𝑯𝑰𝑫𝑫𝑬𝑵 ~ ShiVi

CHAPTER 4 - FIRST DATE

ɴᴇxᴛ ᴅᴀʏ

ʀᴀᴀᴠɪ's ᴘᴏᴠ

I'm again late for my classes. I look at the whole class. Everyone is present except Shiva. I know he doesn't attends classes often but I have to meet him again and I have to find out the truth. There's definitely something he is hiding, hiding from everyone.

The bell rang informing it's the lunch break. I rush out of my class to find him. I look for him almost everywhere and finally give up. I enter the canteen and as soon as I head to the counter, a tall figure bumps to me. "Oh, sorry", I hear a very familiar voice, the voice I was searching for. I look up and see it's Shiva. He is wearing a blue checkered shirt and jeans. He looks so simple yet so good. Despite what I saw yesterday, he seems to be fresh. He looks at the ground not making an eye contact. I feel my cheeks forming pink blush. I somehow snap myself out of my thoughts and look upto his left arm but unable to see as it's covered with the sleeves of his shirt. I step forward to see his eyes. The eyes are slightly red but somehow sleepy. He had bags under his eyes.

"Wh- what are you doing?", He says nervously. Which makes me realise that I've stepped too much closer. I step backwards , embarrassed, and look at the the surroundings where almost everyone is looking at us. 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕........

"Um- can we please talk for a minute?", I ask hopefully making an eye contact. He hesitates at first but then nods. "Thanks.", I said smiling. I hold his hands and take him out of the canteen not looking back because I know everyone is looking at us.

I take him to the park and head to the bench at the very end of the park which is far away from the crowd. "So what do you need?", He asks. "We can talk after you take a seat". He sits on the right side of the bench and I sit beside him, there's not much gap between us.

"A- are you okay?", I ask hesitantly. "Yeah of- ofcourse I'm! What can be so wrong?", He says, again not making an eye contact. I stay quiet and and look at him with a hope. "Hey, you can share with me. I wo- I won't mind. I can help you", I say after few minutes of silence. For a moment he looks at me as if he'll break out with tears. "I don't have anything to share", Shiva says which makes me a little bit sad. "Oh okay! So, how's your hand?". "It's okay". "Just okay?". "Hmm". And we sit there for few minutes in silence.

sʜɪᴠᴀ's ᴘᴏᴠ

We're still on the park. It's absolutely empty which means the break is over and classes have started. Raavi still didn't go back to the class which surprises me as she always attends classes. She is very serious about her study and future.

"So...... You ....... You wanna hang out?", She says nervously. I loot at her in amusement. "You want to hang out with me?", I ask sounding surprised. "Yeah what's wrong with that?". "And what will everyone think about you? You'll be hanging out with a boy who failer, uneducated and a loser?", I say sarcastically. She looks at me with surprise first and then speaks, "Well, first of all I don't care what someone thinks about you or me and who are they even?". Her words makes my heart flatter. "Just tell me you wanna hang out or not, ignore what other people says. They're useless!". I nod hiding the blush that's forming on my cheeks and the smile forming on my lips. "Good! So let's meet at 5:30?", She says with a huge grin. "Sure. I'll pick you up then". "That's great! See ya at 5:30". She gives me a smile and leaves.

I have never thought that she would hang out with me anyday. It's like a dream. I've always wanted but who could even think that the most beautiful girl of the college would ever hang out with me. I can't stop smiling. I don't know for how long these moments will stay for but I'll enjoy the most of it.

ᴘᴏᴠ ᴇɴᴅ

- - -

5:15 ᴘᴍ

"Raavi what are you doing?", Anita asks as she enters Raavi's room. "Finally you're here! Please tell me I'm looking good in this", Raavi says with excitement. She was wearing a white off-shoulder crop top and a yellow lengthy skirt with her hair tied with a yellow flower clip. She was looking elegant in that attire. "You're looking very pretty Raavi", Anita says smiling. "Thank you Anitadi. I was really confused". "So where you going huh? A date?", Anita says while bumping Raavi's shoulder and a smirk. "It's not a date. We- we're just hanging out. He is just a friend", Raavi says nervously. "Oh he! Great! Who is he by the way?", Anita asks excitedly. "Umm..... It's..... It's Shiva!". "Shiva, as in Shiva Panyda?". "Yeah!". "Woah great. Enjoy loads!", Anita says happily making Raavi blush.

sʜɪᴠᴀ's ᴘᴏᴠ

I leave my house without making a noise. I don't want anyone to know or interfere. As soon as I reach Raavi's house I already see her standing outside, waiting. "You're 6 minutes late!", She says with a tone of anger. "Sorry. It took me a while to reach here", I say smiling. She looks really pretty, like a princess. Her light brown eyes sparkling bright like stars in the sky. I can't help but smile. She sits on the back of my bike, holding my shoulder. I can feel my heart beating fast.

"So where do you wanna go?", I ask. "Umm...", She thinks for a while then speaks "what about ice cream?". "As you say". I take the longest way to the ice cream parlor because I don't want this moment to end. Suddenly a speed hump comes and I push the break of my bike which makes Raavi clung closer to me. I feel her warm breath on my neck, butterflies invading my stomach. "S- sorry! I didn't notice that", I say nervously which makes Raavi move backwards. "It's okay".

We ride our aay through the ice cream parlor. I park my bike on the parking lot. We enter the parlor and head towards the counter to order. She keeps looking at the flavours, a confusion forming in her face. "Confused?", I say chuckling. "Why don't you take Dutch Chocolate and I'll just try pistachio", I offer. "That's great!". "Yeah so one Dutch Chocolate for her and one Pistachio for me", I give the order and we take a seat. "How do you know that it's my favorite flavour?", She says with a large grin on her face which makes me nervous. "Uh well... I just guessed it", I lie. I can't let her know that I've seen her several times eating that. I know it's her favourite. She'll probably think I'm a stalker which I'm not.

The waiter served the ice creams to us. While eating I notice there's a small trace of ice cream left on her nose which looks really cute on her. I can't help but lean forward to her and clean it with my thumb. She looks at my eyes for a moment and we make an aye contact before she gasps and that makes me move backwards. "Umm... Sorry it was just this....", I say being nervous. "It's okay", she says while blushing.

After that we wander through the city and finally at 9:00 I drop her at home. "Bye", she says.

"Bye".

"It was great hanging out with you".

"For me too".

"Thanks for taking my request".

"Yeah well my pleasure".

"We can hangout tomorrow too?"

"Sure".

ᴘᴏᴠ ᴇɴᴅ

- - -

And it was their first date. And finally Shiva was happy after long and it was her.

𝑯𝒆𝒚 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑳𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍. 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ❤︎