"Love is indeed heartless, if not, then why is it shown only as a symbol?"
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Islared Roger, found abandoned by her parents at an early age, was chosen for...
Most of the time Sam was busy with her works and couldn't find the least time to spend with the little one.
Isla, would roll down the table and waited for her new mother to find her out, cheerful and with the happiest smile she could conjure.
But the day dried to eve and nobody came to find her. She awaited for her mother to at least call out her name, but that just never happened. Giving up hopes on togetherness, she used to roll out of the table herself called it a day.
The series of this hopeless fun made her cold and distant eventually.
She ate what she was given without even thinking of a preference. She missed her kindergarten because of her mother's negligence. An home-schooled kid who neither smiles nor cries.
But something happened that one night which changed all of Sam's Heart.
On the last Tuesday of November, when Sam was extracting out the details of one of the companies, Isla came roaming about.
"Mother, what are you doing here?"- she asked, "Is it something very important?"
Sam looked at her, annoyed, while sipping coffee from her mug. The room was dark and in the white light emitting from the computer screen her mask-less face was visible.
The old dusty mahogany table was covered with white loose papers flowing here and there, outshone by the blue-black lights from the scree. A white coffee mug was placed over a blue sponge table matt, from which Sam was sipping from.
She counter asked, "Isla, what brings you here at midnight?"
The computer beeped.
"Father was looking for you so I came to find you. Sorry, I knocked a couple of times but probably you did not realize it. So I came forward without getting the permiss-"
"It's fine." She said and continued her work on, "tell him I'll be there in a minute, you can go now."
"You haven't replied." Islared reminded. "What are you doin'?"
"Nothing really important. Not something you must know about"
She gazed at the computer screen seeing Sam' swift fingers working miraculously over the keyboard.
For some time she completely gazed into the screen when she finally cried out "It's right there"
Her sudden cry made Sam a bit confused. "What?" She asked, furrowing her brows.
Isla pushed the mug and the books aside which were heaped next to the computer.
She gazed at the screen for a while and then typed something while muttering. Her thin fingers were shaky but they still made the way all through the keyboard.
While doing so, the screen went all out. She was scared, to be honest, but also confident enough to stand still.
Sam, who was all red by then suddenly cried in rage,
"No! What have you done?!" She started panicking and by the time, Isla was trembling too.
Sam tried pressing random keywords in order to restore somthing — anything. "What have you done! I have been working on this since a long time! You ruined it!"
Sam, who was dead aggressive by now was about to slap her when they both paused for a moment to find the screen suddenly on. The room got dipped in silence as the black screen suddenly lit up showing
'Accessibility Unlocked'
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-This Part Is Edited-
pearlypanda made the first-ever book cover for this book. So this chapter is dedicated to her. You can check that out on the previous. chapters.
More special shout-outs:
1. scribbly_writer : for making the story banner, which will be displayed below↓
2. elenawarz. : for this lovely cover which I absolutely adore.
3. aiceleste and Ririflower :for giving their honest feedback uwu thank you thank you thank you soooo much!
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