Okay I know I know! All the sandals and tomatoes are ready...I am extremely sorry for being sooo late! Yes I am alive guys and girls! :D
I have been quite busy with all the studies and stuff..in short school sucks! ( at least the studying part of it..-__-)
Hmm..I won't take an more of your time..go on read, what are you waiting for? Diwali?!
Hope you like it..
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Chapter 3: ( finally! I have done it! :P)
Kria's POV:
I was sitting in one corner of the classroom, with Ass and Sam sitting next to me. I had never thought, that I could come all the way to the classroom, without being noticed by anyone. I was early for college, for the first time in my entire college life!
"Dude! Did you see yesterday?" Asmita Poked me hard in my gut.
" you need to stop doing that.." I replied as I rubbed the sore spot.
" that's impossible, anyway...did you see?!" she practically jumped out of her seat.
" oh god! Not again, you two!" Samvida face palmed, and rolled her eyes.
" what?!" both ass and I defended.
" you and your kahani mohabbat hai! Seriously! You need to get over that serial." sam slammed her book shut.
" kitnai mohabbat hai you dud!" I shrieked and slapped her right across her left cheek.
" ughh! This is violence, why can't you stop slapping me?!" Sam replied.
" oh please? How can you expect me to stop violence?" I retorted.
"True.." both of them chimed in.
Ass poked me again, and gave me a look. After that I had no option but to shut up and listen to what she had to say.
" oh god! Yesterday, she, decides to you know, take revenge and she goes to their mansion, and like they are having a party, then suddenly there is this dhol sound and there comes a girl in a golden sari, with a red duppata on her head, dude! Guess who that could be?"
" AAROHI!" ass and I exclaimed, this was something we had in common, the love for youth shows!
I had seen the episode obviously, but I had seen it on my pc, I had come back late at night. While Ass had already seen it..generally we see it together.
"then, Arjun has that Epic look on his face! Then he is smirking, oh my gosh., his smirk, Kundra! Aahh! Mein mar jaungi..he looked so sexy!" ass gushed out loud, while clasping her hands and drifting of to her Kundra land..
" uh huh! Not sexy-" I said
" SESCY!" even Sam joined us now.
All three of us burst into fits of laughter when I saw the gang enter the classroom. Trust RDX sir to keep all of them in one class?! I have every freaking lecture with them! I sunk into my chair, using my hair as a curtain to hide my face.
"Kria, upar utho, you are not going to hide anymore! Face them, what happened to your strong-kria-attitude now eh?" Ass looked at me pointedly.
" I am not a coward! I will have to face them anyway..fine then. As you wish.." I sat up straighter reluctantly, just to prove my point. I grabbed my hair into a bunch, and flicked it onto the other side of my shoulder. Yes, now my hair was much more difficult to handle, I had let it down naturally, I didn't bother to curl my hair these days, i preferred to leave it straight.
I wasn't showing it to Ass, but I didn't want To see them, not now, not ever! I could just cross my fingers and hope, no one sees me. I had promised Sharon anyway, that I won't interfere in any of their lives.
I glanced over to them, saw the guys goofing around as always, Bharat as usual was performing some stunts, amar was tutting while Vishakha and Neha were hi-fiving each other. Sharon was blushing- wait a minute, what? Sharon Raiprakash was blushing?! That too, because of something Swayam whispered in her ear. Everyone was hooting and cheering, teasing Sharon and swayam. Looks like a lot had changed since the past two months..
I guess, There was no weaklings and dazzlings anymore, even Sharon was talking to everyone even the so called weaklings..and they also sort of looked like, friends? Wow. Quite a lot had changed.
But my eyes, searched for only one face, which I couldn't find any where. My eyes darted to the entrance, vicky and nilesh, had just entered, and had alarmed looks on their faces.
What I didn't notice earlier, was the girl who was standing behind Swayam. She looked like, she had jumped out of a circus with all the colours splashed together rather unnecessarily.
I was guessing she was the new lead on the team, swayam's sister. What was her name again?
What's happening in this college? I looked at Sharon, who had finally recovered from her blush stricken state. She was listening to something that vicky was saying, I could feel the atmosphere turn serious. Everyone had shut up, and were listening to what he was saying.
" Sharon, emergency, woh Rey, basket ball court mein, I don't know kya hua, but he is fighting, last time toh VP ne usse sirf warning di thi, but ab, I don't think he's gonna get away so easily."
What? Warning? Reyansh was fighting? He had done it earlier? Ye sab kya ho raha hai? I had never imagined him to be the violent type of person. At least i believed, that he was sensible enough to solve out problems by talking.
All or a sudden, everybody's mobiles beeped, indicating a text. Everyone reads the text, in synchronisation, and shocked expressions were all I could see. They headed out, and the others followed them. Should I go? Could I take this risk?
I looked at Ass and Sam curiously. Hoping to get the answer.
" what are we waiting for? Chalo! Our first controversy in this college! Oh sorry I had forgotten, Kria ko toh habit hogi na? After all that I have heard." Sam teased.
" I think we should go Kria." Ass looked at me seriously.
Both of them practically dragged me all the way to the basket ball court, obviously they didn't know where it was so in the end, I had to show them the way.
I pushed through the eager crowd of students, till I could see the whole fight from the grills. I held onto the grill, to get a better look, There were about 10 guys, and Reyansh was beating them up. The girls were standing in one end of the court, while the boys who had just arrived, got into action, and helped him.
For the first time, I had seen Swayam and Amar fight. But I could look at anybody else. I was focusing on him, his every move. The look on his face frightened the daylights out of me. I could see raw anger, I couldn't find a better word, anger was too small. the intensity with which he was fighting, shocked me. They way he was smashing the guy's skull with a metal rod, not even thinking of what he was doing, dodging and taking hits from time to time.
Two of the guys were, catching their breath, as they stood in front of me. They were plotting something. It did sound like a plan, cause they conversed for a minute.
" gher usko. Baaki sabko chod! GS ko Pakad, kahin se bhi weapons leke aa, hockey, chair legs. Whatever! Just do it as fast as possible." the guys instructed.
My heart beat quickened, they were talking about Reyansh, I needed to tell them! He wasn't in a very good state anyway, there was blood all over his face, shirt torn and ripped at many places, dirt covering most of his body. I had to go and tell him, or warn him in some way!
Within, less than five minutes, there were about 20 more guys entering the court, armed with hockey sticks, baseball bats and cricket bats. Some of them even had dangerous looking knives and chains wrapped around their knuckles.
All the other 11 of our guys, started fighting harder, tackling two people at a time. But they were outnumbered, they were 12 while there were about thirty of them. Even if they took two at a time, they could easily execute the plan that I had heard. I was frantic, looking around for help, I couldn't get out of this crowd any time soon. My eyes widened, as I saw seven of them standing behind Reyansh, ready to pounce on him, but he was too busy in fighting off the others.
What could I do? I fished out my phone from my pocket, and searched for Sharon's number. I clicked on the green button, hoping that she would pick up. I looked at her, standing at the other side of the court, there is no way I could talk to her. She wasn't even picking up her phone.
I looked up again, they guys were inching forwards slowly, thats when I threw my bag, and started climbing up the grill. No one paid attention, as everyone was too busy. I couldn't think of anyone else, as his figure danced in front of my eyes, the adrenaline kicked in, and I ran all the way to the other end of the court, I heard murmurs, and gasps, as they realised it was me.
" Reyansh! Duck!" I screamed , as I was half way through.
He looked behind him, and ducked just as the guy swung his bat. He didn't bother to look up and see who it was, and just continued. I stopped in my tracks, 20 steps away from him. I turned around, to face the girls, and waved my hand at their shocked faces and signalled them to help me out.
I saw Sharon, instructing the girls. Vishakha, Sharon, Neha, Simmi and swayam's sister hurriedly climbed up the grills, while rinni rushed off somewhere. I guess she was going to encourage more people to join in.
All of them ran to me, expecting me to give them orders or something. All of them had mixed emotions, they were shocked as well as happy, and i think angry as well.
" okay, girls, I shall explain all this later. Abhi, we need to help the guys as much as we can. I know, we might not be great fighters but we are dancers! Imagine that this is a piece from your choreography and use full force. Remember one thing! Don't forget to kick them where it hurts alright? Let's get going now!" I ordered, just like I used to conduct our dance rehearsals, except his time I wasn't requesting anyone.
All of them obliged, and sprinted off in different directions. Sharon and I went and helped nilesh who was being held by two guys while the third one was beating him.
They looked at us in disbelief, and I took advantage of their distraction and quickly punched the guy on his nose. He didn't take much time to recover and without hesitation threw a punch back at me which I dodged.
" poor you. I am a dancer you know, it needs a lot of strength to be one. Specially if you are also trained in kick boxing and gymnastics." I remarked rather proudly.
I swiftly slid sideways, and kicked him with my knee, and punched him simultaneously, and he collapsed. Men can't even fight these days? Ghor kalyug hai!
I helped Sharon, she had managed to kick him, and was now dodging the punches he was aiming at her. That's when I saw the shiny metal shine in his hands, he clutched onto the dagger, and moved forward. But before he could use it, Swayam flung him away, and started beating the crap out of him.
I dint have time to marvel over his fighting skills, and I started fighting of another one. He was comparatively very short, in fact he was shorter than me. But the only problem was that he was holding a hockey stick, and was swinging it dangerously.
After five minutes of fighting I had managed to knock him down. I would have paid attention on what was happening but, I couldn't. My eyes drifted to my right, where Reyansh was, Taani was standing beside him, and sobbing into his shirt as he fought off two guys together. Anger and hate boiled inside me, I felt I could take two goons at a time now.
I saw him finally leave that bi**h and look at me. I held his confused gaze, And forgot where we were. That's when something Rigid hit my back, and I was thrown rashly to the ground. My palms stung, under the concrete floor, there was going to be a huge bruise on my back now. I still didn't look away, I was looking at him directly, and he was staring right back, whilst the guy kept banging the bat on my back. The pain that I was feeling in the pit of my stomach right now, was much worse than the physical pain they were causing.
To my disappointment he looked away, and resumed his fighting, leaving me here, to be beaten by these ruthless goons.
To top it all, it started raining! It just had to rain right?! Why god why? I pushed myself up, in one swift motion I was on my feet again. My back hurt a little. I turned around to see the guy looking at me hungrily, well, yeah..maybe I wasn't wearing the best clothes for a fight, a White halter neck, backless top with denim shorts. I started fighting as skilfully as possible, and tried to distract him.
I was in middle of blowing a kick in his gut when I was pulled back into something really hard. I looked up only to see, a really handsome face smeared with blood and dirt, that was running down his face because of the heavy rain. He was holding some other guy, who was probably going to attack me when I wasn't looking.
"ek ladki ko piche se Maarte hue sharam nai aati?" he spat venomously at the guy.
" kyu be? Aage se Maar sakta hu?" the guy replied cheekily.
" nai, tab tak nai jab woh ladki mein hu!" I replied.
With that, I ducked under the arm that was holding me back and crashed my fist onto his nose, I could clearly hear a crack, and it was confirmed as blood started flowing down his nose. His eyes flared with fury and he bashed his skull into mine, which I dodged conveniently, but his fist hit me straight on my belly, sending me flying back, onto the ground, except I was caught by Reyansh.
But sadly the bliss that I had always felt in his arms, was very faint. It was there though. Maybe it had to do something with the anger radiating from both of us, more than that, I couldn't feel happy when he was glaring at me With those hateful eyes. I closed my eyes, and the tears leaked down, thankfully it was well hidden by the rain. At least I hope he didn't see them.
I opened my eyes, and the next thing I felt was the hard concrete ground, and I fell on my butt. I took in two deep breaths and counted till ten, so that I wouldn't punch him instead, but when I looked up, I found him gone. What else had I expected? I sighed and got ready to get up again, I guess Reyansh had already settled the two guys.
I glanced around the court, all the men were knocked out, and some of them had escaped. I cracked a smile, in satisfaction, everything was sorted. Then my eyes flickered towards my ex-friends, advancing in my direction.
Crap! This was not going to be a pleasant reunion. I think everything wasn't sorted.Yet. I readied myself,to fight back, argue and use really really harsh words.
Everyone was heading one by one. First up Was vishakha. Oh joy! The angry tigress had to be the first one. She kept walking until she was standing right in front of me, just two steps away. I took in a deep breath, readying myself for the worst argument I had ever had.
"hi vishakha. Been a long time eh?" I cracked a smile nervously trying to start the conversation.
I didn't have a chance to say anything, my voice was muffled by her shoulder, she had practically pounced on me, except she wasn't beating the crap out of me, instead she was hugging me? My eyes widened, as Neha and the other girls followed except sharon and beside her stood the Universal witch of course. ( A/N : *cough* miss. Naani with aankh mein paani*cough*)
Why were they hugging me? Specially rinni and simmi? I was never even close to them. Weren't they supposed to be angry at me? I pushed all of them away, gasping for air.
" I knew it kria! I knew it! Tum waapis aaogi, and see you are back man! I missed you so so much!" vishakha exclaimed.
" neha, still angry! Why you went, without speaking kisiko?" Neha accused cutely.
Gosh! I had missed them so much! My old besties..I stood there without responding, shocked as hell. What was happening? It was still pouring, and I could see all the boys standing behind, not making any move. I guess to much emotional drama for them. I looked at Sharon, who was looking at me pointedly, reminding me about the deal. Right! The deal. I am not going to talk to anyone, I need them to hate me.
" kria, kahan chali gai thi tum? The team, footloose finals!" simmi, spoke, whilst rinni chose to be quiet.
" well, I wish I could say the same, but I need to go. I have much better things to do than attend this not so exciting reunion party." I spoke bluntly.
Neha winced at my words, and vishkaha's face was a display of utter disbelief. Simmi and Rinni were as shocked as everyone. Even the boys looked confused, and appalled at my 'strange' behaviour. I saw Bharat come up to me, anger crossed all his features.
" teko kisne haq diya aisa Bolne ko? Ek toh chori upar se seena zori!?" he spat out angrily.
" Bharat, mujhe daya aati hai tum logon par, mujhe pehchaan nai pae? Mujhe jo chaiye tha, I got that. Popularity, respect, revenge! Ab mujhe aur kya chaiye? Tum log se mera kaam khatam, toh ab mein kyun ruku?" I deadpanned, half laughing.
I turned around, ready to leave, as tears poured down my face furiously. I silently thanked god for the rain and started walking.
The moment I took a step, my wrists were grabbed painfully, and I was being pulled back into someone's chest. I hated when people did that! Specially if it was Reyansh, who always had a thing to do that. I turned around, ready to put up a good fight against him, but I was thunderstruck when I saw none other than Swayam. My brother from another mother.
" ruko Kria, tum aisa bina jawaab diye nai jaa sakti" swayam's emotionless gaze, burnt holes through my head.
" s-sw-swayam?" I managed to choke out.
" kria, don't beat around the bush. Give me my answers" he repeated in a stern voice.
I finally broke out of whatever trance I was in and got up the facade once again.
" I don't have time Mr.Swayam Shekhawat. I thought I answered all your questions in that letter. I wasn't here because of my mother, she didn't want me to dance."
I replied calmly, like explaining it to a child. the word mother fell of my lips in disgust.
" then why are you back?" he asked in confusion.
" because, nothing holds me back now. I am here to pursue my dream, and I think you should leave me now, cause I don't want to hurt you like I did to everyone." I whispered the last part, barely audible to myself, but I guess he heard that.
He left me instantly, but there was a weird glint in his eyes, something which signalled that he didn't quite believe me. The same look that Sharon had that evening, except his was really scary. It was almost like he was upto something.
With that I walked, away, forgetting about all my problems. It was my last year over here. Bas ek saal Kria,then you can start fresh! You can forget everything, forget about St.Louis. I kept walking, and walking then slowly started sprinting, then running all the way to the old fire exit.
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I banged open the shabby wooden doors, and flung my bag as far as possible, trying to vent out my frustration. I needed to scream, really loud! My hands were balled into fists, my nails were digging into my palm.
I collapsed, sitting down on one of the steps, as angry tears leaked from my eyes. This was the worst part of being me! I hated it, when my anger came out as tears, it made me feel so weak! So helpless! I wiped off the tears, half slapping myself.
What I didn't realise was that I was being followed. The doors, opened with a crash. I jerked up, to see a very angry and wet Reyansh. I could see the veins popping at his neck, and the fury in his eyes, was like fire. He stood where he was, and looked at me accusingly. And I glared back, with equal hate. He was bleeding profusely, where the guys had made cuts with the blades. But his face had only few bruises, and half of them had no blood, as it was washed off because of the rain.
" kyun!? Why are you here?" he spat with anger.
" are you deaf? I think aap bhi the na, basket ball court mein, jab meine sab Kuch explain kiya tha!" I shot back.
" what do you think? Is this a sort of game? Playing with everyone's emotions? Bina batae chali gai, and ab jab sab normal ho raha tha toh wapas aa gai?!" his voice was rising, with every word that stumbled out of his mouth.
" mind your tone, Mr. Singhania! I am not going to tolerate it!" he was pushing my limits.
I couldn't even understand what happened, it all happened in a split second, my bare back somehow hit the cold wall rashly, I hissed in pain, as my wounds were being scraped by the rough wall.
" kya samajh ke rakha hai tumne? Sabke feelings ke saath jab chahe khel sakti ho? Why did you come back huh?! Yeh dekhne ke liye, ki how am I hanging? Whether I am sulking or not? Tumhaare dard mein ro toh nai raha? Well! Newsflash! I don't care! I am over you, and have moved on." he blabbered.
I pushed him as hard as possible, He stumbled backwards, almost falling down the Stairs, I twisted my hand, until I found the spot where it hurt, I could feel something wet and icky. I brought my hand in my view, to see red liquid stains on my fingers. Great! My shoulder was already bleeding, and now my back too.
" this is what you are capable of Reyansh! Hitting girls? How macho isn't it?" I mocked him, displaying my bare blood stained back, I could feel the warm liquid running down my spine.
I saw his face soften, guilt bubbling. But that lasted only for a nano second, his face turned cold again, losing all the warmth, and an evil smirk playing on his lips. If I hadn't known him, I would have been quite scared, he almost looked like a hungry predator, eyeing his prey for the kill.
A short gasp escaped from my lips, as I felt two fingers along the blood trail. I hissed in pain as they trailed to the wound. I heard him chuckle humourlessly, and I turned around to glare at him.
He was wiping his hands off his White t-shirt, and had a cruel smirk spread across his features. Jerk! He was inhuman!
" this is what you deserve Kria, pain..lot of pain! And I promise you, jab tak tum yahan ho, I will be the main reason of this pain." he moved closer to me, his hand on my back, he straddled me against his chest.
" you have changed Reyansh, you really have, tum insaan nai, jaanwar ban gae ho! Not the same guy, who used to help everyone and always used be polite. But take my promise too, if you are going to cause me pain, don't think I won't answer back. You are going to regret everything" I tangled my hand in his hair, and pulled his hair, pushing his face in the opposite direction as hard as I could.
"you have changed too Kria, and ah! Don't you look good? What do we have here? Another sl**t is it? You don't need to hide your real face anymore, Haina? Ab toh sabko sabkuch pata hai.." he remarked sarcastically, his eyes narrowing into slits.
The beautiful orbs, were now blank. They were dark, there was a shadow hanging over them. But there was immense fury, along with the coldness. I gulped, at his choice of words, it shouldn't affect me anymore..I am used to hearing all this all the time now. Then why did it hurt so much when it came from him?
" happy realisation day! If you don't leave me Reyansh, I am going to kick you hard, And I don't think you will ever see Reyansh juniors running about" I almost hissed. I was shocked, how did I manage to sound so rude and cold? When at the same time, my insides wanted to hug him.
But was he the same person now? What happened to him? He wasn't smiling, he is hurt for sure, but why isn't he sulking? Or throwing tantrums? Here he is, making promises in the old fire exit. If I had ever known him properly, he should be shouting at me, asking me questions, accusing me. He would never hurt a girl! At least physically, when did he become such a sadist?
"you say you are over me? I didn't have any doubts about that, but I didn't realise you had such a bad taste, what happened? When did you start falling for jokers eh?" I replied sarcastically, raising my eyebrows.
" taani, her name is taani. Dikh raha hai, you still love me don't you? Cause mujhe toh kahin se jalne ki smell aa rahi hai.." he started sniffing around like a dog.
My stomach twisted uncomfortably, at how possessive he was of that girl. He never cared for me that much, and I doubt that he ever defended me. I wanted to slap him so bad! Their closeness during the fight, flashed in my mind, making me clench my fists harder.
" I never loved you Reyansh, I thought I made it clear enough, in our previous conversation." I remarked.
His face hardened, and the obnoxious jerk, clenched his teeth, so hard I could almost hear the grinding of his teeth. He closed his eyes, taking in a deep breath, and tightening his grip. I would have cried out in pain, but I didn't.
" hit a nerve, did I?" I widened my eyes, feigning innocence and sugar dripping from my voice.
" hit a nerve, did I?" he quoted, with a shrill and high pitched voice. I most definitely didn't sound like that.
" I don't sound like that..." I muttered.
" yes, you sound much more bitchy." he stated.
" why so much hate sweety? Wont you greet? Come here! Let me hug you!" I said sarcastically.
" why so much hate Sweety? Won't you greet me? Come here! Let me hug you!" he faked enthusiasm and a high pitched voice again.
He opened his arms, and lunged at me. He was annoying me too much now. I don't think I could take it any more. He took another step, But before he could touch me, I kicked him hard, just at the correct spot and it must have hurt. I took one last glance, at him, doubled over in pain, eyes shut in agony.
" I had warned you Mr. Singhania" I flashed him a smile, and slung my bag on my shoulder. He shouldn't have got her into this. It was all his fault.
" I..going..to get...back..at you..for...every..thing." he gasped out.
" oh it's on!" I shouted back, exiting the hallway.
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How was it? Too violent? Sorry guys! Can't be helped..I have always thought that the cvs never did justice to them..so now, I can declare my love for amazing arguments and challenges, and also the screeching electric guitars in the background. :P so this is how this SS is gonna be..no 'sweet' scenes, but no disgusting scenes either..
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