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Chapter 21 - Raidan -

"Umm... Grilled chicken, Steak, Sandwich, fruit salad and umm.... Pastry, I would prefer blueberry pastry", she said to Brain. Brain noted down her order. "Umm... Brain, take out steak from her order," I said looking at her to see her reaction. "Why?" she said with a frown. "You can't have steak at night. And you know it", I said to her. She looked away.

"Also Brain add blueberry pastry to my order too... And for drink, give us.... Juice for me and milk for her",I said stopping him as he was walking away. "Why milk for me?" she asked. "You'll know why", I said to her.

A while later Brain came to serve us the dinner. I'd steak in my share. She looked at it. Well I knew that she is completely a meat lover. "If you want you can try my foods too..." I said to her. "For fair's sake, you can try mine too", she said. My usual go to order is stuffed potato and baked salmon along with chess pasta and Salad. Today I had added steak and blueberry pastry. She tasted a bit of all but steak. But I knew that she wanted to try this too. So I cut the steak into little pieces and gave her two little piece. She looked at me in confusion.

"Having too much might be bad. But since you want you can definitely try a little bit", I said giving a lopsided smile. She looked very happy when I said that. She quickly stuffed them into her mouth. "Tasty!!" she said. She passed me her fruit salad. "Can't I have water? I'm afraid I'll have gastic problems if I drink milk right now", she said clenching her teeth.

"Brain, give her a water bottle and bottles of juice, all the flavors". "Actually I would like soft drinks like Coca Cola better", she said with a smile. Soon Brain came with water and juice and her soft drinks. As she opened the water bottle lid to take a sip I just looked at her, waiting for her reaction. And as soon as she swallowed the water, her reaction was like throwing up. "Now I know why you didn't want me to drink this water. Honestly I never knew that water could taste bad until I drink this water," she said rolling her eyes. "Told ya!!"

While we were having our dinner she was looking at her laptop, probably reading something. After dinner I also took out my laptop to crosscheck the results that I'll be submitting tomorrow. Now and then when I looked at her, I saw her yawning throughout the entire time. But she is still working.

"You can take a rest you know. Why don't you sleep now? I'll call you once we land", I said to her. "No, it's alright. I need to finish this if I want to roam around tomorrow", she said with a yawn. I realized that this isn't going to work. So I thought of changing my method to stop her from working. "I realized that you must trust me a lot", I said. She looked at me blankly and asked, "Why? No, how??" I pushed my laptop to the side and moved my face closer to her and said, "It's so late at night and you are staying alone with me in this jet, so it's either you trust me a lot or you love me. Right?" God!! These lines are so cheesy.

She moved away from my face and in that meanwhile I took her laptop away from her. She looked at me in surprise with blushed cheeks. "Get up and walk straight. In the left there is a room with bed. Go and sleep. I'll wake you up when it's time", I said to her in my usual voice which she calls 'arrogantly aloof' voice. She didn't listen though. "Go!!" she rolled her eyes and left with a pout. But she returned again two minutes later. "I thought I asked you to sleep", I said to her. "I know. I'm here just to ask you if you could lend me your airpods again?" she said with a pout.

"Sure. Here you go", I took my airpods out of my backpack again and handed it to her. "Thank you. Don't I need to charge it?" she asked. "You don't need to worry about that. You can use it as much as you want. I'll take care of rest of the things including charging", I said with a smile. She nodded and went back to the room giving a smile.

While she sleeps inside I'll sleeping here outside. It's not that comfortable but this little bit uncomfort is completely worthy as long as it's for her. "Hey, are you sleeping?" Tim , the main pilot said to me. Tim and I are old acquaintances. At first when I met Tim he was a newbie in the industry. But now he is one of the experts. After flying together for the 20 times we became friends. Actually I need to fly a lot. And now he is the only one I trust in air.

"Was!! What are you doing here? Aren't you suppose to be in the in the cockpit?" I said, wiping off the sleep from my eyes. "Thank you. I'm doing perfectly fine", he replied. "By the way who is the girl that came with you?" he finally asked after beating around the bush for a while. "My fiance. I haven't introduced you with her yet, right? Don't worry I'll introduce you after she wakes up". He went into shock after hearing me. Guess he didn't see it coming. "Your fiance? When? How? Why?" he said. "Wow!! So many questions!! Let me try to answer with one sentence. Ummm.... I love her. Are you satisfied with this answer?" I asked teasing him. He didn't reply only have a thumbs up.

"You love her? So is this her? The one you had told me about?" he asked with his eyes widened. "Yeah. And finally she is going to be mine", I said looking heavenward. "I guess I should get a new tuxedo, right?" he said making fun of me. And then we laughed. "Hey, wake me up at 4 in the morning", I said to him as he was leaving for the cockpit. He paused and asked, "Why? If I'm not wrong, you never wake up before we arrive. Then?? What's so special today?" "I want to show her the sunrise. I'm sure she is going to love it", I said with sparkling eyes. He looked at me as if I had lost my mind and then he walked away. And I went to sleep. I usually suffer from insomnia but I don't how I fall asleep as soon as I closed my eyes today.

Tim ringed me up at 5 am. As I woke up, I went to the washroom to freshen up. And after that I went to the room where Lam was sleeping. I was going to wake her up but I paused when I noticed how beautiful she looks when she sleeps. Her eyes, they are usually very beautiful when they are open. But her closed eyes are equally beautiful. I never knew that her closed eyes are so beautiful cause this is the first time I'm seeing her sleeping. But it's just the beginning because in the future I'll be watching her sleeping for a long time.