Smiling Benji headed off.
"One second I wil be back" gunjan smiled at Dia and Samrat n followed Benji.
"I cant believe it!" samrat gaped at noone in particular.
"neither can I" dia spoke disheartened "Xcuse me" she murmured as she headed out of the library.
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Meanwhile
"Benji!" Gunjan called.
"hey thanks gunjan, I think the plan-"
"look" she interrupted him "as far as its about dia, am fine with it, but I would really appreciate if'you know" gunjan began stuttering "any kind relation, I mean any kind..of relation'tht involves'u knw touching and physically'erm-uh- u"
"Ohh m sorry" Benji said understanding what she meant "I will take care, ermm thts all?"
"yeah thts it, Bye" Gunjan hurried back to the library breathing a sigh of relief. Her heart was pacing maddedningly and tht annoyed the hell out of her, the plan was annoying, why couldn't benji plain out confess to Dia?
Deep in thought she entered the library to spot samrat reading a book or rather hiding behind one.
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Smiling Mayank distributed the cards once again when mayank felt his chances of loosing the game were high he replaced the +4 card he had managed to hide in his pocket with another useless card in his hand.
Nupur played a red card. Grinning mayank played the +4 card.Nupur frowned as she picked 4 cards from the deck but stopped midway.
"Hang On, few turns back you picked from the deck, how did u get a +4?"
"Well I used it now" mayank shrugged.
"Yeah right! you are such a cheater"
"hey am not" mayank argued back.
"yes u are, from where did u get that +4 card?"
"I had it"
"No u didn't!"
"I did!!"
"Liar" Nupur hurled at him.
"Loser!"
"Shut Up!!" Uday yelled at both of them. Mayank smiled cheekily as he noticed that Nupur was actually on top of him. Nupur's eyes met his, he smirked a natural oneas he spotted her eyes gaze down, pure shyness reflecting on her face.
"well" mayank drawled playing with his lips a little "get off me!" he yelled with an added effect.
Nupur jumped and sat back at her seat.
Mayank smirked as Nupur clutched her bag tightly, he had yelled on purpose knowing very well that Nupur's shyness was coming in between their friendship..ah-uh wrng term Its Future relationship.
"Lets continue?" mayank spoke softly.
"No" Nupur replied quite roughly.
"Okay I promise I wont cheat"
"Ha! So u admit it tht u cheated!"
"Yup" mayank spoke innocently.
"Fine, nyways m getting bored atleast the game is a break from this stupid trip"
Smiling mayank began shuffling the deck.
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Smiling Gunjan took her seat to Samrat.
"thanks" she smiled at him.
"For what?" Samrat asked without taking his gaze away from the book.
"for'for passing on a message to Di"
Samrat gave a small smile in response.
"by the way" Gunjan began "the book is upside down"
"which book?" samrat asked confused looking up
"this book" gunjan pointed at the book he was holding infront of his eyes.
"Ohh its that..actually I like reading upside down" he tried to cover up.
"I thought u dont read" Gunjan giggled.
"I don't, I mean I Do..no its only at times'I wanted to help u with this project so I thought of reading afterall yesterday u were pretty annoyed at me for not taking the project seriously and I really wouldn't want u to get a bad grade on the very first project" Samrat spoke in one breath keeping his gaze on the book while gunjan stared at him with wide eyes.
"I something wrong?" she asked.
"Yeah'I mean no"
"ermm really?"
"okay its that, are you'like are u really really really interested in Benji?"
Gunjan stared at him shocked, she knew she was really bad at lying.
'Okay Gunjan ease out' she thought.
"why are u asking?"
"coz'coz uday told me to take care of u and dia" samrat smiled glad that uday came of some use.
"well don't worry about me"
"its not that even I care about u"
"I thought Benji is ur friend, don't u trust him?"
"No I don't"
"what?"
"I mean..its gonna sound really weird, but I thought he's interested in Dia"
Gunjan gaped at samrat shocked, so he knew about it all along.
Samrat misinterpreting her reaction stood up in a hurry.
"Just forget it, as I said I thought, so I am wrong okie, sorry" he made a rush to the library's exit, he heard her call his name but somehow he didn't have the heart to listen to her. Hell he didn't know why on earth did it pain him to see the two together.
He stopped by a bench in the corridor and stared at nothing in particular.
'Jealous' his mind sneered at him.
'Just get a grip Dude!' he told himself. 'Jealous of a friend? Never' he cast away the thought, just then mayank's words seemed to be echoing in his mind all of a sudden.
"Freak! I like her!?" he gaped in astonishment.
"like whom?" Samrat snapped his head to find Benji grinning at him.
"Nothing like that" Samrat murmured getting seated at the bench.
"Admit it, you really like her" Benji smiled as he sat next to Samrat.
"Who?" samrat played along.
"Gunjan" Benji answered nudging samrat's shoulder.
"How did you-?" Samrat asked surprised.
"I noticed, the prank night" Benji winked "u even followed her till the kitchen" he chuckled.
Samrat chuckled along but stopped recollecting it all. "Hang On I thought-"
"I don't love her" Benji smiled. "and u knw dude, m really glad that my act got something out of it!"
"u mean" samrat began confused and turned a shade of red in anger "how dare you play with her emotions!?" he hurled at him.
"hey hey chill!! She knows abt this"
"what?" Samrat asked.
"Yeah it was Our plan, coz I love dia, n I was just trying to get her jealous but doesn't seem to be working, nyways m glad atleast you realized that you like gunjan"
"No u got it wrong, Dia likes u"
"dude I Love her! N she..she just likes me as a friend"
"hmm u never know, her like can turn to love"
"u really think so?"
"well what's the matter in trying?"
"that's why I played the act, to know how she feels about me, I didn't want to ruin our friendship actually" Benji smiled.
"cool, am in, just keep ur hands off Gunjan"
Benji grinned and hi-fied Samrat.
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"Okay guys" Miss Aha called from the front.
"U r about to reach the famous ' dam. Before we reach there lemme tell u about the rules which each n every1 of u have to follow" mayank rolled his eyes and started playing some game in his mobile tuning out Miss Aha's lecture.
Nupur frowned at Mayank's careless attitude as she listened to Miss Aha with rapt attention.
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