Prologue:
Kiss and Tell
The
seniors lurked around the front gates like vultures waiting for prey.
The new batch of fresh-faced students entered their new world with awe.
They looked with delight upon the lush lawn and majestic buildings that
rose about the spacious campus. Many innocently overlooked the hawklike
gaze of their seniors, walking blindly into their waiting arms,
unwilling bounties to the ravenous appetite of egos.
A
young man lumbered onto campus, safely depositing keys to a brand new
car into his messenger bag he silently observed his surrounds, heading
for the main building. He was hoping to pass undetected, but alas, his
fate was something else.
He
sighed inwardly as he was beckoned toward a group of gloating older
students who grinned connivingly at him as they supplied him his task.
Siddhant
shot another hesitant glance back at the leering upperclassmen,
groaning inwardly he sank to his knees, closing his eyes as he raised
his arms. Stupid Farah Khan, he thought, who the hell puts this kinda stuff in movies?! He impatiently waited for the signal, somewhat relieved to hear the whistle from behind. Clearing his throat, he began singing,
"Chand mera dil,
Chandini ho tum,
Chand se hai door,
Chandini Kaha,"
Taking
a deep breath he opened his eyes, staring for a minute at the red open
toed sandals that stood before him. Cautiously he got up, eyes raking
upwards over the knee length, loose white skirt and flowery red shirt.
His eyes took in the accompanying loosely held purse and sunglasses
before landing squarely on a female face.
A very beautiful female face.
Praising
the heavens for at least giving him something good to work with, he
slowly rose and started taking steps towards the catching face that
stood before him. The clearing of throats and suggestive coughing of his
seniors behind him reminded him of what he was supposed to do.
Crap.
He
was in a word, dashing, that she was willing to accept. A red polo
shirt stretched across what seemed to be a well built torso, a pair of
slightly distressed dark wash jeans accompanied the look, which was
completed by dark aviators that swung folded at his neckline and a
messenger bag which was secured around his chest.
Sexy, she thought.
Shooting
a glance behind him, she noticed the gang of people that were seemingly
their seniors. She sighed in distress as she guessed what was
happening, ragging. The bane of an Indian college student's existence.
She'd heard tales about how bad things could get, and on the way had
been fervently praying that she could safely pass undetected and blend
into the sea of unknown faces on campus.
Except
then this happened, there was this admittedly hot guy, her new
classmate, kneeling before her and...singing. She bit her lip, wondering
if she should say something; just as she decided to speak up his eyes
fluttered open, and she watched in silence as auburn shaded eyes
wandered up her frame and he got up.
Her
eyes squinted in confusion as he began to hesitantly approach her, eyes
intently studying her. A blush began to creep in under his gaze, and
she began to step away.Suddenly an arm snaked around her waist, tugging
her into his hard chest. She gasped softly in surprise, eyes filled with
questions flying to his determined face.
"Sorry," he softly whispered. Her eyes widened, but she was silenced before she could voice any of the questions in her mind.
He
decided not to psych himself out and waste any time, after what he was
about to do, he doubted he would ever have a chance with this girl. So
he grasped her firmly, entrapping her stunned form within his arms,
where he realized she fit perfectly. He quickly whispered a soft sorry
and without a second thought descended his lips onto her own.
He
moved without thinking, lost in the forced affection as his body
reacted to the sudden intimacy. He felt his hands pulling her closer to
him as he tilted her head slightly back. Her shocked gasp had caused her
mouth to fly open, allowing his tongue to slip easily inside the small
orifice, exploring as she stood frozen, stupefied by the extreme
occurrence.
Her
senses went numb when she first felt his lips touch down on hers, her
brain unsure of what to do. Before she could make a decision he had
progressed onwards, deepening her first kiss ever on his own accord. Her
hands flew to his chest, clutching at the scarlet material in an
attempt to grasp control of the situation. With a sudden surge of will
she shoved him away, glaring incessantly at him as her outrage at his
actions shone fiercely through her eyes.
Ragging or not, the kiss was on him.
Without
a second thought, even as her lips still tingled from their kiss,
Riddhima felt her hand swinging towards the stunned man before her, his
eyes still hooded by confusion.
For
a minute, he stood there stunned beyond action or words. A hand
automatically lifting to touch where his cheek was still stinging from
her slap. He kept staring at her trying to come up with an angry retort;
even as he knew he probably deserved the slap for kissing her like that
when he could have probably gotten away with a simpler chaste kiss,
maybe on the cheeks - after all the seniors hadn't specified what kind
of kiss. They had just ordered him to kiss the first person who walks in
through the door. But he had apologized to her before kissing her -
surely that should count and he was sure she could see the seniors
standing behind them enjoying the show.
That
slap was totally uncalled for, he decided as anger seeped into him. It
wasn't as if this was her first kiss ever. Looking as hot as she did, he
acknowledged unwillingly, he was sure she'd been kissed before. And
here she was, acting like Miss-Never-Been-Kissed-Before and slapping
him. For a second, he even thought of kissing her again just to spite
her, but then brushed the thought away as he once again felt the
tingling sensation on his cheek. His eyebrows furrowed as his rage built
upon itself, his eyes shooting daggers at the equally enraged female
before him.
He
approached her, ready to give her a piece of his mind when she asked in
a sinisterly low voice through clenched teeth, narrowed eyes and a face
flushed with fury, "How dare you?!! How dare you.. You... You pervert..
How dare you kiss me?"
"Did you just call me a pervert?" Sid asked fury blinding him to everything else.
"What else should I call a creep who walks up and kisses me just like that?" Riddhima asked.
"For
your information, BHABHIJI!! I did not kiss you because I had the hots
for you," he replied, "if you haven't lost your eyesight yet, you should
be able to see the seniors gathered back there and have the common
sense to realize that all of this is part of ragging!!"
Rhiddima
didn't quite know what to say to that, true, it was a part of ragging,
but... "You had no right to kiss me! HOW DARE YOU!" she fumed, "you
could've atleast asked me or told me something!"
"I said sorry!" the boy exclaimed, "what the hell was I supposed to say, can I please lay one on you ma'am!?"
Rhiddima
was getting beyond irritated, why couldn't he just accept that he
could've chosen not to listen and apologize already? She stepped closer,
a finger in the air pointing at him. "Apologize," she commanded. There,
she'd made it easy for him.
He
looked down at her stupefied, had he not apologized before kissing
her?! "NO!" he replied vehemently, "are you deaf?! I already did!"
"Well, MEAN IT!"
Insufferable little minx, he thought, I'm definitely not apologizing after this. "Look you..."
The
crowd gathered quickly after word spread of the two freshmen fighting
like cats and dogs in the courtyard. People milled around, watching in
amusement as the two battled head on, screaming out profanities that
would put fully grown adult men to shame. It took a while after they
began pulling at each other's hair for a member of the faculty to
notice, and boy, did he have a hard time.
"WHAT
IS GOING ON!?" A meek young professor attempted to scream, "students,
please calm down!" Sid barely passed a glance at the man, his male
supremacy easily writing him off as a feeble interruption. He continued
his attack, waging a full on war with the maddening girl fighting him
with all she had.
"THAT'S
ENOUGH!" The professor finally shouted, "to the Principal's office!
NOW!" He managed to yank them apart, leading the furious pair towards
the administrative building...on their first day ever of college.
Edited by -besharamsquad- - 12 years ago
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