The Stone Age

"I am sorry that you had to leave your home, but I promise this town will never let you miss the city life." Grandma said.

"If not for you, we would've gone homeless."

After living all my life in city, a town with relatively less population and pollution sounds good. Following the death of our parents in an accident, grandma brought me and my brother all the way to Willsden.

I didn't introduce myself, right? I am Liv Mathews. I live in the same neighborhood and attend the same college as Ray. And soon our fates are going to get tangled with each other.

"It's okay! I will manage on my own. I am not a child," I insisted.

"You don't know anyone here, let me introduce you to someone. It's your first day in college." Grandmothers are impossible to win against.

"Excuse me!" She asked a guy who had me falling for his looks already.

"Hello!" He greeted her.

"You're the son of Gem, right. She is my granddaughter, new to this town. Please introduce her to your friends. She was always an outcast for her personality."

"I was never an outcast."

While walking together through the locker corridors, I asked his name.

"My name...Ray Wilson,"

Told him mine, although he didn't ask,

"Liv Mathews,"

Asked his major,

"I am sorry, but I am an outcast myself. I didn't want to sound rude when aunty requested...So, you should find someone else to show you around, Sorry."

He has a knack for turning down people over nothing. "Being a loner suits you," I mumbled.

A phone call I recieved made me delighted and equally tensed, My twelve year old brother Ian was going to have the heart transplant surgery we were waiting for almost five years now. My brother born with a heart condition and after the untimely death of our parents, his condition worsened. Him having difficulty breathing for a last few weeks is an alarming symptom. Further delay in the transplant can be life threatening.

"Sorry to inform but we can't proceed to the transplant, the donor's heart is too big for the patient." The doctor said.

Faking an "everything's fine" smile on our dejected faces, we went inside the ward he was admitted in.

"After the surgery you won't stop me from playing soccer with my friends, right?" He said it with such innocence that our eyes brimmed with tears.

"I won't," I said and preventing the overflow of tears from my eyes in front of him, I walked outside the hospital towards the main road.

A busy road, from a bicycle to a truck everything passes by with a whoosh. Of course there is a traffic signal, changing its color every minute. But what if when the singal is red and I, instead of staying behind decides to cross it anyways. Yes, It's a stupid idea, so a car comes rushing and runs over me. Will Ian be able to get a heart if I die?

"This may be the only way he can live a life that he always wanted."

All I could see was my brother lying there in need of a heart. Right now thinking about that moment, I realise how foolish was. I don't want to love anybody more than my life, It only makes you pathetic.

Taking a step further towards the road, I was determined to meet uncle grim reaper that day...but then a hand grabbing my arm pulls me away and dragged me from the busy road to a quite and lonely street. My phone dropped from my hands.

"Are you in your sane mind?" He said with a crease stick on his forehead. I looked at him, he had this intense look on his face and his eyes so deep that after taking a glance once I couldn't stop looking at them.

And then taking a step away from me, He looked at my body from head to toe. His lips muttered the words, "Damn, not again!"

The next moment I checked myself, my body was slowly turning into stone.

First, I felt numbness in my feet. I couldn't move them, then slowly it reached till my waist. My hands tried to reach the guy but before they could, they froze in that very position. By the time I could ask him "whats going on?" I couldn't move my mouth but I could still see and hear things around me.

"I am sorry" the guy said as if he was aware that what just happened to me has something to do with him, as if it was not his first time. I was scared, tried to run but could not even move, I tried to shout but couldn't even move my lips. Just stood there with my hands in trying to reach him position.

He picked up my phone from the ground and put it in his pocket. He took his jacket off and covered my face with it. I couldn't see anything from then. He carried me in his arms and took me to the hospital parking lot, while I didn't have any choice other than getting "carried away".

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