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Aria's Pov

I woke up with a foul mood today, one because I slept late last night thinking about my conversation with Zain and second because I was planning on apologizing Zain so that I can at least be friends with him and maybe there was a little bit chance that he would forgive me.

I looked outside the car as my dad was dropping me off to the college wondering, if Ahana knew about me and Zain everything then how did she remain friends with me instead of leaving me.

As we reached the college, I bid bye to my dad, I looked around to see Ahana waving at me standing beside Aarav. Aarav looked over at me as he noticed Ahana waving at someone. He gave me a small smile.

Wait!! Did Aarav just smile at me?

Instead of ignoring me as he always does?

I walked over to them, mainly towards Ahana who gave me a bright smile and pulled me at the side giving Aarav a warning glare not to follow us.

"So how did it go?" She asked excited and I frown, mostly because the question about why she didn't leave me even after hearing my stupidity surprises me.

Instead of answering her question I asked her one. "Did you know everything?"

Her face went from excited to one of realization and she nodded her head. "Yeah, I know everything." She says.

"And still you want to be friends with me?" I ask surprised and amused. Because if I was in her place, I wouldn't even had glance at myself the second time.

Her face turned into frown. "Why do you think I wouldn't be friends with you?" She says and shakes her head. "I know it wasn't your fault nor it was Zain's, the circumstances were wrong and the only one to blame here is Inaya, if she wasn't in the picture, none of this would've happened." She tells me and I smiled knowing at least there was someone who didn't blame me. But even if that was the case, there would be always a part of me that would believe that the breakup was only my fault.

"Come on, the bell has rung we should get going." Ahana says as we hear the bell ringing. "Meet me at lunch break." She says and bid bye to me.

I sigh and turn around only to come face to face with Raghav. I haven't met him since last two three days. "Where have you been?" I ask as he walks beside me.

"I had a flu, you should know about it, I just told you two days back." He tells me with narrowed eyes and I remember us chatting two days back.

"Oh yes, I completely forgot." I say with a slight chuckle.

"So, did I miss anything?" He asks and I shake my head.

"Not much, come on I'll tell you on the way." I say as we walk towards the class.

After three long exhausting hours of lectures, finally it was lunch. I walked towards cafeteria with Raghav arguing with me over the Stranger Thing characters, whether Steve or Billy is better. He was team Steve while I was team Billy.

I didn't go buy anything today because my mom had packed me a Tiffin. As of Raghav, he brought a banana with him, which was his lunch as per him.

I saw Kaira waving at me to come over. I smiled at her and walked towards the table with Raghav behind me.

I noticed she was sitting alone and that no one was here yet. "Hey!" I say and take a place beside her.

Soon enough Ahana and Ranbir joined us. Ahana was frowning while Ranbir was giving her a hard stare.

"What happened?" Kaira ask them as they took seat far away from each other.

"What else? This bulldozer is being an idiot for no reason, punching anyone he wants." Ahana says and Ranbir narrows his eyes at her.

"Excuse me, but that boy was staring at you for no reason, he even talked to you." He says, anger evident in his voice.

"For the last time, he wasn't talking to me, he was asking for a pen." Ahana tells him with a glare.

I chuckled at their childish fight and looked over to my side and my eyes widened. Aarav was sitting beside me giving me a genuine smile.

"Hi!" He greets me.

Omg!! Why do I feel like I just heard Aarav greeting me?

I snorted at my own imagination and looked towards Kaira who was busy eating her lunch to notice anything.

"Hello missy, I'm taking to you." Aarav says and I look at him with a frown.

And why is he talking to me after ignoring me for so long?

"Hey?" I greeted him back.

"I wanted to tell you something," he says and I nod my head at him asking him to continue. He looks down at his hands and takes a long breath and looks back up at me.

"ImreallyverysorryImisunderstoodyousocanwebefriendsagain?" He says in one go making me frown.

What the hell did he just say?

"What?"

"I said I'm sorry I misunderstood you, so can we be friends again?" He says and I let out a chuckle.

"Really? You're no angrier with me?" I ask wondering how can he forgive me so easily if I had treated his best friend so wrong. I even blamed him thinking he didn't tell me.

"Really!!" He says with a nod and a small smile playing on his lips.

"But even after I-"

"We both misunderstood Aria, you thought I was with Zain supporting his plan, which again isn't true, while on the other hand I thought you were at fault while in reality that witch Inaya is," he says and I realize Zain told everyone everything.

I nod my head and smiled. "You're forgiven." I say and Aarav's smile widens. He was about to say something when he saw Zain coming towards the table and his eyes were on us.

I saw a mischievous smile playing on Aarav's lips as he instead of saying something to me, he hugged me tightly. I was frozen shocked at that action. It was totally unexpected.

"Thank you so much for forgiving me," he says and breaks the hug but keeps his hand on my shoulder and faces Zain who was sending daggers in our direction.

I noticed his hand clenched hard on his phone as his jaw twitched. He looked angry. "Oh, hey Zain, I didn't see you there, when did you come?" Aarav asks innocently with his hand around my shoulders.

"Just now." Zain replies, his teeth greeting in anger as he looks at both of us with narrowed eyes.

I was confused as to why he looked so angry all of a sudden, but after noticing my and Aarav's closeness and his hands on my shoulders I realized Aarav was trying to make Zain jealous and it was working.

Zain looked jealous, and I don't know whether I should be happy about it or sad.

I was in my thoughts when Zain's phone pinged with a message. He looked down at his phone and his angry face was suddenly replaced by a smile. I frown wondering who was texting him.

"Why are you smiling so much? Is it Mishka?" Aarav asks.

"Who is Mishka?" Kaira asks looking up from her lunch towards the boys.

Abeer who was sitting beside Zain, looked at Aarav with a glare and then towards me with a look of pity in his eyes. Why is he giving me that look?

"Mishka is..." Aarav begins.

"A Friend. Just a friend." Varun informs narrowing his eyes at Aarav which clearly said 'shut up' and looked at me and offered me a small smile.

"A Friend?" Ahana asks with a frown. "How come I never heard her name before?" She asks.

"That's because I just met her yesterday." Zain answers her with a smirk and looks at me.

What is he playing at, looking at me like that?

Asshole.

"And Mishka? What type of name is that?" Varun says with a distaste in his voice as he looks at me and then at Zain.

"I know right, it's stupid name." Abeer agreed nodding at Varun and looking at Zain who just shrugged his arms.

"So? What did you two talk yesterday?" Aarav asks from beside me. And involuntarily my fist clenched hard.

Oh!! So, they two had a talk too yesterday!! Great!! Just Great!!

"Just stuff," Zain answers and looks at me and continues, "Some private stuff." He tells trying to get a reaction out of me.

Even if I felt like punching him with the fist, I've clenched so hard, I try taking deep breaths and smiled at him making him frown at my reaction.

"That's great, right Aria?" Aarav asks.

I gave him a tight smile. "Of course, it's great, I would like to meet her some time." I tell them while internally planning on ways to torture her once I see her.

"Oh, that's good because I've invited her for my birthday next week, you should definitely come." Zain tells me with narrowed eyes, not at all satisfied by my reaction.

If he was thinking I would run away crying, getting jealous of his 'whatever' relationship he has with this Mish..Mihsa...ughh...Milkshake, yes Milkshake girl then he has another thing coming. Even if I'm really really jealous, I won't show him.

"Sure, I'll be there." I inform him with one more tight smile making him look at me suspiciously.

That's right!! Be suspicious, because you don't even want to know what I'm gonna do to that Milkshake girl.

Let the fun begin Mr. Zian Ahuja.

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