Armaan shouted in anger and said “bas”. Everyone looked at him. They saw anger on his face. Riddhima gulped down her saliva when she saw anger on his face and now she was wondering what would happen to her. Who would save her from his anger? Armaan started walking towards riddhima, the anger in armaan’s eyes was scaring her to death. Armaan held her shoulder’s from both side, pulled her towards himself, and said, “You know I don’t like to hear a no. I asked you to trust me didn’t I?” Riddhima saw the anger in his eyes, which was scaring her, and after he said this, armaan left riddhima with a jerk. He left the room, no one uttered a word after he left, and there was pin drop silence in the room. He came back with a dress in his hand. He walked towards riddhima held her hand and placed the dress in her hands. He said “Take this and get ready fast. No if’s and but’s we are waiting downstairs”. He looked at boys and gestured them to leave the room, which they did. Before leaving armaan looked at muskaan and gestured her to stay back. Muskaan nodded her head in agreement. When armaan left the room, muskaan went and locked the room.
The moment armaan left the room riddhima sighed and said “What does he think of himself”. Nikki answered her immediately “Your best friend”. Muskaan giggled after she heard this. Riddhima pondered over it for a second and then realized what nikki was trying to say. “Fine but that doesn’t mean he will dominate me like this” riddhima said. Muskaan’s replied back “Since childhood you have always followed him so obviously now it has become a habit to dominate you”. Nikki and muskaan hi fived each other where as riddhima was getting irritated with their constant tease. Nikki in her mind said ‘don’t know when will my two idiot friends will realize that they like each other if not love yet. They don’t notice anyone else when they are together. They can’t hear anyone else saying anything bad about the other person but they themselves can say bad about each other. Please god give them some brains to realize this’. Before nikki could continue thinking further she was brought back to reality by muskaan who was tapping her shoulder.
“Oye where are you lost madam? Lets go and help ridzy in getting ready” said muskaan and Nikki just nodded her head. Riddhima was constantly blabbering in between when they were helping, about how short the dress was and how would she manage this dress, how uncomfortable she was feeling etc etc. She kept irritating muskaan and nikki with her constant negative talk about the dress. Mean while down stairs boys were having their own conversation. “Yaar we are in second year of college and I still don’t have a girlfriend isn’t it sad” whined Abhimanyu where as armaan and Rahul giggled. Seeing them giggling he continued, “You find this funny? Anyway forget Rahul, armaan you had many girlfriends didn’t you?” Rahul instantly said, “What do you mean forget Rahul? I’ll get back to you later. But, yes I agree in school girls used to run behind him and now in college also”. “Yes but I was never serious about them you guys know it” said armaan instantly. After getting no response, he continued speaking “Anyway it always used to be fun spreading rumours about us going on dates”. Rahul instantly said, “I know this used to give us a cool status”. Both armaan and abhimanyu nodded their head.
Before they could continue their conversation, atul and anjali came. “Hey what are you guys doing?” asked anjali. “Nothing Bhabhi as usual waiting for girls” said abhimanyu while other two giggled. “Bhabhi why girls take time to get ready?” asked armaan only to get a smack on his shoulder. “Ouch” said armaan with a frown. “Acha leave all this and tell where are you guys going?” asked atul. “We are going to disco bhaiya,”replied Rahul. Armaan immediately said, “Do you know bhabhi everyone’s favourite was wearing salwaar suit for disco. I scolded her and gave her your party clothes,” said armaan. “What you scolded her” exclaimed anjali while hitting armaan on his shoulder. “Ouch bhabhi bas bhai bachao Na” whined armaan. Atul shook his head saying he won’t help him and said “why did you scold her? You should have explained her rather than shouting at her” Said atul. Now armaan was getting irritated firstly, his bhabhi was hitting him for riddhima and secondly his brother was also supporting her.
“Firstly stop hitting me Bhabhi it hurts and secondly why are you supporting her? Do you have some hearing problem Bhabhi Rahul just said we are going to disco not for some pooja” armaan stressed upon the word disco. He was shocked hearing atul and anjali’s answer as both said together “toh”. Now this was height “toh you guys amaze me we are going to disco not for some Pooja that she can wear salwaar suit it wouldn’t look good” armaan said as a matter of fact. He thought may be now they would understand him. “Toh let her wear what she wants to” said anjali and armaan shook his head. He thought ‘in logo ko kuch bhi bolna matlab apna sir deewar par podhne ke barabar hai mien kyun bhool jata hoon yeh log toh ussi ki side lenge bachpan se hi aise hote aa raha hai. Waise jab miene vo dress dekhi thi toh kyun mera maan chahta tha ki voh yeh dress pehne’. Before he could continue thinking, further he heard muskaan saying.
“Yaar armaan riddhima doesn’t wants to come down now” said muskaan. Before armaan or anyone else could ask the reason nikki came from behind and said “she is continuously blabbering the dress is tight and short”. Hearing this armaan smiled and said “wait I’ll check”. He started walking towards the stairs. While he was climbling the stairs he heard anjali shouting “hey ammy if you scold her then be prepared to face the consequences got it”. Before he could reply, atul said “If you scold her I’ll complain to dad then, do think about it”. Hearing this armaan replied, “fine I won’t scold your favourite, I’ll explain her with patience”. He started walking towards his room, thought ‘Is this my family or hers? Why everyone starts scolding me whenever I say something to their favourite. If bhaiya complains to dad then he’ll also scold me along with a lecture. Nevertheless, what was my fault in all this? She was not listening to anyone I had no option but to shout’ He reached his room and without waiting for a second he opened the door. He was stunned seeing the sight infont of him.
He looked at riddhima who was looking superbly amazing in the dress. She was wearing a yellow T-shirt and a denim skirt that was ending bit above her knee. He had to admit she was looking very beautiful. Riddhima on the other hand was having butterflies in her stomach under his intense gaze. She was having a mixed feeling that included fear and shyness. She was feeling all the emotions at one go and was trying to pull her skirt down as if it was possible. When she realized armaan wasn’t speaking anything so, to break his gaze she said “ar arma armaan”. This broke his gaze. He came back to reality and realized what he was doing. ‘yeh mujhe kya ho raha hai’. He said “you are looking very beautiful”.He realized what he said, he kicked himself for saying this but then thought ‘mien yeh toh nahiin bolna chahta tha phir kyun mere mooh se yeh nikla’.
Riddhima blushed, her cheeks went red, it would have been visible to armaan only if he wasn’t in his own thoughts. “Thanks” she said and this brought armaan again back to reality. “Ab chale” he asked hoping she would not create further issues because it would be hard for him to control his anger now and he had already received a threat from his brother and bhabhi. Hearing the word ‘chale’ she got scared she has never been in such dress infront of them how will she face them? Armaan saw her hesitation and sighed he knows he had to calmly make her understand because he didn’t wanted to scare her nor wanted to face the punishment. He walked towards her slowly which was scaring riddhima but, tried to pretend she was normal. He stood infront of riddhima, unknowingly he was too close to her. Riddhima could feel his hot breath on her face she didn’t know why but a shiver ran down her spine. She closed her eyes where as armaan forgot what he had to say instead he kept on staring her. Though her eyes were closed, he thought ‘she looks like an angel’. Armaan saw her hairs were coming infront of her face which was disturbing her so, unknowingly his hands went up to her hair and he tucked it behind her ears. Riddhima felt something but couldn’t pin point what. Before armaan could think, further he heard a voice. “Abe kaha marr gaye tum dono”. Armaan recognised it was rahul’s voice; this brought him back to reality. This also brought riddhima back to reality.
“Riddhima chale late ho rahe hain” said armaan. Seeing her hesitant armaan asked her “what happened basket what’s bothering you”. Riddhima looked into his eyes and said “I have never worn such party clothes before just feeling nervous”. Hearing this he smiled and said “Basket don’t feel nervous trust me you look beautiful”. This made riddhima feel good. She wanted to wear these kind of clothes just once to see how she looks but her inner fears were stopping her.
“You always solve my problem you are my bestest friend” riddhima said. Armaan wanted to change the serious atmosphere said “bestest jaise koi word nahiin hai”. Riddhima smiled as if she was waiting for him to say this “I know that but like bestest is not a word even our friendship cannot be described in words. The day bestest becomes a word there will be a word to describe our friendship also”. Hearing this armaan couldn’t believe his ears. He was feeling at the top of his world. True their friendship cannot be described in words. “Aaawww I love you basket” said armaan while hugging her she too hugged him back while saying “love you too”.
“If anyone hears this then we will be termed as girlfriend boyfriend,” said armaan and both started laughing at this. “I know everyone in college feels it, I don’t get it are they blind or what? Why don’t they test their eyes?” asked riddhima. Armaan replied, “I am sure one day they will get it tested, the day I have a girlfriend”. “That day they will not have time to get their eyes tested because they would have died of shock by then” riddhima said and again they started laughing. They heard a voice “what are you guys doing?” They recognized it was muskaan’s voice. This time both together said “shit”. They realized they were supposed to go down and not chit chat standing here. They both wanted to run but couldn’t because riddhima who was on heels, she couldn’t run, what if she slipped. Therefore, they walked fast towards the hall. When they reached down, they saw atul and anjali were also dressed. Armaan riddhima looked at them with confused faces. “Don’t stare like this we are also coming,” said atul and armaan nodded. They all went in two cars one driven by armaan another by atul. In armaan’s car, Rahul was sitting next to him where as riddhima and muskaan were sitting behind. In atul’s car, atul and abhimanyu were sitting in front where as anjali and nikki were sitting behind.
In armaan’s car, muskaan whispered in riddhima’s ears “what two of you were doing in the room?” Hearing this riddhima thought ‘yaar aren’t they tired teasing us. Why don’t they get it there is nothing between armaan and me, firstly I have to get their eyes tested then other’. Muskaan shook riddhima that broke riddhima’s thoughts. She looked at muskaan and whispered, “When will you stop teasing?”Muskaan whispered “never” and giggled. Her giggles were audible till the front seat so Rahul asked “even tell us the joke so that we can also laugh”. Armaan also added “aur nahiin toh kya hume bhi hasna hai joke per”. “Koi joke nahiin tha” said riddhima and glared at muskaan as if telling her to agree with her. “Hain koi joke nahiin tha hum toh bas aise hi” said muskaan after seeing riddhima’s glare. Soon they all reached the disco.
While entering, guards were stamping peoples hand and then they were allowed to enter. When riddhima’s turn came she said, “Yuck I won’t get my hand stamped”. Armaan who was standing behind her gave a nervous smile to the guard who was looking at riddhima with raised eyebrows. Armaan held her hand and forward it to the guard who stamped it, after that armaan gave him his hand. Once they were done, riddhima asked him “why did you give him my hand? now this mark will not go so easily”. Hearing this armaan smiled and replied, “It will go. Don’t look at me like that I am experienced in it as I keep coming to disco. Have you seen any mark on my hand ever?” They started walking towards the area where others were already sitting. Meanwhile riddhima thought ‘till date I have never noticed it how will I know if the mark was there or not? Idiot he is’.
Armaan who had already sat down looked at riddhima with confused face. “What happened basket? Sit down”. Instead of sitting down, she was pulling her skirt little more down. “Oye ridzy kitna neeche karegi uttar hi jaygi” said muskaan and everyone started laughing. “Riddhima sit yaar” said nikki. Riddhima in return said, “No I am fine”. Armaan was now getting irritated so he held her hand and pulled her down. He said “basket your dress is the longest here just look around and see”.
Hearing this, riddhima looked around and found her dress was actually more appropriate than others present over here. She looked back at him and smiled. Muskaan suddenly said “dance floor pe chale”. Every one nodded their head in agreement and went towards the dance floor. They were all standing in a circle and dancing on the tunes played by the DJ. Armaan and riddhima were standing next to each other. Riddhima while dancing slipped and was about to fall when armaan held her. They both looked into each other’s eyes for few seconds before breaking their eye lock session. “You fine baby” asked anjali and she nodded her head. She was about to reply ‘I am not baby’ but armaan asked her “do you want to sit for sometime”. Riddhima shook her head conveying ‘no’. They all started dancing again. Suddenly music changed and slow started playing they had no option but to dance slowly. Atul and anjali were dancing together for them this was a perfect song to dance on they were happy. Others were clueless what to do so they just kept dancing together. Abhi nikki, muskaan Rahul, and armaan riddhima were dancing together.
Nikki was blushing while dancing with abhi it was a dream come true for her. On the other hand Rahul was feeling very happy he knew he likes muskaan but never had the courage to tell her. He was enjoying dancing with her. Atul and anjali were in their own dreamland and enjoying their close dance moments. Armaan and riddhima were dancing together but there was an unknown feeling that existed between them but couldn’t pin point what were these new feelings. They were staring into each other’s eyes. Armaans one hand was circled around riddhima’s tiny waist and his other hand held riddhima’s one hand in air. Riddhima’s left hand that was free was on armaan’s left shoulder. Armaan was having a feeling to hold her tight bring her more close to him but he couldn’t understand why he wanted this. Riddhima on the other hand was completely lost in armaan’s blue eyes. ‘People tease me that I am armaan’s girlfriend that why I am feeling these weird feelings?’ Before she could think, further, the song was changed and some rock music started playing.
Riddhima felt someone is looking at her so, she turned around to look if what she felt was right or not. But she was right indeed someone was starring at her. She was feeling weird with his gaze so she held arman’s hand tightly. Armaan looked at riddhima, he saw her looking some where when he followed her gaze he found a drunken guy was looking at riddhima. He felt anger rising inside him he did not liked the way that guy was looking at riddhima. Without a word, he went towards that guy and hit him hard on his stomach. Others who were busy dancing looked towards them. “Armaan what are you doing?” asked atul. Armaan immediately replied “bhaiya he was starring at riddhima”. Atul does not require anymore explanation he understood what armaan meant by saying starring so, he said “What he was starring at riddhima? Then why have you punched him just once punch him more and you two [looked towards rahul and abhimanyu] why are you still standing here? Go and help armaan”. They nodded their head and went to hit that guy.
Armaan was still not satisfied with this much of punching so, he continued hitting that guy. All he could think was how dare he looked at riddhima like that. Blood started coming out from that person’s mouth but still armaan didn’t stopped. He kept on hitting him so, Rahul and abhimanyu stopped him by holding his hand and that guy ran from there. Armaan freed his hand from them and ran his hand in his hair. He turned around to look at riddhima, he saw tears in her eyes. He did not know why but it always pained him whenever he saw tears in her eyes. He walked towards her and held her hand. He started walking towards the exit and rest of them followed armaan. They were driving back to the house when armaan saw riddhma’s dull and pale face. He couldn’t see her like this so he turned the car’s direction and thought to change riddhima’s mood and bring her smile back in His Way.
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