Chapter 1
2006:
7th July.It was the first day at college for the first year students. After years of studying, months of cramming and days of examinations they had reached this place. Kasturba Gandhi College ( I just realized that this may be a girls college, not sure).
Armaan Mallik hadn't attended the orientations, he had his dad's funeral to attend. Billy Mallik passed away of cancer without even getting to see his youngest child attend college. Armaan came to college on the 3rd day, excitement oozing out from every pore of his body. He was upset about his dad, mind you, but he hadn't seen his dad much so he didn't feel the loss as much as his elder brother and sister did. Atul Mallik was 8 years elder to Armaan and treated him like a son. Pooja Mallik was 4 years younger than Atul and the family brat. The entire family had come to make the baby of the house as comfortable as possible in this new place. The Malliks were based in jaipur, they wanted Armaan to study in there colleges but he wanted to carve his own path, his own way.
Sushant Das also was from Jaipur. He belonged to a middle class family of jewelers. His great grandfather had made jewellery for the royal family, but only few of his sons and grandsons had chosen to follow his path. So, inspite of being famous and highly respected, they had very less money. Not that you would ever be able to decipher that by looking at Sushant, he liked to flaunt. A lot.
Ranveer Sisodia( I just miss this character…lol) was a typical rajasthani guy from sanganer. Tall, lean and brooding.
The three to-be friends met in the boys hostel's warden's office. The Rajasthani in them was hard to hide and all of them stuck together, needing something from home to feel safe in a new place. There were a whole lot of issues regarding the hostel registration so Armaan decided to chuck it. His bhabhi, anjali's maika was nearby, he decided to take his friends along and live there till they found a PG.
Anjali's younger sister was Yamini, Armaan's girlfriend. He would do anything for her, literally anything. They had met when all the talks were going on for Atul and anjali's wedding in 2004. They fell in love soon and had been together ever since. Armaan's main reason of not living in a hostel was to find a PG close to yamini's house.
2008:
2 years later, the three of them- Armaan, Sushant,Ranveer, continued to remain friends. All of them lived separately though. Armaan and Yamini were no longer together.
8th july. The new batch of KGMC was supposed to meet in block A room 201 after they had submitted their documents and certificates in the office.
Riddhima entered the room, exhausted from all the running around she had to do for the document submission, and sat down on the first seat she could find. Suddenly a girl called out her name from across the class.
Girl: you are Riddhima Gupta?
R: yes, you were in Aakash institute na?
Girl: no, silly. I'm Muskaan. We used to be in the same class till you lef the school.
R: I'm sorry I don't remember you.
M: oh koi gal nai yaar. Itthe aaja .
Riddhima went and sat down on the first bench with Muskaan and her friend. She felt a bit conscious as she never sat on the first bench. But she did it coz she wanted to learn as much as possible in college and it was common knowledge that the teachers paid more attention to the first benchers.
R: hi, im Riddhima Gupta.
M: main muskaan. Aur yeh hai sapna
S: hi
R: hi
As the girls started talking about school, home and what would happen in college, a group of people entered the class. They looked older than the freshers and were obviously their seniors.
R(whispering) : yaar yeh humare seniors lag rahe hain
S: haan. Ab humari ragging hogi kya. Mujhe darr lag raha hai
M: oye chup karo tum dono. Sun toh lo kya keh rahe hai
Senior: hi guys, we are your seniors. I am Swati . we have come to introduce ourselves to you guys. Now we'll call each one of you one by one and you have to give your introduction in Hindi.
You are supposed to call us maam or sir, no bhaiya or didi here.
One by one the students got up and gave their introduction, some were asked to sing and some to dance. One of the senior guys looked at Muskaan and said something in Swati's ear.
Swati (pointing at Muskaan) : you come here
M: yes maam.
Swati: committed ho?
M: ji?
Swati: boyfriend hai?
M: nai maam
S: good. Chalo ab apna introduction.
M: Main hoon Muskaan Sharma. Main delhi ki rehne wali hoon. Maine apni padhayi Mother's international se ki hai. Mujhe gaane sunna aur naachna bohot pasand hai.
S: naachna hmm..chalo dance for us.
M: music?
S: hum chala rahe hai, tum shuru toh karo.
M (points to the guy who was earlier talking to Swati): sir, can I have this dance with you?
Guy: sure
Swati plays a slow song on her cellphone and muskaan and the guy start dancing.
Guy: hi im Rahul Grewal
M( shyly): muskaan, sir.
Rahul: kya? Tum sir I mean ladka ho? Dekh ke toh bilkul nahi lagta.
M: very funny.
R: oye watch out, im your senior.
M: sorry sir.
R: mazaak kar raha tha, chill.
Soon the song ended and Muskaan went back to her seat.
Just when Riddhima was giving her introduction, a guy entered the class. He was obviously in a hurry as he didn't see Riddhima and bumped into her. Riddhima was about to fall down when he caught her by the waist. He quickly made her stand up, apologized and left.
Riddhima went back to her seat and Muskaan started teasing her.
M: kya baat hai madam? Pehle din hi logon pe line maar rahi ho.
R( blushing): nahi..voh..main toh..dhakka laga..umm..
M: haan haan sab pata hai humein. Sahi hai beta. Ab toh tum super seniors ke saath rahogi aur hum juniors ko bhool jaogi. Bade log
R: super senior?
S: kya riddhima tumhe kuch pata bhi hota hai. Jinke saath tum takrayi thi voh the Armaan Mallik, KGMC ke kaafi famous student. Aur apni class ke CR (class representative).
M: acting- shacting bhi karte hai
Riddhima couldn't stop blushing and she didn't even know why. She was in love with someone else.
R: voh sab chodo. Muskaan tum kaun hoti ho mujhe chedne vaali. Tumne toh khud senior ko dance ke liye pucha.
M(shrugged): cute tha. Aur akele thodi na dance karti.
S and R (together): cute tha..ohhhhhhhhhhhhh……….
M: pagal ho dono. He's not my type.
R: humne toh kuch kaha bhi nahi muskaan.
Just like this, bickering and teasing a year passed. Muskaan, Riddhima and Sapna became the closest of friends. Rahul, it later turned out had fallen for Muskaan the moment he saw her chatting away that first day. Riddhima and Rahul also became very close. Riddhima tried her best to make Muskaan admit her feelings for Rahul. Muskaan, everyone knew, loved Rahul. She said it too, but never infront of him.
Riddhima was in love with Kabir, had been since a very long time. Everyone knew about it, even Kabir. The two of them would talk for hours every night. Riddhima would always hope that someday he would tell her that he loved her but he never did. Slowly she was trying to distance herself from him. She wasn't even sure if what she felt for him was love or not. Shayad aadat ho gayi ho use pyaar karne ki, isliye bhula nahi paati ho. Many guys had expressed interest in her , she had dated two guys but later broke up with them saying that she loved someone else. Now she was waiting for someone who could make her forget the years of pain she had to bear while waiting for Kabir. Muskaan, obviously hated Kabir with a passion. She would insult him whenever she could. According to her he was using Riddhima and she couldn't see that.
Sapna was engaged to a guy her parents had chosen for her. They were to be married after she completed her graduation. She was initially opposed to the idea of marriage at such an early age and then she met him, Siddhant (I know,lol). He was two years elder than her and was currently in his final year of MBA. Sapna was completely smitten with Siddhant. You would always find her fiddling with her ring and smiling. Muskaan nad Riddhima gave her hell when she zoned out to Sid-land.
2010,Jan:
Riddhima had just came back from her cousin's wedding. She had to miss four days of college coz of it and she really missed her friends. The four friends( Rahul used to hang out with them all the time except when they had class) squealed and hugged, even cried. Looking at them one would think that they met after years but they were really close and spending even a day without each other was a very rare event.
They spoke about these past 4 days, what happened in college at the wedding. The latest gossips, current affairs, movies, everything. All of a sudden muskaan shouted really loud.
M:RIDZIIIIIIIIIIIII
Ra:muski, Ridz idhar hi baithi hai. Chilla mat.
M: chup kar oye khote da puttar.
Ra: oye main tera senior hoon
M:senior hai toh ja na apne senior doston ke paas, yahan kya kar raha hai
Ra: ja raha hoon. Bulaegi toh bhi nai aaunga
M: ja na. main nai bulane wali tujhe. Kan khajoora
S: yaar yeh ladai chodo , muskaan bata baat kya hai.
M: haan dekho itni imp baat thi. Is chappad-ganju ne bhula dia
ALL: MUSKAAN!!!!
M: acha acha batati hoon. Ridz, tujhe last year drama club join karna tha na but auditions nai rakhe the kamlon ne.
R(all excited): haan haan, kya hua
M: aaj uska audition hai
R: kab
M(looks at rahul's watch) : 5 min pehle shuru hua tha
R: muski tu bhi na . chalo main ja rahi hoon.bye.
Riddhima gets up and runs.
M(shouting): abe pagal, puch toh le kahan hai. But riddhima is already out of her hearing. So she pulls Rahul and Sapna and the three of them run after Riddhima.
The four of them reach the room where audition was taking place. Riddhima had wanted to join the drama club for so long and finally she got a chance. Her friends went and sat on the empty chairs in the room while Riddhima stood outside waiting for her turn.
Riddhima entered the room when her name was called up. There was a table at the front of the class where three girls were sitting. All of them were staring at her. One of them stood up and started to introduce herself.
Girl: hi im Senora bansal. (pointing to each of them one by one) this is Khushi Chawla, Nidhi Gupta, Ranveer Sisodia, Sushant das And that's Armaan Mallik.
R: hi, I'm Riddhima Gupta. She said this while looking at Armaan ,who had been staring at her since the moment she entered the room. Armaan, she didn't know why but the name sounded familiar. And he looked familiar too.
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Hi. this was basically the intro part. Had to set up a background so did it all in one chapter itself. Hope you like it. Please comment or press the like button or both. I am free today so might put up the next part tonight.
Thanks for reading
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Sagarika
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