Orphic

Episode 4.

It was late in the night when almost everyone in the house was asleep. Zoya was in the kitchen making herself a late night snack like always. She was either sleep deprived soul or a lazy ass panda. Tonight her brain had decided to not let her sleep because of her pending assignments. She made herself coffee and Nutella sandwiches and Einstein a fruit bowl.

This was an unsaid ritual between them since they both were late night snackers. He doesn't say it but she knows his sleep deprived ass gets hungry in the middle of the night, her Tayi Ammi handed her this duty when she noticed that both of them were basically night owls.

Zahan was working on his laptop reading through emails and presentations when his door was knocked and opened without permission.

"Your hunger demiser, your highness." Zoya whispered grandly, placing the bowl in front of him bowing down to put it on the coffee table. Zahan rolled his eyes at her dramaticness.

"There's a thing called manners Zoya. When you knock, you wait for permission to be granted" he said, not moving his eyes from his laptop.

"I.. know but I don't care" she said plopping down next to him. She had brought her iPad with her and had decided to take some help from the genius since at this hour he's her only hope.

"You've done the job now, leave" he said, getting up from his place and going to his bedside table to get the other file. He turned around to find her standing right behind him startling him.

"What?" He said seeing her stretched palm. She closed her eyes and flexed her fingers in a give gesture with a sly smile on her face.

"My salary for getting the job done" she said looking at him smugly. She had a crane neck up to look at him properly. If she was the tallest amongst the girl then he was tallest amongst the guys with his gigantic height.

The little light in the room made a halo around him contrasting well with his gray joggers and a matching t-shirt. He palmed her face covering most of it and pushed her back making her stumble back and hitting his back as revenge. He glared at her while she did the same.

"Leave me alone. Unlike you I have work to do" he said walking to his previous seat.

"So do I," she said, crossing her arms over her chest and poking her tongue out. He ignored her and started going through his file waiting to hear the door shutting but when he didn't, he looked up to see her sitting across from him working on her iPad.

"You-" he was about to say something but was cut off by Zoya.

"Um... Yeah I'll leave just give me your opinion real quick" she said taking her iPad and standing behind the couch he was sitting on. She handed him the iPad forcefully making him place his file down and grab the iPad. Zahan couldn't understand what she was trying to do and kept on looking at her moving behind him. She leaned on the headrest of the couch.

"Wh-" he turned his head to his right to protest but a strong scent of Jasmine clogged his voice in his throat. She had leaned down and was now face level to him. Her eyes fixed on the screen of the iPad. She was saying something but for the first time Zahan felt as though he couldn't understand anything. He studied her side profile as she pointed something on the screen.

He leaned forward to take in more of the intoxicating scent of Jasmine, his eyes closed and he unconsciously leaned closer to her neck taking in the refreshing smell but at the moment she turned her face to the side, their noses brushed against each other, halting their movements.

His eyes opened, feeling her move. His world stopped meeting a pair of earthly green orbs. Hazel caged her pupil while green guarded the iris. Deep swirling pools of green guarded by thick lashes, his eyes traveled down to her dainty button nose, slight chubby cheeks, a perfect jaw, his gaze flickered to those delicate petal like lips, plum and soft looking, black threads of silk framing her face and the nerdy big round glasses covering more than half of her face.