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Chapter 47: The Day He Proposed

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Chapter 47: The Day He Proposed

Zara's POV

A simple turquoise blue dress, pearl necklace, pearl bracelets and earrings with a soft hair updo and a nice lipstick, I'm attending my own success party thrown by the boys. Liam, Niall and Harry were already here when I came.

"Guys, I am travelling back home tonight." I throw a sudden bomb at them.

"What? Why? What happened, Zara?" Harry asks with so much care that I am almost on the verge of crying.

"No. Nothing happened. I just.... I just want to spend some time with my family. I am missing them so much." I reply while giving a half-hearted smile.

"Is that the reason why you have been so low for so many days?" Liam inquired. Oh! So he sensed the awkwardness.

"You knew there was something cooking?" I cock an eyebrow at him.

"Of course Zara. Why do you think you are sounding so much better in the studio for the last few days? Injured, broken hearts are revealed when you are into music. You can never make a happy song when you are dying inside." Liam explains.

"I wasn't dying inside, Liam. But I think it has been a while that I last met my family. When I came to London, I never knew that I won't be seeing my family for so long. C'mon guys, just a week and I will be back, I promise."

"Zara. You don't have to ask anyone. If you want to go, just go." Niall cheers me up. "We know it's hard for you to stay so far away from your family. So don't worry about anything. Just go."

"When are you leaving today? Do you want something?" Liam says.

"So are you allowing me to go then?" I ask Liam sheepishly.

"As Niall said, you are a big girl Zara. You don't have to ask anyone. We were just worried that if there's something that's bothering you, you can share it with us. We are A******* but we are useful A*******." Liam laughs at his own statement.

I smilingly slap his arm and fill in the details of my flight. So excited for tonight!

The main door opens up and a bouquet of red roses enters the main hall. I am trying to get a peek of the person whose face is hidden behind the flowers. I have a strange feeling, tingling in my stomach, that this is something big. Something big is going to happen now.

The flowers are moved aside and the face is visible now. Wearing a black suit and all dressed up in the most gentleman way, I see him walking towards me. Unexpectedly, the lights go off and my vision is blocked. Then, a sudden spotlight hits my retina and I find him under the area of the spotlight too. Looking like a complete Prince, he approaches me with the flowers.

"For you, Zara." He hands over the flowers to me. His gaze intensifies while he delivers the package of love to me. Every eye in the hall is watching us. My breath hitches before I can say anything. This isn't it. There's something more. My inner self is hissing in my mind and I can't contain the anticipation.

He kneels down on his knees in front of me. My eyes open wide. This can't be what it looks like. He spreads his hand and looks into my eyes.

"Dr. Zara Arman, I think I have fallen for the moon. It brings out the high tide in me and gives me what I want in a lonely dark night. That moon is the only source of light when I am drowning myself. You, Zara, you are that moon. Will you Marry me Zara and bring some peace to my chaotic life?"

His words made their way into my heart as if I had finally found a home in a deserted land. His spread out arms gave me a sense that there can't be anything better than these on this planet. He was still waiting for an answer. I didn't want my mind to get involved in this whole scene and spoil it. I wanted to keep it a heart to heart conversation. So without thinking what will happen, how am I going to do this, I speak out what I wanted to say from a long time while I look back into his eyes.

"I will,,,,,"

"I will what, Zara. Say it." He demands a complete answer.

"I will marry you, ZAYN. I will."

With this, the whole crowd starts cheering up and I realise that we had an audience as well. Zayn gets up from his position and puts his hand in the pocket, bringing out a ring.

"Let me put this in your finger and mark you as mine." He solemnly states.

I realised I was already mesmerised so I quickly bring out my left hand whose ring finger is quickly filled up with a ring, my engagement ring, from Zayn.

I keep looking into his eyes. Eyes! These eyes can melt hearts. They can ruin destruction itself. They can drown oceans in them. And here I was a mere mortal. And yet they only looked at me intensely, unflinchingly. Did I sense a smattering of love there? I would've told you if those eyes hadn't robbed all of my senses and made me theirs.

CLASHHHHH

A sudden glass shattering thud breaks the momentum and I glance at the source of the sound.

"Oh sorry! It just broke. Congratulations Zara." Louis smirks at me while his hand is bleeding with the glass splinters piercing through his skin and the broken glass at his feet.

"Louis! Are you okay?" I try to run towards him but he motions me to stop with his bleeding hand.

"Just stay there. Don't come closer or this will break you too." Louis' glistening eyes were a mystery tonight. He takes a bottle of Vodka from the bar and holds a bouquet of flower in his bleeding hand.

"Louis, let me bandage you." I ask him. Coming closer to us, he looks at us and then at his bouquet and with another smirk, he just throws the bouquet at my feet.

"Live happily both of you." With this, staggering Louis leaves the house, leaving me with worry and pain that I could feel when I was looking at his injured hand. I pick up the bouquet from the floor. The white flowers were dipped in red blood; Louis' blood. 

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