Another night with my uninvited guest.

Boom! or was it a Swish? Whatever the background music,he had arrived. As always. My uninvited guest. "whatcha doing?" he smirked at me.

"Are you blind?" I barked back,not hiding my displeasure at seeing him in my room.That too at such odd hour. I jumped off the couch and turned the lights off. He needed to know that he was not wanted in my room and it was just not the right time for him to get close to me.

"Are you crying again?" It sounded more like a mockery than concern,so I remained mute(if you would consider the muffled sobs silent!).

"You are just plainly miserable!"he added and that felt like a sharp tip of a knife opening the can of stifled emotions. I wailed. It didn't feel wrong to cry with this stranger who had barged in my room at the dead of the night.

"Get a life Girl!"

That is easier said than done!More so impossible now that he had decided to stick around.The more I felt his cold hand touch me, I felt like a recluse.Was I becoming one?

"What's eating you now?" He raised his voice as if I had become deaf.

"Buzz off!" I screamed and pulled my sheets over my head.

"So, no friends,huh?..."he paused,it was a dramatic pause, a deliberate one."...and no family here!tsk!tsk!" I thrust his ribs with my elbows and would have kicked him hard if only I was standing and not bundled up in my bed.

He stretched his arms to take me in his embrace. I snuggled in effortlessly. "Alright!You win!" And I slipped more into the embrace of this uninvited guest who called himself LONELINESS!