I was pacing back and forth biting my lower lip tensed. It’s morning eight still Anna didn’t arrive. Last night after pub Roman and Anna went out saying they would arrive soon. I opposed their idea but was cut off by Harry’s sentence “Don’t act like her mom.”
Harry and I covered up a lie that Roman and Anna went to Jessie’s house and as I was not feeling good so Harry and I reached the house. I thought they would reach some time in the night yet they didn’t. I took out my cell phone to call her. It’s my twentieth time I was trying to her. I didn’t sleep last night thinking about them whereas Harry, being an irresponsible citizen, slept without any worries. I even went to his room to wake him up but he said “Roman texted they would come in the morning. They are not kids. They will come soon.”
Luckily Harry’s parents didn’t ask about them. They both went to a hospital along with granny. While I was loaded with many thoughts Anna entered in slowly. She sat on the bed and looked so tired.
“Where the hell have you been?” I’ve been trying to contact you but you didn’t lift my calls. What the fuck, Anna!” I shouted.
She didn’t reply anything to my questions. She even ignored my shouts. It felt she went deaf.
“I’m bloody asking you, Anna.” I sat beside her shouting.
She was blushing and her lips were blooming with smile. But I noticed her limbs were trembling for some unknown reason.
“What happened to you? I didn’t compliment you so that you can blush. I’m shouting the top of my lungs.”
“Stella!” She looked at me with a worried expression.
“What happened? You are acting strange.”
She held my hand saying “Something happened last night.”
I felt so worried hearing her. I held back her hand asking “What happened?”
“Roman and I… we did it.” She said biting her lip.
I narrowed my eyebrows with her vague answer. “What do you mean by that?”
She let out a sigh telling “Come on Stella! I had my first time with him.”
“Oh please don’t tell me you had sex with him.”
“That’s the thing we exactly did.”
Her sentence made me feel chill. I gasped as soon as I heard her. The first thing that came out of my head after listening to it was Anna’s mom.
“Wow! You planned my murder with your mom.” I said falling on the bed.
“How will my mom know it?” Anna rolled her eyes.
I sat straight gritting my teeth. I hit her arm shouting “How could you do that? I shouldn’t have sent you with him. I never thought you would do… wait! Did he force you?”
Asking that I stood from the bed. I continued yelling “If it’s the case I’m gonna chop Roman into pieces and kill Harry for sending you with him.”
Anna held my hand dragging me to sit beside her. She said “No. He didn’t force me. It just happened.”
“Wh… what are you saying? How could you give yourself to him?”
She completely turned her side to me holding my hand. “Because I love him. I can’t express how much I love him, so I completely gave myself to him. My body, my soul… everything.”
I removed her hand saying “You are crazy.”
“Stella! I did it with the one whom I love the most. When a girl can’t tell how much she love him then it’s the only way to show him to what extent she want him. If it’s the least thing I could do, I would happily do it for him.”
I became silent with her not so clapping speech. Though I knew what she did was not a wrong thing but I couldn’t easily convince myself. Finally I gave up with my narrow minded thinking and I smiled looking at her.
“I wish you will lead a happy life with him.”
She hugged me resting her chin on my shoulder. I could see she was so happy. Her face was glowing more. I hugged her back, she then whispered in a low voice “Last night was amazing. I want to do it again.”
I pushed her hitting her with a pillow. She kept laughing looking at my actions. In between her laughs she said “You are still a kid. When will you grow up?”
“Oh yeah! You are right. As I’m a kid you shouldn’t scold me even if you know that I ate all your candies.” I said licking my lips remembering how I ate last night while waiting for her.
“What?” she shouted and started hitting me. We both kept quarrelling till we got tired.
We spent the day at home talking, laughing and dancing. After few hours Harry’s parents and granny returned. We didn’t go out but spent our time with granny. She kept telling us about her youth, her husband and all other things. I helped Aunt Charlotte in cooking for which I got all the sarcastic comments and satires from every stupid around me.
We sat playing carroms where Anna and I were a team and the two rogues were another. It was a bet game, the losers should do whatever the winners command. Anna had been a good carroms player. She even won few prizes for it and I was so confident that we would win till I saw Harry’s play.
Damn! He was playing so good than Anna. It was like they both were battling whereas Roman and I were completely dependent on our teammates. I told Anna to distract Roman from his concentration while playing. Don’t say it’s not fair. Everything is fair in love and war. And yes the game was a war. We all kept exchanging challenging looks to one another.
When Roman was so close to hit the coin, Anna started trailing her foot on his leg below the table. Roman’s hands shivered and he missed an easy target. Even we did all the distractions, all the cheating we didn’t win. It became an one man show. Harry’s show.
Harry and Roman jumped from their seats when they won giving bro hug to eachother. I looked at Anna gleaming anger through my eyes when I remember how confidently she said we would win the game.
“You shouldn’t have made a bet with me.” Harry made a proud face.
“Who will expect losing while having a carroms player in the same team?” I rolled my eyes.
“In that case you should’ve known there’s a carroms player in opponents team too. A player who represented the state in his high school days and won many awards.”
“What?” Anna and I shouted in unison.
He smirked making a proud face. I asked “How come I not know about this? Awards?” I put my palm on my forehead letting out a sigh. “It’s cheating. You should’ve told me before.”
“Whatever! As we won, you both should do whatever we say. It’s the game rule.”
“As if we follow.” I smirked.
Harry held my waist pulling me to him. He brought his lips closer to my cheek that made a tingling sensation within me. He said “You should. Or you won’t get back your watch that you bought for your dad.”
“What?” I was confused.
“I expected you wouldn’t follow the rules so I hide the thing that you want to see around your dad’s wrist.”
“You can’t take the game seriously.”
“I can.” He smirked.
I pushed him back standing straight. I saw Anna who was already gazing at me. I raised my eyebrows looking at Anna asking what to do. She sighed to accept them and I nodded my head.
“Fine! What do we have to do?”
“Well, Anna should listen to whatever Roman has to say and you…” He paused for a moment and I raised my eyebrow.
“Me?”
Harry turned to Roman asking “What do you want Anna to do?”
Roman looked at Anna and she was smiling at him.
Roman said “I want Anna to come with me to my room.” He smirked.
Anna started blushing hearing him and she started to walk with him. I stood between them saying “Aunt and granny are here. You can’t just ask her to go to your room.”
Harry dragged me away holding my arm. “Mom and granny went for evening walk.”
I nodded my head as no looking at Anna but she ignored me. Seriously? She walked with him to his room and I kept looking at them with my mouth dropped wide open.
Harry snapped his fingers in front of my eyes that made me shut my mouth. He said “Now it’s our turn.”
“What should I do?” I raised my eyebrow.
He stepped towards me whilst I took a step back. When he was about to come so close I put my palm on his chest creating distance. “Now tell me.”
He removed my hand from his chest and dragged me to him grabbing my waist. He tucked the strand of my hair behind my ear. He whispered into my ear “You have to do all the things that I say from now.”
I pushed him back with all of my strength.
“No way.” I shouted.
He crossed his arms smirking at me resembling pure arrogance in his form. I let out a sigh asking “How many days?”
“Don’t worry. It won’t last more. Just two days or till we reach the town.” He smirked.
“What? You are so cruel.”
“I know that.”
I scoffed hearing him and said “Fine. But you shouldn’t tell me to do inappropriate things.”
He nodded his head as approval and strolled away. I sat on the chair putting my face between my palms mumbling “What will happen next?”