I Am Psychometric!!

Tara was taken aback when he pulled her closer, into a hug. He didn't hold her tight but gentle, yet still as if afraid to send her away, her instinctively raised hands which actually cupped his cheeks now slowly went around, hugging him back, her left hand stayed up, her fingers sinking in his hair while her right hand kept stroking his back, assuring him in silence, and she now felt his hold around her waist got tighter. She stayed still until she thought he was back to calm!

When she pushed herself away from him, she saw his closed eyes again, feeling like he was trying to run away from something! Bringing up her left hand, she wiped away those tears again, slowly standing and helping him stand, she took him to his room, and Aryan just watched her in silence! Tara helped him sit on his bed, "Know to follow your own words and rest!" she said calmly after offering him a glass of water and then he lay! Placing back the jar of water on the table, she watched him for a second before covering him up with sheets, when she was about to leave, he held her hand again gently!

"Stay!" he whispered, his hazel eyes almost pleading! Her gaze lingered on him for a moment before she just nodded assuring! While she tried to look out for a chair, not giving her a chance he pulled her down making her sit, she gasped but even before she could react, he placed his head on her lap almost locking her up! She was dumbfounded!

'I have always been alone, had never let anyone in cause that only feared me more!!' his words lingered in her ears, and finally he is seeking for comfort now!!

Tara didn't know whether to be happy or mused, it was good that he began to look for something he now actually needed, but it was from her who actually craved it, was weird! It felt like two sufferers comforting each other!

She just breathed, leaning against the bedpost, her right hand reaching for his hair, caressing and stroking! "Just sleep!" she said though it wasn't even noon yet!

Aryan kept his eyes open, staring into the emptiness, sleep? That now feared him as well! He just shook his head like a kid, almost making her chuckle!

"I'll be here to wake you up from nightmares! Just close your eyes and let yourself have some rest!!" she said stroking his hair!

Aryan found it strange, she could actually console!! Her every stroke made him remember his mother and every caress, his father! Though it wasn't helping, he still felt at ease and comfort! Only if he could say out everything! May be he adopted being secretive about it cause now he can't see any reasons to not to disclose it with her anymore!

Taking a deep breath, he suddenly dragged her right hand gently, preventing her to caress or stroke his hair, holding her hand which came around his neck, and within a moment he closed his eyes, trying to sleep, cause as she said, she will be here to wake him up from nightmares, and even if she can't, he held her hand preventing her from to leave!

Tara became still, he might not realise it but he did things which she never expected! He trying as hard as he could to push her away, at the beginning, she still have not forget it yet! She with a sigh watched him in silence, his heart beat was now steady, unlike when he hugged her, and he breathed in calm! So he dozed off now!

She kept watching him breath in silence and she wasn't sure of when her eyes got closed, unknown of time, and she dozed off as well!

Tara suddenly felt her gown getting wet, slowly coming out of her nap, blinking twice, she looked down, Aryan was still, holding her hand but tears streamed down his face, landing on her cloth! She with a frown leaned closer to him, her left hand reaching up only to rest on his head! After watching him for a moment, she asked softly, "Are you awake?"

Aryan was silent for a brief moment before he gave a slight nod without looking up at her!

"A nightmare again?" she asked!

He shook his head, it wasn't a nightmare strangely, it was just him remembering his parents, he missed them! He understood that everything was happening to him was similar with Tara! He wasn't sure of why he was forgetting things before but he got a clarity now! It was a severe heart pain and panick attacks for Tara which can lead her to her end for seeing the future, and for him, it was forgetting everything in return of seeing others memories and past!

What an unfortunate fate it was?!

At some point, he might even forget her, right? And her...., one day out of wanting to save everyone she sees about, she will end up having her own end!

Why was it like this? Just why??!

"What exactly is bothering you Aryan?" asked Tara with a frown, who kept watching him being silent!

Aryan was utterly silent, just what would he say to her? That he wasn't alright with the fact he just realised? Congratulate her and himself for being fated very unfortunately?! God really would have had a revenge planned against them!

"Aryan?!" she called out again! "Can't you just share your pain? We shared memories Aryan!!" she reminded.

Yes, they shared memories, which he didn't want to forget yet, like the others! He wanted to cherish them his whole life!

"I am suffering!" he blurted out! "Just like you!" he added, making her frown deepen!

Aryan turned to look up at her, their gaze got locked as she looked down his face, he still held her right hand the very same way, "I can't keep it for myself anymore cause I fear I will forget!" he said stroking her hand! While Tara was confused not knowing what was he saying!

"I don't understand!"

"Do you know about psychometry?" he asked looking straight up into her eyes!

Her brows raised, psychometry? Why was he speaking about it?

Tara just gave a slight nod, "To be able to see about something or someone just by touching?!" she said and immediately for an odd reason she remembered him touching things randomly with his eyes closed the day when he said someone sneaked in! Her eyes widened!

"Yeah, it is!" he said noticing her hand's hold loosening around his! He held her hand again, in grip before he continued, "Just like you have the ability to see into the future, I have an ability to look back into past by touching things associated with person's, and sometimes just a physical contact!"

'You are different! Because you are.... similar!'

'Cause I understand you!'

She recalled what he said.

Tara now understood why he used to stay away from people! Just in fraction of seconds, she recalled everything about him from the beginning and it made sense to her now! He asking her diary, understanding her vision even without her saying and helping her save the children, he caressing her parent's photos for as long as he could that night when she decided to show him everything that she had stored in the name of her parents! Him confirming about someone's presence, and his behaviour that day, everything just made sense now, cause.....

"I am psychometric!!" he said!

Tears swirled in her eyes! Was it why he always had headaches?

Tara never expected it, not from him! To know there was someone like her who can understand was good, actually can help her feel better, but it being him and knowing that he had went through the same, it really hurt, nothing felt like better! Tara now understood, when someone goes through an insurmountable fate, they will never wish or can be happy to see someone going through the same, atleast not someone they knew!

Tears streamed down her face, falling on his, his left hand reached up wiping them away. "You have hid something very big!!" she said and her voice sounded painful! "How can I forgive this?"

He again wiped those about to fall down tears of hers, "I know, but just as you said, it was really hard for me to open up! And I don't ask for forgiveness!!"

She just looked down his face, while he looked up at her! "What do you.....mean by forgetting?"

He stared her in silence, before he poured out everything that weighed his heart, knowing that the fact would frighten her, he still thought it was only right to open up, and he just hoped her matured self will try to digest this!

Feeling the burden being lifted off, he still kept observing her, who was silent, well this frightened him now! "Tara!" he shook her hand that he held!

A tear fell down his cheek from her eyes, "So you say....we don't have any good end to see?"

"It was nothing good to begin with!" he replied! More tears streamed down her face, and he didn't mind to wipe them away gently.

She chuckled, "I thought we were close, but you hid something this big!!"

He breathed, "For you....it was your uncle and cousin Tara! But for me, it's only you! Only you know about me completely!" said Aryan, looking down their hands that held each other, "Cause we are this close!" he said kissing her knuckles!

Tara stared him for a brief moment before looking away, yeah, they were!

"I used to feel empty but I don't feel such way anymore!" he continued making her look back at him!

"I adopted to be secretive, quite and collective because I knew no one would have understood me, but I can't do the same anymore, with you! Not when I know you could understand me, and....I really fear of not being able to say this all to you ever, if I hadn't now!"

She breathed, her left hand now stroking his hair again, "It's strange that it doesn't have an end! Not a good one indeed! But can't we just try to find a solution!"

Aryan breathed, "Hopefully we will one day!!" he said to himself more than her!