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Aria's Pov

I was stood on my place shocked after the little moment I had with Zain. And may I add he made me feel so special?

After feeding me a piece of cake Zain was about to say something to me, when a group of boys came and took him along. Kaira said they were his school classmates.

I walked towards where Varun was sitting alone. He was busy observing his surrounding while had a drink in his hand.

"You're still the same, aren't you?" I ask taking a seat beside him. Hearing my voice, he turned towards me and smiled.

"Same? Like what?" He asks turning his attention back to the crowd.

"Silent." I say shrugging my arms and he turns to look at me again as I continued. "Not getting into fights, like a... peacemaker." I say and he chuckled.

"Really? Peacemaker Aria?" He asks with a slight chuckle.

"Yeah, I mean I'm sure that you're behind whatever happened today." I say and he looks at me confused so I contained. "You know...Zain behaving like his normal self and not glaring at me and all." I say and he smiles.

"Aria it's not my place to tell you this but you should know," he says and looks towards Zain who was having fun dancing with Abeer and Aarav to the beats of the music.

He looked back at me and continued, "Zain was really really hurt when you stopped talking to him all of a sudden and I know how it feels when someone you love stops talking to you without any explanation-" he stops talking as if he just remembered which he didn't wanted to remember.

He shook his head and looked back at me and smiled, "Anyways, I just wanted to say that, he really really misses you even now, and I think someone had to do something, because clearly, even you miss him." He says looking at me pointedly and I can say it isn't a lie.

"And someone had to hammer your heads to make you understand that denying your love won't take you anywhere, you've to try harder for it, and that's what I did, he needed a push, and I was that push." Varun explains and I can see he was stating everything from his own experience. I wonder what had happened to him to make him so mature at such a young age.

I was speechless at what all he said and I had to agree on each and every word of his, it was so true. I looked up and smiled a grateful one. "Thank you." I say feeling affection towards him.

"Don't mention it, now go and make some move, try hard to gain his trust again, because it won't come just like that." He says playfully nudging with me with his elbows making me laugh.

"I know," I say nodding my head and looked back at Zain and sucked in a long breath to see him already looking at me. "I'll definitely gain his trust back." I say, and as if Zain heard me say that in the loud music, he gave me a smile.

"Good," Varun says and slides off his chair. "I need a new drink; do you need something?" He asks me.

"Coke would be fine." I tell him and he nods his head and heads towards the drinks table.

I watch him go and check my phone; I had a missed call from one of my friends from Delhi. I'll just call her later. I looked up to spot where Ahana and Kaira were when I felt a presence behind me.

I turned around to come face to face with an unknown boy, he looked around my age. His hairs were a little long and he had a little beard growing on his chin. For someone who was fond of bad boys he would've looked hot and sexy but for me who liked good boys or more like a certain someone, this boy in front of me looked scary.

"Hey there beautiful," he whispers and inches closer. "What's your name?" He asks and takes a strand of my hair in his fingers.

I feel disgusted and I instantly take a step back from him giving him a glare. "Excuse me!! Who the hell are you?" I ask narrowing my eyes at him as he laughed.

"Your nightmare," he says, his eyes suddenly turning cold making a shiver run down my spine. He glares at me for some seconds and bursts out laughing. "Gosh your face," he says laughing but I just give him a glare. What is there to laugh about?

"Leave me alone," I hissed at him, enough of that assholes voice. I turn around to leave but he just holds my arm and stops me. I give him a hard stare and yank my hand back leaving it from his clutch.

"Don't. Touch. Me." I hissed angrily but he just smirks.

"Why sweetheart? Do I make you nervous?" He says stepping towards me. "By the way, I know your name," he says with a wink. "Miss Aria Singhania, from Delhi, came here with family to study Interior Designing and-" he takes one more step towards me, "ex-girlfriend of certain someone." He says with a smirk.

How the hell does he know so much about me? Suddenly I was feeling exposed in front of him.

"It's not fair that I know your name and you don't know mine, isn't it?" He asks with a crooked smile. I take in a breath and wait for him to tell me his name when I felt another presence beside me.

"Ronit step back, before I make you." Zain's cold voice reached my ears making me sigh in relief.

Ronit just chuckles darkly. "Really? I thought you were better than this Zain." He says and I feel a familiar hand clutching mine.

"I said step back." Zain hisses darkly and Ronit this time takes a step back without any argument but his usual smirk remains on his face.

"Didn't knew you take used goods back Zain." Ronit says referring to me and I feel a sudden disgusted feeling creep up to me. Ronit looks down at me and gives me a crooked smile, "You should try me sweetheart, I'll definitely make you-"

He was cut off as a hand came in and punched him straight on his jaw and I could hear a voice of bone breaking. I stared wide eyed at Zain who just punched him and was breathing heavily in anger looking down at Ronit who was clutching his jaw painfully.

"You bastard, you broke my jaw!!!" Ronit yelled as he groaned in pain.

"That was the plan." Zain says and clutch his collar making him stand straighter. "Next time, don't you dare speak something like that to anyone," he whispers angrily. "Especially her," Zain says and I can directly tell he was talking about me. "And if dare you do, be ready for the consequences." He says in a low voice that was enough to send chills down the enemy's spine.

But for some weird reason, that voice sent pleasurable jolts in my body making me shiver. It was so-

Not the time Aria.

"Got it?" Zain asks taking me out of my fantasy world. Ronit whose face was turning pale with every second just tried getting out of his hold. "I asked, Did. You. Get. It?" Zain repeated his question making Ronit nod his head rapidly and Zain left him with a jerk making Ronit stumble back.

We saw as he leaves the place along with his group of friends who were trying to help him but Ronit used to push them away angrily.

"Are you okay? Did he do something to you? I should've fvcking knew that asshole would come here!!" Zain mutters angrily as he checks me top to bottom trying to search for some injuries.

"Zain hey, I'm fine." I say holding his hands in mine and squeezing it trying to calm him down.

"No, you're not, I could see you were scared. I should've fvcking stayed with you but-"

"Zain calm down, look I'm fine, I swear I'm fine. He didn't do anything." I assured him and he looked at me.

He took in a long breath trying to calm his anger down. "What was he talking to you? Did he say something bad, tell me, what he said?" He demanded.

"He was flirting with me, that's it." I tell him and I see his hand fisting in anger.

"That son of a bi-"

"Oh my God Aria, are you fine?" I was suddenly jolted from my place as two hands came and turned me towards them.

I saw a very angry Ahana standing there. "What did he do? I'll right now go and beat his ass, you just wait..." she says making my eyes widen.

Damn, she looked scary when she's angry.

"Corgi, calm down. It's taken care of," Ranbir says stepping behind Ahana and rubbing his hand up and down her back.

"Still!! I will go and kick him in the nuts tomorrow." Ahana says determined and I see Ranbir's eyes widen.

"Oh God..." he mutters and looks at me. "Sorry for this, but I've to calm her down." Ranbir says and pulls Ahana away from the bash of crowd towards I don't know...somewhere schedule maybe?

I erased that thought before I get any variety of ideas. I look back at Zain who was looked deep in thoughts.

"Hey, what is it?" I ask him stepping beside him.

Zain look down at me and shake his head. "Nothing. It's nothing you should worry about." He assures and takes my hand in his as if it was just a regular think among us. "Come on, let's feed you something." He says and pulls me towards the food counter.

I look around me to spot others to see Aarav and Abeer were talking to security of the hotel. Ayaan and Kaira were missing and Varun...wait Varun!! Where is he?

I looked around trying to search him but couldn't find him. I look towards Zain to see him already looking at me. He raised his eyebrows as if asking me what I am searching for. "I can't spot Varun." I tell him.

"Oh, he must be here somewhere, he was the one who sent me to you when Ronit came." Zain answers and I suddenly understood where he is.

That sly boy purposely didn't come and helped me with Ronit because he wanted to send Zain. But I must say his plan worked, I mean the boy I feel for is holding my hand right now!! What else can I wish for?

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