Sean
After two hours.
We finished all the work and we were continuously talking and chatting while doing it. It was quite fun, actually. One thing I realized about Ava is that she is extremely lively person. She spreads happiness where she was. She is very talkative but she only talks about random stuff. She does not like to talk about her self.
But yeah, there is something about her that is so sad. Like she normally would be very live, yet there is sadness in her eyes. She tries to make everyone happy so that they don’t have to experience the pain. Which is that really good quality to have – Selflessness.
The place was looking quite good and the work was finished. I was really tired and I know if she was too but she was holding up quite well as she did not look tired in the least. She looked beautiful and energetic even after working so hard all day. I should really take inspiration from her.
Finally, we sat down and chatted on and about things, along with a couple of another coffee. We drank so much coffee tonight, it’s just crazy.
“Well, you turned out to be quite hard working, aren’t you?” she asked me. It was not a question really.
“I can hold it up pretty well under most of circumstances, well, except for some.” I said with a small smile. Hinting to our earlier, not so pleasant, encounters.
She laughed that beautiful laughter Of hers and said. “Yeah, that’s honesty at its peak. Well, thank you very much for aelping me out. You did really good job.”
“By the way, you said earlier. That you had a bad day. So why did you return back at hotel? You should have stayed at somewhere else if not at the hotel room, maybe?”
I looked at her shocked enough both by her sudden advice which hit me like a brick and her memory that remembered such a small detail. But then I remember why I actually came back and told her.
“I would not have come here back if I didn’t have my Storm to look after.” I good her, pride lacing in my tone.
“Your storm, what is that?” She questioned me curiously.
“My Storm is my child. She is the most beautiful horses of all time. She’s just perfect little thing. I’ve had to as upper it since. Very young age. since I was just a boy.” I informed her pride fully.
“Oh really, that’s great. Show me if you have any photo of hers. By the way, great name. That is an amazing name for a horse.” She complimented me with a smile and enthusiasm.
“Thanks.” I said and I took out my phone and searched the most amazing picture of me and my Storm together. And showed it to Ava.
“Oh, she is so beautiful. I can’t believe you have a pet.” Ava exclaimed.
“Why is it so hard to believe?” I asked With confusion.
“Oh no, it’s nothing like that. It’s just like the first two times in my head I Never thought you to be the kind of person who would own a pet. I mean, at least not an animal kind for pet.” She babbled out.
“Alright then, what kind of pet? Do you think I would have owned, if not an animal Miss Ava?” I asked her. Even though I knew what she was saying in the first place.
Her face turned hundred shades of red as her cheeks burned. She put her head down in shame and I almost felt bad for her, almost.
“Never mind, forget I said anything At all.” She said shaking her head. As if that is going to reduce the shame she felt
“You know mostly, my gallery is only filled with her photos. I really don’t snap anything else’s pics.”
“Usually people have their loved ones photos in the gallery. But you seem to be so different you have nothing to do with love, have you? You’re just like me.” She said with a small laugh.
I for a second and stared her. But then I took my eyes back at the table in front of me.
Then I told her something I’ve never shared with anyone else. The story of how I got my Storm.
“You know, I’ve had her when she was very young and so was i. She lost her mother when she was really little.” I started and then looked at her face to gauge her expression.
She looked at me with intrigued eyes. I noticed how her eyes went on from intrigued to sad after she heard the last part.
“After her mother died. She didn’t let anyone get close to her. She used to stay all alone. Never liked to have master and she was really untamable even though she was young. She never leaned on even on a horse. So, I decided to come near to her.” I said to Ava, remembering those days.
“Then it must have been very difficult for you to do so all by yourself.” Ava said thoughtfully
“Yes, of course. It was very difficult. Relationship was very complicated at the beginning. And it was difficult, but…..” I agreed and I search for the right words to say this.
She waited patiently for me to finish my monologue.
“I raised her like a child. She was like an apple of my eye. I blew away the dust from her eyes it ever entered in there from the beach. I would hand feed her. I would sleep next to her in the stable. so that she wouldn’t feel alone.”
“It is really tough growing up without any parents, isn’t it?”
“Yes it is,” she said agreeing to me softly.