obscurity

6

Four year old Ryan was happily walking in the playground of his school, when he noticed that there was one child sitting alone under the tree looking down. The child looked really lonely and sad . So Ryan decided to approach him.

"Hey" Ryan said and the child looked at him , the child's face was covered with mud it looked like he fell down , the child didn't say anything but turned to look at the other side.

"Hey, I am talking to you" Ryan said with a smile, although he was a little sad that the child ignored him but he didn't mind "come on why aren't you replying" he said and reached out his hand to touch the child but the child moved back and avoided the contact.

"Hey I will not beat you, okay, I just want to be friends with you" Ryan said and the child looked at him with a surprised face , this made Ryan quite happy "yes , come on let's be friends I am Ryan " Ryan said and moved his hands towards the child's direction .

The child looked at Ryan's hand and after a few seconds he held Ryan's hand and shook it "friends" the child said "yes friends , come lets meet my other friends" Ryan said and tried to pull the child but the latter withdrew his hand .

"what happened" Ryan asked "don't wanna meet" the child replied

"okay then , let's sit here, where is your lunch" the child didn't say anything he just pointed towards a specific direction, when Ryan looked at that direction he saw that there was food lying on the ground

"is it yours" the child nodded "did you feel" the child shook his head "did someone push you" the child nodded

"no problem here have mine" Ryan said and they happily eat their food , "you are so cute I will call you Panda"

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"Ryan get ready , the guest would be coming anytime" Amber reminded him. bringing him back to reality

"Okay " Ryan said and went to his room still thinking about his Panda.

" Did something happened" Shawn asked and Amber shook her head

"Why?"

"No its just that he looks a little lost today" Shawn said" anyway I will go and get ready "

*

"Welcome , please come inside" Amber said as he opened the door for the guest with a wide smile.

"Thank you miss Amber" Kyle said as he and the other two entered the house.

"Welcome Mr. Shroff" Shawn said and shook hands with Kyle and Felix "hello Kevin it's nice to meet you" Shawn said

"Same here" Kevin said

"Let's go inside everyone wants to meet you all" Shawn said and then went towards the living room followed by the rest.

All the family members and the guest were seated in the living room. They were talking about various news and world affairs and what not, mostly Kyle and Felix were doing the talking while Kevin was just sitting in a corner silently listening to the conversation.

Everyone in the house admired Kyle's calm and collected personality and Felix's naughty personality overall both of them had a very good impression on the Jones as for Kevin , well it looked like everyone forgot about him Kyle tried to bring him in the conversation every now and then but Kevin had no interest at all .

Shawn noticed that Kevin was not talking so he decided to talk to him "Kevin? why don't you tell us something about yourself" Shawn asked with a gentle smile, and Kevin can not be rude to him Kevin really respects Shawn and at the same time Ryan also came down and greeted the guest and sat down beside Shawn.

"there is nothing much about me" Kevin said

"Kevin don't be shy , come on tell us something about yourself" Amber said with a gentle smile, Amber's personality was so gentle that Kevin can never turn her down so he said

"I am 23 years old and I am the youngest one among the three of us " Kevin said with a poker face and in a cold voice , after listening to Kevin a mischievous smile formed on Ryan's face

"Kevin , Kevin it's hard to believe that you are same age as me , you behave like a 80 years old man even my father is more talkative than you " Ryan said the others somewhat agreed with him "let me give you a advice Kevin even if you are not interested in the conversation you should still at least say few more lines while introducing yourself"

Ryan finished and Kevin looked at him with a poker face as if he just didn't care at all about what Ryan said. Ryan became somewhat uncomfortable when he saw that Kevin paid no attention to his words , but he ignored the feeling. If it was someone else Ryan wouldn't care this much, he wouldn't even pay attention to them but something about Kevin attracts Ryan.

As for Kevin he really didn't mind it because Ryan was not the first one to say something like this but when Kevin saw Ryan's smile he became a little nostalgic it was like he had seen that smile before. So he looked away and didn't even look at Ryan anymore.

" Ryan , don't waste your breathe I and hyung have done everything we could to make this brat a little sociable but this person is like a rock he wouldn't budge , " Felix said with his signature smirk "he is so arrogant he won't listen to anyone"

"I also know a person like that" Bryan suddenly said and Ryan rolled his eyes he knew who was that person that Bryan was talking about.

"really" Felix said and Bryan nodded "wow then you can really understand my pain hyung"

"yeah I can understand your pain very well , that arrogant brat doesn't listen to anyone and always do whatever he wants without thinking about the consequences, he really likes to make everyone worry about him" Bryan said while looking at Ryan towards the end of his sentence Felix understood that it was Ryan that Bryan was talking about.

Felix and Bryan got a common topic to talk about and in no time they became friends . Both of them were talking about Ryan and Kevin's bad habits .

"I didn't know that my brother loves me so much that he only thinks about me 24x7, I am touched brother " Ryan spoke

"Who loves you it's more like I hate you" Bryan said

"Whatever but one thing is clear that you have only me in your mind" Ryan said

"You!-"

"Okay shut up both of you we have guest here so behave yourself" Mr. Jones said

"See Mr. Shroff I told you that you are not the only one dealing with adult kids" Amber said and Kyle nodded while everyone else smiled

"Oh yeah we were talking about Kevin, since Kevin is so poor at conversations let me ask you a few questions let me start with your hobbies , tell us about them" Ryan said

Kevin just looked at Ryan. He really didn't understand why in the world this person is so interested in talking with him. Kyle decided to answer for Kevin since he saw that Kevin had no intention of speaking

"My little brother here is skilled in martial arts and dancing , he also likes to do social work"

"That's nice" Shawn said

"That's cool dude" Ryan said " I didn't think that you would be so talented when I first saw you i thought you are really arrogant and had no talent like what Felix said " Ryan said

"Ryan, behave," Mrs. Jones reminded him." you should talk properly with the guests"

"Sorry I should really stop judging a book by its cover, " Ryan said .

"Ryan although it is true that Kevin is arrogant and boring but when it comes to skills and talent he is unbeatable , he is the smartest among the three of us " Felix said with proudness in his eyes and Kevin looked at Felix although he didn't say anything but Felix understood that Kevin was happy. Kyle and others smiled gently .

This was another thing common between Bryan and Felix although they like to diss Ryan and Kevin and pretend that they don't care at all about the two but in reality Felix and Bryan would declare a war against anyone who dares to hurt their brothers no one can diss their brothers except they themselves anyone else who dares to harm Kevin and Ryan will have to face the wrath of Felix and Bryan .

Both Kevin and Ryan knew it and they were really grateful to have brothers like Felix and Bryan

But in a second Felix's lips turned into a mischievous smirk and he said "but hyung you forgot a very important detail" Kyle looked at Felix confusedly but after seeing Felix's smirk Kyle knew that the latter was again back to his naughty self.

"Let me tell all of you this person here who is so skilled and talented is afraid of bugs" Felix said and Kevin looked at him with a sharp gaze , the others smiled

"Really" Shawn asked if he was not able to believe this piece of information.

"Yeah really let me tell you one day he saw a bug on his window sill and he screamed so loudly that we thought something big happened and when we asked him what happened he told us that he found a bug and that day he didn't go to his room at all and stayed in hyung's room" Felix said and everyone laughed while Kevin still had a poke face and looked indifferent but he really wanted to drown Felix in a river.

Soon everyone went to the dining room to have dinner. Everyone was chatting and laughing. It was a good atmosphere. The Jones family really loved the presence of the three Shroff brothers .

In the middle of dinner Jones Ryan kept stealing glances at Kevin , because he just couldn't take eyes off him