Vadiyaa Khabar (trans: good news)

Sorry this is late, guys but I have no internet at my house right now and haven't had any since Sunday evening. You can blame the lateness on Qwest because I had to wait till I got to UO to post this. 

~Rory

Everything seemed to disappear once again as Alex’s lips settled on mine for what turned out to be a long, deep soul stirring kiss. The sound of the cars driving by, the sound of the waves washing ashore and music blaring from somewhere, all disappeared and seized to exist for those few minutes.  

When we finally pulled apart, I laid my head on his shoulder and we just sat there in total silence, absorbing everything that had happened and was still happening, since my arrival. I felt Alex’s shifting underneath me and glanced at him. His face was slightly flushed and looked slightly uncomfortable.
“Are you okay” I asked, concerned

“Of course I’m okay. Why wouldn’t I be okay” Alex said

“Well your face is turning more and more red and you look uncomfortable” I said

In response to my question, Alex’s face turned bright red and I asked in awe “are you blushing? I have never seen you blushing before”

If it was possible his face got even redder and he said “I’m fine. Just a little uncomfortable in the position we are sitting in”

“Oh” I said, “why didn’t you just ask me to move”

“Because” he replied, giving me kiss “I don’t ever want you to move away from me

I smiled and started to move off his lap and then froze, realizing exactly why he was suddenly so uncomfortable. I got feel my face getting hotter and realized I was blushing. When I looked at Alex, instead of looking more embarrassed he was sitting there laughing.

“Not funny, Alex” I said, trying to get the blush under control.

“Actually, it’s pretty hilarious, Rory” he said “you look so cute when you are blushing. It makes me want to…”

“Want to what” I asked before I could stop myself, and blushed once again

Alex laughed and said “are you sure you really want to know that?”

I gave up on stopping myself from blushing and playing along said “It seems to me like you are too embarrassed to tell me”

“It makes me want to run away, taking you with me and then having my way you anytime we both want” he said

To say that I was shocked to hear Alex actually say that would have been a huge understatement. Alex knew as well as I did that sex before marriage was almost forbidden in our culture and that while some Indian girls who’ve grown up in the US might be willing to ignore that rule, I wasn’t and would never be one of them.

After his little announcement we lapsed into a somewhat awkward silence. I was trying to think of a way to break it when I heard my phone start ringing. Looking around for it, I realized that I had left it inside and ran to grab it. I didn’t recognize the phone number and contemplated letting it go to voicemail before something told me to pick up.

“Hello?” I said

“Hi Ms. Kaur. This is Amanda Dudley from the Boeing Internship Committee. I’m calling to inform you that you have been picked to be in the internship program for summer 2010”

I looked at Alex, who had come inside right behind me, in shock and tried to say something.

“Hello? Are you still there Ms. Kaur” she asked

“Yes. Yes I’m still here. I’m just shocked at how fast you got back to me. But thank you so much for the opportunity” I said

“We were really impressed with you after the interview and since there was only 1 person left behind you, the committee decided to go ahead and vote and let everyone know today” she said

“Again thank you so much. I am really looking forward to learning a lot this summer” I said.

We finished up the conversation with her letting me know all the things that I would have to get taken care of and who to talk to about them. When I hung up, I felt Alex’s arms come around me and yelped when he swung me around in a circle before turning me to face him.

“I am so proud of you” he said, smiling “I knew you would get that internship. They would have been stupid to not pick you”

I laughed and kissed him before turning to my phone. Before I could deal my parents number he said “Now we get the whole summer together. It’s going to be amazing…”