Angad & the Nerd - Power!!! |Pg 27| - Page 17

wow this part was really good! I havent read it in ages and this part was really well writen and really good. Hope u continue soon, as the fanfic seems to be getting interesting

Jerri 😃

thanx for the comments guys!!! really appreciate them!!! 😛 next prt
shud be up by tomorrow!!! 😊

Eleven

Kripa

"You like that geek?" Angad asked me.

I glared at Angad as hard as I could, a sort of if-looks-could-maim kind of stare. Had I actually engaged in a semicasual conversation with this guy for a few minutes? What had I been thinking?

"Prithvi is not a geek," I informed him tersely. "Thanks for the ride."

I shoved open the door to his car, scrambled out, and started walking quickly towards my first class. How could I forget people of his ilk, cool, viewed the rest of us noncools?

"Hey, wait up," he called after me.

Was he insane? Did he think he could possibly say anything about Prithvi that I cared to hear?

Was I insane? What had I been thinking, to get into the car with him and risk exposing myself to a guy who thought the sun came up just so it could shine on him? To initiate a conversation, that floored me. Why couldn't I do that with Prithvi? It really wasn't that hard. Just start with a question that could lead into a topic you know something about.

I heard Angad's pounding footsteps and quickened my pace, but my legs were short, and his were so incredibly long.

"I can't believe Prithvi is your crush," he said as he fell into step beside me.

"That's not true," I lied, wondering how long it would take the gossip to spread if he told anyone. He would only have to tell one person. It was like from Angad's mouth to every ear in Kennedy High. "I simply admire Prithvi," I added, whispering harshly, hoping he'd back off or, failing that, get suspended until I graduated.

Prithvi was still struggling with his backpacks as we passed him. As usual, he didn't even notice me. Monday, I'd worn a brightly colored yellow-and-green outfit so I could stand out, and nothing. Nada.

I might as well have been dressed in boring black like Angad. Except that Angad's black wasn't exactly boring. Intriguing more the word. It made him look dangerous. And amazingly hot.

Which brought my mind reeling back to the million-dollar question. What was Angad doing walking beside me? He'd brought me to school. He should have sauntered away in that lazy way of his; only it wasn't so lazy now as he tried to keep up with my brisk pace.

"Maybe you didn't notice, but nerd boy doesn't even seem to know you exist," he brought to my attention.

Oh, I noticed. I noticed everyday. I marched on without deigning his remark worth commenting on. Tears stung the back of my eyes. Angad had really hit the mark with his comment. I'd never gotten up the courage to even speak Prithvi. Not a hi, a how are you, a what's happening. We had classes together. We obviously had things in common. Why couldn't my brain that knew so many facts find one thing of interest to say to Prithvi?

"Hey," Angad said softly, as if he'd actually noticed I was upset, noticed something outside his cool world. "Despite what everyone may think, I do know how it feels to like someone who is not interested in you."

Yeah, right! If he was crushing on Angelina Jolie, maybe. But even then I found his statement pretty difficult to believe as I rounded to a corner. All the beautiful girls at Kennedy High spoke Angad Khanna. Told him how wonderful he was. If they weren't using their voices, they were using their eyelashes. I often wondered if the constant, rapid batting of their lashes gave them a clear idea of what it was like to view the world from behind a strobe light.

"I'll make you a deal," he offered quietly. "I want you to go to the dance with me because I want to prove to myself that I brainiac girl would go out with me, that I can show a brain a good time. and if you say yes, I'll show you how to attract Prithvi to the point that Prithvi will definitely ask you out."

I stopped dead in my tracks and swung around to face him. Dare I believe he possessed the power to grant my fondest wish? I just didn't quite trust him. Not only his lame excuse for wanting me go to the dance with him, after all, I was smart, but I wasn't the only girl at Kennedy High who actually understood what a textbook was for, but also his willingness to help. And even if I did trust him, how could he possibly guarantee that Prithvi would not only notice me, but ask me out as well?

"How are you going to do that?" I demanded.

I envisioned him hauling Prithvi into the janitor's closet and strong-arming him into submission.

He gave me a charming smile that weakened my knees. "That's my secret."

Looking almost innocent standing there, he actually appeared… hopeful.

Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of Prithvi, and my heart its usual little flip, kinda like diving off the high board into deep waters. Against my better judgment, I was actually considering taking Angad up on his offer. But I couldn't. It seemed sorta like betrayal to myself, a betrayal to Prithvi, and most of all, a betrayal to Angad.

I shook my head. "Angad, I can't. I mean, I'd feel like I was taking advantage of you." It just didn't seem right to go to a dance with a guy you didn't like. A guy who was so not right for you. A guy who you were so not right for. Other than an ability to discuss dogs, we had nothing in common.

"Hey, you're not taking advantage, just call me your fairy god-brother," he insisted.

I almost laughed at the thought of him waving a wand around. Almost. If he could get me a date with Prithvi, well, he'd be granting my deepest mish. But at what cost? Why did I have a feeling in the deepest recesses of my soul that I was going to regret this?

I sighed deeply. I never took chances. I never went where I'd never gone before. But here was an opportunity to do as my fortune had suggested, to reach out and touch a star. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

"Okay," I reluctantly agreed. "You've got a deal."

If Angad wanted to go to the dance with a nerdy brain, fine. Though I seriously doubted the guy could show me a good time.

******

On my way to lunch I spotted Joydeep heading into the library. Not again.

Quickening my pace, I caught up with him and grabbed his arm. He flinched like he'd expected me to be one of his tormentors.

Then he laughed self-consciously, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Oh, Kripa, it's you."

"Did Josh steal your homework again?" I asked.

"Yeah, but that's okay. Last night I scanned my homework, so now I just have to write it out so it doesn't look like it's a copy." He explained, a sad kind of smile on his face like I would praise him for his quick thinking.

"Enough is enough, Joydeep. Since this creep keeps taking your chemistry homework and we have chemistry together, I want you to start giving me your homework first thing in the morning. I'll keep it safe until class."

"Ah, Kripa, I don't want to trouble you," he said.

"It's no trouble Joydeep," I assured him. "Besides, that's what friends are for."

"How about I drop it off at your house this evening? I don't want Josh to see me passing it off to you. He might try to take it from you," he told me.

And I had absolutely no desire to spend even a nanosecond in the janitor's closet with Josh. "Sure, bring it by anytime."

"Thanks, Kripa, you're the best." He went into the library.

I sighed deeply. I didn't feel like the best. If I were the best, I'd confront the jerk taking his homework. But if I did that and still couldn't stop him from taking Joydeep's homework, he might figure out whom Joydeep was giving it to.

Why couldn't life at Kennedy High be simple?

******

Aaliyah was sitting beside me in the cafeteria, thumbing through her magazine. I was trying to come up with more fortunes to share with dadi, but all I could think about was Angad's incredible offer. What had I been thinking to accept?

I mean, really, what could the guy do to get Prithvi to notice me? Skywriting? Take out an ad in the Kennedy Rag?

Why would he even want to help me out? I still didn't quite trust his asking me to the dance?

"Stop thinking about Prithvi, and just go talk to him," Aaliyah said suddenly. "Oh, wait, that's never going to happen. Because you're too shy," she added.

I pushed my tray forward, placed my elbows on the table, and leaned toward her slightly in a move that meant I was about to impart something of great significance. "Actually, it might happen."

My heart started thundering with the thought, the possibilities. Prithvi and I studying together. Prithvi and I sharing test scores. Prithvi and I walking the halls together, holding hands. Him gazing into mine.

"What are you talking about?" she demanded.

Taking a deep breath, before I lost the courage to tell her, I blurted, "Angad offered to get me a date with Prithvi if I would go to the dance with him this Saturday."

Her eyes got big and round. "He what?"

I shrugged haplessly. "I know. I was stunned when he offered."

She narrowed her eyes in thought. "Why would he bother to offer?"

"He wants to take a smart girl to the dance and prove to himself that he can show her a good time." even as I repeated his reasoning, I thought it sounded a little lame. Aaliyah apparently thought it sounded way lame.

"Why his sudden desire to date smart?" she asked. "The combined IQ of every girl he's ever dated doesn't equal yours. What gives?"

"Maybe he's just bored," I suggested.

"Bored with all the girls at this school fawning over him? I don't think so. There has to be more to it than that." She closed the magazine and gave me her undivided attention as if in the past two seconds I'd divined his true reasons.

"Maybe he likes me?" I offered lamely.

"You shot that idea down before." Aaliyah shook her head. "I don't know, Kripa. It's a little weird. Whatever his reason, I'm not so sure your going with him is such a good idea."

She held up her hand in typical Aaliyah fashion, and I knew she was gonna tick off the reasons.

She tapped her index finger. "Number one. Going to the dance with Angad might make Prithvi think you have a boyfriend."

"But after the dance Prithvi will never see me and Angad together again. Besides, Angad promised me that Prithvi would ask me out, so obviously his plan will ensure that Prithvi understands that Angad and I aren't an item," I explained. It seemed so complicated, though, when I said it.

Aaliyah still looked unconvinced. She tapped her next finger. "Okay. Now for number two. What if you start to like Angad?"

I laughed. "No way am I going to start liking Angad Khanna. He's so… so domineering, and he has the manners of Attila the Hun." Okay, maybe he had stopped to help us out yesterday, but that was probably his feeble attempt to make amends with Joydeep. "Besides, he thinks he's Kennedy High's gift to girls."

"He is hot to look at," Aaliyah admitted.

"Only in a superficial kind of way," I assured her. "I could never go for someone who thought the cover was the only part of the book that mattered."

I nearly jumped out of my skin when Angad suddenly dropped onto the bench beside me, straddling it so I had to twist around to look at him.

"Hey, I need you to go to the computer store with me after school today, to help me buy a computer," he told me in typical Angad style as if I had no social calendar to speak of.

Okay, so maybe I didn't, but I still did have a life… and curiosity. "Why?"

"Because nerd boy works at Office Depot." With a satisfied grin he grabbed the cookie off my tray and sauntered away.

My heart was thundering. Angad was really going to do it. He was going to get Prithvi to notice me.

hey guys, hope u enjoyed the part. considering the amount of comments I got, I have decided that if I don't get enough comments on this part, I will pm the parts to the people who do comment (thanx to Sonali for this idea). I feel terrible, but I have no other option, sry to the people who do comment!!! 😊

haha prithvi works at office depot? too bad angad doesnt or i would go there :p lovedd the part!! man angad seems to be playing with her feelings... kripa crushing on nerd boy is funny 😆 continue soon!!

amazing part
hope what alyia said comes true that kripa starts falling 4 angad
i dont want angad 2 hurt kripas feelings
👏

I just read ur fanfic! Its wckd! Kripa - A nerd and angad - a hottie! Plz continuee 👏 😳

I'm officially in love with your Fanfic!!!! 😳 Kripa is so cute. she tries to be this tough chick, but she's really a softie. and Angad, lol, he just cracks me up. I hope to see some Josh-Aaliya altercations in the future as well 😉

good angad will help her and then he'll slowly get attracted towards her.


__________
sana

hey, i really liked this part. angad the fairy god brother 🤣

amazing.. u should continue sooon..