Zara looked at her cereal, she did not have the will to stomach it and her head was spinning. She took a spoonful while listening to Aly and Selana chatter, more like have their annual superhero rebuttal.
'No i am telling you, Batman is the best,' said Aly.
'I disagree, now Thor is the best, he is smoking hot and did you see the way he pulls out his hammer,'
'He can electrify you,' replied Selena.
'Well, Batman has no super power and still he can fly and he builds his own tech and he fights. He is way better.'
Zara tried to ponder over their superhero discussions, but frankly she had no interest in comics or avengers, but Thor sure is hot. They way his muscles flexed eveytime they held his hammer or maybe it was the way actor was shot. Her morning thoughts were drifting over silly things.
She thought maybe she should drink Rakija every other day as she did not have any nightmare.
She got drunk that's fine, she needed to lay off some steam and make out with Leo, red alert!
NOT FINE !
She wasn't even that drunk when they kissed. Thinking about last night made her blush heavily. She could not get the image out of her mind, the way he gazed at her and then walked over to kiss her. And she was so forthcoming, thinking about it made her almost stumble out her chair when Aly caught hold you of her.
'Watch out, man you feel light Zara.'
'Did you loose some weight?' said Aly teasingly as he lifted her.
'Remember something from last night?'
'What are you guys talking about?' asked Selena.
Zara ignored her enquiry as she was feeling too shy to tell her friends about her last night escapades but it seemed Aly knew some stuff or was just teasing her about Martin.
Wait! How much does he know anyway, thought Zara.
'Thinking about last night , eh?' said Aly again asked teasingly.
Zara did not respond much and just looked down. She wanted to tell Aly but before that she wanted to know how much he knew.
'You both are a handful,' said Selena as she walked over to both of them and pulled their ears. Being their senior or more like their older sister she had a sense of openness with both of them.
'It was fun watching Leo handle you both.'
'You were both sticking to him, especially you Aly.'
'Mind you, his patience is the size of a tennis ball, he was very chivalrous last night.'
said Selena.
'And it was so romantic to see him carry you upstairs in bride style,' she looked at Zara as she spoke.
Zara blushed further and just looked down at her feet finding them a little dirty.
'I guess, i fell asleep in the car ,' said Zara.
'After he dropped you, he and Adam caught up for a bit,' said Selena.
'OH, Bro is back, is he still sleeping?'
'Must be tired?' said Ally.
'He got an early morning call from Leo's dad and he had to leave for London immediately.'
'I asked him to leave a little later, but he said it was very important and could not be delayed.'
'Wait, he went to London with Leo?' asked Ally.
The whole conversation got Zara's attention and she felt a little something inside her chest, her mind kept saying.
He left! He Left!
'So soon,' she mumbled not realising she said it out loud as she settled back on the bar chair.
'Did you say something?' asked Selena while Aly just looked at her a bit seriously as he felt something was up.
'Um, nothing,'
'And i didn't get to ask him what he was drinking,' she mumbled.
'Please, carry on with what you were saying,' said Zara as she gave a weak smile to both of them and went back to looking at her honey loops; her favourite.
She had received a message form him in the morning but he didn't say he was leaving. It was more like Hey 'It's me, Leo . You awake?'
He didn't say anything about going back.
She could not decipher what his message meant, whether he was thinking of her, but he did not text her anything like that or about their kiss.
A very plain, generic text defines nothing and Zara did not know what to think of it so she had not replied yet. She did not know how to carry a conversation and she did feel a little awkward.
More than that she felt dejected, she thought they shared a moment last night and it felt special.
But now she was feeling like a fool.
It was just a kiss for him, he was probably just having a fun time last night.
Now he has gone back to London and that's all to it. She won't see him again and it wasn't like he would be staying here in Zagreb.
She can just forget about the whole thing as just a very pleasing, no it was damm right erotic moment which she shared with him.
Damm he is good, Zara could not forget how he had dragged her to the wall and how he held her. She felt waves of desires when they kissed and she felt, well she felt sexy under his gaze. The way he had looked at her, gave her a feeling that he wanted to keep kissing her and touching her.
A part of her wanted to be touched by him and relive that steamy moment. God she had never lusted for someone after sharing a kiss.
Her line of thought was becoming a little inappropriate and she needed to distract herself.
And then there it was a memory that always haunted her.
She remembered her mother's words, 'No one cares for no one. No one cares who you are. '
'They don't care about you.'
'Don't waste your time on people, '
'Attachments are't real,' and that was how she was conditioned growing up.
She finally finished her cereal, in two big spoons and got of putting the dishes away.
'I have to go, and work on my sketchbook.'
'I need to send it out along with my new portfolio to Ms. Ivana.'
'I see you guys later,' she said as she left the breakfast area in an irritable mood.