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Aria's Pov

I reach college and bid bye to my dad, as he reverses his car and leaves. I look around to spot Zain and see he's missing. I walk out of the college towards the backside and wait for him there.

"Finally, you're here." Zain's voice reaches my ears making me startle and look around to see him waiting under the tree, leaning on his bike.

"You scared me." I say, as he snorts and steps out of the tree shadow.

He was wearing a plain navy-blue shirt and black ripped jeans which looked so damn good on him. He had little hairs falling on his forehead, making him look more handsome in the sunlight as he took small steps towards me.

Before I embarrass myself staring at him, I ask him, "So, where are you taking me?" I ask as he forwards his hand and I notice he was giving me helmet.

"You'll know soon, wear this." He says and turns around and wears his own helmet and waits for me to join him.

"You really aren't going to tell me?" I ask him and sit behind him on his bike, I mentally thank myself for choosing to wear a V strap Neck Crop tee with a pair of light blue jeans because I had once ridden with my friend back in Delhi in a dress, and that was SO uncomfortable.

"Yes," he says and waits.

A minute pass by.

Two minutes passes by.

"Um...are we waiting for someone?" I ask unsure as to why we were waiting.

"Yes, we are waiting for you to actually hold me so that you won't fall down." He says cheekily.

"Oh!"

"Exactly, oh!! Now hold me tight." He says and I slowly move forward and hold him tightly by his shoulders.

"Really? Shoulder?" He asks, humour evident in his voice.

I flush and roll my eyes. "Yeah now move on." I demand and he shakes his head before kicking his bike start.

"Alright then, let's go." He says and accelerates the bike making it jerk forward a little bit.

"Zain!!" I screech, my eyes wide and shocked. My front body was completely pressed to his back.

In return that boy just laughed. I roll my eyes and punch his back as he made his way through the traffic and towards what it looked like a plain road.

A little while later, we stop at what looked like...Circus?

"Oh my God!! Are there lions here?" I ask excited and he looks at me in amusement as he removes the helmet and puts it on its place.

"Yes, there are lions here and so are your friends," he says making me look at him more excited.

"Really? Ahana and Kaira are here?" I ask giving him my helmet.

"No, I was talking about monkeys and donkeys." He says and laughs looking at my 'i-so-want-to-kill-you' face.

"You!!!" I say and lunge at him to punch him but he runs away laughing. I laugh along with him; I can't believe we are actually behaving like some normal teenagers.

Finally giving Zain some hard punches, he went to buy tickets as I went to buy some popcorn and drinks for us.

"I thought you had breakfast this morning?" Zain asks coming towards me and looks at the bunch of eatables in my hands.

"I'm a growing child, I need food." I defend myself and ignore his amused look as we stand in a line to get inside.

As we stood, I saw a little girl staring up at the both of us. She looked around four to five years.

I thought she wanted some popcorn so I offered her but she just glares at me. What did I ever do to this strange child?

She continued glaring at me.

So, I glared her back.

And suddenly she broke down crying. What the actual hell?

Her mother suddenly leans down asking her what happened when that little brat points at me, "She is giving me angry looks." The girl not so innocently blames me and the mother suddenly stands up and glares at me.

"No- Mam, you got that wrong, I wasn't glaring-"

"How dare you glare at my daughter?"

"Mam I was-"

"How can you? She's a little girl!!"

"I'm telling you; I was-"

"Don't lie, I know you were glaring at her."

"Mam I was-"

"Excuse me!!" Zain interrupted us and came and stood between us.

"You know her?" The mother asked him and Zain nodded his head and before he could say something, that brat's mother started again. "Tell your sister to behave, she was glaring at my daughter."

"Excuse you, I'm not his sis-"

"Yes, I apologize on behalf of my sister-"

What. Did. He. Just. Say?

"But just look at her mam," Zain continues and turns around to look at me who was already looking at him, like a buffalo who was yawning.

That mother looked at me and then back at Zain, "What am I supposed to look here?" She asks irritated.

"Mam she has-" he leans towards her ear, "-Immature Personality Disorder, that makes her behave like a child, so please forgive her." He tells her.

Asshole say what?

I look at him shocked, and I was sure my face resembled a dying pig right now.

The woman who was blaming me, all of a sudden looked at me with sympathy, pity and compassion. "Oh, poor child," she murmurs and looks down at my hands and her face morphs into more pity. I look down at my hands to see popcorn bags, chocolates and some drinks.

Shit!!

"Take care of your sister," the woman says and I look up to see Zain nodding his head looking down sadly. She then turns towards me and puts her hand in her handbag and takes out a huge chocolate bar.

My eyes widened at the size of omelettes as she hands over the chocolate bar to me and smiles. "I'm sorry, please take this." She says and I look at Zain who was trying really very hard to control his laughter.

I hesitantly take the chocolate bar and gives her a smile, "Don't trouble your parents okay?" She tells me and I nod my head, playing along as she returns my smile and walks in along with her daughter who was glaring at me again because I just got her chocolate bar.

Once she was gone inside, Zain bursts out laughing.

"I can't believe you just did that!!!" I accuse pointing my finger at Zain who continued laughing that made some people to turn over and look at us.

"That- that was hilarious!!" He says in between his laughter as our turn comes next. I glare at him and put the chocolate bar in his hand.

"Enjoy it and don't bother with me for the rest of the day." I say taking a ticket and getting inside, ignoring his calls as he walked behind me.

I took a seat and recalled the incident moments ago. I turned towards Zain to see he was taking deep breaths and biting his lips, and I knew very well he was trying to hold in his laughter.

"Why are you holding back the laughter? Please laugh!!" I say giving him a fake smile and he shake his head and stops his struggle.

But I was still fuming.

"No really, laugh your heart out," I say and squat his hand that was trying to take some popcorn from my hands.

He looks at me pleading but I just ignored and continued looking at the show which was starting soon.

"Oh, come on espresso, I just stopped the fight, I knew aunties like that won't stop until they prove themselves innocent." He says and leans towards me trying to take some popcorn from my hand.

"Still-" I say and look at him, "And my name is Aria, no espresso, no milkshake and no cappuccino." I say and he snorts.

"No, you're just espresso, my espresso." He says bumping our shoulders together and finally succeeds to take hold of some popcorn, leaving me stunned at my espresso.

I looked at him to see him enjoying the show and I wondered if he actually meant it or it was just a slip of tongue.

But whatever it was, that was enough to make my heartbeats skyrocket.

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