Falling in Love : I love you, Today and Forever

Meanwhile, Ivy and Joshua drove towards her house in silence. At first, Ivy was looking out of the window taking in the beauty of the nature around her. The cool breeze made her feel so damn good that she started feeling drowsy and in no time she had fallen asleep with her head leaning against the car window. 

Joshua noticed her sleeping soundly and he pulled over at the side. The car window was completely rolled down. Afraid of her head falling over, he removed his seat belt and leaned towards her. He supported Ivy's head in his hand and made her turn towards him. He then raised the window sufficient enough for the wind to enter with the help of control buttons on his side.

After making sure that she was comfortable, he started driving again. He turned on the audio player and a soothing music started playing. It was Noah's favorite tune by Mozart. Whenever Noah was stressed out, he would listen to it, and immediately his mind would become tranquil.

Joshua was highly against the music of such sort. He found them to be boring and lifeless. But right now, after seeing Ivy snuggling closer to the seat and falling deep asleep as though the music was lulling her to sleep, he found it to be not bad. It was comforting in a very good way and his mood improved all of a sudden. All his worries vanished in the air when he looked at Ivy sleeping like a baby as the music played in the background.

He drove unbelievably slowly even though the road was clear. Firstly, he did not want to disturb her sleep by driving recklessly and secondly, he wanted to spend more time with her. So, he drove around carefully taking glances at Ivy occasionally.

After an hour or more of driving, he entered her street and the person he saw there shocked him tremendously. He saw Tim lurking around in his usual place. Joshua followed his line of sight and saw that he was looking at the building where Ivy stayed. He had no idea that Tim was one who was stalking Ivy. Noah had not informed him about it. So, he was still in the dark.

'What is he doing here?' He pondered. Joshua carefully parked his car in front of the apartment, his eyes fixed on Tim. As soon as he pulled over Tim too looked at the car wondering who might be the one inside. But he could not see anything as the glasses were tinted. 

Joshua watched Tim like a hawk, occasionally taking glances at the sleeping woman beside him. Tim too stared at the car for a while, before he averted the gaze and looked at the apartment. He wanted to go inside the building. But the security here was too good. The gates would not open until any resident gave access to it. So, he no choice but to wait outside. 

He had come a few minutes after Aria, Ivy and Noah had left the house in the morning. So, he had not seen them, nor the car Joshua and Ivy were now in. Otherwise, he would have found out about Ivy knowing Noah.

Ivy slept for a long time. When she sensed that the car had stopped moving, she opened her eyes hazily and looked around. They were already in her locality. She turned to her side and saw Joshua staring at something in the side mirror. 

"Why didn't you wake me up?" She accused, but half of her words were swallowed when she let out a big yawn.

"I didn't want to disturb your sleep," Joshua answered and chuckled seeing her yawn loudly.

"I could have continued my sleep on my warm and extremely cozy bed, if not here." She complained and yawned again. 'Why am I yawning so much today?'

"You can go back to sleep when go home. No worries."

"I could do that."

Joshua went back to staring at Tim and this time Ivy couldn't control herself and turned to see what he was looking at only to end up cursing loudly, startling Joshua.

"Are you alright?"

"Oops, did I say it out loud?"

Joshua nodded, still in confusion as to why Ivy had lost her composure.

"See, that man over there," She pointed at Tim, "He is Tim."

Joshua's eyes widened when she told him his name. "Do you know him?"

"Yeah. He was my colleague. He joined the agency a few weeks before we lost our jobs and we have a presumption that he was somehow responsible for it."

"Oh." Joshua was stunned on hearing this news. He wondered what work could Tim have at her agency and why he was interested in getting them sacked.

"After we left the agency, he has been keeping tabs on all of us one by one. He is stalking us like a mad man day and night."

"Is it?" Joshua unknowingly clenched his fists and gave Tim one cold glare through the window wishing to burn him to death.

"Yeah. It's a little strange though."

"What is?" His attention went back to her and he released his fists.

"He has been keeping an eye on me more compared to my other friends. I just want to go and punch him in the face. His face is so annoying and ugly."

This time Jo did not say a thing, but he let out a chuckle.

"I am serious. He creeps the hell out of me sometimes."

"Do you want to annoy him?"

"Yeah, but how?" Ivy gave him a confused look.

"Just act along and leave everything to me. When we get down the car act as though you recognized him and go talk to him, alright? I'll take care from there."

Ivy narrowed her eyes to see what he was up to, but eventually, she gave in and agreed to act as per his wish.

"Ready?"

Ivy nodded and got off the car. She acted as though she was looking around and by coincidence, her eyes fell on Tim. Tim who was watching the apartment was stunned on seeing Ivy get down from the car. He was even more startled when Ivy's eyes fell on him. The next moment, he saw Ivy walking towards him and behind her followed the man, whom everybody knew in his gang, Joshua Martin.

"Tim, what a pleasant surprise. What are you doing here?" Ivy exclaimed as though she was genuinely happy on seeing him here.

"I was just passing by. A relative of mine lives here."

"Is it? That's great." Ivy did not ask where his relative lived lest he should be suspicious that she already knew about him following her.

"Who is this gentleman?" Tim asked, feigning ignorance. He had never met Joshua personally and had no idea that the man knew who he was. So, he daringly asked the question and Jo raised an eyebrow in amusement.

"He.." Ivy stuttered not knowing what to say.

"I am her boyfriend," Joshua answered the next instant, stunning both of them.