Title : Go easy on the brain.. !!
Sanam's POV :
We've been driving through the city for a while and the view was beyond spectacular. As the car took another turn, and finally slowed down into a driveway, i couldn't help but stare at the gigantic building infront of me.
That was hu-ugee..
Long story short, We checked in, and were allotted our room..
So, now, here we are in the lift..just us, with no curious viewers..No, I'm not speaking about the viewers curious about the hotel.. I'm talking about the ones who looked at me with curious looks as i gazed at the building curiously!!!
"Sooo, you owwn this?" I looked at him as we stood in the lift.
He arches a brow "Hmm, So, I take it that you like it"
I couldn't help but nod my head. "Yeah.. Of course, who wouldn't. Everything here's shimmery sparkley. I wonder how people manage to clean all these without causing any damage"
"Sanaamm" he chuckles "Of all the things, you're worrying about how they cl-eaan these".
"Old habits die hard" I snap.
"You know what Sanam, Thats what makes these things more special.Yes, They are beautiful. But they are also very delicate. The art lies not just in adoring the beauty but understanding the delicacy and moulding ourselves to suit it."
I look at him, but he seemed to be else where lost in his thoughts.
But those words, they had a strong inner meaning. Were they intended at me or is it that I'm imagining things.. I stare at the blank space ahead of me trying to figure out things. There's soo much happening in the past few hours.. I do not know if i can sustain any longer !!
The lift doors open, bringing us out of our thoughts, and we were greeted by another attendant who pointed us to our room.
"Not exactly" He spoke into my ears as we walked across the lobby.
I look at him with a question mark stamped on my face.
"This isn't our hotel" he spoke., gesturing to the question i asked him earlier.
"Ohh.." I nod as he bent to insert his key into the hole. "I get it. International, exactly isn't your .."
I was cut off by his words. "We own like 80% of the shares here. Not the whole hotel", he smirks as he walks into the room, and turns back to catch the shocked look on my face.
"Well, That was soo modest of you. Why do you even have to leave the 20%." I roll my eyes.
"Umm, we need to take care of the hotel which was difficult from over there. So we decided to give the organisers a 20% of our shares." He says in a-matter-of-fact tone , placing his hands on the entrance door as he spoke.
"Woahh.. That was soo " i try to speak something to mock his so called generous ways actually, but i couldn't feel my words as i step into the room.
"Amazing." I found myself completing the previous sentence.
"Umm.. I always knew it." He shrugs rubbing his hand at the back of his neck and smirk plastered over his face.
I roll my eyes as i walk past him
"Not you. Its this" I say pointing to the room. "I have to admit, your taste wasn't soo bad afterall" I tease as my eyes travel around the hall finally ending upon the sofa set which looks more like a miniature bed !!
"Don't.. Don't sit on the sofa set" he warns me. "You better complete examining the whole house before sitting there, cause I'm sure you won't feel like getting up once you sit there" he winks.
"Sarcastic aren't we" i utter as I walk further in, to check the rest of the rooms.
There's a dining room to the right side of the hall, and a kitchen..
Seriously, who has a kitchen in a hotel. None that i know of. But I'm glad that i could at least get some time pass out of it.
And onto the left is a room full of mirrors and a shiny wooden flooring.
"Exercise room" i hear him say from behind me, and i find threadmill, few weights and few other machines that i didn't even know existed, ahead of me.
I have no idea as to what more rooms shall spring up here.
The bedroom's vast with a queen sized bed in the center. Sheer gold linens cover the bed with pillows of different sizes scattered across it. Well, i would dare not call them scattered cause they look more like arranged to feel like they are not arranged. !!
And then, there's the balcony with a miniature swimming pool and I hug myself, closing my eyes as a gentle breeze flows across my face.
"You like it?" He asks standing across me, Hands shoved into his pants pockets, looking at the vast ocean lying ahead of us.
The breeze knocks his hair and i couldn't help but stare at how beautiful he looks.
"Umm.. Yeah. It's great " I reply forcing myself to turn away from him and look at the waves ahead., taking a glance at the sun as it sets down.
Aahils pov :
I have no idea what to look at. The beauty beside me or the beauty ahead of me.
Whatever, I just hope that I'll try my best to make her feel comfortable during this trip.
I may not be the exact company she wanted here but i can try to be a good one.. Or fine, lets make it as, not a bad company atleast.
I don't know the amount of time we stood there staring at the sun finally setting down across the horizon where the sky and the sea seem to meet.
Its these little times i spend with her, that i find more valuable, a memory worth treasuring for a life time. I don't know how our future will be like, once we go back home. It's just three months i have. But i don't want to leave any single chance i get unturned now. I never knew what happiness could be like. Never knew how spending your life with a single person for the whole lifetime could feel like. But now, standing beside her staring at the waves striking the sea shore, i get it as to how it feels. How it feels to wake up to her tunes everyday, wake up to see that she's beside me ... Forever. To have those petty quarrels with her, to grow old with her..
I don't want my life to be as the waves ahead of me. I want my life to be as a calm water in the middle of the sea of life. She settles me. She is IT for me, THE ONE. And if my life, reaches the waves, i just want to know that she'll be beside me, holding my han-ds...
My thoughts are interrupted by the ringing of my phone.
"Ammi" I say looking into it and go inside to speak to her.
How could i forget to call Ammi back. Damn me.
Tanveer : Haa Aahil beta, Aap teek hai na. Mein kabse tumhaare phone call keliye intezhaar kar rahi hoon.
Aahil : Ammi.. I'm sorry. I just forgot.
Tanveer : It's okay Aahil beta.Lagta hai Tumko mujhse zyaada aur kuch kaam aagaya .
Aahil : Ammiii... Ye aap kya bol rahe hai..
Tanveer : Its alright. I can understand. Fine, jo hogaya wo hogaya. Bas kal ka business meeting attend karna mat bhul jaavo. This is a good chance to improve our business there.
Aahil : Yeah, sure Ammi. Aap kaise hain?
Tanveer : I'm perfectly fine. Just take care of the meeting. It's a very important business de-al...
The rest of the voice is drowned by a scream coming from the bedroom.
Aahil : Ammi.. I'll just call you later.
Tanveer: Aaahil.. Wo awaaz kya hai?
Aahil : mujhe nahi pata, lagta hai sanam kaa awaaz hai. I'll talk to you later Ammi..
Bye.
I rush into the room, and run over to her.
"Sanaamm..What happened??" I ask her.
No reply
"Sanam just tell me what happened??"
I catch her shoulders and shake her.
Still no reply.
Sanam's pov :
I walk back into the room after Aahil goes to attend his Ammi's call and i find the suitcases strandled on the floor by the bedside. Being the cleanliness freak that I am, I decide to arrange all the clothes in the drawers.
It was then i opened this particular drawer..
Omg.. Alla mia..
What should i tell him?
I can feel his hands on my shoulders shaking me to speak something.
I gulp and look at him, trying to figure out some answer. But the close-ness between us is not helping.
"Sanam, for god sakes, speak something" he shouts again shaking my body.
I close my eyes and point my finger to the now open drawer and he flinches away.
God.. I don't even know where to put my head. If only the ground below would just open up and take me in.
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