It was any other day. She went to office
and as usual was waiting for him to come in. It was like a daily ritual for
them to have breakfast together. So, like any other day she was waiting that
when Aryan would come and when they would eat. She checked his status on the
office communicator a couple of times but he was offline.
Having waited enough she called him, “Hi
sexy! Where are you?”
“Yes Niya” he replied in a tired voice.
This wasn’t a reply that she was expecting,
“I’ve been waiting for you and you aren’t in the office, neither did you return
my texts. All well?”
“Yes, just the usual headache” he
complained.
“Oh… Did you eat anything?” she sounded
concerned.
“No… Listen, I’ll sleep, let me call you back.”
He replied annoyingly.
Although he sounded ignorant but Niya didn’t
get mad at him. She knew that Aryan had bad headaches and would get cranky in
such situations. She wished him well and hung up the phone.
She hated going to the cafeteria alone. Every
known soul in the office knew that Niya and Aryan always hung out together. There
was this traction between them which never went unnoticed. Going alone would
always bring out a series of questions from not so good friends. Hence, she
skipped breakfast and thought of having lunch early.
The day passed by and she got busy in her
work. It was around 3:00 in the evening when she got a text from Aryan, “Hey… I
am better now.”
She read the text and replied with a smile,
“Well, that’s good news. Did you eat anything?”
“I was asleep, I didn’t but what about you?”
he replied.
“I had my breakfast.” She replied
conservatively.
“Yeah! Sure!” he replied with a smirk.
“Hah! So, you know! Big deal!” she replied with
a quirk.
”But listen! I am hungry” Can you come?” he
asked her.
“So, what? Do you want to eat me?” she texted.
“I am flattered but not in the mood to eat
fish today.” He replied.
It was a busy day for her. Her manager was
at her head trying to get the tasks completed. And hence she replied, “Will be
there in 30 mins!”
“Great!” he replied.
She had never said “No” to him. Neither had
he!
She reached his place as promised but was
surprised to see him ready in the best of his clothing and with a nice
fragrance on.
“Hey… what is this?” she questioned.
“We are going to the beach.” He replied.
“But your headache?” she further enquired.
“It went off when you said you’ll come to
see me.” He replied flirtingly.
She blushed and replied, “Anyway, you look
too good to be sick!”
He smirked in return and said, “Well, we
can stay in if you want there’s no one around!”
“Oh, come one Aryan!” she blushed, “Let’s
go. We’ll first get something to eat at the mall then go to the beach.” She said.
They loved spending time at the beach
together. And going to the mall just before to grab some burgers was a part of
the itinerary to the beach. After having filled their tummies to full they went
to the beach and sat at their one favorite spot. The sky had turned dusky and
the waves had become aggressive. Well, the sun and moon could have been charged
guilty for setting up the beautiful act for the young souls. As the night kept
on becoming dominant the breeze started getting faster and colder. They had
been chatting for quite some time now and the words had started coming to an
end. Now the only thing between both was the cold sea breeze. The conversation
which was working as the insulator had now faded away.
Niya held Aryan’s hand tightly. She could feel
the warmth starting from his hand and travelling all the way across her heart.
She kept staring at the waves as she felt shy in looking towards Aryan. Aryan
on the other hand shamelessly kept on staring at her. After a point she looked
at him, tilted her head to the left, smiled and asked him, “What are you
looking at?”
He didn’t reply. He didn’t need to. Niya
giggled and kept her head on Aryan’s shoulder. Aryan wrapped Niya in his arms
like a little kitten. Niya tucked herself further inside his arms making
herself comfortable. Niya could hear Aryan’s heartbeats clearly and Aryan could
very well sense the shiver in her body.
“Niya!” said Aryan.
“Hmm…” Niya whispered softly.
“We shouldn’t be doing this.” He said.
Niya was brought back to reality by these
words by Aryan but she decided to keep mum.
She looked at Aryan with all the love in
the world in her eyes and a tear dropped off! Aryan needed no explanation for
the reaction from Niya. He understood everything.
Niya closed her eyes and leaned towards
Aryan and they kissed with all the passion that they had for one-another. They
let out all the hidden feelings, all the unspoken feelings that they had buried
in their hearts for so long. The beach felt silent to them, the waves hitting
the shore so hard had gone mute and all the people on the beach had gone dumb.
Niya still wrapped in Aryan’s arms and both
their eyes still shut. It seemed as if they were on the most solace place in
the world just when Niya’s phone rang. She took out the phone from her pocket
and answered it, “Hi… I am out with my team. I’ll reach in another hour. Will
call you then.”
“Who was it”, enquired Aryan.
Niya got herself out from Aryan’s arms, sat
straight and gasped, “My boyfriend!”
--by AMbuj
