"Don't lie..." Mia whined still in denial. "You did! We have been dating each other for the past few years, we were planning to attend the same university so we could never..." before she could complete Ehaan interrupted again. Getting on his foot and turning towards them. I could no longer glance at his face, as his back was facing me. His muscle clenched as his hands fisted into a ball.

I was trying to pull myself together, still finding it difficult to take in a normal amount of oxygen. My eyes glanced at them in worry.

"Not we but you!" He groaned, not wanting to even glance at her face.

"Stop! Cleaning your deeds Ehaan." Rudr jumped in, "stop showing off as if you're not a culprit." His eyes darted at me for a second before glancing back at Ehaan. "Stop playing with an innocent heart." His eyes radiating fury suppressed deep inside. I managed to pull myself from the ground, glancing properly at three individuals having a war.

"And you fucking stop manipulating people..." Ehaan glanced at me. "Stop showing as if I am playing with your sister's heart. Whole Heaven's High knows it... Ehaan Kashyap doesn't like commitments. Mia knew it too..." his eyes flickered on Mia for a second, maybe softening a little. "Hadn't expected her to act in such a manner... desiring to harm someone I value the most." I might have ended up confused if I wasn't informed by Mia in fury about her sins. "Fucking! I might have killed you if it wasn't..." he trailed off maybe rewinding those flashes in his brain. He left it incomplete but I could depict what he kept unfolded. That his worry towards me overpowered his fury towards Mia.

"Yet you kept increasing her hope. If you never intended to make her feel loved why did you encourage her feeling? You had taken advantage of her foolishness, you had used her. You had even used her against Ruhi... to humiliate her, to take revenge against her..."

"I fucking have no time for these stupid arguments. You can carry on! Who fooled whom and who used whom?" Ehaan shook his head, glancing at Mia once. "But you better make it certain that your sister never enters my life or try to destroy it. If I found her near anyone I value, she will have to face my wrath. And you won't be able to save her either," Ehaan grabbed my hands, intertwined them. The siblings' eyes lingered on our hands, I wanted to pull it away but Ehaan tightened his grip. The duo wasn't concealing the aversion feeling overpowering them on seeing us together.

Rudr looked away a minute later while Mia was shooting daggers at me. We strolled down the hallway, walking towards my floor. The entire school was glancing at us and our intertwined fingers. I wasn't fond of attention and never adored my personal life as been source of gossip. I knew those prying, furious, interrogating, jealous orbs glancing at us. I hated to accept it but I had much evil surrounding me. They envied the bond of friendship I shared with the most popular gang of our school and me associating with Ehaan would further worsen it.

I had struggled numerous times to get my hand from his grip but on seeing nothing worked, I gave up. We halted in front of my classroom. And his grip loosen, I sighed in relief. Massaging my hand, glaring at him. It didn't affect him, he overlooked it.

"You will wait here after the school end." He commended before walking off without waiting for my response.

What the hell? What on earth does he think, he was? Maybe, he was the most popular, attractive guy on the planet. I care less! I wasn't doing to listen to his every order. Do hell with him and his demand!

During the entire two lectures, I was fuming in anger. It had burned me enough that everything uttered by a teacher was also infuriating me.

"Ehaan can be a bad company to associate with..." I heard Samaira whispering as our day was done. She grabbed her bag from the desk. "He can transform his anger to his company as well. Now, I am getting it! Why his most of the friend has short temper." She giggled at the end, glancing at me.

"Samaira! I am not in a mood to joke, he had already frustrated me beyond a limit." I shook my head, deciding to grab my bag as well.

"If he is so annoying, why do you even spend time with him?" She inquired. I felt out of words. I fumbled with the words not knowing how to provide her with the reason. "Because you like him... his that arrogant, attitude is just a drawback after all he cares for you." She shook her head not liking the idea that she was praising him.

"How do you know?" We got out of our class. We were the last ones to exist. Ehaan words played back in my mind but I wasn't going to listen to him. Do hell with his orders! The fury inside me burned once again on the thought.

Samaira raised a brow. "His tense face and continues phone call and not to forget the number of curses..." she rolled her eyes. "They all depicted that he was going insane, he even left the last opportunity to get into football. I don't think you need any more reasons," she smiled at me as we made our way downstairs. "Varun had even mentioned that he never cared for someone above his football, dance and other activities. They are world for him." By the time we had reached the last floor. "I know you have a feeling for him as well..." I widen my eyes in response, causing her to smile. "What if you hadn't conveyed it vocally? Your best friend can read you..." I glared at her seeing the emerging teasing smile on her lip.

"Ruhi!" We heard a voice calling me, and turned to face the figure. Rudr was rushing downstairs, his eyes desperate as if it was his survival need. "We need to talk," he urged. Glancing between me and Samaira, "I hope you don't mind." He expressed at the end.

I was going to deny it after the incident took place a few hours back, I wasn't in a state to ponder about it. I was finding it difficult to register. To believe someone would be so adamant to harm. I wanted to believe in humanity but people around me were making it so difficult to even glimpse that kindness existed in their hearts. But as always before I could voice a word out, Samaira jumped.

"Why not?" Offering him the sweetest smile, "she is all yours." I glared at her as she pulled me towards her to whisper something in my ears. "I am still shipping you with him." She winked at me, rushing out. Leaving me behind to handle her blunder. I kept staring at her retreating figure, wanting her to return when I heard Rudr calling me.

"Ruhi," I slowly forced myself to face him. "I hope you don't mind having a conversation with me. I know, after today's event your mind will be foggy. Trying to understand things! Ehaan had showcased pretty well that my sister was at fault. He is smart enough to portray things to his benefit. Even how smartly he had manipulated his friend, Zara. She had no clue that he used her against his own cousin, to such an extent that he has left with no option than commit suicide." I was staring at him, trying to depict his thoughts. But it was difficult, I wanted to feel he was lying but his entire body language yelled he was conveying the truth.

"I lost my friend, the one I considered as my baby brother." His hazel orbs brimmed with tears. My heart wanted to believe it was a lie but my brain was convincing me that I was trying to escape from the reality. "That day, I wanted to convey the same to you. But you weren't able to come. I wanted you to show his parents suffering from their only son's loss. They aren't able to deal with it..." he wiped his tears. I wanted to console him but my legs were rooted to the ground.

"What had forced him to take such a drastic step?" I interrogated, hesitating as my heart was conveying I would regret my action.

"A claim that he made an MMS of Zara." My eyes were wide, hands shivering. I gulped, stumbling on my feet. "And the most astonishing part is Zara helped them." He shook his head, brushing off the emerging tears. "Bringing past up, won't help anyone! He won't even get his justice because Ehaan's family is rich. They have enough money to bail him and remove all claims against him." His words made sense, Ehaan was born into the richest family. I was searching for hints that he was conveying a lie but it seemed the truth. The same truth was hidden from me. They never wanted me to reach there.

"I want you to be not trapped by his acts. My sister is broken, I hope you won't have to go through the same fate." He was late! He walked away, passing a sad smile.

I was trapped in his acts! I had walked on the same path. I had seen it happening before my eyes. I had seen him shattering hearts yet I allowed him to break mine. Yet I allowed him to destroy me beyond limits. How could I turn so foolish? How could I act so stupid? Wasn't everything before my eyes? Hadn't I seen him crossing limits to take revenge yet I allowed him? I knew he was the devil, yet I allowed him into my world. The world I had created with so much care, love. He destroyed it with his one touch.

I pushed back my tears I won't believe Rudr. I know he holds a grudge against Ehaan. He would be lying to me, maybe he want to trigger Ehaan. He want to make him face the pain, Mia was going through. I won't believe him! I would listen to Ehaan.

I took a rushing step outside of the building, dialling Anuj's number as I didn't have Ehaan's. I had never asked for his. He picked on the second ring. "Ruhi! You're surely going to receive a scolding from Ehaan, where are you? Haven't he asked you to stay in class?"

"I am not a KG kid I can roam around the school."

"Yeah and get into trouble. Should I mention the number of times you went missing?" I heard the voice of Ehaan, my eyes brimming in tears. My heart stopped for a moment. I wanted to brush everything away and hide in his arms. I didn't want to know the truth, the lies. I was tired of it! I wanted to do what my heart was yelling at me but still, I knew I would end up listening to my brain. The foolish, logical, stupidest one!

"No need!" I wanted to act confident but it came as a murmur.

"Where are you?" Suddenly his furious voice turned into concern.

"In the entrance..." I choked.

"I am coming..." and the phone was hung. My heart aching in my chest.

He cared! Wasn't it enough? Why do I fucking care about his past? Don't people commit mistakes? Can't I forgive him? Man! I didn't even know Zara's cousin. If Zara had forgiven Ehaan, why can't I? But wasn't she among the culprit? I inhaled, to calm my senses. My brain won't be able to deal with it. I needed some peace of mind I would deal with the truth later.

"Ru..." Anuj's voice got into my ears and I raised my eyes. A tensed Ehaan glancing at me, his face stern but those dark brown orbs showing the concern hidden within. Without giving a thought to the world, I rushed towards him. Ehaan was taken aback, and stumbled with the force I landed on his chest. My hands wrapped around his back, my face nuzzling in his chest. Breathing his smell, my mind foggy. I didn't want to think about the world, just us for a moment.

"What the..." again Zara's words were left incomplete, I sensed Ehaan's arms moving. Maybe he gestured them to keep quiet. His arms wrapped around my waist pulling me closer to him.

"Shouldn't we provide them with some privacy... Not like they needed it..." Aarav uttered but soon was halted by Ehaan's groan.

"We are going..." I heard a whisper, and soon the footsteps.

"Angel," he called and as if my tears were waiting for his permission, they flowed down my cheek.

"Please take me home..." I muttered into his chest, not wanting to let him know my devasted state. But my voice was depicting more than necessary. 

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Will Ruhi forgive Ehaan? Will you all forgive him?