Chapter 18: Chapter 18

Sadeeq placed down the cup of the custard on the bedside drawer and took the bag of the medicine from the bed. She looked at him as he took out the pills and handed it to her with a cup of water.

"Here, take the pills and have some rest. We have to be in school tomorrow, I even have to write a test. Save yourself the stress and take it." He warned, for he knew how she could ran to their house when Daada would give her her pills, and Ummu had to beg her before she would take it. He knew she hated medicines.

"But...Sadeeq I'm okay now. Can we leave it till morning? I promise you I'll take them." She made a puppy face and looked at the pills on his palms with a disgusting expression.

He shimmered on the bed until he was sitting opposite her with legs crossed into yoga position. He forcefully opened her palms and put down the pills. "Open your mouth and take these pills unless you want something bad to happen tonight. I'm too tired for your shenanigans, Ihsan." And from his eyes, she knew he was really tired.

She tried not being pugnacious, hesitatingly, Ihsan brought the pills to her lips and gulped them down with water. She handed Sadeeq the cup and broke into soft tears opening her mouth wide agape. "Sadeeq I don't like the taste of them in my mouth, it's making me nauseous. I need something sweet." He knew she's a spoilt brat, but he never expected her to be this clumsy when sick.

He hissed softly and placed his hand on his nape. "Wallahi it's either you keep your stupid mouth shut and sleep or what I'll do next won't be sweet for you. What kind of a spoilt brat are you? These pills are the ones you're used to taking since when you were born. And I don't have anything sweet here." He poked her forehead with his index finger and tried laying her back on the bed so she could sleep peacefully without them getting into a fight.

She wailed and sat upright again. "Sadeeq wallahi they're not! Dadda bought me these yesterday, that the doctor prescribed them. And I won't sleep if this taste isn't off my buds!" She closed her eyes and let her mouth hanged open, hoping the air seeping into her buds would take it off.

He looked at her, how she closed her eyes and crossed her hands over her chest made a soft smile graced his lips. And the slight part of her lips made something ignited in him. She looked adamant, and he knew her so well not to give up.

"Are you sure you won't sleep until the taste is off your buds? Ihsan don't make me angry this night fah." He was slowly leaning into her without her knowing. He didn't know how he seemed hard to control himself when she's with him, but right this instant he had only one thing in his mind. That's her.

"Yes, Sadeeq. And if you forced me to; you'll have your bed and blanket, even you wasted, because I'll surely vomit on them. Get me something sweet and save yourself the stress of today." She replied and clutched her eyes more so she couldn't see his eyes lest he unnerved her heart.

"I'm sure I taste more sweeter than any sweet you'll ever taste." And he took her off guard by merging their lips together. She tried protesting but her words came out as a moan, and she slowly melted in his arms.

He didn't know how it happened, but she was now in his arms, as he kept kissing her. She wrapped her hands around his neck, unable to push him away or even get the gut to kiss him back. She was utterly speechless at how she felt like a liquid under his touch and his lips that were doing magic to her sour taste buds.

Everything vanished from her mouth. All she could feel was him. And he surely tasted like hell. More than anything sweeter she's ever tasted. She wanted more of him, more and more and she could go on for a year without having her greatest obsession-ice cream-as per as she would have these lips on hers everyday. He was magic.

Sadeeq slowly parted their lips and placed his forehead on hers as they gasped for breath. That was when the liquid she had melted to started solidifying, and him; the hard guy he painted himself started recuperating slowly. They all jerked away from each other at the same time.

She opened her eyes and they landed right into his. "What was that? Are you out of your senses? Sadeeq I warned you not to ever do that shit with me again!" She clamored and the next thing Sadeeq felt was a sickly punch in his stomach.

He almost chuckled at how flushed she looked. "You are mad if you think I did that out of joy! Idiot, it was to help you get something sweet for your not so well functioning buds. And I know I helped, it's better you thanked me or..." another punch came in and halted his words.

"That was awful! It was gross! You actually tasted more bad than the pills. I could take more of those pills than this mouth of yours!!!" She kept throwing punches at Sadeeq, and he couldn't do anything to stop her.

He was now laying on his back, his face facing the ceiling while she punched his chest and stomach. "Ihsan, you better..." another punch halted him while trying to get her fragile hands in his hand.

"I'll shut your mouth up again and have these your fragile hands wrapped around my neck the next time you punch me again!" He yelled, and the striking punch she landed on his stomach made him yelped.

He had to show her he's the man here.

Swiftly, Ihsan was on her back facing the ceiling and her mouth locked with Sadeeq's. She had her hands wrapped around his neck to steady herself from melting away. She didn't know how it happened, or the stupid nerve in her that urged her and made her kissed him back, but she knew it happened!

"Move away you idiot! Wallahi one more step towards me I'll call Abbu!" She yelled and pushed him off her trying to sit upright.

"Try calling anyone of them if you're shameless. Apart from being shapeless and gorilla faced-you're shameless. Call him and tell him what? That your husband kissed you to help you get away the taste of your pills on your buds or what?" He emphasized the word 'Husband' so he could annoy her more.

"I'm done with you." She hushed and shimmered to the other end of the bed. She laid down and pulled the blanket up to her face. She knew he was still seated in the middle of the bed, probably staring at her and his stupid brain thinking of the right way to deal with her.

"Incase you're thinking, I'm spending the night here. You can go to my room and sleep; but it's sizzling hot I'm telling you. You can switch off the heater and manage like that. I can't risk my life because of the leisure of some stupid boy. So, No Ac." She was talking so casually as if not aware of the fact that her words would surely beset his nerves.

"How..." and she cut him off again.

"You don't bother making the barriers today, a small boy like you would have some manners of sleeping I know. Goodnight, and wallahi one word I'll file my case to Abbu that you won't even let me sleep in peace."

A loud hiss escaped his lips, and he hopped down the bed and off the heater. The pills were taking a toll on her, and she slowly found herself giving in to unconscious as sleep over took her soul.

Sadeeq looked at her and from how her breath was rhyming, he knew she was surely sleeping. He smirked, and took the remote control from his side of bed and on the Ac, at a low temperature. He wanted to have an evidence he would taunt her with tomorrow morning.

He lifted the duvet until it was closing her face completely before he lay down at the other edge of the bed and covered himself. The AC was right under the side she was sleeping, and he knew in less than an hour she would wake up due to the cold.

It would soon be subh, and Sadeeq heard as Ihsan softly quivered his name. She placed her hand on the bed and felt for him, slowly leaning more into him. "Sadeeq I'm cold," she was shivering really hard, and Sadeeq instantly felt a feeling of guilt.

"You have a duvet with you right? Cover up yourself." He felt for the remote and off the AC before he turned his back at her.

He heard her sniffles, and was awed to the fact that she was crying because she was cold. "Sadeeq I'm feeling the cold in my joints wallahi, please." She didn't wait for him to answer, as she hugged him from behind, shivering vehemently.

He turned around and engulfed her completely with his arms, and she dipped her head onto his chest. "Thank you," she uttered faintly and closed her eyes. And he felt, as her tears dropped onto his chest. Something unfathomable happened to his heart, having her cocooned in his arms.