Randhir couldn't believe that he managed to tell Sanyukta how he had been feeling for the last two years - and the fact that she reciprocated his feelings made his heart jump with joy.
He looked down at the girl he never expected to stand before in his most vulnerable state and she just looked back at him with a smile, allowing him to access her at the same state as well. The blissful moment was soon interrupted when a tear fell from Sanyukta's eye. Randhir instinctively placed his hand under her jaw to catch the teardrop before it fell, then proceeded to dry her cheek with his fingers again.
"Why are you being so emotional today Sanyukta?" he asked her, really not able to understand why she was behaving this way.
He could see the hesitation in her eyes before she caved in, breaking down. "Randhir, Sameer contacted me," she whispered, tears flowing down her face once again.
Randhir immediately felt a sense of possessiveness wash over him when he heard Sameer's name. Sameer was Sanyukta's fiance - someone who her family had arranged for her to marry since they didn't approve of her engineering dream. Sameer had found out that she was an engineering student in their second year itself, but said that he didn't mind waiting, and would marry Sanyukta once she completed her studies. What had once amused Randhir back in second year, completely disgusted him now.
"What did he say?" Randhir asked coldly.
Sanyukta lowered her eyes and stared at the ground. "Randhir - he said that as soon as my finals are over, we'll get married on the next day itself."
Suddenly everything started to make sense to him. Sanyukta's eagerness to sleep with him, to lose her virginity to him and not to Sameer - she was under the impression that she would marry Sameer and Randhir would just let her.
"Are you stupid?" Randhir asked her, his fingers lifting her chin up so her gaze could meet his. "You have to be out of your mind if you think that your wedding with Sameer will actually happen."
Sanyukta struggled to catch her breath through her tears, but once she did, she gasped. "Randhir, my dad will die if I don't marry him! His health is already so bad."
Randhir didn't care - no matter what happened, he wouldn't let Sanyukta marry that pig.
"Sanyukta, there's definitely a solution - I won't let you marry him!" he told her reassuringly, "And there's no reason for you to sleep with me right now either, especially since you won't end up marrying him."
She grabbed his hands and held on to them tightly. "Randhir, I don't want to sleep with him - and if I have to, I don't want to lose my virginity to him. I've told him already I have no feelings for him but he just doesn't listen Randhir! He says he really likes me and wants to marry me. I don't know what to do! If you just sleep with me, at least I'll have good memories about my first time," she said persuasively.
Randhir shook his head, upset to see that Sanyukta actually believed that she would be marrying that Sameer.
"Alright fine Sanyukta, if your wedding goes as planned, then I'll sleep with you the night before your wedding. Will that make you happy?" he asked her with a deep sigh.
She hesitated once again before smiling and nodding.
"But your wedding won't happen," Randhir pressed on adamantly. "I'll speak to Sameer."
Sanyukta shook her head. "Don't Randhir! I'm scared that something bad will happen to my dad," she told him.
"We'll see what we need to do, but whatever we need to do, we can do it together," he replied comfortingly, causing her to smile.
"Now Miss Sanyukta Agarwal," Randhir said in a flirty tone, "How may I make you happy tonight?"
Sanyukta hit his chest playfully and smiled, pushing him onto his bed. "That's for you to figure out Mr. Randhir Singh Shekhawat," she told him, climbing on the bed beside him and propping herself on her side, running her fingers in a circular motion on his shirt.
Randhir kissed her forehead and glanced at the bag full of books she had left on his chair. "Want to study?" he asked her, sitting up on the bed.
Sanyukta looked defeated for a moment before sighing. "Fine, let's study," she agreed. "This is probably for the best."
"We can always take breaks in between," Randhir told her with a wink.
"I'd like that," she then replied with a faint blush.
Randhir chuckled and stood up to get their books and bring them to her. This was their last year together - Randhir and Sanyukta who were always studying to compete against each other, were studying with each other today.
There existed a magnet that could attract two repelling particles, and this particular magnet was a four letter word called love.
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