Always Be My Forever 💗

Chapter 1

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Here is the first Chapter. Feel free to point out mistakes.

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"Look at her Murthy look at her, isn't she gorgeous?" chanted Aryamann in a daze from the row behind Nandini. Nandini rolled her eyes and looked at her best-estt friend, this Aryamann and his everyday muses. "Who is it this time Aryamann?" came her well versed and bored reply.

"Uff Murthy look up and see, does she have any competition around? It's her of course, I am talking about!" he replied still in what seemed like a trance. Nandini looked up. A girl was walking inside the classroom and looking around unsure of where to sit - she was a new entry in between the term of course, and to be fair, she was pretty. Well maybe not as ethereal as Aryamann thought, but beautiful indeed.

The girl who had just walked in was clad in a yellow crop top and dark blue high waist jeans. She had a pair of tiny studs in her ear and a thin silver bracelet clinging to her wrist. She had long shoulder length dark hair tied into half bun and her eyes were jet black. She looked a little confused for some reason and Nandini wondered why was she looking so flustered in a simple classroom?

Nandini was following every movement of this girl, as she finally found a only spot empty next to that nerdy guy from their class Dhruv. Dhruv didn't seem to notice that she was new, so he just looked up from his book and gave her a casual nod before getting back to his book. She smiled a little at him and at the same time Nandini heard Aryamann groan from behind, "Lucky Dhruv". And Nandini sighed another one. But its seemed he was really so smitten by this new girl .

"Just imagine what a perfect match we will be when we marry? She heard Aryamann's dreamy voice and scowled. Marriage already? Nandini wondered. But then she remembered how Aryamann was laughing and telling her while they were in the canteen a few days back, that Anu aunty, Aryamann's mother,had started hinting him on how he has grown up and had very less time left as a bachelor. Aryamann obviously wouldn't have an arrange marriage, so he was telling Nandini that he will have to "seriously" look for a girl now! So, after dating so many girls he was at last going to "seriously" date the girl. Nandini was surprised.

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When college got over for the day, Nandini and Aryamann were sprinting towards the gate happily, it was raining and rains were Nandini and Aryaman's favourite, they loved getting drenched in the rain while having kulfies outside their college and when they got very cold, they would drink tea from the chai-dada's cutting chai too! The mere sight of rain brought a huge grin on their faces, and they dashed toward the outdoors - Nandini was just about to step out holding Aryamann's hand when she felt Aryamann stop short. Surprised she turned around to see Aryamann looking outside and the same daze was back on his face - she didn't need to look out to see who he was looking at!

"Oh, she doesn't have an umbrella. She will get drenched. Oh dear she doesn't like it." He murmured and before Nandini could register what he was upto, Aryamann just left from there. Nandini stood there in annoyance as Aryamann strode past her and went towards the new girl, who was now taking shelter under the guards shade near the gate, looking thoroughly disgruntled.

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Alya was standing under the guards shade near the college main gate, but it wasn't helping, the wind was strong and the rain having caught on the wind, kept wetting her. She produced her cell phone from her bag and tried calling her daadi, so that she could arrange for her to be picked, but her phone battery was dead. She was new in the city and she didn't know the roads well, how was she going to go home now? She thought irritated.

"Hey you're okay right?" came a voice from behind. She quickly turned around to see a boy standing there. She recognized him from her class. He was tall and chiselled, he had wheatish complexion,bushy eyebrows and ruffled hair - his face wore a boyish expression and his attitude seemed friendly. Alya smiled. "Hello I am Arya" he spoke again with a flashing smile.

"Arya?" she replied confused, what kind of a name was that for a boy? Aryamann laughed seeing her confused expression and spoke again. "Hi, I am Aryamann. Aryamann Khurana, but my friends call me Arya. And you are?"

Alya smiled in understanding. "Um..hi Aryamann, I am Alya" she replied shyly. Aryamann's heart did an unmistakable tap-dance seeing that smile and hearing his full name in her voice, but he controlled himself and asked, "I know. You're the new girl in our class right? You seem a bit flustered, all good?"

When Alya told him her worry, Aryamann was only too happy to offer her a ride back home in his car. Alya, though unsure, she felt she could trust him, anyway what choice did she have? She agreed. Aryamann seemed like a nice guy, he chatted jovially throughout the time he drove, he made her comfortable, he laughed a lot, and by the end of the journey even she was laughing with him - Aryamann.

When Alya was getting off the car, Aryamann got out first and produced an umbrella from the boot of the car and rushed to open her door. She seemed surprised to see Aryamann holding out an umbrella for her. "You don't like rains nah?" he asked with a childish smile. She laughed and stuck out her tongue before responding, "Hate rains!"

"But you should see for yourself and know Alya, raindrops on roses look beautiful" he replied with a smirk. Alya raised an eyebrow in response. "What you don't believe me? Go before the mirror and check for yourself then!" and before Alya realized what he had said, he had swiftly said a goodbye and dashed to his car, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone.

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Nandini sat fuming on her hostel bed. That Aryamann, what did he even think of himself? He left her just like that for the new chick? Wasn't he supposed to drop her to her Guitar class today? And it was raining so hard! But he forgot everything. Now she was not going to talk to him, until and unless he got Anu aunty's handmade kheer for her in order to make up.

She was so annoyed that she decided to call up her elder cousin Navya di and vent. Her di stayed in Mumbai too, but Nandini was born an independent child, so even though she had flown down to Mumbai for her graduation from her hometown in Mangalore, she stayed separately in the hostel - ofcourse once in a while she would run to Navya di to gorge on her delicious payasam and chachi's Chole Bhature but mostly she stayed in the hostel

- Nandini's father was scientist in US, while her mother was HR in a renowned company. Their hometown being in Mangalore where her remaining paternal family stayed. But two years after Nandini's birth, her parents met with an accident and passed away and Nandini was brought to Mangalore.

Ever since then it was just Nandini and her grandmother Amms in Mangalore, her remaining paternal family i.e., Chacha chachi and her Navya di shifted to Mumbai due transfer of her chacha. They asked her grandmother Amms many times, to move back to Mumbai with Nandini, but she refused, she liked staying with Nandini in Mangalore where her all memories of her life lay.

But three years before Nandini had flown to Mumbai too, and now her Amms stayed alone in the Mangalore house, still refusing to relocate.

After the call and hearing her Navya di's antics she was feeling much better, she had laughed a lot, bless her Di, for being such a humorous woman she thought lovingly. She was about to go to bed when she received a text message.

10:39 PM [MURTHY I am in love. Her name is Alya, and I know where she stays!!]

Nandini saw the text and her irritation was back. Trust Aryamann to dampen her mood again! Huffed in anger she went off to bed, cursing that Alya chick and Aryamann.

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Next part has our hero's entry with chotusi meeting of our Majnu-Laila!!!(which is bit dramatic;) )

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Love,
Krishna 💙✨