chapter twenty seven

as soon as the door shut Nick opened his eyes that was closed and stood up and walked towards the kitchen, opened it and he saw Joan drinking water from the fridge

Joan who saw him was a little confused and asked

" what are you doing here"

but he just stared at her.

Joan put the bottle back and closed the fridge, she was anxious, she didn't like the way he looked at her

"stop staring at me, I might get the wrong idea" she thought to herself when she closed the fridge, to distract herself she asked

"do you also want water" she asked again.

but he just stared at her and then shook his head

just then he asked

"were you serious yesterday,"

"about what?" she asked

"about you dating, about you getting yourself a boyfriend'' he said

the way he looked at her, was like he was analyzing her, his stares burned through her soul, she became fearful of the reaction after her response

"ye.....s" she said but it came as a whisper

"I couldn't hear you" he said

she didn't know why she was scared

" yes!" he heard her say

since yesterday he had been thinking about what she said and no matter how hard he tried to accept it and make up his mind to welcome such in Joan's life, he couldn't

when they were watching the movie, he kept on thinking and the truth was once she gets a boyfriend he would fail to exist, and it might not be Joan's doing but the guy will definitely

keep her away from him,

if him being a friend to her is not willing to let her go then he was dead sure the one who holds the boyfriend title won't let her go, that's how important she can be.

"no you can't" he said

"what!" Joan asked

he took steps forward and Joan stepped back, he looked into her eyes and then stared at her from down to her face, he looked at her eyes again and then his gaze rested on Joan's lips.