The Truth About Taani (rest of the update is done on Pg.9!) - Page 2

My True Friends

As VP sir leaves the projector room, aka World War 3 zone, Taani continues yelling at the dance team for their carelessness and lack of seriousness and effort towards NDC, aka the National Dance Championship.

"Enough Taani! Stop treating us like slaves," yells Sharon. "You're our GS, not some princess."

Taani smirks when Sharon says this, and Swayam slaps his forehead. "You don't anything about me Miss Rai Prakash," says Taani, coming face to face with Sharon. "And you know what, I honestly don't care if you guys win NDC anymore. If you guys lose, then it'll be your own faults. Maybe then you'll finally learn to take responsibility for your actions."

"Listen Taani -" Simmi starts to say, but Taani beats her to it.

"No, you listen! You guys blamed me for Sharon resigning from her post right? Well new flash, your precious diva Sharon was too caught up in her own little world to notice something as simple as our entry forms. But instead of blaming her, you blamed me! Somehow Sharon ended up becoming the victim, and as usual, I was the bad guy. If I'm not mistaken, Sharon has been the cultural secretary of this college for three years. So therefore, she should receive severe punishment for making silly mistakes like this. But me, even with only a year of experience, I have to listen to all this shit about making silly mistakes, and please do tell me which ones I've made because I'd love to know, even though I have less experience. Where's the freaking logic here?"

Then she turns to Sharon, eyes red and blazing with anger, and says, "And Sharon, I thought that you were more mature than this. How can you not see that your team is being over-confident and that this is going to affect our college? Oh right, your ego! The size of your ego is much too big for you to see that what your friends are doing is wrong, am I right?"

"Taani enough! How dare you say that to Sharon?!" shouts Swayam, as he raises his hand to slap her, only to stopped by someone punching him, most likely dislocating his jaw.

And who was the brave soul who punched the loverboy? Why Arjun Malhotra of course!

"Don't you dare touch her!" he growls, clearly pissed off. He looks at Taani who's being held by Disha, due to the fact that she nearly fell because she was so shocked that her big brother would actually try to hit her.

"How dare you try to slap her?!" he demands, grabbing Swayam's collar. Disha leaves Taani's side and goes over to Arjun.

"Let go of him Juno," she says calmly. Arjun wants to protest, but seeing the firm look that Disha had in her eyes, he unwillingly lets go of Swayam. Swayam breathes out a sigh of relief, but that doesn't last too long with Disha now standing toe to toe with him as she says, "Don't be so relived Swayam Shekawat. I'm just as pissed as he is right now. I can't believe you tried to slap Taani of all people! Your Taanu, your baby sister, your baby doll, your cutiepie, your princess... and for who?"

She gestures towards Sharon, "The girl who's broken your heart more times than even Einstein can count?"

She then points to Rey, "The guy who broke you sister's heart and made her cry multiple times?"

She finally sends a threatening death glare towards the dance team, "Or your so-called friends over there who are about as loyal as Tasmanian Devils?"

She turns her attention back to Swayam, "You tried to slap the girl who's always been there for you for them?!"

"Not only has she always been there for you, but she's always put your happiness before hers. And let's not forget all the trouble she'd get into just to support and defend you," adds Arjun.

Sharon was pissed at two random people just showing up out of nowhere and insulting Swayam, so she gets in front of him, narrowing her eyes at Disha, and says "Listen whoever you are, this does not concern you, so just get the hell out of here!"

Disha glares at Sharon and says "Yes it does concern us Miss Sharonjeet Rai Prakash. If this matter has anything to do with our best-friend, then yes, it does concern us."

Rey then comes forward, causing Disha to snap her head in his direction, and says, "Enough okay! Who the hell do think you are just walking in here and insulting my best-friends? You know what, you are such a -" Rey doesn't get to finish that sentence due to Arjun grabbing him by his shirt collar and looking ready to knock him unconscious.

"Finish that sentence and Swayam won't be the only one walking out of here with a dislocated jaw," he warns.

Normally Disha would yell at him for something like this and tell him that she's not some damsel in distress, but this wasn't the best situation for that. She then gently places her hand top of Arjun's, and has him let go of Rey's shirt collar. She gives him a reassuring look and turns to face Rey, "Unless you want to die at the age of twenty-two, you really shouldn't be talking right now. And where was this protective attitude when your friends were insulting your then-girlfriend? You know, the one you claimed to be oh-so in love with."

Taani finally stops crying and is about to say something, when she sees Swayam shaking his head. "Rey needs to hear this," he mouths. Taani's confused about her brother's actions, so she turns her head back to Disha and Rey.

"What I want to know is, if you loved Taani so much, then why was she always your last priority?" demands Arjun, sending an accusing look Rey's way. "If you can be the best dancer, the best AGS, the best-friend, then why not the best boyfriend? Or at least an adequate boyfriend. All Taani ever wanted to do was spend some quality time with you. Was that really too much to ask?"

"Oh please!" exclaims Disha, rolling her eyes. "This idiot was ready to break up with Taani to save his friendship with Swayam. Yes, I know that Taani would've supported this, but do you really think he thought about Taani and her feelings?"

"Excuse me!" yells Sharon, coming in front of Rey, lightly shoving Disha. "Rey was hiding his identity as a dancer from Swayam's dad so that he can accept his and Taani's relationship."

"Oh wow, what a sacrifice!" says Disha, rolling her eyes while clapping loudly and dramatically. She smiles at Sharon sweetly and speaks to her in such a tone that clearly expresses that she is one hundred percent done with Sharon's attitude, "Sharon, you really should give up this whole dancing thing. You've got a much better chance at becoming lawyer. All your life, all you've done is defend Rey, and now Swayam, and I'm assuming you're going to do more of that in the future, so you might as well make a career out of it right? Besides, Sharonjeet Rai Prakash the lawyer sounds so much better than Sharon Rai Prakash the dancing diva! What say?"

Sharon looks like she's about to pop a blood vessel by now. "You - you - bitch! How dare you? And Sharonjeet..." shouts Sharon, as she struggles to find her words, unable to form proper sentences.

"Just what the hell do you think of yourself?" she continues, hoping to say something to shut this girl up once and for all. "You're - you're - such a brat! Bloody bade baap ki bigdi hui beti!"

Disha's face goes pale at Sharon's words, as Taani, Arjun, and Swayam's eyes go wide, but Sharon was on a roll.

"Oops, sorry," she says, faking a smile. "Your dad disowned you, didn't he? Smart guy no?" Sharon sees a tear slide down Disha's cheek, which she obviously tries to hide with her hair, immediately making her feel bad, but Sharon's ego was much too large for her to stop.

"Aw, is the entitled little brat hurt?"

While that may have been a smart thing to say in Sharon-land, it was certainly not the best for this situation. Sharon realized that when Taani, who had clearly had enough of Sharon insulting her best-friend, gave her a hard slap on the cheek. Sharon is beyond shocked that Taani Shekhawat of all people just slapped her. But no one's more shocked than the dance team, minus Swayam.

"Taani, did you just slap Sharon?" they demand.

"Yes! Do you guys seriously think that I'm just going to let Miss Sharon Rai Prakash get away with insulting my best-friend? No freaking way!" shouts Taani."I know that loyalty is kind of a foreign concept to you guys, but if you mess with my friends, then you deal with me. I'm surprised that you guys weren't aware of this until now. I mean, once upon a time, I did consider you guys to be my friends. God, what was I thinking?!"

She turns her attention to Sharon, and gives her this disappointed look, "Sharon, I treated you like you were my sister, my big sister! I admired you and I looked up to you, but right now, after what I just witnessed and the way you've been behaving... I am embarrassed by the fact that I ever aspired to be like you!"

She then turns her attention to her brother and look at him in disbelief, "Bhai, you're no better. I just can't believe you! I've always thought that I was able to turn to you the way that you'd always turn to me. But apparently this relationship of ours, brother and sister, just involves me being the sister. And don't give me that look because you know damn well that you haven't been my brother ever since this whole Taani versus the world thing started!"

She finally diverts her attention towards Rey, "And you Rey? Anya was so right about you. If I had only I listened to her, but no! I just had to fall in love with you. I'm such an idiot! She warned me about, what you're like, but I was so in love with you that I didn't even bother listening to her. How could I forget that all dancers are the same? The only thing they're good at, other than dancing of course, is hurting people."

She wipes away her tears, and runs out of the projector room and into the corridor, with Disha and Arjun following her.

When Arjun and Disha finally catch up to Taani, Arjun grabs her by the arm and while panting, asks, "Saali P.T. Usha ki bachi! Where the hell the do you think you're going?"

"Home."

"And what are going to do after that?" asks Disha.

"Packing."

"What, why?" Arjun and Disha ask in unison. They look at each other, their eyes locking.

Taani looks back and forth between the two and says, "I don't know, maybe jump off a bridge or something."

Arjun and Disha snap their heads back inTaani's direction. Looking at their faces, Taani chuckles and says, "Just joking. I'm going to Jodhpur."

Disha puts her arm around her best-friend and says, "Babes, you're going home to pack, but you're not going to Jodhpur. I'm taking you to my place."

"But Dishu -" Taani starts to protests, but Disha cuts her off.

"No ifs, ands, or buts," she says. "And don't call me Dishu."

"But mamaji -" Taani starts to protest again, but an extremely irritated Disha cuts her off again and says, while shaking her shoulders.

"DUDE! Chill. Uncle's gone out of town right?" Taani nods her head yes. "Toh jab wapas aaenge, tabki tab dekhenge."

"Disha, did you just watch FALTU or something? Tabki tab dekhenge," says Taani, mimicking that last part.

"That's not the point!" exclaims Disha. "The point here is that uncle already had a problem with you staying with Swayam, so he won't have a problem with you staying with me."

Taani takes a deep breath and exhales. Then she smiles at her best-friends and says "You guys are the best!" Arjun and Disha are delighted to see their best-friend smile after so long, but Arjun decides to really make her laugh.

He says, "I don't know about Disha, but I'm definitely the best." He winks at her, and Taani bursts out laughing.

Disha on the other hand, is not amused by this. "Arjun you bloody - I am going to kill you!" she yells, running after him, which isn't too easy since her heels are at least three inches tall. Taani giggles and starts to run after them, thanking her Krishnaji for bringing these two creatures into her life.

My Mistakes

As Vicky, Nilesh, Bharat, and Simmi continue bitching about Taani and her friends, the others start to get a little irritated.

Finally, Sharon snaps and yells, "Enough guys! What -" She doesn't get to finish her sentence due to her asthma kicking in. She starts coughing hysterically and runs out of the projection room with every intention of heading to the girls' locker room, not noticing the fact that Rinni was following her.

Luckily for Sharon, no one was really in the locker room when she arrived. She opened her locker and took three breaths from her inhaler, not knowing that Rinni was there.

"Sharon?" a shocked Rinni's voice rings out.

Sharon turns around to face Rinni and says "Rinni?" Oh shit! she thinks.

Rinni walks over to Sharon and asks "Sharon, you have asthma and you didn't even think to tell me?" Sharon looks at her best-friends guiltily. Rinni sighs as she continues, "I'm your best-friend! Didn't you think that it was important to tell me something like this?"

"Rinni, I'm really sorry!" stammers Sharon, now feeling extremely guilty. "I only told Simmi, but then Swayam found out accidentally, and Rey doesn't even know about this, and -"

"Sharon, it's okay. Just breathe. I don't want you getting another attack."

Sharon breathes in and out a couple times, and calms down. Once Rinni sees that she's calmed down a little, she asks, "Do you need a ride home? You didn't bring your car today so I was just wondering."

"You're going home?"

Rinni sighs. "Yeah. Honestly Sharon, I'm done listening to all this bitching about Taani. I admit, my behavior towards her wasn't exactly the best, but I'm beginning to realize that she was right about us not being serious about NDC, about us being too over-confident. Although she didn't have to be so rude and strict about it, we didn't have to show her all that attitude either."

Rinni starts to walk away, but as she's at the entrance, she turns around and adds, "Think about what you've heard today Sharon."

Once Rinni leaves, Sharon sits down on one of the benches, everyone's words echoing in her head.

"If you guys lose, then it'll be your own faults. Maybe it'll teach you to take responsibility for your actions."

"Too caught up in her own little world to notice something as simple as our entry forms.

"If I'm not mistaken, Sharon has been the cultural secretary of this college for three years. So therefore, she should receive severe punishment for making silly mistakes like this."

"And Sharon, I thought that you were more mature than this. How can you not see that the team is being over-confident and that this is going to affect the college? Oh right, your ego! The size of your ego is much too big for you to see that what your friends are doing is wrong, am I right?"

"I admired you and I looked up to you, but right now, after what I just witnessed and the way you've been behaving... I am embarrassed by the fact that I ever aspired to be like you!"

Sharon puts her head in her hands, and then jumps and shouts, "They're right! They're all right. How could I have not realized this up until now? Oh, that's right, my ego! And on top of that my asthma and feelings for Swayam."

Then she remembers that tear sliding down Disha's cheek and bites her lip. "I shouldn't have talked to her like that. Taani did the right thing by slapping me, I would've done the same."

With that, Sharon walks over to the projection room, only to stop at the entrance when she hears shouting. And for once, it's not Nilesh, Vicky, Bharat or Simmi complaining about Taani.

"Everybody shut up!" she hears Swayam yell. "Today, because of you guys, I almost slapped my baby sister. But it's also my fault. Instead of supporting her, I listened to you guys and let you convince me that she was wrong. Thank you so much guys!" With that, he walks out of the projection room, not noticing Sharon.

Sharon looks back at her friends, and she can see that Amar wants to say something, but instead, he walks out of the room and follows Swayam, also not noticing Sharon.

The Vicky, Nilesh, Bharat, and Simmi continue their ranting as if nothing happened, and Rey looks like he's about to pop a blood vessel.

"Enough guys! You've been lectured all day, but you still don't understand anything? You've been repeating the same word over and over again! Non-dancer. Don't you guys get sick of it? Well you know what? Taani might not be as great as you guys when it comes to dancing, but she's a much better person than you'll ever be." He walks out of the projection room, not noticing Sharon.

But three out of the four still don't get it. Vicky, Bharat, and Simmi just keep going on and on about how Taani wronged them, while Neha and Aashi look about as pissed of as Rey and Swayam did. Even Nilesh looks irritated by their behavior at this point.

That's when Sharon finally loses it!

She marches into the projection room and shouts "Enough guys! Swayam, Rey, Taani... everyone gave you these huge speeches, yet you can't manage to drill one simple fact through your thick skulls! I admit that her rudeness was unnecessary, but she just wanted what's best for us. If it wasn't for Taani, we wouldn't even be participating in NDC. I admit that I went against Taani as well, but only because I was blinded by my ego and my own problems. And she's damn right! We're way too over-confident. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of toddlers come and beat us.

But guys, you have brains of your own too right? Just because I didn't agree with Taani's point of view at the time, doesn't mean that you guys need to share my point of view as well. You guys should old and mature enough to understand things like this. People shouldn't have to explain it to you over and over again. So just - grow up and stop acting like a bunch of losers."

Sharon furiously stomps out of the projection room with Neha and Aashi following her. They don't even bother yelling at their friends. Like Sharon said, they should be old and mature enough to understand these things themselves. And eventually, Nilesh walks out of the room as well, leaving his friends to ponder over their actions.