sorry that i kept you guys waiting, here's part 6!
Part 6:
"Bani! What's taking so long? You don't want to miss the train to Paris, now do you?," Aarti asks bani, standing right outside of the bathroom. All three, aarti, bani, and pia had traveled to Europe after exploring everywhere in England for a week.
"Aarti, you go ahead with Pia to the train station, I'll be there in a while," bani says from the bathroom.
Aarti: Are you sure?
Bani: yeah, go ahead.
Aarti leaves the room in search of Pia. After a few minutes or so, bani comes out of the bathroom with wet dripping hair and wearing her white robe. She walks over to her closet and searches through it to find something nice to wear. Bani pulls out her white summer dress that'd look perfect on her. She quickly gets ready, dries her hair, and looks around for last minute packing.
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Train Station:
Rahul waits inside of the train with Aman, looking for Jai, pacing back and forth. "I told him that we are going to Paris with Aarti and her friends. Now where the hell is he?," he said angrily to himself. He looks at Aman, who looks very carefree while eating a chocolate donut.
Rahul: Aman, you did make sure to wake up, Jai…right?
Aman: yeah I - (thinks) …oh I totally forgot to!
Rahul: damn it, Aman!
Aarti and Pia come boarding onto the train and meet up with rahul and aman. "Pia, this is Rahul, my fianc. Rahul, this is one of my best friends, pia," aarti introduces the two to each other.
Rahul: Where's your other best friend?
Aarti: She'll be here in awhile. Where's yours?
Rahul: (sighs) Aman forgot to wake him up, so hopefully he woke up by himself and is getting here, quickly.
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Jai curses to himself while he checks all the platforms for his train. He was going to kill both Rahul and Aman for not waking him up. He finds where his train is, grabs his bag, and runs as hell to it. Jai sighs with relief to himself, as he gets onto the train that has now just started to move. He looks out of the doorway and sees someone running, trying to get onto the train, also. Jai couldn't make out the person's figure, but knew it was a girl. He extends his right hand out to her, trying to help her.
Bani takes the guy's hand and helps herself into the train. She falls right onto him, while he holds bani, carefully by her waist. Bani looks at her helper, with complete gratitude. She blushes by being so close to this very attractive man. She doesn't bother to move, liking the position she is in. He has nice dark brown eyes, jet black hair, and a smile to kill for.
Jai immediately recognizes the beautiful woman he is holding and smiles at her, making her blush even more. "she looks even more beautiful in person…," he thinks to himself. Bani looks nice in her white dress, with matching white shoes, and her hair nicely done in a clip. He slowly lets go of bani, but not wanting to. Jai continues to smile at her innocence.
Jai: …bani? (he says gently)
Bani looks deep into his eyes, a little stunned. This man did not look familiar to her, so how does he know her name? How does she know her?
Bani: Do I know-
Aarti: Bani!!!
Bani looks away from jai, and sees Aarti with Pia and a couple of unfamiliar guys behind them.
Aarti: I thought you would have missed the train! Thank god you came on time!
Bani: (smiles) I told you that I wouldn't miss it.
Aarti's attention goes behind bani, making her turn around to see who she's looking at.
Aarti: jai, we thought you definitely wouldn't make it.
Bani sees that Aarti is talking to her helper, who is standing right behind her.
Jai: (chuckles) Thankfully I woke up, your idiot fianc, didn't wake me up.
Rahul approaches jai and lightly punches him in the stomach. He then gives him a bear hug.
Rahul: sorry, man. Aman was supposed to wake you up.
Aarti takes Rahul's hand in hers and looks at bani.
Aarti: This is my fianc, Rahul. Rahul, this is bani, my best friend.
Rahul and bani shake hands and greet each other.
Rahul: and this man right here, bani, is MY best friend,…the famous Jai Walia.
The name felt so familiar to bani, where had she heard it? She then remembers pia with the magazine telling her all about Jai Walia. Bani smiles to him.
Bani: yeah, I met him already. He helped me get onto the train. Thank you…(she says looking at jai)
Jai: (smiles) No problem.
All six walk into the compartments and take seats across from each other. Aarti, Rahul, and Jai sit in one and Pia, bani, and Aman sit in another one across from them. Aman takes the seat next to bani, wanting to sit next to her. Bani sits next to the window, gazing out of it, while Jai watches her silently from the other compartment. She glances over to at her best friend, aarti, busy with talking and being all lovey dovey with her future husband. She then sees Jai, looking very annoyed with the two, aarti and Rahul. His face expression told her that he was ready to kill himself if the two wouldn't shut up, bani can't seem to control her laughter. Jai looks over to her, and smiles.
Aman: What are you laughing at?
Bani: (quickly) nothing.
The next 30 minutes on the train was very irritating for Bani. Aarti was way to busy with Rahul, so she barely talked to her, and this Aman guy wouldn't shut up and stop bothering bani. It's like it's impossible for him to be quiet for one second. Aman keeps blabbing on and on about his childhood, like bani cared.
Jai watches bani silently, noting that she looks very irritated by Aman. He laughs quietly to himself, while Aman tells Bani how he lost his first tooth. The guy didn't know when to stop talking.
Aman: Do you know that it takes 5-
Aman never gets to finish his question, because jai comes over to their compartment, pushes Aman out of his seat, and takes his spot next to bani. Jai brushes off Aman's anger towards him. Aman forgets about it and immediately clicks with pia, and they start talking.
Bani: (thankful) Thank you (she whispers to Jai)
Jai: your welcome.
The closeness between jai and bani, makes her nervous. For some reason, with jai around, bani felt so jumpy and out of place. She looks back out of the window, thinking about how jai helped her onto the train and how he had his warm arms wrapped around her. Remembering this, she blushes.
Jai: So, you're from Mount Abu? (asks Bani)
Bani looks back at jai and nods her head, in agreement.
Bani: yeah I am, but how do you know that?
Jai: (smirks and points to Aarti)
Bani: How much did she tell you about me?
Jai: Nothing really, just that you're from Mount Abu and have been best friends with Aarti ever since you were little.
Bani: yeah, she's right. But recently I'm staying in Mumbai,…(pauses for a second) and will be staying there for awhile.
Jai: I also live in Mumbai. How do you like it?
Bani: It's a big city and also very nice.
Jai stares at bani for a moment, making her body heat up.
Bani: (stammers) what-what are you looking at?
Jai: (grins) Has anyone ever told you that you're beautiful?
Stunned, bani looks at jai for a second, not knowing what to say. This handsome guy was telling her that she's beautiful. Should she thank him? Bani sinks into her seat, grabs her book from her bag, and covers her blushing face with it. Jai smiles when he sees bani doing this, loving how he made her so nervous and shy.
Bani stares at the book, but doesn't read it. She is in deep thoughts, thinking about her future and then contrasting it against how she would want it to be like. All bani wanted from life was someone to love her, cherish her, make her feel special. Instead she is getting a horrible man like Raj Patel and live a miserable life with him. Bani sighs in grief at her pathetic life. She listens to the three, pia, aman, and jai talk about places all over Europe, and notices how pia is flirting so much with jai.
Jai looks back at bani, and sees that she is still reading.
Jai: How's the book?
She takes her eyes off of the book and looks at Jai. Bani gives him a weak smile and then looks back to it.
Bani: It's fine.
Jai: (a moment later) You know, Aarti never mentioned that you can read upside down.
Bani stares at jai, confused and then looks at her book, it was indeed upside down. Embarrassed, she closes the book, puts it back in her bag while blushing. Not wanting to meet jai's gaze, bani looks back out of the window, while jai laughs. She felt so stupid right at this moment. Aarti comes over to their compartment, kicks aman out and sits in his seat. She is holding a card in her hand, moving it around in excitement.
Aman: man, why is everyone kicking me out of my seat?!
Aarti: (ignores aman) you guys, listen. Paris invites you to dinner and dancing, at the Royal Palace, tonight at 8:00! We should go! There'll be singing, dancing, and we'll have soo much fun!!!
stay tuned for the party in Paris! Hope you guys liked this part... 😊 😊 😊