Chapter 20-Dinner

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I felt the same touch on my forehead again with a 'click' sound followed. Why is this dream recurring? I shifted a little and slept again feeling too sleepy and tired. I woke up a little later and found the clock showing 7:00 p.m. Returning to the hotel after that humiliating car journey I took a nap tired from the photo shoot. It's time to get ready for the dinner. We all agreed to meet by 8 at the lobby. Everyone else was also tired so we haven't planned anything else but retired to our respective rooms. Gouenji left the bed to me saying he is not tired and started doing who knows what. I gladly took the king sized bed and dozed soon enough.

I placed my hands on the bed and found my hands touch something very smooth and fresh. I looked down to find the bed full of rose petals. What the! I stood up from the bed careful not to destroy the delicate rose petals. I saw the rose petals on the entire bed except where I slept leaving my sleeping form on the bed. Fascinating, I thought. So that means these rose petals weren't there when I slept so whoever did this did after I slept.

"Astrea!" Gouenjii's voice came from behind me.

"You need to get ready if you don't want to be late."

"Don't worry! I don't take long to get ready! See this." I said pointing to the bed.

"Who did this?" I asked and he kept silent.

"I think I might have a stalker." I said which made him look at me as if I am crazy. He is asking me silently 'Do you have that much scene?' Well that is also a thing. Who would stalk me? But then how can we explain the rose petals on the bed and the continuous dreams I am having of that warm touch? Something is wrong and that is for sure. How could he come in the room first of all? Or may be this is Gouenji's doing for some kind of prank or dare. We can't tell how the mind of intelligent works.

"Get ready quickly."

"Wait!" I said taking my phone and getting a picture of the bed. I don't know who did this bed but the bed is looking good especially with my sleeping form carved out in the middle. This is going to be my background. "Let me take a picture." I said fishing out of bed.

"My pictures are a lot better." He muttered under his breathe.

"What pictures?"

"Flowers. Pictures of flowers." He answered to which I nodded and went in to get ready. I showered in fifteen minutes and I wore that beautiful pink dress. I love it! It's so puffy!I think I can forgive G for all the trouble she put me in for this dress. It's difficult to get a dress you like in this period. I combed my hair and let it down and applied some lip gloss on my lips. Complete. That's it. I don't use make up not because I am modest and like to be natural but because I am not good at it. If you leave a make up set in my hand I can give you a horrendous scary demon in return. That is my specialty!

                                                                      //Destiny's dress//

"Are you ready?" Gouenjii said coming from somewhere in the room. He wore a white T-shirt with a pink suit on it and a blue jeans below. Wow! We match again. I have to have a talk with G. I bet this is all her doing, making us wear matching outfits even at the photo shoot. But till date I never saw guys wearing pink suit. Nevertheless the sexy Greek god before me pulled it off wonderfully. He is looking hot even in pink! Damn it!

                                                                         //Gouenji's outfit//

He will look good no matter what kind of dress or what color dress he wears. He looked up after he was done with his phone and looked at me all ready. He nodded and said that we should get down to the lobby. May be they thought after a fun and easy photo shoot a formal dinner would be good. A mix of formal and informal events for the day. G came down wearing a gorgeous dress, white shining material at the top with a sweet heart neckline and the dress flowed down to the foot with cream colored cloth. She pulled it off with a bun and a small pendant in her neck. Others too came down looking good and I found all the eyes on us but I am okay with it since it became a normal thing for me. May be now I will feel uncomfortable if people don't look at us. Then I would worry that something is wrong with us and hence they are not looking. We look like a collection of models standing at the lobby of this super luxurious hotel.

Before I could forget I dragged G to the side. "What are you doing G? I already told you we would never be a couple. He hates me too much for that. So please don't try." I said pleading with her.

"No he doesn't hate and what do you mean? What do you want me to stop? I never did anything. What are you talking about?"

"Don't act. I am talking about the matching outfits I and Gouenji are wearing. You did this even in the photo studio."

"No way! I never did that! I swear! In the photo studio I was busy with getting ready. I couldn't even have the chance to look at you. As for today, it is true that I chose this dress for you but how can I decide what he wears. I can't make him wear what I want. Why would he listen to me? And to think I got you a pink dress to match him with his, how am I supposed to know which shirt or suit he will wear for the dinner even if I know all the outfit colors he brought for this trip? And how would I even suspect a guy to wear pink suit?" She asked me. Well that argument is logical. She really can't plan it all. Then how come we are wearing matching outfits?

"Astrea." Gouenji called me and I was really, really shocked. This is the first time he called my by name, but not any name. He called me Astrea, the name I love and loved how it sounded from his mouth. May because he is from Japanese and knows how to pronounce it turned to him but instead of saying something like I expected he moved near me and his hands moved behind me. From the corner of my eye I saw G smiling at us and took her phone and took a photo of us in this position. Oh my god! These guys! I bet if he was married and his wife found these photos then she would file a divorce case and get good ransom or whatever money they say from him. These photos can be misleading in the wrong hands. I felt a little pang in my heart when I thought about his wife. What's wrong? May be because it is my time to eat and I am hungry. That could be.

He moved his hands and I found a chain on my neck with a tear drop locket, a pink color diamond surrounded my white diamonds. It looked very nice and matches my outfit. In short awesome! I looked at it in awe. It is very nice. While I was admiring the chain he tucked my hair behind my ears and put on an ear ring which he continued on the other side. I could see that they were a pair. Simple tear drop ear rings with blush diamond.

"Wow!" I said unable to say anything.

"Your birthday gift." He said.

"You shouldn't have. The flowers you gave me are more than enough. This looks so pretty, almost like a real diamond." Kidou coughed behind me. I looked confused and then it began to hit me.

"No way! Don't tell me this is a real one!" I said in shock.

"Real diamond with a platinum chain. Designed by Gouenji himself. Pink diamond in the middle is a very rare one." I looked at him in shock and remember seeing in T.V how pink diamond,a  rare case of diamonds and hence it cost more than other diamonds.

"No way! I can't accept something valuable like this." I said trying to remove the chain but Gouenji caught my hands and lowered them down.

"I can't give normal gifts. The gifts I give should also be first class." He said sternly. 

"That is a messed up logic. No mater what  or how perfectionist you might be I can't accept this. It's very expensive. I can't accept such things!" I said arguing with him.

"Even if I say I had plenty of money and its cost mean nothing to me?" I nodded yes that I wouldn't accept even then.

"I thought so."

 He said nonchalantly and took a step towards me and I stayed put thinking that he is going to take it off himself but that was a big mistake that I did. He crushed me to his chest and placed his hands around my waist holding me tightly to him. That was the breaking news of the century. I gasped and lifted my head to meet his lively green orbs which seemed very intense and alluring at that point more so than usual.

As I was about to lost myself in his arms completely G's shout of glee and continuous clicks of photos brought me out from my daze and I gasped again realizing the compromising position we are in. This is the first time we hugged. I mean sure there are other instances like when I fell on him or when he hugged me to console me but this is the first time he truly hugged me.

I could feel every inch of his body in touch with mine. He hugged me so close to him that I bet even a sheet off paper can't pass through. Every place he touched I could feel shivers which I tried to ignore desperately since that is not what I should concentrate about at this point of time.

"What are you doing?" I said and put my hands on his chest to move him back but met with a shriek from G making me look to her.

"Yes! That is a very good position. Gouenji look here too!" She said and before I knew what happened Gouenji looked in her direction, i,e., the camera and a photo was taken.

"Hey what are you doing? Why did you even look there?" I said talking to him and he looked at me making G shriek again.

"Yes, bend a little down and look into her eyes." which he did.

"Okay! I give up. What is your plan? What do you want?"

"Accept the gift." He said a single  sentence.

"You are doing all this just so I would accept the gift?"

"Don't underestimate a man's pride!"

"What has pride got to do with this?"

"Accept it silently if you don't want G to distribute pictures of us kissing."

I  gasped at this. "You wouldn't!"

"Wanna find out?" He said moving his head a tad bit forward and licked his lips looking at mine and unconsciously my eyes glued at his lips.

I want to find out! The taste of those lips.

Hey! Where did that come from? It's not me! It's definitely not my inner voice. I never thought anything!

"I accept! I accept! Even if you beg me to give it back I won't! I will never give it to anyone! In fact I will wear it each and everyday of my life." I said hurriedly trying to calm my breathe which increased for some unknown reason!

"Good." He smirked! He bloody smirked making my blood boil.

"But you should have chosen something cheap." He looked at me raising an eyebrow and was about to crush me to him again."Nope!" I said raising my arms in surrender. "I am just saying. I already accepted it, didn't I?" I said wide eyed. I don't doubt that he would do what he said.

He muttered something and when I asked him to repeat he said nothing. But I thought I heard 'How can I not give you something valuable when everything pales in your comparison. You are much more valuable than anything.' I think I have to get checked. I am being delusional too much and the shock I got just now was too much for my heart to make me listen such things.

After some exciting shrieking from G we all got into the limousine that was waiting outside. Morning we went separately in two cars, by the evening we managed to get a single car which would fit all of us and now a limousine? What happened to the other cars and how did this limousine  appear suddenly with a driver? How can they change cars every time? I swear these people can do anything. We reached a very grand hotel. The hotel manager came and greeted Aram first since he is the owner and then all of us. We were moved to a secluded room with a good view of the city. There was silent music in the background, dim lights and we had our dinner with silent talks.

"The food is absolutely delicious Aram. Your business is going on very well." I told him.

"Why thank you? If you want I can get you our hotel food every day."

"No thanks. I already have no control over the amount of food I eat. If you promise to provide me with such a delicious food every day I swear I will a kilo for every meal and get fat. I am so not in shape even now."

"You will be in shape if you do exercise. It would be good for your health too."

"Yes, I know but I am too lazy for that."

"You needn't do much. Go for jogging in the morning for an hour or two. Morning fresh air will be good for you."

"Believe me when I say I tried that many times. Each and every time I try to wake I feel too sleepy and lazy and sleep again."

"Put an alarm."

"Tried that. I either ignore it or I don't hear the alarm at all."

"Why do you think you do that?" He asked. I thought for a while. What could be the reason?

"May be it is like that because no one watches me or make sure that I do wake up. So I think my brain takes leniency. No immediate effects because of not exercising and there is no one to make sure that I will wake up and do exercise for sure. I think that sumps it up." I said putting another spoon of this delicious and yummy dessert.

"Oh!" He said thinking a little. "I will make sure that you will wake up." He said smirking up at me and I paled immediately.

"You are kidding right?" I asking gulping to which he smirked his infamous evil smirk.

I lost my appetite and the yummy dessert turned tasteless. I dug myself another grave, didn't I? I always do this. What is he planning now? In what way is he going to torture me? He loves to torture me and I don't think he will lose this opportunity which I handed to him on a gold platter. I am so dead. Sometimes I wish a time machine was invented by this time so that I can go back in time and take back the words I said. But alas no! Wait! I should ask Robert to work in this area instead of working on all those useless inventions which put me through trouble. Then I can forgive him for all the trouble he caused in my peaceful and uneventful life.

We returned to the hotel after that. I changed into that sheer silky thigh length nightgown and settled myself on the sofa with a blanket while Gouenji is in the shower. Now beat that G! I am a master. I said dancing internally at my victory. I fell asleep even before he could come out tired from all the events happened today. It is a nice and enjoyable day.

I slept very peacefully and had a good and deep sleep but still felt that smooth, warm and silky touch on my forehead and lips. We woke up a little late the next day and the next day was pretty fun too. We went to the amusement park, ice cream shop, chocolate house, pizza house, a museum and library, yes a museum and library but the funny thing is we had fun there too. How? Don't ask me how? I just know we had fun. There were no embarrassing moments today to my luck thankfully. I enjoyed this little trip of ours very much despite the awful moment yesterday. I don't want to return to college but extend this trip and have more fun. But like every other good thing this too has to come to an end.

Unlike what I thought there was surprise today too. Life loves me too much to let a day pass by normally. The shock I had today was a bike. Yes, Gouenji my ride is at the hotel front with a very cool looking sports bike. I tried moving past him to get into Kidou's car but he caught my wrist.

                                                                   //Gouenjii's bike//

"Get on!" He said tossing me a helmet.

"I don't like bikes."

"That's not what you said a day back. You love bikes, don't you?"

"And that is not what I felt a day back. I discovered that my love for bikes depends on the rider. I don't like to speed to my death."

"Are you doubting my driving skills?"

"No, it's not like that. You drive the car very smoothly. I feel very safe in your car."

"Then?"

"How can you get a bike this quick?" I said trying to divert the topic.

"He ordered that the best sports bike should be in front of him by today night. He was very particular about it." Kidou said from behind me.

"Why is that?" Does he really want to torture me so much that he ordered a bike especially for me since I was scared to death after Aram's killer ride.

"Someone made him jealous by clinging to a particular person." Kidou said and Gouenji glared at him. What does he mean? He is not making any sense.

"Trust me." He said looking me in the eyes. "I will drop you at your home safely. You will even enjoy the ride."

I nodded deciding to trust him. He is a good driver and I think I can believe him especially after he asked me to trust him. 

***************************************************************************************And that is for today guys. You might have observed that I changed Destiny's name to ''Astrea''. Reason I am writing a parallel dimension story for this book and the name Astrea suits better for her and I thought Destiny is a common name. So from now Destiny is going to Astrea, Astrea faith. Sorry for the sudden change. If you wanna see for yourself, check my book "Unforgettable Night" or if you think that's too much of a pain then see the first

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