"Uhnn..!!" *blush*

He mumbled to himself as he was lying flat on the bed and tried to bury his face in the pillow due to recurring embarrassment. He shyly groaned when he repictured the same scene again.

"...."

"...."

Soft and slow mumbles were ringing in the closed dark room.

"..Why?"

"Why'd he say that?....

                                       ...All of a sudden like that, he shouldn't have ushered those words in my ear, I was even feeling his warm breath as he—" *flushed face*

"!!!" *surprised look* As he kept his head lifted slightly upward and his eyes appeared to be wide in realisation.

"Uhnnn!!!!" 

He groaned while again hiding his face away in the pillow. His phiz beheld a bright pinkish flustered expression, his firm grasp softly squeezed the corners of pillow. He lied flat burying down his face in the soft pillow for the next few minutes in the brewing silence of his room. Quite a few moments later he tilted his face up, with a crevice unveiling his subtle, flustered,  glistening eyes. A second of quietness brewed, his grip loosened but the fingers remained like a claw while the other hand clenched into a firm fist pushing a cave in the pillow.

    From the gap between the curtains a lengthy ray of light stretched from the windowsill to his bed and the end of the beam reached his claw-like fist. He turned his face towards the opening. Now, which held a delicate countenance, his eyes had fixed gaze at the opening, they gleamed in reflection of ray's shine but shared the feeling that he had already left the wake in daze.

A breeze entered the room fluttering the curtains, a swift blow tickled his ear and blew his hair strands over his forehead.

                 The light illuminated the dust particles disturbed by the windy occurence, cleared his mind inducing calmness. He relaxed his fingers and in the width of light swinged them along the particles.

∆ [the scene recurred to Iyansh]

"Try me more." That slow whisper flustered me so much, that was so unexpected and blanking?... ugh! Confounded me! I couldn't help but react by pushing him and running away back inside home.

It..it just made me all flushed up.

Agh!!

What happened again? Just what the heck? Ummm....

I can't quite make it, I just keep remembering the feel of his warm breath—

Agh!!! No,no,no,not that!

Ugh!! *groan*

He buried his face back again in the pillow. 

• • •

∆ I was heading back home when our paths crossed.

"He was cute, way cute, his reaction. Too bad I didn't got to explore much of him and losed him to someone who isn't worth his adore." Prashay told me in condescending tone as he tried to incite me.

"Is that so?" I replied nonchalantly.

"Well yeah, he might get his heart broken if he continued this one sided love of his." He continued.

"See you, then." He left as he didn't got the reaction he might be expecting out of me.

"Hmm." I hummed as I acted to think while he walked away. And so I decided to drop by Iyansh's home. ∆

*ring* [sound of the doorbell]

"Coming." A lady's voice was heard from inside the house, responding to my ring. It was Iyansh's mother.

"Oh Zuhi, it's you. Wait, let me open the gate." She said as she ambled through veranda to open the main gate.

"Prit! Zuhi is here." She called for Iyansh as she invited me in the house.

Yep, Prit & Zuhi being our home names, we both resided in same neighbourhood just a matter of few houses. Childhood friends, same schools, besties, yeah that's all it is for you guys to know about. At least for now. *Chuckle*

"Zuhi, you can ask for anything if you need from Prit, I'll be heading out for a short while."

"Sure, auntie." I replied with a smile & headed to living room while she went out in neighbourhood.

As I reached the room, Iyansh came to recieve me.

"Zuhi! You're here! Why— how come?" He spoke in surprise, quickly changing his words.

"..." More like mispoke.

"Just visiting to kill time." I said with a smiling expression on my face.

"Oh- yeah? Let's head to my room." He hurried back to his room as he invited me there.

We'd usually hang around at each other's place whenever down to our moods even though we would be doing anything but nothing.

"Well, I was on my way back from an errand and fetched some snacks for us." As we were heading to the room I spoke but he didn't reacted.

"…"

"Hmm? Say you want some?" I asked him.

"Oh-o? Wh-what?" He stuttered and seemed surprised.

"Snacks?" I reiterated.

"Yeah, sure. Let's go, get some from the nearby store." He said hastily.

 "I already brought, here. Though not you listening to." I said in nagging manner.

"O-oh!" He chortles.

We entered the room, although it was all clean and organised still the desk had piling up a rock with stationeries. The crystalline furnished tiles radiating coolness in whole room, maybe cause the windows were curtained and blocked light so the room felt more cold.

     As soon as we entered, he plonked on the bed, laid flat with his face turned towards the window.

     I ensconced down on floor stretching my legs and leaned my back against the bed, also faced at the window.

"Aunt went out in neighbourhood." I initiated the conversation.

"Must be noon gossip time, lol." He said with a laughter.

"Yeah, I suppose, else what?" I agreeingly chuckled along.

After a moment the atmosphere calmed in silence.

"Hey.. I noticed, you held a rosy expression on your face. Any happenings?" I said breaking the silent cold hour in the room just to summon a precipitous blizzard as it perplexed him to wits and he upheaved right away, with a baffled reaction looking straight at me and stuttered as he spoke.

"W-Wha—?"

"Oh! Now it's velvet red."

"What!!"

*Pfft* "Hahaha.." I burst in laughter seeing him flustering up every time.

"It's so nice seeing you just get more and more brilliant in red. Ahhahahah.." I continue to tease him a bit more out of fun.

"Come on!! Cut it out!! Uagh...." He snapped at me and got so irritated with it.

"Oh, by the way I came across Prashay when I was returning from store." I instantly brought him up while stifling. His flustered reaction quickly switched to a calm demeanor.

"Ah?- Yeah, I met him too.

He came—" He froze mid-sentence and flushed as though he suddenly realised something.

"Hmm? He came here?" I asked in wonder.

"N-no." He stuttered.

"You're... again... bearing ruby red." I blurted out playfully.

"STOP! With those different shades already." He yelled completely annoyed. 

I quieted down for a moment.

"....."

"....."

"Blush" As we both stared each other in silent confusion I teased him again.

"AHHH!" *Loud shouting noise echoing in house.*

"Anyways, but he came to our campus too? Why though? Didn't you two broke up a while ago." I asked him in questioning tone.

"Hmm... Well you know.." He slowly uttered.

"Lover's quarrel eh?" I cut in with my flaunting guesses.

"NO!" He quickly yelled at me.

"Are you two together again, then?" I continued with the questioning.

"No, not that either." He spoke impassively.

"Trying to get back with you?"

"Nah, probably fooling around. Didn't he claimed to have another lover we ended our daliance."

"Oh? Did he?" I reacted a little surprised as I didn't knew that piece of news, though he seemed quite assured of it.

"Yeah."

"I wonder if he had one though." I doubtedly uttered.

"Huh? Why?" He appeared intrigued.

"Impromtus." I gave him a teasing look.

He buried back his face in the pillow and gripped it's corners tightly.

    Even his hands and neck were pinkish, for a moment I watched him drifting in embarrassment, let a sidelong smile and turned to the window.

"Anyways, wanna eat?" I asked him while raising the pack of snacks in front of his face. He turned his head and stared at the bag of snacks but remained mute.

"I got you cotton candy cubes." I passed a cube towards his mouth and watched him slowly sliding his head against pillow towards my hand then how he took a bite from the cube held between my digits. The sensation of touch rivered throughout my arm as i neglected to feel anything else happening around other than him. I kept a still, stoic expression for the while lost gazing at him and I wouldn't know myself when it turned into small curled smile.

"Still can't say no to sweet." I said as he gobbled rest of the cube with second bite. He got slightly embarrassed.

I turned back around & titled my head down with a wider smile.

"I'm all ears, you can tell me your whisp-o-lots."

The clock kept turning as he bit by bit exuded things on his mind.

     As the light was fading and evening orange painted outside of the window, very refreshing cool breeze started to breathe in through it.

     Iyansh had also reached the end of his thoughts, now ensued in confusion and inquired me about.

"Tell me, Zuhi. What should I do?" He murmured softly in sweet mellow in my ear, I didn't realised I was so lost in his words, to not being able to notice when he rose from pillow and laid in same direction i sat.

     His face was resting on my right shoulder and his left hand gently wrapped around my neck while he tried to pick some cubes with the other. His gaze was fixated down at it, I turned and looked at him in astonishment and was completely blanked out to react any how.

     The breeze blew stronger and brushed our hair, the setting colour of evening reflected in his eyes, it... captivated me. No.. he had captivated me in his own bright kindle.

His arm's hold went heavy around my neck as he tried to reach the distant cube. It dragged me back to sense.

"R-relax down, before you get me strangling any moment, I'll pick it for you." I spoke in usual manner lacking any reaction even after listening to him.

As I passed him the cube, although I felt little hesitant however seeing him troubled I decided to speak it for him in not so direct way yet it should be helpful enough for I know of him.

He was in statue state, holding the cube he craved for without a single bite, so captured in those words looking straight in my eyes in amazement. As he listened to me calmly I felt like giving a piece of my thought as well.

When he heard that he broke free of his rigid state and chuckled as he told me.

Watching him happy and joyous bright, I reciprocated a wide smile at him. Joining along with his laughter I spoke in tranquil tone.

"That won't do, sometimes for your own desires, a self-explanatory front is all the more than a suggestive guess of other. 

     And yes, don't confide it with anyone, until the rage dies."

Iyansh's face gleamed and appeared all sorted of his prior worries. As we continued to chatter and enjoy snacks, a thought occured to me

Soon after we conversed for long enough and relaxed, I left for home. ∆

• • •

"If what I said happens then let me know, I'll come get him back to be mine." As he was on his way back home, he remembered Prashay saying that at their earlier sudden encounter.

"I guess I won't be contacting him any now of then

   *chuckle* hehe~

       How dare he.

           So presumptuous." Zihan spoke in sneering tone with contemptful look clouding his face.