Science

She was starting to have doubts in her relationship with Alastair. She loved him despite of the fact that he was mentally unstable and that his life had been spent mostly in the hospital's psychology department. She was a psychologist and lately her friends have started calling her a 'Psycho' because they all thought he was trying to dupe her into getting him out of the mental prison and she was readily being a bait.

She went to the hospital and the first thing she did was to read the newspaper. That day she saw something in the newspaper that made her run down the corridor, she hastily asked her assistants to bring Alastair in the experiment room. It was all lit up. On being asked that why was she doing this, she replied, "There's this new research that says our pupils dilate when we lie." They both simply listened to her and took him in the room with the brightest of lights. His pupil will naturally contract in light and if he lies it will dilate even in those lights - this was her plan.

Alastair was a calm man. Yes, he was unstable but not mad. He had sense, it was just sometimes he would go out of control. Sometimes. He looked very normal and behaved the same but he had some disorders that might ignite into self destruction provided the unfortunate circumstances come into play. He had blue eyes. Was it just the iris or the grief that painted his eyes?

He was seated in the room and one of the assistant asked him many questions. She was standing outside and could see his back. His eyes were contracted in all his answers. The last question, "Do you love Miss. Mia?"

He said yes but his eyes,they showed denial. They dilated.

The assistants came to her and reported what they saw. She left the hospital in tears. The tears looked blue. For some days she didn't go to work and when she did, she didn't met Alastair. He broke her and therefore she broke up with him. Months passed and Alastair's health started to detroit, he didn't knew what went wrong. One day he was taken to the same experiment room again, everything was going well until his eyes poured all the grief on him and he drowned. He couldn't breath in the sorrow anymore and then he took the nearest instrument and within a second... the sharp instrument lulled his blood to sleep on the glass walls. He fell down. Slow and shallow breaths were not enough to sail him through the waves to the shore. Mia got to know about this and she hurried to that place. She saw him but he didn't, she was puzzled at the dilemma that who wronged who. She was close to him and when she couldn't stand the sight, she looked away at the wall.

There their eyes met.

There their eyes met. For the last time.

At the glass wall.

Time passed and as usual she went to the hospital and read the newspaper. Except for remembering the love and betrayal of Alastair, everything was same until one day she read the

- RESEARCHES AND INVENTIONS column in the newspaper as usual but the first research said, " Researchers have found multiple reasons for the dilation of eyes. Fear, Deception, Lying and seeing a loved one can dilate ones eyes......."

She couldn't believe her eyes, she ran to her assistant and asked, " Where is the footage of the day when you questioned Alastair?!? I want it right now!!"

She played it, praying she does not see what her mind is saying to her.

In the footage, Alastair was constantly looking at the clock in the front but when the last question was asked, his sight shifted on the wall. He was looking at her reflection on the wall.

At the glass wall.

- Adin

21 October 2019