Heartbeats And Halos

Chapter 3

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The next day as soon as Diya and Trisha Masi came we three sisters went out just after Breakfast to shop, explore, eat, and catch up. Also, tomorrow was Mahashivratri, yes the same day Roshan and his family would be coming. There will be a big puja at home. Alot of people were invited like business associates, close friends and relatives. So we needed to shop for tomorrow as well.

It was very very hot outside. Luckily this time I was wearing a simple white kurti, with trousers and I paired it with my colorful dupatta which was lighter than the outfit I wore last time, Ragini was wearing a cream-colored salwar suit and Diya wore a pink colored suit.

"So from where do we start?" I asked my sisters. We were currently seated in an auto.

"Are you guys hungry?" Ragini asked.

"We just had breakfast." I reminded her. Knowing Ragini I knew how big of a foodie she was. Not to mention her toxic relationship with fastfood.

But the crazy thing was that no matter how much she ate she never got fat. She doesn't even work out. God knows how she maintains her slim trim figure.

"If you count one omelet with a piece of bread as breakfast then yes we did." She commented mockingly and I simply rolled my eyes.

"I am quite hungry actually. Let's eat first?" Diya said this time.

"See at least someone shares my mindset," Ragini smirked.

"Fine, but we'll eat Pani puri first and then anything else," I ordered. Golgappe was absolutely my most favorite thing in the world. I swear I could eat it for Breakfast, lunch, and dinner and wouldn't get tired.

"You got it. Lucky for you we share your love for Pani puri too." Ragini chuckled and Diya just shook her head amused. She was one year younger than us so she was twenty-three.

"Did you call Atharv? He was supposed to meet us near the women's University." I asked Ragini as we got out of the auto and started walking towards a Pani Puri stall.

"Nope, I forgot." She replied pretending to be uninterested.

"But I reminded you like thrice." I retreated in utter disbelief.

"Who's that?" Diya asked looking between Ragini and me.

"It's Palak's dumb best friend." Ragini rolled her eyes and I gave her a 'seriously?' look.

"Come on you can't hate him forever just because he----" but she didn't let me finish.

"Whatever, why don't you just call that idiot now? It's not like he is busy running a country or something. He is twenty-four and still unemployed. He's free like the whole day." Ragini said dryly. Well well, she wasn't very fond of my best friend. A whole story is behind that though.

"That's so not true. And he is a medical student for god's sake. Currently doing his specialisation. That's not considered being unemployed. You would know if you ever studied economics seriously." I replied defending my best friend and taunting Ragini.

"I had science and not arts or commerce in twelfth. How am I supposed to know?" She said in her defense.

"You don't need to have economics in twelfth for that. Unemployment was in class ninth itself and perhaps isn't it like common sense?" Diya mocked her this time.

Both of us laughed and Ragini just pouted.

"Whatever I hated social science anyway." She muttered walking ahead of us now. I shook my head and looked at Diya. Our eyes were following Ragini who'd gotten quite far by then.