Under the Mistletoe - MaNan

Part 7

I looked around Dhruv's room, observing every little detail. From the Fab5 picture he had framed on the wall, to the guitar picks lying on the floor. To be honest, I was looking at everything but him. All of a sudden, I felt conscious and couldn't bring myself to meet my eyes with him.

"Nandu..."

And my breath hitched again.

"You live right across from Dhruv's room right? Why don't you show me your room?" he questioned.

I finally gathered the courage to look at him, and silently agreed. I was leading the way, when my foot got stuck on the blanket that was sprawled across the couch.

In anticipation of meeting the hard floor, my eyes shut close. But the ground never came. Instead, I felt his one hand around my waist, and the other supporting my back. I slowly opened my eyes, blushing a little more again. I could almost feel the sparks between us. Getting out of that position, I straightened myself up.

"Do you always blush this much?" he said in a teasing tone.

A little slap on his shoulder was all it took for him to start laughing. I tried keeping a straight face, but who was I kidding; it was pretty funny. And so, I too started laughing as we both headed towards my room.

I led him to my room and unlocked the door. Opening it slightly, I rushed in, leaving him waiting outside.

He began knocking on the door.

"Nandini! What is this? Open the door!"

"Just wait Manik. I can't let you see my room like this!"

"Does it really matter? I honestly couldn't care less about a messy room."

"Just a couple of minutes! Be patient," I said while I attempted to make my bed and hide some stuff from him. Aiyyappa, what if he saw these? I thought to myself as I put them away where they belonged. I've had enough embarrassing moments for today already, I laughed to myself.

I heard him outside, sighing in defeat and slouching on the door.

In a couple of minutes, I finally opened the door, only to have my hear skip a beat at the view in front of me. Leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, he had begun humming. I smiled to myself before tapping his shoulder.

"You don't want to come in anymore or what?" I said in a teasing tone before grabbing his arm and finally taking him inside. I didn't realize I was still holding onto him until I saw his widened eyes and a barely concealed smirk.

I let go in embarrassment, only to have him take mine instead and pull me close to him. I almost crashed into him, and, my other arm had found its own way to his chest. I really have no idea what was going on with me, but all this... All this just felt... right. And as if I were in a trance, I tiptoed to reach his level and kissed his cheek. I've never felt so strongly about anyone before him. He smiled at me and leaned in close.

Letting out a giggle, I pushed him away before settling myself on my bed.

I patted the spot beside me, telling him to sit beside me. But he chose to walk around my room, observing every little thing I had posted all around on the walls.

As I sat there, I couldn't help myself from staring at him. All this still felt quite unreal to be honest.

"I know I'm good looking; you don't need to keep checking me out Nandini!"

"Manik!" I whined as I threw the pillow on him.

He laughed as he came and sat beside me. I had hid my face in my hands by this time so I hadn't noticed how close he was to me until he whispered in my ear.

"It's not like I don't do it to you!" My eyes widened upon hearing that. Unsure of what to do next, I just ended up grabbing another pillow and hitting him in an effort to change the topic. Because let's be honest... How would I even respond to such a confession? Except maybe turn into a human tomato as Navya often called me.

Grabbing the other pillow from the floor, he too attempted to hit me. Who would've thought I'd be having a plow fight with my crush in MY room, that too on the first day of meeting him?

It was a Christmas miracle indeed!