"what's up?" I asked, suddenly a little concerned.

"Are you pregnant?" He asked, looking rather disappointed.

I was shocked at the question, and to some extent, amused. What made him think that? The puking? Really?

I just stared at him for a while and then burst into laughter.

"Why are you laughing?" He asked, rather seriously.

"Why do you think I'm pregnant, wait, is that why you were behaving so distant?" I asked, finally being able to join the pieces.

"You were puking and mom was worried, and maasi was saying how staying in the same room is bad, I don't know," he said, with a deep sigh.

"Zaid, not pregnant. I had my periods today. And as for the puking and regular bathroom breaks, I have a terrible stomach flu, that you'd know about if you cared to ask," I replied.

He came up to me and hugged me and told me how he was just scared. He'd want to be there for me if I ever were in that situation and that now was just not the right time.

I completely agreed. I had to focus on myself and my career, this was not even on my mind. But I was glad to know that he still would've cared about me if it came to that.

After talking and sorting everything out, we hugged eachother and went back to doing our things.

"Zaid, if everyone does have a problem with our staying together, should I move out? I mean, I understand if they feel this way, it's India at the end of the day," I said, as I massaged some lotion on my legs, preparing for bed.

"I guess it does, but I don't want to spend my nights without you," he said, suddenly bringing me close to his body.

I just laughed as our noses rubbed against eachother as he tried to kiss me on my lips.

"Yeah, let's do this, it'll mean you'll have something to look forward to when we finally get back," I said, as I winked at him.

I was trying to get away but he didn't let me. He said,"okay, but tonight, right here, we must."

"Must what?" I asked as I giggled.

"Take our clothes off and indulge in immense sexual pleasure," he said, in a rather serious tone.

To that, I just laughed as he sounded so dorky.

We were just about to kiss, when we heard someone pounding on the door.

"NO! NOT NOW!" Zaid yelled at the door.

"Shhh," I said, laughing as I pulled away to open the door.

"Comiiiing," I said.

As I opened the door, I saw that Zaid's bua's daughters and Isha were outside. They were all dressed in their pajamas and had come over to take me to their 'slumber party' or something of that sort.

"Bhaiya, let us have her for one night," said Naina, one of Zaid's cousins. Everyone laughed as she said that.

"Nooo," whined Zaid.

"Itna possessive hain, oh God," teased Raina his other cousin.

"Bhabs, chalo," said Naina as she almost pulled me out.

"I'm not ready yaar," I said.

"What ready, look at us, this is fine, tu chal," chastised Isha,"Zaid, go to sleep."

Zaid gave them a grumpy look and rolled his eyes. I gave him flying kisses to which the others 'awwed' and then we left.

Isha's room was beautifully decorated with pillows and canapés and what not. It was perfectly ready for the biggest sleepover of the season maybe. Zaid's cousins, Isha's sister Priyanka and alot of our other friends were there. We were only missing Gia who was supposed to fly in the next day.

We sat together and chatted for hours and hours. The girls played spin the bottle initially. I was a little skeptical about it as dates were veryyy scary for me. But then, as everyone was doing it, I decided to give it a go.

It started off in the most hilarious way possible when Naina was asked to describe her first kiss. She was apparently in the 7th grade when she had her first kiss. Aj kal ke bachche bhi na. It was apparently the most awkward thing ever as both she and her then boyfriend were inexperienced and they were doing it in their school staircase. What cracked me up the most was when she said that her head mistress almost caught them and then they had to run for their lives.

As we laughed Naina just sneered at us and then eventually joined us in laughter. She promised to never try to kiss any boy after that and only broke her promise after school was over. Poor baby.

We performed a lot of dares as well. Some of them were painful. For instance, the one where we had to wax our arms was excessively painful. However, we dealt with it and played along.

After the game, we decided to get our nails done. I was particularly good at nail painting, so alot of them were coming to me. Besides that, we took numerous selfies with the bride to be and uploaded them on Instagram.

The slumber party was more like a bridal shower for Isha where we pampered her and had fun with her. We then decided to do Isha's makeup and then danced with her to all the amazing Hindi songs we had at hand. My favorite was when we danced to gulaabo. We even wore fake moustaches like they showed in the video. Overall, the night was going great as we were having perfect girl time.

I had just gotten out of the room to get my charger from my room, when I was ambushed by this guy who happened to be my boyfriend.

What he was doing wasn't even cute. He just came, pinned me to the wall and covered my mouth with his hand so that I couldn't scream as I was very surprised.

"Don't shout, I need to take you somewhere," he whispered.

"Zaid, no, I can't, I have to get in, they are all expecting me inside," I whispered back.

"Chalo Alveera, no one cares about you," he said chuckling.

"Shut up," I said as I tried to free myself and get inside again.

As I tried to do that, he just grabbed me by my waist, got me up on his shoulder in what felt like a matter of seconds and almost ran towards the staircase.

"Zaid let me go, what if someone sees?" I said.

"No one will see unless you shout and wake them up, so shut it Khan," he chastised.

I just laughed as he panicked when I got all worries. But he, very deftly, carried me upstairs and managed to keep me quiet.

After a few minutes, we finally reached our destination which was the roof of the hotel. It was a typical royal roof or huge balcony of some sort. It was too dark though. I couldn't really see anything except the silhouette of Zaid in the moonlight.

"Why are we here Zaid?" I asked finally.

"We are here because I need to talk to you," he said.

"What?" I asked.

"Listen, I'm sorry that I was behaving weirdly the whole day," he said.

"It's okay, I don't hold it against you, you thought I was pregnant for fuck's sake," I replied, trying my best to stifle my laugh

"I did think so, but I don't want you to feel like I don't want you pregnant," he said.

I just gave him a confounded look and thought to myself,"wtf?"

"Don't get me wrong babe, I just don't want you to ever feel like I don't want to maybe build a life with you and have a family with you, I want all that. With you, only you," he said.

I didn't really know how to reply to that. I just felt a surge of emotions that made me a little teary eyed. That was probably the sweetest thing he had ever said to me.

"Zaid, uhm, I don't know," I tried to say.

He put his index on my lips, motioning me to shut myself up and then held me by my waist with his other hand. He brought me closer and rested his forehead against mine.

He could see tears rolling down my face, so he wiped them and said, "I want all of you, for all my life, for however many lives I have."

He then kissed my nose and my lips and cheeks.

"I love you Z, I really do," I finally managed to say between sobs.

"Good, because it would be a shame if you didn't," he said chuckling.

I didn't understand what he meant. But then, suddenly, I saw the whole balcony or terrace light up with golden fairy lights (my favorite) and I could see lanterns being lifted to the sky.

It made absolutely no sense. What was all this? I was confused but awestruck and mesmerized by the beauty of the whole place.

I turned around to see the lanterns and asked," Zaid, what is all this?"

He didn't reply. Then, when I turned, I saw that Zaid was on his knees, in his white shirt and khaki shorts, there with a small box in his hand with the most beautiful diamond ring in it.

Zaid's Outfit

Alveera's Outfit

"Aloo, I don't want to wait anymore, I have waited, we have waited, I love you and you complete me, be mine forever?" He said with the most gorgeous smile I had ever seen.

"Zaid, what the he-," I said,"yes, baby, a thousand times yes yes," I replied almost crying as I got down to kiss him.

He stood up and lifted me as we kissed in the middle of all the lights and lanterns. As he twirled me, I even saw fireworks in the sky.

"When did you do all this?" I asked in complete awe.

"He had help bhabi," yelled Raina from above a plane beside the balcony.

I suddenly looked at her and all the others who were there and started laughing as I still hugged Zaid. This was all planned? Oh my God. This was perfect.

"You're perfect Zaid," I said, finally looking at him.

"No, we are perfect, Future Mrs. Zaid Malhotra," he said.

I couldn't help but blush hearing that. He just kissed my cheek and hugged me tight, lifting me from the ground.

This was the perfect end, to the perfect night. I couldn't believe i was engaged. Wow, it was finally my turn then! 😆

Soooo guysss, what do you think of the chapter?

Are you excited about Zaid and Al's wedding too?

How did you all like the proposal?

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