"Close your eyes hun and don't try to sneak peek",giggled Ana as she tightly wrapped her palms around John's eyes and led him through the flight of staircases adhered to the stark white walls of her house.

"I can't wait already,my adrenaline is going to kill me,my heart is beating so fast,I can't believe that you have planned a surprise for me !",said John,exasperated as his hands and feet grew cold from the bitter-sweet tribulation warming up his body.

He stomped up the stairs as he could no longer cork up his mixed feelings.

"Is it some kind of a kinky surprise or a romantic one?

Did you make a sumptuous dinner for me?

No,no I cannot get any smell of that sort...

Did you buy me a playstation already?

Or a car?

A teddy?

A house?

A boat?A ship?

A mountain?

But where did you gather all the money from?

Wait...did yo....did you just sell of your house?"

"Oh shut up,I can't take it anymore",sniggered Ana."Those were such powerful rib-ticklers.....you can be so lousy at reckoning you know!"

She broke with peals of laughter as she slapped her thighs

"Okay...we are almost there...just two more steps and we are done",she said with a half-suppressed smile.

"Tadaaaaaaaaa...here we are!!"

She removed her palms from his eyes and finally unleashed his pent up bubbles of trepidation that was on the verge of transforming itself into a full-blown cardiac arrest.

.

The air had an overtone of pink-red bleach with balloons filled with gas accentuating them. He caught a whiff of strong-flavoured,yet slightly tainted smell of a myriad of cologne and room freshners,ranging from citrus,grassy,fruity,oceanic to oriental,chypre and spicy .Albeit, his conjectures were partially correct,yet the mixed molecules barred him from speculating the actual flavours.The bed had a glowing tinge of velvety veil tucked in the form of neatly-pleated edges that hung from the corners.

The bed was covered with wrapped chocolate-lava cakes,marble cakes,velvet cakes ,rose-petals and plush pillows flanked by red gas-balloons.

The boxes read "Melody—The brand that never lets you down",on the top.

"Holy crap.These are from Melody.They sell the most exorbitant products;these must amount to 6000 $!!",John surmised nervously as he constantly swallowed his own saliva,while calculating the enormous cost.

He stood there,feeling disembodied. He was not zestfully happy ,but happy in some shadowy retreat of his own.

His dilated pupils spoke of the appalling reality that shivered down his spine;yet he felt complacent.

"What happened dear?Aren't you happy?"Ana said, being wary of his nervous look encompassing his face.

"But...honey...I couldn't buy you anything...I did not have enough...."

Ana chuckled."Oh please John,money does not matter in love.In fact,I don't even care.I don't want any gifts at all",she said, embracing him and kissing him brusquely.

She tugged at his shirt and inched her toes towards him. Both of them were separated by a few heavy breaths now.

"I don't want anything from you;just do as I say,no ifs and no buts.Will you?",said Ana,slightly tilting her head.

His face creased with anxiety as she stroked his hair.

"Yea....I will....sure"

"You see those balloons with our names written on them?Both of us have to prick the balloons and inhale whatever comes out of there,get it?"

"HUH?Inhale gas? But wh...."?,he retorted

"Shhhh....Go now,do as I say",Ana said imposing her fingers against his lips.

He warily approached the balloons and grabbed hold of them.

"JOHN" was engraved on one and "ANA" on the other.

He carefully placed them on his hands and brought himself closer to Ana.

"Here we go....

1

2

3"

POP!!

BOOOM!!

And then with a loud clip-clop ,followed by another thud, two motionless bodies laid on the ice-cold floor.

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Note:Oh no!Ana's V-Day plan went haywire!!...Or maybe not,eh?What happens next?