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Aria's Pov

The next day I was getting ready for trekking. Last night after my argument with Inaya, I just stayed in my room. Also, Kiya didn't come back last night, she was out the whole time, god knows where.

I walked to the plain ground where Akshay sir had asked us to gather together. As I walked towards the side, I spotted Inaya who was talking with some girl. As soon as she sensed me looking at her, she looked at me and gave me a stink eye, and went back to her conversation.

I roll my eye at her and straightened my bag pack where I had stored the required things necessary for trekking.

"Did you two fight?" A sudden voice startled me, making me look at the source of the voice. Zian.

He stood there in all his glory, as handsome as ever. His eyes were somewhere else while he kept his hands in his pockets waiting for my answer.

"Uh. Yes, you can say that." I say and looked down. "All thanks to you," I muttered under my breath.

"What was that?" Zian ask and turned towards me. I sighed and looked up at me.

"I said thanks to you that we had a fight, she was really angry you know, that we left her in the middle of the game," I say and he rolls his eyes.

"As if I care." He mutters and looks at Inaya who was giving Zian desperate looks but as soon as she saw me looking at her, she glared at me.

"But her points got-" I was about to tell him about the disqualification Inaya and Kiya faced but he looked back at me and I instantly stopped.

"Don't defend them, Aria." He says and I felt a shiver run down my body as soon as he said my name. "Yeah I agree it was my bad that they got disqualified but they're not any saints, they've done the same things with other students in our school, just think of it as a payback we gave to those poor girls who had to face those witches," Zian says pointing at Inaya and Kiya.

I noticed Kiya for the first time since last night, she looked tired for some reason. I shrugged it off and looked back at Zian who surprisingly was already staring at me.

Suddenly I felt self-conscious. He stared at me for some more seconds and let out a breath. "I'll see you later." He says and I offer him a smile but didn't look at him. I was all of a sudden feeling nervous around him. Maybe because he is so handsome and beautiful and so intelligent.

I noticed him leaving from the corner of my eye and l left a sigh of relief. Where was this nervousness coming from?

I was brought out of my thoughts when Akshay sir called us and made us stand in a line. "Okay guys, our trek starts today, our destination is Hallan Valley, which is located 25 km away from here, so we start climbing today."

"Also, we won't reach there today so we will be camping the night, so make sure you've your tent, if you're sharing the tent then I don't want any complaints later on regarding sharing of the same tent, so I recommend taking your own." He says and a few students laugh.

"Sir what about food?" Aarav asks jumping trying to gain sir's attention.

"Food will be taken care of by our staff members but you guys can carry whatever food you guys want or have brought from your home, also you won't be getting any healthy or delicious food for the next three-four days, you've to survive eating instant noodles." He says looking at Aarav and Aarav gave a big volt smile as soon as he heard about noodles.

"Next, carry warm clothes, I recommend you carry your all the blankets and jackets you've gotten but it would be difficult to climb later so I suggest, please remove unwanted stuff from your bag." Akshay sir says looking at Tanya and Kiya who were busy keeping makeup box, iPod, iPhone, MacBook and what was that...ah yes laptop.

What are they? Weather journalist? Are they going to give us the weather updates on the mountain?

Noticing all the gazes on them, Kiya and Tanya looked down embarrassed but didn't remove those items from their bag.

Akshay sir shook his head and looked back at all of us. "Now the last, does anyone have second thoughts about going up there?" He asks and points at the top of the mountain where our destination was.

Everyone immediately shook their head in a no. Akshay sir nodded his head and looked at his staff members. "We will be accompanied by two of our staff members, so if you have any problem you can ask them or me, got it?" He asks while a chorus of 'yes' was heard.

"Okay then, let's start." He says and everyone shouts in excitement as we all followed him.

As we were out of the resort we were waiting in, I suddenly felt lonely. I looked around and decided to go and join some group to take away the boredom.

I was busy deciding which group I should join when all of a sudden someone startled me from behind by keeping their hands on my shoulder and making some weird noise making me jump in shock.

Still, in shock, I looked behind to see it was Aarav and may I add he was laughing his guts out at my reaction. "God, your...face, it was...priceless." He says between his laughs. I gave him a glare when my eyes went behind him.

The rest of the four boys stood there with amused faces. Zian and Varun shook their heads looking at Aarav while Ranbir and Abeer tried to shuffle their laughter.

"Please ignore my friend, he has lots of cracks in his brain," Ranbir says walking towards us and making me look back at Aarav who was still busy controlling his laughter.

I rolled my eyes at Aarav and turned around resuming my walk. As I took a few steps, Aarav came up to me stopping me. "Hey, hey wait." He says and walks beside me.

"What?" I asked, trying not to be rude even if he had just scared me seconds back.

"Why are you walking alone?" He asks and looks around. "Where is that Aya?" He asks and I crunch my brows.

"Who the hell is Aya?" A different voice came from beside me. Abeer.

"You know that girl who is always behind Zian and Varun," Aarav says to Abeer making him more confused.

"Half of the school is behind them, who are you talking about?" Abeer asks when it strikes me.

They are talking about Inaya.

"It's Inaya not Aya." I say trying to hide my smile at that silly name. Abeer started laughing at that and looked at Aarav.

"Dude, someday you're going to forget your own name." Abeer teases him while Aarav rolls his eyes.

Abeer looks back at me and gives me a smile. "By the way, I'm Abeer. And you're Aria, right?" He asks while I nod giving him a smile.

"But seriously why are you walking alone?" Aarav says before I was about to ask Abeer something.

"You can say we had a fight, due to some unnecessary misunderstanding," I answer while Aarav nods.

"Why don't you join us?" Abeer asks me and I look at him surprised.

"You already know me, this monkey here," Abeer says pointing at Aarav, "You've met Zian in the game, and that only leaves Ranbir and Varun, and I assure you they won't have any problem if you join us," Abeer says while Aarav agrees with him.

"Yeah, come here I'll introduce you to Ranbir and Varun," Aarav says and pulls me towards the three boys who were walking behind us.

"This is Varun, the boy who always read books, and no, they're nothing study related." He says pointing at Varun and making him glare at Aarav. Varun looked back at me and gave me a nod and a friendly smile.

"And this is Ranbir, he is obsessed with dogs and their names, especially of Corgi species," Aarav says with a mischievous smile that made all the four boys around him laugh hard. Ranbir gave them a glare and looked back at me.

"It's nothing like that, and do ignore half of the things he says," Ranbir says kicking Aarav's legs hard.

"You're just jealous that I have more knowledge than you," Aarav says stepping back so no one can hit him. "And guys this is Aria." He says pointing at me.

"Oh, I know her," Ranbir says with a smirk plastered on his face as he looked at Zian who I may add was glaring at Ranbir. "He has told me a lot about you," Ranbir says pointing at Zian, which in turn Zian sent daggers at him.

"Really?" I ask surprised and looked at Zian who was avoiding my gaze. "I hope it was something good," I say with a chuckle, too surprised to show any other reaction.

"Oh yes, he told everything good about you," Ranbir says with mischief evident in his voice.

I look at Varun who had a smile on his face as he looked down at the ground. Abeer was smiling widely while Aarav had turned his back towards us as his shoulders were moving up and down making me guess that he was laughing.

"Will. You. Shut up. Up?" Zian asks with a fake smile on his face and looked at Ranbir. His gaze turns to me and his eyes soften a little. "They're just joking, please ignore them," Zian says while nervously rubbing the back of his neck at that action Ranbir started coughing hard looking at Zian.

"Am I missing here something?" I ask confused looking at them. They instantly shook their heads in a no as Zian kicked Ranbir hard on his legs making Ranbir clutch his leg in pain.

"What the hell man!!" Ranbir say and glare at Zian.

"That's what you get for behaving like that," Zian say and walk ahead of me, while I stood there still confused.

"You coming?" I hear Zian say and I immediately turn towards him. That's when I see him waiting for me as he glared at his friends who were again giving Zian teasing looks but this time he was not alone.

Those looks were given to me too.

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