Chapter 16: Quite Close...

He kissed her on her toe and asked her to take rest. He realized that Saniya was still wet and was shivering with cold, so he took a towel from the wardrobe and started drying her hair. Then gradually he was wiping her neck and her hands too.

It had started to rain outside; the sound of a loud thunder made Saniya hold him tight, as she got scared. "Just relax dear, wipe yourself dry and then have some sleep. You need to rest. I will come to see you tomorrow morning. I will leave now, bye" he told her and started to leave.

Saniya held his hand and said, "Arjun, if you don't mind you better stay here tonight, it is raining heavily outside, please stay here" she said and suddenly there was a power cut so it became very dark.

Saniya got frightened and hugged him very tightly. Seeing the conditions Arjun decided to stay with her. She was shivering so much with cold and fear, so he did not want to leave her all alone.

"Change your wet clothes" he told her "I'm waiting outside for a while," he said and wanted to open the door to go out of the room while she was changing her clothes, but as there was no power he could not swipe the door card, so he told her to go to the bathroom and change.

"Saniya, get into the bathroom and change your clothes. I am not able to open the door to go and wait outside."

"I feel afraid to go inside the bathroom, it's so dark there," she said.

"My dear, you are shivering like anything, if you don't change your wet clothes then you be suffering from fever soon" he advised her.

"Don't bother; I will manage to change my clothes here itself. You please close your eyes and turn to the other side," she instructed.

"It's so dark here, anyways I won't be able to see anything," he said this as if he was complaining about it.

"That's being naughty. I know you guys have very sharp eyesight and, you can see everything in the dark also" she said.

"Ok fine, I was just kidding. Don't worry, I have closed my eyes and here I turn my face to the other side, now please change your wet clothes"

After a while, he asked her, "Have you changed your dress? Shall I turn back?"

"Just 2 more minutes," she replied. "Yeah, now you can"

"Ok Saniya, now go to the bed and take some rest. Make yourself comfortable and sleep well; I will sleep on the couch." He told her.

"No Arjun, you can also sleep on the bed. The weather is bad and it's so dark, I feel afraid of sleeping alone. Please stay close" she urged him.

"Are you sure about this?" he asked her.

"Yeah of course," she said to him.

Both of them went off to sleep on the same bed together. It was thundering outside and Saniya was holding his arms tightly. Saniya was feeling cold and her body was shivering. She couldn't stop herself and she hugged him tightly to make herself comfortable.

Arjun did not take any undue advantage of the situation but he helped her to sleep peacefully. He moved his hands gently on her head to comfort her.

At around 7 in the morning, Saniya's cell phone was ringing continuously which made her wake up and answer the call. It was Saniya's mom, "Hey, where have you been all the while? I have been trying to reach you since morning dear."

"No-where mom, actually last night I went to sleep quite late" she answered.

"Dear, but today you have the interview at 10 am and you are still on the bed, have you forgotten about your interview? It's your final round today" her mom was saying.

"Yes mom, I will reach there on time" she convinced her mother.

Her mom said, "Fine, now get up and get ready soon. Inform me once you start for it."

"Sure mom" Saniya replied.

Saniya kept the phone down and turned around. She was shocked to find Arjun on her bed. She tried to recall one by one what all had happened last night. She had a hangover as she had drunk in excess last night, and was not able to understand what actually happened last night that Arjun was on her bed!

She went to the bathroom to get ready for the interview. While taking shower she tried again to recollect everything, as she was worried whether anything undue had happened on the bed last night. Gradually she remembered everything, and she had also finished her bath till then. She was happy that nothing went wrong and that Arjun was a real gentleman who did not take any undue advantage of her.

Saniya was really impressed with Arjun and was fonder of him, after the incidents last light. He not only took good care of her but also never misused her. This made her love him, a lot more now. She found he was in deep sleep still, and she kissed him on his cheeks.

Saniya decided that she will never let Arjun leave her and that she would get married to him and become his wife. She had started believing he was her hubby only and nothing less; she removed her bathrobe to change into a dress. She knew he was asleep now, but she wouldn't mind even if he woke up in between and saw her like that, without her clothes!