TEASER
“Ugh”
“What now?” Arjun asks, annoyed. He was going over an essay plan that was set by the supervisors the other day. Looking up from his MacBook Air, he heaved a sigh of annoyance as he caught his friend Elena going through her lecture notes rather loudly.
“What?” she asks him, having understood that expression on his face.
“Next time, perhaps attending the lectures will help.” He says, rather slyly. “Just because they are recorded doesn’t mean you get to understand everything” He thought it was a bit unfair that the chemistry modules were recorded while the literature and phys-nat-scis weren’t. Phys-nat-scis was physical natural sciences in the language of the students at Jesus College in Cambridge.
“Ooo ! Someone is jealous.” Elena giggles causing Arjun to give her a death glare.
“Saadhu .”Says the girl, putting her newly acquired Hindi language skills to use .
“It’s S-A-D-U . Saadhu means a saint ,duffer.” Arjun corrects her .
“Whatever.”She says and gets back to the task at hand. “btw have you seen Yash?”
“Looks like a duffer is smitten with another.” He teased.
“IM JUST ASKING !” she says ,looking away trying to hide the blush that was creeping up.
“Yeah.Yeah” Arjun scoffs ,knowing perfectly what was in the pea sized brain of his friends’. “He went to Sainsbury’s with Riya. He was out of paper and she needed to buy groceries. Its her turn to cook for the staircase tomorrow.” He added.
“YASSSS”screams the girl. Riya’s food was a treat for the people in the staircase housing unit at the second court.
Arjun smiled. He loved her food too especially her masala shrimp . He was thinking of how he met her at the induction ceremony, a very shy and a pretty girl,and seemingly in need of help. He had used the Brown- People-Approach-To-Talk-to-A-Girl; that is he approached her parents first.
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ArjunSuryakant Rawte , the only son of Business Tycoon Arnav Rawte and former movie actress Archana Rawte ,was a little wary of himself as he approached the pretty girl’s parents at the induction ceremony at Jesus College , University of Cambridge. It was his dream to study literature at his favourite university and thanks to his hard work and his parents’ money as well. Nevertheless, he knew if he wanted to make a name for himself he had to do much beyond the regular hard work.
He had greeted her parents with a Namaste and sure enough her mother was elated to find someone like them. Nirmala Mukherjee had taken upon herself to introduce the kid to her OTT shy daughter. They had exchanged pleasantries and headed over to second court where they were to live for the three terms for the first year.
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“Aye Earth to ! Laloo .” giggles Elena ,wondering what the nerd was thinking.
“STOP WITH THE HINDI PLEASEEE. MY EARS ARE GOING TO BLEED.”
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A/N : PLEASE LEAVE YOUR VIEWS DOWN BELOW. IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME .ALSO THIS IS A PURE AU FIC SO APART FROM ARJUN AND RIYA'S NAMES NOTHING IS SAME AS THE SHOW
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