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Aria's Pov

We finally reached Manali, and it is so beautiful. It's truly a heaven on earth. Everything was covered in white snow making it look so serene.

We were called to go and settle inside the resort where we would be living for the rest of the camp.

The rooms held two persons each, and I was paired up with Kiya, Zian's obsessed lover.

I just hope she is good.

"Hey! I'm Aira." I say introducing myself to my new roommate.

She looked over at me and gazed me up and down as her face twisted in irritation.

"Yeah, whatever." She says and went back arranging her clothes.

Rude much?

I huffed and went back to do my own things and start unpacking my bag.

We were soon called out for breakfast and that's when I saw Aarav. He gave me a smile as he approached me.

"Hey Aria, how's it going?" He asks and I smile.

"It's all good, do you know what we have to do next? I was a bit late so I kind of missed it." I say.

"Of course, they said we will start trekking from tomorrow, and since we have a whole day ahead of us, they will conduct a Treasure Hunt game." He says and I smiled in excitement.

"Oh my, I love treasure hunt," I say and he chuckled.

"Who doesn't, come on we have to go and make groups." He says as we walked to all the students standing there.

"Alright everybody, one group will have four participants each, there are twenty-four of you total, so there will be six groups," Akshay sir said and I can hear the excitement from everyone as they started to make their own group.

"No, no, no, I'll be making your groups so don't bother, and that way you can get introduced to your fellow mates too, alright?" He asked and received a not-so-happy response.

"Okay then, the groups are in this way, Tanya, Varun, Rohan..." And he went on and on.

As I waited for my turn I looked around, the five boys' group was split, and I felt bad for them, they are always together and they got separated here.

Zian was the only one remaining from that group and that's when I heard Akshay sir say making me gasp, "The fifth group is Zian, Aria, Inaya, and Kiya."

Are. You. Kidding. Me?

The two obsessed lovers of Zian with Zian himself with one more addition which he hates the most, me, in one group? Not so...normal.

Zian looked pissed off that he had no guy in his group and was cursing under his breath. He stood in his place as Inaya and Kiya happily went towards him while I half-heartedly walked over to him.

I noticed him looking at me as I approached them. His eyes held some unknown emotion and he kept looking at me until I reached them.

Once I stopped beside Inaya, she gave me a bright smile. "Wow...I'm so happy today, we're paired with ZIAN," she almost shouted that making Zian look at her weirdly making her blush and look down embarrassed.

I ignored it and took the paper Akshay sir was giving us for our first clue, according to him the winning team will get some prize at the end of our camp.

The first clue read...

I drink, but not from a glass. I use thousands of fingers to eat. What am I? (1)

Uh...what?

There will be three clues according to Akshay sir and this one was our first, and I don't even have the slightest clue where is our second clue located. And the last one would be the same for everyone. That would be the final clue and whoever finds it first, wins.

As I was reading it, a hand snatched the paper away from me. Zian stood beside me reading the paper. I was about to tell him it was rude to snatch the paper like that but I kept quiet.

"Did you guess what is it?" I ask Zian as he started walking outside as we followed him. Kiya immediately went and start walking beside him.

"Of course, he guessed it, he isn't dumb like you," Kiya says with a smirk.

Zian stops and gave a glare at Kiya. "If you girls are going to have a catfight, do it somewhere else where I can't hear, I'm trying to play a game here." He snapped at her. Kiya frowned at him but nodded and followed him.

Inaya laughed beside me at Kiya's state. I rolled my eyes and walked to the other side of Zian. He looked at me from the corner of his eyes and looked back ahead of him.

We stopped in front of a tree, A tree?

I drink, but not from a glass. I use thousands of fingers to eat. What am I?

A tree.

Oh Fuck...yes, a tree!!! Why am I so dumb?

Soon we started searching all the trees to find our next clue. I can see Ranbir and his team too were going somewhere in the far with Tanya and Varun's team not so far behind.

I looked at my teammates to see if anyone got any clue. My eyes fell on Zian, he stood there with another paper in his hand and he was looking at me. I frowned thinking why was he looking at me and that's when it strikes me, he was asking for me to join him so we can go and find the next clue.

Why are you behaving so dumb today Aria?

I scolded myself and walked towards him. He nodded his head and forwarded the new clue towards me. I looked around to see Inaya and Kiya still roaming around trying to search for our next clue.

"I will go call them so we-"

"No don't," Zian replied almost instantly cutting me off.

"Why?" I ask and he shakes his head.

"They irritate me, so don't bother calling them, let's just continue." He says and walks ahead while I stood there still.

Did he just hint to me that I don't irritate him like them so he only called me? That means something right? I smiled and ran towards him.

On the way there I read our next clue.

Keep it clean and keep it dry. Can you guess? Come on, just try! (2)

I crunched my brows and tried solving the clue.

"Do you know what is it?" Zian asked from beside me and I looked at him surprised. It was the first time he was initiating the conversation by himself.

"Yeah, it's something related to something that keeps things clean," I say and he nods his head.

"Yeah I thought about it too," he says and puts his hands in his pockets as he watches the sky and thinks of the possibilities while I just keep looking at him. He is so handsome!! Those cheekbones, those beautiful eyes, that pointed nose, that...

"What about Dishwasher?" He asked all of a sudden making me startle. But I regained myself and blushed at my thoughts.

I nod my head as we went towards the kitchen and searched for the clue in the dishwasher. But we got no clue there.

I sighed when one more possibility popped up. "Washing machine?" I ask and he looks at me surprised and nods his head.

"Yeah, let's go." He says as we walked towards the laundry room where washing machines are kept.

We searched through them and I finally found it.

"I got it," I say and showed him the clue. Zian looked up from the washing machine he was looking and smiled at me.

Wait. Smiled at me?

This is something new.

"Good, now the last clue." He says and I nod. This would be the final one where all six groups will be competing with us. That is, only if they get this far.

This is going to be fun!!

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