Enduring Ally

Chapter 42: The Proposal

Next morning, Aditya woke up next to Zoya, who was lying next to him and his one hand was over her waist and the other was under her head. He smiled on the thought, last night after dinner when Zoya was about to take the couch to sleep. He asked her to sleep on the bed next to him and she didn't argue or deny to it. She just nodded and slept next to him.

He just looked at sleeping Zoya. Her face looked peaceful and gorgeous. He kind of clicked a picture with his eyes and stored it his mind to embrace this very moment for his eternity. Zoya stirred in the bed and slowly opened her eyes. She looked at Aditya and smiled at him.

Then she realized that she was in Aditya's room. She sat up straight and looked away out of shyness. Aditya sighed. He sat up and laid his head over her shoulder and said, "Zoya... I'm feeling fine now... Can I go to office today? I have an important client meeting to attend".

Zoya looked at him baffled and said, "What? Aditya I told you that I'll not let you go anywhere till you get better". She checked his temperature on his forehead and then his neck. His fever has come down but still it was high then the normal body temperature.

She then said, "Aditya... Your temperature hasn't come down and you have viral fever. Just take rest till you get better. Now, you get refresh. I'll be back with your breakfast and medicines".

She made him get into the bathroom and while she was about to close the door, he asked, "Are you not joining me? You told me that you'll not leave my side" and winked at her. "Aditya... Please get freshen up and I'll be back with your breakfast", she said and she remembered last evening conversation and smiled at the thought.

She instructed Marcus to ready Aditya's breakfast and went to her room to get freshen up. After getting refreshed she rushed to kitchen and took Aditya's breakfast in a tray and then rushed to Aditya's room.

Aditya was sitting on the couch and when she looked at him, she asked, "Why are you sitting there? You should be resting". Aditya sighed and said, "Come on Zoya... I'm tired of resting from yesterday". Zoya smiled and kept the tray before him. Aditya looked at the breakfast and frowned.

Zoya said, "You have to take it... It will help you to get better..." after a pause she added, "Don't you remember, you prepared the same food for me when I was not well" and grinned at him.

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It's been two weeks and Aditya was feeling better, his fever has come down fully. But, Zoya didn't allow him to go out and she had been giving company to him. They both had spent their day and night watching movies and she almost spent all the nights with Aditya. She slept at Aditya's room in his bed with him.

That day, Zoya asked Aditya to pick a movie to watch in Netflix and he chose to watch The Knight before Christmas. Zoya whined at his choice and said, "Why do you always choose cheesy rom-com?" Aditya said with smile, "So... You're telling me that you don't like all those rom-com I chose before"

"Huh-uh... About that... Well..." Zoya said. "Ahh.. Umm... Yea... Yea... I get it... You liked all the movies that I chose... You'll like this movie too... Come here and sit" he said while tapping on the bed next to him.

She frowned but she sat next to him on the bed with a bowl of popcorn. She gave the popcorn bowl to him and adjusted the duvet and pillow behind her. They were watching the movie and sharing the pop corn. And when the main leads in the movie locked their lips, Zoya and Aditya looked at each other.

Aditya pulled the popcorn bowl from her and distracted her. She tried to get the bowl from him and he held it out of her reach. To get the bowl, she stood up on her knees and tried to get the bowl from him. Then he stood up on his knees and held it high enough out of her reach.