A Silent Breeze

"Wake up."

"..."

"You shouldn't sleep all day, bro. "

Still in his sleepy state, Noke slowly opened his eyes. Finding himself surrounded by two to three guys whom he heard talking, jumping from one stuff to another. Slowly, the state of his mind adjusted, as rationality brings back all of his memories.

Sitting on the desk, he looks around. Most of the students have already left, he and his friends are still there, maybe due to his sleep; they are still waiting for him or just passing time.

...

 "Noke, why don't you ask her? She is one of a kind. And if you don't, then tell me; - I should give it a try." Keller tugged Noke and asked looking in the direction of front left most row desk.

Amusement drifted in the eyes of his friends'. Without further ado of any of his thoughts', they start throwing sentences. 

"She isn't going to eat you. What's most she can say is -No "

"Yeah, just go and tell her - I like you. I can't sleep at night... you are a princess..."

"Hahaha. "They laughed as he remained seated without any change of his expression. Due to the weird dream, he had, he hadn't fully accepted reality.

"Hey, don't make fun of him." Keller comes again but this time to defend him. No one still able to predict his nature, his thoughts process.

"We aren't. Are we?"

"No.."

"We are motivating him. We are guiding him to go, fight for your love."

"Why don't you stop? Look, he isn't in his right mind. " Noke looked in Keller's direction. Plain Black hair neatly combed, fair complexion. Light Brown eyes, a person can engross himself in his eyes, never got the ink what it holds. When he smiles, only then, you got the inkling what he trying to say you all along; making it more memorizing.

Keller looked back. Nodded through his eyes and smile, as if saying; - 'I got your back.'

As the conversation went on, Rony said to look in the direction of the door.

...

Noke and his friends look towards the classroom door. A girly figure walked out of the door. Looking at the girl back, he lost in thought again.

His friend knows that he doesn't have the guts. They take it as a challenge to themselves. Conversing through their eyes, they got to, what they had to do.

All the time, Noke – still lost in mind world. He came back to his senses, when he felt his arm, legs are gripped, feeling weightless as being lifted by his friend. It's not easy to lift him not only because of his weight but his height too. On an average people living in Wright land are over 6ft height.

His friend walked side by side, one's on back, pushing him, while he was in the middle of the 6-person group.

He wants to convince them to stop, but his body hasn't come back to its senses. The rational mind gave him the following commands, but with a weird dream and still half-sleep state, he remained quiet. Not much thinking of the current scenario, he tried to memorize the entire dream, but the more he tried, the more he was losing the essence of it.

Meanwhile, Keller and another of Noke's friends took his silent attitude as approval.

They walked, and finally, they saw the girl back again.

...

" Shirley!" Rony, one of the Noke friends, filled his lungs with air and opened his mouth to say the word, as loud as the word reached its destination.

Shirley abruptly stopped her footing, looking back, finding the owner of the word she heard.

"Shirley. Noke wants to ask you." Rony again handles the flow. Looks like- he had done it multiple times.

Noke, after finding himself in this tricky situation, stood still.

Keller, Rony, Criag Wright, and other of his friends kept telling him what to do. Smacking his chest and telling him to be confident, -"be a man."

Rony smacked his back. Due to the sheer force Rony had applied, he moved forward, facing Shirley face to face.

"Don't care about the bag, I will bring it back to your home." Noke looked back, finding none of his friends'.

...

All the time, Shirley remains resolute. She knows what all the things the Nokes' friend did mean. Her thoughts move at the lightning speed, and at the same time, it feels like she had entered a state of calmness. Absently, she is preparing herself. Most girls, like to be in that situation when the other one is the person whom they like. She dreamed it, too.

She wants to know what Noke will do. She wants to know how things progressed.

 As they came face to face, she gazed into his eyes. Maybe the only truth she wants to see, is in those black eyes.

"Hey." Noke said. People walk back and forth, but for him, the entire complex seems frozen.

…

Like a silent breeze, the thoughts and the word froze in her mouth. She wants to respond. But, only a little shift of her pink lips, all she could mustered. Not to make it obvious, she closed her eyes, tilted her head to simply nod in response.

...

Even if he had played this play in his dreamy nights' multiple times, he loose. Her face held a serene, eternal quality. He lost in those blue eyes, reflecting her inner pure soul, smiling; reflecting the Shirley he dreamed, thought about, and liked all the time.

'Beautiful... ' With these thoughts, a smile unknown to him appears on his face.

...

The same play is folded in her mind. Seeing the smile he adorned, she waited.

The expression of the two - to three-second exchange of the pure soul's ecstasy him. One knows; - the fragrance remains only for an instant. With mixed emotions, he let go of their staring competition.

...

" As always...Beautiful... "a small sigh escape from his lips.

"Hmm?" her ears twitch a little too heard more clearly.

Not knowing how to overcome the situation, he said the things that came to his mouth.

"Ah. Nothing, nothing. Are you going home?"

A dissatisfied look appears on Shirley's face.

" What do you think?"

...

They walked side-by-side. The distance between them and the institute frontal gate is not too vast. Both of them slowed subconsciously, wishing to spend those moments fully in theirs's heart. Even if they are in the same institute, same division; one can't be free from the burden until they go through the entrance. 

The veil between them is thin, feeling the presence of one's heart. At the same time, it's thick as they long for one another.

"Rony said, you want to ask something."

"Nah. Nothing important. You know them."

"You can ask me."

"Huh..."

"Nothing." 'Idiot.... why you had to be like that, can't you take the simple hint. Fool... Should I tell him? Nah... not. Should I, hold his hand? He is so close... Touching his hand... little, just a little.'

...

'Ah...' Feeling the touch of Shirley's hand runs a short of electricity through his spine. Beads of sweat formed on Noke's forehead.

'Smooth... 'His thoughts churned. He moved his hand to retain that comfortable touch. But Shirley placed her hand on her back soon.

All the time, they didn't talk much, but the exchange of various emotions filled their hearts to the fullest.

...

Soon, the institute gate appears in both sights. The word "Knowledge with cryptic symbols" engraved on stone arched showing highly; the workmanship of the past people.

"Yours parents are back?" Noke looked Shirley, a question look covers his face.

"Yes, they are. Back midnight they came. You Know I want to ask, but they are tried. Today they are going to tell me everything. How about I will catch you up with everything tomorrow. "

"Sounds Good "

"Oh.... we are out. "Coming out of the gate Noke said those word in subdued voice but it reaches to Shirley. 

"Yeah, we are..."

A short silence fell.

She doesn't know what to say, slowly lifting her hand to meet his. A furrowed look appears on both Shirley and Noke's faces.

Their hands meet, both froze for a the time, not one of them wants to parts first. With a smile on Noke's face, he said first -"Bye."

She smiled back. With smiling face, she looked more dazzling.

Finally, she said-" Bye Noke."

Both remained in their smiling face, looking into each other eyes, as if saying thousand words, they couldn't say aloud. The fingers of their hands part slowly, wind blows, taking back the warmth they are in. All these slight things which one may not even put a second thought to doing, to them, felt like an eternity.

Shirley takes a last look at Nokes' face before turning to move in her home direction.

Noke looks at Shirley back, slowly disappearing into the crowded student.

...

Unbeknownst to them, a person looking both. He sees the smiling face of Noke and Shirley. He heard the conversation of both, fully knowing of their internal strife, to tell each other how they felt, but remains reserved.

"Typical teenagers... Ah...sigh… but pure one."

A faint smile adorned on his face, too.

"I like it..." With those words, he vanishes.