CHAPTER TWO
REVENGE
Aakash panted as he took off his glasses and cleaned the steam off with his sleeve. "Arnav."
"Yes?" He frowned at a speck of lint on his sleeve and flicked it off. The run seemed not to have affected him at all. Arrogant prick.
"You realise this is a boarding school?"
"I do."
"So you realise Singh literally knows where we sleep?"
"The thought has crossed my mind, yes."
"And so what exactly is going to stop him sneaking into our rooms in the middle of the night and murdering us in our sleep?"
"I dunno," Arnav shrugged, "don't sleep?"
Aakash did not look amused.
"Well," Arnav stroked his chin. "I was thinking it's been a long time since we last had a sleepover in NK's room, hasn't it?"
"Ah yes, I think the last time was when we accidentally set Ms Kapadia's art room on fire."
"Or maybe the time we locked Mr Ankur in the PE store cupboard?"
"No I'm pretty sure it was the time we stole that ceremonial knife from Mrs Jaggi's office."
"Hey, it was an African ceremonial life. Who's the real thief here?"
"Technically, it was Aman. Speaking of, should we go help him?"
"No. If he was stupid enough to get caught, he has to face the consequences."
Aakash peeked out to see if he could see (or hear) Mr Singh approaching. But all appeared to be clear. "Yeah, I guess there's no point in all of us getting caught, is there?"
"Now you're thinking like a Raizada."
"I'm not a Raizada."
"My mum will be heartbroken to hear that. If she feeds you like one, you are one."
Aakash beamed. "When's Aunty visiting next?"
"You mean when is she next bringing enough food to feed a small country?"
"Or two."
"I dunno. But I think she's bringing your mum with her. Hello hi bye bye, Aakash bitwa are you top of your class yet? No? Arnav is? Ah if only you were a girl, Aakash bitwa, I would have had the two of you married faster than you could say hello hi bye bye!"
Arnav smirked as Aakash smacked him round the back of the head. "Oy! You know, I've never understood why she wishes I was the girl." Aakash shook his head, bemused as always by his eccentric and extremely loving albeit overbearing, mother.
"Obviously she realises I am the superior male specimen and wouldn't want to risk removing me from the gene pool. Also, your rotis are rounder." Arnav barely managed to duck out of the way as Aakash aimed another vicious whack to the back of his head.
"Shut up, Arnav. All that running's made me really hungry, we can't exactly go to the canteen, can we?"
"NK always has food in his room, doesn't he?"
"Yeah. He calls it his 'Treasure'... Let's go."
It was 3am when Khushi's alarm blared into life. She shot straight up and slammed it off.
She quickly changed into a black turtleneck and black jeans (covert revenge required covert clothing) and put on a pair of dark brown boots (close enough). She crept out of her room to the first of her 3 destinations of the night.
"Payal," she hissed, knocking softly on her best friend's door. "Payal, wake up." Khushi peered blindly down the dark corridors, listening for any hint of sound on the other side of the door or from either end of the corridor. There was a soft groan and a thud from inside and then shuffling. Payal opened the door, eyes bleary with sleep.
Her eyes widened when she saw Khushi. "Khushi, you weren't serious when you told me that insane plan earlier today?"
"Payal," Khushi raised an eyebrow, "when have I ever given you any indication that any of my insane plans are ever anything but 100% serious?"
Payal sighed. "You're not going to stop until I agree to come with you, are you?"
Khushi grinned and shook her head.
"Fine, let me just grab a jumper and some shoes. You need sectioning, you know that right?"
"Amma may have mentioned it once or twice. Now come on, let's go." She grabbed Payal's sleeve and began dragging her towards destination number two.
"Here. Hold this flashlight and keep a look out for anyone approaching, okay?"
"Khushi, are you sure about this?"
Khushi didn't bother dignifying the question with a response. Instead, she shunted herself over the gate and quietly approached her prey. "Here goatie, goatie, goatie." She coaxed, as she tiptoed over to where it was tethered. "Shhh, shhh. Easy now. Eaaasy. Eaaasy. Gotcha!" She untied the rope and began walking the goat back towards the gate.
"Payal!"
"What?"
"I'm going to pass Laxmi-ji over the gate to you, are you ready?"
"Who is Laxmi-ji?"
"The goat."
Payal's voice sounded strangled when she replied. "You named the goat La- Khushi, stop it! I'm not touching that. Just come through the gate like a normal human being."
Payal flounced backwards as Khushi dropped Laxmi back to the ground. "Fine, Prissyknickers, we'll just come through the gate."
It took her a minute or two to figure out how to unlatch the gate and then she was out. She pushed it shut behind her and began running back towards the Dorms. Not her Dorm room, mind you. But to her third and last destination for the night before she would finally have her revenge and be able to drift off into sound and satisfied sleep.
Payal put one arm out to block Khushi's access to the doorknob leading to NK's room.
"Khushi, I'm going to ask you one last time. Are you sure about this? Couldn't you and NK just... talk about it? Or better yet, can't you just forgive and forget?"
"Payal I am. I'm for-giving him a taste of his own medicine and then I can for-get my sweet sweet revenge."
Payal gave up. "Okay, fine. Whatever. I thought I should at least try. Now hurry up, the goat's getting restless."
Khushi took a deep breath and looked down at the fire extinguisher in her hands. "Ready?"
Payal nodded.
"ATTACK!!!!!"
Khushi turned the door handle and kicked open the door with a loud boom. Before anyone in the room could react, she had squeezed the handles of the fire extinguisher and covered the entire room in the white foam.
To her surprise, she heard not one, but several voices yell out and start hollering at her.
"RELEASE THE GOAT!!!" Khushi screamed.
Payal let go of the rope and pushed Laxmi into the room where it then proceeded to bleat loudly and started running round.
"RUN!" Khushi yelled just as someone in the room succeeded in turning on a light and others along the corridor began to come out of their own rooms to see what all the noise was about.
Arnav looked around the room, his body buzzing with adrenaline. He was covered in foam, as were Aakash, Aman and NK. There was also a panicked and agitated goat running around the room, screeching louder than even NK and just kicking everything.
The sound of laughter came from the doorway and he looked over to see quite the crowd of people gathering outside.
"What in blazes is going on in here?!" Everyone except the goat immediately went silent as Dhruv, the Sixth Former in charge of their floor elbowed his way through the crowd to glare at the room.
Even he couldn't hold back a splutter of laughter at the sight that met him, but then he was deadly serious as he turned to face the other residents. "Who did this?"
Nobody spoke.
"Well, if nobody is going to own up, then you're all going to help clean up- don't think I can't see you trying to sneak off to your room there, Lavanya. Just for that, you're in charge of the goat until morning."
He turned back and looked straight at NK, who was currently trying desperately to hold the goat in place. "As for you..." The goat chose that moment to kick NK in the stomach and make a mad dash for the door. Dhruv jumped out of the way.
He shook his head, at a loss as to what he should do. "Lavanya, I swear to God if that goat gets off this corridor I'm going to put you on communal toilet cleaning duty for a week."
He decided he would leave it to the teachers to decide first thing in the morning.
Chapter Three- Accusations
Edited by arisai - 10 years ago
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