She Found Herself.

Donning four layers of woolen, she climbed the stairs with her short footsteps. Rubbing her little hands together, she looked for her dad on terrace.

"Dad" she called and a man in his mid thirties turned towards her. "What are you doing here? I was searching for you." Walking towards him, she looked up in his blatant eyes. He lifted the little girl in his arms and kissed her rosy cheeks.

"Did you see the pink pencil which I bought yesterday?" She asked and he shook his head, no. "But what are you doing here?" She asked the same question again.

"I was talking to universe." he said and then paused. He looked into her bemused eyes.

"But why?" her eyebrows came closer to each other and the skin of her forehead crinkled a bit in confusion.

"Because universe knows everything." He whispered it in her ears and her young heart believed the words.

"But where is universe?" She looked up at the sky where her dad was staring when she climbed the stairs.

"There." He said and she followed his point.

"That is a star." she said and her dad smiled. She looked again at the twinkling star and then up at her dad. "Want to eat Ice Cream?" he broke the silence and whittled the words she was about to say. She held his index finger with her little fingers and nodded.

***

She sneaked out of her room in the middle of the night and sat down at one corner of her balcony.

She wanted to go up on the terrace but was afraid of ghosts.

She looked up at the star and started telling her the things she did that day. There was calmness in the star which was teaching her sundry things she was unaware of.

Two months had passed by and she never felt alone. There was her universe with her with whom she could share her feelings and blabber everything she wanted to do. 

She tip toed out of her room and looked up at the sky. There was no star today but haziness of clouds. She felt deserted. Her four-year old heart broke into several pieces. She ran back to her room and sat at the corner of her bed. 

As tears ruffled down her cheeks, she looked at the darkness of the room and saw something twinkling just like a star. She was happy for she knew what it was. She spent an hour talking to her universe. 

"Alice" her dad called her name entering the room and lit the lights.  "You forgot to drink your milk today." He said while she stared at the mirror in her room with amazement.

She ran towards him and drank the glass full of milk.

"In The Haziness Of Clouds,

She Found Her Universe.

She Found Herself."

The star was nothing but the stone studded in her "A" letter pendant.

"There was universe in her name."