AR FF-- Keep The Moon - Page 4

My Lips are Sealed…

Surprisingly, I woke up with the first ring of the alarm clock the next morning. Quickly got dressed and even had time to eat some breakfast before I had to rush out to catch my bus. Even the bus driver was shocked to see me get on the bus without having to run behind it first, his plan to make me suffer had failed today. As I got on I glared at him, and he smiled back, which I am sure was not a friendly smile, but a smile used to cover up his vicious acts. Now I could have stood there as long as it took to get the bus driver to own up to his real intentions, but today was not the day to resolve my issues with him. Firstly because there was huge line-up of people behind me scowling for me to move on so they could get on the bus and secondly I had to get to college as soon as possible. After all I had top secret news to tell my best friends, Armaan Malik was dating Ipshitta!

The moment I stepped of the bus I headed straight towards my class, where I knew Gits and Jits would be waiting for me. Now I know what you must be thinking. You are thinking I am indulging in gossip. However, I beg to differ, because it is not gossiping, if what you are telling is the truth with nothing new added. Now I know I was concluding that they both were dating without them actually telling me that, but hello, why else would Ipshitta be in his car. I mean I don't think Armaan is that nice to give people lifts in his car, just like that. Also who you tell the news to is also important when deciding whether it is gossiping or not. And there is nothing wrong with sharing your experiences with your best friends; it wasn't my fault that I just happened to see Ipshitta and Armaan together! I finally stepped into my class and took in a deep breath. I was at my destination and in about two seconds I would share with my two best friends, what I had very painfully kept to myself for long enough now. However, before I could blurt anything out, I was stopped.

Stopped by a strange looking man, who was dressed in a black suit and looked something like the evil computer dude, from matrix. He tapped me on my shoulder and held out a note. I quickly snatched the note out of his hand as though he was holding something of mine he was not suppose to be holding. I eagerly opened it, excited, that maybe I had a secret admirer, unless it was like a note from the principal, so I opened it slower, but what if it was a secret admirer which made me eager again. Finally I had it opened in front of me, and there it was the one liner that made my heart jump.

Meet me at the quiet group study room in about five minutes, ALONE --Armaan

No! This was not happening. He was suppose to have forgotten me by now. "I'll talk to you later" the words echoed in my mind. I wanted to cry out! And the 'alone' in capitals did not help either, it meant I could not bring Gits and Jits with me. I looked up at the strange dude and smiled nervously and then unwillingly started to follow him to the quiet room. As I walked behind me, my mind raced with ideas to get out of meeting Armaan, most of which I even embarrased to tell you about, so we will just skip that part. My head hung low, as the dude opened the door for me, and I walked in. Hearing the door slam behind me, and finding my self there alone with Armaan, panic struck me. Armaan quietly sat on top of one of the tables, looking directly at me. And then it hit me. He was going to kill me.

Yes! He was a big man and I had distrubed him, by ruining his shirt and then his car. He wanted his revenge and was going to kill me. Armaan sat up and slowly started walking towards me, my heart started to beat faster, I had to get out of here, now obviously the door would be shut so I wasn't going to waste my time on that. I had to escape some other way. While I wasted precious moments thinking of ways to escape, my eyes glued to Armaan who was advancing at quiet a fast rate towards me now. As he came closer I lost my power to think. Then he came even closer, and closer until he was so close that I was sure he could hear my racing heart. This was my only chance to save myself, before he made his move to silence me for life. So I did what any other girl in my situation would do.

I threw my hands up in the air and frantically started slapping, and punching Armaan, in an attempt to fight him back. I realized I had made no difference to Armaan when I found Armaan's hands firmly holding mine, slowly pushing them down. Okay, I couldn't fight him he was just too strong for me, I had to switch to plan B now. So I looked right into Armaan's eyes, and starting begging him for my life. I told him how I was too young to die, I promised I would never cross his path again, I would never even eat banana's or any other fruits again. Hearing this, he let out a little laugh, which was very strange to me. I mean here he was ready to kill a person, and he was laughing as they begged for their life. He was more evil then I thought, this made me cry out even louder now. He then suddenly became serious and placed his finger on my lips instantly making me silent. I swallowed hard as I looked into his eyes. This was it, this was how I was going to die. I shut my eyes tight waiting to feel the pain of death. But nothing happened. So I slowly opened one eye while still keeping the other shut. This made him laugh again. Then he spoke as he started to walk away.

"Relax. I am not going to kill you. Take a seat" I did as he said and sat on a chair and he resumed his seat of top of the table in front of me. "I wanted to talk to you about yesterday." Before he could say anything further I assured him that I was really sorry about what had happened and would never do anything of that sort again. Even though he had said it himself I was still not sure about him not wanting to kill me. He was now walking around me my eyes following him. "It is not about that. I want to talk to about Ipshitta and me." Ipshitta and him? Why did he want to talk to me about that? "You have to keep your mouth shut about seeing me and Ipshitta together. You got that?" He slammed his hands onto the arms of the chair I sat on making me jump. I frantically nodded my head up and down feeling like a criminal under heavy interrogation. "My lips are sealed. I won't mention it to anyone. I promise. Cross my heart and hope to die, if ...I lie."

"Good. You can go now." I bolted out of the room at the speed of lightening. Maybe I had overreacted just a little about the whole thing. Murder? What was I thinking? Actually I wasn't thinking. Definitely no more K-soaps for me!

As I slowly walked down the hallway, lost in my own world as usual, I bumped into, yup, Ipshitta. The infamous bump of mine, made her to spill all the books she held in her hands onto the floor. For a moment I froze, I was not getting a break. Seriously, people needed to watch where they are walking. Always bumping into me! Yah that is right, they always bumped into me!

Ipshitta kneeled as she started to pick up her books, I followed. Guiltily trying to avoid her eyes I handed her the books one by one. When no more books were left I looked up and found her staring right at me. This was the first time I was seeing her this close, and she was just as pretty as people said she was. Especially her eyes, they were beautiful, but there was this sadness in her eyes, which I didn't understand. What could she be sad about? For crying out loud she was dating Armaan Malik! And was the most brilliant girl in the college, what else did she want? I downcast my eyes, feeling bit awkward staring at Ipshitta like that, but I could still feel her gaze upon me. She was watching me so intently. Why? This made me feel even more awkward.

I heard footsteps from behind me. At once I knew it was Armaan, so without turning back I gave Ipshitta a quick smile, apologized, got up, and started walking straight making sure I did not turn around. God forbid I had to face him again. Ipshitta walked in the opposite direction towards Armaan. As I walked away, I could hear Armaan and Ipshitta talk.

"That's her?"
"Yah."

Hearing this, I increased my pace of walking. I was skipping my classes and heading straight home. What if I hadn't panicked and they were actually going to kill me! "That's her...the one we are going to jointly murder." No! I had to save myself, so I ran home.

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