Uzair bhai! Stop running, please...

I just kept walking, slight smile on my face. Opened the door to the staircase and went up one level, opened another door and kept walking. I could hear her in the background, scrambling to follow, her young legs barely keeping up with my strides. I wasn't running, just trying to be elusive. I came to another door, went down the stairs again and came out near a coffee shop. she caught sight of me just as i closed the last door. So I walked up the spiralling steps next to the coffee stand, it went on and on. Now, even my own heartbeat was racing- perplexed as to why I insisted on putting my body through such pain for no reason. I kept walking. Up, down, Up again and just for good measure down again.

Ayesha kept following, always with the cute smile on her face. Sometimes she would read my route and be waiting at a door for me; but she's a child you know, so she'd be standing at the door but lookng away at something else interesting. I would quietly slip away, unbeknowest to her. She'd come around the corner, almost marching cuz she had heard a sound, and there she'd be pointing, smiling that cute smile again.

I don't know what all this was about- maybe a lollipop, or an ice cream cone, perhaps an attempt at kid-like humour; It was just a dream I had last night.