Elizabeth turned to look at the lady staff, standing and listening to their conversations intently. Huh? Why is she standing like this?
"Ok let"s draw something! Get your colors and notepad." Elizabeth was trying hard to get more information. May be the boy draws something useful!
Rhehan quickly obliged and opened a drawer to pick up his few colored sheets and a set of pencil colors. "What should I draw?"
"Anything that you like the most." Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders and smiled at the boy. Her heart melted, everytime he looked at her with his beautiful green eyes. But she had to be careful. He was already adopted!
Soon Rhehan started to draw happily on the paper. Elizabeth looked at the maid and gave her a smile. Is she keeping a check on me?
She then pretended to chock on her saliva and cough violently. The maid was startled and rushed out to fetch a gla.s.s of water for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth ceased the opportunity and turned towards the boy. " Are you happy here?"
Rhehan stopped drawing but did not look at Elizabeth. His face was suddenly serious! Elizabeth knew the boy was scared of something.
"If you are afraid to speak, just draw it. It will be our secret. Just draw what you want to tell me. I promise, I will help you."
Suddenly the maid entered with a gla.s.s of water, while Elizabeth pretended to pat her chest in discomfort. "Thank you so much. The travel makes my throat really dry."
The maid bowed in reverence and stood again at the threshhold of the room. Rhehan continued to draw but this time more seriously.
All this while Elizabeth looked at the boy"s serious face and then suddenly she noticed something, which was even more shocking for her. Rhehan had been in a hurry to draw the pictures, so he suddenly picked up another pencil with his left hand and drew simultaneously with both hands. Elizabeth got up from her seat, pretending to act casual, but in reality she was now freaking out and could not sit still.
The boy was ambidextrous too just like Elizabeth and Elizabeth"s father. Her heart was beating so fast that she felt it would burst open her chest! Should she count this as another coincidence? No way! So many coincidences are not possible. Was he somehow saved? Elizabeth looked at Rhehan, teary eyed. She so much wanted to hug the child right now! But she knew she couldn"t!
She waited patiently for Rhehan to finish his drawings. Rhehan had finished drawing on the first page and he was soon drawing on the second sheet. Soon, he finished the drawings and looked intently at Elizabeth. Elizabeth was already in a rush to find more facts about him.
She quickly took the drawings and without glancing at them, hugged the boy. "I will meet you soon again." Rhehan looked at the lady and smiled at her words. Tears formed in her eyes! She wished she could just kidnap him right now.
She took the drawings and the stuffed lion, gifyed to her and seated herself in her car, bidding farewell to the family of three. Rhehan looked gloomy at the departure of the lady. An unspoken promise could be seen in Elizabeth"s eyes, which made Rhehan smile again.
The car sped off, since it was already dark, Elizabeth switched on the car light to examine the two sheets. The first one was what looked like a square building with a garden. He had painted the building in red color, written "XAV" with black color on it. Their was a garden close to building on which he drew small faces, with stick like arms and legs. The garden had flowers and swings on it. On one corner of drawing was a boy in yellow with a sad face. The dress had yellow ears just like he had worn today.
"Hmmm....could this be his orphanage? The boy in yellow is for sure Rhehan. Which means he is not happy!" Elizabeth had no idea about the orphanges in Singapore so she turned to look at her driver. He was from Singapore too, he might know the orphanges here probably.
"Say! Marc, Do you have any idea about an orphanage named Xav. It has a red building."
Marc thought for a few seconds. "No madame! There is no orphange by that name."
Elizabeth sighed in helplessness and looked at the second drawing. He has colored the entire sheet in green, making it look like covered in plants and trees. Amidst the trees was the same boy dressed in yellow with pikachu ears. But there was another man too standing with him. On top of it was written Lee lee. There were various rough four legged figures drawn in different colors, probably representing animals. At one corner was a small hut like house, which was of red and brown color.
"What place has so many animals? Did somebody take him to a zoo? But this does not look like a zoo." Elizabeth was by now feeling helpless, tears forming in her eyes again.