A Beautiful Mistake (UPDATING SOON) - Page 33

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AN:

ITS MY BIRTHDAY IN 4 DAYS!!

I am so damn excited! I already ordered 5 books online!!

Anyways, I hope you people like this chapter because I don't know if I did. Because of my writer's block, I don't like any of my stories.

Read, Like, comment. Whatever suits you!

Hugs and kisses,

May

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Chapter Dedication: dcmehta03 & shalini_shakti

Chapter 7: The one with the fight (unedited chapter)

"I'm so fat!" Sanyukta could not help but heave out a long sigh. She was glaring at herself in the mirror, rubbing her hand on her 3 months pregnant belly.

It was larger than she expected- about the size of a large watermelon. "I'm growing every single day!" she grunted. Her stomach was expanded out to prove that another being resided within her. Three heartbeats within one stout body.

Kaustuki looked up from her book. She was sitting cross-legged on her bed, notebook propped between her knees, earphones plugged in and iPod turned up all the way. "You are not fat. You are just..." She paused as if trying to choose the next word carefully. "Pregnant."

Sanyukta rolled her eyes. "Yeah that makes me feel better!"

Kaustuki snapped the notebook shut and tugged out the earphones. "The lecture is going to start soon. We gotta go."

"Yeah" Sanyukta muttered picking up her bag as well and trailed behind Kaustuki, who was heading towards the first lecture.

On their way, two girls nodded their head as if saying hello. Sanyukta nodded back with a smile.

Kaustuki placed her arms on Sanyukta's shoulder. "Well it's a good thing that your pregnancy isn't a secret now otherwise it would have been hard for us to hide that belly."

Sanyukta nodded in agreement.

Well as she feared, nothing awful had happened...yet. She was surprised at Randhir's behavior. He was still the same, sure, but there was something different about him now. He never stopped teasing or irritating her, but when she needed him, he was always there. In addition, if it wasn't for him, everyone would have still be mocking her about her pregnancy. She remembered how it went. The day when everyone found out, she is pregnant.

Everyone found out 2 weeks after they discovered it was twins. It was a normal day. The sun was at the horizon, the birds were chirping and corridors were buzzing with people.

However, Sanyukta couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right. Everything was perfect today, and she mean too perfect. It was like awakening in some 1950's TV show where everyone is super nice. They were laughing and smiling whenever they saw Sanyukta as if sharing a private joke with her.

Sanyukta was walking down the stairs when she heard some giggling. She turned towards the noise. There were three of them, two girls and one guy. The girl with a short dress whispered in the guy's ear as the three of them laughed. Sanyukta went up to them as she assumed it was probably about her since they were staring at her. "Why are you guys laughing?" she asked narrowing her eyes ever so slightly.

"We heard what you did." The girl in a short dress said. The other two laughed and started to walk away. Sanyukta raised her eyebrows.

However, before disappearing down the hall, the girl turned around and added. "Or rather who you did."

Sanyukta tilted her head and leaned against the wall. What were they talking about?' she thought. She looked down in the direction the three girls took off. A few people passing by gave her a dirty look.

It crossed her mind maybe they found out about her pregnancy. A shiver ran down her spine. But the idea didn't have a lot of convection behind it. Sure she gained a little weight and a small bump could be seen but it didn't gave away the fact that she could be pregnant.

Sanyukta shook her head. She didn't believe it. Or maybe because she didn't wanted to believe it.

Absent-mindedly, she headed towards the canteen ignoring the death glares and dirty looks she was receiving from people. She was more confused than ever. Do they know? She wondered. No, they cant. But if they did... how? No one apart from Parth, kaustuki and Randhir know and there was no way they held her secret out. She trusted them with her heart.

Sanyukta was turn from any further thought on that matter when she heard two guys laughing. Up until then she didn't even realize she was standing in the canteen.

"Look who it is." Said a guy from directly over her shoulder.

Sanyukta clenched her fist. "Don't react. Don't react. Don't react." Sanyukta kept chanting. Creating a scene in the canteen was the last thing she wanted right now. She decided to ignore them and silently walk out of there. When she was about to leave, the same guy commented again.

"Look the fatty is going."

And that's when all hell break loose.

Sanyukta stopped short. Fat? Did he just call her fat?

"Never. Ever. Call. A. Girl. Fat!" She said through her clench teeth and whirled around, to smack the guy upside the head with her handbag but the guy instantly ducked down and she ended up smacking Vidushi, who was standing behind him.

"Ahh!" Vidushi yelped, clutching her head. It was so unexpected for her that she lost her balance and staggered backwards. "What the hell do you carry in your handbag?!"

Sanyukta's eyes widened. "I'm so sorr-"

"Shut up!" Vidushi yelled and then winced. Apparently screaming after just being smacked on the head is not the right option. She cupped her head. "I knew I did the right thing by telling everyone about your dirty little secret!"

Sanyukta gasped. The realization hit her like cold water. I'm so stupid! She thought. I should have known it would be Vidushi. She is her roommate and eavesdrops every time she and kaustuki talk.

The grim smile of satisfaction replaced Sanyukta's face. "You know what Vidushi? I'm not sorry!"

Vidushi muttered something and stormed out of there. The screaming and smacking had drawn the attention of the crowd and people were shuffling closer. The guy and his two other friend laughed.

Sanyukta glared at them. He had called her fat. How dare he call her fat?

Before they or anyone else could know what was happening, Sanyukta swiped a drink from a passerby and doused him with it.

"An eye for an eye." She said with a mocking laugh. "You humiliate me, I humiliate you!"

The guy staggered backward, eyes dazed but quickly narrowing. He wiped coke out of his eyes and licked his arm. "I taste pretty good." He chuckled and then turned towards Sanyukta. "No wonder you are such a s**t. Randhir, Parth and I can't guess how many you slept with."

It was like a slap in the face for Sanyukta. She was hurt. The feelings of her heart went on to her eyes. Her eyes were full redness and anger. "Oh no you didn't!"

The guy flipped her his middle finger. "Oh yes I did." His grin was smug, his eyebrow high. The message was clear: Bring it on.

"How being a pregnant teenager makes me a s**t huh?!" Sanyukta demanded, her fist clenched and her eyes looked like they might pop out any second. "You want to judge me? Maybe pick on my bossiness or how I can get ultra competitive to a point where it is maybe not fun for everybody anymore- but do not, ever, judge me on what I choose to do or not do sexually with my body. You know why? Because my body is mine, my choices are mine, and all of it is none of your business! Just because I'm a young mother, other people cant see me as being an easy lay or a s**t' because I wont allow it! I thought that in this day and age people would be a little more mature but fat chance, people are actually crueler and uglier then they were back then!"

Sanyukta face contorted with the venomous outburst, brewing anger like tea in a pot or like a storm out at sea. When she looked up at the guy's face, she thought he was going to apologize but to her surprise, the guy smirked.

"So what you are saying that you want to sleep with more guys? I mean you roam with Parth with all the time and then Randhir so the two are off the list and now you want more?"

Sanyukta gaped at him, shocked. After her what she just said, his comment was the last thing she expected. How can he blame her when he doesn't even knows the story? And who was he to blame her or excuse her of sleeping with her best friend or any other guys?
Her feelings were no excuse for what she did next but they were definitely a catalyst. Sanyukta had no clue how to fight but she closed her hand into a fist and clipped the guy in the jaw.

"Ow!" The guy yowled in pain staggering backwards, two-handling his jaw, gaping at her. Sanyukta knew the punch she threw wasn't hard enough and the guy deserved more for calling her a s**t. She lunged for him but came up short because someone had her under the armpit hauling her upright.

"Let go of me!" Sanyukta said fighting to get around the person who was holding her. "I swear on Lucifer I'm going to kill this guy!"

"Control yourself woman" Randhir huskily whispered in her ear. Sanyukta struggled under his grasp but then stopped. He let go of her.

Sanyukta let out a burning ball of air that was searing the walls of her lungs. She wasn't just angry, she was furious.

The guy's hair was dripping coke and there was a bruise under his skin.

Randhir brushed past her and stood between her and the guy, his arms folded. His eyes seemed to gleam with a baleful fire, but his dark face remained as unchangeable as marble. Sanyukta's skin prickled. Oh god what is he going to do?

A gathering crowd enveloped them, chanting, "fight! fight! fight!"

Sanyukta stared at all of them in disbelief. "No one chanted that when I punched that douche bag! What, don't I look like fighting kind of a girl?"

Randhir sliced his eyes towards her with an irritated look on his face. "Hush, will you?" He said and then turned his attention back to the guy.

"You apologize to her right now buddy." Randhir's voice sounded calm but there was a hidden rage behind it.

"Or what?" The guy challenged raising his eyebrows. There was absolute silence now. The entire group of people stood motionless, as if waiting for something that none of them could quite define.

Randhir smirked, stepping closer, crowding the guy's space. "Good." He paused and twisted the ring on his index finger. "Because if you did then I wouldn't get a chance to do this."

It happened so fast it took only two beats of Sanyukta's heartbeat to realize what was going to happen. Before she could stop it, Randhir shoved his fist into the guy's jaw with a sickening crunch and the guy went flying in the air like a freaking football.

"Oh my god!" Sanyukta shrieked and everyone gasped.

The guy landed on the table crashing all the stuffs. "Unnuh!" He moaned trying to get up. A small amount of blood was oozing out of his lip. A girl jumped and hurried towards him. "Did you break his jaw?!" she yelled.

Everyone had his or her faces turned towards Randhir expectantly

."I didn't. But if he said anything ever again, it will be one of the many things I'll be breaking!" Randhir paused and glanced towards the crowd. "Listen everybody because I won't say this again. Never ever even, think about saying things like that. If you did, then I swear I am going to chop your balls off and feed it to the dogs. Do you all understand?"

Everyone just nodded silently. Sanyukta, astonished by what just happened, nodded too.

"And if someone did..." He continued barking. "You'll have to face your worst fear. Mind it!"

Another mummer of agreement.

It took a min for Sanyukta to come out of what just happened. She instantly grabbed the collar of Randhir's shirt, yanked him out of there and backed him against the brisk exterior.

"What the hell was that?" She barked when they were in the safe distance.

Randhir didn't reply, instead he shifted his gaze to the canteen. That guy was sitting with an ice pack, with 4 to 5 people circling him. He then noticed two girls staring at him. When both detected his stare, they looked away blushing.

"I'm talking to you mister!"

Randhir eyes flicker Sanyukta who was fuming. He couldn't understand why she was so teed off when he just kicked the guy's ass who called her a s**t.

"He deserved it." Was all he said.

Sanyukta's mouth dropped open. "He did deserve it but that doesn't mean you will go all incredible hulk on him!"

"Incredible hulk? Really what are you? 8?."

"Randhir don't change the topic!" Sanyukta pointed a finger at him.

"Why are you flipping off when you did the same thing!"

"I threw a punch. A harmless punch!" She pointed out. "You, on the other hand m friend sent him flying across the room like a football!"

Sanyukta's cell phone rang and she yanked it out of her purse. "What?" she snapped. When no one answered, she realized it was a text message chirp and not an actual call.

A text from Parth.

I am not sure but I think everyone knows you are pregnant and when a guy called you a s**t, Randhir kicked his ass.

"When did Parth turned into one of the gossip girls?" Randhir scoffed.

Sanyukta realized he was leaning over her shoulder to read the text. She backed away and tossed her cell back into her purse. "See this is why! Now everyone knows what happened!"

"First of all stop screaming." Randhir said pinching the bridge of his nose. "Second, don't act like you are the victim here. You started all that and I just defended you. Is that bad?"

Sanyukta rolled her eyes. "I had it under control."

"Yeah that totally looked like that."

"Oh I hate you." Sanyukta snapped, giving him a hard look.

"The feeling is mutual." Randhir shot back sanding his hands together as he walked away with a smirk on his face.

***

"Ok ma. Yes, I believe you. Bye" Sanyukta shut her cell with a long sad sigh.

"Still the same?" Kaustuki asked.

Sanyukta nodded. "Still the same."

The situation in her house was still the same the way it was 3 months back. Everything was a mess. Her dad was still angry with her. He wasn't ready to accept the baby. Moreover, her mom promised she'll try her level best to convince her dad.

Kaustuki put her arms around Sanyukta's heaving shoulder. "Don't think about it anymore. It's going to be ok."

Sanyukta's eyebrows crinkled causing her forehead to wrinkle. She tried to wrap her brain around why this was happening. Why cant everything go back to normal? Why everything does have to be so complicated? Why cant his dad just accept the fact that she is pregnant and there's nothing anyone can do about it except accepting it.

"Sanyukta? Are you okay?" She heard Kaustuki's soothing voice again. Her heart raced. Was she? Sanyukta just kept replaying Kaustuki's words, like a broken record, in her head. Funny question, Are you okay?', When your heart has been broken and your hope crushed into a million measly pieces.

"Don't worry sanyu." Kaustuki spoke again when Sanyukta didn't answer.

"I'm alright." Sanyukta whispered smiling though it didn't reach her eyes. "It's just that all I see is darkness ahead. I'm just worried that papa wont..." She trailed off. What if he doesn't? What if he refused to speak to her ever again? Or the worst, what id ask her to give her babies for adoption or something? Oh no...

"Don't fear darkness Sanyu." Kaustuki said his voice unsteady. "There's always a light at the end of the tunnel"

Sanyukta nodded. "I know." She thought of her mother and words echoed in her mind, there is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

She took a deep breathe and smiled. "Let's finish our projects?"

Kaustuki nodded.

Sanyukta asked the man to take away the cups to make room for her textbook. Arming herself with a pencil, she took out her book and she started reading.

After 15 minutes, her mind rebelled, refusing to digest another paragraph.

"Have you noticed something different about Jiggy?" Kaustuki suddenly asked.

Sanyukta looked up and followed Kaustuki's gaze. Jiggy sat on a nearby table, talking to someone on the phone, a scowl constant on his face. Sanyukta eyed him for a moment. "New glasses?"

Kaustuki shook her head. "No, he just seems disturbed lately."

"Probably misses his old glasses."

Jiggy then got up and headed inside. "What is up with you both? You still with him?" asked Sanyukta.

Kaustuki nodded, her petite face twisting in a scowl. "I love him. Or so I think. I told him I love him. This sentence also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else, you know?"

Sanyukta looked at her as if her logic was vacationing in outer space. She blinked trying to take in Kaustuki's words meaning, and then shook her head. "No you said love' a lot. I think I kind of lost you in between."

Kaustuki chuckled tapping her pencil against her lips. "Never mind."

Suddenly the book Sanyukta was reading was gone. Parth had tucked her book from under her arms.

"Hey guys." He said taking a seat.

Sanyukta snatched her book back. "Where were you?"

"Um something happen on the way here." He said.

"What?" asked kaustuki.

"I accidentally called a girl fat."

Kaustuki burst out laughing. Sanyukta frowned. After her pregnancy, she knew how it felt to being call fat. She had heard 2-3 people calling her that behind her back. All she wanted to do was rip their heads off but all she did was ignore them.

"How could you do that?" Sanyukta demanded angrily.

"I told you. Accidentally'." Parth pointed out, air quoting accidentally.

"Well then be prepared for her to accidentally' rip your face."

"Yeah she already did." Parth pulled his collar down revealing a dark purple bruise lining his neck. "Was that really offensive?

Sanyukta narrowed her eyes. "No, a girl loves it when you tell her how big she is!"

Parth opened his mouth to defend himself but closed it again.

Sanyukta, from the corner of her eyes noticed a movement and glanced at the direction. Randhir was standing there asking for a cup of coffee. He looked up and their eyes met. Sanyukta looked away instantly.

Just then, Parth's cell chirped and he stood up. "Excuse me." he mouthed over shoulder at them as he walked reluctantly outside.

A half beat later, Randhir stood just back from their table, his thumps hooked in the pockets of his jeans. He dragged a chair over from the next table and sat backwards on it, his arms resting where his back should have been.

A min later, his coffee arrived. Randhir clasped his hands loosely between his knees and kept a study gaze on Sanyukta.

"What?" Sanyukta said, feeling unnerved by the weight of his stare.

"What about the name Medusa?"

Sanyukta taped the pencil to her lip and adopted a thoughtful expression. "What about... no?"

Randhir grunted. "Why not?"

"You want to name the baby after a monster? Maybe you want her to be like you but I don't!"

"It's still a good name!" Randhir protested. "Then what about the name Khyati?"

"What is this? 18 century?"

Randhir gave her a sly look.

Sanyukta repositioned herself on the chair. "Nah-ah I hate it. If you can't cope up with the names I suggest, then no I won't too!"

"Your names are preposterous!" Randhir said.

"No they are not!"

"Oh Really?" Randhir's tone shifted from insulting to humoring. "Who name their baby saiza? I mean what does that even mean?"

"It means pleasure"

"Please you are making it up."

"I'm not!" Sanyukta protested.

"Yes you are!"

"I'm not!"

"Shut up."

"No. you shut up."

"Touch, really." Randhir said in a mocking tone.

"Immature."

"My level of immaturity depends on who I'm with and with you-"

Kaustuki, who was listening to all this was getting furious every min. The anger as a flame inside her bounded up and it finally engulfed her. She stood up from her chair so hard she knocked it over. "Guy!" She said, banging the table hard that some of Randhir's coffee sloshed onto the table. "You both are so are so pugnacious! It's like watching sky and earth crashing into each other which is pretty much all the damn time! STOP FIGHTING AND CHOOSE THE FREAKING NAME FOR THE BABIES ALREADY!"

Sanyukta and Randhir were silent, watching kaustuki flip out. Even the whole canteen seemed to shush now. The quietness was tangible. Kaustuki was looking like a thunderous witch. Her once-cute face now resembled a gargoyle.

Sanyukta, from the corner of her eyes witnesses Parth entering, looking at everyone in a weird manner. He took a seat beside them. "Why is everyone so spookily quite?" He whispered in a barely audible voice.

Sanyukta glanced up at him then at kaustuki. "I think kaustuki is pmsing!"

Kaustuki sat down, her head buried in her hands. After a few moments, she looked up. Her face was softening again. She glimpsed at the people staring at her. "What?" She demanded angrily. "Never saw someone flipping out before?!"

Everyone muttered something then was back to what they were doing before.

Kaustuki turned towards Randhir and Sanyukta, who were looking at her blankly. "For the love of god, just choose a name! Ok? Write the names you both like in a piece of paper. I will pick the girl's name and Parth will pick boy's. Whatever comes, that's it! No ha, no he. Ok?"

Sanyukta and Randhir shared a look. It was a good idea. At least better than fighting and suggesting stupid names. Both nodded.

The next 15 went in writing the names of the babies in papers. Parth shuffled the papers and kaustuki picked one out. Then she shuffled the papers and Parth picked out one.

"First, I'll go." Kaustuki said. She opened the piece of paper slowly. Reading the name, a smile tucked on her lips. "It's perfect!"

"What what? What is it?" Sanyukta said, her excitement building up again.

"It's Riley"

Sanyukta's face lit up. "God it's perfect!" She grinned like a Cheshire cat. Riley was the perfect name. It was cute and it meant determined and strong. Just like she was.

Randhir smiled despite himself. "Riley. Yeah it is actually kindda cute."

"Ok the moments over. Now the boy's name!" kaustuki said shushing them all.

Parth opened the piece of paper in his hand and frowned. "Its smith."

Everyone was quite looking at each other as in asking for each other's approval.

"Yeah it's good too I guess." Randhir said after a moment.

Sanyukta nodded smiling, though it didn't reach her eyes. "It is, yeah."

Randhir licked his parched, chapped lips. "But only problem."

"What?"

"I hate it."

Sanyukta shut her eyes and envisioned banging her head against the wall.

Not this again.

***

The next few weeks, went in a flash. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. Except, a week ago, Sanyukta got a terrible stomachache at two in the morning and they had to rush her to the sickbay. After checking, the doctor informed that it was nothing serious and jokingly said it was probably the twins fighting at which Parth commented; "Now it confirms they are their babies."

The only abysmal thing was Sanyukta was exhausted nearly all the time. Once she was sitting in the canteen, munching a mouthful of muesli. Then unexpectedly for no apparent reason she stopped munching and the next thing you know- whomp!- her head landed right smack in the bowl in front of her. The other time this happened was during vardhan sir's lecture. She felt fatigued and wasn't able to give attention to what sir was saying. She could have easily pulled being a walking zombie- Dead from the inside but subconsciously awake. However, before Vardhan sir could become aware of her dozing off, Randhir came to her rescue and instantly shook her.

Every part of Sanyukta's body was growing each day and she couldn't help but feel insecure about it. Not that she would tell anyone about this, but it was eating her up from the inside.

It was one day in the canteen when she was sitting with kaustuki, eating a burger, she said.

Sanyukta: I'm getting fatter day by day.

Kaustuki: Again, it is the pregnancy. Not you.

Sanyukta: Still, I have decided I will take a walk everyday.

Kaustuki: I bet you would get breathless after three rounds.

Sanyukta: The bet is on...

From the next day itself, Sanyukta enfolded a shawl around her, took her cell and earphones and went out for a walk. However, to her utter surprise, after walking two rounds around the college perimeter, she was sweating like a pig.

"God I'm getting old" she breathed out as she sat on a nearby bench. She wanted to go back but because of the bet, she decided she would just sit for another 15 min and then she would go back and inform kaustuki, proudly, that she took five rounds.

Like every other day, Sanyukta again took a walk and then sat down on the bench taking deep breaths. After a moment when she felt a little relaxed, she leaned back on the bench and closed her eyes

After a blisteringly hot day the sun had finally set, the relief from the hot moisture less air was palpable as the cooling breeze swept over.

Sanyukta was enjoying the cool breeze when someone tapped her shoulder.

Surprised by the sudden tapping, she jumped up from the bench, shouting, "I was walking! I was walking!"

Randhir stood there with a confused expression on his face. "Is this your pregnancy hormones or are you always this crazy?"

He raised his eyebrow and sat on the arm of the bench. In the dim light, Sanyukta though he looked a little tired or sad but maybe that was only her imagination.

"What are you doing here?" Sanyukta asked, pushing a handful of hair off her face.

"I'm not here with a round belly," pointed Randhir. "It is you. So the question should be what are you doing here?"

Sanyukta shrugged. "I'm just having my after-dinner walk."

Randhir tilted his head. "That totally looked like walking'.

Sanyukta took a deep breathe, turned around and started walking unusually slowly, almost robotically, as if her brain was struggling to tell each foot to take the next step.

"Where are you going?" Randhir demanded trying to catch up with her.

"Walking." Sanyukta replied bluntly.

"But you are already drenched in sweat and it had soaked the cloth on your back like a map of some foreign land".

Sanyukta ignored his comment and kept walking. She glanced back and noticed Randhir 3 steps behind her. "Are you following me?"

. "Like I have nothing better to do." Randhir scoffed. "Why are you doing this anyways?"

"I need to lose some..." Sanyukta hesitated at first but then finally said. "Weight. I need to lose some weight."

Randhir laughed. It was a cruel mocking laugh. "But you don't have fat." He paused, took three steps back, and glanced at her hips. "Oh, no wait, I found it!"

Sanyukta gasped and hit him hard in his arms. "How dare you!"

Randhir staggered back. "I'm kidding!" A great booming laughter rolled from his mouth again.

For some reason, Sanyukta's heart did an unexpected flip, startled by his attractive bizarrely laughter. To her horror, she was so taken aback by the sudden flip of her heart that she dropped the shawl. Randhir stopped laughing and bent to pick it up. He held it out and Sanyukta had to focus not to touch his skin as she took it back.

She turned around. What the hell was that? She thought.

Just then, they heard some giggling. Two girls were passing from there, their eyes on Randhir, staring at him seductively.

Randhir frowned. He knew he saw them somewhere before.

"you know them?" Sanyukta asked trying not to sound too curious. However, she needed to know if he did.

Randhir shook his head. "Do you?"

"No."

Randhir glanced back at them. He rubbed his chin trying to figure out the last time he saw them. Their stare was quite familiar. And then it hit him. They were the same two girls who were checking him out that day when he shoved his fist into the guy's jaw who called Sanyukta a s**t.

Sanyukta, who was staring at Randhir's expression this whole time, felt irritated. Is he checking them out? She thought and immediately felt angry. She glanced past him to where the girls were heading. She couldn't see their face but they had a nice curvy body and Sanyukta immediately felt insecure. She looked down at her fat body. When she looked up, Randhir was still looking at there direction but the girls were nowhere to be seen. Sanyukta cleared her throat.

Randhir turned his attention back to her. "What?"

Sanyukta did a hands-up. "Nothing. Nothing at all."

"Then why are you frowning?" He gestured towards her forehead.

"Am I?" Out of curiosity, she touched it and she was indeed frowning.

"Well tell me."

"It's nothing."

"C'mon what's up?" Randhir insisted.

"Nothing!"

"Tell me!"

"Fine!" Sanyukta looked up at him and in a voice; she could barely hear, she blurted out. "You know what I hate. I hate it when people say 'it doesn't matter about the outside as long as you are beautiful from the inside' because in real life it does. Maybe I'm over-reacting but I'm sorry that I'm still a 19 year old girl and it does matter to me how I look like because guess what? Everyone care about his or her appearance! Especially a girl. And now I look like a fatty- ratty with all the parts of me growing like a balloon each day! I don't want that. I want to know that I look good and I want you to tell me that!"

By the time Sanyukta finished, she was breathing heavily. She felt the blood rising to her cheeks and immideately looked down. How could I tell him all these? She mentally slapped herself. The last thing she wanted was to give Randhir another reason to mock her. When the silence starched out, Sanyukta slowly glanced up at Randhir, who was already staring at her. His eyes looked straight into hers as in searching for her soul. Sanyukta could not seem to look away.

She felt very strange, hot and embarrassed at the same time and wanted the earth to open up and swallow her whole. She dint wanted Randhir to keep staring at her like that- but some part of her did.

A soft wind rippled through Sanyukta's hair and she flipped it off her shoulder. As she touched it she realized her pin, that was keeping her hair enact was missing, and took it as a perfect opportunity to change the subject and decrease the tension in the air.

"I think my p-pin has fallen down. M-mind looking f-for it?" Sanyukta stammered licking her lips, which felt dry and papery.

Randhir, instead of looking down for the pin as she expected, took a step forward.

"What?" Sanyukta asked, not sure if she liked or feared the flutter caused inside of her. "It was just a joke. It didn't mean anything. I was acting crazy."

Randhir stared at her for a moment then again took a step forward. "I don't think you were joking".

"I was" She insisted taking a step back. She was confused to her very core. Why did she take a step back? She never used to! What happened now?

Randhir took another step forward, "No you are not"

What the hell is happening?! Her heart was racing frantically with his every step. She shook her head, and stepped back. "Get the hell away from me!"

She stepped back and he stepped forward. His eyes looked like it didn't play by the rules.

"Randhir..." Sanyukta again took a step back. "That's it Randhir. One more step and I'll..." They both knew it was an empty threat.

"You'll what?" Randhir simpered taking another step forward.

Her heart was beating so fast even she could hear it.

She kept stepping backward and he kept stepping forward.

"Anorexic pig!" Sanyukta said, and took another step back.

Wow." Randhir stopped with hand pressed to his heart. "Am I supposed to act offended?"

Sanyukta took a step back but gasped when she felt the wall. Randhir stopped before her, with an evil smirk plastered on his face. He leaned forward and Sanyukta tried to press herself to the wall as much as she could. They were merely inches apart. If he leaned even a little more, their noses would be touching. Her eyes were wide and she blinked owlishly. Her heart raced, like a runway train, going faster and faster.

Randhir had a serious look on his face. His eyes were so dark she felt like she was looking into an endless stretch of midnight sky.

There was a complete silence. The kind of silence that falls right before you get knifed in the back. Even the trees seemed not to rustle as if they were tense with nerves for what was to come. It sent a shiver down her spine.

"People say beauty is in the eye of a beholder." Randhir said. His voice was so low that for a min she thought he was talking to himself. "You are beautiful. The world will try to tell you otherwise, but you know the truth. Do not listen to their lies and never change yourself to fit someone else's idea of pretty. There could never be a more beautiful you. I mean just look at these hairs. A flowing thick cascade of never ending long, dark, mesmerizing hair. Your smile... your smile is like an angelic ray of light. A smile like a smile of a conqueror. And those eyes. Those green enthralling eyes. Looking into those eyes, I swear I can't look away."

Sanyukta's heart echoed in her ears with Randhir's each word, as in reminding her that she is still alive. Her mind was a surging perplexity. She didn't knew the reason she was more confused at. Was it because of what Randhir just said or because of her heart, which thumped so hard behind her rib cage that she felt it could easily erupt like the creature in Alien. Blushing would have been no problem, but what she did was go as red as a beetroot and radiate heat like a hot pan. You could have cooked a three-course meal on her face.

The silence was like a gaping void, needing to be filled with sounds, words or anything. Sanyukta opened her mouth but it took time for the word to form.

"P-pin?" Sanyukta stuttered her voice breathless and her chest rising and falling.

Randhir who was staring at her this whole time, blinked. His eyes darted back and forth as in; he had no clue to what just happened.

"Oh right the pin." He said and buried his hands in the pocket, stepped back and then turned around. Sanyukta just stood there, paralyzed and completely in shock. She tried to take in deep breaths but still couldn't control all this tingly stuffs happening to her in the inside. All these feelings were alien to her.

She tilted her chin up to see Randhir searching for her pin. Like a great rush of water, memory of what just happened came back to her. The way he backed her against the wall, the way he looked at her and all those words he said about her hair, her eyes and her smile.

Sanyukta's cheeks got redder than a ripened apple. She looked away immediately. Just one look at him was enough to give her Goosebumps.

"Here!"

Randhir's voice forced Sanyukta to look up again. He was holding her pin in his left hand. "I found it."

Sanyukta stared blankly at him, feeling the butterflies in her stomach flapping their wings again to the beat of her heart.

"Ra-Randhir?" She stuttered.

Now she was lost.

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