Solace (Complete)

22. Girlfriend

After 3 cups of coffee and 4 hours in to flight, I lost to sleep. I couldn't keep myself awake for long and didn't know when I succumbed to sleep. I even dreamt of that air hostess in Ryan's arms. When I woke up I was so grumpy. Ryan asked me if I was okay but I just glared at him. It took me few minutes to realize that was only a dream.

"Yes I am fine. How much longer?" I asked him.

"2 hours more" he told me to which I groaned. I want this journey to end. I excused my self and went to freshen up.

When I came back I saw that air hostess talking to Ryan with her ugly million dollar smile. I went towards my seat and sat infront of them. Ryan was ordering food for us. He ordered for me too and that too my favourite food which is pasta. After that she went away without even glancing my way. B*tch. I cursed at her in my heart. I was throwing daggers at her back as she was going away. I didn't realize Ryan was looking at me rather intently with a smirk on his face.

"You okay?" He asked.

"Ofcourse I am okay but your air hostess is very rude, she didn't even ask me if I want something" I said angrily.

"Maybe because I ordered it for you" he reasoned.

"But still she should ask me. I think she is jealous of me" I told him what I felt to which he smiled.

"And why would she be jealous?" He asked.

"I don't know there could be many reasons like maybe she has a big crush on you and thinks I am your girlfriend so that's why she is jealous of me" I told him. He only chuckled at that.

"Maybe" he said.

"But I still hate her" I told him.

"Okay okay" he said with a smile.

After that we ate our food and talked about random things. I didn't know how and when 2 hours passed and we were on our way to his apartment. It was night time here in New York when we reached. His driver picked us up from the air port. Our car stopped in front of a very large building. We stepped inside that building and went straight to the elevator. He pressed floor 45 which was apparently the last floor of the building. When we reached at 45th floor we stepped out of elevator, I was behind him. He stood in front of a door and entered his code in the code bar to open the door. Once we stepped inside his pent house, I took in the sight infornt of me. It was so lavish and beautiful, there was a huge living room in front of us. On my right side was an open kitchen and on the left was hallway that leads to rooms. Living room has large floor to ceiling windows which gives the beautiful view of the city. There was also a balcony along with the swimming pool. In short it was a very beautiful place. It was mostly dark themed with the specks of grey here and there.
(I am very bad at explaining these type of things so sorry if you find it hard to understand)

"Come I will show you your room" he said and carried my bag. I followed him towards the hallway. There were about 4 rooms in that long hallway. He opened one of the door and motioned me to go inside.

"This is your room, hope you will like it" he said. I looked around the room there was a queen sized bed in the middle of the room on its right was the floor to ceiling windows and on the left were two more doors one being the washroom and other must be the closet. It was a decent size room not too big nor too small.

"Yes I like it" I told him with a huge smile.

"Good, if you need something I will be in the room opposite to yours" he said and went out closing the door behind him.
I climbed on bed and about to sleep when I thought of changing into something more comfortable before sleeping. So I went to take a shower and wore some pajamas then I went to sleep.
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Two days passed in blur, Ryan was very busy with the meetings. I didn't do much just accompanied him in his meetings. His secretary here did most of the work. And surprisingly she is the only girl around Ryan whom I am not jealous mainly because she is very good at her work and secondly she is already engaged. After seeing her work so hard I come to realize Ryan never gave me that much work and still I was complaining. She does ten times more work then me. It was our last meeting and tomorrow we will return back. We didn't had our lunch so Ryan took me to restaurant after the meeting. It was 5 p.m and I was famished. Now here we are sitting in a restaurant waiting for our food.

"This is my favourite restaurant here in New York. Chris and me used to come here alot in our uni days" he told me with a smile and I smiled back. I was about to say something when a high pitched voice intervened.

"Ryan is that you?" She said. I turned around to see a beautiful lady in a very short dress coming our way and let me tell you I know her. Linda the b*itch. She is our family friend's daughter and is same age as Ryan and Chris. She tried her luck with both Chris and Ryan back in high school but they both were never interested in her like that. And let me tell you she didn't loose hope still yet.

"Hey Linda" Ryan said and stood up.

She straight went in his arms and kissed on his cheeks and my blood boiled at that. I want to to punch her so hard. I can tell Ryan was also surprised at her advances.

"Oh my God, you are in New York and you didn't tell me" she pouted at him.

"Actually I had some important meetings so I was quite busy" he told her.

"When are you going back?" she asked him with a smile plastered on her face.

"Tomorrow evening" Ryan told.

"Oh really I am going back tomorrow too. Can I come with you? Please please" she pleaded. Ryan was quite for a moment then he looked at me as if to ask me. Ofcourse not, that air hostess is enough, I don't want another girl to come near my Ryan. She followed his gaze and looked at me.

"Oh is that you callista, Chris's sister" she said fake smiling at me. I can tell she didn't like me here with Ryan and let me tell you girl, our feelings are mutual. I sighed and muster a forced smile at her.

"Hello" I greeted.

"What are you doing here?" She asked me.

"Actually I came with Ryan, we are on a date" I lied but smirked at her.

"Oh you guys are d-dating. Ryan didn't tell me that he is dating someone" she said visibly surprised. I looked at Ryan to see him staring at me. I winked at him when she wasn't watching me.

I stood and went towards Ryan, I interwined our hands and looked at her and said.

"Yes actually we haven't told anyone yet so you also don't tell anyone for now. We are going to inform our family after going back" I smiled sweetly at her. She was shocked for a moment and two then she composed her self and said.

"Yeah yeah don't worry I won't tell anybody" she said with a forced smile.

"Thank you Linda, you are so sweet" I said.

"And about you coming with us, if you want you can come with us" I told her. I am really enjoying myself at this moment.

"No no it's okay, I just remembered I have an important meeting tomorrow so it will not be possible for me to go back tomorrow" she said.

"I have to go now, I will see you guys later" she said and went away in an instant.

"Bye take care" I said to her back still grinning.

I then looked at Ryan who was still shocked and was looking at me like I have grown two heads.

"What? I still remember how much you guys hated her so I just saved you from her" I said and went to my seat. He was still looking at me with an unknown emotion.

"Earth to Ryan" I said and he came out of his daydreaming and sat back. He cleared his throat.

"You shouldn't have said this to her, she would tell everyone now" he told me.

"So what?" I said nonchalantly sipping my glass of water. He looked at me and I sighed.

"I mean chill nothing of that sort will happen" I reassured him.

"And how are you so sure?" He asked.

"I just know" I told him and in that moment waiter came with our food.

"Let's eat" I said and started eating.

"You are impossible" he said and smiled a little.

"Well thank you I will take it as a compliment" I grinned at him. After that we dig into our food.