The girl was having trouble eating food with her left hand and was dropping it on her clothes. Maya was looking at Norah in surprise. "Norah dear, what happened? Why are you using you opposite hand?"
Norah gulped and looked at her mother in tenseness. She was about to take another bite but dropped the food on her rob, in uneasiness. "ohhh." She looked at her muddled clothes and turned to look at Joya in much annoyance.
Joya had pursed his lips and was trying hard not to chuckle.
"Oh dear. Go and wash it with the water Norah dear." Delilah looked at the girl and walked up to her, and had started to wipe the dropped food from her dress with the help of a large cloth. "You will have to use the water. It is not going away with the cloth." She shook her head in disapproval. She then turned to look at Joya who had by now left the girl's hand and had pursed his lips trying hard not to giggle. "Joya please take her to the cleaning room in my chamber and help her. Show her where my robes are placed, while I attend to aunt Maya."
Joya's eyes twinkled at the opportunity and he smirked looking at the girl. He nodded his head and got up instantly signalling the girl to get up too. Norah looked at the boy with fear in her eyes and turned to look at Delilah. "No my queen. I am in good health and condition. It is just a little food." The girl smiled a bit inelegantly looking at her entirely tainted robe.
"Little food? You call this little? It has fallen all over your dress. It is no trouble my dear. Joya will lend a hand to you. Go now." The lady patted her shoulder assuringly and then walked back towards Maya and started talking to her.
Norah gulped in panic and got up under duress, looking in the boy's notorious eyes. Soon they both departed from the chamber and walked inside a gargantuan corridor. The boy was walking ahead while the girl was slowly and timidly following him. She was exceptionally petrified as the boy usually did such unanticipated things, without even caring who is in front of them.
The girl was looking at the floor walking on the corridor behind the boy. She did not realise that the boy had halted noticing that she was not paying attention to him and was constantly looking down at the floor in hesitancy. The girl banged her body on the boy's back and let out a scared shriek.
"Arghhhhhh!!" She was about to lose her balance and was about to fall backwards, when the boy encircled his arms around her waist and smiled wickedly at her, bending much ahead. His face was now just a few inches away from her petrified face. The girl knew it was his plan to make her fall so that he could once again carry her in his arms.
"Why do you tease me so much?" The girl who was still bent backwards, balancing herself in his arms looked in his green eyes in puzzlement. "From the day you have met me, you are only teasing me."
The man chuckled looking at the girl and straightened her up quickly, still not removing his hands from her waist. He was looking at her with much and adoration in his eyes now, and the girl blushed again as if getting the answer of her question.
She could feel the boy meant to say that 'he only teased her because he loved her'.