Bounded By Innocency (Completed)

Ch-10 • How Do I Say?

A car sped up on the gray road and halted in front of the known girl's house.

Honking sound beeped, slashing off the atmospheric silence.

Ryan Malhotra was wearing a royal blue solid shirt with perfectly fitted pants. His black leather shoes were gleaming like newly purchased ones. His silky black hair rested just above his brows while his expensive watch was on his wrist.

And the car was busy in claiming that it only belonged to him, only him as his aroma had engulfed all its vacancy in the heavenly vibes.

He sighed profoundly, his car parked at her door. He put the song on in the car and rested his palms above the steering wheel.

The melody of the music was embracing the surroundings entirely. In a minute, he heard the clanking sound of heels gradually boosting towards him.

He peeped out of the window and saw the goddess-like beauty coming straight from paradise for him, only for him.

He moistened his mouth with his tongue as it got parched due to one good reason.

Prisha Sharma embedded herself in the pristine white fish-cut dress. The neck and shoulder fabric was translucent and illuminated with pearly thin borders.

Her open tresses seem smooth and lustrous just like the satin. Her face was glimmering, the eyes were shaded with a nice combo of nude and smokey tints, and her full lips were painted in chocolate lip colorant.

She saw him ogling at her without blinking his eyes, she got a little nervous as she was fearsome of her looks.

She somehow summoned courage and asked him, "How am I looking, Ryan?"

He came out from the haze by listening to her voice, immediately straightened up his face, and took a deep breath.

He darted his eyes in her direction, "You, you... you are looking... you." He tried to speak but alas! He was not able to utter a single meaningful word.

He saw the hope glittering in her orbs but he himself doesn't know how he felt this vulnerable. Maybe this is what people call love. Strongest yet tender at the same moment!

"I... what Ryan?" Her eyes were looking at him in a solemnity.

Watching her expressions, he lowered his lashes and slowly whispered "How do I say?"

As soon as he murmured this, a song began playing in the background from his car.

Tumko paya hai to jaise khoya hoon,
kehna chahoon bhi to tumse kya kahoon
kisi zuban mein bhi woh lafz hi nahi ki jin mein tum ho kya,
tumhein bata sakun...

Both of them stood there with an awkward silence as they both realized how a mere song conveyed his feelings to her. Now, she too knows what was bothering him.

He swallowed the dry lump that was forming in his throat, went around and opened the gate of the car for her, "Come, sit here."

She carefully managed to speak around him, "Yeah, okay."

Soon the duo got settled in the car and they drove past her house.