I landed at Newark International airport from Texas and scanned the gate information for continental flight leaving to San Fran. I had only a small hand luggage with me. Kim and Karuna were travelling later in the day, with my full luggage to San Fran from Texas and I would have to meet up with them at the airport before running into my parents.

I missed on my beauty sleep to take care of this and now I hate him more. After clearing security, I moved slowly towards my gate, scanning the crowds for Yudhi. I reached the preboarding lounge and scanned the crowds for a geek, but couldn’t find him. I was not used to wearing short skirts or low cut tops and was aware of the dirty looks I was getting. It was making me uncomfortable.

Even though I couldn’t find Yudhi anywhere in the lounge, I spotted a cute looking Indian guy, who was of course checking me out. I decided to go and sit by him, while I wait for Yudhi. Actually I decided to flirt a little with the guy once Yudhi shows up.

I settled down in the chair opposite to him and felt his gaze slowly undressing me.

“Jeez!! I felt like a slut, showing my wares.”

Looks like he was going to make a move, bit I wanted him to wait till Yudhi shows up. So I took out my phone and called mom.

“Ma!! Did you get any call from Yudhi? Did he reach Newark yet from Bombay?” I couldn’t give my location.

“Wow!! How come you are worried about Yudhi?” I could imagine my mom rolling her eyes.

“Nah! Just wanted to make sure everything is fine with the tickets we booked.”

“Don’t worry, he landed safely and must be getting ready to board the flight to SF.”

“OK, no worries. See you soon.”

I then called Kim.

“Hey, thanks for making me slut of the day. I feel like I am roaming naked here. Also can’t find Yudhi  any where, but found a really cute guy. I may run away with him, so let my parents know.” I whispered as I didn’t want the hot guy sitting opposite me to hear my conversation.

“Hey..Hey.. no running away. Remember the cute guy belongs to me and you stay focused on Yudhi.” Kim commanded me. “Just be patient, he must be roaming around the book stalls. Go and check the shops.”

“I am not going anywhere until the hot guy moves. Yudhi has to pass me to go through those gates, so I will keep watch from here. OK, looks like the boarding process is going to start soon, I will call you later. Thanks for all the help, Uhh! I love you.”

Time was running out, still I couldn’t find Yudhi.

For a second, I thought, maybe he has changed a lot and I am looking for the wrong description, but the picture I saw was clearly etched in my mind and I already accounted for changes, but there was no one even close to that description in the lounge.

I heard the boarding announcement and the hot guy got up and hesitated and then left immediately.

For a second, I thought he was going to ask my number and of course I would have given it to him. I couldn’t really concentrate on him, because I was really tense looking for Yudhi. I thought at least he is on the same flight as me and I can try to catch him later, once I deal with Yudhi.

They were going to close the gate, so I boarded the plane.

My plan failed as Yudhi failed to materialize.

I stepped inside and looked for my seat, but looks like it was occupied. As I went closer my heart started beating rapidly. The hot guy was sitting in Yudhi’s seat.

“OMG!! This is impossible.” I kept on repeating. Something must be wrong here. I checked the seat number of the guy sitting by his side and he was in the wrong seat. I took my seat after he moved to his seat.

I didn’t want to look at Yudhi, as my heart was beating so loudly that everyone could hear it. I was all confused and my mind went completely blank.

“Hi” he said.

“OMG!!! He is talking to me.” I managed to say hello without even looking at him.

“Breathe..breathe!!!!” I commanded myself and took out my book to give me time to think through this new situation.

How can Yudhi be the hot guy? He looks nothing like in the picture. He is tall, good looking and all muscle. I am sure he has six packs underneath that shirt. My god , one look into those eyes and I am going to melt like ice cream.

“OMG!! My dress!!! What is he thinking about me? Probably a slut. What is going to say to my parents after he finds out I am Arohi? He is never going to marry me now, even if I beg him.”

My whole world went blank.  They already closed the door and the flight was moving for takeoff.

I wanted to drill a hole through the plane and escape.

Suddenly the plane took off and was banking left. My whole body came into contact with Yudhi and sent chills up my body. I could feel his hard shoulders and thighs and gave up any resistance and leaned into him fully. After a few seconds the plane levelled up and I was able to sit straight again.

“He looked so comfortable and I felt like I was connected to power mains. I could feel the electric currents flow up and down my body. I never felt those feelings before in my life. It was a new feeling and I wish the plane turn again.”

This whole plan backfired on me. I wish my mom had showed me his picture or video and I would have happily agreed for the marriage. Now the situation has become complicated. Yudhi has no idea who I am and probably has a very bad opinion about me right now. I lied about having a boyfriend and now he saw me strutting around in a slutty half naked dress. Soon I need to come up with an explanation, as he is going to meet me officially in a few hours, thinking I am coming from Texas. My parents are going to kill me before he gets a chance.

“Oh God!! I am so dead!!!”

“Ok, I need to stop him from going to my parents and telling them about this trip and this dress.” So I am back to my original blackmail idea. “Maybe I can make him put his hands on me and then record it and blackmail him, after all that was the purpose of this sexy dress.” I thought.

I glanced at him “Jeez!! He is sleeping. How insulting? I am sitting here half naked and he is sleeping as if I don't even exist. I need to push it up a notch.”

I raised the seat divider and closed my eyes to pretend sleeping and gently leaned on him. Still nothing, so I put my hand on his thigh and started making small patterns on his thigh. He moved lightly and my face was between his chest and armpit. I felt like I was drowning in his spicy deodorant and his hard chest created ripples in parts of my body I didn’t know existed. Something was pulling me towards him and I felt the need to rub my chest against his arm and my nipples were hardening and became painful. Each part of my body was straining and competing to touch him.

I was in heaven and completely forgot about my blackmail plan and tried to dig deeper into him. Without realizing I slept on him like a baby.

Suddenly lights started flashing and I opened my eyes. I took stock of the situation.

Seat divider was up. My skirt was riding up my thigh, breasts partially exposed and I was sleeping on Yudhi. Only good thing was the blanket covering from me on one side, so that only Yudhi had a view and not others.

I quickly recovered and pulled my skirt down and top up to cover myself. Yudhi wanted to talk to me, I guess he wanted to lecture me about manners and plane etiquette, so I got up and went to rest room. I didn’t want to face Yudhi anymore as my situation went from bad to worse. I was below slut level right now and there is nothing I could do or say will improve my standing in his eyes.

As soon as the plane landed I bolted out, but he chased me and tried to stop me, but I ran away from him. I needed to get back with Kim and Karuna to rethink our strategy.

“Hello!! Kim” Kim and Karuna were at the airport waiting for their flight to SF, where I was waiting for them.

“Hey, How did it go? Did u manage to record him?” she was all questions and I started crying.

“OMG!! Aru ! what happened?”

“I don’t know, it was a big failure. Remember the hot guy I was talking about, he is Yudhi! I completely humiliated myself and don’t want to face him or my parents anymore. I wish I could die right now.”

“Please don’t cry and don’t do anything stupid. We will do whatever it takes to fix this. Ok, just sit tight and stay hidden till we land. We will be there soon.”

Soon they arrived and we quickly decided that I will stay out of sight till last moment and blame everything on my imaginary boyfriend.

I was the last one to get into the car and immediately felt the heat coming from Yudhi.

“OMG!!! He was so surprised and looked at me like his eyes were gonna pop out. Even though I was a wreck inside, I enjoyed the sight of him getting bowled over.”

I was afraid he was gonna tell on me but he vanished into his room and only showed up at breakfast time in the morning.

Again he had the same look as if he was not expecting to see me. Wow! he got bowled twice in a row.

Good going I thought, but he came back ..

“Hi Arohi, how are you? How was your trip from Texas to San Fran?” He was staring into my eyes.

I could feel my heart sink and I managed to mumble “Hmm..good.”

He turned the tables on me and I need to fix this before he starts blackmailing me.

Note: If you really want to understand this chapter, you may have to read the first chapter again as the story comes back full circle here.