امیر حسین- قسمت دهم

I was sitting on the sofa in the middle of the club. I was thinking about the strange things that had happened a few hours ago. Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and I didn’t even know why I did it. I took a cigarette out of my pocket and put it on my lips. Without being asked, Ali took his lighter out of his pocket and lit my cigarette. I couldn’t bear his silence.

“Go ahead. Say whatever you want to say now.”

“Come on, Amirhosein. It’ll be okay. We’ll talk about it later. Just try to calm down now.”

I puffed on my cigarette and said,

“What if he sues me?”

Ali stroked his head and said,

“I don’t know, Amirhosein. I don’t know.”

I closed my eyes to relax for a few moments, but the sound of my brain was louder than anything else. I felt the heat of the cigarette butt between my fingers. I opened my eyes to put it out under my feet when I saw Pariya in front of me. At first, I felt like I was hallucinating, but when Ali got up and said hello, I realized that her presence was real. I was looking at her as the cigarette butt burned my hand.

Pariya looked at me very seriously and said,

“Did you burn your hand?”

“Yeah,” I answered after a pause.

“I hope it hurt a lot.”

“Hahaha,” the ridiculous sound of Ali’s laughter echoed in the club. I looked at him angrily. His laughter stopped and he said, “Sorry, it was uncalled for.”

Ignoring Ali, I turned my head towards Pariya and said,

“What are you doing out here?”

“I came to give you the championship prize for punching people in the face!”

Ali forcibly held back his laughter. I signaled him with my eyes to leave us alone, but since Ali was one of the country’s talents and elites, he replied after a moment, “Do you want a lighter?”

I looked at him hopelessly and said,

“Do people ask for a lighter with their eyes?”

“He means, leave us alone,” Priya said sarcastically. “But don’t you do that. I’m afraid to be alone in such a place with such a person.”

I interrupted her,

“Look, it was all because I was worried that something bad would happen to you (at) any moment.”

Ali, who had just found out what was going on, took a few steps and walked away from us.

Pariya answered me sharply, “I know how to take care of myself!”

“I know, but.”

Pariya interrupted me,

“We went out together one day, it was fun, and thank you for that. But you have no right to follow me and do this kind of stuff. You know what? I don’t want to see you anymore.”

I had no answer to give. Pariya continued,

“Of course, I didn’t want to see you from the beginning. One day, you just show up in a café right in front of me. And now, today. Wait, did you follow me to the café that day? How did I trust you?. I don’t want to see you anymore! Just like the hundreds of strangers I have passed by on the street and never seen again.”

Without giving me a chance to defend myself, Pariya turned away and left. I felt no hesitation in her steps, not even for a moment. Maybe she was right, and I was like a stranger walking past her down the street. Maybe what I did was really wrong. I no longer knew what was right or wrong.

I was trying to calm myself when Ali approached me, smiling from ear to ear, and said, “All settled then?”

For a moment, I wanted to punch him in the mouth and smash his teeth, but I invited myself to be calm again/ I pulled myself together.

This time Ali laughed out loud and said,

“Didn’t I tell you it’s gonna be okay? You never listen to me, but I always get it right.”

I shook my head and said nothing. Answering this human being was more like an insult to my own intellect.