AbhiGya Fiction ~ Cross Connection - Completed pg 42 (chp. 25 + epil) - Page 2

Hey i love the Idea
It reminds me a little bit Miley jab hum tum
Maybe because of the college context :)
I'm loving it I was mad at Pragya
For doing Abhi's work
But I liked how Abhi cared for her :)
But still Purab is right Pragya needs to stand up :)
Fabulous

Amazing. Loved it. Pragya is so docile doing all his work but good that he cares about her. Loved Purab Pragya bonding

Loved your characterizations!
Glad that there are no vamps here- just flawed real humans.
It is interesting Aliya wants people refer to her as 'he', it reminds me of my childhood and early teens, i used to ask people to call me a ladka and had real short hair too, you did a great job with Aliya!

I'm loving it!! Want more already!!!

do we get an update today?

okay i know i commented yesterday but this is to tell you how excited i am for the next update 😃

Hi Guys! Chapter 2 for you! Please drop by and leave your lovely feed backs! I would love to know, what you think of this story!

Happy Reading! 😉

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Chapter 2

Purab and Abhi walked into a very busy canteen after their football practise, to see there were no vacant spots available. "Perfect, now how do we grab food before the lectures begin?" grumbled Abhi and was about to walk out, when Purab stopped them. He pointed at two people sharing a table for six. "Look bro, your brother and her boyfriend is sitting there, let's join them" laughed Purab.

"Purab! She is not my BROTHER, and he is definitely not her boyfriend!" screeched Abhi in irritation as they went to join Aaliya and Neil in their table.

"Hey Aalu, do you mind if we join?" asked Abhi casually as they reached them. "A-LI not Aa-LU bhai" he corrected Abhi with gritted teeth. Purab sniggered at that and Neil gave him a confused look. Abhi didn't say anything, they joined the table and were munching food by themselves.

"Ali did you clean the trek shoes for tomorrow mate?" asked Neil while munching on a samosa. "Yep dude, I am all set" replied Aaliya nonchalantly.

Abhi looked up and looked at the pair of them. Trek? Tomorrow morning? What? Then he remembered Pragya's word about Neil coming and picking her up in the middle of the night for a drive - he had tried Neil's number last night, but even that was unreachable - time was ripe thought Abhi, Aalu needed the talk'.

"Aaliya, we need to talk." He began, but Aaliya didn't seem to listen, he called her again, and still she pretended to not hear him. He needed her to pay heed to his words, so he decided to try it her way. "Okay Ali, bro we gotta talk. Man to man. Now" Aaliya looked up and frowned and then she said, "Sure, follow me". Abhi stood up and excused himself from Purab and Neil and walked out.

Purab noticed Neil giving a quizzical look to Aaliya's retreating figure. A smirk escaped him - Neil looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Your girl?" Purab asked motioning towards Aaliya. Neil looked startled for a second. "Girl? Ali?" then he laughed "Dude, I am not gay". Still annoyed with Purab's attitude towards Ali, Neil took out an assignment from his bag and flipped through the pages as he munched on samosa - too bad the canteen was so full, sitting with this jerk of a guy was annoying him.

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Pragya walked into the canteen and was upset to see it so full, now how was she ever going to complete her assignment before class? True, last night she did begin working on it, but that Abhi's chuckle and concern was too much for her to handle. She couldn't concentrate on work at all, finally in the wee hours she decided to call it a night and finish her work in the canteen and go to class - that way Abhi won't know she still worked on her assignment in the last moment. But now what? She was about to walk out in disappointment, when she heard Purab call her from behind. She turned to see Purab and Neil sharing a table and quickly went to join them.

"Hi Purab, thanks! I desperately need to finish today's assignment" she smiled at him softly. Purab sighed, but he knew there was no point teling her to focus on her work before Abhi's - He knew Pragya had a soft corner for Abhi, and he tried to tell her subtly many times that Abhi had nothing for her, he liked his cousin Tanu - but Pragya wouldn't ever pay heed. So, without dweling further, he let her begin working.

Pragya on the other hand greeted Neil too. "Hi Neil? How was last night's drive? And where is Ali? I thought she..oops, I mean he left home early today!" Neil smiled at her brightly. He liked Pragya, she was soft and caring and most importantly a loving roomie to his best mate Ali - "Hey Prags! Last night was KILLER, if we ever go out with the other girls, we will get you too! And yes Ali was here, but Abhi called him to talk."

When Pragya just finished her assignment, and tallied her findings with Purab, Abhi came back to the canteen, with Tanu at his heel. They came with fresh stock of coffee and joined the table.

"Hey bhai, wanna hit Miami 69 for the Friday hitout tonight? Abhi and I have made plans!" squealed Tanu in excitement, tugging onto Abhi's hand. Purab looked up, he had a long week and there were too many assignments the whole week, he could do with a breather, so he quickly agreed. "Sure Tanu, hey Pragya, you're in right?" he asked as he turned to Pragya. Pragya looked up startled, and at the same time heard a distinct cough of disapproval from Tanu - she glanced at her and then turned to Purab, "Actually Purab, you guys carry on, I have some work" she stammered. Purab had heard the cough too, it embarrassed him to no end to acknowledge that Tanu was his cousin, when she did things like this. "No Pragya, you HAVE to come. Come for me? Please?" coaxed Purab, then he added, "Abhi, you ask her nah, if we did three assignments in a week and got tired, imagine she has done six! Three her's and three of yours!" then he gave Abhi a hard look. After that out of curtsey, Abhi didn't have a choice but to invite. "Hey chashmish, I think Purab is right, you must come" but seeing Tanu's angry look, in order to lighten the situation, he looked at Neil and said, "Hey bro, why don't you and Aalu, I mean Ali, join us too?" Neil looked up at him, "Sorry bro, Ali and I have plans, we are trekking tomorrow early morning, gotta call it an early night today" but Abhi continued, "No man, Ali has some work, he won't go trekking tomorrow, he will call you. So join?" Neil looked bewildered, but then if they weren't going, they could sure join Abhi and his gang. "Cool, count us in".

***

Pragya was very nervous, she had never been to a night club before - back at home, her mother never gave her and Bulbul permission to visit these places and after joining college, even though she secretly always wanted to visit one, no one seemed to invite her. But Bulbul of course indulged in parties ever since she joined college. Bulbul was always so popular, unlike her - short, too thin, with nerdy glasses and quiet.

Pragya sat panicking, she didn't know what to wear, should she wear a simple t-shirt with denims? Or maybe the dress that Bulbul gave her on her birthday (she hasn't found an occasion to wear it once even), or maybe try a short skirt and a halter top, like the ones Tanu wears to parties? (yes, she stalked Abhi on FB too, and he seemed to visit every part with Tanu nowadays!) - maybe she should call Bulbul, she thought - but it was too late, 9PM on a Friday night, Bulbul would probably, already be partying somewhere and her phone would be unreachable invariably. After a lot of debate, she decided on her birthday dress - it was a modest black dress that fell up to her knees, it had a plain round neck and thankfully didn't have elaborate back cuts - the back was fully covered with a zip from the base of her waist to her neck.

Now Pragya realized why Bulbul took so much time in dressing up for a part - it was a difficult task in itself! Here she was struggling for the last fifteen minutes to zip up her dress and she just couldn't reach it! Finally giving up, she shouted for Ali. Ali popped his head into her room. "Ali, can you please do me up yaar?" requested Pragya casually pointing at her zip that was for unknown reasons, stuck near the waist. Ali gasped.

"P-R-A-G-Y-A A-R-O-R-A! You're so damn shameless!" screamed Ali. Pragya got startled. "Sorry, what?" she began, but Ali cut in. "Pragya, I am a GUY and you are a GIRL and not to mention you're half NAKED! And you're calling me to help you?" shrieked Ali in disgust. Pragya just stood there baffled and amused at the same time. Then an idea struck her.

"Ali, you're a guy and I am a girl, and I am half naked and calling for you - but you don't seem turned on. Is there anything wrong with you? Are you a guy even?" asked Pragya with a crooked smile. Ali breathed fire at that. He stomped into Pragya's room and roughly pulled up her zip to the neck and hissed, "Maybe it's because I am not a CHARACTERLESS man, Pragya!" and rushed out of the room. Leaving a bewildered Pragya with a half smiling and half exasperated look on her face.

Pragya was almost ready, when the doorbell rang, it must be Neil thought Pragya - Neil was picking her and Ali in his car today. As she touched up her soft rose pink lipstick and rushed to open the door, she took two steps back to see Abhi standing there. "You" she stammered, but Abhi didn't respond, he was taking in the breath-taking sight before him.

She was in a black dress that covered till her knees. She had minimal make-up, but the highlight was her soft brown doe-eyes and soft lustrous pink lips that looked like rose petals - her skin was clear and glowing against the dark black curls of her hair that she let loose today, she looked angelic, but why was his angel looking surprised?

"Abhi, you, here?" asked Pragya again.

"Yes, I err..I didn't want Aaliya to drink and ride her bike, so I came to pick her up in my car" he paused and then sheepishly added, "You can join too". Pragya blushed, but she kept telling herself, Abhi had come for Aaliya not her, since they were going to the place, out of curtesy he had invited her. But before she responded, Ali came there.

"Bhai please stop treating me like a chic okay! I have had enough of this since morning! Fine, I agreed to not go to the trek owing to the monsoon, but this is too much! What? Now I can't drink and ride my bike too?" she screamed in frustration. A perplexed Pragya kept looking between the brother-sister duo in shock.

"Ali, I am not putting rules on you - I thought since we all are partying together, then why not drive you there - that way, without having to worry about riding back, you can drink more and have more fun you know?" argued Abhi, looking at Pragya for validation, who shook her head vehemently in support. Ali looked at her with narrow eyes, and then turned to Abhi.

"Bhai, for your information, Neil is bringing his car, he will pick us up. You don't worry. Go pick Tanu instead" she flashed.

"Purab is picking her up, guess I will have to go alone then" muttered Abhi lowly and was about to walk out. Pragya felt bad for him - he was only looking out for his sister, it wasn't wrong - but she knew she couldn't say anything - she desperately looked at Aaliya, hoping she would change her mind, but she stood there firm not ready to budge, but then she looked at Pragya with an odd smile.

"Bhai, wait. Don't go alone - we will do it this way. Since I planned with Neil, let him pick me up. You take Prags with you. See you all there then" she finished and walked back to her room, leaving a flabbergasted Pragya and an awkward Abhi behind. After a few minutes, Abhi looked at her, "Guess we should get going then chashmish".

Pragya followed Abhi out of the room quiety. Then she turned back to lock the door behind her, when Abhi turned and stood there in shock. Pragya's dress, though modest from the front, was quite scandalous for her at least, from behind. It was made of those thin chiffon fabric that were translucent, hence practically her entire back from the waist to the shoulder was semi-visible. For a moment Abhi stared at the perfect curve at her waist and the slightly protruding shoulder blades, but then she turned and he quickly turned away to hide his gaping expression from her.

***

Purab was driving down to the club with Tanu by his side, he wanted to pick up Tanu, and so he could have a word with her in private. As much as he didn't want to interfere in his cousin's life, today he had to. Pragya was a very nice girl and his friend, and he didn't like the way Tanu indirectly insulted or taunted her.

"Tanu, why do you hate Pragya thus?" asked Purab quietly.

"Bhai? What's this? Why do you ask?" replied Tanu curiously.

"Pragya has become a good friend of mine, and your attitude towards her, bother's me. That's why" replied Purab shortly.

"Wow, should I be worried? Should I inform chachi that you've found her a behenji for a bahu?" chuckled Tanu. Her words irked Purab more.

"Shut-up Tanu. It's not that. I think she is a very nice person, and your unruly behaviour towards her puts up a detrimental image of your's before others" he replied carefully. Tanu seemed to consider this one.

"By other's you mean?" she piped in.

"I mean Abhi especially." Said Purab, carefully noticing her from the corner of his eyes, he knew he had hit the nail in the head, then he continued, "You see, Abhi loves Aaliya unconditionally. And Aaliya has requested Abhi to befriend Pragya and take care of her - you like it or not and even Abhi likes it or not, he will do Aaliya's bidding - he WILL look after Pragya, how much ever he cribs - so if you don't like her, ignore her, but don't insult her - because once Abhi sees how nice a person Pragya is, more sooner than later, Abhi isn't going to like your attitude towards Pragya."

Tanu looked thoughtful. Purab figured, she wouldn't bother Pragya much from now - he heaved a relief. Pragya was too nice to take this from everyone - as it is Abhi treated her like doormat, and she couldn't do anything about it - but why Tanu too? With a satisfied smile, Purab drove on.

The fact that Neil is thinking that aalu is a guy it irritates me a lot even Aliyah
I wonder why she is like thatshe should assume that she is a woman I wonder what would be the main reason ?
And I'm quite irked that everyone is entering in her game really someone should speak out for this :)
I love this Update Abhigya moments were too good

love the characterization of the brother in abhi - he looks out for aalu... purab cares a lot for his frens and good that he spoke to tanu about pragya.. loved the update

Very intriguing Aafrah! I am so glad you're out with a light hearted story this time. I still have to catch up on Frozen - I was waiting to make sure you wrote a happy ending before starting to read that.