
Part 5
"Katie, Get up. You'll be late for college. Come on get ready soon" Sakshi shouted trying to wake her daughter.
"Mom, 5 more minutes please." whined Kriya.
"Katie, you are saying 5 minutes from last half an hour" Sakshi said sternly," I want you at the breakfast table in 20 minutes"
"Mommm" Kriya Whined.
"Kriya!"
"Yes Mom"
Kriya (look) walked towards the window and opened the curtains. She stood there for sometime enjoying the sunlight. The light breeze was hitting her face making her smile. She looked so pure, so serene. She was suddenly feeling very calm. She never felt this calm, she always used to be restless. But today she is feeling lighter.
Why am I feeling so calm today?'
It is because of Reyansh' her heart spoke. "Reyansh" she muttered and all the flashback of the previous day came to her mind. She never expected Reyansh to appear out of the blue and starts behaving like nothing wrong happened between them. He was behaving just the way he behaved 2 years back. He's changed but still the same. His masculine frame had changed. He looked much more appealing and attractive. He had grown from a teenage boy to a Man. But the aura he carried, His glow, his touch, His kiss all were still the same.
"Kriya!"
Shrugging her thoughts, she left to get ready for college.
"Coffee?" asked Swayam(Look) forwarding the mug.
"No, Thanks" Rey (Look) denied politely.
"What no? Tu chup kar ke lele!" He ordered.
"Swayam, tujhe lagta hai she still loves me? Just the way I do?"
"Hmm.. Nahi.. She once told me she loves someone else.
"What?? he felt as if the land was snatched underneath his feet.
"Yeah..some Raa...Raa, I don't remember!" He made up a story.
"What? Who is that Jerk? How can you not remember his name?" He shouted.
"Dude, Calm Down"
"Swayam, How can be calm, When my Kriya says she loves someone else? I am going to kill that Jerk."
"wohooaa, You're still the same" He asks smiling.
"What same? And Why the hell are you smiling?" He asked confused as well as irritated.
"Just like you were in school as Sharon told me"
"School days?"
"Ab ban mat samjha! Sharon told me how you had almost killed Vansh in the party!"
"She told you everthing?"
"Not competely. Time nahi mila. Kria usse saath le gayi performance ke baad."
"Oh!"
"Waise why don't you do the honors of narrating the rest of the story?"
"So you want to know more about us?"
"Obviously you idiot, Mai tum dono ka best friend hoon and till yesterday mujhe pataa hi nahi tha mere hi dono best friends, Once upon a time couple the." He sighed.
"Sorry yaar, uss time tu waha nhi tha, so tujhe kuch bhi batane ka mauka hi nai mila" Said Rey.
"Yeah Right!"
"Please Swayam, I promise I'll tell you everything"
"Acha baba, Chill, But yes I still want to know about you guys. Maybe, I can help" Said Swayam.
"Help ? Hopefully,But jo karna hai mujhe karna hoga!" He sighed.
"Hmmm... Wo sab chod now lets start, I m waiting to know the story !"
"Toh Sharon ne tujhe kya-kya bataya??"
Jada kuch nahi !! Bas itna that how u guys became good friends!"
"Oh!"
"Now tell me how u guys started feeling for each other ?"
"Feelings toh humesha se thi ek dusre ke liye, we just never realized them"
"So When did you realize that you love her?"
"When I thought I will loose her forever, that moment I realized I cannot live without her"
"Hein?"
"It all started with our school trip to jungle!" Rey Smiled.
"Jungle ?"
"Yes, Jungle" He giggled, "I can never forget that trip"
"Kyun aisa kya hua tha?"
"The school has announced Camping Trip for the Senior Students" Announced the principal and started narrating about the details and giving intructions.
"Camping Trip, Wow, Isn't it cool?" Sharon shouted excitedly.
"Yes, we all will have so much fun" Joined Rey.
"Huh, Tum log jao. I am sure, mujhe koi permission nai milne waali hai" sulked Kriya.
"Why?" Asked Rey, "You have to come at any cost. I don't know. I won't go without you"
"Rey, You know na. Momi ka over-protective nature jo kabhi kabhi bahar aata hai and forest mei camping? You think she will happily give me permission." Said Kriya sarcastically.
"I don't care Kriya, Hum teri mom se permission lenge, But you have to come" Rey announced.
"Kria chal" Sharon dragged her.
"Wait a minute! See na this is so beautiful !"
"Yes, but see everyone is waiting for us!"
"Its fine Rey is there na! He will make our tents too"
"Ohh.. Toh madam ka ye plan hai??" Rey said in between.
"Rey tu yahan? Tu toh aage tha na apne Friends ke saath" Sharon quoted.
"Haan toh can't I come to my two besties woh jo akele akele saara maze le rhi hai?"
"Reyyy" Kriya shouted and jumped upon him taking him in a hug," Thank You, Thank You, Thank You so much, Tu na hota toh I wouldn't have been here."
"Wohoo, calm down girl, I know I am the best and waise tere liye toh jaan bhi haazir hai Jaaneman!" He smirked playfully.
"EW! Rey that was so cheesy" Kriya laughed.
"Rey, You know, you can leave her. She can stand I guess" Sharon pointed to them with a teasing smile, where Kriya still had her hands around his neck and his hands wrapped around her waist and had lifted her off the ground.
"Woops,Kriya chocolates khana band kar, dekh meri back mei pain ho rha hai ab" Rey joked.
"What? Rey k bache tujhe chodungi nahi"
"Guy stop fighting, Shalini mam is calling,! Chaloo" Sharon shouted.
"Rey bolo na isse! Its so peaceful here. And this waterfall(pic) is so beautiful! This cool breeze and everything! I'm loving it ! Please guys lets sit here for while and chit-chat!" Kria pleaded.
"Kria, for now we can't,! We will come later. Waise bhi picnic is for 2days ! We have lots of time, Okay?" Rey tried to convience her.
"Hmm.. Cool ! Chalo" - Kria agreed.
After building up tents and hearing a boring lecture from the teachers of being with the crowd and not wandering alone and all the stuffs, everybody had settled down. It was late afternoon. Everyone was enjoying there. Some running around, some playing music, dancing. But Kria was Kria !! She couldn't stop thinking about that beautiful waterfall.
She just quietly escaped them and ran to the place.
After sometime
"Kriaaa.. Kriaaa..." Sharon searched for her all over the place.
"Rey.. Rey... Suno na.." - Sharon disturbed Rey who was busy listening music with his Ipod..
"Sharom chila kyu rahi ho ?? Kya hua?" he plugged out ear phone from ear.
"Kria ko dekha kya??" she asked..
"Nope, Main uska PA thodi hun, she must be roaming somewhere" he said plugging his ear-phones.
"Look its not funny" She again shouted pulling his ear-phones
"Achha baba let me see!!"
"I had already searched each and every small place over here"
"Teacher ko bataya??"
"Are you sick ? Unhe pata to bawal ho jayega"
"Let see then" he said getting tensed.
"Kriyaaa Kriyaaa, Damm why doesn't she ever listen to me?" said a frustrated Rey. Sharon and Rey were searching for Kriya who was nowhere to be seen. They had cleverly managed to escape the tents and now were in the jungle somewhere shouting her name.
"Rey, I guess Kriya must be near that waterfall. You remember, while coming here she so wanted to sit near the waterfall but we did not allow her? I am damm sure she must be there. " Sharon said running in the direction of the waterfall.
Sharon was smart enough to mark the trees with a Red rock so that they don't get lost, She had done the same when they were near the waterfall. And finally after running they had managed to get her glimpse near the waterfall plucking flowers and dancing near the water. They both hurriedly ran to her. As they were near her a frustrated Rey immediately spun her around.
"Kriyaaa, Are you mad? What do you think of yourself? Couldn't you inform us? why did you have to come here all alone that too at this time? Something could have happened. Have you lost your mind. Why the hell do you not listen to us? Everytime you can't do what you like get that. I feel like slapping you for this." Shouted a frustrated Rey.
"Rey, Calm down! You're makng her cry" pleaded Sharon seeing Kriya who was at the verge of tearing
"I'm sorry" was the only words She uttered and ran from there.
"Kriya wait!" Shouted Sharon.
"Shit" He banged his fists to the nearby tree. "Sharon you go after her, I'll come after sometime." Rey said trying to calm himself.
Kriya ran and ran until she reached her tent and collapsed inside it zipping the tent.
"Riya, did you see Kriya?" asked Sharon returning to camp huffing.
"Yes, She's inside her tent. She looked very sad like she's about to cry, What happened?"
"Nothing" saying Sharon moved towards the tent.
"Kriya, are you okay?"
"Yes, I am fine Sharon" answered Kriya, her voice slightly shaking.
"No, you're not, come on now open up" shouted sharon hoping she would open up.
"Sharon, please leave me alone for a while. Please"
Sharon sighs and leaves from there searching for Rey. She finds him sitting near a tree with his I-pod on staring onto something she couldn't make out.
"Rey" she shook him off bringing him back from whatever world he was in.
"What?" he raised an eyebrow. She pointed towards Kriya's tent asking him to go there.
"What?" he asked again.
"You dumb fool, Don't act. I know you want to go there. Drop this stupid ego of yours and go"
This is all he needed someone, someone to push him. He wanted to run after her but something stopped him. He did not know what. He was angry, angry on her. How could she just go without letting him know? He was so worried when he couldn't see her anywhere. There were some feelings inside him that were foreign to him. He had seen her, tear filled eye, those tears that he hates.
He ran to her tent, " Krr..." he couldn't speak. Calming himself, he again called out for her.
"Kriya" He called not once but twice thrice but no reply came. He sighed and tried again.
"Kriya" he cooed, " Kriya my sweet sweet dolcezza, please come out. Look I got you Kit-Kat, I know you love it. Chalo bahar aao orelse I'll eat it."
"Kriya, Kriyaaa, Come out" He again tried called her.
"Reyansh go" she finally answered.
"Kriya, please listen" he said hurt. She never ever called him Reyansh especially when he told her that he likes being called Rey from his loved ones.
"Leave me alone" she replied sternly still her voice was shaky.
"Kriyu, you're crying?"
"Well, isn't that obvious, you fool?"
"Kriii, sorry yaar. But please atleast come out. It's dinner time"
"I am not hungry, go away."
"Arre, Why are you getting angry on food."
"Reyansh, will you move your butt of my tent or else I am never coming out"
"Well, Never is not the word Kriya, Look you will have to come out tomorrow when we go for Trekking and then the day we leave, because you can't live here and if you want to live here, you have to ask mom and then you could not survive in case you start living like a cavewoman you know the times when the man was evolved and..." He went on babbling
"Reyansh, Leave or else I am never talking to you again"
"Ok fine you Grumpy. I am going but you better eat or else I'll tie you to a tree and call a bear and ask to threaten you and make you eat."
Saying this he left giving her some space.
"What does he thinks of himself? He calls me childish, Look how childish he is" Kria fumed.
"Aagghh.. Some times I feel to give her a slap. Why the hell she called me 'Reyansh'. She know I love to listen Rey from her." he thought to himself.
"He was right!!" - she got to the conclusion.
"She was right!" Stuck in his mind suddenly.
"How stupid could I be, I should've informed him before going. It's obvious for him to get angry."
"I shouldn't have shouted like this. She is my bestie afterall. I can make her understand my concern by talking to her, she would have understood."
"I hate me" Kria said to herself.
"I hate myself for being so impulsive" Rey thought.
"I should apologize." Kria thought
"I should go and say Sorry" he too thought.
"Why should I? Galti uski bhi thi! Kria"
"No ways, humesha main kyu manau ? Galti usne bhi ki hai." Rey
"Magar bhuk bhi lagi hai,! Agar wo nahi aaya manane to main bhukhii reh jaungi"
"Usne dinner bhi nahi kiya ab tak. Sorry Nahi bolunga to aayegi bhi nahi.."
"Chal Kria ye ego chod and take a step. Pappi peet ka sawal hai"
"Beta Reyansh chal manale usse
She was about to step out and he was about to step in.
"Aahh.." their fore-heasd banged.
"Rey, dekh ke nahi chal sakte?"
"Tum dekh ke nahi chal sakti?"
"Aapki galti hai"
"Humesha meri hi galti hoti hai.. tum toh doodh ki dhuli ho na"
"Look Rey!"
"Now you listen" "
"Wo.. BHUKH LAGI HAI" Both spoke at the same time.
With that they both burst out laughing like maniacs in between their laughs they managed to speak
"Rey, I am really sorry! I know I was being really childish and stubborn. You were right I could have at least informed you. My mom sent me as your responsibility and all I was being a burden. I am sorry, I really am.
"Kriya, I am sorry too. I shouldn't have shouted. But I panicked when you were nowhere to be seen. So I shouted, I did not mean it seriously.
"Ok so We both have apologized, Now come on lets eat, I am hungry"
"When are you not Hungry, miss Ghai?" he chuckled.
"Haww, Reyansh, I'll kill you"
"Haaye, Hum toh aapki baahon mei marne ko bhi tayaar hai"
"Reyyy, that was sooo cheesy, Urgh"
"What? Tum karo toh ramleela and hum kare character dheela"
"Rey" she face palmed herself.
"What? Stop looking so bored, Chalo lets eat"
"Yes, Wait!"
"Now what?" He replied irritated.
"My Kitkat?"
"You can't resist those,can you?" He chuckled.
"Nope" she replied popping the 'p'
"Well, you weren't coming out and I got bored so I ate it."
"Reyansshhh, My Kitkat. You are so DEAD" She shouted running behind him.
"Whats up boys" her voice broke their conversation.
"Sharon!" said Swayam
"You both don't look happy seeing me here!" Sharon(Look) pouted.
"How can I be happy being interrupted" muttered Swayam.
"WHAT?" - Sharon shouted angrily
"I mean teri wajah se story fir rah gayi" replied Swayam.
"Abhi tak story me atke hue ho" laughed Sharon.
"Hei Sharon!" said Rey with low voice. He wasn't sure she forgave him or not yet.
"What's up bestie" Sharon gave an unexpected hug with a happy tone.
"I'm good ! Super good now! You, you aren't angry anymore?" asked Rey surprised.
"Noways! Bilkul nahi!! And ek baat bolu ?"
"What?"
"Kria" she replied in a small voice.
"Kria what?" - asked panicked Swayam, "Wo thik hai na"
"Swayam, wo thik hai lekin tum ab thik nahi rahne wale jada time tak" Sharon laughed pointing at Rey
"Sorry!" - Swayam replied
"Its Okay dude. You care for her much more, I understand." Rey calmly replied.
"Yea, I will remember from next time that you are back"
" Agar tum dono ka ho gya ho to can I proceed for what I was here?" asked Sharon
"Of course" - replied both
"Rey you performing tommorow at the fest." said Sharon casually
"What?" said surprised Rey.
"Yes! Tomorrow is last day of fest. And I and Swayam were supposed to perform a duet. But now it will be you and Kria."
"But Sharon"
"No IFs, No Buts ! I already talked to Princi about this. And he will love to see the best duo of Dehradun performing."
"And Kria?" asked Swayam.
"Its high time Swayam, she needs to accept some facts. She needs to answer somethings and she needs to get answers for some question." Sharon said looking at Rey.
"I am ready to answer her everything." replied Rey with smile.
"But one thing, don't allow your ego to over-power your love one more time. Else things will be destroyed forever" suggested Sharon.
Rey closed his eyes and all he could remember was "ITS OVER REYANSH SINGHANIA, ITS OVER! LOVE, FRIENDSHIP OR WHATEVER IT WAS, ITS OVER!"
He immediately opened his eyes to come out the darkest night of his life.
"Kriaaa!"
"Yes mom!"
"Sharon ka call aya tha. There is some change in tomorrow's schedule she said"
"What is it Mom?"
"I don't know. She said she will tell you tomorrow only. But asked you to reach college one hour before the reporting time."
"Oh! Cool." She replied getting busy eating her breakfast.
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