♦Diya♦

As he disappeared to heat the food I dial Veronica back. She picked it up in first ring.

"Hello!" I started.

As she heard my voice she dramatically sighed and blasted on me, "Where the fuck were you?! I called you like ten thousand times but no response at all! Not even a text back! Do you have even the slightest of idea how fuckin worried I got?! I was about to call uncle and Raman to search for you..." Hearing her concern my heart melted and I couldn't hold my chuckles.

"Have you gone nuts? You're laughing while I still haven't gotten out this fear of losing you again?!" The word again gave a sting to my conscious.

"First drink some water and speak like normal human. You don't have to go all ga ga over me. Didn't I tell you I'm with Mr. Lopez?" I responded.

"Yeah you told one hour and it's 9:18 PM!" She exclaimed as if it's been two days I was missing when I was just 48 mins late.

"Haan he had the food prepared for us so for the dinner I had to stay at his place." I replied while roaming my eyes at his furniture in the hall. He had everything well organised. Not even the mat was out of its place.

"What? You are at his place?" She stretched the word his in an implicit tone.

"Yeah." I replied not understanding her sudden turn of emotion from scolding to talking like a school girlfriend.

"Fuck you Diya! Tell me everything!"

"Control your language and emotions both. I'm not having sex with him I'm staying for the dinner."

"Why not?" She giggled like a kid, "Why didn't you tell me already you're on a date?"

"I am not on a date!" I clarified.

"Why would you hide it from me? Oh god! How happy I am feeling now, knowing the fact you're with a hot guy alone at his place on a date." That didn't sound right.

"You're taking it all wrong." I tried to explain her .

"Oh just shut up with the hiding."

I rolled my eyes. Why the bloody hell would I need to hide anything?

"Will you let me speak?" I was feeling frustrated.

"Yes yes tell me?" She asked enthusiastically.

I told her the whole drama that happened; how he got the key, I fell asleep and why he brought me home. Ofcourse I didn't tell her about how close he was and how it made me lose my senses. I don't appreciate those parts. Why do I go weak infront of him?

I also didn't tell her the scene happened in the kitchen I'll tell her that later. Cause I'm well aware of her dirty-dirty brain. She would start teasing and pairing me with him.

"How romantic!" She exclaimed with pure happiness.

"I'm just having food with him what's so romantic in that. I have food with you also at your place even if no one else home, no?"

"That's different!" She stated.

"It's the same." I tried to make her understand.

"You know it's not... And will you please tell me where were you so busy that you forgot to pick up my calls?"

I shut my eyes and scrunched my nose as she asked the exact same thing what I did not want to tell her.

"Hello... I can't hear your voice?" She yelled.

"I will speak then you will hear na." I spoke in my normal tone.

She sighed in annoyance.

"You're being hell suspicious... Wait. A. Minute." She spoke as if realisation ringed in her brain. "Did you guys...??"

"Yurk, Vee! Noo we did not. He's my business partner for god's sake. That's unethical!" I whisper yelled as I don't want him to pay ears to my conversation and laugh his butt out on me.

But I heard her chuckle on my outburst.

"I don't see anything unethical in that."

"I'm done with this topic. Tell me why were you calling me?" My voice serious.

"You're making me more curious now but I'll let you slip this time... So yeah I was calling to tell you that I got a call from the bakery. They said they were trying to call you but you didn't take their call. They asked to visit them to see and taste the cake."

"Okay. Did they say when?" I said while I walked to the sofa chair and sat on it.

"As soon as possible. I told them we'll come tomorrow morning 10 o clock." She told.

"What? How could you give them the time just like that without discussing with me. What if I have any meetings in the morning?"

"You should have taken the call then and could have given the time yourself, now I have told them so cancel the meeting if you have any." She replied, smart witted.

I sighed.

"When will you be back by the way, I was thinking to go out to have my dinner. Cause you know, not everyone have a date to prepare dinner for them..." she was intentionally bringing it back. I know she must be smirking hard behind the phone.

"See! This is the reason I don't feel like telling you stuff." I was doomed now she's not gonna leave me in peace.

"Ugh whatever... well, If you tell me the time you'll be back then I'll know when to come back home."

"We haven't eaten yet." I remembered.

"Ah! What were you doing all this while then?" She demanded.

"What you mean?! We just got here few minutes ago, Vee!"

Just 20 mins ago.

I felt his eyes on me and I turn around to find him leisurely gwaking at me as if I was some kind of entertainment for him. He was standing in the door with his hands in his pocket. His black shirt sticked to him in a very illicit manner.

Hell! Since when is he here? Did he heard out conversation?

Veronica, you're gone if he heard any of it!

She spoke something but under his intense watchful gaze I couldn't process it in my system clearly.

"...Well I'll be back after an hour. If you're not done till then just text me so I can go sleep while thinking you're have fun with him." While she said that suddenly his lips turned into a weird grin but her words were now roaming in my head so I turned back my head.

"God Vee! I'm not-" she doesn't let me finish. She was starting to get under my skin now.

"Better idea. You should stay the night with him, don't come at-"

This time I cut her in the middle saying, "I'm coming." And hanged up on her before she said something much nasty.

"I don't allow you to leave." His hoarse voice reaches my ears. I was already enough irritated by Vee, I am in no mood to take his orders now!

"What do you think of yourself haan? A school teacher and me as your students? Always ordering around!" Looking in his eyes I spatted, my voice a bit infuriated.

I looked at him straight in his eyes for his response.

He suddenly started to laughs. I was expecting him to quarrel or come back with something stupid.

He's laughter felt irksome to my ears and groaned.

"If gazes could kill someone, I would have been lying dead on the floor by now." He said with his voice laced with laughter and I realised I was glaring at him.

Why does he always have to act so cool all the time?

I shifted my gaze off his face and noticed he was bare footed. Instantly I felt my shoes biting my toes and thought of getting them off as well. It also doesn't feel right to roam in shoes in someone else's house.

So ignoring his commanding ass I bent down and started to get my shoes off. He strolled closer and comfortably sat on the sofa near me. I left the socks on.

"Aren't you hungry yet?" He asked and my stomach felt hungry immediately.

I beg you, don't growl again. I chanted to my stomach.

"Yeah I am. We should eat." He smiled to my response.

"After you."

I nodded and walked to the dinning room. Cause my appartment is built the same way I didn't forgot the door.

We live in the same building ofcourse its build the same way.

As I stepped in the door again, the beautifully decorated table brought a foolish smile on my lips.

I couldn't believe the fact anyone could do this for me. My sensitive side was making me feel a little sappy.

I stepped further inside and the cozy vibe here warmed my heart.

"Okay I accept..." I spoke softly in a low voice and turned my head to look at him on my side, he looked at me as well, "I won't regret eating here." The honest words came out me.

His face lit up and I smiled broadly.

I was about to pull my chair when he stopped me, "wait" and pulled it for me. Okay.

I looked at him, his hands still on the back of the chair and prompted me to sit down. I chuckled at his behaviour and after nodding my head I sat on the chair.

He then strode towards the curtains on my left. My smile grew bigger as I knew that's a whole glass wall. He slowly pushes the curtain to side and the view in front of my eyes fantastically breathtaking, just as evry time.

(Consider a bigger table)

One reason why I bought my appartment here and this high was undoubtedly this peaceful and soothing view. I usually come home carrying a lot of emotions in my head. There are days when I'm super happy with myself and I enjoy my food and happiness with this mesmerizing city lights.

But then some days, when I am totally broken and shattered in pain, eating my food here gave me a little distraction to eat atleast something. When the noises of past got really loud in my head I open the windows to listen to the noises of the city and tried to let my cries get mixed with it.

The sound of the food trolley scrolling on the floor distracted me from my thoughts and my gaze darted at the handsome man with a mega volt smile on his face while pulling it in.

No lights were on, the room was just lightening with the scented candles and his face was glowing under the yellow candle lights. He looked beautiful.

I wondered why he had a stupid grin plastered on his face.

"Why are you smiling?" I was curious.

"I'm happy you agreed to have dinner date with me." He said proudly and started getting the food dish out one by one carefully.

"What's to be so happy about- Wait what? Dinner date?! It's not a date."

He placed a curry bowl on the table very carefully and exactly in the middle. He was as concentrated as if he was solving some important math equation. After it was put only then he turned his gaze at me but with a disappointed look. His eyes pointed and lips straight.

"It's pretty much a date. Even if you bring a 3 year old child and ask them they would say the same." He argued.

I opened my mouth to come up with some better come back but couldn't think of any so just turned my head dramatically and looked down at the cars zooming on the road.

His behaviour is so confusing. And he's a bloody rude human who only knows to order around! Why would I ever want to date him?

You like dominating guys. My conscious spoke.

I slowly turned my head back at him and he was still putting the dishes calculatively on the table. Is he a virgo?

Now when he's quite he is looking so innocent as if would be the sweetest human on this planet. Anyone could be fooled by this face of his.

He slowly and carefully placed another dish on the table. It had Chinese food in it. The way his brows furrowed when he's all concentrated into something, it felt really cute.

"Hey, let me help you." I offered as I felt he was doing everything alone and I was being a brat.

He turned his eyes at me and smiled but shook his head. I stood off my seat and he glanced at me back, "Just sit there."

"My mother says, it's good to help one another." I told him and he bored his eyes into mine conveying it clearly for me to do what he said but I smirked and held his gaze. His brown eyes were shining and it was impossible to take my eyes off his anyways.

He sighed and finally gives me a skeptical head nod and I grinned.

"Don't burn yourself they are a bit hot." He told and I nodded.

We both placed all the dishes on the table luckily without dropping and breaking anything. It was more like I put it on the table and he placed them in a correct place.

Who even does that?

As I turned my sight on the table it looked small as it was full of dishes on it.

We both got settled on the seat infront of each other and he took out the wine bottle and twisted the corkscrew inside it making a squeaky sound. A loud pop sound is made as the cork is removed from the neck of the wine bottle.

He filled two bowl glasses of dark red wine and passed me one, "I have to drive back. I don't think I should." I was reluctant.

"One glass won't do anything to your system and this is one of my favourites, you should definitely taste it. I'm positive you'll like it." He insisted forwarding his hand holding the stem of the glass.

I switched my gaze from him to the glass while calculating the pros and cons quickly. I think I should try it afterall I have handled more than this. And I grabbed the glass from his hand and placed it beside my plate.

I mentally note to myself if I die in a road accident being drunk I will kill him first after turning into a ghost.

"What would you like to have first?" He voice brought me back to earth.

I looked through all the dishes and couldn't decide what to eat. Strange, there were all the dishes that are my favorite.

"Maybe I'll try bitter gourd stir fry first." I told him as it's one of my top favourite dishes.

He served for me and I shifted my gaze at him as he spoke, "so you seriously like bitter gourd. I thought that was just a rumour." He chuckled.

I smiled, "No, I actually love them. Maybe you won't believe but they are really yum, just taste it once and you'll know yourself."

"Yeah they are good for one's health." He stated.

I nodded and when my gaze turned at his plate I saw it was still empty so I asked, "What would you like I'll serve it for you?" He looked through the dishes and he's face looked indecisive, "What happened?" I questioned.

He breathed, "Uh- I don't eat this food." He scrunched his nose in a apologetic way.

"What do you eat then? You want me to cook something else for you?" It just came out of my mouth and I mentally face palm myself.

Why would you cook for him? Are you his cook? My brain scolded.

"Ahh no no, thankyou but I try to only have boiled food and walk according to my diet mostly. All this is very oily for me." He gave me a small smirk after bending down to the trolley and got a bowl full of boiled salad with fresh fruits and placed it near his plate.

I rolled my eyes, "frankly speaking, diet food is... boring and boiled is the worst, it's mostly tasteless." I commented, "How do you even eat that?"

He furrowed his brows for a second and asked raising them, "well I can ask you the same, all this is oily and bad for your health." He smirked.

"I guess we should start eating before it gets cold."

"I would like to make a toast to... our new bond." He said with a grin and raising his glass.

I chuckled after clicked our glasses and we both took a sip. The wine left a tingling sensation on my tongue and sweet mixed with a little acidic flavour.

Not bad.

From the corner of my eye I found him grinning. I started to eat and the first morsel down my throat spread the tangy and spicy taste ending with bitterness while he was munching onto his boring salad.

I tasted other dishes and felt full. I turned my gaze at him and saw him put the fork holding a strawberry slice in his mouth and slipped it out leisurely. It looked so erotically illegal to my sane eyes.

Before I could take my eyes off him he holds my stare with his prying eyes. And said something to which I felt like punching his nose...

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