I wish I could

Chapter 14

[Song of the chapter is: Unconditionally by Katy Perry. The lyric video is on the side. (I'm a huge Katy Perry fan :P) ]

I came back from shower and decided to get nicely dressed for Liam that day. He hoped to see a happy version of me when he came back as he said, so I decided to surprise him by making him see a different and of course a very happy version of myself. I really wanted to do all those things which any girlfriend would do for his boyfriend, no matter how small but significant they were. Small gestures do count in a relationship. And Liam had made me feel special by a million small but sweet gestures and I had never even cared to thank him for all of it. So, it was my turn then. I wanted to show him that I also loved him as dearly and unconditionally as he loved me.

I got dressed up in a purple but simple dress while my hair still being wrapped up in the towel and I sat at my table to make a planner for the coming week. Planning the whole week before hand had always been my habit since I entered high school. And while I was trying to focus on organizing my week, sleepiness was slowly overtaking my brain. And I slept while sitting on the table itself.

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Liam’s call woke me up in the afternoon.

“Are you alright Zara? Why the hell you weren’t answering my calls? I have been calling you from past one hour. Are you Okay?” He sounded extremely worried and I had no clue how to calm him down as I was still very sleepy.

“I was sleeping and I didn’t realize that you were calling. Sorry for that.” I said sleepily and yawned.

“Thank God. I got so worried about you. For a second I thought that you did something to yourself….But thank heaven, I‘m on my way to your house. When you didn’t answer, I thought it would be a better idea to come and see for myself.”

  “You’re on your way?” Suddenly all of my sleepiness was gone

“Yeah, I’ll be there in about ten minutes.”

“Ten minutes? Okay, So I should better go and hit the shower then.” I lied as I realized that all of my plans to surprise him had just ten minutes to get ready to be executed.

“Alright, I’ll see you in a while then. Bye” He said and hung up.

I immediately unwrapped my hair from the towel and found that they were still damp thankfully. Then I rushed to the bathroom to brush my teeth again and there I found that I had some little dark patches under my eyes which were swollen very badly from dehydration which the stream of tears had caused a night before. I applied a little concealer and dabbed some foundation to make my face look a little better.

Then I hit the kitchen and decided to make some broccoli pasta in lunch for Liam.

I got busy with the pasta and then finally I heard the door bell.

“Good afternoon.” I smiled as I welcomed him.

“Wow, someone is looking beautiful.” He said and I can bet even now that he was surprised to see me in a good mood although he didn’t say anything at that time.

“So have you had your lunch already? Or are you going to eat with me?” I asked him as he followed me into the house.

“No, I was just so worried about you. How could I eat in so much tension? But, don’t worry we’ll order something.” He said.

“There’s no need of it. I’m making broccoli pasta for lunch.”

“Broccoli pasta?” His tone was a scared one and I turned to face him.

“Yeah, broccoli pasta.” I smirked.

I knew Liam hated broccoli and he would never wish to eat anything made of broccoli and even I hated it but since it was good for his throat, so I had decided to make it for him.