Part 2
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They had just found out that Muskaan and Anjali had to leave to the new school next year meaning in 2 weeks. They will not be in the same school next year. They were all upset they couldn't believe this new school is going to seperate them. But they made a promise that they will keep in touch through Facebook and Hotmail and the Phone. They wil visit eachothers places when ever all three of them didn't have school. They wouldn't just let a stupid new school come between their friendship.
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The new year had started and 2 weeks into the school year yet Riddhima didn't have any friends. She made one friend that was turning out to be a really good friend of hers. She could almost see that they were going to be best friends in the future. Her name was Aastha. They always hung out together. In the bright side Riddhima had gotten the schools best teacher and this was their last year at the school. They were going to graduate into high school. The Popular girls: Tara, and Simran, and the popular boys; Shaan, Arjun, Rohan, and Prem.
Aastha and Riddhima had started talking to one of the popular girls, Tara, a lot! They were starting to become really good friends of one another. They talked basically 24/7. Soon enough Tara and Riddhima had become very very very good friend. She had lost touch with Sia and Vishaka. Although she was "besties" with Tara she still hadn't changed she was still a tomboy even though Tara was a girly girl.
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Riddhima just got out with Aastha. She was now starting to talk with Aastha more, since she realized that she was kind of ignoring her. As they were walking, Riddhima heard some one yelling out her name. She turned around to check who it was . When she saw it was Raman she really wasn't pleased. Raman was starting annoy her. She was being nice with ther since a long time but right now she was just annoyed. She sighed completely annoyed now. Why did that girl have to follow her around everywhere?? Before Raman could reach her she ran away quickly. She ran to the back field, where most of the popular people hang out together.. When she went there she saw Shaan there standing .. Alone. She thought that was the perfect opportunity. (Shaan and Tara are going out) She knew that Raman was scared to go near the popular dudes especially Shaan since he was like the leader of the popular boys. Raman didn't want to make a fool of herself in front of them. She ran up to him and hugged him. Shaan was totally not expecting that move. He barely knew Riddhima except her name and that apparently she was a tomboy. He also didn't do anything else .. Probably because he was too shocked to react. Before he could react Riddhima started explaining.
"Look, sorry about this but you see that girl behind me?" Shaan looked behind her and saw Raman there. " Raman?" Shaan asked. "Yes Raman is following me around everywhere and I am kind of getting really annoyed by her so I ran away from her and came here." she explained. "then why are you hugging me? She can still come here you know. She does have legs." Shaan commented. "Oh yeah, well shes scared of you guys well mostly you since you are popular and she is just scared of coming around the popular people." she explained again.
Shaan was shocked to hear that. Raman was scared of him? Why? She had been in his class a few times, and she was still scared of him? Was he that scary? Obviously not, because Radhika hadn't been in his class at all not even once but still she was scared to hug him. So he wasn't scary!
They were just standing there hugging each other. Then Riddhima asked,
"Is she gone?" Shaan looked in front of him which was over Riddima. " Yeah, cost is clear now. " Shaan stated " Alright" Riddhima parted from the hug and highfived him and patted him on the back the way boys do it. Ridz was really a tomboy. "See ya around man!" With that Riddhima left Shaan. Soon enough his friends reached him.
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"Whoa! That sucks" Riddhima exclaimed " I know .. I just hope my grandma gets well soon!, I have to go to singapore for 3 weeks for my grandma now" Tara explained. " Well we're are going to miss you a lot. Just hope that your grandma gets better ASAP" Aastha and Ridz both said. Tara had to go to Singapore where her grandma lives. Her grandma had fallen ill, and it looked serious. Tara had said that if her grandma doesn't get better then shes going to have to stay there for a long time .. But the possibilities of that was very unlikely.. So everybody was expecting that she would be back. Tara and Shaan had just gotten together, and now Tara had to leave after 2 days they had gotten together.
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Aastha and Riddhima were walking around talking and fooling around at the backfield. They were having a lot of fun. There were some other girls at the back field also. But they were definitely not having fun. They were all dramaqueens and Riddhima and Aastha hated them a lot! One of the girls were Simran. She is popular. She likes her bestfriend, Tara's ex: Rohan. Simran and Rohan were going out but then Rohan dumped her because he still liked Tara. Then there were the other girls that were the "followers". They followed Tara and Simran around because they wanted to become popular. Tara didn't like them very much so they didn't follow her around that much. They followed Simran now.. But Simrans popularity was going down the drain every minute. That was because Simran used to be nice.. but now, she was a bitch. As Riddhima and Aastha were walking around, they went near Simran and the "followers" to say hi to them.
" Hey guys, whats going on?" Riddhima greeted them, interrupting them from their whispering gossip about the boys. You can say they were desperate. Simran was desperate to have a boyfriend and gain her popularity back, and Mona and Vaisha (the followers) were desperate to become popular. " Heey Aastha and Ridz! We were just talking about the boys." Simran greeted them back. "As expected" mumbled Riddhima to Aastha. "Tumne kuch kaha?" Vaisha asked.. "uhhh nahi toh tumne kuch suna?" Rids asked. Vaisha just shook her head" never mind ".
"Guys! Focus on ME! You know what I think?" Simran exclaimed. Riddhima and Aastha rolled their eyes. That is what Simran always wanted! She wanted to be the center of attention. She wanted people to talk about HER! Her and only her! "Oh great Simran..What do YOU think?" Aastha asked. "I think that Rohan is being an asshole because he simply has a crush on me .. I mean isn't that what boys do? Act arrogant to the person they like? I got it! I got the reason why he has been behaving like an asshole to me since the last few days!" Simran excitedly yelled. " Mmmhmmm Keep thinking that.." Riddhima mumbled once again to Aastha. " Rohan said that he'll pick Sarah over her! I mean SARAH!" Sarah was the girl that was also a drama queen and she was really weird, so nobody liked her. Simran was just never going to change. She was just going to make up things to make her feel better about herself. So she doesn't feel as she isn't popular anymore. Why couldn't she just admit it, she was the one that was behaving like an asshole.
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Aastha and Riddhima had walked away from her. They definitely didn't want to be near Simran. As they were walking around, the boys called them. It was Shaan and Rohan. " Riddhima, Aastha wait!" Shaan yelled as Rohan and Shaan ran up to them. Aastha and Riddhima waited until they got there. "Whats up?" Riddhima asked. " I was just wondering well not only us all the boys were wondering .. if they think we're such big assholes, then why are they following us everywhere we go?" Asked Shaan. It was true, everywhere the boys went .. Simran and the followers went too. What was up with that? "We actually don't know.. Their just bitches.." Aastha explained. "SIMRAN! VAISHA AND MONA! STOP FOLLOWING THE BOYS!" Riddhima yelled across the field to them. "There .. Now if they keep on following you guys then just go up to them alright?" Riddhima stated to Rohan and Shaan. Then Riddhima and Aastha went off.
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Tara had to stay at Singapore for 3 weeks since her grandma had started to feel much better. It had been 3 weeks since Tara had left and today Tara would be coming back to school today. For some reason it seemed as if Shaan didn't look that excited that his girlfriend was coming to school after 3 weeks from Singapore. Everybody came early in the morning to greet Tara and meet her. Everyone except for Riddhima. She was happy she was coming but not like shes going to ruin her beauty sleep to greet her. She could greet her at school whats the prize that your getting to greet her in the morning. And besides she HATED waiting out in the cold for the bell to ring. When she got there, there were 5 minutes until the bell would ring. She saw Aastha there and walked up to her. As she was walking up to her all of a sudden she hears " RIDHIMAA!!" She turned to the side. It was Tara running up to hug her. Tara and Ridhima hugged each other. "Hows it going Riddhima? Missed you so much!" Tara exclaimed. "Great! Thanks!! Missed you soooo much too!!" "Okay, I was thinking why don't we have a sleep over? What do you think? Tonight after school and we don't have school tomorrow either.. " Tara asked Riddhima. Riddhima thought about it for a while thinking if she has any plans for today. Since she didn't, she agreed. " Alright tonight.. My house or your house? It doesn't really matter since we live 4 houses away" Riddhima replied. " Ummm my house" Tara stated.
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"Riddhima!" Tara yelled. She needed to tell Riddhima something important. Riddhima turned around. What was it with people yelling out her name every single time couldn't they just catch up and tell her. "Whats up?" Riddhima asked Tara. "Ridz you know how we're having a sleep over tonight? Well I also invited Shaan, Rohan, Prem, and Arjun. Is that okay with you?" Tara asked Riddhima. Tara had told them about her plans tonight. They hadn't even asked but she had invited them anyways. " A sleepover with boys? Um yeah I guess it'll be fine with me" Riddhima commented. " Alright thanks! It'll be an amazing sleepover! Trust me!!" Tara was super excited.
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It was the end of the day, and Riddhima was getting late to get outside since she has to do something before she left to Tara's house. She had to stop by at her house to get her needs .. and anyways when you go to Tara's house you pass Riddhima's house. When she got outside she saw Tara, Shaan, Rohan, Prem, and Arjun waiting for her outside. "Hey guys, lets go" Riddhima commented. They started walking. " Guys how are you guys going to get your stuff?" Tara asked them all. "Since we're going to be passing my house I'll just slip in and get all of my stuff and come right out. We can just stop by at my house." Riddhima told them how she was going to manage. " I called my mom, shes going to drop off my stuff" Shaan explained. The rest of the boys chanted "Same" after Shaan. They reached Riddhima's house which was 4 doors away from Tara's. She invited all of the in. "Maa! Main Tara ke ghar jaa rahi hoon sleep over ke liye!" Riddhima told her mom. "Theek hai beta! Yahan aao toh!" Riddhima's mom, Padma, replied. They all went to where Padma was. Riddhima introduced everyone. Padma already knew Tara. "Ma yeh Shaan, Rohan, Prem, aur Arjun." Unlike other "old fashioned" moms, Padma allowed Riddhima to have friends that were boys. "Everyone chanted "Namaste" to Padma. "Beta tum apna samaan pack karke le jao! Aur khoob sara maza karna! " Padma said. "Theek hai ma" Riddhima lead everyone upstairs to her bedroom. As they entered they saw a sight that they wouldn't had thought any girl would have her bedroom as.
There were trophies of all sort resting on a bookshelf. The bed had a hockey themed sheet on it. The pillows were shaped as pucks, hockey sticks, soccer balls, basketballs. There was a basketball net on the wall and a basketball sitting next to the wall. The wallpaper was of sports. The posters were of David Beckham, Ronaldo, Kobe Bryant and many other Athletes. She had a PSP sitting on the side of her bed. Wii, and XBOX. Her room was in a quite messy state right now. "Get comfy until I pack my stuff!" Riddhima said to the others. Rohan started playing on her PSP, while the others started looking around and looking at the trophies. She was one sporty girl. After that they started watching T.V. After Riddima had packed everything they started heading out towards Tara's house. When they entered Tara's room it was the total opposite to Riddhima's room. It was pink, with a purple bed with designs, and the pillows were purple with pink designs and the posters were of puppies and girl singers, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift, Robert Pattison, Taylor Laughtner etc.
"Alright, Get comfortable, I'll bring snacks. Riddhima come with?" Tara asked. "Sure" Riddhima replied, they went downstairs. Riddhima greeted Tara's mom. They got cookies and chips and something to drink with. When they got upstairs they got munching away. After they were done:
"So, what do we do now?" Shaan asked. "Don't you have any game stations or anything?" Rohan questioned Tara. Everywhere they looked they saw Pink and Purple. They were starting to miss Riddhima's room. "No.. I don't like playing video games.. " Tara replied, she never liked boy stuff. She thought that video games were just plain stupid. "I'm getting bored... I've got an idea.. I'll go over to my house and bring my XBOX, what say?" Riddhima commented thinking that it was the best idea. The boys agreed happily, meanwhile Tara disagreed. But they decided that majority rules! Riddhima ran to her house, got the XBOX and the remote controls, put them in a bag and brought them over to Tara's house. They set the XBOX up quickly and started playing on it. They were playing Black Ops. Riddhima's favorite game. They were playing against each other. Who ever killed the other person 10 time would have to give up their remote and another player would challenge the winner. To start off with, Rohan vs Shaan. Shaan won. Prem vs Shaan. Shaan won. Rohan vs Shaan. Shaan won. Now the only person left (since Tara didn't like it she didn't want to play) was Riddhima. Riddhima was their only hope to beat Shaan. Right now Shaan was unbeatable. They got playing. They were playing for half hour, Only Riddhima vs Shaan. They were both tied. This last kill will decide who wins. The pressure was on! Shaan was looking for Riddhima. Perfect! That was the time Riddhima will pop out and kill him. SHOOT! 10 KILLS! Riddhima had beaten Shaan! Shaan was impressed. Never has any boy beaten him in this game. But now he had gotten beaten by a girl. And that girl was; Riddhima.
Riddhima wasn't really that comfortable with the boys before, but now she was way more comfortable. She could talk to them in any single way. "NOW, what do we do?" Asked Arjun. "I don't know about now, but at night we're watching a horror movie" Riddhima had brought a scary movie to watch at night when she went to get the XBOX. " Okay, but what do we do right now?" Arjun asked once again, everybody was getting bored. "Why don't we go outside, and play something?" Suggested Rohan. "Like what?" Tara wasn't looking forward to going outside .. but since everybody was getting bored she decided why not. "I don't know, some sport.." "BASKETBALL!" Riddhima suggested quickly. Riddhima is a pro at basketball. She used to play with Armaan all the time. She plays in a team too. "Okay, we'll play basketball, you know what would be fun? If we split into teams .. What say?" Prem asked. "Perfect! I want to be in a good persons team!" Tara exclaimed. Since she didn't know how to play and since Basketball was a aggressive game, there was was no way in hell that Tara was going to risk breaking a nail. "Alright, lets make the teams. Captains will be Riddhima and Prem." Shaan said " The captains get to choose who they want on the team.." Shaan declared
"Riddhima you choose first!" Tara said hoping that Riddhima will pick her first. She knew Riddhima was really good at basketball. She had also won the "Most Valuable Player of the Tournament" at this years Basketball Tournament. "Okay, I pick... hmmmm, lets see, Shaan!" Riddhima chose. She knew Shaan was the most athletic out of all of them, thats why she chose him. Tara's and everyone else's faces dropped. Everybody wanted to be on her team. They obviously wanted to win. And it would be kind of hard to beat Riddhima.
Now it was Prem's turn to decide, "I choose, Rohan and Arjun" Now there was only Tara left and Riddhima had to choose her since she was the only one left. They all went outside and went out to the semi basketball court. They split into their teams and the game began.
Shaan brought up the ball since he had wont he tip off. He passed it off to Riddhima. She pump faked a few time and then saw Shaan up for the lob. She passed it. Alley-oop to Shaan. Score: 2-0 Riddhima's team. Arjun brings it up the court. Passes it off to Prem who takes a 3 pointer. In! Score: 2-3 Prem's team. they kept on going back and forth. finally the game was about to end with only 17 seconds on the time. The score: 45-44 Prem's team was winning. Riddhima brought it up on the court. She was killing the time looking to play a buzzer beater. She jumps to take a jump shot, but at the corner of her eyes she saw Shaan wide open for the jumper. She shot faked and passed it away to Shaan with 3 seconds. 2 seconds, 1 ... He shoots, misses! But, a foul. He will shoot 2 free throws to decide the game. He shoots the first free throw he misses. There is 0.6 seconds on the clock. He shoots the second free throw misses! Riddhima grabs the rebound and tips it in! RIDDHIMA WON THE GAME FOR THEM!! Shaan and Radhika hug each other in happiness. Then they realize they were hugging each other and quickly parted. Awkwardly they give each other a high five.
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When they came back home, they were tired. It was 8:00pm and they ate Roti. After that they went up to Tara's room. The mattresses were layed down and it was already decided that the boys will sleep on the mattress. Shaan and Arjun on one mattress. Rohan and Prem on the other. The girls: Riddhima and Tara will be sleeping on the bed. The day went awesome! Shaan went in one bathroom to take a shower. And Riddhima went in the other. Riddhima comes out with her hair up in a loose bun, with a loose t-shirt and a pair of shorts. Arjun and Prem go in after. Then Tara and and Prem. After everybody is done showering, they all settle down on their beds, ans start the movie. The movie was Paranormal activity, and Saw 5. Tara was getting super scared. So was Rohan and Prem. Shaan was trying to make it look like he wasn't scared, but you could tell he was scared. At times Riddhima would get scared too.. but most of the time she was just munching on the popcorn that Tara's mom had made them, and was watching it with full interest. After the movie was over everybody went to sleep. They slept soundly waiting for the next day to come, with more masti, and more-DRAMA?.
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Theres the update, sorry if it took too long 😊
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