And The Twain Shall Meet Updt Ch 2 Pg 6 - Page 4

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waiting to read more...it was really good,the way you explained things :):)
the two girls are aru n shefu??

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sorry pppls busy with colg

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CHAPTER 2

The white Honda city stoppd in front of college gate. Two girls got out of it.

Bhaiyya aap hume 1 baje lene aa jana, said one of them. Theek hain maam, said the driver.

The girls started walking towards the college. Looking at them no one could believe they were friends. One of them was dressed in a short denim skirt with a white fitted top, blue eye shadow, eyeliner in her eyes making them look even bigger, silver hoops in her ears, blue chunky bangles, matching denim bag, wedge heels and a light gloss on her lips giving them a pouty appearance. she had curly hair falling down her back and she looked gorgeous. She was oozing confidence and excitement was clearly visible on her face. She looked all around her as though trying to take in the whole atmosphere in one go.

The other was dressed in a cream churidar which fully covered her from her arms to her toes, her hair was in a ponytail, she had no make up on her face and had a black purse on her shoulder. She seemed reluctant to move and was dragging her feet. She looked a little apprehensive and had her gaze fixed at the gate, without looking around even once.

Suddenly, they heard loud honking behind them. They stepped to one side and saw a red sports car with loud music blaring going towards the gate. The chokidar opened the gate and the car zoomed inside.

'Wow arohi, did you see that, I wonder who it belongs too', said shefali. 'I would love to get to know the person who owns such a hot car, I bet he is hot himself. I wonder which year he is in, has to be a senior, the way he entered college, how will I ever meet him, I am in love already with the car, lets go quickly, or we'll miss him, I hope he is single and available, then I'll have a chance, hurry arohi, why you walking like tortoise'. Shefali was talking nineteen to a dozen, without waiting for a response and trying to hurry

They entered the gate, But to her bad luck, they saw that the car was parked at one side and there was nobody around it, just some other girls ooh aahing and gushing about the car.

'Dekha tum itni dhere chal rahe thi ki humne use miss kar diya, how will find them now, cant even ask anybody as we don't know anybody and freshers cannot be so liberal on the first day. Lets go and find our class quickly before some senior catches hold of us for ragging', shefali scolded arohi slightly. All this time the other girl had not uttered a word and was walking silently trying not to look at anybody.

Shefali looked around her. There was a buzz of noise all around. One could make out who were the freshers and the who were the seniors. Seniors were meeting their friends after the holidays and were laughing and chatting. There were squeals of excitement on seeing each other, some were discussing their holidays and where they went. The freshers were quiet and not trying to attract attention towards them, one could see nervousness, apprehension, excitement, happiness all mixed together and most of them were looking a little lost as they didn't know where to go and what to do. Here and there some seniors were interacting with the juniors but keeping a look out for the anti ragging squad. (ragging is an offence and one could get suspended if there was any complaint)

Romit was standing with his 3 friends. Suddenly he saw the 2 girls walking towards the college entrance. He could make out that they were fuchchas (this is what freshers are called in Delhi colleges) as they didn't seem sure of where to go. He suddenly remembered Arjuns words to rag some girls and keep it light. "hey guys, look at that girls over there. Why don't we have some fun with them"

"but Romit, what do we do with girls, what if they start crying and complain about us", said Jai.

Veeru added, 'Romit lets not anything stupid, you remember last year, you almost got suspended'.

'there is that yaar, I cant get into trouble on the first day, or dad is going to get very annoyed and this time even Bro will not be able to save me." Said Romit. 'Lets keep it simple and easy, as bro said, just ask them to dance, this way ragging bhi ho jayege, it will be harmless fun and intro bhi ho jayege. And dance ki to koi complaint bhi nahi manega."

'But that is so lame and boring, what is the fun in asking a girl to dance, they are all good dancers, maja bhi nahi aayega', said Aman

'Maja aayega, lets scare them a little first and you leave the rest to me', said romit

So romit called out to the two girls, 'Hey you fuchchas, come here'. Shefali looked up and saw the four boys standing there. 'you talking to us', she asked. 'Yeah', said Romit. She started walking towards them, Arohi tried to pull her back and whispered to her to just ignore the boys as she knew that ragging was not allowed, but Shefali wanted to have her first experience of ragging, so she ignored her and told her to just come with her. She stood in front and looked at them. The guys looked at her and kept looking, she was beautiful, smart and just the little bit nervous. Romit saw her and kept staring. he found shefali very attractive and wanted to know who she was. He forgot what he wanted to say to her. His friends nudged him and he realised that he was staring at her like a love stuck teenager. To cover up he spoke in a hard voice, 'so first years, do you know who am I'. shefali shook her head. 'doesn't matter, you have to do what we tell you to otherwise we will make sure that everyone makes fun of you.' Arohi nudged shefali and whispered to her that there was no way the boys could make them do anything. She knew one complaint and the boys would be in trouble. She told shefali to leave from there and go and find their class. But shefali was stubborn. Also she liked Romit's looks, she thought what a smart, good loking handsome guy he was and this was her chance to get to know him. Normally seniors never mixed with juniors as they had their own circle of friends. She didn't want to lose this opportunity to atleast find his name. so she just nodded and asked what was it they wanted them to do. Romit was again lost looking at her, his friends had to finally pinch him to wake him up. 'ouch', he said and realized that he was making a fool of himself. So in the gruffest voice he could manage he said 'we will play a song and you will have to dance to it'. 'both of us, or just one of us' asked shefali. 'Both of you' he said. Hearing this Arohi turned pale and stepped back and started shaking her head. 'What kind of dance' shefali asked. 'Show us the salsa and we will pick the song as well' said romit. Hearing this a wide smile came to her lips. The boys were bewildered. They never thought that salsa would make them happy. Romit had thought that the girls would plead and request them for some other dance form, but to their surprise one of the girls was looking pretty excited about the whole thing. 'Give me 5 mts' she requested them. 'For what' said romit. 'To talk to my friend about it' Shefali took Arohi to one side. Arohi had a frozen look on her face. Shefali spoke to her softly 'come on Arohi, you can do it' Arohi shook her head and said no to her. Shefali said 'Arohi you know the salsa, both of us learnt it during the holidays and you know that you are very good at it, so why are you scared, you know that I am with you, don't be shy, lets show these guys that though we are freshers we are not complete duds, it is like a challenge' she went on and on for the next few minutes until finally arohi nodded slightly. The guys were watching this with a slightly bemused look, they could not believe that shefali had to persuade arohi so much and literally beg her to do it. Shefali turned around with an excited look and said 'we are ready, what is the song you have picked for us'. The guys looked at each other with a grin. 'the song is mere haath mein tera haath ho from the movie fanaa.' 'but that is a very slow song, how can we do salsa on that' protested shefali while arohi had a look of horror on her face. She knew that they were going to look like fools while dancing on this song but Shefali had made up her mind and nothing could change it. 'Don't care, that is what we have chosen and that is what you get, so please now hurry up before the class starts and we have to go.'

The girls took their position. As shefali was taller she was the guy and arohi the girl. Romit played the song from his mobile.

mere haath mein tera haath ho saari jannatein mere saath ho - 2
tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan tere pyar mein ho jaaun fanaa
mere haath mein tera haath ho saari jannatein mere saath ho
tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan tere pyar mein ho jaaun fanaa
mere haath mein tera haath ho saari jannatein mere saath ho

tere dil mein meri saanson ko panaa mil jaaye
tere ishq mein meri jaan fanaa ho jaaye
jitne paas hain khushbu saans ke
jitne paas hothon ke sargam
jaise saath hain karvat yaad ke
jaise saath baahon ke sangam
jitne paas paas khwaabon ke nazar
utni paas tu rehna hamsafar
tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan
tere pyar mein ho jaaun fanaa
mere haath mein tera haath ho saari jannatein mere saath ho

rone de aaj hamko do aankhen sujaane de
baahon mein lene de aur khud ko bheeg jaane de
hain jo seene mein qaid dariya woh choot jaayega
hain itna dard ke tera daaman bheeg jaayega
jitne paas paas dhadkan ke hain raaz
jitne paas bundon ke baadal
jaise ?sahaq? sa chanda ke hain raat
jitne paas nainon ke kaajal
jitne paas paas saagar ke lehar
utne paas tu rehna hamsafar
tu jo paas ho phir kya yeh jahaan
tere pyar mein ho jaaun fanaa
mere haath mein tera haath ho saari jannatein mere saath ho

adhoori saans thi dhadkan adhoori thi adhooren ham
magar ab chaand poora hain falak pe aur ab pooren hain ham

the boys were waitin for girls to make fools of themselves, but had underestimated them. Though the song was slow, the girls knew the dance and as they had practiced with each other they knew just what to do. After less a minute only the boys were left with their mouth open and a surprised look on their faces. The girls were dancing so gracefully that they seemed to be literally floating on the ground. Their movements were so perfect and they were so attuned to each other that it was poetry in motion. The boys had never seen anyone dance so rhythmically as their own parties only had loud and fast music with everybody just jumping around more often than not. Though both the girls were good, it was evident to even them that the other girl was a superb dancer, her movements were more graceful, more in sync with the music and she was totally lost in the music. In the meanwhile a small crowd had gathered around them, but the girls were oblivious to it, they were just enjoying the dance. The song ended and everyone started clapping. This woke up the girls from the trance they were in. while arohi looking at the crowd around them seemed to shrivel inside herself, shefali took a bow and stood there with a wide grin on her face. Her face was glowing from the exercise and the excitement and she looked very pretty. Romit couldn't stop staring at her.

Suddenly they heard a loud voice exclaim 'what is going on here, why is everybody gathered here' It was the principal of the college out to see that no ragging was taking place. 'Shit' murmured Romit 'looks like I am in trouble again' The crowd parted and the principal looked at the two girls in the centre. He understood that something was going on. 'Romit Singhania, I warnd you last year about ragging, this year I will not spare you, you will be suspended from this college'. The whole crowd was shocked. It was a very big thing to get suspended. 'No sir, we were not doing anything' stammered Romit looking scared, ' we were, we were just'..' before he could complete his sentence the principal said harshly 'I don't want to hear anything, come to my office right now'. But Suddenly before the principal could leave Shefali spoke. 'Sir, he did not do anything, infact the boys were just being friendly and asked us to introduce ourselves. We didn't know that even introduction was banned in this college' Now the principal could not say anything as there was no complaint against the boys. So with another glare at them he went off with a huff. The crowd also dispersed. Only romit and his friends were left.The moment he left Romit heaved a sigh of relief. 'Thank God for that' he looked at shfali admiringly and said 'hey, thanks for saving my butt, I am sorry we troubled you, can we be friends'. He stretched his hand forward and said 'I am Romit, this is Jai, veeru and aman' pointing to each of them. Shefali shook his hand and said 'I am shefali and this is Arohi'. Romit put his hand towards Arohi, but to his surprise Arohi stepped back with a panicked look on her face. Shefali quickly stepped forward and took his hand again. 'its nice to meet all of you', trying to act like a shield in front of arohi. Arohi mumbled a faint hello while looking down at the ground. The boys found her behavior very odd but dismissed it thinking that may be it is the stress of the first day of college. They still hadn't got a very clear look of her face as most of the time she looked down and had not made eye contact with anyone.

Suddenly a loud bell rang out. The boys looked at each other and said 'time to go, that is the bell for the first period and we still have to find our class.' Shefali said to them 'now that we are friends can you please tell us where to go as we are lost' Romit realized that it was their first day and they didn't where to go. So he gave directions to shefali as to where they could find the first year class rooms and asked 'will you like to join us in the cafetaria' Shefali was happy about it but said they didn't know when they will get free. Romit said that as it was the first day, so they only had to find their classes, meet their first year teachers, get the time table, buy the books if they wanted to today and then would be free. He said that it would not take them more than a couple of hours at the latest and they all agreed to meet in the cafeteria at 12.

The girls walked away from there. Romit kept staring at shefali. His friends slapped him on his back 'Kya hua Romit, love first day of college, abhi to pura saal pada hai' Romit blushed a little and said 'aisa kuch nahi hai, I just found her very attractive and as you said abhi to pura saal hai use patane mein. Lets go and find our class now'. So saying this the boys too walked towards the entrance.

It was around 12.30 pm . romit along with his friends was sitting with a couple of other girls in the cafeteria. 'hey romit your new friends didn't turn up, pehle din hi dokha de diya' his friends teased him. 'yaar mujhe kya pata unke bare mein, maybe they didn't want to join us' he said. Suddenly he looked up nd spotted both the girls at the entrance of the cafeteria looking all around as though trying to find thm. He shouted ' hey shefali, over here' Shefali looked over to where he was standing and started walking towards them. They could all see that she was dragging a reluctant arohi behind her. This angered the boys slightly. They thought that if she didn't want to come then why was she there, they had no shortage of friends and one less would not make a difference. In the meanwhile shefali reached there and said breathlessly ' sorry, we got late in class and then we got lost'. She spoke so excitedly that the boys forgot their anger towards arohi and concentrated on her. Somebody pulled out chairs for them to sit and they widened the circle. Another round of introductions took place as shefali said that she had forgotten who was who, one by one they all came forward, shook her hand and introduced themselves again. She laughed and said 'let me see the one with curly hair is jai, one with a round face is veeru, the shortest is Aman and the tallest is Romit and the girls are mehak and disha. The boys then turned towards arohi who was sitting silently and looking down at her feet. Before they could give their hand to shake, shefali jumped in and said 'this is arohi and arohi this is romit, jai, veeru, aman, mehak and disha' . arohi looked up fleetingly and said a small general hello to everybody. They all chorused hi but found her behavior to be very weird. After that they ignored her and arohi was happy with that. They all started chating with shefali wanting to know which school she was and where she lived, generally getting to know each other.

Suddenly romit exclaimed 'hey guys, what all do you want, we are sitting in the cafeteria to eat also, it will be my treat today as bhai has given me lots of money to treat my friends.' Some of them looked at him enviously. They knew he came from a rich family, was the youngest and indulged by all. Also they had met his brother and knew would do anything for romit. But it was a good natured envy as romit was very generous and open and friendly and he never looked down on anybody, he didn't care about the background of his friends and treated them the same. So they all gave their order to the boy who worked their. Romit then asked shefali and arohi as to what they wanted. Shefali looked at arohi who shook her head slightly. Shefali turned around and said 'romit we are not hungry and don't want anything.' All of them turned to look at her. 'not hungry' said mehak, 'come on you guys, the samosas here are to die for and wash it down with the special cold coffee. You will not forget the taste all your life' everybody endorsed this and veeru even said that the food in their cafeteria was very hygienic compared to other cafeterias around if that was their problem. But shefali refused again and said that they had to leave as their car was waiting outside and her mom needed the car at home. They all shrugged as though they considered them mad for refusing a free treat and after a good bye session both the girls left.

All of them looked at therir retreating back and wondered as how both of them could be friends. They were such a contrast. Shefali as smart, outspoken, fun, extrovert, loved to talk and very social, where arohi was just the opposite. She had barely said anything, just hello, hadn't looked up even once at any of the boys, was reluctant to shake hands, was lost in herself most of the time and they realized that they hadn't even seen her face properly. If any of them met her outside, they would not recognize her. This was amazing as generally all the girls they knew were open and made friends easily and looked forward to getting to know the guys, specially rich ones like romit. Also they realized one thing that shefali was very protective towards her and took her silent permission before doing anything. This was very surprising as they thought it should be the other way round, but then they soon forgot all about the two girls and had a good time sitting, eating and cracking jokes till it was time to go home.

SO EVERYBODY. THIS WAS THE UPDATE. SORRY FOR BEING SO LATE. HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH IT AND LIKE. PRESS THE LIKE BUTTON EVEN IF YOU DON'T, BUT DO EXCUSE IF YOU DON'T LIKE. THIS IS MY FIRST TRY AND SO ALL ENCOURAGEMENT IS WELCOME