Riya's POV
I'd tried my best to kept it as low profile as I can, cause really I don't want to be a mess. I entered in my home as I more than worn out from the previous days so now I decided 'no matter what happens I'll have my me-time.' That was the moment when a thought hit my mind what if this guy was a frodulent freaky guy. So as soon as I got this, I called Mr. Hudson just to make sure I didn't committed a mistake. He picked up in few rings " Hey Miss Riya, how can I help you?" he answered with his usual sweet tone. "Nothing much I wanted to know that is there any other tenants neighboring me?" I asked with concern.
"Uh..... Yes there is, did he bothered you? I'm so sorry, I'll fix this up. Don't worry bout him, he's a good friend of mine. I'll make sure he'll behave next time."
"Oh! There's no problem. I wanted to make sure if you had an another tenant. He just had a scene, he looked himself out and I helped him with your master card and I just got a doubt that was it good or not but I guess there's no problem. I'm so sorry bother you this time."
"No problem Miss, that's so sweet of you to help my friend. He's just a bit noisy that's it. Anyways, anything else?"
"Ah nothing much. Have a great night."
"You too!"
Finally, my mind calmed. I did nothing wrong. It always scares the shit out of me. "Phew!" I sighed. With that I moved my mind to somewhere else. 'Oh yeah, my me-time' my heart screamed as I forgot about it. Grabbing my headphones, I turned the music on, once again and did my dinner. It was to be chicken dinner as love chicken alot. I make myself a lot of combination with chicken and rice. No offence but I really like it. As I was about to prepare, there my door bell rang notifying me that it was Mr Hudson. I welcomed him and asked how he was here. "Good evening Mr Hudson, how can I help you?" I asked him with professional genuine smile. "Nothing much I'm just here to see everything is fine here."
"Oh! Everything is great, you just took this effort for nothing." I shrugged.
Oh! That's awesome. By the way I was here not because of you but I was planning to meet my friend a. k. a. your neighbor so don't worry about anything in fact I would like to invite you to join us for dinner. We're having pizza party so feel free to join us." With that I was in a situation where I can't back out cause it'll state that I was being rude as he was handling me a token of friendship and appreciation and I was denying it, but still I wasn't unsure of that freaky Mr. Nude cause our first meeting was not so good to true but still, "if you insist, I'll join you guys but just for dinner, okay? I'd just started to prepare something for me. Okay if there's no problem." I accepted the invite with a shrug. "I'll be back in few minutes, you can go ahead"
"Okay, we're waiting" he said while leaving.
I got in my room changed my clothes into long half sleeved T-shirt and dark jeans and up did my hair into messy bun and appeared onto my neighbor's door.
Hearing the bell rang Mr. Hudson opened the door and he welcomed me in. As I entered that freaky guy stood in front of me and greeted "hi again" extending his hands which I nervously accepted. "hi there, nice to meet you again."
"Oh sorry I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Will Blues. I work with Hud."
"I'm Riya Dani, nice to meet you Mr. Will."
"You can just call meWill"
"Okay, I'll try" I shrugged and he gestured me to proceed. We entered and he asked me to make myself comfortable but the more he got friendly the less I felt easy. He was glancing at me occasionally and I can tell there was something in his gaze. It didn't offended but there was something like he wanted to know what I was thinking as I was doing the same. "The pizzas will be ready in less than two minutes I've grabbed our plates already" Mr. Hudson broke into my thoughts Will's as well. We headed to the kitchen island and picked our chairs. I chose to sit away from Will that is in front of him. Without him knowing, I played nice keeping myself at the safer side as much as I can. Mr. Hudson came back with our pizzas "did you made them by yourself" I asked being out of curiosity as the aroma was fresh and delicious. "Uh? I wish I could but unfortunately these are made by" he gestured towards Will and he was smirking at us "nah! That's not a big deal anyways thank you for your compliments" said still with that smirk. We were having our talks when Mr. Hudson got a call and excused himself. I continued to eat as the food was really good. It was filled with flavors and cheese. "Umm..." an unexpected moan escaped my mouth as I savored the delicious bite but suddenly I felt Will's gaze on me. "Uh! Sorry guys I've to leave, I forgot something important so you guys enjoy." Mr. Hudson said pointing towards his phone. "But Mr. Hudson...."
"I'm so sorry Riya but I've to leave we'll have this next time" with this he exited and there was only me and Will.
Will's POV
It was getting real awkward between us after Hud left. Yes! that was my plan but seriously no offence I wanted to talk to her but there ain't no way she'll talk to me. So I've to do this but I don't think I did anything wrong as I asked Hud to come over and ask her for dinner that's it. And rest whatever Hud must've told her bout me being his friend and all is all true. Hud is my friend and advisor outside the work so there's nothing wrong.
As he left, the atmosphere in here was getting too awkward so I decided to cut the crab finally "don't worry, I won't eat you". Her eyes widened with my sudden sarcastic statement and I ended that joke with a laugh. "I'm sorry on behalf of him cause he invited you and now he's the one who ditched us so... "
"Oh don't worry, it happens so it's okay. I can understand, even I tend to forget few things. It's totally normal." she shrugged it off like non of it offended her at all. "So what do you do?"
"Huh? Oh! I work in Naturals Production Company as an assistant manager. And you?"
"I'm also in HR."
"Ohh." that was the only thing came out of her mouth. I thought did I made a fool of myself, but when I saw her she was she too wanted to cut this awkwardness but still. I sighed softly with the thought. Now this was it, I opened mouth to talk but before I could say she asked "did you personally made this pizzas means really!"
"Yep. I cook pretty good, I guess"
"You do?! That's really good, means really I appreciate it. You should know aleast the basic things. You shouldn't be dependent on anyone rather than you. It's really good." she appreciated with stuffing more in her mouth. She was enjoying every bite of it and that lessen the awkwardness between and slowly we turned to talk normally.
"Would you like to watch a movie?" I asked after having our dinner while cleaning the island. She insisted on to help me when I denied and asked her chill. But still she took me in agreement to help in cleaning and I got no other choice but to agree. "which kind of movies you watch?" she asked back. "We'll watch whatever you'll like."
"Okay than, can I see?" she asked as I handed her the remote control of the television and she started to choose over the choices. Soon I completed my work and joined her to the movie when I saw she was searching from horror genre. My eyes widen as seeing those filthy dangerous movie names passing through. "OK, we'll watch this" I startled on her sudden commotion. I wasn't brave enough to watch Conjuring at 11:00 pm at night. It was scariest movie but my mind said 'are you gonna make a fool of yourself in front of a girl! What she'll think, your coward?' my ego won over my heart who was jumping. "Okay, but are you brave enough?" I asked her mockingly, hiding my hesitation. "I've watched this movie before at midnight all alone, so it's just like watching an ordinary movie for me." she declared like it was her routine job. "See, if you felt scared then I'm here already, hm?" I said covering my thumping heart and faked my smirk. "Let's see!" she cocked her eyebrows.