Loving A Lie

8. Friends or more?

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All the way I tried to act angry. But I was not. I was so happy inside that there was hardly any place for any emotion.
'Amy?',he called me unsurely, his attention divided between the road and me.
I did not respond.
It took everything in me to reply to his sugar sweet tone.

When we reached my front door,he stopped the bike and helped me get down. Unnecessary enough to say my heart started at 180 miles per hour. He didn't leave my hand even after I was standing on the ground. Looking into my eyes gravely he said, his voice wasn't smooth,but just as sexy as ever,
" Amy. I hope you will forgive me for being too presumptuous.
Though you must understand that really I'm a guy with enough money to last for both of us a life time. So you can exploit me completely." He winked with added drama.
He was apologising for treating me like a gentleman. How horrendous was I?
Too much!
Ugh!!
But still some part of me was very adamant.
"Tell me.", he continued,"what I'm to do with all that money if I don't spend in on the people I love." At this I had turned positively crimson." You do not know but life here was pretty much wasted until you came along. Really I wish I could tell you how boring it is to live alone. It's like doing jail.", he said his lips curving into a crooked smile as he looked up at me.

He had been looking down on our hands ,my hand firmly held in his strong manly,that had somehow got intertwined. I had too been looking at them.
He looked up to see me blush quietly. He winked at me and laughed.
I must have been looking more like a nervous kitty and dreadfully red.
"I don't know what to say... That's so much of love. I don't know how to take it all,really Daniel I don't know."
People who care are people who are rare. You must cherish them and keep them safe so that nobody could take them away from you.
I really still couldn't understand. This. Daniel. This felt too good to be true.
I guess that's why I was trying to keep it minimum. So that when it all breaks, it doesn't shatter my heart away too.
I was so selfish. I was trying to protect my heart.

"Amy you're a part of my life You are by no means an ordinary girl and so you must learn to understand your worth,accept to be cherished. I know your friends,whoever they were ,have given you trust issues but we could solve them together.", he grinned.
I didn't know how could he grin when I found it difficult to even move my lips. It felt like a difficult task. But then ,after a minute's difficulty I sported a weak smile.
He held our both hands palm to palm touching,fingers intertwined by his. Then he slowly left them to closely whisper in my ears," Goodnight and don't think too much about me tonight." That was exactly what I had decided to do, to think about him,about this. His closeness made me forget what I was thinking as I heard him breathing. His breathing was not as unrhythmic as mine. My heart was a havoc. I was not able to think clearly as I smelled his cologne.
He brushed my ears with his lips and gently trailed my cheeks without actually kissing them.
That's when I actually lost myself.
I leaned myself on him ,my arms around him,his neck , I hugged him and kissed his right cheek. It was with a lot of self restraint that I willingly did not let my thoughts linger around those pink lips of his.
It felt awesome to finally feel his clear ,smooth ,porcelain skin which I had been wanting to feel since a long time.
I smiled at how right I had been in my assessment of his skin when he put his both arms around my back, not quite touching me ,yet keeping a firm grip on me.
How did he know I was going to fall?
I felt everything go black for a second but Daniel's muscular arms kept me vertical.
Daniel sighed in relief when I opened my eyelids after a second.
"What...what do I do with you...?", he said frustrated ," You really need to eat properly. "Now he was the one with uneven breathing. He looked worried so I balanced myself properly on the ground taking his arm's support and smiled at him to show I was well.
I felt really embarrassed at my actions but I wasn't thinking clearly at that time.
I flustered and ran inside the house sheepishly,opening the door with my spare key, not looking back at all.
Oops my bags. I had forgotten them in the bike's storage unit.
Never mind them. Right now I was shaking violently my back resting against the door for support. I looked at the clock. It was nine. Hopefully Granny won't be upset. I knocked at her door.
" Come in.",she called me from inside.
"Granny."
I composed my face before entering her room. She would guess everything in seconds else.
I cringed at my changed clothes. Ugh what will she think?

I push the door inside and prayed that she doesn't ask too much about Daniel. For once in my life I do not want to discuss anything with Granny. This is very strange.
Granny was sitting on the bed reading newspaper. She was the one who encouraged the reader in me. She would tell me fairy tales ,read out Cinderella to me,buy me new books every birthday.

"Did you enjoy yourself?", she asked not missing my replaced clothes for a second.
" Granny it's not how you think. We were wet in rain."

"I know my dear. I would never doubt you for a second in my life. You are a grown up now. You can choose your life and I doubt not that you will not do what's not wise for you."
"Thanks Granny."
I sat next to her.
"So had fun?",she repeated.
" Yes very much. I'll get coffee for both of us."
I went into the kitchen,all my thoughts in a disorder. I added instant coffee in some hot milk and added sugar to it ,stirred the coffee evenly and carried it back to her room.

Granny could guess my confused state I guess. So we talked a little about non-Daniel stuff. She tactfully kept Daniel out of our conversation. She was love. Then she yawned involuntarily and I bid her for the night.
I slowly trudged my way upstairs. In bathroom I opened the tap to shower and quickly switched on the heater to have access to warm water. No cold water for me now. Don't want to fall prey to fewer so soon. After a few minutes in water I switched off the heater and shower. I conditioned my hairs,slowly massaging the conditioner into my hairs. Then washed it off. I followed it with shampoo. My shampoo smelled of strawberries filling the bathroom with the sweet aroma. I scrubbed myself thoroughly trying to focus on the fragrance rather than Daniel. After I was satisfied I cleansed myself of all the remnants of various soapy products.
I quickly changed into my baggy shorts and roomy T-shirt.
I returned to my room still trying to keep all the confusing thoughts at bay that were threatening to consume me.
Maybe a walk in fresh air would help me clear my thoughts. So I made my way up to the terrace.
I pushed the door to my terrace and inhaled the clean air .
The sky was now clear of clouds. The moisture in the clouds already drained. The stars were few but were now visible.
Only now did I allow myself to think about what Daniel said. His two statements having maximum effect on me. I simply could not deny the fact that I loved the way he said that he had enough money for two of us to last a life time. Was he implying that he wanted to spend his life with me?
No that was too farfetched. I should not allow myself to hope such ridiculous things.
I ,for one, did not believed in love one week ago. And here I'm hoping that he's in love with me.
The realisation struck with enough force, knocking the breath out of me. I had finally consciously thought what I had been shy to regard.
I may be the world's biggest hypocrite. I used to laugh at others, called myself learned enough to fall for such nonsense. The words now echoed in my mind taunting me, mocking at my own actions. I could seriously not do this to myself.

One more thing he said that could make my cheeks burn was you can exploit me. If someone could had been able to read my thoughts at that statement would had easily concluded me very immodest. That too when I didn't let them wander too far. Oh! God. He had me in complete turmoil. Never I repeat never had any boy affected me so much. I was always able to avoid such events in past. Whenever guys asked me out, I had an answer ready . I would smartly dodge such requests .
But you know what...he never said he wanted to date me. Maybe I have misconstrued all his actions,his words.
So for the sanity of my own thoughts I will declare it to be friendship and nothing else. At least for the time being. The peck that I gave him on the cheek, I would disconsider that too. At that time I was heady, too immersed in his and my own emotions not to mention the physical craving to touch his soft silky cheeks. Ugh Amy don't you learn anything! I screamed at myself internally.
I sighed sadly.