Once Upon A Time, A Thousand Tears Ago #Wattys2017

Chapter 35: Silence and Sound

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Zara's POV:

The car picks up more speed. With adventure in his eyes and trust in my veins, we both head towards a destination. The car halts after sometime and Zayn motions me to come out of the car. The cold air strikes me with its swiftness and I shiver under its touch. Zayn looks at me with the same mischievous look but then quickly removes his jacket and places it on my shoulders. The jacket gives an immediate feeling of warmth and expresses the caring attitude of its giver. I formally tell him to keep the jacket with himself but deep down I know he won't ever take it back. He does what I expect and refuses to take it back.

The place looks isolated. The plain road which has our car parked now, goes into some dark hole. The area is wide and open. All I can see is a full sky without any skyscrapers covering the view. I see Zayn watching the view too. He is admiring the sky above us which is filled with countless night stars and a full moon.

"Turn to your left." Zayn tells me to look at a tall building which is standing alone in the midst of this lonely, cool and calm place. "Come I'll take you there."

"Is there anyone living in there? Are we going to meet someone?" I ask him when truly I don't want to leave this tranquil place for anything on earth now.

"Kind of yes. I want you to meet someone." He takes my hand and my sudden reflexes pull my hand back from his grip. Zayn realizes my abrupt reaction. "Sorry, I just have a habit of holding hands."

"That's not a bad habit if you stick to holding a single hand forever in your life." What am I speaking? This is not the kind of things that you talk when you are alone with a boy in this beautiful place. Don't get weak, Zara.

Zayn motions me into the building which is much warmer than the outside. He takes me to the elevator and presses the button. The elevator marks its availability with a small 'ding' and we both enter the quiet elevator. Zayn presses the button number 35 and I look at him, shocked. Who is it who lives at this floor? I am in my party clothes still, with no makeup left on my face. I am sure whoever it is, seeing me at midnight is only going to scare him. So it's going to be my second experience of scaring someone. I don't know if other girls do this scaring shit a lot or no but I am doing it on a regular basis now.

Halting at the 35th floor, Zayn asks me to move out and then leads me to another set of stairs for climbing on the upper floor. We finally reach our destination which happens to be the terrace of this building. Walking through the door of the terrace, I enter into an open area where there is no light, no voice and apparently no other human being than the two of us. So one thing is for sure, we are not here to meet anyone.

"Now what?" I smirk at Zayn.

"Now we will meet ourselves, here." Zayn opens his arms wide to feel in the air. He closes his eyes, takes a long breath, holds it in, feels it and then exhales the air out of his lungs finally opening his eyes again. His soft features relax further after doing this exercise for three times consecutively. Observing him like this is doing no good to me. My stomach is churning as I see the innocence in his self returning back on his face. He appears much younger now.

"Don't look at me like this Zara. You will fall in love." He says with a little smirk.

I quickly divert my eyes and blink them rapidly, totally forgetting that I didn't blink the whole time I was watching him blessing the atmosphere.

"That won't happen anytime soon." I reply playfully. May be I need to tell this more to my own self than to him. His smile widens at my response but then falters. I notice this sudden drop in the temperature realizing that it was his smile that was radiating out warmth in the air. The moment his smile fades, the temperature drops down instantly.