Chapter 1
Hi my name is Antara. I am 24 years old and a student at Stanford University studying to be a writer. I write romance novels for one reason only, true love. I have always had this believe that whatever I saw in the typical indian shows like Dill Mill Gayye and Miley Jab Hum Tum will one day happen in my life. I have this feeling that one day the stories I write in my novels will one day be my personal story. But until than I will continue to fantasize my dreams until reality strikes them.
"Well I'm finally done with this introduction post time to catch up on my soaps" I said as I shut down my laptop and got up from the chair. "Oye Nikki, where you at Qubool Hai is about to start" I yelled plopping down onto the couch and switching the TV. My roommate Nikita, also known as Nikki, sat right beside me with a bowl of ice cream waiting to be eaten.
"Oye Tara..."
"Nikki, how many times have I told you not to call me Tara" I interrupted annoyed as we impatiently waited for the show to start.
"Sorry yaar I keep forgetting, but I was going to to say before you interrupted was that I think in today's episode Asad is going to Confess to Zoya" Nikki said eating her ice cream as it started to melt.
"I hope so. Oh look, it is starting" I announced increasing the volume of the TV.
"Zoya I love you, please mujhe chor kar maat jao" "I'm sorry Mr.Khan"
"Are you kidding me? She freaking ran away! Why would she do that, for god sake it's Karan Singh Grover" Nikki grunted as she got up from the couch. "I don't even want to watch the rest, I'm going out Antara I'll catch you later" she said grabbing her keys and heading out the door. However, I didn't hear a single thing she said because I was so engrossed in the show. As the show came to end I wiped away the tears and went to the kitchen.
"I feel so bad for Zoya, if someone did that to me despite whether it happened or not I would be crying so much" I said as I scavenged for food, unfortunately I couldn't find anything. So I grabbed my keys and made my way outside the door heading towards the nearest Taco Bell. Although I recently moved to California because of school living in England didn't leave me under a rock. When I first came here and was assigned my dorm room I had no idea what to do, I was hungry and I had no food. Luckily, Nikki new of a local Taco Bell and I couldn't resist it because that was my favorite place to eat back home. It's been about two months since I moved here and school just started today. I have met a few people, but not many, but thank god for Nikki she practically knows everyone. Finally I arrived at Taco Bell. I ordered my usual bean cheese burrito and sat down at a table. I logged onto my British English Class to check the status of my discussion.
- You have two new messages -
From:Armaan Subject: Response to Introduction
From: Raghu Subject: Dude get a life
What the heck? Who the hell is this Raghu kid? I don't even want to read what he has to say.
- Message Deleted -
Oh, gosh Dill Mill Gayye, hai he is so cute, but this guy obviously isn't Karan Singh Grover. Let's see what he has to say. I quickly opened his message.
Hey there Antara! My name is Armaan and I am also 24 years old. Wow I must say you do have an interesting life. I'm not really a fan of soaps but I do hope that your aspirations come true. It will be great to official meet you in class tonight. Have a great day
Sincerely,
Armaan
Oh my god, how can someone be so sweet? I can't wait to meet him tonight. I wonder how he is? I got up from the table after I finished eating and headed to campus to search for my classroom since I had 3 hours before class. It was my second time on campus and I must say I'm in love with this school. As I was walking to the student services building I heard someone screaming. As I scanned the area to find where the screaming was coming from I spotted a hoard of students. I quickly walked towards the group in order to see what was going on.
"Everyone come gather around and witness this love confession" a man who looked kind of cute but the way this was going made him seem like some kind of gunda. "Listen to what she has to say. She says that she loves me. Me, Raghu. Hahaha" he yelled walking around the girl as she stood there crying. What a jerk. I couldn't believe that he was insulting the girl like this, in front of everybody. "John Mayer once said say what you need to say. So please Ridhima tell the entire school what you wanted to tell me" he kneeled on one knee and lifted her chin up as he spoke. I couldn't believe how red her eyes were, she must have truly liked him and what a jerk he turned out to be. "God I wonder who this Raghu kid thinks he is" I asked myself.
"Well this my dear is Raghu. Shockingly the smartest kid on campus, yet the meanest" Nikki said. I turned around not realizing that she was here.
"Hey Nikki, what are you doing here?" I asked thinking that she was at her boyfriend's place or something.
"Oh, I went to the bookstore to buy my textbook" She said showing me her World Religions book.
"So what were you saying about this guy" I asked indicating with my eyes.
" Well Raghu like I said is the smartest guy here on campus. Although he appears to be sweet, he is not. He is known to be the rudest guy, but girls let me tell you still fall for him. Just a kind gesture of his makes any girl fall for him. He plays with them for a while and then this here happens. I have heard people say that he is this way because he was once hurt by a girl just like this on the day of their engagement, but I don't know if it's true. He is currently a sophomore here, so a year older than us. His major is Biomedical Engineering. No one knows anything about his parents, I also heard that he is adopted, but doesn't use his adopted parents' last name. I just want to say Antara stay away from him." Nikki said as I silently watched everything Raghu was doing to that poor girl. After hearing what Nikki had to say I couldn't help but feel sympathetic towards him, however I know he doesn't deserve it.
"Anybody want Ridhima? I am done with her" Raghu shouted as he walked around the circle. Ridhima immediately burst into tears. Are you kidding me this guy literally just offered her away like she was his property. Seriously who does he think he is? And look at the crowd no one is doing anything. Instead, they are joining in the laughter come on people let's get real. Looks like I will have to do something about this. I slowly pushed my way to the crowd until I reached the front. I went up to the girl and gave her hug. "Awww Ridhima is mommy here to save you?" Raghu taunted. That was it, hasn't he done enough already to embarrass this poor girl. I released Ridhima from the hug and turned around to face him. For the first time I was staring at this Raghu guy and I understood why girls always fell for him. He was tall, medium skin colored. His hair was done perfectly and style of clothing was unique. His eyes were as beautiful as the moon; you just wanted to gaze at them all day and night. His smile, god that was a killer, was so genuine. No one would have ever guessed that he was rude. He gave off this natural vibe of love. I had no idea what was happening to me but I couldn't stop looking. He was like a magnet attracting me towards. I slowly started to walk towards him, I heard people in the back laughing, but I also heard someone's heart beats. Was it mine? His lips were moving. He was trying to tell me something, but I couldn't tell. His fingers kept snapping in front of me, but I couldn't stop looking into his eyes and so I kept advancing. What was going on with me I can't understand'Wait Antara what are you doing snap out of it I told myself. "Oye, why are you coming near me? I am not scared of you" Raghu said chuckling. So that's what he was saying I thought. I heard sobs and turned around that is when I remembered what I faced Raghu in the first place. As I looked back at Raghu I smiled and *Bam* slapped him straight on the cheek. I turned to walk away, but I was forcefully turned back. I immediately came face to face with him. His eyes were red with anger and cheek red from pain. Our breaths were intermingling as we stood there making eye contact. My chest was resting against his and our heartbeats were beating as if they were one. I had no idea what was going on. My body started to feel weak. It was if his breath was poison, paralyzing me. I started to lose control over my body as it I started falling backwards. I slowly closed my eyes anticipating the fall, but it never came. I opened my eyes slowly and looked up. Once again those eyes were staring right back at me. What was going on? "You better watch your back" Raghu said. I found that so awkward, what was that for? All of sudden I felt my support disappear within seconds. I fell down and landed hard on my butt. Man did it hurt. I rubbed my butt as I looked up wincing in pain. He chuckled and walked away.
"Stupid" I yelled hoping he would hear me, but he was too far away to hear. I tried getting up but my butt hurt so much that it was a painful attempt.
"Here hold my hand" I looked up and it was Ridhima. I grabbed her hand and finally stood up wiping the dirt off my butt.
"Thanks" I said putting forth my hand to shake her hands.
"No thank you" she said pulling me into a friendly hug. "I truly appreciate you standing up for me. No one would have ever done that" She said pulling away and giving me a faint smile.
"No problem at all. Are you alright?" I asked worried about her mental health.
"Yeah. I am fine thanks. By the way, my name is Ridhima" she said
"Hi Ridhima, my name is Antara" I said giving her an encouraging and welcoming smile.
"Friends" she asked putting forth her hand.
"Most definitely" I said shaking it. We started to walk around the campus together. Although people were staring at us because of the recent commotion we didn't really care. We found out that we are both in the same English class so we decided to look for the class together since class started in little more than hour.
After about 30 minutes of walking and chatting we finally found the class. As I was about to walk into the class some guy pushed me aside making me hit a piece a metal. I looked at my arm to see that it was bleeding slightly and when I looked up to see who pushed me it was none other than Raghu. I completely forgot that this jerk was in my class. "You can say excuse me or sorry" I grunted as he laughed and walked in.
"Hey miss are you alright?" I turned to see who it was. It was this tall light-skin colored man. His smile was luminescent and his eyes just glistened like gold. He honestly had prince charming written all over him.
"Yeah, I'm fine thank you" I said wiping away the blood. I looked up to see that he was still standing there next to me. So I gave him a friendly smile.
"Sorry, I didn't introduce myself. My name is Armaan" He said showing me a smile that I probably would never forget, So this was Armaan, as sweet as his post made him seem. God how can two such good looking people be so different in attitudes.
"Hi Armaan, I am Antara" I said putting forth my hand. He took a hold of it and shook it firmly.
"So you are Antara? Look where destiny brought us." He said chuckling as he let go of my hand.
"I know right" I said laughing back at him. "I think we should head in the class it looks like the professor is about to begin.
"Very true, Shall we?" he asked as he stepped back to let me in.
"You go ahead, I am going to clean the blood off real quickly" I said looking at the wound. It wasn't that bad, but it stung just a bit. After cleaning up my small cut I headed back to the classroom. I was about to go sit next to Ridhima, but saw that there were no seats next to her. I scanned the room for empty seats and noticed two empty seats. Awkwardly, one was right next Armaan and the other next to Raghu. Obviously, I knew which seat I was going to seat at. So I advanced my way towards the seat next to Armaan. On my way to my seat I turned to indicate to Ridhima as to where I was seating by pointing to it. When I turned back it was as my dreams and hopes just got stomped on by a million horses. Someone sat there before I did. I was so close. I turned to look at the last empty seat. I can't believe I was going to do this. I maneuvered my way towards the seat next to Raghu.
"Is any one sitting here" I asked kindly with a smirk on my face, pointing to the seat next to him.
"Yeah" He said laughing throwing up his feet on the chair.
"Oh okay" I said smiling at him. Yeah, does he think I am stupid or something? I grabbed the chair and pulled it from right under his feet. *Thud* Yeah so his feet fell straight on the floor. He didn't look quite happy but why do I care. I took a seat and scooted the chair closer to the desk. I took out my writing utensils and notebook from my bag and placed them on the table. I turned to my left side to see that girl that was sitting next to Armaan was flirting with him. It looked like he had no interest. He spotted me staring at me and winked. For some reason I just started to blush. Why was I blushing I didn't even know this guy. All of a sudden I felt this heavy breathing behind me. Knowing Raghu was seating behind me and what I just did to him, I gulped and slowly turned around. Once again we were face to face. He just looked super angry, but what can I do about that, this was the only seat left. He literally kept staring at me, it felt as though there were flames in his eyes and I couldn't stop staring into them.
"Okay class, welcome to your first day of class and your easiest day of class. Maybe" the professor said while walking into the class. Raghu broke the eye contact and left me looking lost. I combed my hair back and smiled. I looked towards the front as the teacher continued his announcement. "So in order to get to know our classmates a lot better since these are the faces you will be seeing every day I have assigned two people to a certain category. Your partners and your category is listed on this piece of paper which I will post at the end of class." Everyone grunted as the professor said that. Already the first day and we got an assignment god, just great.
"I hope I don't get Raghu as my partner" I said, soft enough so he can hear me and put on the biggest smile I can.
"You better hope you do or else you are going to fail" he said as he stuck his pen behind his ear and grinned.
"I'm not out to commit suicide and trust me I don't want to be your partner" I said
"Trust you? Ha. Don't worry I don't work with churels" He said giving a fake shiver. I turned and snapped my finger at him.
"Oye kisko churel bhol rahi ho tum (Oye Who are you calling a churel?), you, you, you gunda" I yelled.
"Who's talking" the professor said turning around. I quickly put my finger down so he wouldn't notice. The professor turned back to the board and continued writing
"Eh MachMach, look at this churell . Churel ko hi churel kehta hai, aur kya kahuga (you call a churel a churel, what else are you going to call her?)" Raghu said talking to his friend as they had a good chuckle. I glared at him as he kept talking it was if steam was coming out my ears. "Arey mujhe bohat dar laga rahe hai (Ahhh I am so scared)" he said sarcastically as him and MachMach high-fived each other lightly. I was so angry that I pretended to choke him, Raghu and MachMach just sat there having a great laugh. Finally class had finished.
"Okay check this list and start discussing the plans with your partner. You will present this topic in front of everyone and will be including authors that have written on this topic. I will announce the due date next class. You are dismissed" the professor said.
"Please god if you love me than you will partner me with Ridhima or Armaan" I said looking up and praying.
"Why are you praying to the ceiling? Should I take you to the doctors?" Raghu said looking at me.
"Shut up you gunda" I yelled and pushed him aside walking to the list. I scanned the paper for my name "Ahh Antara" I grazed my finger to the right. "OH NO" I screamed and turned around. Raghu was standing right behind me
"Hello there partner" he said laughing as he stuck his hand out.
"Eww get away from me" I said turning back to the paper. "God I thought you loved me" I looked at the paper to see our topic. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" I said angrily.
"What happened?" Raghu asked chuckling. "Is our topic like romance or something?" he asked sarcastically.
"YEAH" I turned and screamed at him.
"KYA (WHAT)?" Raghu shouted pushing me aside to look at the paper. He turned to look at me, "NO WAY!"
Precap: As his lips came closer to mine, the world around me seemed to have disappeared. I couldn't control my emotions or my body. He grasped me tighter and my chest was pressed up against his. I could feel his heart beating in line with mine and I couldn't resist it. I slowly looked up to see his eyes gazing at mine. I slowly closed my eyes as I felt his breathe intermingling with mine and gap between us was getting smaller and smaller.
I hope you enjoyed the first part. Please let me know if I should continue or not. Also if you have any suggestions please let me know, they are always welcomed. Please comment and like the post.
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Edited by Chandni- - 12 years ago
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