Pranbir: Heart meant to love you

41.

After dinner, they walked out of the restaurant. Ranbir had proposed to walk at the beach for some time and she had agreed.
They were walking side by side and Prachi had taken off her small heels. She was carrying it in one hand while the other was lazily hanging next to her.

As they walked side by side, their hands kept brushing each other's and every time, they would feel the electric current, at every touch.

Ranbir finally ended this torture and held her palms. He entangled their fingers and this made Prachi look at their hands.

She stopped walking and Ranbir looked at her.
Ranbir:"what happened?"
She lifted their hands and pointed to it. He grew confused.
Ranbir, misunderstanding:"I won't hold you if you don't like it..."
He was about to release her but she tightened the grip of their entangled hands.

This confused Ranbir.
Prachi, testing the waters:"you are not uncomfortable with me... why?"
He turned his body around to speak to her. And Prachi looked at him through her long lashes, waiting for his answer.

Ranbir, nervously:"I... I have no clue..."
Prachi, nervously:"can... can I ask you something?"
He nodded yes.

Prachi, cutely:"can I hug you once?"
He looked at her surprised.
Prachi:"just once..."
Seeing his silence and recalling his uncomfortableness, she was going to apologise to even ask it but Ranbir spoke first.
Smilingly:"Come here..."

He just pulled her into his arms. She placed her head on his chest just where his heart was. Ranbir wrapped his hands around her waist, holding her protectively.

And their eyes went closed as they just stood there, hugging each other. They cannot define nor explain the peacefulness they were in just in that moment: they just knew that it was perfect.

Prachi, suddenly, chuckled slightly.
Ranbir:"what happened?"
Prachi, still chuckling:"your heart is beating extremely fast... I can hear it..."
He too chuckled hearing her.

He was curious to know the reason about the hug, so he asked her.
"Is everything good, Prachi?"
She nodded yes, not wanting to say a word as she knew that he would catch her lies.

Thinking about her future and what she wanted to do afterwards saddened her. She had stopped thinking about the future and was just living in the present. But when Ranbir mentioned it, she was scared of its uncertainty.

They returned to their villa an hour later. And had already change into their night clothes.

Prachi watched outside and smiled at the idea that popped in.
He noticed her and looked at her doubtfully.

Ranbir, teasingly:"what's going on in that pretty head of yours?"
Prachi:"i am sleeping outside today... on water..."
She pointed to the net... but he grew worried.

Ranbir:"you know, right? That on the other side, there is the ocean... you could fall there...."
Prachi:"I won't..."
Ranbir:"you don't know how much you twist and turn in your sleep... but I know. You sleep straight but afterwards, you will always end up by my side..."

She grimaced at him as he teased her about her sleeping habits.
Prachi, slightly annoyed:"i am sleeping there only..."
Ranbir:"I won't come to save you if you fall..."
Prachi:"I won't fall..."

She picked up her pillow from the bed and the blanket. She headed outside and stepped on the net carefully. She placed the pillow and blanket and looked at the water.

It wasn't deep but not that Ranbir told her that she might fall, she was apprehensive.
She felt the net dipped as someone else stepped on it. She turned and saw Ranbir with his pillow. He put it next to hers.