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Aria's Pov

I entered the room just as I had a talk with my dad regarding the vacation I'll be going with my friends. It was really hard convincing him but after some emotional blackmail he agreed. I have to call him every two hours to make him believe that I was okay.

I quickly texted Zain and Ahana about it and went to washroom to get freshen up. After a good shower, I took out the assignment our professor has asked us about and started completing it.

A good ten minutes later I heard a distinct voice. It was so small that I thought it was just some insect or a bird outside my window.

After a minute I heard the voice again, this time it sounded like someone was taking long breaths, and after a second, I heard the voice curse. I looked at my window, heartbeats rose.

Are those goons back? Is Ronit here? Did they get out of jail? Am I gonna be kidnapped again? Am I...

I immediately took the heavy hardcover dictionary lying at my desk and walked towards the window with precaution. My first thought was to call out for dad and that's what I was about to do when the voice came nearer and I saw my window was slightly open.

I was confused whether to go call dad or to go and shut the bloody window before the intruder walks in. And the later won, as I ran towards the window with the intention to close it and run down to my parents that's when I saw the head of the person and without thinking much, I started hitting the head with that heavy dictionary in my hand.

"What the hell Aria! Stop! It's me! It's me! Zain!" The voice started saying and my eyes widened recognizing the voice and I stopped immediately.

"What is wrong with you?" Zain says as he climbs inside my room and massage the area, I hit him on his head.

"What is wrong with me?!" I ask exasperated. "What is wrong with YOU?" I say and eye him as he walks towards the bed and sit down. "Who the hell climbs up the window at this time? And you're asking what's wrong with me?"

Zain finally looks up at me and I notice, he looked really good sitting there on my bed with a scowl on his face but nonetheless he had the audacity to glare at me.

"I came here for you; you should be happy that your boyfriend just climbed up a window for you." He says and stands up and walks towards the wall where I had hung my family pictures.

I was about to reply something sarcastic but then I realized what he said. Boyfriend? Say what?

"Boyfriend? Excuse me, I'm not your girlfriend!" I say and fold my arms to glare at him.

He didn't turn around and keep looking at the picture of me in my school uniform.

"Yet," I hear him mumble, and if it wasn't so silent in the room, I wouldn't have even heard it.

"What?" I ask and move closer towards him.

"I'm saying you're not my girlfriend, yet." He says and turns around. "But you'll be soon." He says and turns back to the painting on the wall leaving me standing their jaw struck.

"Zain I seriously don't like this kind of jokes," I say and he turned towards me and gives me a half-crooked smile.

"Who says I'm joking espresso?" He moves closer, and there it is, that stupid nickname.

"Well then what you're saying is no less than a-" he cut me off when he suddenly made me sit on the bed and leaned down so he was at my face level.

"It's not a joke, Aria." He says, his eyes softening.

"I seriously have no idea what's going on in your head Zain!" I say.

"You seriously don't wanna know what's going on in my head right now Aria," he says in low husky voice and shakes his head and my breathing went abnormal just the way it does when he comes near to me.

"Zain..." I whisper out and his hand comes up to my face and caress my cheeks lovingly as we lock our eyes with each other.

"I want to start again Aria, everything. I want to be with you again." He tells me as he holds my hands which were resting on my lap.

"Zain...I don't think-"

"Don't think too much Aria," he cuts me off and the pad of his thumb moves up and down my hand, sending shivers down my body. "Just tell me what your heart wants," he says and looks down at our entwined hands.

"My heart wants to be with you Aria, every special moment, I want to spend it with you." He looks up at me and I see the sincerity and love he hold showing in his eyes as he watches me with fascination.

I was quite speechless at the moment, and Zain was sitting there waiting for my answer. I tried saying something, anything, but not a word came out. I was looking like a fish, opening and closing my mouth like an idiot.

I finally got the courage and spoke the two words he was least expecting. "You sure?"

His face turned into one of confusion but he nodded anyways. "Very sure," he spoke immediately without any pause.

"I may be a little sensitive you know," I say and squeeze his hands. "After all it was my fault, we broke up the first time, me and my stupidi-"

"We were young Aria, just forget about it." He says sternly and shakes his head. "I don't want you to remember anything from the past that makes you think you were at fault; do you get me?" I nod my head. "Good, now that is clear. About my answer?" He asks again.

I bit my lips and stare at him. "Are you really really sure because I-"

"If you say 'sure' one more time, I'm going to kiss you right now!" He says suddenly and my eyes widened.

"Zain I sho-"

"You know what, just tell me you want to be my girlfriend because if you say anything except for that I'm going to kiss you!" He says as a smirk forms on his face and I was struck with his words.

"Zain you can't-"

"What did I say Aria, should I kiss y-"

"No, no, I'll be your girlfriend." I say suddenly and hear him laugh at my expense.

"That's what I wanted to hear." He says and stands up taking me up with him.

"You know you made me agree to be your girlfriend forcefully,"

"So what? At least you're my girlfriend now." He says with a smile and caress my cheeks lovingly. "Gosh, you look beautiful." He says as his eyes move over my face in astonishment.

"I have a feel-"

"Aria!" My mom's voice stopped Zain from saying anything as I heard footsteps coming towards my room.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Zain get out!" I say and push him towards the window. Zain looked shocked at the sudden disturbance and the reality of situation stuck him after some seconds.

"Shit! Is your mom coming?"

"Yes!! Go! Now!!" I say and try to push him out of the window. Zain moved towards the window but stopped suddenly.

"Fvck Aria! There's someone standing outside the window!" Zain says and I look out the window to see my dad standing and watering the plants.

My dad has the weird habit of watering the plants at odd timings, he mostly does it when he is happy or very stressed.

"Oh no! Oh no! Mom can be here any moment" I was hyperventilating.

"Shh...calm down," Zain says and looks around my room. That's when our eyes spotted the door and we looked at each other and before I can tell him anything, he ran towards the bathroom door and went inside.

"Aria where are you?" My moms called me as she opened the door and looked at me beside my bed breathing heavily as if I had just come down from jogging.

"What's wrong? Are you having trouble breathing?" She asked concerned and walked towards me.

I shake my head, "no mom, actually I was exercising." I lie and she looks at me as if she has just seen a ghost.

"You were exercising? Exercising?" She says not believing me and I nod my head.

Before she could ask anything, I beat her to it. "You wanted something mom?" I ask instead.

As if she just realized what she came here for she nodded her head.

"Yeah I wanted to use your bathroom, our water heater is not working." She says and starts walking towards the bathroom.

Same bathroom where Zain was hiding inside of!!

Shit!

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