Chapter 42: Chapter 42

"It’s Aaron," Emily said seeing the caller ID and turned to Zada with a naughty grin,

"You remember Aaron?" Emily asked Zada with a cheeky smile.

Zada coloured a bit as she remembered her first crush, Aaron Knight. The boy who used to say she looked like a princess, before she even realised that she is a real life princess.

Liam frowned seeing his Mirrie blushing at the mention of some guy. What the bloody heck?

"Uh yeah!" Zada shrugged sheepishly.

Emily picked up the call with a naughty grin.

"Hey,Ron. What's up darling?" Emily asked and it was Zahir's turn to frown.

Darling? Who the hell is this darling? He wondered uncomfortably.

"Is that Aaron Knight? Zada's kindergarten crush?" Zian asked as he leaned forwards in his chair, waiting for Emily’s response.

Liam's eyes widened as he heard that. Crush? Bloody h*ll!

"Hey. I will give the phone to someone. No, it's a surprise, Ron." They heard Emily talking on the phone, and then turning to Zada she handed over her phone with a grin.

Zada took the phone and missed the three furious glares that came her way.

"Hey Aaron. It's me, Zada. Zada Ahmed. Do you remember me?" Zada asked curiously.

Zahir turned his glare onto Emily, who simply raised her eyebrow in response.

Liam saw his Mirrie laughing at something the other guy said.

"Liam? Everything okay?" Emil asked with a frown, seeing Liam’s face screaming bloody murder.

"Of course. Why did you ask?" Liam asked, turning to look at Emil, the frown still on his face.

"You just crushed that coke can in your hands. The drink spilled over, Liam." Emil said pointing at the coke can in Liam's hand.

"Oh it's just.." before he could come up with an excuse, Zada came back to the table.

"Aaron said he is coming over to our university for the inter college fest next month." Zada told Emily with a happy smile.

"Yeah. He had mentioned that before we shifted here. Man! I miss him so much." Emily said with a glum look on her face and Zahir stabbed the fork on the piece of pudding in his plate.

"What? Are you going to murder the pudding Zahir? If you don't want it, give it to me. I will eat. I like it very much. There is a little caramel on it. I am not a very big fan of caramel. But it's okay. I will have it. Once momma tried to make caramel pudding at home for that stupid Mila. And she overheated it and the caramel turned black. And stupid Mila couldn't eat it. You know how happy I was that day. I still remember Mila crying for that. Oh boy! Does that make me a sadist because I didn't feel sad when Mila cried? But Mila always fights with me. So it is okay right? It doesn't-" Emma started her ranting diffusing the slightly tense atmosphere.

"No Emma. It doesn't make you a sadist. But you should stop fighting with Mila. She is a little girl." Zian tried reasoning with Emma.

"But her antics are not like a little girl's," Emma said with an annoyed huff, not liking that her Zi-Zi is sliding with the stupid Mila.

Zada noticed that Liam was annoyed with her and she understood that he was jealous.

She kept her hand on his thighs and drew an I , a heart and a U, making him grin.

"I think we should leave now," Emily told Emil.

"Yeah, we should." Emil said and stood up from his chair and started walking towards the exit, but then stopped and turned to Emma.

"Emma, baby, come with us. We will walk you to the hostel." Emil said, not wanting to leave her there with the boys without knowing what is going on between her and Zian.

Zian frowned at that.

"She stays with Zada at the hostel. They can go together right?" Zian asked, not liking Emil trying to take Emma from there.

"Ah. We wanted to spend some sibling time with Emma. Any problem with that?" Emil asked, raising an eyebrow at Zian, making Emily frown in confusion.

"Of course no. Will see you tomorrow." Zian said sulkily.

As soon as they left the cafe, Liam turned to Zian with a serious look.

"You broke the bro code Zian." Liam said keeping up the serious face.

Zada tried to pinch him on the thighs, but he expected that and held on to her hand tightly.

"What bro code?" Zian asked with a frown.

"Emil is your friend. A friend for fifteen long years. And you fell in love with his sister. That breaks the bro code right?" Liam asked seriously.

Zian frowned.

"I didn't know she was his sister when I fell in love." Zian defended himself.

"Yes. That makes the bro code null." Zahir supported his brother with a casual shrug of his shoulders.

"Oh. So you are saying that it is okay to break a bro code if you were not aware that you were breaking a bro code?" Liam asked curiously.

"Of course. Zi is not at fault there, right? If he had known before, he would have stayed away. But that is not the case here." Zahir said.

"Oh. That's cool. I quite like how broad minded you are about it." Liam said with a cheeky smile.

"We are always fair," Zahir said with an attitude.

"Well, in that case-" Liam was about to tell his bestfriends that he had also broken the bro code without realising that he was breaking the bro code, but Zada didn't let him.

"Leave all that. Zahir, you tell me when was that you declared Emily is yours? Huh? How could you hide it from us?" Zada asked, turning all the focus onto her elder sibling.

"I said no such thing." Zahir lied without any remorse.

"Liar. Tell me, tell me. And you kissed her? How? When?" Zada asked excitedly.

"Uh. He didn't kiss her. He tried to kiss her, but she punched him before that." Liam pointed out helpfully.

"Like hell. She punched me only after I kissed her." Zahir said without thinking and then closed his eyes in disbelief.

"Damn!" He hissed

Zian, Zada and Liam grinned at him.

"Aww. You kissed her. So you claimed her as yours too?" Zada cooed at her brother, making him more annoyed.

"I was just five. I didn't know what I was doing." Zahir defended himself hotly.

"If you do it once, then we can say you didn't know what you were doing. But you kissed her twice." Zada pointed out.

"When was the second time?" Liam asked with obvious interest.

"During the Cinderella play," Zada said and Zahir turned slightly pink as he remembered that day.

"Aww. Look who is blushing." Zian cooed teasingly.

"Oh just get lost, all of you." Zahir said and walked away from their teasing.