Conundrum 》ICT AU

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Jasprit was pacing around the room, his phone in his hand. Behind him Shruti was sitting on the couch, nibbling at her nails. Suddenly his phone rang, which he picked up. He just hummed at the other person before he said goodbye and cut the call, sitting next to Shruti on the couch.

"Well? What did your friend say? What's happening at school?" Shruti asked, holding his arm.

"They're doing nothing." Jasprit muttered, sighing out. "I don't know."

"That's good, right! It's great if they don't do anything. That's really great news for us, too! Why are you doubting this?" She cried out, looking at him with a smile.

"Because if there's anything I know about them, they don't do this. They're preparing for something big." Jasprit wondered out loud.

"Well it doesn't matter because it's all Meera's fault so it'll fall on her. Why should we care?" She shrugged, looking at him.

"And if Meera tells that you also took part in this entire fiasco, then? Do you know what will happen to you?" Jasprit forced out, dread in his voice. He couldn't think of any other outcome than being at their mercy and he hated it, truly. He couldn't just sit around and wait for the other shoe to drop, it was giving him too much anxiety to even think about it.

"Don't say that." She gasped out. "I don't want to think about it."

"Why did you even take part in this entire thing? What compelled you to do this? I just can't understand."

"It's because of you! You were in so much pain when Simran fucked you over and you were in pain everyday. I just couldn't see you go through that. I did it for you." She sobbed out, looking at him.

"I didn't ask you to do this for me, Shruti. I wanted you to be away from all this drama. They already fucked me over, I didn't want them to fuck you over as well. I wanted you to stay far away from that group but now, it's inevitable. They will find out and they will come after you." He muttered, tired of all this. He already faced this once with Simran and now he was facing this again with Shruti.

"It'll be okay, you are with me right?"

"Till the end of time, darling." He hugged her tightly. "Till the end of time."

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Bhuvi met Gia at the park near her house, her coming out with a shawl wrapped around her shoulders.

"When you said you had to talk to me urgently, I didn't think it would be at this very minute." Gia muttered out, looking at him. Bhuvi was sitting at the bench, his leg restlessly moving up and down. She went and sat down next to him.

"What's up? You look tensed." She said, turning towards him. She had been in the middle of dinner when he had called. She quickly just put a shawl over her pajamas and had come out, not wanting to make him wait.

"I have to tell you something." He muttered. "Though I'm scared it may ruin your relationship with Virat."

"Oh, really?" Gia wondered. "Tell me, it's okay."

"This threesome business, Nupur was the first one." Bhuvi said, looking at Gia's expressions. She leaned back and blinked at him before shaking her head.

"No, how, wait you're joking." She muttered out, looking at him and suddenly getting up. "Please tell me you're joking."

"I'm not." He shook his head and pulled Gia back to sit on the bench. "Why do you think I'll joke about my girlfriend? Gosh, I was as surprised as you and to think she didn't tell me this before."

"Huh." she muttered. "Atleast you told me, I'm afraid I would've been in the dark forever. Hell, I didn't even know about any of this until Meera told me." She shook her head, disappointment written all over her face.