Partie six! Posted in honour of napster's (sing songy) bday and dedicated to her!🤗
'Red was definitely the colour of the season', he thought as he looked out of his room window, 'Even though it's supposed to be white'.
Till now, he had seen a red bird, a copse of cherry trees highlighted in white background and a bunch of people playing in the snow, wearing red jackets. Irritated, he hit his head on the wall three times. Maybe, just maybe, it was not the fault of the bird, the trees or those red jacketed people…maybe it was some weird problem with his own head. But he didn't like to think that way…the thought was too….depressing? exhilarating? Binding? Amazing?
He shook his head, now he was going mad, the same set of questions bouncing on and on in his head.
Whizz
He suddenly looked up, all alert, as he saw something red go past his eyesight, then sighed as he realized it was just a red ball that was being thrown around down in the snow. Then unbidden, came to his mind, the image of a face, standing still, eyes half closed in anticipation, a peaceful look upon it…and those lips…those lips…
Yuvi sighed and opened his eyes, thinking what a fool he had been. 'Pathetic duffer,' he thought. Why hadn't he seized the chance when he had it, bang in front of him and waiting for him too! No…he had to think of mischief (even though most of his mischief, he had learnt from her, in the first place but who was counting that?) he had to think of getting the upper hand…he had to think of games…
Now, his one chance had been stolen from him, by himself and was probably pacing upstairs back and forth, back and forth, thinking of the best way to either push him down the nearest Cliffside or dunk him in the nearest vat of the most vile looking mud.
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Muddled…..yes…that was the theme of the day…She had never felt such a mixture of emotions as she was feeling now. She was furious…she hadn't been pranked in a long time…her reputation had more than done the trick in scaring people away from even the thought of pranking her…she was embarrassed…how could she have lost control so quickly…just because he had come so close in proximity…she was blushing…he had come too close after all…
She was furious…how dare he play along with her heart…how could he dare? He always had no regard for anyone's feelings, much less hers, he would always behave so arrogantly, with all his pride and his ego and his sick sense of humour…she was…despondent…he must be laughing at her stupidity and how he had fooled her…how he had rendered her speechless and gullible at a slight move from him…
*
He looked without interest at his surroundings. The hotel lounge was the same as ever, full of noise and the thud of bags falling down from the staircases since the bellboy always forgot to avoid the edge jutting out from the wall.
He looked around, the receptionist was now furiously arguing with the bellboy, gesturing at the stairs and at her feet, which is where most bags usually landed. A couple were going out, the woman kissing her husband on the cheek…they went away hand in hand.
A blonde girl was being a bit too cozy on the lounge sofa with her boyfriend…a young boy and his girl were playing a game of first staring at each other and then looking down at the floor, blushing.
He suddenly realized that he was surrounded by couples…in various shapes and forms…and sizes… (if you could weigh the monstrous man eyeing his wife, without breaking the weighing machine i.e.).
He felt more than a pang in his heart when he thought of his own messed up love life…and how it would come back to him always…in some weird form of the colour red…
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Hunger finally made her come out from her self imposed confinement in her room. She was just rummaging around for food (and throwing away the millions of left over wrappers in the process) when she felt rather than saw someone's gaze on her. She turned around to find him in all his messy-hair-ed glory.
His eyes widened as he took her in…her crumpled, faded purple bathrobe with a drawing of a lion on the front, her scrunched up hair and her bunny slippers with too long teeth.
On someone else it might have looked weird…he would have definitely laughed.
But with her slightly surprised and ruffled up look and the chocolate wrappers in her hand, she looked absolutely cute. He smirked at her.
Which was totally the worst thing to do then as she glared at him and threw all the wrappers at his head. He laughed as he threw his hands over his head.
"It was just a joke!" he said, shouting between the wrappers. Ashi stopped her throwing.
"Ofcourse…it's a joke" and Yuvi was surprised to see her tone, "it's always been a huge joke for you, hasn't it?" she finished bitterly and walked away.
"What do you mean?"
"Yuvraj Dev…. rockstar…heart throb of millions…Casanova…" He just looked at her, stunned.
"Ashi, have you gone nuts? Aisa kuch nahin hai!" he said, bewildered.
"Par tumhein koi hakk nahin banta…meri feelings ko ek game banane ki,." Yuvi went up to her and put his hands on her shoulders and held on as she tried to wriggle away.
"Ashi…aisa kuch nahin hai," he said trying to emphasize each word but failing miserably as he was having a hard time trying to hold on to her. Ashi meanwhile was still muttering curses and things he dared not guess about and was thankful he couldn't hear.
"Ashi!" he finally yelled and swooping down, pressed his mouth to hers. Ashi lost track of time, memory, space and everything else and her world consisted of only one person…
They broke off after a while…gasping…their foreheads still touching.
"Don't you see? It's always been you…always"
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Ok that's it! I think I have to stop now before all of you scream and hit me for all this corniness! 😆😆😆 This was the last chapter!😉