Zaroorat

Chapter 12 & A/N

Hey all!

A/N

It was very kindly pointed out to me recently that there are some people reading this story who don't know Hindi and that I should include translations. I'm sorry for being insensitive to that before this and while I cannot promise that I will have a lot of time to go back and put in translations to the older chapters, I will definitely put them in going forward.

If there is anyone else with comments and/or suggestions, do let me know! I will do my best to incorporate them!

Much love

Meera

As Aditya put the noodles onto 2 plates and walked over to Zoya, he noticed his last few colleagues wave at him and leave the terrace.

He approached her and sat down across her as she rested her chin on her hand and her elbow on the table, ogling him.

'Here you go Zoya! Let's eat.'

She looked at the plates disapprovingly and shook her head.

'Why are there 2 plates Aditya?'

Aditya braced himself for some more comedy.

'Because there's 2 of us Zoya.'

'So what?!' She lifted her hands into the air exasperatedly.

'I won't eat from a different plate to you. We have to eat from the same plate.'

She reached over and dumped the noodles from her plate onto Aditya's so there was a large pile of noodles just on one.

'Much better!' She clapped her hands to show her excitement and Aditya laughed some more.

'Ok Ghalib, your wish is my command. Come here and I'll feed you.'

He pulled her chair closer to his, picked up a fork and took some noodles and brought them to her mouth. She opened wide, like a child about to have their favourite treat, and began munching. She then took the fork, put some noodles on it and fed him too.

They ate as Zoya chatted away and Aditya watched her in awe.

'Yummy Aditya, these are so good! I still think you would be yummier but I'll accept these for now'

'Zoya I can't believe you're speaking like this! When you wake up tomorrow you'll realise and you'll be so embarrassed.'

She got up off her chair and spun around,

'Why embarrassed Aditya, I feel so freeeeeee! I've never felt like this before!

Aditya got up off his chair and stood by her with his arms out. Just as Zoya lost her balance, he caught her.

'Zoya please be careful!'

She hugged him tight and rest her head on his chest,

'I don't need to be careful when you're here right? You're always here to take care of me na Aditya?'

He rubbed her back in response. 'I am Zoya. I'll always be there to take care of you.'

She lifted her face to look at him, and shouted,

'Ice cream time!'

She came out of the hug and ran towards the ice cream tubs.

There were lots of cones in a box so she took out 3. She filled 2 with her favourite mango flavour and one with his favourite tutti frutti flavour and ran back to him.