ABOVE & BEYOND : IF WE ARE MEANT TO BE

CHAPTER 15

DUAA

"So how are the seats? Is it like a cabin or something?" I closed my eyes shut and took a long breath. He has been asking too many questions about trains.

"You will see when we will get on one, hmm?" I said before checking my watch. 8:41. It is 20 minutes late. We are standing no I'm standing, he is sitting as we are waiting for the train. Afra called me but my hand was full. So I proceeded to put my purse and coffee next to the chair Eryx was sitting on. And my luggage accidentally fell on Ery's legs.

"Oww..be careful there, brownie." "oh shoot..sorry." He smiled slightly at me. "What?" "nah..this is the first time I heard you saying sorry I guess. I started to think it's not in your vocabulary." "haha..funny. I'm not ashamed of apologising if the fault is mine."

I sent a quick text to Afra saying we will talk later. "You know you can sit, right? We still have seven more minutes." I didn't argue on this one. Moving my luggage out of the way I quietly sat beside him, checking my watch over and over again.

"Your luggage is heavy. Why did you even bring a bigass luggage, brownie." He said while swirling the handle of it. I snatched it from him quickly. "Excuse me? We are gonna be there for 20 days!" He just shrugged, a playful smirk always on his lips. Okay it's pissing me off now. "You know...not all of us have apartments in a different city just to spend the vacations!"

"What..no brownie..I didn't mean it like that. I was just.." he was cut off by the horns of the train "oh looks like our ride is here." I got up and held the handle of my luggage but he held it first. "Duaa listen, I  didn't mean it like that. I'm so.." "keep it moving dude, if we miss the train we have to wait for another three hours."

He zipped his mouth this time which was good and if I knew him any better I would have thought he genuinely didn't mean to say what he said.

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"Damnn.. This is so sick! It's a lot nicer than I expected." I smiled slightly as he kept praising the train behind me. "34A 34B. Okay these are our seats." I said as I put my stuff on the shelf.

"Listen Duaa, I seriously didn't mean what I..." "sit down" "bossy much? Gotta say..this is my line usually." I rolled my eyes this time. "It is about to start so get your ass on the.." before I could finish, the train moved and he was here. Close to me. Super close to me. We were nose to nose. He balanced himself by putting both his hands on my seat, beside my head.

I was staring at him. No, he was staring at me. No, we both were staring at each other. Heart beating so fast that I could hear the sound. Hopefully he can't. My whole body was on fire.

"So forgive me for what I said earlier." His voice brought me back to reality. I pushed him and he landed onto his seat with a smile so big that I could see his teeth and the dimple that I envy.

He is such a tease.

"Okay Duaa..I meant it earlier." "what? That you are rich? Haha breaking news...I already know!" I crossed my arms over my chest and looked outside. "What? No. I meant the forgiveness part." "dude chill...I was joking."

Even though I swore to myself that I will stay mad at him, I really could not. His apology seemed genuine. But why is he being all friendly now and couldn't bother to send a text yesterday? Even better..why didn't he view my text. If he had seen it yesterday we wouldn't have had to go through all this chaos today.

"Why the hell didn't you view my text yesterday?" okay..that sounded like a jealous girlfriend...oh my god did I just say girlfriend? But the point was it didn't exactly sound like the way I wanted it to. "I mean if you had seen the text we didn't have to go through all of this."

He stayed silent for a while while rubbing the back of his neck with his palm. "I...I was busy with stuff." I had the sudden urge to slap him on the face. "Yea..stuff. Your stuff only includes sex, sex and the other one is..oh yea, sex again!" I sighed loudly, trying to find something from my purse...not sure what.

His small laugh made me look back at him. "Someone has been keeping updates." "or maybe..this is what you do all day that's why everyone knows about your stuff."

"Okay..that is so not true." I crossed my arms over my chest at his denial. "Oh really? Do enlighten me Mr. Ainsworth." "I work. I work for you, first of all. Then I hang out with my friends. I...I eat, I sleep, I take showers, I play football occasionally. Anyway..the point is I just don't have sex all the time." I scoffed loudly. This dude is....unbelievable.

"How long did you even go without having sex?" That was so unprofessional. That was so not something I thought I would be asking him considering my realisations of today and yesterday. But something inside me wanted to know it. For what reason? I don't know.

"Well.. lemme see..I didn't have sex on last...Monday, Wednesday and Sunday which is today." He gave me a cheeky smile which I returned with a disgusting facial expression. "Ew..are you sure you don't have std or something?" "nope. I get tested religiously, brownie." "gahh..do not bring religion into your nasty ...lifestyle."

I raised my eyebrows and shook my head slightly. "What? You think I can't go without having sex?" I let out a chuckle. "I mean it's all you do." "for your information brownie, my sex life doesn't control me, I control it." "whatever you say Mr. Eryx." I gave him a bittersweet smile while sending texts to Afra.

"You don't believe me, do you?" I looked up at him. "No, I don't." I went back on texting Afra when my phone was snatched away from my hand. What the..

"Heyy! Give me my phone back.!" He took advantage of his long torso so I couldn't reach my phone.

"Not until we make a deal." "what? What deal? Just give me my phone back you ass!" "the deal is..I will go without sex for 15 days and ..." "well..good for you but if I don't get my phone back within three seconds I'm gonna smack your face."

"Hear me out, brownie. So what was I saying? Yea..so, I will go without sex for fifteen days and in return you gotta cook for me since you are a great cook and all." I laughed out loud this time. "So you are not gonna have sex and for that I gotta cook for you? Very funny."

"Well no. You don't think I can go without having sex so I'm gonna prove you wrong and in return you gotta cook for me. As simple as that." He made it sound so innocent that I wanted to beat him. "This is ridiculous! I don't give a shit about your sexlife and you don't have to prove anything to me." "well...it's a little late for that, don't you think?"

Goshh..this guy!!

"So you in or not, brownie?" He asked and he was about to turn my phone around which was not turned off and Afra was still texting...about him. We were texting about him. And I would rather die than let him see my last text that said,

"He's actually so damn fine. Maybe the finest man I have ever seen but with zero personality. Literally 000"

"Okay okay! Fine. I accept your damn deal!" he looked at me and smiled brightly, lowering his hand without even realising it which gave me a chance to snatch my phone back.

I looked at him. Blood boiling. I'm gonna make you regret it so much Eryx Ainsworth.