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A Short story

‘Why are you dressed like a 1980’s rapist?’, she said as I put my books beside her.

Ignoring her comment I said, ‘I don’t know if I'm being paranoid but every time I walk-in, the librarian looks at me suspiciously.’ I sat next to her putting my pen in my mouth out of habit.

‘That’s what happens if you fool around with his daughter.’

‘What?’, I said almost chocking over my pen. ‘A little heads-up would have been nice.’

‘I thought you guys did a full background check before fooling around with anyone’, she said slyly.

‘Oh I'm sorry if I don’t have contacts in the INTERPOL otherwise I would have carried a list of most wanted criminals with me always.’

‘Are you mad at me?’

‘Do I look happy?’, I snapped back.

(silence)

As the time passed I could sense an invisible wall building between us. ‘Does he know about us?’, I asked finally.

‘You still on that? I don’t know. Maybe’

‘So that’s the reason my library fines are touching sky.’

‘Hey, cut it out. He’s a nice man.’

‘Yeah sure, for all I know he could be the Batman of the Gotham city. If you'll excuse me, I've to go kill myself’, I said standing up. I couldn't stand the thought of her Dad keeping an eye over us during all those make-out sessions through library cameras.

‘Are you breaking up with me?’, she asked with trembling voice. I couldn't look towards her as her ultimate weapons were on their course. Her tears. I couldn't afford getting hit by them.

‘I don’t know’, I rushed towards the library main gate. I tried my very best to not look back; for I knew if I did, my body would defy earth’s gravity and follow hers.

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