Equals: Human And Beast

5.

"Today's OT, Sister Nuraya?" Janit also asked Aravinda that.

"What OT? What we just finished is OT" Aravinda said while putting on his black motorcycle jacket. "Ah...h yes... these days, my brain is not good.. Now why is it so late at night? How is he going?" Janit asked while Aravinda was sitting on the motorcycle.

"I don't know.. I called Nuraya but he didn't answer. When I went up the road, he was doing well. When I asked the same thing, he said that there is no problem.. I will go by bus on the day.. I can't imagine how it will go today. Finally, I said that if it is night, I will Give a call, I will go home and drop it," Aravinda said with the anguish he felt about Nuraya. "Hmm.. r****h Sir is there today, isn't he?" Janit asked while looking at Aravinda.

"Hmm.. r****h sir stays up till night every day.. But Nuraya is not r****h sir's nobody. He is.. I mean.. our friend.. ok ok go now" Aravinda said what he saw in the elevator. Even though Janith wanted to say it, it didn't take long for Janith to catch the strange gleam in Aravinda's eyes when he suddenly talked about Nuraya.

'What is the matter, where is this? Why can't I see all the bugs!!?' While getting on Arvinda's motorcycle, Janith thought about what the events would be like.

"It's not Aravindaya..., this will last until I go to boarding school, right?" Janit asked about Arvinda's broken motorcycle.

"This is there.. How many years is this now!! You can believe this more than me. This is my father's. I feel as if my father is near me when I travel with this. One day I want to wear this with the girl I love. That's my dream.. Until then, even if it's broken.., no matter what happens, I'll keep riding it.." Aravinda said while lovingly holding the handlebars of the motorcycle with one hand.

"Speaking loudly, bro.. I can't hear you!!!!!!!!!!!" Janith Giriya Kadan shouted from the back seat as Arvinda's words were carried by the wind.

"There is!!! There is!!!!!!!! Don't be afraid!!!!" Arvind also shouted for Janit to hear.

After going a little further, Aravinda stopped the bike near a hotel while Janit looked at him in surprise. "Wait here for a while... I'll bring a bag..." Aravinda walked quickly into the shop without giving Janith a chance to talk and came back after a while with two parcels in his hand. "Ah... this is for you." Aravinda handed a parcel to Janit and he took it and checked it. "A do.. Why did you get me? I don't want..." Even though Jani said that, Arvinda started talking again. "Don't be silly. You're like my brother. What happens when you buy a pillow?" When Aravinda said that, finally Jani accepted without any objection. "Is the whole family going to go hunting today??" Janit asked with his handsome smile.

"Lokou called that mother is not feeling well.. She asked to bring something to eat.. otherwise I will be with Nuraya and send her home today.. But it is not possible. Mother and the two girls are hungry.." Aravinda said as he was about to get on the bike again. "Why, where... haven't you taught your sisters to cook?" That's when Janith's mouth opened again. "If you can cook, you can do something and prepare something to eat. But when you ask me to bring something from outside, you have to take it. They don't always ask me for things."

"Oh man... it's not that... I have to ask something" Janit said before getting into the back seat. "So... when did you ask if you should ask before you ask?" Aravinda said while smiling showing his teeth.

"It's not like that... this is serious..." When Janit said that, Aravinda stopped laughing and paid attention to Janit.

"Okay, okay.. I'm listening.. What are you talking about?" After getting Aravinda's attention, Janit started talking.

"This is it, brother.. He said that he saw a girl once." While Janit was talking like that, Aravinda realized that this was some sort of relief.

"So... where did you see it now? What happened?" Aravinda asked curiously.

"Hita Panko.. Now, as soon as he saw such a girl, he fell in love.. Is it true love, brother?" Janit asked while looking at Aravinda. "Are you crazy? It's been a week and two. It's over when you see one more," Aravinda said because Janith's incident was not as serious as he thought.

"No.., no.. If it's been a week or two..." Janit asked again while hesitating. This time, Aravinda's sharp gaze was directed towards Janith. "Then.. it will be there for a month or two.." Aravinda finally said that considering his previous experiences.

"Ah...then let's see again in about a month." Janith said that and got into the back seat. "Ohoma hi tapan, ehala hi tapan son.. you can't boil me.. hi tapan what is this incident" Aravinda asked while not letting Janit climb because he knew that Janit was not hiding anything from him.

"Apo.... You look like Madhu's sister when you are looking at me..." Jani also laughed at that but quickly started talking again.

"Okay.., okay.. I'll tell you.. there's nothing you can't tell me.. this is it... one day I was sent out to some banana plantation. So I went in the company car. Cyril had a leg problem and I drove alone that day. Janith explained about the car that was in the care of Cyril, the main driver of the Kaiser company.

"Okay, so...?" Aravinda asked impatiently. "Well, now I was driving it.. while I was driving, a black cat suddenly jumped in front of the car.. I immediately stepped on the brake and told it to get away. Good thing the cat didn't hit me." There was a rush to know the story.

"Don't talk about dogs and cats soon," Arvinda said, Janit started talking again. "Okay.. Bang.. That piece is also important," Janith said, slapping Aravinda on the shoulder. "So now I was very scared that the cat had been caught. Then I lowered the glass and tried to put my neck to see if there was anything wrong with the cat. Suddenly a girl jumped on me. I was very scared. Then that girl took that cat in her body. Nothing happened to that cat.. But this one behaved as if I just picked it up in the car and tried to kill it. The girl's body was very cute" when Janit said that, Aravinda laughed. Janit had never talked like this. Because. "Aw... Janita... are you jealous of a cat too? Okay, what happened next?" Aravinda asked with a smile on her lips.

"Okay, okay.. you are laughing too, where is this innocent me.. okay, then that girl scolded me and came towards my seat. There are also cars on that road. It's not even a matter of time. ..." When Janit said that, Aravinda smiled. "So.. what are you blaming now" Aravinda was cross-questioned again. "You scolded me for being a brainless cow.. If you don't know how to drive a car, you should leave it at home and not kill lives. He also asked if it was our father's road." . "So....? What did you say? There's no way you can keep your mouth shut" Janit kept quiet when Aravinda asked that. "Kiya Pan So.. What's the point of saying these things?" Aravinda once again encouraged Janith but he remained silent.

"I didn't say anything, bro... what should I say..? I was waiting..." Janit finally said with his face lowered to the ground. "Is this you??? You were keeping your mouth shut???" Aravinda asked in disbelief. "Yes, yes.. no.. I was looking at that girl.. I was like, what happened to me.. not like the milky white anchor babies.. very beautiful... like my color.. thick. Her hair was down to her waist. Curls. A hair. It was curled very nicely like sister Nuraya's, but it was beautiful. Ah...hh, that girl on TV looks like Pallavi.." When Janit said that, Arvinda's lips smiled.

"Ah...that's what the boy was doing in the morning..while watching, this cat girl was actually in the boy's head." Arvinda said that and Janitu also laughed. "If not.. if that Madhu sister finds out about this, it will be over. She will kill me for making fun of me." When Janit said that, Arvinda laughed again because she knew that it was true. "But our Lokoo is also like the girl you mentioned, eh.. Don't get caught staring at your girl like that," Arvinda said jokingly. "Are you crazy? You said that you won't give me girls from your house with this mouth!! I still couldn't change this from Panchikavatten." Janith said with a smile. "Okay, okay.. so... now that means that it closes with this girl.. Is that why" when Arvinda said that, Janit's mouth shut again, making Arvinda think that it was one of the eighth wonders of the world. "Okay, so now you know a name? Where did it happen?" Aravinda asked again because he felt that Janit, who was like a brother to him, was the only one to tell this story at this time.

"I didn't ask her name. I came to my senses when that girl scolded me and yelled at me to take the car from a car coming from behind." Arvinda smiled again, but he didn't laugh out loud because Janit's heart might be hurt. "If this happened right in Mattegoda, I went to Kirivattuduwa.. to that Saran. Damn, where is the chance!!!" Janith said while hitting the back seat of Arvinda's bike with his hand. "Ya Ko.. Don't hit this one.. Adda has..." Aravinda quickly touched the seat of his bike with love. "Alright then... now go around a little bit and you'll find it.. Also... if that girl is written as Mai to you, you'll definitely find it.. Now when will you get your bike from the service?" Aravinda asked an important question.

"They said it will be delivered tomorrow. I have to go get it tomorrow," Janit said while getting on the back seat of the bike.

"Now think for a while whether you really like that girl. As a brother who has two sisters, I am warning you. If you only have a crush on you, then forget about that nonsense. After marrying that girl, if you think it's just a wish, then that girl is also doomed.. So be patient a little more. You still have as much time as you need.. And the thing is... as I said before.. that girl is for you. If it's written, you'll get it anyway" Aravinda said, turning to Janit, who was sitting in the back seat, who was more like a brother than a friend.

Janit looked at Aravinda and nodded to indicate that he understood what he said.

"Put yourself in the boarding house right now. Those two will kill me when I'm late," Aravinda quickly started his motorcycle, while Janit laughed.

As the night passed slowly, Nuraya was on the seventh floor of the Kaiser Institute, holding her hand to her head and checking her file, because she really didn't understand some things. In the end, she decided to study the old files belonging to the Kiara company again because of the difficulty in understanding the latest correspondence. A light rain had started by now, fulfilling the omens of a heavy rain that had been indicated from time to time since the morning of that day. From time to time we could hear faint flashes of lightning, but they were not that strong because it was still the beginning of the great storm.

'Nuraya will go home carefully, won't she?' Aravinda thought like that while looking at the big storm that was coming down from the house, but it was raining lightly at the moment, worrying about her a bit. "Brother.. Come eat.. Mother also got up.." Hearing his elder sister's voice, he approached the door. "Coming Lokuu.." he answered quickly. "Please close the door please.. Hirikada is coming to the house. If it's you, oh my brother.." He answered quickly but did not go inside the house, Arvinda's elder sister came and put him inside the house by pulling Arvinda's t-shirt. "Please come... I'm hungry." She closed the front door of the house and did not allow the heavy rain to enter the house.

'Nuraya will call me...' Arvinda thought like that and came inside the house under the orders of her sister.

The next guest of the storm that was about to start, the gusty wind also started its duties very enthusiastically, as if waving to the chief guest, the big rain. No matter how fast the wind blew, Nuraya, who was on the seventh floor of the Kaiser building, did not even feel it. She was so engrossed in her files. Radishshut, who was in his cabin on the sixth floor, was quite tired. After loosening the first few buttons of his shirt, he rolled up the sleeves of his long-sleeved shirt. After that, he splashed a few drops of water on his face from the water glass on the table, while commanding himself, 'Don't sleep now, son...'. That's because I didn't get enough sleep for three or four days. At the moment, only Nuraya, who was on the seventh floor, r****h, who was on the sixth floor, and the night watchman were staying at the Kaiser Institute. When the time struck 9:00 PM, Nuraya's phone received a call from home.

"Nuraya! What are you doing all this time??" Nuraya was inspired to look at the time with her grandmother's voice.

"Oh.. Big Mom.. I'm still at work. I have some urgent work to do.. It will be a little late" Nuraya quickly said that while wondering if Big Mom would scold her or not. However, Nuraya was quite happy as she had less time with her grandmother since last month and did not hear her orders as much. From last month's salary, more than half of it was left in Grandma's hands, Grandma was overjoyed.

"Okay, okay.., come back after work, then be careful! God bless you!" It is a world surprise to hear such kind words from the great mother. There is a story that if you have money, even gods can stand on their feet. That is what is happening. Grandma, who cut limes for Nuraya for so long and begged her mother and father who passed away some time ago, has now fallen in love with Nuraya.

As soon as the phone conversation ended, Nuraya's phone received another call. "Hello Aravinda, say" Nuraya began to speak while holding the phone to her ear and neck, working with a pen in her hand.

"Have you gone home, Nuraya? Or shall I come and get you?" Nuraya felt very happy when Aravinda heard that. He really felt like an older brother to her. It may be because she knows that he has two younger sisters. Therefore, she felt that he had no ulterior motives in looking for her or Samadhi.

"Yes, that's why I went home," Nuraya quickly lied, because she knew that this work would not be finished for another hour. And it is evil to bring Aravinda to the office again in this great storm. Nuraya knows very well that he should come wet on his bike. And in the evening Aravinda told Nuraya that because her mother is ill, she will go home early. She remembered very well that he said that he could stop with her and take her home. So.., because she knows that it is wrong to take advantage of such a good hearted person, she told a lie that would not bother anyone.

"Ah... then it doesn't matter.. a big storm is going to come.. that's why I took it. It would be okay if I escaped to Gedetta before the storm.." Aravinda said that in a very unsatisfying voice.

"Yes.. that's it.. ah.. Shall I talk to you later? Grandma is talking" Nuraya said because she wanted to end the phone call as soon as possible, or because it was difficult to work when her attention was on the phone call.

"Okay, okay Nuraya, then good night.." Aravinda quickly said that.

"Good night Aravinda.." After the phone conversation was over, Aravinda, who was rolling on the bed in his room, took a breath of freedom.

"Who's who, eh? The girl, huh? Apo... did you make friends with a girl without telling me, hello?" Aravinda's elder sister suddenly came to Aravinda's room with the Samahan cup in her hand. "Oh, I don't want to read nonsense, Lokuu." Arvinda said that, but her eyes saw a change in him. She sat on the corner of his bed as she handed him the Samahan cup.

"What is this in the middle of the night?" Aravinda asked while looking at her and taking the cup from her hand. "Mother is not well.. so I brought it to ask if you will get it too.. I gave it to mother too.. I gave it to Podi too.. Mother's fever is less now. I gave her cilantro to drink earlier.. When you all get sick, I will be worried" Aravinda was waiting for his Looking at the elder sister. "Didn't this scholarly grandmother drink?" He asked while pinching her nose. "Oh... I can't drink that." She pulled her face and said that, a smile came to his face automatically. "You thief who has been taking medicine since childhood... I drink half of this. It's too much for me too..." When she held the Samahan cup in her hand towards her sister, she put on a face and showed opposition, but after a stern look from him, she obeyed and slowly sipped it, saying that she was the drink of life. Like drinking the biggest s**t ever.

"When did you go to take Samahan? Didn't you go to class today?" Aravinda asked again while worrying about her. "No... Today is a holiday," she said lightly. "You took a vacation? Lokuu, this isn't a game, right? It's not an office. It's a class. After that, when mom gets sick, or when you or Podi get sick, or something else happens, you tell me right away. In the evening, without telling me everything. I am the man of this house! I am also taking care of you.. Otherwise, you will become a scholarly grandmother and cut classes here and try again for the exam.." When Aravinda said that, her cheeks reddened with sadness. With tears in her eyes, she quickly got up from his bed, angrily pulling the Samahan cup from the nearby table. "Loku.." He called her but she quickly left the room without letting him say a word.

'Pow my poor girl.. Where are you.. I am angry even with scholarly work.. If I fail the exam this time too, it will be over.' While attacking from

As the rain got worse and worse, Nuraya rubbed her forehead with her fingers because her head was starting to hurt because she had strained her eyes for so long. By this time, the heavy rain had begun to wrestle with the top floor of the Kaiser building. As the sky darkened with the occasional roaring sound and intense lightning, Nuraya looked out of the thick glass windows from time to time as her heart pounded. Even though her memories ran to that unfortunate incident that happened many years ago, when the whole environment was illuminated by the lights, she quickly decided not to look at the lights, intending to finish the work and go home anyway.

By this time, Janith was looking out of the window of her room while wiping her wet hair with a towel. The other friend who was staying in his room had not yet come to the boarding school. Janith's house was in Ratnapura. Janith came to Sivali Central College, Ratnapura to study because the scholarship was lost, and after passing the general level examination, he came to Ananda Vidyalaya, Colombo, starting the life of a single-paying hostel. Janit joined Kaiser institute right after his high school exams. At first he worked as a trainee but now after three years of work, Janith has become a permanent employee of Kaiser.

Although the topic of love in Janith's life peeked out from time to time, he thought that he had never felt the feelings he felt for the girl he had seen only once recently.

'But Janitho..remember the things that brother Aravinda said...' Janith's subconscious warned him in his mind, as the princess of his dreams danced in various ways.

**"As a brother who has two sisters, I am warning you. If you only have a crush on you, then forget about that nonsense. Otherwise, after marrying that girl, if you think that it is just a crush, that girl will also be wasted.. Be patient a little more. You still have as much time as you need, Janito.. Besides, as I said before.. if it is written that that girl is for you, you will get it anyway"**

Arvinda's words hit Jani in the head because he really didn't want to trouble this girl who had lost his heart with a single word.

'There you are thinking a little more.. Anyway, as Aravinda brother said.., I will get him if he is mine'

Janith calmed down by looking at the falling raindrops.

But Nuraya, who was inside the Kaiser Institute and was hugging a lot of files, hardly had time to think like that.

"One more file" Nuraya said triumphantly while pulling her hands up and opening them. By now, she took off the high heels that were on her feet and was very easily placing her legs in her wheelchair. Also, like r****h who stayed on the sixth floor, she also took off her coat and put it on the chair, because of the time that passed after this duty time. The curly hair that came from washing in the morning was stuck to the top of her head with the help of a ballpoint pen.

Nuraya checked the time on her mobile phone before picking up the last file with tiredness in her heart and mind. It was ten minutes past ten o'clock. Even though she wanted to think about how to go home, she postponed thinking about it because her head was filled with this pile of work.

"It's okay if you wash your face a bit, but now your eyes just look like they're going to fall out." She said to herself while wiping both eyes with her hands. After that, Nuraya quickly got up with her high heels on and went to the group of toilets on the seventh floor, taking her mobile phone as usual. In the meantime, her stomach screamed, 'Aren't you going to eat today?' Like asking. Nuraya rubbed her stomach thinking that she would eat after finishing this work. Lazily dragging herself to the group of toilets, she took off her gloves and put them cleanly aside, and after the hygiene routine, she came to the large mirrored water tap to wash her face.

"Apo.. I'm tired" she said to herself because there was no one alone in the seventh floor of the Palau Kaiser building on this lonely night.

While Nuraya was washing his face, suddenly lightning struck with a loud bang, making Nuraya startled. With that sound, the Kaiser lightbulbs, which had been burning so proudly for so long, went unconscious, plunging the entire building into darkness.

With her heart beating fast, Nuraya was looking for her mobile phone. She remembered it as being on the sink, with her gloves. Nuraya finally got her phone when she was invaded by a strange feeling mixed with fear that she had never had before. She quickly turned on the light and tried to breathe well, due to the difficulty of breathing due to fear. With the light of the light falling on the mirrors, various scary pictures were created around her, although her eyes may have deceived her, but the fear she felt in her heart did not go away. Putting on her gloves, she came out of the toilet complex, walking fast.

By now, the thing she was most afraid to see in this world, the thing she didn't want to face, was hitting her eyes from time to time with chatus chatus. That's lightning. She was most afraid of lightning in this world. It is because of that incident that happened many years ago. She ignored the lightning for so long because she had a lot of work to do, and because she couldn't see the lightning very well. But now, in this hollow, if she could see anything, it was only the electric lights that illuminated the whole environment.

When Eli turned her eyes blue, the difficulty of breathing became more and more intense along with the intense fear. Holding her chest with one hand, Nuraya pressed hard against a wall in the corridor she was walking while still struggling to walk.

"Mother... father..." came out of her lips in pain as usual. Those two words remained on her lips like a mantra whenever she felt fear. Even though the time spent with her by both the people who heard those two words from her lips was very short, the love she showed to them did not decrease even a little.

Nuraya decided to walk further, when her brain screamed that she had to face this situation anyway.

'This company doesn't even have a generator?' Even if her intelligence asked her that, she had no answer to give. Step by step he walked forward with difficulty as he was more and more electrified. Nuraya walked towards the stairs... she really didn't understand where to go. Because of her fear, she did not remember that she could call someone from the phone in her hand. She remembered the incident that happened many years ago. Because it was the most difficult event for a small child to experience, Nuraya has developed a post-traumatic stress disorder. Every night of lightning and lightning, she spent her life very hard and in a lot of pain. The fear that made her feel suffocating, the old memories..., which she did not want to recall, but which she could never forget, she remembered every night of lightning and lightning.

She trudged down the stairs, her eyes wet with tears as she could not see ahead. Holding the phone in one hand and the wall in the other, Nuraya unconsciously descended the stairs, breathing heavily.

"Oh.. Mom.... Dad...." with soft sobs, she whimpered. She went down the first row of stairs, before going to the next row, she leaned against the wall with such helplessness that she couldn't even think of taking another step forward.

"Oh..." came out of her lips again as she was electrocuted again and again. At the same time, the sound of footsteps moving up along the empty tarapupule scared her again as she gasped for breath. Her cell phone slipped from her hand as her gloved fingers trembled. Theran Theran When those footsteps came to her, she was about to faint. Those feet that came up with the unceasing lightning, saw her and stopped as her eyes went to him. He had a flashlight on his shoulder, but he had given her all the attention of its light, so she saw his face in the glare of the lightning.

The moment she recognized who he was, the tears stuck between her lips jumped out, while her legs also got new life.

She immediately ran to him, without letting him say a word, she forcefully buried her head in his crotch. As those tear-filled cheeks pressed against his warm chest, he stared at her in amazement, as he never thought something like this would happen.

"Oh...,"

"Oh.... save me..." she pleaded helplessly. Because, no matter how tightly she hugged him, she still flashed non-stop.