In the garden, a young lady and a young man's bodies were entwined under the moonlight. Ruby was lying on the soft grass. C was hovering over her. He slowly lowered his body onto her. He took her lips into his own and softly kissed her. He kissed her lips and lowered his head onto her collarbone and sucked on it. Ruby moaned. He looked up to see the pleasure reflected on Ruby's face. He was delighted to see it, so he continued sucking on her collarbone. When she couldn't take anymore, he would switch to the other one. Ruby moaned. He became excited upon hearing her.
When his lips traveled southwards, Ruby tugged his black hair to stop him. He came to senses, stopped and quirked his eyebrows at her.
"Don't."
"Don't, what?"
"Please don't do that."
"Okay.", he asked no questions but agreed readily to her.
"You agreed?"
"What? You don't want me to agree?", he looked imploringly at her.
"Um... Yes.... I mean no... ", she was flustered.
"What?", he tried hard to not smile, upon seeing her this flustered.
"Hey, you, stop smiling.!"
"I'm not smiling."
"You are."
"Okay, okay, not smiling anymore.", he put up his hands and surrendered in mock defeat.
He lifted her up and put her down on the bench. He knelt down in front of her on one knee and said, "I am a man of few words. But after seeing you, I like to speak more to you. I don't give a shit at what happens to others, but, I cannot help but become curious about you and matters related to you. I want to know you better. I want to pamper you more and more. I want to spend my life with you. So..... Are you willing to become my girlfriend?"
At this point of time, tears started gushing out of her eyes, and she moved her shivering lips to utter a slow 'yes.'
They hugged each other and kissed like there is no tomorrow. He took her pearly tears on his fingers and said, "These are so precious. Don't waste them by letting them fall in this manner." He wiped her tears, and hugged her again. This time-tightly.
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In the Eastern wing:
Sophie was still standing in her balcony and happened to notice C proposing to Ruby. Their hugs, kisses, all seemed so natural. She started reminiscing about those carefree days back then. She did not know that she would have to scheme against people, live life under cover and what not. She and her friends would spend time playing with one another and eating their favourite dishes made by their mothers, aunts, grandmas. Now, they all have been separated from one another.
She started missing her grandpas, who used to dote on them the most. But, mostly, she missed Robert. He promised to be with her throughout their lifetime, but he broke his promise when he left her previously. He broke it the second time when he got engaged to Lily.
Due to some misunderstanding they got separated, and now this! She sighed in exasperation.