Stay With Me

19.

"How are you?"

"Was fine before you came and decided to ruin my day.", I say with a chipped smile, while jerking back from his hold.

I stand there with my hands folded around my chest, head tilted upwards, with a nasty glare on my face.

Why did he have to be this tall?
I have the height of an average woman of my age, but he seems to tower almost everyone. And even though I was wearing heels inside, I was barely reaching his shoulders.

"You haven't changed in all these years.", I tilt my head with a 'duh' look and move my eyes from top to bottom, side eyeing him.

But he seemed to be in a trance, his eyes fixed over me with raw emotions swirling in them.
Something I can't understand.
Flicking my fingers in front of his face, I bring him back to earth from wherever he was lost.

He cleared his throat, looked away for a moment, scratched the tip of his nose, while my eyes remained on his side profile.

I hate to admit, but he was handsome. Beautifully handsome.
Crafted with perfect details.
Ocean blue eyes which turn darker sometimes - the way you can see the specs of black in them, long lashes which any girl would die to have, jawline as sharp as of a knife - I can cut fruits with them, and lastly his lips. So full and plump that I wish to-

Woah! Stop where you are.

It was my turn to turn away from his view, clearing my throat as my mind fills with the impossibles, and I can feel my cheeks turning crimson.

"What do you have against me?", as I'm controlling my brain from flooding images of things - things which would never happen between us, I turn back to him on his question.
Ofcourse he would never know.

"Nothing.", I say in a bored tone, trying to stay unaffected with the fact that he doesn't even know what problems his presence causes in my life.
My life was a chaos because of him. And now that he's back, it's going to get worse.

"Ofcourse you do! There must be a reason for your behaviour towards me.", he says in an irritated manner, while I just chuckle - a humourless one at that.

"Aren't you getting too affected?", I say with a fake pout, "Aw, is the great almighty, the bestest of all, the greatest of great, getting affected by a normal mere human like me? Tch tch tch... That's too bad!", he glares at me while I look at me with the same intensity.

"Mr. Malik?", I turn around to find one of his bodyguard, "Mr. Rao is searching for you.", he informs before the man behind me dismisses him and he leaves with a nod.

"Go, your dad must be looking for you.", I say as I turn around while he looks at me with hi eyebrows raised, "Oops! That's actually my dad!", I say with fake surprise, "I'm so used to him calling you his 'son' that I got confused.", I say while rolling my eyes at the end and moved forward to go back inside.

But I feel his grip on my wrist and a force pulling me back towards him and in all our conversation, we failed to notice something.
We were standing almost near the edge of the pool.

And in the haste of pulling me backwards, he looses his balance and my hand being in his, I go along with him, into the pool. The water splashes with a jerk around us as I open my eyes underwater, my hand going up to my mouth, breathing here was impossible. And on top of that, I don't know how to swim.

I try to swim upwards but due to the gown I'm wearing, it's being difficult to go to the surface.
I throw my arms around me and after many failed attempts, when I felt my eyes closing and my body letting itself loose, I feel something over my waist.
I think it's someone's arm.