Chapter 8

Numera

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Chapter 7

             The guys start to unload the luggage and hand it off to the baggage handler to send to their rooms. The girls join the guys and they make their way towards their parents. Dilip and Surya tell everyone where they will be staying and room numbers. The guys will be staying in room 201, and next to the guys are the girls in room 203. Dilip and Naina will be in room 202, next to Surya and Gayatri, who are in room 204. The kids' rooms are connected from inside and the room includes 3 separate beds and one bathroom in each. They all put their stuff down and get settled in. They have exactly two hours until they are to leave for the wedding, where they will only face boredom. The girls are running around taking showers, doing their hair, makeup, picking out jewelry and clothes. The girls are freaking out since they want to look drop dead gorgeous in only two hours time. The guys are just taking naps and then decide to take showers and put on their clothes and do their hair, making sure they look hot. The wedding reception is occurring at the same hotel they are staying at. When they all are ready and they make their way down stairs to join their parents.

             The guys wear sherwani's; Angad's is black with red embroidery along with a red dupatta, Kavya's was navy blue with beige embroidery along with a beige dupatta, and Neev's was red with beige embroidery along with a beige dupatta. The girls wore lehnga's; Kripa was black with silver embroidery, Anjali's was navy blue with silver embroidery, Prachi was red with golden embroidery. They all had decided to match in pairs so that no random people will come to bother them for dances and become all "chipko".

As soon as they walk in, all the other young teens turn to stare at the hotties at the door, who have just made their appearance. The way they walk, was so stylish and full of attitude and arrogance. They are totally aware that the other kids are not even in the same league as them. Girls look towards the Angad, Kavya, and Neev in awe while the rest of guys look back in pure envy. The guys look towards Kripa, Anjali, and Prachi in admiration while the rest of the girls look back completely jealous. Angad, Kripa, Kavya, Anjali, Neev and Prachi all sit down at the table and begin their little discussions of whose hot and whose not, but eventually getting bored with the topic. Suddenly an evil smirk plays upon Angad's lips while Kripa grins thinking that he found a solution to their boredom, which Angad did of course. They all huddle and Angad discussed his idea of playing, Ding-Dong Ditch, since well they are in a hotel with god knows how many doors. Anjali, Prachi and Kripa make their way towards their parents to tell them they need some fresh air. Their parents unwillingly agree knowing that they can't deny their daughters anything.

             The girls come back victorious and the guys get up and make their way outside following the girls. As soon as they get out of the hall there are rounds of high-fives. They go into the elevator and each pair take a floor so that they can meet back and tell stories to each other later. They decide to skip their own floor (2^nd floor) because they actually have to stay there and they didn't want to get by the people on their own floor. The girls stop off at their room to get rid of things that would make noise like their churdiyaan. Then they all hurry back into the elevator and go up the stairs. Neev and Prachi get off on the third floor, Kavya and Anjali on the fourth, Angad and Kripa on the fifth.

 
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Neev and Prachi (Third Floor)

Neev and Prachi look down the empty hallway and notice that after every door was this deep opening, basically anyone would be able to hide, and midway there was a huge opening which had the elevator and lounge with couches. Prachi holds onto Neev's hand hoping not to get in trouble and Neev slowly goes down two doors. Neev looks at Prachi and she looks totally nervous at the moment. Neev squeezes her hand a little more tightly. Neev has a huge smile on his face as he knocks really hard on the door. He holds Prachi's hand and disappears in to the midway opening by the elevator. They hear the door open and a large man walks out. He is really round and hairy. He is wearing; let's just say it was not enough clothes, a white towel. It is quite a disturbing sight. Prachi cringes at the sight and shivers in disgust, while Neev laughs silently. They went back to pay attention to the guy, who seems to still be looking around to see who it was, he bellows, "WHOSE THERE??!!" he curses under his breath and closes the door. This time Prachi goes and holds an elevator open and Neev goes and knocks on the door again. This time the door opens instantly and the guy sees Neev running, just his back though. "Hey get back here" The man is trying to hold onto his towel and run at the same time. The towel is actually quite small, barely enough to cover him—so running is totally out of the question, yet the man still runs after Neev. The inevitable happens and the towel falls off. Prachi peaks over the corner and sees the man is wearing pink boxers with sheeps and clouds on them. Prachi is laughing so hard. The man continues to run after Neev, who turned into the opening and grabs Prachi, who by now is holding onto the wall laughing, and runs right into the elevator. Prachi is able to hit the close button and as the man approaches the elevator Neev waves, "Bye Uncle!". Neev and Prachi have tears in their eyes laughing go hard.

                                                                     
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Kavya and Anjali (Fourth Floor)

             Kavya and Anjali are passing by trying to figure out which door to pick when they hear some faint noises. It is kind of hard to hear because Anjali keeps complaining that she is stuck with Kavya, though actually she really didn't mind that much, but then again she did have to keep up the pretences. Kavya trying to hush up Anjali, "Shh Anju listen.." Kavya pressed his ear up against the door to listen, which is followed by Anjali. They hear a man and woman's voice. The man is begging, "Sweety I'm sorry, please I promise I will move out of my mother's apartment I swear" the woman yells, "Your forty years old!!!! And living with your mother! You don't even have your OWN room, you sleep on your mother's bed!!! I CANT MARRY YOU!!!!" "Baby please we can make it work, We can get an extra cot or something and you can sleep…no wait I will sleep in it, please honey bunch come'on lets just continue what we were doing" "NO WAY!! I think you have diarrhea! Youv'e been passing gas for the last five minutes and been in the bathroom half the day alone!! Stay AWAY I CANT BREATHE!!" "No baby I'm cleared up now…"  Kavya and Anjali are outside the door trying to suppress their laughs by holding their hands tightly over their mouths. It didn't work. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA", they burst out laughing on the floor. Just the thought of a forty year old guy living with his mother, who also happens to suffering from a case of severe diarrhea, seems to tickle both their funny bones. Kavya and Anjali hold onto each other in order to get up off the floor, it is hard considering their sides are still aching from all the laughter. They don't think they will be able to go through with the ding-dong-ditch seeing as how they can barely walk with out wanting to fall to the ground holding their stomachs in laughter.

                                                             
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Angad and Kripa (Fifth Floor)

Angad and Kripa get out of the elevator and walk down the hall trying to pick a door. They find themselves standing in front of a door, getting ready to make a run for it as soon as Angad's hands touch the door. Angad loudly thumps on the door and is about to dart with Kripa when suddenly they hear the elevator sound, alerting them that they aren't the only ones in the hall any more. The hear the person coming closer to them about to turn the corner and will soon be in front of their eyes. They are trapped form either side. The only way to leave happens to be in the same direction as where the footsteps approach. If someone is to spot them, they will surely get in trouble with their parents for ditching the wedding, that too for a little prank. Angad look around hoping to find an escape path, but to his dismay found none. Kripa on the other hand grins widely and quickly yanks at Angad's hand, pulling him into the room marked "Janitors Closet". They are engulfed by the darkness and only hear the muffled voices outside along with the spontaneous beatings of their hearts. Angad and Kripa hear a man's voice, "Who's there? Stupid Kids! If I catch you, I'll make sure your in trouble!" Kripa begin to giggle and Angad locates her mouth in the darkness and cups it in order to prevent her from making noises. Kripa's eyes grow in horror as she hears a hand land on top of the door knob.

Just then another voice comes, stopping the man from turning the knob. The second voice asks the man, "Was it you who knocked on my door?" "No sir, I got several complaints that people were disturbing others so I came to check. So someone knocked on your door?" "Yes, Just a minute ago…" "Well I am sorry for the disturbance, when I catch those kids, I'll surely punish them" "Alrite well Thank You". The second man, the guest seems to have turned to go back to his room. The man must have noticed the janitor's closet again and stops again at the door. Anxiety clogs both Angad and Kripa's minds. Their heart rates increase rapidly as they hear the hand land on the knob again. The knob starts to turn…but the second voice from before echoes, "Excuse me sir, I think you dropped your wallet" The man let go of the knob and Angad and Kripa breathe a sigh of relief as the man approaches the guest to attain his wallet. There happens to be a picture of a man in the wallet—sort of posing, almost like this man's lover. The guest looks at the man sort of skeptically and the man quickly answers while snatching the wallet, "uhh that's my brother" The guest doubtfully replies, "riteee, no but it's uh cool man if that's the way you roll, arite good night!" The man called after the guest to explain further, "He's my BROTHER!!!" but the guest already left. The guy walks away in his thoughts about the conversation a minute ago, also past the janitor's closet. He may have forgotten about checking it after all he was too busy trying to come up with some excuse for a man having another man's picture in his wallet, rite. Angad and Kripa are still unsure of exactly how safe they are at the present moment, yet they keep trying so hard not to laugh at the poor guy, haha poor guy yea rite!  That's when they hear the elevator sound and both begin to chuckle thinking about how anxious they had become. There is barely any room in that closet and are completely oblivious to their proximity. In the pitch black surrounding a flash of light flickers from Angad's pocket and in that one flash, Angad and Kripa both notice how close they were to one another. They are so close in fact that if they are an inch closer, they will be kissing. They don't have much time to decide what they think about their closeness because the second flash of his cell brought Angad back and it seems to be coming from his cell phone, meaning it is time to meet back with the others and sneak back into the party as subtlety as possible.