TejRan : A Little Beyond Forever

Part-3

Disclaimer : All the characters written below are imaginary and a work of pure fiction. There is no resemblance to any incident or situation and is written as work of fiction.

They were walking back to their bus to go back to the hotel. The bus was parked a little away and they had to walk through a small lane which had small cafes on both sides. Teja looked at the cafe with a small pout. Nobody would wait for her if she went and bought a pastry. Such a sadist team.

There were vehicles going through that lane but did she care?clearly not. She did a dramatic sniff seeing a lady buying ice cream from one of the cafe. Nobody in the team even looked at the cafes. All they cared was going back to the bus.

Suddenly she felt a touch on her shoulder and before she could understand what was happening she was pushed a little away towards the side of the lane. She frowned at Karan as he did that and started to walk beside her without saying anything.

It took a few seconds for Teja to realise why he did that. He pushed Teja aside and started walking beside her to guard her from the vehicles that were moving. An instant smile adorned her face. How sweet of him.

"Look ahead and walk...." He said looking ahead.

Shit. How did he know that I was smiling at him?

"Kundrri tell me honestly you do not even feel like having a pastry?even after all the aroma of fresh cocoa that is hitting our noses from all the cafe?" She asked dramatically.

"Not really...." He looked at her and frowned.

"Sadist people...." She muttered and made a face.

"Oyeeee....nia aneri ruk...." He shouted as the others were a bit ahead of them.

All the guys stopped and looked back.

"Can we eat something?" He asked pointing at one of the cafe.

"Okay...." Nia shrugged as the entire team went to the cafe and Teja mouthed a small thank you to Karan.

He ordered for an iced tea and sat with aneri on one side and Ravi on the oher side.

Teja sat with Adaa and Nia and ordered coffee and pastry for herself.

They chatted and had their food and then walked back to the bus. Teja sat at the last row in the single seat and put on her earphones.

As the bus started she opened his profile on instagram and followed him. There was a circle around his profile picture so she quickly touched to view the stories. The latest story was about 2 minutes back with Ravi and Aneri. Aneri had her head on his shoulder and Teja frowned immediately. There were stories from the other places they had visited as well and everyone had featured in his stories atleast once. Everyone except her.

So basically he is a khadoos only with me?what the hell?

She smiled sadly. For some strange reason she felt bad. And she had absolutely no idea why. She kept her phone in the pocket and looked out of the window.

*****

Teja had freshened up after reaching the hotel and sat on the bed. She called her mother and spoke to her parents and switched on the TV and then got a notification on watsapp.

It was a message from Nishant in their team group. Everyone had decided to sit and chill in the private beach at the back of the resort.

She kept her phone away and surfed through the channels on TV. She had no mood to go downstairs. She felt like an outsider.

May be it is not only him but the others also didn't like her. May be even the others wanted to avoid her.

She could feel her chest a bit heavy and laid down on the bed and pulled the blanket over her.