Flicker’s Lie P-2

Next morning, Tamanna opens her eyes and her mind seems totally blank- no memory of the flash, no thought of aliens. She lies on the bed and closes her eyes and then her eyes fall on Popcorn. Popcorn was sitting next to her and was looking at Tamanna with love from his big eyes. Tamanna smiles and takes him in her lap. "Popcorn, you are so cute!"

Tu Kitna Piyara Hai.

Popcorn—who was actually an alien—was feeling Tamanna's emotions. For the first time, he had felt a human's heart, without his own powers. Something new was surging inside him—emotions that he had never understood before. He started thinking, "What kind of connection is this? Why are these humans so strange?"

After a while, Tamanna takes Popcorn out. "Come on, Popcorn, let's go to the market. Let's get some tasty food for you, and some snacks for me too!" Popcorn sat on his lap, scanning the market with his eyes—for research on the meaning. Everything was a data point in his alien mind: "Why do these people make so much noise? What is this 'bargaining'? And why are these carrots so cheap?"

Tamanna stopped at a shop in the market and asked a vegetable vendor, "Bhaiya, how much do these carrots cost?" The vegetable vendor said, "50 rupees per kilo." Tamanna laughed, "50? Bhaiya, is it a carrot or gold? Give it to me for 30!" Popcorn was watching all this and was thinking, "Why does this girl fight with everything? Does everyone on this planet survive like this?"

Why She Fight Every Time 

An old uncle, who was standing nearby, said, "Daughter, you can get carrots for 20 rupees, but don't say anything to him, otherwise he will abuse me!" The vegetable seller said angrily, "Uncle, you should do your work, why are you commenting on my shop?" Tamanna laughed loudly, and Popcorn also made a strange sound from his small mouth, as if he was also laughing. Tamanna saw him and said, "Popcorn, you are also in my team, right? Come on, let's buy carrots for 30 rupees!"

 While returning, the shining stone on Popcorn's head came in the sight of four miscreants. They mistook it for a diamond and started harassing Tamanna. Tamanna had no idea about this. She was walking towards her house, and Popcorn sat on her feet,"

 In a quiet place, suddenly, four miscreants surround Tamanna. Tamanna gets scared and tries to increase her speed, but the miscreants move fast. —Tamanna stops seeing herself surrounded and says, "What do you want?"

The leader of the miscreants said, "We want the diamond on this rabbit's head. Just this much and we will let you go." Tamanna gets surprised and looks at the popcorn. "Diamond? Have you gone crazy? It is just a shiny stone, it cannot be removed from its head!"

Diamond

The leader laughed, "Then we will cut off his head. This diamond is very shiny, it will fetch a lot of money!" The other scoundrel, who was a little fat and was breathing heavily, said, "Yes, we will get a lot of money by selling it!" Tamanna got angry and scared too. She hugged the Popcorn to her neck and started moving her back a little out of fear. Her heart was pounding loudly-she was thinking, "These people should not kill Popcorn!"

The scoundrels moved forward. The leader grabs Popcorn's hand and tries to pull him. Tamanna screams loudly, "Leave him!" She does not leave Popcorn, but holds him with all her strength. "Leave me, he is just a shiny stone, nothing else!"

Anger was burning inside Popcorn. He was an alien, he had powers, but he didn't want Tamanna to know his true form. But when the bad guy took out a blade and hit Tamanna's palm with a small knife, Tamanna fell down hard. Her blood started dripping on the ground, and Popcorn lost his patience.

Popcorn used his alien power. He let out a powerful psychic blast, and the leader went far away and fell in a garbage dump. "Oye, what was that?!" shouted the other bad guy, but by then Popcorn had hypnotized him. The scoundrel who had cut Tamanna's hand, put the blade on his neck and slit his own throat. The other three scoundrels ran away from there in fear, shouting, "We will not let him go alive!".

Tamanna did not understand anything. In fear, she ran towards home with the popcorn, holding it to her neck. As soon as she reached home, she started crying loudly. Whatever she saw, she did not understand anything till now, and how it happened.

Dada ji becomes shocked seeing Tamanna's hand and immediately brings the leaflet. "What happened, daughter?" he asked. Tamanna said while hiding, "Dada ji, I had gone to the market and fell there." Dada ji tied the leaflet on her hand and said, "My dear child, I wish your mummy-papa were here to take care of you." Light tears came to his eyes.

Tamanna said smilingly, "I never felt his absence when you were around." Then she looked at Popcorn and said, "Now I have my friend too." Popcorn was listening to all this and his alien heart was understanding how deep emotions humans have. A thought came to his mind, "When I go from here, I will give Tamanna all the happiness she needs."

Dada ji leaves her to make her rest and gets busy with his work. Tamanna lies on the bed and Popcorn is sitting next to her. She looks at him and thinks, "How did this little friend become a part of my life?"

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