1st Episode: Coffee Table - The Airport

"Can I sit here?", he asked and she nodded with a subtle smile on her face and a sizzling coffee cup in her hand. He poured in three packets of white sugar into his cup of coffee. She giggled. He lifted his head and looked at her to know why.

"Three?", she giggled again.

"Yeah! I have a sweet tooth", he winked.

"You want some?", he asked her. 

"Yeah! But I love the brown. Not the white", she said.

"Why?", he asked.

"Just like that. Women always love men, who are a few shades darker than them, don't they? Likewise, the sugar too!" she shrugged her shoulder

with a wicked smile.

"Exactly. Like how we men are attracted to the white, be it our women or our coffee's sugar!" he too gave the wicked smile.

"Men!" she grinned.

"Women!" he pointed at her. They both laughed!

"So, do you like coffee?", she asked.

"More than my girlfriend", he replied.

"Really?"

"Yeah! Because I don't have a girlfriend yet"

"You are funny and smart"

"The feeling is mutual, lady!"

"So, where are you flying to?"

"Athens now. Mykonos from there!"

"Don't tell me. What a coincidence! I am off to Mykonos too"

"Ah! The Greek gods are so generous that they gave me a company even before I visited their land"

"Hail Zeus!" she laughed. They both laughed in a surreal coincidence.

"Attention passengers. This is a boarding call for Etihad airways flight EY 90 to Athens. Your boarding gate is open. Please approach to Gate no. 12 for boarding. Thank you!"

"So, Zeus has called us now. We should hurry up. Can't risk pissing the God off, can we?, he gulped the last sip of his coffee from the cup.

"How can we?", she held her fingers onto her throat like she was asking for a pardon.

He was smiling at her in amazement. He never had this feeling before. Suddenly, the 18 hours long flight seemed to have become a more beautiful ride and he was more than curious to check with the cabin crew if he can somehow sit beside her during their flight.

They both walked towards the gate and got their boarding passes scanned.

"Oh good god!" he exclaimed.

"What?", she asked.

"Your seat number!"

"What's in my seat number?"

"Nothing. You just happen to be my seat mate on who's shoulder I am going to lean while am dead asleep", he smiled.

"Very well! But strictly no sneaking into my tee"

"Oops!" he raised his eyebrows.

"Just kidding! Come on. We have 18 long hours to snore on each other's faces", she smiled again.

He was getting used to her enchanting smiles. He could not set his eyes anywhere else. Her smile demanded his attention involuntarily and he didn't want to put up a fight. He was enjoying it.

"Welcome sir, Welcome mam!" greeted the air hostess. "Have a nice flight".

"It's going to be the best flight you've ever had", said his heart.