Chapter 11

Numera

@Numera*

Chapter 10

             They come back from the trip to Goa with a little shopping done here and there. Now it is back to school for them since their long week end has finished. Neev has been trying to talk to Prachi all day now and has gotten quite frustrated with her. He doesn't understand what her problem is. She has been ignoring him the whole day and it is getting too much because he assumes by now she would have cooled off if he gave her space. Neev goes to search for Prachi and finds her sitting with Kripa, Anjali, and Aaliya while Angad, Kavya, and Josh play basketball. The girls are just talking about random girly topics and he catches sight of Prachi enjoying herself, not just enjoying but laughing as well. Here Neev stands totally depressed and upset, while Prachi sits conversing with her friends. He is really mad now more than ever. Neev comes by the girls and sits there while Prachi excuses herself to use the bathroom. Again she avoided him, Neev thought. He too gets up and follows her. When Neev entered, she is inside the stall and he hides in a stall near by. She comes out and begins washing her hands when the lights suddenly go out and there is complete darkness in the bathroom. She turns to the door to leave, but before she can open it she gets pinned to the wall.

She knows it was Neev. She knows his touch, his fragrance, his everything including his anger and frustration. The light seeped in from the windows and she calmly speaks, "Neev let me go" Neev replies with a firm, "NO" She begins to struggle in his grip and he yells, "WHY DAM*IT, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS! JUST SAY SOMETHING PLEASE, LOOK JUST YELL AT ME, DO SOMETHING JUST DON'T IGNORE ME PLEASE I CAN'T TAKE IT. YOUR REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ME PRACHI, YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND…DON'T DO THIS TO ME." Prachi yells with intensity, "I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE OKAY NEEV, IT HURTS, IT HURTS BECAUSE I…" She pauses and tries to leave, but Neev tightens his grip on her. Neev's hot breath on her neck and passionate voice seems to intoxicate Prachi. Neev asks softly leaning in closer, "Because you what?" This forces her to pull out from her trance and yell, "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!" Neev's whole world turns upside down. He is completely shocked, so shocked that he loosens his grip on her and let her run away in tears. In a moment he realizes she's running away so he calls after her, but she wouldn't stop, she couldn't stop. He just watches her run away wiping her tears along the way.

Neev walks around the park, looking at the children play, remembering his own childhood days with everyone, but mostly Prachi. From childhood, Angad and Kripa stuck together like glue, and Kavya and Anjali always annoyed each other right from the start—but they are friends, it is an undeclared friendship. Prachi had always felt like an outsider and a loner. That's when Neev came into the Sharma's and Khanna's lives. He became the other half of Prachi, the part she was missing. That's when Prachi and Neev became best of friends and today his best friend is in love with him. Neev has always known Prachi is a beautiful girl, but she is very reserved something Neev is not used to in girls. His taste in women has been bold and beautiful like Angad and Kavya's. He had to admit though, that Prachi was way more fun and more beautiful than the girls he had dated. He tells himself he isn't in love with Prachi, but feared losing her friendship. Everything has changed and nothing could go back to what it was before, nothing. Oh love is complicated.

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             Same day- Kavya and Anjali. Now strangely enough the whole day Kavya has not once bugged Anjali. Forget bugging, he didn't even approach her. He keeps himself busy with girls the whole time. He doesn't even try to sit next to Anjali in any of their classes. She doesn't know what to think of it. She really misses his little annoyances. His annoying behavior became part of her every day routine. Not once has he missed an opportunity to mess with her. This just throws her off completely. It is so ironic that even when he is not annoying her, she is even more annoyed. Anjali tries to not focus on Kavya by keeping herself busy with guys. Now at this point usually Kavya would come over and harass the guy until he left, but nope not this time. What she didn't know was the Kavya is watching Anjali flirt from a distance and is trying really hard to control his temper. So far it had been working, but he didn't know how long it would last. Kavya hates it when Anjali flirted, he doesn't exactly know why—it is his way of being protective over her. Angad, Kavya, and Neev have all learned to look out for Kripa, Anjali, and Prachi since they are their friend's sisters, or at least that's the excuse Kavya tells himself. After Prachi and Neev have left the basketball grounds towards the bathroom, Kavya is flirting with this one girl after the basketball game. She is currently sitting comfortably on his lap. Anjali walks past and says, "Get a room!"  Kavya grins, "Great idea!" and laughs at her jealousy. Anjali walks away in a huff. So basically Kavya is annoying Anjali from a distance, but trying to maintain a distance and Anjali is annoyed by this distance.

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Same day in the morning- Angad and Kripa. Angad and Kripa make plans to do their homework together at the Sharma House later. As of now, they are sitting in class listening to a lecture from their math teacher. Angad and Kripa as usual are not paying much attention to the lecture, but passing notes and talking. That's when the door bursts open and in comes the principal with another boy trailing behind. The principal seems to be embarrassed of his 'takla' (bald) head so the guy feels the need to wear a wig, which is the most ridiculous and obvious looking wig one could possibly find. The boy is standing behind the principal so getting a clear view isn't possible. The principal is talking to the professor and then turns to the class and says, "Ok students, we have a new student joining your class and his name is Prem Malhotra." Angad and Kripa aren't really paying attention, but as soon as the Principal steps aside, a young, hot, looking guy stands in front. He looks so carefree and he has his own attitude, like a bad boy. Kripa feels attracted towards him since bad boys were her weakness. She whispers to Angad, "DAM* he's HOT!" Angad looks up and then at Kripa really shocked and says, "Wow Kripa, tumhare itne bure din agaya hai… You think the Principal is hot???" Kripa kicks Angad hard causing him to scream, "OWW!!" The Principal turns his attention to Angad along with the rest of the class and says, "Angad what is the meaning of this outburst?" Angad looks back at Kripa and grins, "Well sir, Kripa seems to think that you are really HOo...OWWWW" Kripa has yanked Angad to sit down and stomped on his foot causing him to say 'how' instead of his intended 'hot'. Kripa interrupts Angad saying, "How sir How do you get your hair to be so shiny?" Well at this the principal turns red at the compliment and starts patting his head like one would to a dog and replies, "Oh I use conditioner you see" and grins widely. At this Angad says, ::cough:: LIAR ::cough::. Now Kripa has to elbow him to shut up since he was bound to get them both a detention.

The principal turns his attention back to the boy, who Kripa now has a crush on. Angad sees the guy and realizes that this was who Kripa must have been talking about. Although Angad hates to admit it the guy has style, but Angad happened to be undeniably hotter than Prem. Angad thought and realizes that they would have probably become friends had Kripa not declared she liked the guy and this is reason enough for Angad to despise him. The Principal asks the professor, who the smartest in the class is and that just so happens to be Kripa Sharma. Kripa beams as Prem is assigned to work alongside Kripa. Angad is totally upset because not only did Kripa stop talking to him in class, she acted like he didn't exist. Kripa s flirting with Prem constantly and even gave him her phone number. She touched his arm saying, "If you need help with anything just ask" in a rather sexy tone. This is only infuriating Angad more.

Angad gets a hold of his anger and after the basketball game with the guys he is walking to meet up with Kripa because they have planned to do their homework together. He suddenly stopped walking when he saw Prem and Kripa talking, laughing, and having fun. It looks like they really clicked. Angad is starting to feel really insecure. Kripa waves Angad over and Prem and Angad talk lightly on some topics. Prem had actually become friends with Kavya so he had come upon his request. That's when he saw Kripa and decided to chat with her. Angad isn't too fond of Kripa and Prem's closeness, but who was he to say anything. Kavya signals Prem over and he says a quick bye and sprints. Angad is loving Kavya at the moment. Angad persuades Kripa to leave, but she keeps insisting on staying because Prem is there. Angad finally gets Kripa in his car and all she says is, "Hmph!" Angad looks over at Kripa and smiles. He stops the car to get ice cream and the frown on her face quickly turns into a bright smile. She kisses Angad's cheek and throws her arms around his neck exclaiming in delight, "THANK YOU!!" and after their little snack they happily drive to the Sharma House. They finish their homework and Angad leaves after a while to go home.

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Angad has become insecure with Kripa's new formed friendship with Prem. Neev has become distraught over his feelings for Prachi, he knows now that the cause of her behavior was insecurity and jealousy. Kavya has begun using jealousy as a weapon to annoy Anjali. Everyone is having problems in their friendships; jealousy has seeped into each of their relationships one way or another.

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k that was the next part! tomorrow will be sorta late like today!!! totally loved your comments guys!! LEAVE COMMENTS!! im not gonna post until i get 10-15 comments and if that means its on thursday then....sux for u cuz i already know whats gonna happen jk!