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– Ah, you’re my silly, – Aiden smiled and hugged her, – No one laugh at you. And especially not making fun! It’s just that we are like this with her… And you… You are our silly little girl!

Miranda twitched, thus showing the man that she does not want him to embrace her. But Aiden only stronger pressed her to him.

– I love you, Miranda! I love very much! – he said.

– I love you very much too, – she said and hugged him back.

– Maybe we will go to the hospital? – a little moving away from the girl and looking into her eyes, once again suggested Aiden.

– No. – shook her head softly, she said. – Everything is fine with me. No longer hurts. And, you know, I hate hospitals.

– You are so stubborn, – the man smiled.

– So you did not answer me. What are you doing here?

– I live here.

– Aiden, – Miranda said, – Well, I’m serious!

– Me too, – he smiled.

– All right, I will ask in another way. You should have come only in a couple of days. Right?

– Right.

– And come now. Right?

The man nodded his head.

– You are so funny, – he said.

– And you… You are so… so…

– What?

– Harmful!

– Very harmful?

– Very very! So what are you doing here?

– Are you not happy to see me?

– I’m happy. Very. And see, and hear, and feel… I just did not expect…

– I called you late in the evening. When finished work. You again did not answer. I thought you were already asleep. And then my friend, with whom I stayed overnight, called me to the telephone. Said it was you. When I answered, you already hung up.

– Me?! – Miranda was surprised. – But I didn’t call anyone yesterday. He probably mistook something.

– Maybe, – the man agreed, – It was already late at night. But I called you. You picked up the phone, but apparently did not hear me. You had a worried voice. So I decided to come. I would have come earlier, but there was an accident there, on the road… That’s why I’m a little late.

– Accident? – Miranda was scared. – Are you okay?

– Everything is good. I was not even a witness. – Aiden reassured her.

– Thank God, – exhaled Miranda and thought about something.

– Did you call at night? – after a short pause she asked.

The man nodded back.

– The call … – Miranda said softly and her face suddenly changed and turned white.

– What? What happened? Something is wrong? – Aiden worried when he saw this strange change.

– This is so strange … – as if looking through him, the girl said, – I think I… I saw Carolyn at night…

– Carolyn? – the man asked in confusion.

And Miranda told him about the eyes in the mirror, and about the vision that was so real and so similar to her dead friend, and about the strange call.

– Damn, – hissed Aiden, – I knew that you could not come back here! It was necessary to immediately rent another apartment! Why do I always fulfill your whims?!

– This is not a whim! This is my home! I live here!

– It was your home! And now, I am afraid, it will become for you something like a torture chamber!

– Why do you say that?

– Because I know how much you loved Carolyn! I know how much time you spent together! And here everything reminds you of her! Right? Maybe that’s why your imagination is playing with you? Or maybe because her apartment is opposite? And she is there … – Aiden did not finish this sentence. Miranda understood so well what he meant.

– You did not see the dead when, you lived with your grandmother outside the city for a week? – he asked.

– No, I have not seen, – she shook her head.

– Well, – Aiden said, – Pack your bags.

– Why? Where? What for?

– I want us to leave here today. We will stay with my parents until we find another apartment.

– No, Aiden, – Miranda shook her head, – I’m not going anywhere from here! – she said emphatically, – And it is useless to persuade me! I will not leave! At least for now… I need to be here some more. I must! And do not argue! It makes no sense!

– Ufff, – the man exhaled, – Ok… Ok, – he agreed, – If you really need it… Although I do not think so…

In the morning Miranda walked into the kitchen and saw Aiden there.

– What are you doing here? – she was surprised.

– I’m going to make breakfast for us, – the man answered and got something out of the fridge.

– I see. I mean, what are you doing HERE? Don’t you have to go to work?

– I have to go. But today I decided to stay with you. Are you not happy?

– I’m happy, but…

The man looked at Miranda.

– What “but”? – raising his eyebrows, he asked.

– Nothing, – she shrugged. – Why didn’t you tell me yesterday that you would stay at home?

– I was afraid that you will expel me, – Aiden smiled.

Miranda also smiled back. She went to her beloved, rising on toes to reach his lips, because he was much taller than her, and gently kissed him.

– Good morning honey, – she said.

– From this it was necessary to start, – he smiled, – Good morning my love!

– What’s for breakfast? – looking around, the girl asked.

– What do you want?

– Mmmmm…

Miranda put her index finger to her lips, thinking and looked somewhere up.

– Pancakes! – after some thought, she said.

– Pancakes?! – Aiden looked at her inquiringly.

– Aha, – Miranda nodded.

– Maybe something simpler?

The man looked at her pleadingly. Miranda laughed.

– It’s simple! – she said.

– Okay! I asked for it myself… Pancakes, so pancakes!

After breakfast, Aiden’s cell phone rang. After talking to someone, he angrily threw the phone on the table. Miranda flinched from surprise and almost dropped her cup of tea from her hands, which she had not had time to finish.

– Damn it, – he hissed.

Seeing the frightened face of the girl, Aiden immediately apologized for this unexpected flight of his phone on the table.

– What happened? – worriedly asked Miranda.

– Nothing special. Do not worry, – the man calmed her, – Just these idiots can’t do anything without me! – he said loudly and indignantly.

– What idiots? – Miranda asked.

– Those around me! – clutching his head with both hands, said the man.

He took a deep breath and, crouching next to the girl, took her hand in his.

– I’m sorry, Miranda, but I have to leave.

– Work?

– Yes, but… If you say it, I will not go anywhere. In the end, at least once, they can do without me?!

– Aiden, honey, don’t be mad, – the girl said softly and gently ran her hand over his cheek, – I don’t like it at all! Of course I want you to stay home, but…

– But?!

– But I’m not going anywhere! I will wait for you, as always. And these yours, as you call them “idiots”, will not wait! They will do something wrong, and then you will clear up the mess. And then, judging by the tone in which you just spoke with one of them and how angry you are now… I don’t know… It seems to me that now, in any case, you will be thinking about your work all day. Of course, you decide, but I think that you still better deal with your affairs.

– You know, honey, I have the impression now that you openly expel me, – Aiden confessed.

Judging by the expression on his face, he was not joking at all. Miranda even felt uncomfortable.

– Aiden, honey, what are you saying?! Are you serious?

The man nodded his head.

– Want to stay? – she asked, – Stay! I’ll be happy!