'Beyond the Horizon': There's more to it...

Chapter - 6

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Sidharth had been contemplating whether to call or not if she would be okay with him calling. What if she is not in a place to talk right now? But her brother himself had asked him to call during the afternoon. What if she had her family around? What if she is not the one to pick up and someone else did? He had a lot of doubts in mind but the urge to just speak to her, to listen to her once was the strongest and so after scrutinizing every area of his doubt, he was here dialing in an ISD call to Karachi. Heartbeat rising with each passing moment, restlessness at par when it went unanswered at first. He tried another time, literally crossing fingers wishing her to pick it up this time and hoping for a decent talk time with her. It was received but with nothing audible he cross checked passing a usual greet if he gets to hear someone or was it a phone line issue and there came the much-awaited voice that he had been dying to hear for so long. With the initial greetings done he asked the most formal question:

"Baat kar skti ho...abhi?" a sigh at the end.

"Haan ji..." She replied little dazed. An awkward silence surrounding all of a sudden.

"Kaisi ho?" He had tried to sound normal, but the slight uneasiness could be heard in his voice. What a start! He huffed inwardly.

"Theek...!" She hushed. She had wanted to ask about his wellbeing as well, but it somehow didn't roll out as if she was tongue-tied.

"Is anyone around?" He double checked.

"Nahi..." She reverted.

"To phr one-word answers kyu de rahi ho?" He asked. A faint smile adorned his manly yet beautiful face.

"Aur kuch bola nahi ja raha..." She quivered. There was a rasp in her voice due to breathlessness it seemed.

Acknowledging the chaotic state of her mind he reached out to soothe her, his way.

"Calm down baby..." The breathy yet gentle tone was back with the awkwardness fading in air. He was much more relaxed still dissolving the fact in his system, that he was finally speaking with her.

Again, the endearment lightening her insides and the phrasal verb taking her back to their very first encounter. Then, she had panicked now too she was but the reasons, way too different. At that time, she was alarmed fearing his judgement now was the anxiety of not being able to manage her own throbbing heart. And the throb was not something painful, it was pleasurable. The exhilaration and thrill she had been experiencing was another new. Talking to him over a telephone when she had lost all her hopes just before him calling one day out of the blue leaving the conversation incomplete. No promise of calling again or anything, yet they were here listening to each other and in no hurry or apprehensions abutting as she was left alone at home for half of the day to do as she pleased.

"I missed you..." She mumbled expressing the emptiness she had felt.

"Oh I did too sweetheart..."He whispered back, loud enough to reach her.

"To phr phone kyu nahi kiya?" She complained, the utter innocence in her voice calming his senses down at the same time evoking the most beautiful sensation compelling to just grab and encage her in a tight bone crushing hug. Alas, it was way beyond his reach.

"Kiya tha baby...you never received...it was anyone but you to pick up the call gradually resulting to no-one responding to it" He tried to defend.

"To bulva lete na" She added.

"Tum aa jaati?" He challenged raising an eyebrow.

"Haan!" She stated lips under the torment of her teeth.