Did I pass?
Golden rays shined through the window, stirring her awake. She clenched her eyes tight and moved closer into the warmth of the body. She could feel the arms wrapped around her, and the hot breath at the back of her head. “Vansh”, she mumbled and her eyes snapped open.
She turned around in his arms to greet the beautiful sleeping face of Vansh. Her hands moved to his cheek and caressed his features as her eyes adored the sight of him.
There were no butterflies in her belly, no fireworks exploding through her heart; all she could feel was peace and calm. Wrapped in his arms, she felt safe. His arms felt like home. He felt like home.
She smiled and nuzzled into his head as she closed her eyes and fell back into sleep.
A peck on her nose brought her back to consciousness. She looked into blue-grey eyes and hoarsely whispered, “Vansh?”
“If the world was ending, I’d come over, right?
I’d come over and I’d stay the night
I would love you for the hell of it
All our fears would be irrelevant
If the world was ending, I’d come over, right?”, he sang in his deep, sleepy voice as his eyes stared into the depths of hers and his fingers caressed her face. She smiled as his lips worked their way closer to hers.
After all the tears she had shed and all the doubts she had last night, his words soothed her. She would choose yesterday again if that meant she could wake up in his arms this morning.
“I.. I… that wasn’t a question, I just….”, she stammered, unsure of what to say. She didn’t want to be an overbearing, clingy girlfriend.
“Shh”, he whispered and placed his finger over her lips, “I know”
“What.. what do you know?”, she stammered but then her eyes widened, “You are in my room, in my bed, my mom is downstairs. Get out of here” she said as she tried getting out of his arms and hurried to send him off his way.
He calmly pointed his index finger towards the door, and her eyes followed. The door was locked. He took his precautions before sleeping.
“Oh”, she said dumbfounded.
“You know I love you, right?”, he asked and pulled her closer to him.
“Yes?”, she said, rather asked after a pause. It felt like a lie on her tongue, she didn’t know that, not after yesterday. What if he loves her now?
“I love you”, he said before closing the gap between their lips.
Her body reacted instantaneously. Her lips parted to welcome his tongue while blood rushed to her cheeks and butterflies swam in her belly. A moan escaped her lips and his lips found her throat. She curled her fingers in his hair as she pushed his head closer to her skin.
She moaned again, all her senses leaving her body except for his touch and his warmth. He stopped abruptly. She moaned in annoyance and pushed herself to capture his lips again, but he denied.
With her breathing heavy, she stared into his eyes, begging him to lose his lips on her skin. She wanted to feel him, no, she needed to feel him.
“I’ll continue what I started if you answer my questions”
“Yes, yes, whatever it is”, she breathed out.
His lips moved to her collarbone and he sucked as he asked, “Did I hurt you yesterday?”
“Yes”
He undid the buttons of her shirt and captured a round brown nipple in his lips as he asked, “How?”
“You ignored me”
“Why do you think I did that?”, he asked and bit on her nipple. He moved onto her other breasts, licking her hard bud in his mouth.
“because…I…. I thought you didn’t want me anymore because you have someone better now”, she said as she arched her back.
“Why did you think that?”
“Shanaya, she is so stunning and she is smart and funny and amazing, so why would you want me? It made sense that you’d leave me, especially when you lost interest in me from the moment she came here. You are proud of her and I.. I’m just an embarrassment and I know I deserve it but it just hurt that you’d leave me so soon”
Vansh pushed her hands over her head and threw himself over her, balancing his weight on his hands. He gazed in her slightly tearing eyes and said, “You know what the problem here is, it’s that you think every problem is ‘you’. You should’ve been angry at me, screamed at me or asked me why I was ignoring instead you go on and find reasons to blame yourself”
“Shreya! Look at me!”, he shouted at her and her eyes averted back to his.
“Me ignoring you is not your fault, it never will be. You are a beautiful person, but this insecurity of yours is holding you back. You are so much more than you know, all you have to do is believe in yourself beyond your insecurities. And I love you, fucking believe it already”
“You… you cheated, you used my body to get answers off me”, she accused.
“Yes, I’m sorry but I had to know what was going on in your head because that text message was concerning”
“You asked me to question, so I will, Why did you ignore me?”, she asked.
“When Shanaya and I were like 13 or 1 year old, we made a pact – whenever we are serious about someone, we’ll invite them to hang out with us two and then ignore them subtly the entire time”
“Why would you do something like that?”
“Two reasons – 1) To know if the person is worthy of giving friends space, accepting their friendship and letting us hang out with each other.
2) To know if the person is in for the long run because want it or not, there will be fights and there will be a lot of ignoring and if the person can survive one ignoring session, they have the strength to face the downsides and hardships”, he explained.
“Oh”
“Yeah”
He rolled down on his back beside her and closed his eyes for a moment. Their breathings were slowly returning to normal. Shreya turned towards him and laying his head on his chest, caressed his sides.
“Did I pass?”, asked Shreya softly as she made circles on his front.
“What?”, he asked, his head confused with her sweet little circles.
“Did I pass? In the test?”, she asked.
“Yes, with flying grades”
“Yes”, she cheered loudly, only to shut up in fright when her mom shouted from downstairs. It was time for her to wake up and get ready for class.
"Oh shit! I have to get ready", she said and got up from the bed asking Vansh to do the same.
Vansh closed his eyes as lied down on his back and ignored all her protests to get out of her bed.
"Vansh", she whisper-screamed, tired of his nuisance.
"What?"
"I have to get ready for school", she whined.
"Who said 'no'?", he asked as he stood up, shrugged his shoulders and smiling at her pout, followed her to the shower. He grabbed her towel and shrugged off his clothes.
Naked as the day he was born, he stood in front of her on the bathroom floor, inviting her to drop her clothes as well.
She threw off her already undone shirt and jumped out of her shorts and panties. Naked and beautiful, she walked towards him as he turned on the hot shower and her.
He pulled her towards him, feeling her skin on his as the water cascaded down on them.
She felt the heat of his body, the hardness of his muscles and the softness of her fats pressing on his chest. She closed her eyes as she felt the hot water cascading down their backs and the thickness on her lower belly. She could feel his excitement and her wetness too.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and without a word exchanged, he pushed her legs apart and carried her up. Her back crashed to the wall as her legs wrapped around his back, she felt the water streaming down as she moved closer to capture his lips with hers.
She sucked his delicious lower lip as her tongue invaded his mouth. Vansh let her explore for a while before he started his own assault.
His hands grabbed her ass and as he pulled her twards him, he depened the kiss. He tasted her, vanilla flavoured kinky candy, as he fought his tongue with hers.
He could feel hiself throbbing for her, he wanted relief, he wangted her and he wanted her now. He aligned his length with her nether lips and as he slowly entered, deliciously massaging an inch a a time, she moaned out his name.