This is chapter five of How I fell in love. Please read the earlier chapters before reading this.
I am also aware that this one has lot of loop holes that I intend to fix in the next chapter.
All feedback and suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you for reading!
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I rubbed my eyes lazily as I walked out of the bedroom in need of water to quench my parched throat.
It was Sunday. Lazy Sunday!
As I came to the living room, I saw Aiden was not on the couch. I looked around. He had definitely not fallen on the floor. I looked in the kitchen.
My heart started beating a little louder. Panic rose, my thirst forgotten. I knocked on Mrs. D's door. When after 5 seconds she didn't answer, I turned the knob and it opened with no resistance.
The room was empty. And my mind couldn't keep up with the million questions. Was this all a dream? Was I not in a relationship with my best friend? Was my best friend just a sweet, regular guy and not a sadist? Was my mind playing a big trick, pulling a real number on me?
In my state of sub consciousness, the sound of the latch being undone cut through the idle air. I got my mind back. A sweaty, musky Aiden in nothing more than a over washed tank top and a pair of shorts looked at me, breathing with effort.
"Good Morning." He said in a rush.
"Where were you?" I asked, my tone reflecting my fears and then some.
"I was sleepless. I went for a jog. What's wrong?"
He dropped the keys on the bowl besides the small shelf and sauntered towards me. Was he seducing me?
"What's wrong?" he asked, cupping my face in his hands, forcing me to convey through my eyes everything I was feeling.
I didn't like being exposed like this. He was the cause of my anxiousness! And for some reason I didn't want him to know that. My fear was of losing him... he mustn't know this...
"I just woke up to am empty house. So, I just got scared." I forced a grin.
"Ok. Well, Mom had to work. Hospitals don't rest on Sundays. So its just you and I."
He smiled sweetly and then started stripping.
"And you are joining me in the shower."
His smug smile was charming but my mind raced. I fought my thoughts and almost lost them as Aiden's chest was revealed, glistening with sweat. Next was his shorts, which took nothing more than a tug to fall down. He was wearing nothing underneath. Here he was stark naked and me still in my clothes.
He stood unashamed of his body in front of me. Of course, he had no reason not to be comfortable. My best friend naked... shy guy wasn't he?
"Do you need me to undress you?"
His voice was heavy now, and I pried my eyes away from his cock, which I hadn't realised I had been staring at.
"No. You can use the shower first. I can make us some coffee and sandwich in the meanwhile."
The sentence was meant to be assertive. In a dominating tone. A tone of reason. But to my ears, it sounded a weak, very weak negotiation. A losing argument. And if I felt that, there was no reason he wouldn't feel it too.
"Really?" his sarcastic question was loaded with the dominance my assertion had lacked. And with a short lived look of primal want in his face, I started taking off my clothes.
We were naked in his living room where I had memories of little games we played when we were kids. Oh god! Who would have thought that so many years later, same spot, there would be a completely new game.
"Sore?" he asked as he ran a finger along the length of my arm. My mind raced as I nodded my head in a 'no.'
"Looks like I have to work harder then."
He winked!
Holy shit! Aiden had never winked in his entire life! What the fuck! Was everything he did felt sexy or was it just me?
He came close and in anticipation of a kiss, I closed my eyes.
Instead he whispered, "Go to the bathroom. Start the shower. I will join you in a moment."
Thankful that he had told me to move, I willed myself to not stand still anymore and learned to walk again as I walked naked through the house and did as he asked.
After a minute under the shower alone, I had regained myself fully. I had so many questions and I wanted to talk to Aiden so badly about everything. I also needed time to adjust to the fact that I feared losing Aiden. And yet somehow-
Aiden dropped our clothes in the basket next to the shower. Joining me, unabashedly, he grabbed me by the waist. His grin which seemed to be growing, was getting to me as he asked.
"How are you?"
The tryst of last night, of a shirtless Aiden undressing me, blindfolding me, gagging me, forcing me not to come, came to my mind. I clenched. I also gasped.
"Is there anything you didn't like?" he asked reading me like a open novel. My face, eyes were no more under my control I guessed.
"Gag!" I said almost breathless, almost fearing that he would gag me right then.
He chuckled.
"I think you loved the gag!" he whispered.
Oh! Did I? Oh no! I did. Somehow the gag had me scared and aroused.
"Why were you scared this morning?"
He asked on a little serious note.
"I was just- Um - it was. I just woke up, I don't know I got scared."
"Hmm." He left me to grab the soap from the nearby shelf.
He started soaping his hands and then gently soaped my shoulder. Almost massaging it.
"Amy, what is it that you are not telling me?" he asked as he ventured lower massaging and kneading my breasts as he went lower.
I moaned. Did I want Aiden to know that I had a fear? An insecurity.
"I- I - I have a question." I got it out somehow.
"Yes." He asked.
"Why did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Deny me, last night"
"Well, its a dominance thing. I control you. And one of the ways of controlling you is to control your orgasms."
He looked at me as he massaged my belly.
"Amy, last night what I did, - its- well , normally orgasm denial plays don't last a night. They go for days, weeks, even months!"
The horror on my face was unmatched. Feeling what I felt last night - I could barely handle it for few hours, how could anyone handle it for days!
"Stop looking so terrified." He said hardly containing his amusement at my horror.
"So, why did you let me come?" I asked, very serious and curious to know.
"Because I love you." He said. His smile now faded. He was not touching me anymore. There was atleast a good 1 foot distance between us.
"Do you love me because of what we..." I couldn't daresay BDSM acts.
"No." He was now furious. The look on his face was one of disgust. He was angry. I thought he would beat me or something or yell at me. Within a millisecond, he took a deep breath and then said.
"You know what, why don't you finish up in here and I will take a shower later."
He calmness shook me more. Had he said the same sentence in an angry, high toned voice, I would have grabbed his arm and stopped him. Made him talk to me and calm him down for real. This fake calmness, the tone of control when obviously he had lost his momentum, had me at a total loss. He took his towel, and walked out of the bathroom.
In all my life I had known Aiden there had only been a handful of times Aiden had got beyond furious. All of those times, it was about his dad leaving him. I had hardly confronted him once on that topic and that set his blood boiling. In an attempt to calm down, he had spent the entire day in our workshop, hopelessly fixing broken machines.
And now for the first time, the topic of our relation had sent him into this state. I replayed the conversation in my mind as drops of water washed me anew. Of course, he had expected I would say the three words back! But I didn't want to say it if I didn't mean it. He knew I wouldn't say it. Then why, why did he get so angry!
Finishing my shower, I dressed in a baggy tee shirt and a pair of shorts that came to my knees. I combed my hair and while doing so I saw Aiden going for a bath. He didn't look at me. Before I opened my mouth to say anything, he had disappeared.
I took a breath, fixed my hair and went straight to the kitchen. Aiden had not slept, gone for a jog, had a shitty morning with me, a proper breakfast would definitely help.
When I saw that Aiden had already prepared coffee, pancakes and sandwiches, my heart melted. Aiden!
Fifteen minutes later, we were having the most silent meal of our lives. Aiden was the guy who was normally quiet. But so far his quietness had never made me uncomfortable. This was the first time I was sitting in front of him with a constant tingle in my neck begging to make everything alright.
I looked at him. He was wearing a black tee shirt which had a V neck exposing a little of his skin, and below were the cargo pants I had gifted him once. He sat, completely focussed on his plate. He ate bite after bite, without ever looking up. He wasn't slouching, but definitely sulking a little.
Unable to take the silence anymore I started talking, "Aiden. Stop this!"
My tone was slow, measured but a command no less. He stopped eating and I swallowed.
Slowly, he looked at me. My breathing went up as he continued to stare at me. His eyes were now dark. He was angry and not at all pleased.
With the same exquisite slowness he started eating again, looking down.
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After having a breakfast I could never forget, I sat in the living room with my books, while he sat in his room with his books.
We studied for atleast four hours. I revelled. Thankful to God that there was something that gave me an escape from reality. Like I could concentrate on something and get engrossed in it, that I could leave behind everything else.
My concentration on solving a particular problem was broken when Aiden approached me. He had a book on his hand and a pencil in another and he sat cross legged next to me.