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Chapter 19:

"No, we won't discriminate your self respect", Steve responded to Alan, while Katie just nodded in agreement.

"Thank you", Alan replied with whole of his heart, and glanced at Katie.

"I will take care of her", Steve assured Alan, so he got up and went outside.

Fathima didn't know, what she should do, so she followed Alan out.

"You don't pity me, do you?", Alan asked the question whose answer, his heart was dreading to know, once they were outside the prayer hall.

Not in the world, he wanted Fathima to pity him.

Not her.

Not that damn freaking cute girl.

"Of course not, I don't pity you, pity is the last word that would come to my mind to describe you, you are strong, strong enough to fight your inner demons to not conjure you into them, I mean to say, you didn't loose hope on yourself", he let out a breath of relief hearing that.

His dreading heart went to pump his blood with peace.

"Thank you, It's good to hear that", he smiled.

"No problem, but, do always know that everything happens for a reason, your pain won't get unnoticed, you will get your share of happiness soon",

Yeah! I got them! It revolved around you!

Shut it, he shushed his heart which started again to paint the thing's which won't happen, ever.

"Hope so", he replied.

They both sat on each corner of the bench, in silence, one in deep thoughts, and the other enjoying the time spent with the other.

"You know, I so badly want to tell you a short story",

"My ears are open", he said, impressed that she is opening up.

"No not now, though I want to tell you so badly, I feel it's not the perfect time", she said sheepishly.

"When is that perfect time?", he asked, turning towards her.

"It will come eventually, one day you will remind me to tell you the story, and that's when the perfect timings lies", she said turning with a smile, still not seeing his face nor doing an eye contact.

He was flabbergasted. Her, talking with him so freely would an understatement, while his heart doing a Victory dance. He doesn't want anything more, no matter how handsome he was, he knows deep within, she won't see him more than a second.

"I am surely waiting for that, you know, the perfect time", he air quoted and she chuckled.

Her small laugh irked his heart to swell, she was damn freaking cute, indeed.

Even the light tinge of her lips can be seen all day, he thought.

"Ahem", Steve chimed in.

"Oh hey!", the both of them shot their heads up, at him.

Steve and Katie, walked to them, Katie's eye's still gloomy.

"Katie no need to..", he was cut short in his sentence.

"I am fine, Alan", Katie faked a smile, but he knew about it because it didn't reached her eye's.

"Can we go out after School, spend time with each other?", Steve asked.

"Wow! Well That's a nice idea!", Alan replied happily, seeing Fathima shrug her shoulders from his peripheral vision.

"Fathima please", he said gloomily.

"Um! Okay, I am in, but need to tell about it to Dad", she said taking her phone, and went few distance apart to make the call.

"You both have become close", Steve remarked.

"Shut it", Alan replied, his ears turning a light tinge of pink, at the word "close".

Few seconds later. Fathima came back.

"What happened?", Alan was the most curious one.

"Er! My twins too will join us, if it's okay?",

"That's perfectly okay", Alan beamed earning amused look from both the other pair.

"Thank you for being considerate"

"You are welcome",

"Where are we going by the way?", Steve piped in.

"Katie loves shopping", Fathima gleamed.

......

Stepping inside the mall, Katie regained her composure, and stared at everyone excitedly.

Come on! It's the first time, she is accompanied by her friends. For a matter of fact, by all her friends.

She loved them so much.

"Now, now, where are we going first?", she cooed to no one particular.

"Can we go eat first?", Steve made puppy dog eye's.

Before Katie could reply,"Hey! you should not eat the whole day, your abs will disappear", Asad snapped, hearing that Katie smirked.

"I don't eat the whole day, in fact I didn't had anything today, apart from the breakfast and brunch", Steve tried to prove himself, innocent.

"Liar, you drank my water, didn't even left a drop of it in the bottle", Asad mocked him.

"Does water counts food?", Steve asked amused.

"Of course, it does, actually it's good for health", Asad and his tactics, everyone rolled their eye's.

.....

After a long time of deciding, the girl's went to shopping, and the boy's to fun city , to enjoy.

And also they planned to meet at the food court, mainly because of Steve's gravelling.

Now, it's been an hour, and Fathima was dripping sleepy, even though Katie was entertaining her by wearing dresses, shoes and clutches.

"Fathima what about this dress?", Fathima was snapped back to reality from her short dream, leaning in one of the counter, hand on her cheek.

"It's nice", she said looking at the Bottle green dress which just reached near the knee, Fathima is neither a shopping person nor a short skirt lover.

"Go try it on", Katie insisted, while Fathima looked shocked, full awake now.

"What?",

"What what? I am selecting a dress for you?",

"That's so nice of you, but I don't want a dress",

"No no's, if you don't like this, we can search another", Katue grabbed her hand, and went to a different aisle.

"Katie really, there's no need of a dress",

"Of course, there is, you have come with Katie Julia Perkins for shopping and you won't go with empty hands",

Fathima sighed because she knows deep inside that she will be losing it.

Come on! It's Katie Julia Perkins, you are arguing with.

For the next half and hour, they were searching for a perfect dress for Fathima but in vain, because she rejected all the dresses, which were too short or revealing and that's not her liking.

They then turned to a new aisle, and Katie's eye's glowed.

"Oieee Fathima, this dress is amazing", she took a blood Red Cocktail dress, which had neither any sleeves, nor it reached her mid thigh.

Immediately Fathima shook her head sideways.

"Come on Girl! I am sure Alan would love to..", Katie stopped in her tracks.

Fathima's whole face flushed pink and not to forget the shock.

"What?", she yelled out loud.

"Um! I mean to say, Alan would love to, Er! p-a-y", Katie just stammered on her own word's.

This is what happens if you come to shopping with Katie Julia Perkins.

.....

On the other side, Alan placed Asad on a racing bike, and was helping him monitor it. He was not allowed to help Samad because of Bro Code, Rule number 1017, The bro should help only the bro.

Steve placed Samad on one, and he himself sat on the other.

"Alan they both are cute", Steve said looking at the cute little pies.

"Hey we are not cute", Asad snapped him, for hundredth time that day.

"Whatever", Steve rolled his eye's.

"Don't forget Bro Code, Rule number 1598, You should not address your bro with girlish word's", he explained Steve.

"But I am not your Bro, Alan is, I can do whatever I want", he groaned because from the start of the journey, until now, Asad had mentioned his Bro code like thousand times.

"You are not?", He asked.

"I am not", Steve mocked.

"Okay then, Bro Code, Rule number 6701, you should not address anyone with girlish word's, who is in a Bro Code already", Asad smirked.

Steve rolled his eye's.

Now, you all will know that the day was a disaster.

---End Of Flashback---

Katie was so immersed in her thinking that she didn't notice that all the Star's have vanished by the rain clouds.

Katie once again thought that, It was Alan who fought that he is scared to play in front of people, but he looked not even a bit scared when he was explaining about the project, that's when it clicked to her and Steve that something else was bothering him, and that's the reason they kept nagging him, and that's when finally he let go and showed up.

But now, Finally Katie realized.

That,

The Real Star's are not the one's, who decorates the sky,
But the one's who paints a smile on everyone, they pass by.

.........

"Do you know the Love story between An Iceberg and the Blazing Sun?", Old Alan asked Alan who was smiling like a lost puppy on an heaven. Though the day was a worst nightmare for him, it turned better, to make him smile not regret.

"Uh! No", he replied coming back from his small cringe of thoughts.

"It's quite complicated, but a realistic",

"Don't drag away Old Man, just say", Alan is curious now, he is always curious to learn different things from this Old Man mostly about, Love.

"Patience Son", he winked.

"No patience, just say", Alan whined.

"Okay",

"Not okay, throw it up", Alan pouted now.

"Hmm..", the Old Man took a long breath, ignoring Alan who was literally groaning.

"An iceberg waits for it's love, the Sun, through the dark lonely night. When the Sun comes to visit it the next morning, the iceberg melts away on it's mere sight.

"The Sun on the other hand drinks the melted bliss, quenching his thirst of it's love.

"And then and there, their Love is poured back to Mother Earth in the form of Rain.

"Growing greeneries, cherishing the land with rainbows and flowers, resulting Forests and Lake's to witness the beautiful Love story of an iceberg with the Blazing Sun", he finished.

"It's amazing", Alan was so amused that he was cut short of words. Not in his entire life he had thought this way.

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