Chapter 12

shazia

@xarmaanx

ridz was fuming when atul  revealed who he thought was the person behind ridz's public humiliation. She curled her hands into a tight ball as her face slowly got redder. armaan leaned away from ridz. She looked like she was going to blow. muskaan rolled her eyes.

"Never upset a pregnant, hormonal woman" she muttered.

"OH MY GOD, I AM GOING TO KILL THAT GODDAMN BI-" ridz began to rant furiously, jumping from her seat next to armaan, screaming profanities.

rahul cringed. The meek, sweet-tempered ridz had been replaced with a raving lunatic. Well, you can't exactly blame her, he thought. No one was exactly chipper after a public humiliation. He looked pointedly at muskaan, telling her to calm her angry friend. She shrugged. ridz wasn't going to stop until every bitter emotion about the whole situation had poured out.

"-first, I get knocked up by some idiot who couldn't even keep it in his pants, or a condom! Then I have to move in with his deranged family, and now I have to deal with some crazy, armaan-loving stalker bitch who wants to ruin my life?! URGH!" ridz plopped on the ground, groaning.

armaan looked appropriately offended, before sliding down next to ridz, awkwardly patting her head. He dealt with women in bed, not women crying on the floor about how he couldn't put on protection to save his life.

"There, there ridz. Um, it's going to be okay?"

That even sounded lame to atul, who had proclaimed himself as the king of lame jokes. ridz's eyes narrowed.

"Why was that a question?" she asked suspiciously.

armaan froze, his eyes widening.

"Er..."

angie rolled her eyes, plopping herself beside her pouting friend.

"Give the poor boy a break. He's a beginner with the ladies" she teased.

armaan stuck out his tongue. atul laughed, making angie blush. ridz huffed.

"Fine, flirt with the idiot while your best friend is having a mid-life crisis. Hmph" she crossed her arms, throwing angie a dirty glare.

atul flushed a deep red, matching angie's pink face. muskaan shook her head, a smirk playing on her lips.

"Pregnancy so doesn't go with you, Bee. Hormonal bitches have never been your type" she quipped.

"Neither has slut" ridz muttered, putting her head in her hands.

angie and muskaan shared a worried look, before staring at armaan.armaan looked confused at their glares.

"What did I do now?" he half-whined.

"More like, what did you do to that girl that made her send the entire school pictures of you and ridz and a doctor's certificate?" muskaan  retorted.

armaan rubbed the back of his neck.

"Er..."

"Actually, don't answer that" angie cut him off, shaking her head.

armaan rolled her eyes.

"Whatever. It's not like I can remember her" he muttered.

ATULS's jaw dropped.

"Dude, how can you not remember her? Smoking hot body, nice big...personality!" atul faltered and stumbled on his words as he caught angie's raised eyebrow.

He flashed her a winning smile. She rolled her eyes. ridz groaned.

"Just great. My friends are getting paired off with a bunch of jocks while I'm stuck with a baby in me. So unfair"

"You have me!" armaan pouted.

ridz raised an eyebrow. armaan opened his mouth to retort, but thought better than to argue with a pregnant woman. She sighed tiredly. It was all too much for one day, let alone one period. angie propped her chin on her hand, looking at atul

atul shrugged.

"She was the one that kicked up the most fuss when armaan broke up with her" he replied.

muskaan nodded. rahul s handsome face broke out in a wicked grin, rubbing his hands together.

"Then let's get dia, that bitch"

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"But I didn't do ittttt" dia whined for the seven hundredth time as angie had her pinned against the art room wall.

It was lunch when atul and angie had cornered dia. atul  was rather surprised at angie's strength. That's kinda hot, he mused as he watched angie interrogate the 'suspect' (atul had gotten a bit excited at the prospect of detective work). angie rolled her eyes, inwardly cringing at dia's high-pitched squeals. She turned to atul, who looked rather pleased with the girl-on-girl action.

"I don't think she did it" she deadpanned.

atul snapped out of his trance.

"What? Why not?" he half-whined.

angie rolled her eyes.

"She's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box,atul . She wouldn't have been able to pull it off"

"Hey!" Dai looked offended.

"No offence" angie made a face.

atul sighed, rubbing his face exasperatedly.

"Then what do we do now?"

angie shrugged.

"I guess we're back to square one"

"Wait, so you guys are trying to find the person who sent all those pictures of armaan and ridz to the college, right?" Dai said slowly.

angie, atul nodded.

"And this person had their heart broken by armaan, right?"

They nodded.

"And this person also had to have access to hospital'stuff, right?"

They nodded. Dai burst out laughing. angie raised her eyebrow.

"What's so funny?"

Dai wiped at her waterproof mascara.

"Oh, nothing. It's just your person sounds like NIKKI, coz she's like, in love with armaan and, like, her dad's the hospital chairperson or something" Dai giggled.

angie froze. atul's eyes widened.

"Oh my God'" angie whispered.

"We've been after the wrong girl" atul murmured.

They looked at each other, understanding dawning in their eyes.

"THAT BITCH!"

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armaan leant against the wall, the breeze whipping his dark black, mussed hair. He looked like the epitome of cool. NIKKI strutted past, careful to make sure nothing was out of place. She had to let him know that dumping her was the worst thing he could've ever done. Nikki put on an expression of innocence, flouncing past armaan. She saw him raise in eyebrow. In interest, of course, she smugly thought. All she had to do was wait'

"NiKKi! Can I talk to you?"

A conceited grin flitted across her heavily made-up face. She always knew armaan would come crawling back. She turned to smile sweetly at armaan.

"Yes, armaan?"