Page 112 of Storm
That did it. His face adorned a childlike delightful smile. I would have hugged him and kissed him even, if he had still been sad. Though I guess he would have minded that, thinking I'm trying to take advantage of him.
Slow down Sani, you guys have been together since merely a few days now. Let the poor soul relax!
Aariz then made me eat burger, ice cream, and every possible item I could stuff in my mouth. More than talking, we spent our time watching each other eat, laughing as Aariz imitated every vendor, or just walked in peaceful silence, stealing glances at each other.
Finally, with the view of sunset in front of us, we made our way towards water. After all one shouldn’t be on the beach and not go into water. Aariz handed me an ice pop. He had one for himself too. Stating we needed to have it while we enjoyed in water.
Licking on the icy goodness, we folded our jeans to our calves and stepped into the seawater.
Aariz made sure to grip my free hand firmly in his as we looked at the setting sun, while gloating on our lemon
pops. We were giggling and laughing like kids as the waves under our feet made us sway. It also made Aariz slightly loose his balance and his lemon pop to fall in the water.
Giggling heartily at his expression, I without thinking offered him mine.
My smile vanished the next moment realizing I had sucked on the pop already. Offering him my half-eaten was way too couply!
Aariz's gaze turned smouldering on my offer as he locked eyes with me. Before I could force a laugh or say something and take back my outstretched hand that held the ice pop, Aariz caught my wrist and stepped closer. Holding my gaze, he brought my hand up to his lips and licked on the lemony sweetness.
He could have just taken it off my hand. But why would he leave the chance to tease.
He kept sucking on it and my breath hitched. Quite literally! But it was nothing to the next moment when he stepped even more closer into my space and pushed the pop towards my mouth, still holding my wrist.
Aariz nodded at it with a slight carefree smile, forcing me to suck on it too.
He could have left my hand. After all, I was holding the pop. But he did not. Instead, he leaned in, to suck on it from his side. My breathing went abnormal and I could see his chest heaving deeply as well.
Aariz left my free hand that he had clutched in his all this time, and curled his palm around my waist as he kept licking and sucking on the ice pop, nudging me with his intense eyes to do the same when I stopped my lips from moving on the ice.
The ice pop's size kept melting in our mouths oh so slowly, dragging this foreplay deliciously.
Foreplay?! Where did that come from? Oh God!
Aariz seemed to be enjoying this heated icy game thoroughly. I could see the teasing smile playing on his lips and also the mirth dancing in his eyes as he winked at me every now and then around our lickings of the pop.
Our eye lock broke and I flew back startled with the loud cheer of kids around, when a huge wave started to erupt in the sea.
Aariz chuckled at my stunned expression and threw the pop in water, on which I had long loosened my hold.
Aariz's eyes sparkled with enormous meaning that I shivered to decipher.
For a moment, he stood still and I remained in his daze. Then out of nowhere, my face was splashed with water and the air around me rang with Aariz's such full open laughter, that I had never heard before. I felt surprised not due to his continuous splashing of water on me but due to his boyish charm, his teasing eyebrows that wiggled playfully as he laughed hard bending to throw water all over me.
Delighted with this new cheerfulness in Aariz, I gave it back in kind and joined him in the water war. Making each other wet, we were worse than the kids were, as we competed over who splashed the bigger gust of water.
“You are too slow!” Aariz chuckled teasing me.
“I'm not slow. Your hands are too big and manly!” I stated trying to be faster with both hands throwing water on him.
“I'm a big man Sani. You have to get habituated now, there is no going back.” Aariz winked at me suggestively.
And I fell. I honestly did or would have fallen completely, not due to his wink but from the wave that made me loose balance. I staggered and was almost in water, but Aariz caught me. My whole back was getting wet lying just on the surface, while Aariz did nothing but laugh with his hand curled around my waist.
Though it was clear to me, that his laugh was forced, as his eyes remained intense and deep, darkening with every second, which he was trying not to show and scare me and hence the fake laughter. He did not force himself much to act, as he did not attempt to pull me up. Rather, kept his palm splayed on my back.
Having figured out his act, I turned breathless holding on to him tightly. Even though I was cold, I could feel my face heating up and I guess he too saw the blush creeping on me and that’s why he finally pulled me up after giving a slight squeeze to my waist.
Standing up, I moved my hair behind my ears unable to get my heart beating in sync. I tried to think how to get away from this awkwardness, when water slapped me hard and I saw Aariz doubled over laughing. Annoyed but unable to wipe off my grin, I too started splashing water on him and our play resumed for some more time until we were tired and out of breath.
