Nupur returned pretty late at night. She found samrat watching tv in the hall. He looked at her and remarked,
"arre wah!! Do din hue nahin Mumbai mein aaye aur tum late bhi hone lagi. Good ab lag rahi ho tum meri behen."
"shut up samrat!! main mayank ke ghar gayi thi, project karne. Aur waise tum ghar pe kya kar rahe ho? Tum gaye nahi apne un useless friends ke saath?", nupur asked.
"nupur yeh mera bhi ghar hain. Main jab chahoon yahaan par reh sakta hun. Aur mere friends useless nahi hain.", samrat replied.
"anyways good night samrat", saying this she went to her room.
Nupur found gunjan reading a book.
"tum aur who mayank. Kabhi toh books ko aaraam do. Aur tumne toh mujhe bataya hi nahi ki aaj tumhara din kaisa gaya. Uss ladke ne tumhe phir se tang toh nahi kiya.",nupur asked.
Gunjan looked at nupur thinking whether she should tell her about samrat. 'forget it', she thought.
"mera din toh achcha gaya. Tum batao mayank ke ghar pe kya hua?", gunjan asked.
Nupur told her everything that happened except for the part where she and mayank were close. She had to figure that part out.
After talking for a long time nupur went to her room.
The next day gunjan went to wake nupur up. Just then Dj came in.
"arre gunjan main nupur ko uthati hun. Tum samrat ko uthao. Kal tumne toh usse itni aasani se utha diya warna mujhe toh aadhe ghante tak uthana padta hain.", dj said
Gunjan just stared at her. The idea of waking samrat again was really scary. 'That guy has some serious issues', she thought.
Reluctantly she entered samrat's room. She went up to him.
"samrat! samrat utho. Please utho.", she said.
"gunjan wait. If he gets up today dj will make you wake him up everyday. No no ways am I going to wake him up everyday. Chalo yahi keh deti hun ki utha nahi.", saying this she turned to leave when again samrat caught her hand.
Samrat was sleeping very peacefully when he heard gunjan calling his name. he didn't budge. He heard what she said and thought she was pretty smart. He caught her hand and said,
"chashmish subah subah jhut bologi kya?"
Gunjan looked at him. ' Damn!! Why did he get up? And why is he holding my hand…again? ', gunjan thought.
"you better get up or we'll get late.", she said.
"tumne jawaab nahi diya. Subah subah jhoot bologi?", samrat asked her.
"maine jhoot kahaan bola. Tum uthe nahin the toh main toh bas DJ ko batane wali thi ki….", gunjan replied.
"ki main utha nahin hun. Arre wah!! Tumne toh try bhi nahin kiya and I'll make sure you wake me up every morning.", samrat said.
"mera haath chodo please.", gunjan requested.
He left her hand and she came out of his room.
' boy was this guy mad? How could anyone be so irritating.' She thought
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