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Aadat Se Majboor
Chapter 3
Off to Rey and Kriya, both of them started on it together now instead of the individual steps. Their steps were completely synced with one another. As the circled each other holding one of their Dandiya in the middle, they looked into each other's eyes. During the second circle, Rey winked at her to see if that would throw her off balance. Unluckily for him, it didn't. Instead, she winked back at him!
For a second, Rey wondered if for the first time in life, his charm was not working on a girl! Then they let go of their dandiya's and while Kriya took a twirl, Rey's Dandiya got brushed her back, accidentally undoing the tied string on the back that held her blouse together. Rey's mouth fell as he realized what happened. Kriya's eyes went wide as she too realized. With a jerk, Rey slammed Kriya to him as he stood right behind her, covering her back.
She was thanking for that act but felt quite embarrassed. No matter how open her personality was, having something happen in front of practically half of the college crowd was horrifying. At that moment, she wished the ground would split open and swallow her in!
The competition had officially ended. Since both of them stopped at the same time, the crowd didn't realize what happened and that would be considered a tie. They dispersed and Rey's friends, including Swayam, walked up to them, none of them aware of what made them stop all of a sudden.
Swayam said, "What guys? We were all having so much fun! And both of you stopped at the same time. Now who won?"
Kriya gave an uncomfortable smile while Rey did his best to cover her back by putting his hand around her back, as he stood right behind her. All of them found this weird. Sharon said, "Rey… we know you're a Casanova. But you can let go of her for a while, you know."
Rey gave an awkward smile to that as well. Without waiting another second, he said, "Excuse us." and took Kriya away from there to a deserted side of the college. As soon as they reached, Kriya rushed up behind the tree to hide herself. Rey looked around, not sure what to say next. He had never imagined such a scene would take place in his life.
An awkward silence followed. He was dying. All he wanted was Kriya to speak up and let him know she was fine. He was genuinely concerned for her.
"Thank you." She finally said being hesitant, not even sure if he was still around. Though, she hoped he would still be there just because she didn't want to be left alone. After a few seconds of silence, Rey replied.
"Are-Are you okay? I mean…"
She closed her eyes, finally letting the tear building up in her eyes flow down. Grasping the control over her voice, she replied, "I-uh-yea." Then she started talking out-loud, knowing he was listening. "You must be thinking… how silly of me…" before she could continue, he made out by her cracking voice that she was crying. Concern dawned over him. He walked up to her without stopping to think about asking.
She had her head bowed. He lifted her chin and asked, worry all over his face, "Are you crying?" That question, didn't need to be asked or answered as the next thing; another tear dropped down. She softly closed her eyes.
Without having to order his hands, they wiped her tears away and held her tiny face in his hands lovingly. "Hey…pretty girls don't look good crying."
A scoffing smile escaped her. Even in such a situation, he could give a compliment?! She opened her eyes and looked at him, biting her lip to bite away the next tear forming. "Thank you." She said after she lightly hit him on his chest. He smiled at least glad to have made her smile a little. Then, "Why are you like this?" she asked.
"Huh?" he asked, confused.
"Like this. The perfect Casanova but still respects girls."
"Should I not?" he asked back.
"No… that's not what I meant. It's like I've seen guys who just take advantage of girls without even bothering to see what happens next. And then there's you…"
By the way she said it, he could figure out that she was talking from personal experience. "I don't know what the other boys are like… you know that better… but what you don't know is that I'm not like them. I just do harmless flirting."
He made it clear. She looked right into his eyes and knew he was being honest. He liked that. Before, it was just physical attraction that pulled her towards him. After this, it was him as a person that made him like him even more. It was the same for her.
And then the flirting came back. "Well then Mr. Flirter, do you mind helping me?"
"Huh?" he asked, confused on what she was talking about. She tilted her head to point towards her back and he remembered the initial reason for them being here in privacy. "Me?" she nodded.
"Just a harmless flirter, right?" she said, with a tease on her face.
"Yea...uh…you sure…?"
"If I wasn't, I wouldn't have let you stand in front of me till now." she replied, without waiting to think, knowing it was the right thing to say. Saying that, she turned, revealing her back to him and moved her hair to the front.
A temptation overcame him as he forwarded his hands to hold the strings in his hands. His hand brushed her back, making her shiver. He just stood there, narrowing his eyebrows. She asked when he didn't move for a while, "What happened?"
"Why do you guys wear such complicated stuff?" he asked instead of replying to the question. She laughed.
"I thought you guys liked it!"
He was lost on words. She was right. She went on to explain, "It's not hard, just crisscross the strings while passing them through the loops."
"Yea… but what's the third string for?"
"Uff! Just do as I say for now?!" she let out.
"Geez woman, calm down!" he retaliated. After he said it, he wondered where they anger came from. He apologized. "Sorry." And then went on to try and fix it. Once done, he asked, "Now?"
"Now tighten it and tie a bow. Take the third string and wrap it around it so it stays."
"Aah… makes so much sense now."
"Tell you… guys need a lot of patience!" she said to lighten the mood. Once done, she turned back to face him.
"I'm sorry… again…"
"Oh, don't be. I'm gonna have fun bossing you around tomorrow."
He realized she was talking about the dance competition. While walking back to the crowd, he argued back. "Oh hello, I won alright? So you're coming on a date with me."
"If you won, then I didn't lose either! Both of us practically stopped at the same time. So you have to be my slave if I have to go on a date with you."
By now, they had reached where the group stood. Swayam interrupted, "How about this? From morning till evening, Rey'll be Kriya's slave. And then at night, he'll take you out?"
Both of them looked at each other, understanding how that worked out perfectly. They grinned at each other. Forming a mental list of what all she would make him do, she said, "Oh, we're gonna have so much fun!"
He made a shocked face, wondering if it was a good idea to be the slave. She could make him do anything! He started imagining the worst of the possibilities and made a puked out face. Kriya laughed at him.
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Nothing much to say. Thank you guys for loving this so much! Hope you guys liked what I did here 😛 I didn't want them to just have physical attraction and lust kind. And thus this.
Ps: lemme clear this... this is mostly KR SS. I have another SS planned for SwaRon *ahem ahem* diwali special ;) *ahem ahem* So yea... just thought I should clear that in case someone thought this will have equal of KR and SS.
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Love, Khushi.
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