Chapter: 43

                                    

                                          
Reyhan was sitting by the window, staring at the stars filled sky. She was smiling, after like an ages, she was genuinely smiling. Her smile was reaching to her eyes too. It was hard to distinguish, at that time, what was more shiny? The stars or her eyes?


                          
She remembered the incident that happened an hour ago in the hospital. 



                          
Flashback...


                          
Reyhan opened her eyes when she felt someone's presence near her. She felt like someone had held her hand, securily. As if assuring her that everything will be fine. Slowly, she gained conscious and was shocked to see Emir there. 


                          
Emir had his eyes closed at that time while he was holding her palms protectively in his. A beautiful smile adored her face as she always dreamt to see him first after waking up. She stared at his manly face till her heart content. She felt like she is in her dreamland at that point of time. 


                          
Her trance was broken when the foul smell of hospital filled her nostrils. 

                          
"Hospital?"

                          
"Am I in the hospital?"

                          
"What am I doing here?"

                          
"That too with Emir?"

                          
She tried hard to remember the last event when she remembered that she was here to see her baba when all of a sudden Cemre barged inside Hikmet's room and dragged her out forcefully. The last thing she remembered was, Emir prevented her from falling on the hard floor and she closed her eyes while staring into his eyes. 


                          
"What had happened to me all of a sudden?"

                          
"I was fine earlier, still I fell unconscious."

                          
"I don't know what's happening to me these days."

                          
She tried to brush off these thoughts and concentrated on Emir. Reyhan inspected all his features keenly. His thick lashes, sharp nose, firm lips! Oh, how she misses them against hers. All of a sudden, she felt an urge to got up, inch towards his lips and kiss those sinful lips senselessly. The memories of their previous passionate kisses were still fresh in her mind. She was about to got up when she noticed Cemre, pacing furiously outside the room, through the window curtains. 


                          
Cemre stopped and stared furiously on them, especially on Reyhan. Reyhan immediately  moved back and tried to release her hand from his grip, trying hard to not to disturb his peaceful sleep. But Emir woke up in this process and she immediately closed her eyes and pretended to be fast asleep. 


                          
Emir stared at her face longingly and touched her cheeks, a feather touch, through the back of his fingers. Reyhan's heart skipped several beats on his touch. She clutched the bed sheets tight, in order to control her racing heart. Emir leaned in, towards him, his breath was fanning on her face, mostly near her lips. He stayed there like that for few seconds then kissed her forehead and moved out.



                          
As soon as he left, Reyhan again opened her eyes and kept on staring at his retreating figure. Her fingers found it's way to her forehead and she slowly traced the area where Emir just kissed. She didn't know why but she felt like that Emir too wanted to kiss her, like her, on lips. She felt like he controlled himself, in the nick time and kissed her forehead instead. 



                          
Eventhough, she was happy that Emir kissed her still she was sad that it was not her lips. She didn't know why but she felt an urge to go to him and kiss him passionately.