While she was out, Abir’s texts kept buzzing- Made…moi…selle.. where are you? Come soon, I wanna talk. He only ever called her 'Mademoiselle' when he was either in a brilliant mood or absolutely plastered. Other than that, Abir never really had a specific name for her. Though sometimes he called her ‘babe’. Sneha, on the other hand, called him Amon in texts. Never to his face, though; she was a bit too shy for that. But you can't see a face over text, so she could type 'Amon', 'Amon pakhi' as much as she bloody well liked. She mostly stuck to Amon. It was the name of an ancient Egyptian god, the king of gods, actually. But she hadn't picked it because he was the king. She chose it because in ancient Egypt, Amon was worshipped as the life-giving god. And the best part? The name Amon literally meant 'the hidden or invisible one'. Just like Charles Bukowski’s bluebird, the one he had written about:
"there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not
going to let anybody see you..."