Roommate (ASHAANGI)

Fifteen

The next morning,

Beep beep beep goes the alarm and Saesha groans loudly before stuffing her face in the pillow. She slowly opens her eyes and finds Akshay deep asleep. Groaning, she sways her right leg which was a few meters away from Akshay, and slowly kicks him when she realizes it's his alarm. He doesn't budge and sleeps peacefully. Saesha grows more agitated and covers her face with the blanket, frustrated. The beep-beep sound goes off and she sighs in relief. Slowly when she starts to fall asleep, the beep beep screams of the alarm start again. Stuffing her face even more in the pillow, she kicks his leg again. When he doesn't wake up, she sits up and looks around the room with her sleepy eyes, and falls back against the bed.

"Akshayyy" she whines and kicks his leg for the third time. When the brassy sound goes off, she thanks God and slowly tries to fall asleep, only to get awoken by the ear-splitting, sound of his alarm again. She angrily sits up and looks around for the phone to switch off the alarm. When she realizes it's right beside his shoulder, she goes for the most decent option.

"AKSHAYYYY" she yells frustrated and his eyes instantly snap open.

"What happened?" he asks, in his morning deep voice and sits up, looking around the room. Before she could reply, he curses under his breath when the sound of his nonstopping alarm reaches his ears and he quickly turns it off.

"This is what happened. It has been ringing for the past 15 minutes. And it's only 4:30 in the morning. What the hell do you even do at this ungodly hour?" Saesha sounds so done with her life and she falls against the bed aggressively.

"You could've told me softly but no, you yell" Akshay retorts with his deeper morning voice.

"Softly? Dude... Oh my God. Argh, don't talk. I'm trying to sleep" She throws up her hands in frustration, before pulling the blanket all to herself. Akshay looks over at her and a smile threatens to break out on his face looking at her annoyed state. He quickly looks away and rubs his face with his hands

He immediately gets out of bed and gets ready for the day. When he realizes it's almost 5 am, he slowly looks over at Saesha to make sure she is sleeping. Silently he opens the door and closes it slowly behind him. He instantly sighs in relief when he realizes no one has woken up yet. After exiting his house, he makes his way to his comfort place.

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Saesha's phone chimes with multiple texts from Satya. She grunts, turning and tossing in bed. After numerous times of tossing and turning, she instantly sits up from the nonstop text messages, only to be met with shirtless Akshay standing right beside her. She throws her blanket at him, startled. Meanwhile, Akshay slowly moves back, completely off guard.

"What the hell are you doing?" Saesha has now moved to the other end of the bed while clutching multiple pillows for her safety.

"My goodness, I was about to turn off your alarm" He shakes his head at her in utter disbelief.

"But... You're shirtless" Saying, she covers her eyes with her palms and accidentally takes a sneak peek of him. She drops her head against the pillow and sighs at her behavior.

"I just got here from the gym," He says in his Montone voice and walks to the washroom. Saesha slowly raises her head at the sudden change in his tone.

'Did I offend him?' Saesha wonders and chews her bottom lip. When he gets out of the washroom, fully clothed, She tries to think of all the ways she could apologize but her throat goes dry. Her conscience asks her to brush her teeth first and apologize. She nods, completely agreeing with her inner demon. Slowly, she gets off the bed and walks to her wardrobe, pulling out her dress. She quietly makes her way to the washroom and realizes her environment is terrifically awkward.