Apne bulaya aur hum haazir😉😆😆
Partie Quatre/Part Four:
The next day they went skiing. Ashi had wanted to go trekking in the snow but Yuvi had flatly refused. The coward, she thought sourly. She would have fought with him till he agreed but she loved to ski too (the fact that she had never ever skied before, was a totally different thing all together) They had rented the skis and were now just sitting in the cable car that would take them to the top.
"So," she said, trying to make conversation as the car neared the top, "have you ever skied?"
"Loads of times…I was the hottest skier the last time we went to Switzerland. The chicks loved me man!" She rolled her eyes at him. Trust Yuvi to bring up girls, or as he said "chicks" in any topic…
"I wonder why they loved a 1 n foot guy on pieces of wood," she mused as the cable car came to a stop and they were getting off. Yuvi turned around, annoyed.
"You just wait…put on your "pieces of wood" and we'll see."
Ashi was having a tough time putting the skis. She looked over at Yuvi, he had already put on his and was just standing up with his sticks held in his hands. She grit her teeth as he smiled mockingly at her noticing her struggling with the skis.
"Well well well…looks as if we have a problem! Wow wacko…and you were challenging me!"
"Main kar lungi…tum jao..apne "chicks" ke peeche! Par yahaan tumhein chicks bhi nahin milengi!" she said while tying the chord round and round her legs. Yuvi meanwhile had left after laughing at her efforts. She stood up with some trouble and tried to walk…it was rather tricky to do that when the skis would sink in the snow and she had to pull out her legs.
"Ok…here goes," she said and pushed her sticks, willing herself forward. She went zooming across the snow, the cold air whipping across her face. She grinned with glee. This was fun. Infact it was more than fun…it was awesome! Just then she spotted Yuvi and she pushed harder, steering herself in his direction. Yuvi turned around and saw her zooming towards him with reckless speed and his eyes widened. He moved aside fast and she zoomed past him, finally crashing into a tree. Alarmed, he sped towards her.
Ashi groaned as she tried to lift herself out of the mess. One minute she was after Yuvi and the next she had gone past him and out of control. Her skis were wighing her legs down and she couldn't bring herself to a sitting position very easily. She groaned as pain shot past her leg when she tried to move it. She finally sat up slowly, wiping her face to get the snow off from it.
"Hey wacko! Took a nice fall, you did!" he said brightly grinning at her with a smile that he knew infuriated her. "Lemme help you up."
"Shut up," she snapped back falling bait to that smile as she always did, "I don't need your help! I'm fine on my own."
"Now don't be stupid and come on..gimme your hand..come on" he said. He sat down next to her and began removing her skis. She reluctantly allowed him to help her knowing she couldn't balance on her leg. He held out a strong arm for her to support herself to stand up. Then he slipped an arm around her waist to help her walk back to the cable car. All that Ashi could remember about that walk through the snow, was Yuvi's arms around her waist…the gentle way he held her…the way he made it seem that it was not a big effort…and yet how much it was affecting her… her heart started to beat faster and she lost control a little, putting wight on her bad leg. A wrong decision, she though painfully, as she was about to sink back into the snow. But he didn't allow that… He gripped her tighter and brought her closer to him… ensuring that she couldn't slip… she had no choice but to wrap her hand around him, her cheeks growing hot as she did it… he must be used to wrapping his arms around girls, she mused as he helped her inside the car. And he must be used to them going all crazy over him…she wondered if, for the few days she was with him, she was also like those girls…as mad and as love struck…she reckoned she must have been. MP would vouch for it.
She sighed and shook her head trying to rid it of all thoughts and especially of Yuvi. She looked back at him and was surprised to see him gazing back at her. There was amusement on his face and something else which she couldn't define. He smiled … but it looked like it was more to himself than her, while still looking at her, as though the way she was behaving was exactly how he thought she would.
"So what wacko? Ab kya tum apne skiing crash pe bhi psychology ki book likhne waali ho?" He was grinning…a spark of mischief in his eyes and… though ashi denied it to herself, looking very cute.
"Psychology?? Naah…" she gestured to him, "who tumhaara kaam hai…akhir pscho kaun hai??" Even though he should be annoyed, he couldn't help laughing because she looked so cute making all those faces at him. She was unaware of the thoughts in his head and he was unaware of the feelings in her heart as they went back to the hotel they were staying in.
Ashi was still lost in her thoughts…looking vague about other things. Yuvi wondered what she was thinking about. She was sitting on the window sill, watching outside, as the snow fell even more heavily; and yet she wasn't actually looking at it. Yuvi could she wasn't…he could tell each of her expressions as he had made it his business to stare at her for so long…he couldn't seem to help it…however much he tried…he was drawn back to her…no matter how many girls he flirted with or dated, it was always back to her…
Arjun
