The grey canvas

📌Chapter 10- The grey dawn

Nitara:

Morning was beautiful.

I woke up with my head dug in a heaving softness and my waist firmly affixed in a iron grip. I wriggled a little to free myself but it seemed next to impossible. I was packed from all sides and Dev was the one to have done this honour!

I lifted my head from his chest and looked up at his face which was slightly tilted leftwards. Soft sun-rays coming from the ventilators, fell in slits upon that serene face. I smiled looking at this gorgeous view. Dev was glowing in the light and I couldn't help but kiss the enlightened regions.

He moved to my touches. I tried to use this opportunity so that I could climb down from him, but he being him had to act adamant even in his sleep. He pulled my waist in a tighter clutch this restricting my movement completely.

Not that I wanted to be separated from him so soon. The previous night's essence was still there, casting spells all over. But then staying in that dreamland was not an option. A reality check was necessary and I started my struggle again. I called his name and pushed him and tried to pull apart those arms encircling my waistline. To my bad luck he moved only by an inch which was not enough to help me at all.

The struggle continued for sometime till I finally succeeded in my mission.

Once I was free, I shifted next to him and watched him sleeping peacefully like before. This peace, this calm, this innocense was very much new to me. Needless to say it fascinated me again to go for another kiss.
I pecked his eyelashes and then his lips. His hands moved to clutch me again but I didn't give in. I hopped from the bed and ran to get my gown which was carelessly lying at one corner of the room.

I cladded myself and went to the bed again. Not a moment I wanted him to be out of my sight. Perhaps I was getting addicted to him but I had no regrets if it turned true. Infact I would have been happier if he were my addiction and me being his intoxicant.

Intoxicant? The word reminded me that Dev was intoxicated last night. He was drunk and was out of sense. Whatever he said, whatever he did maybe those were the things which he always wanted to speak or do but couldn't help it otherwise. But did that somehow mean he would forget everything the next morning?

My heart shrank instantly. All the happiness that my face had been sparkling with, was now gone. Even a drop of tear rolled down my eyes too.

Helplessly, I cupped Dev's face with my trembling hands. I tried to search for an assurance that the previous night was not an illusion, that he was going to remember every bit of those magical moments we had spent together. My body started giving up already. World was going out of my focus.

However I still managed to have a grip over myself. Falling weak was not allowed, not atleast the battle had even started. I nodded my head to my own advices and started my second round of attempts of waking up Dev.

"Dev? ...Wake up Dev." I shouted as I kept shaking him simultaneously. But he showed no signs of cooperating with me. He picked up a pillow and stumped it over head so as to cover his ears finely, thereby blocking the source of sound that was disturbing his beauty sleep. I huffed seeing his silly antics and pulled apart the pillow, not forgetting to add a strong scream alongwith. "DEEEEEEV.....Don't test my patience. You just simply wake up okay?!" I pricked my nails on his wrist.

-"Ummmmm...." he threw his hands at me and tried to push me away.

"DEV! GET UP. NOW." I ordered strictly, which showed little effects on him. He opened his eyes and looked at me like an irritated puppy. His eyebrows were twitched high in the temple while his nose was all scrunched and fluffed, making him look like an ever so sweet kindergarten kid.
I would have got lost in him yet again had he not spoken to break my reverie.