Page 146 of Storm
Zee was right. It could be dangerous.
Turning back to make sure all three of them were sleeping, I took the ice cream from Aariz's hand. He smiled gently, as if thinking I wanted to eat it.
His smile turned into shock, then a hot look, as I pushed the ice cream to his lips, making him eat from my hands while he drove us on.
Slowly and leisurely, he licked on it as if we had all the time in the world. In between, he’d bite and suck on my fingers when ice cream melted and spilled.
Like he couldn’t let any drop go to waste.
And what about the havoc in my heart that was confused and sighing, wishing to question revoltingly and embrace at his touch all at the same time.
Slightly biting on the back of my palm in the pretence of taking the last of the spilled ice cream in his mouth, Aariz stated,
“Finally reached.”
I stared open mouthed at him. What did he mean?
But he stopped the car with a jerk in front of a beautiful wooden house, with its back to the crashing sea.
Aariz
After waking Zidaan, Ibbi and an annoyed Umber, we all made our way towards the house. The caretaker, an old kind man, readily gave us the keys, just hearing the name of Zidaan's Dad, who apparently had visited here often.
We went inside and checked out the house. It was dusty, but we didn’t had the heart to make him work for us, due to our unannounced visit.
Sani stood leaning against the back door that opened to a sprawling sea.
Her hair was yet again pressing on her face due to the open wind. The clip that held them remained helpless to their fight for caressi
ng her skin.
Like a magnetic pull, I walked towards her with no reason in my mind. I didn’t even knew if I was ready to forgive her or talk to her. Yet I couldn’t hold myself back.
Leaning my shoulder against the doorframe, I stood letting her side touch my chest. I closed my eyes to inhale her fragrance of lemon grass, probably from her body wash. I loved it and had been missing it. Today it had mixed with those scents of open sea and wet sand. It felt like being in heaven. It calmed me beyond imagination.
She hadn’t yet noticed my presence. Her eyes were on the waves. Those flowing curls hit my face giving me a sniff of ripe peaches and oranges. Another one of my favourite fragrance since the day I met her. Something else, I had been craving for since days now.
“You...” She turned around; her expression shocked, finding me close on her side.
Her eyes got distracted to something behind me and her face resigned to boredom as she finished,
“Are here.”
“Hi, Sani!” An agonisingly malicious voice came from behind me.
My mood went downhill as I too turned to witness a smug looking Haadi enter the house with Humza and Aaira.
He continued grinning at Sani,
“I felt really bad that you ditched me. It was such a boring ride with just the three of us. I'm not gonna forgive you easily for that. You will have a hard time mollifying me. I will keep a grudge.” He was trying to be cute but all I could feel was childishness spilling out of him. He was trying too much.
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who thought so.
Sani made an irked face at him, not even trying to hide it. As if, unable to decide if he should even be graced with a response.
Tentatively she muttered,
“Ohkay...?!”
