Desde sempre e para sempre Chapter 4

Desde sempre e para sempre

Chapter 4 

He was the mother of all bird turds!

As soon as the compartment panel shut, Gael covered his face with his hands and then ran his hands through his hair.

What was that?

Gael: “Bird turd!”

And then he burst out laughing. Great, he was losing it too.

Oh but what a kiss it was! He closed his eyes and growled to get his body to calm down. The blood had rushed to places it shouldn’t have. At least, not with just one kiss…but then it got him thinking…was this after or before…was this when she had grabbed his collar? He had found that undeniably sexy…

Gael Breno Bourgeois! You are from Rio! For a man who spends his day on beaches where the dress code is nothing but sunshine, he was behaving like it was his first kiss! He was not starving when it came to…and yet this girl, this Indian girl…

Gael: “Ai, meu Deus do ceu!!!! Ela é indiana! She is Indian!”

He was probably going to have to marry her. This must have been her first kiss! Oh my God!

He was a bird turd but he was not a coward!

He pressed the button to open the panel and to…he had no idea to do what…

Meanwhile, it took her a few seconds to figure out what had happened and she did not like the outcome of her rationalizing.

So, yes, she had been dying and then SHE had crawled over to beg for his comfort. He had helped her to put on her seat belt and then SHE had grabbed his hand!

Naina: “I grabbed his hand not his face! I didn’t pull him towards me for a kiss…did I?”

She gasped when she realized that she had shamelessly welcomed his kiss and wrapped her arms around him.

Naina: “Why don’t you just pull him by his tie and take him to the nearest restroom!”

The thought itself made her blush to the core.

Naina: “WHAT THE HELL?! Knock on that panel and unleash your fury!”

She nodded having resolved that she was not going to let it slide and SHE was NOT going to think about the kiss! Just thinking about it gave birth to a restless flurry down in her belly…

You don’t even know his full name!

She turned around to face his booth and with all the anger, more for her irrational behavior than for what he had done, she hit the panel. She was fuming and closed her eyes before her fist made contact with…

Gael didn’t even flinch. This was not the first punch someone had thrown at him. But she did pack a solid punch. He deserved that one and he was sure he was going to bruise…

Again, it took her a few seconds to realize that she had not hit the panel. She refused to open her eyes but wailed when realization struck her.

Naina: “Ohhhh noooo!! I…I…did I hurt you?!”

She opened her eyes and pulled her hand away from him which was still fisted. But then she looked at her fist and realized why she had knocked in the first place! A frown took over her face in a matter of seconds and she tried to punch him again…

Gael caught her fist in his hand swiftly: “Oh no, you don’t. That one only when I kiss you again.”

Naina pulled her hand out of his and glared at him. She looked around and whispered very loudly.

Naina: “HOW DARE YOU! You can’t just fight with me and then kiss me!”

Gael: “So I can kiss you if I don’t fight with you?”

Naina: “Yes…NO! STOP IT! LET ME TALK! What you did was…”

Gael: “Was it your first kiss?”

Naina’s eyes grew so big and so brown; he was thirsty all over again.

Naina: “No it wasn’t! I have had better!”

She saw a flash of something in his eyes again. The first time she had seen it was when she had looked into his eyes just before she wrapped her arms around him. That light in his eyes had forced her to abandon everything. She had felt like she was going to die but when he had kissed her, the passion she saw in his eyes had filled life back into her very being. It was like someone had turned on the lights and his eyes…his eyes had turned silver. No longer felt like cement and ash but a sparkle of the purest white gold. Now she had seen it in his eyes again but only for a flash of a second.

Gael: “That felt like it was your first kiss.”

It had been her first kiss but he didn’t have to know that.

Naina: “That’s not the point! The point is that HOW DARE YOU KISS ME?! I don't even know your full name!”

Gael: “And I don't know yours. Look, you came over to my seat. YOU were having a panic attack and I did what I could think of to calm you down.”

Naina: “Is that all you could think of?!”

Gael: “I was not going to hold your hands and sing a song for you.”

This was officially the most he had spoken to anyone in over a month!

Naina: “Shah Rukh Khan would have done that!”

Gael: “And that is precisely why this was your first kiss.”

Naina: “You know who Shah Rukh Khan is?!”

Gael: “Look, I just want to tell you that it was just a kiss and you are not going to get pregnant; so there is no need for you to get so hormonal about it! There is no need for me to marry you. I mean, I am not going to marry you. Just forget it happened. Okay?”

This time it took her a whole minute to wrap her mind around this one. But when she did, she grabbed a bottle of water in front of her and poured it all over his head.

Naina: “I bet this reaction was not amongst the other stereotypes that you have about Indian women in your head!”

Gael was having a hard time believing what had just happened. But he was having an even harder time believing that he actually realized he deserved that one…too.

Naina swiftly got up as soon as the seat belt sign was off and was about to turn around and leave when…

Gael: “Sorry.”

Naina: “For what?”

Gael: “I am not going to apologize for the kiss. I saved your life.”

Naina whirled around: “You saved my life?! What if I was really having a heart attack? Was your kiss a kiss of life? Was it going to pump my heart back on?!”

Well, it had pumped much more than the two beating hearts…

Gael: “You were not having a heart attack.”

Naina: “And you know a lot about heart attacks?”

He did. Once when he had held a gun against…Gael grabbed a bunch of napkins and started wiping his face when the plane lurched due to turbulence and Naina crashed into her seat again. The seat belt sign was back on but Naina grabbed his hands again, panic written all over her face.

Gael: “Is this where I start singing 'Humpty Dumpty' or are you having a heart attack this time?”

Her life was too important for her to say anything back at him. She just closed her eyes and concentrated on breathing and squeezing his hands with all her might. That kiss was very welcome now. Why had she made such a fuss? It was only a kiss!

Gael leaned in closer: “Imagine that everyone is naked around you.”

Naina swiftly opened her eyes and looked around.

Damn, Gael had not thought that one through. His Aaji was in a booth of her own and not visible and since there was no one in the First Class apart from him…

Both of them looked at each other and burst out laughing.

Naina: “I am pretty sure this is considered to be sexual harassment.”

Gael: “Not if the view is anything but harassment…”

He had wiped his face and hair by now. There was a click as a panel slid open and Aaji came into view.

Aaji: “Quite a bumpy start….Naina? Oh good! You two made up!”

Naina stood up: “I am going for a walk.”

Gael: “Three rows down and there is an exit to your left AND your right. Tell me if the weather is any good out there.”

Naina: “Was that a joke?”

Naina walked away. She wanted to stretch her legs and see people, other people, to get him and the indecent images of him out of her mind!

As soon as Naina left the First Class,

Aaji: “Was that a joke?”

Gael: “Of course…I mean she can hardly walk out…Aaji, I know what you are thinking and stop it.”

Aaji: “I can’t even remember the last time you have…”

Gael: “I make fun of Leo all the time.”

Aaji: “BRENO! I can’t remember the last time you were sooo…”

Gael: “Let it be, please.”

Aaji: "BRENO! why do you have a bruise under your eye?!"
Gael: "I don't know. I was drinking water and..."
Aaji: "You forgot how to drink water from the bottle?"

She had noticed that his shirt was wet.

Gael: "The turbulence..."