KariLa One Shots

8 - The Bench

Special Changes: Veyoshma are friends, in 12th std, KarEena are sisters

Extra Characters: Shreya (Veyoshma's Friend)

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Narrator's POV:

Veyom was sitting on a bench outside the school campus, looking through his phone, when the sound of two girls bickering reached his ears. He didn't bother looking up from his phone because there were only two girls who came to this quiet area of the college and they could never stop fighting.

He waited for them to sit down and get louder before finally interrupting. This wasn't new. He tapped the girl nearest to him and she replied with a 'Oh, hi' before turning back to the other one and shouting insults.

VS: Ohh, what do you mean oh, hi? Ek baar aur tumko chillate huye suna toh kaan ke parde phat jaayenge hamare!

S: Haan toh phatne do, par isko toh main chodungi nahi-

With that, the bickering continued until Veyom had to cover his ears and use up all the oxygen in his body to shout over them. I repeat, they were loud.

VS: Bass bhi karo tum dono! Kis baat ka jhagda horaha hai bhai, hume bhi batao zara

KS: Are humko kaahe puch rahe ho, iss Shreya ko bolo har baar merepe jhootha ilzaam na lagaye

S: Accha main laga rahi hoon jhootha ilzaam?! Khud lecture ke waqt pata nahi kiske sapne dekhti rehti hai, aur maine galti se muskura kya diya-

VS: BASSS! Shaant hojaao meri maaon! Ab ek shabd aur nikla muh se toh abhi jaake tum dono ke saare karnaame ma'am ko bata denge

KS: Tumko bola koi beechme ghusne ka? Nahi naa. Toh kaahe bole tum?

S: Wahi naa, jab dekho dusron ke maamle mein naak ghusata rehta hai

Veyom looked at them in disbelief while Karishma and Shreya continued talking. Maybe this shouldn't have been surprising. Veyom pulled out his earphones and plugged them in, letting them talk about all the nonsense in the world.

Veyom's POV:

I tapped my foot to the music and stole a glance at Shreya and Karishma still talking. Oh how thankful I was that I couldn't hear them.

And now my thoughts can jinx stuff too, great.

Just as I was thinking this, one earphone fell out of my ear and I caught a few words of their conversation. Being the idiot I am, instead of letting myself live in peace by putting the earphone back in, I kept it out and listened to them.

KS: I don't like him, okay? Kuch nahi hai hamare beech

Of course I knew she was talking about me. No, seriously, I'm not bragging about myself being the hottest boy in our year (which I am), but there was this huge thing going on that made everyone think we were together.

But we're not. I sware I don't like her, bhai ki kasam. What? Mummy ki jaan pyaari hai hume, bhai marega toh ghar mein shaanti bani rahegi 🙄

S: Ohho ho, saamne hai tab 'I don't like him' aur peeth peeche uske 257 posts ko screenshot karna

She- whaaaat?! Wait, I didn't post any embarrassing pictures, right?

I unlocked my phone and began closely inspecting each and every Instagram post of mine.

Why was I even concerned about this? She's known me for two years. She's been following me for almost a year. We're friends. That's it.

Right, you weren't the one who literally drooled onto your desk two days ago seeing her with open hair.