"You look so flushed. Are you fine?"

"I am ok Mike", Akira said and tapped on her cheeks to remove all that blushing redness away.

Still leaning on to the wall, as he saw the brother and sister duo walking away, he felt all warm inside his heart. He instantly started missing his sister Katherine, who was his pillar of support while growing up.

Taking a deep breath, he cursed himself for being a brother who could bring nothing but tears into the eyes of her sister. She was to open her dream, her derma hospital next Monday and on such a special day of her life, even though he wanted, he couldn't go and be next to her. And all of this was because of his father Sebastian Walker.

Thinking about all that, he started his car and sped back home.

Akira knew that it would take him some good thirty minutes to reach his place, so even after reaching home, neither she tried to call him nor text. Instead, she waited for him to call as she was too busy recollecting what all had happened today evening. Every time she thought about the way he had touched her, she got goosebumps all over.

Lying on her bed in all smiles, she held her phone in her hand, because she knew that he would be calling her the moment he reached home.

RING 1

RING 2

She looked at her phone and smiled and picked it up on the third ring.

"Hi"

"Hi"

"You, are all good?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"Um ... nothing. You were about to trip in the middle of the session. So just wanted to know if you got any sprain in your leg or anything."

"I think I danced with you again after that. How could I have danced, if I had a sprain in my leg?", Akira asked, almost suppressing her laugh. She was loving his cute and directionless questions which were an outcome of nothing but pure jealousy.

"Oh, yeah. I somehow forgot about it."

"Really? You forgot the demo dance that we did towards the end?"

"Yeah, I mean it was pretty basic."

Her eyebrows were raised up in anger after hearing what he said.

"Pretty basic, my ass. Here I am dying after the dance and it is pretty basic for this man", she muttered under her breath. But didn't say anything to him.

There was a pin drop silence in between them as neither of them was ready to accept how miserable they were without each other.

Finally breaking the monotonicity, he asked,

"Erm... that skirt of yours. Was it new? I mean did u purchase it recently?"

"Not new, had it earlier, just that never had the right time and right place to wear it. So I thought why not today", saying that she started playing with the hemline of her skirt.

"Why? Why do you ask? Did you not like it?"

"No, I like it, it's nice, just that I want you to wear it when you are with me and only me. I don't want others to see you in that skirt."

"Why? Even though it was short, I was wearing tights right. So should be ok right?"

"You have no idea how the brain of a man works. So trust me, when I say don't wear, then just don't wear."

His voice was all raised in pitch and he sounded all serious.

Taking a deep breath Akira asked,

"What's wrong Raymond?"

The moment she asked this question, Raymond realized how harsh he had been on her. He pinched the space between her brows and said,

"It kills me when someone looks at you in a weird way. On this entire universe, only I have the right to look at you with desire filled in my eyes. Only I have the right to touch you and feel you. God, how stupid was I to even think that I could be happy by staying away from you? How could I have seen you with someone else when I can't even bear to see anyone looking at you."

His words were nothing but the blatant proclamation of his love.

As she heard him say those words, she just blossomed, knowing that someone could love her so much.

"Then don't. Just don't hesitate the next time."

"What do you mean Akira?"

"I mean the next time you feel like touching me then come and run your fingers on me, the next time you feel like kissing me, then come and take my lips in yours because that's all that I can think about right now."

"Akira !!!", he sighed.

"I was born to be loved by you, Raymond."

"Akira !!", Raymond sighed again as her words were enticing him.

"Tomorrow..."

"Tomorrow what Akira?"

"Make sure you touch my lips with yours tomorrow."