Chapitre 2: An unsolicited neighbour

As he stood sipping water, supporting himself sloppily against the  kitchen slab, he recalled what happened a few hours ago and a feeling of exasperation crept over him. The balcony and the view it presented, which had never once failed to exhilarate him even after years and years of visit, which had been solely and entirely his for all these years was now so unfairly distant to him. He had never been someone to associate feelings with places as such, but that balcony had always held a space of nostalgia in his heart, the kind of nostalgia that he relived by unforced repeated visits. The house, that was abandoned for itself all this time was now all lively and wholesome and thus had claimed it's only visitor during it's lonely years, a mere stranger. Only if that had been his house, but then, the fact that the balcony was not his was what made visiting it sneakily at night seem so exciting, and then his balcony, well all he could ever see through his balcony was the bleak sight of some crappy plain buildings. The narrow yet far-reaching estate devoid of any building, that lay so grandly incongruous before the adjoining house, belonged to some non resident, who despite being offered humongous sums several times was reluctant to sell his ancestral property. So there it lay, untouched and unfazed,  all these years as his sole visual possession, that is, until yesterday. There came a sudden splashing sound, Kai  just turned his head towards the window, the window of the downside kitchen of the neighbouring house was open, all he could see from above was someone washing hands in the basin. The designed copper chain wrapped around the wrist in multiple layers was making elegant chiming sounds. 'Is this that girl?' Kai wondered, the hands were long and pretty. Ah and then there was this, what happened in the morning had left a bitter impression in both their minds about eachother, he thought, and what's more, in the rush of the moment he forgot to dispose the cigarette outside, a family rule they all promised to abide to and walked inside the house with it to get a fresh little chiding from his mother in the very morning itself.