11 Days & 12 Nights

#23

There was complete silence between us since the sudden declaration of Chris of owning me. It was so confusing. We needed to talk but there was this invisible ice-cold wall between us. I wanted to break this silence, I tried a lot to talk but he just switched me off by his one-word retorts.

Finally, it was time to sleep. We pulled up the covers and showed our backs to each other.

"Do you really mean it? "I asked him finally.

"Mean what? " I groaned at this. Now, he was acting innocent. Ugggh!!

" 'she is mine ' thing. What does that mean? " I asked. He wasn't happy with my question, I could sense it.

"I just said that to keep that jerk away from you " on hearing this a part of me died. My subconscious self was smirking at me, 'I told you so...he's not for you. Stay away from him ' she said out loud.

After that, I didn't dare to bring out a word from my mouth. I was hurt and broken as well as some unexplainable level.

I just showed him my back and closed my eyes. But I couldn't bring myself to sleep peacefully. I didn't move, I just laid back with my eyes closed.

Chris was himself twisting and turning on the other side of the bed. He wasn't sleeping either.

"Only if you know how much I meant it," he said softly, thinking that I was asleep. But thanks to God, I wasn't. I heard him clearly. Now it was my to smirk at my subconscious self, who was equally shocked as I was.

I just turned back to face him but with closed eyes so that he doesn't know that I listened to him.

I just hugged him tightly with excitement. I was thrilled by his words and to my surprise, he too wrapped his arms around me like a toffee is wrapped in its wrapper, now that's too much to compare to but still, it's fine, I thought.

And that was when we both slept peacefully in each other's arms.