Agar tum saath ho

Rumour Rampant

Aashika's POV:

I woke up the next morning to find Harry, Ro, Vi and all the others looking at me as if I were an alien. I got up from the bed, saying nothing as there was already silence in the room. Knowing me, I must have done something yesterday which I don't remember. There was still silence when when I entered. That pissed me as I was sure that something is fishy.

Harry gave me a cup of coffee and asked Me to sit. Then rahul began.....

Rahul: Aashu, Do you remember what you did last night?

Me: I don't remember. I just know that I felt dizzy after drinking the soda yesterday. Why?
I asked casually, sipping my coffee.

Then, vi and ro narrated everything that happened. And showed me the video.

On the video, it seemed the I kissed harry and he hugged me back.....but in reality, he was just helping me. It was clearly edited. Me and harry both were seen in that video but not very clearly as it had been taken from a distance. Also, it seemed that even Harry was drunk.

I felt so stupid that I shrieked my lungs out telling harry those feelings which I myself wasn't sure about.

Harry: And you also didn't let me sleep yesterday. You were murmuring something the whole night and I have to call vi and put you to sleep. Khud toh soyi nahi, mujhe bhi nahi sone diya😏😏 (You yourself didn't sleep and didn't let me sleep either😏😏)

Ro: Shut up harry....it's serious. You said u didn't drink any alcoholic thing yesterday. Then what was all that you did in the bar??

Me: bhai I just had a normal club soda. Just that.....I don't........

And just then, Virat's phone rang

Vi: hello?...... Yea, but how did it happen? I told you to keep a check on people there and that ni one should take any photo or video right? Now do anything, I don't care. Just take the video down

He was angry by then.

My phone buzzed too. Out was a text from sona, saying 'call me as saalon as you get up... have been trying to contact you since ages. It's urgent'

I opened my contact tab and saw that there were 13 missed calls from mom since yesterday so I decided to call her first.
She picked up after 2 rings.

Me: maa? Hello
Mom: Aashu, what is all this? Have you seen the news? There are rumours everywhere. You better justify your act and get out of this crap. Understand?

I was in tears. I couldn't imagine her being this angry on me ever in my life.

I asked rahul to pit on the news channel on tv. We saw a video, captioned "ICT SPOTTED AT A CLUB."

I changed the channel to see the same video, captioned "INDIAN CRICKETER HARDIK PANDYA IN A RELATIONSHIP?

I opened my twitter and the video again. I scrolled down to read comments. There were all negative comments, not only about me but also about the whole team, especially harry. I felt guilty.

Jassi: see, I told you vo insaan video hi Bana raha tha. (I told you the person was making a video)

I called mom again and narrated everything. She seemed calm now. She told me that she and the whole family had my back and that they trusted me and not some stupid edited video. This made me smile a little. In the end she told me not to worry as the video wasn't there on the sote now and that not many people saw it in India there. So I had relief.

After the call ended, vi told me that the video was down after many tries by our team.

Harry: Par ab Kya? Video toh ho gaya yahan viral. (What's the use now as the video is already viral here)