Amaal pov
The old man had explained that  he loved tree's and animal's and most of lands here in the forest belonged to him and that how he lives here .

I had changed into new pair of long cloth that women had offered saying it was her daughter in law clothes .

Their son had left them and lived in other state . He had asked them to move out with him but as the old man was so attached to this place ,he rejected the offer.

I checked my phone to see it had no signals  . My mind was pondering on whether everyone out there would be looking for us .

They would be so tensed

They might even have informed my mother about my sudden disappearance .

I sighed simply and corrected my pillow to lay down when I looked other side of the room to see alyan taking off his t-shirt.

" What are you doing?" I covered my hands over my face and peeked through my fingers gap to see him pulling up his t-shirt over his head, his half body being exposed to me .

" Ofcourse , changing" he mocked while still facing me his back , he was about to put on the clothes offered by the women when something caught my eyes. I moved my hands away from my face ,and stared at his inverted triangle body shape.

" What happened to your back , why do you have so many cuts? " I asked looking at those old faded cuts that had left it's marks on his back, it was as if someone had whipped him .

Alyan hand halted at the midway of pulling the t-shirt in . He glupped before putting the t-shirt on and going silence .

" Get some sleep, we need to move early tomorrow" saying it, he layed down on the floor . I just nod my head and went down to lay as I felt he was not okey with talking about it .

" I have some watery rice here " the old woman whose name is kim jongun , a Asian women who lived here with her Caucasian husband walked in with the bowl of rice .I looked at alyan  , thinking he would insult the food as it was new to him while I had ate it back because my mother used to cook it sometimes .

" That's sounds yummy" I didn't expected him to react that way . He took the bowl from her hand and glupped down as the rice was mixed with watery substance in one go ." It's really good " the women face light up into a small smile .

"Don't hesitate to ask more " saying it she walked out while I looked at alyan, startled.

" You eat rice ?" I questioned. He nodded while licking his upper lips .

" Why not, I'm a human "

" That's not what I mean , like did you tried it before?"

" Yea ofcourse, ro--" he was about to say something when he cut himself in the midway, realising he was going to spill some important beans ." I tried it before somewhere"the flow in his tone suddenly went down as he replied impassively.

The man was really acting suspicious but then thinking it had nothing to do with me , I brush off his odd behaviour.

After eating,I layed myself a little distance from him as the room was  small .

••••••

" Hey " I felt like someone shaking my arm " wake up idiot" I groanded as I slowly opened my eyes to see the charismatic face infront of my eyes, I blinked my eyes to get my vision clear to see alyan face a inch away from my face .

What a loss , I was dreaming about Daniel and this jerk had to wake me up now itself.

"What's the time , did I sleep much ?" I questioned with crocky voice while yawning to sit up  .

" no" he whispered.I looked with sleepy eyes at him .

" Then?" I questioned ,my voice still sounding sleepy .

" It's just ,I can't sleep because of new place ,it's hard for me to doze off " he scratched back off his neck in sheepishly smile .

" What should I do for you, should I dance?" I questioned annoyed and irritated .

" No , just let's talk " I sighed .now I was fully awake .I rubbed my face with my palms to get rid of the sleepy eyes .

" Talk about what ?"

" Let's play something "

"Something as?"

" Alphabets"

" Where is the books and pen to write down ?" I wiggled up my eyebrows at him , irritation was visible in my eyes. I felt like to smack his head for waking me up from my beautiful sleep where i was in middle of  something to know and it left as cliffhanger because someone had to wake me up .

" There is a sheet of paper there and I saw some pen" he pointed at the shelf which had some files ,papers and books . Alyan got  up and brought the sheet of paper and pen for him and aswell for me " seeing it is how the Idea poped up on my mind " he explained the reson behind his gaming need .

" Let's start with you" I said and he started to think about a alphabet in his mind " stop " I said

"It's R " we both started to write down the things ,name ,place and dish and animal/birds that started with R .

"Done " alyan said out after few  minutes while I pondered on the dish item ." 10 ...9...8..........4....3.2..1.. stop writing "

"I'm done anyway" I passed him a tight mocking smile .

" Name ?"

" Riya , you?"

"Rose . Place ?"

" Riyadh ,you ?"

"Russia , things ?"

"Rubber , you ?"

"Rat toy "

"Hey that not toy  , rat is a Animal , you can't write it down , cut the mark, you get zero "

" How how how ?" he questioned " don't you buy a rat toys at store,those of rat shape without life , it's a thing you stupid " he left no room for argue. I pouted my lip defeatedly while he poked his tongue out at me .

The game continued for other round .

" Is carland a place ?" I questioned at the new state he named" I never heard before , which country it comes under ?" I was sure there wasn't a state or place carland but then the way alyan was defending himself left me doubted on my knowledge about place .

" It's in Columbia, it's a small place i have traveled to ,it's a amazing place you know"

" But I'm good at geography and I haven't heard this place before ?"

" Being good at geography isn't enough , you need to travel around the world to know more in deep about it " alyan showed off his richness and I went silent and the game continued .

"Alyan you can't cheat , it's 5 because I too wrote Barcelona"I groan .

"How in the world would I know you would be writing it . No, it's full 10 for me and 5 for you because I was done before you "

"I wrote Barcelona first and was stuck in the dish "

"It's not my problem ,you should have said first " he smirked

"Said first what? I wrote Barcelona, are you insane ,how can I say in the middle of the game " we bickered over small things and moved in with the game . To be frank ,it felt some how fun to argue and play with him .

"That a Italian pasta with those yummy sause on the top ?" I quired about the dish he named .

"Yep . Did you tried it before?"

I pout my lips out  , feeling sad over the fact that a poor people like us couldn't afford such things " nah , arham was once showing the pics of her favourite dish she tried and this was her favourite out of all and even said that she never tried something like this before. My mouth watered at seeing those pics " I didn't know why was I even saying all this nonsense to him " let's continue the game  .we then moved on to play .

" No alyan ,there isn't any fruit named black fruit , you can't fool me " we bikered over and over small things and finally ended the game when alyan yawningly said he was tried and needed to sleep.

"Let's end the came , I'm sleepy " saying it ,he fall off immediately on his place while I tried my best to doze off  with turning and twisting at my place .

" Jerk , see how peacefully he is sleeping while my sleep is destroyed by him " the light snoring from alyan was all the sound in the room along some animals growling , I looked at his cute sleeping figure.

Alyan looked too innocent when he slept ,almost like a baby .his  fuffy cheeks pulled out like a infant  , his pink lips pulled into a baby pout , his black silky hair fallen on his forehead, making him look more magnificent in the dim light of the lamp.

'alyan was quite different today , his behaviour was totally questionable '

"He didn't got pissed over anything I said , he didn't even  punish me " my mind pointed out the main odd thing about him today.

"I don't get this man ,his personality is really confusing"