FF: Asya - Written in the Skies (Part 19/pg.80) - Page 2

Originally posted by: pinky06

btw did U read my first comment after part 1??kitne mushkil se res kiya tha...when U updating part 2 ??????

Originally posted by: Linsie

Part 1...

very lonely zoya... with normal girl dream...
but went it come to lovers... she dream of ayaan...

waiting for the next update

Part 2

During the years she'd been at Delhi High school, Zoya had managed to see Ayaan fairly often when she was home on vacations"an endeavor that was made easier by the fact that both Ayaan's family and hers belonged to the Palms Country Club. At Palms, it was traditional for the membership to appear en masse at the club's major dances and sports events. Until a few months before, when she'd turned eighteen, Zoya had been prohibited from attending the club's adult functions, but she'd managed to avail herself of those opportunities Palms did offer. Each summer she'd invited Ayaan to be her partner in the junior-senior tennis matches. His acceptance had always been gracious; their matches had always been dismal defeats, owing mostly to Zoya's extreme nervousness at playing with him.

She'd used other ruses, too, over the years, like convincing her father to give several dinner parties each summer, one of which always included Ayaan and his family. Since Ayaan's family owned the bank in which all of Siddiqui & Company's funds were deposited, and since Ayaan was already an officer of that bank, he was practically obliged to come to dinner both for business reasons and to act as Zoya's dinner partner.

At Christmas time in Palms, Zoya had twice managed to be standing under the mistletoe, which she'd hung in the foyer, when Ayaan and his family came to pay their annual holiday call on the Siddiquis, and she always went with her father when it was time to return the visit to the Shaikhs.

As a result of the mistletoe trick during her freshman year, Ayaan was the one who gave Zoya her first kiss; she'd lived on the memory of that until the next Christmas, dreamed about the way he felt and smelled and smiled at her before he kissed her.

Whenever he came to dinner, she loved listening to him talk about business at the bank, and she especially loved the walks they began taking afterward, while their parents lingered over brandy. It was during their walk last summer that Zoya made the mortifying discovery that Ayaan had always known she had a crush on him. He'd begun by asking her how the skiing had been the past winter in Manali, and Zoya had regaled him with a funny story about going skiing with the captain of the High School's ski team. When Ayaan stopped laughing at the fact that her date had to chase her ski down the face of the mountain, which he'd done with style and flair, he said with smiling solemnity, "Every time I see you, you're more beautiful than the time before. I guess I've always known that someone was going to eventually take my place in your heart, but I never thought it would be usurped by some jock who rescued your ski. Actually," he teased, "I was getting used to being your favorite romantic hero."

Pride and common sense kept Zoya from blurting out that he'd misunderstood and that no one had taken his place; maturity stopped her from pretending he'd never had a place in her heart. Since he obviously wasn't destroyed by her imagined defection, she did the only thing she could do, which was to try to salvage their friendship and simultaneously treat her crush on him as if she, too, regarded it as an amusing thing of her youthful past. "You knew how I felt?" she asked, managing to smile. "I knew," he averred, returning her smile. "I used to wonder if your father would notice and come looking for me with a gun. He's very protective of you."

"I've noticed that too," Zoya joked, although that particular issue was far from a laughing matter then or now.

Ayaan had chuckled at her quip, and then he'd sobered and said, "Even though your heart belongs to a skier, I hope this doesn't mean our walks and dinners and tennis games are over. I've always enjoyed them, I mean that."

They'd ended up talking about Zoya's college plans and her intention to follow in her ancestors' footsteps, all the way to the president's office at Siddiqui & Company. He alone seemed to understand how she felt about taking her rightful place at Siddiqui's, and he sincerely believed she could do it if she wanted it badly enough.

Originally posted by: pinky06

here I am catching first place again...😊

The update was superb...👏

ayaan zoya s convo was so cute...ayaan knew he was her crush??...awesome...awww n zoya trying to meet ayaan by setting dinners ...

Asad kab aayega?????????waiting for my sweetheart to come...😳

Nice job Amna...next update jaldi plzzz😃

Loadz of love

Pinky😊