at Leila and opened his mouth several times like he wanted to say something but then he just sighed and simply said thank you to Leila.

Leila did not say a single word the entire time and I did not look at her even once until she walked away, Thomas looked at me and said in a deep voice.

"I don't know what happened between you two or the reasons you fought but did you even look at her face even once, If you did you wouldn't-Brat I know that you are afraid of getting close to others but in this world, it is impossible for any being to live alone."

I know that you can't live alone but at the same time I think you do not have to forge a deep relationship with others, you can make friends to pass your time, It might be not wrong to say every relationship is a kind of contract whether it might be friends and family.

Your family gives birth to you and raises you so it is your responsibility to take care of them, Friends help you reduce your loneliness and even friendship is established on the basis of having the same hobbies, status or some kind of other criteria.

Even when someone close to you dies it's not because of their death that you feel sadness and despair but because you might not see them again, It is because of your loneliness that you cry for them. In the end, it all comes to oneself and I don't think it's wrong.

After all, It was the nature of humans to be like this, I didn't think Leila did anything wrong even though her care towards me was because I saved her mixed with pity towards me due to the resentment of the villagers towards me.

I know she was a kind person but the ridiculous notion of her feeling pity towards me like I am someone who needs to be saved could not be accepted by me.

I understood what Thomas wanted to say to me, It was nothing else but how her face might be in dejection, she might even be crying when I didn't respond to her but unlike her, I am not a kind person at all.

It is better for her to understand this and put a distance away from me, she has already reached 18 years old and in this village 16 is the age women usually get married, it might be because of me that she doesn't have any suitors.

Thomas saw that I didn't have any intention to talk so he sighed and looked in the direction Leila had walked with the look of regret in his eyes.

I laid down on my bed and looked at the big moon out of the window, The moon of this planet is either too close or much bigger than Earth as it is nearly 3 times greater.

It was more beautiful than anything I ever saw before and probably anything I would ever see. 

The silver radiance of the moon was falling on me, bathing me with its ethereal glow, making me look divine. Every ray of moonlight seemed to dance with joy as it told me its secret of beauty, It felt like the moon and I was all alone in this bleak world.

I threw all these nonsense thoughts and started to concentrate on things that are important to me, The apocalypse will come in 11 years and I have to either get strong enough to survive and make others survive or find people who might be able to fight the apocalypse.

The second option was much easier as the academy had all the charact-I mean the talents of the world, especially that woman might be able to stop the apocalypse if I give her help or delay it at worst.