Leichan's POV
But then Mom came there telling us to get ready. "What are you both doing? And you.. did you complete your homework?" Mom asked me. "Yes mumma." I said with a smile. And she smiled back saying "That's good."
I went outside the kitchen and then into the room, I opened my cupboard to look for anything good I can wear. And I found many clothes attractive and couldn't decide anymore. Now.. I tried to match the tops and bottoms, and my eyes also smiled at a pair up of a crop sweater and wide jeans. I quickly changed and now I was onto my hairstyle. I decided to leave them open with a small clip.
After an hour or so we -includes brother, me, mumma and papa- walked to their house which is not very far. And my heart was pounding due to nervousness.
We reached their door and I knocked slowly, and through the mesh I saw Luhan.
LUHAN.
I quickly tucked the hair strands behind my ear, they were disturbing my view. He opened the door infront of us with the same grumpy expression. I went inside with no expression. But then his mother came outside the room to welcome us, that made me smile. Mom told brother to give the gift we brought for them, it's nothing but some food items. Brother moved forward while walking past me and handed the bag which had the "gift" to aunty.
"Leichan? Would like something to eat?" Aunty asked me which caught me off guard that I was zoning out. "No aunty.." I left out a nervous chuckle. And in my blurred vision I could see Luhan standing in the corner. "Sit, I'll get you something to eat." Aunty said with a smile, her eyes were shining as she was smiling they smiled too. I genuinely smiled at that.
"Luhan, come." Brother called him in very a friendly tone. He walked towards us and sat between us.
No, no, no, no. Why is he sitting next me, I mean between us? He could have sat next to brother. But doesn't matter now as brother is sitting next to him as well.
"You have a nice chat, I'll help aunty." Mumma said while getting up from her seat and walking out of the room. I looked at my brother with pleading eyes, my gut feeling was saying that he'd leave as well I don't what for. And then my good luck was gone with Titanic, dad entered the room and said "Beta, come help us with shifting some furniture." And brother went away quickly. And awkwardness filled the air thickly, so thick that I could slice through easily. "Well.. what grade are you in?" He asked and I tried to force a smile "Tenth." I didn't mind using a word instead of "words". I wanted to talk freely but this cryptic feeling is forming a tornado of uneasiness. Through all of the people why am I the one to get into such situation?
Dharti maa mujhe kripya karke khaa lijiye.
Mother earth please eat me up.
"Well.. where is your hometown?" He asked. I don't know in just a span of milliseconds how I got theese guts to turn to his face and make eye contact.
Luhan's POV
Her abrupt action at my question seemed illogical but I atleast got to take a good and proper look of her face, eyes shining, with danger. Her hairs falling till her shoulders, few strands were gleaming due to the light of the bulb. I thought only bulbs and tube lights could light the room up but seems that she lit my mood up and as well as the atmosphere. "What?" I tried to act cool at her hand placement near my legs and she glared at me "Why are you so concerned about this? Mr. Whatever."
Her voice rings even after her keeping quiet, what the hell.
Hell. No.
This can't be, why am I thinking I am falling already? Last time in that school I had a very fucked up reputation in the matter of relationships. And now I have a very good chance to keep my record clean and I don't want to make it go waste.
"Hm? Why do you want to know?" She asked while cocking an eyebrow at me. I didn't say anything and smiled like a schmuck. "Tell me, you're already 16 so you must have had any relationship?" That was a slip of tongue I didn't give it a single thought about whether to ask or not. Instead of answering her question why did I say this. I must be dreaming, I am being totally reckless. "Whether or not. Why do you want to know?" She asked while supporting her head using her fist. "Just tell me." I said while stretching backwards to maintain a comfortable distance between us.
"Well.. I haven't even had a mere crush let alone relationships." She said while keeping a straight face while looking at me. Her eyes were roaming around my face like mine did before on hers. "Is that true, kiddo?" I asked while chuckling at the expression she was wearing on her face. "Yeah." Her voice was firm, calm, steely and soothing all at once.
She was looking around the living room as she got up from the couch. She was looking at the photos and she chuckled at my framed childhood picture "You were cute before, unlike now." "Don't lie about your opinions." I said just in case she was just joking or lying about me being cute. She didn't respond at that, and instead got attracted towards the photo frames. I was reminded of the photo frames at her house. And they all, uh.. she looked very adorable and ecstasy. "Kiddo?" I called her since all of her attention was on the photo frames hung on the wall, the medals and trophies kept in the show case. "Hm?" She hummed. "Why did I hear a loud thud whenever you entered the house or went out?"
"That day.. my mood was off." She said it in a sentence. Why does she speak like that? Leichan, I want an explanation. "Oh, that's too bad to hear. Were you down on luck that day?" I got up from the couch and walked towards her. She suddenly turned around, what? Is she trying to be the death of me. The distance between us is very lessened, this is too close.
Too. Close. For. Us.
Leichan backed off and I backed off too since I couldn't handle it and Leichan stepped to the right just to make sure we keep a very comfortable distance between us. "Why do you want to know?" She asked, yet again. "I was just finishing my business." I said while joking around about me being concerned about her. Definitely not. "Mr. Whatever, are you flirting?" She said in a very serious tone. I chuckled and said "Mr. Aribam Luhan, Ms. Whatever Leichan." I officially introduced myself to Ms. Whatever. She then shook hands with me "Ms. Ningombam Leichan, Mr. Aribam."
She jerked my hand as soon as we heard kiddo's brother calling us for dinner. "Leichan, Luhan come have food."
"It was not just dinner, but the death of me."
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A/N: Sorry guys, October has been a very busy month for me. A special chapter for second leads. How do you like it?
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