“Amanda……! Stop! Don’t go…please stop!”

Kevin ran hurriedly behind her and caught her arm. His eyes were scared and guilty. She turned back to him threw away her arm from him angrily. Her eyes were spreading fire and at any moment he will be burn from it. Without passing a second she slapped him hard in his face. He caught his face hurtfully and stared at her with his apologizing eyes.

“Do not ever dare to touch me...” she said tightening her teeth angrily.

“Amanda! Please……….let me explain you!” he begged. He wanted to kneel down in front of her but his pride didn’t let him do that.  He saw one of his staff was looking at them gossiping about what was going on.

“Amanda! Please…let’s go somewhere and talk…This office is not a good place to talk like this” he tried to catch her hand again. She pulled back her hand again angrily.

“I said once not to touch me ever…!” Her eyes were on fire burning with anger.

“And talk!!! What talk!!! What is there to talk about after seeing everything in my eyes? Go back…. Go back to her… your secretary must be waiting for you to complete what you were doing with her……..And Kevin! Do not ever contact me again…….”

She yelled as much as possible angry tone. He could see the anger in her eyes which was burning his words which he wanted to say.

“It’s a misunderstanding...please…don't be like this…” He started saying excuses to her.

“Kevin! Stop! Stop your nonsense excuses…After I saw how she was sitting on your lap and kissing you like no tomorrow what the hell you want me to understand…and what misunderstand….? I am not a fool…I may be not rich like you but I am not an idiot to trust you again Kevin……” she turned back from him and walked hurriedly through the corridor.

“Are you going to keep the full stop to a three years affair like this Amanda?”

He shouted to her who was walking away from him. She felt her heart stop with his words but with no way of turning back…..

“If this is what I get from a three years affair, then my answer is the full stop…and nothing more” without turning back she responded and walked hurriedly towards the exit.

“I will call you Amanda”

She could hear his voice again whereas she left him without turning back for a second. The burdened and hidden tears were coming to her eyes continuously. She erase them from her hands and tried to hold back herself without crying in the mid of a road. She got in to the bus and sat in the last seat there. The love she had for him and the hopes he gave to her were running to her mind like the wind blowing. She didn’t know since when he was like such, going for other women but till today and till this moment she trusted him a lot.

Maya has already warned her about Kevin sometime back but she didn’t even trust her best friend’s words because she loved him that much.

‘Amanda…Yesterday I saw Kevin with a blonde girl in his car at the traffic…It was like they were so close’

 She recalled Maya’s words again and again. It was few months back she was told like that but she blindly replied her.

‘He is the boss Maya…and he needs to visit his clients with his secretary…so the secretary has to be beautiful…isn’t it….We are in a relationship of three years by now and I trust him a lot’

Like stupid, like a blinded fool, she could remember how she replied to Maya. Amanda sighed to the air. The tears she hidden in her eyes were so much for her to bear. She wanted to go and meet Maya right now but it’s time for her to pick Alex from the school.

She again wiped her tears and got down from the bus and walked towards the school and waited in the main gate… Children from different ages were coming out joining their hands together. She stared at those kids who were just like her brother Alex… A pale and sad feeling came to her heart and this feeling was so familiar to her. Every morning and every afternoon she felt this common feeling seeing those children who were walking with their long white cane in their hands.

She walked towards Alex who was coming slowly towards the gate without knowing that his sister was staring at him.

“Alex!” Amanda caught his arm softly.

“Sis! You came early today” he said smiley. His sight was not with her and it was so far towards somewhere only he knew. She sighed looking at his eyes which don’t see his sister.

“Hmmm…You like it, right?” Amanda asked taking his back pack in her hand.

“Yes, like it so much. I hate waiting” he said in the same sight.

“Now you don’t want this white stick” Amanda folded the long white cane and put it in the bag.

“Yes, my eyes are here with me now” Alex caught his lovely sister’s hand and walked simultaneously with her.

An unknown and empty feeling was coming in the heart of Amanda without knowing her. The hurt she was still feeling due to Kevin and the sadness she felt always for her brother were covering her heart unknowingly.

‘When today passes tomorrow will be a better day’ she thought trying to be strong in her mind.

The life which was being spent struggling every day for a living with her twelve years old brother alone was not a simple thing for only twenty five years old girl like her. It was her only, her brother had. And it was