Choma (Trans: Kiss)

With my luck going the way it was lately, that peace lasted only a few more minutes. Aryan and I were still cuddling on the couch when my phone vibrated. I debated ignoring it but something made me take it out of my pocket and look at it. I froze when I saw that it was a text message from Kevin. Aryan must have felt me tense because he said “what’s wrong”

Suddenly feeling really uncomfortable, I pulled myself away from Aryan and moved so that I was leaning against the other arm of the couch, facing Aryan. I opened the text message and it said “Have you had enough time to think yet?”

I stared at the phone for what seemed like forever but was in reality only a couple minutes and realized that I was pissed. Kevin was still pretending that he hadn’t done anything wrong and I was getting sick and tired of his games. I debated pretending that I had never gotten this text or texting him back and yelling at him. In the end I realized that I needed to talk to Kevin face to face and I texted Kevin to tell him to meet me at Rally’s.

After sending the message, I looked up to see Aryan still sitting there patiently waiting for me to remember that he was still there.

I didn’t know what to say to him and felt really awkward for a moment before I saw Aryan smile and realized that he wasn’t mad or suspicious. “I’m sorry, Aryan”

“Sorry for what?” he asked, his smile dimming a little

“I have to go now” I said as I stood up and started looking around for my shoes and purse.

Still sitting on the couch, Aryan asked “Where are you going? I’ll drop you off”

“NO!” I realized that I’d said that louder then I’d intended and said softly “you don’t have to do that”

Aryan smiled and said “Yeah I do. We drove here together remember”

“Oh yeah” I said. Then a moment later I said “Damn. Where is my other shoe? I can only find one”

Aryan laughed and reached behind him and pulled out my other shoe

Confused I asked “where was that?”

“It was on the seat that I’m sitting on” Aryan said. “Let me tell you. That shoe’s isn’t very comfortable to sit on”

I looked at him and burst out laughing and we both got up and headed downstairs and out the door.

Rally’s was a 20 minute drive from Aryan’s house and Aryan and I spent that time talking. Contrary to what I had expected, there was no awkwardness between us. It was like that kiss was something that was meant to happen and it just felt…right.

When we got to Rally’s Aryan, ever the gentlemen, parked and came around to my side of the car and opened the door for me. I smiled my thank you to him and glanced around the parking lot to see if I could find Kevin’s car and couldn’t see it.

When I started to move forward, I realized that Aryan had trapped me in between the open car door and his body, and ran into him before I could stop. When I put my arms around him to steady myself, I realized how built Aryan was and at that thought, I could feel my face start to redden. Unfortunately I was one of those rare Indian people who can blush and it wasn’t a good trait to have.

Aryan just smiled and looked at me before starting to lead down. I realized that he was going to kiss me again and was going to avoid it at first before I reminded myself that I was going nothing wrong.

Once again, when I felt Aryan’s lips on mine, I felt totally at peace and like there was WW3 going on in my stomach at the same time. I closed my eyes and just enjoyed the kiss, as Aryan slowly depend it. When we finally pulled apart, I was smiling as I opened my eyes and then I froze. The smile froze on my face, as I saw Kevin standing right behind Aryan, frozen to the spot…