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The Big Day

Myra
We have reached home safely. I am glad none of us died last night. I guess I am never going to another haunted house again. God alone knows how I managed to spend these many hours there. Anyways, I am taking a nice bubble bath after which I have to get ready for vicky's big day today. After a good one hour I step out of the bath tub and wear the bathrobe. I unpack a dress and ballerina shoes to wear for today. The schedule starts with breakfast at The Maze. I had called up Vivan when we were on our way to Bangalore to ask if he could come over and he said yes. I am so excited to see him. I am definitely going to tell him about our night spent in the haunted house. Also I am excited to see the bunch of new friends we made last night. Vivan's going to be jealous when he gets to know that we spent the night at a haunted house with six boys. He is really cute when he is jealous.

I pick up the dress and I find that it is too short. I wonder how a dress this short came in my bag. Then I realize that it is Zara's dress and that I have a similar one in my bag. I pick up zara's dress and head to her room which is just beside mine along with my dress. She is frantically removing everything from her bag and her face holds a worried expression. "Ahem," I faked a cough, "Looking for this?"

"Yes!" she said as a huge smile hung on her face while taking that dress from my hand.

"Please tell me that you're not wearing that today," I say with a puppy face.

"I am saving it for some other day. My mom gave this dress to me," she said folding it neatly. "Why do you ask?"

I showed her my dress. "Oh, it's similar to mine, yours is just too covering and mine is backless," she said.

"I know, and today I don't want to look similar to you," I told her.

"So Vivan is coming," she says looking at me with a grin as my head wont stop nodding. I dont know, I'm always like this when it comes to Vivan. Meeting him itself makes butterflies appear in my stomach. "By the way, you'll look pretty in that. I'd love to see Vivan's jaw drop after seeing you in that."

I roll my eyes at her and leave. I head to Vicky's room to see how she is doing. I find her wearing a hood which is thrice her size and shorts which are barely visible. She has a few chits of paper in her right hand and a huge bar of dark chocolate in her left hand. I see alisha sitting on her bed as she watches vicky walk to and fro in her room.

"She's not prepared," I ask alisha. She nods as she puts a chocolate in her mouth. I see baskets full of chocolates spread on her bed. I walked in and slide inside the covers beside Alisha and grabbed a Hershey. "From where did she get all of these?"

"They came as gifts," Alisha told me. "All were sent to her office to wish her congratulations and all the best and all."

"Lucky us, we get to eat these," I said popping the chocolates in my mouth.
"I'm going to mess it all up," Vicky said crashing on the bed.
"If only you make it to the office in time. Otherwise I guess you'll be absent on your own magazine's launch," Alisha said when all of us turned to the clock on my wall.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" She said as she got off the bed removed her dress which was neatly packed in a black cover.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," I said. "I'd go to the office, eat all that I can and then I would change there itself knowing how clumsy I am." It applies to both of us.
"Good idea," she said and then stared at me. "Are you coming in that bathrobe?"
"Is that even a question? Of course not," I said leaving her room to change.
I quickly get dressed. I think Alisha did an amazing thing by making me try a dress. I think I have started to like dresses. Also I love the way he just looked at me when I was wearing a dress. His expression was priceless.
After I got ready we all left. We reached her office in about 15 minutes and entered her cabin and kept her stuff. We then went to the library on the upper floor. That's where the launch will take place. On my left there's a huge table decorated with food items. From cupcakes to sandwiches, everything was available. I headed to those cute looking cupcakes with the frosting of a book's shape. I can see Vicky moving around frantically checking everything. I can say that the arrangements have been done exclusively elite class. Everything was tidy and cute. The bookshelves were decorated with white show pieces and ribbons and shells. There's a podium arranged in the centre with seats arranged in front of the same.
"Stuffing food, are we," said a familiar voice which made me choke on my cupcake. I grabbed a few tissues and covered my mouth and turned around knowing it was Vivian. "That's a lot of food in one mouth. By the way, you look stunning. I think we have to buy some more dresses for your wardrobe."
I rolled my eyes and then shook my head. This is not how I wanted to meet him today. He grabbed the tissues from my hand while I gulped everything down my throat. He carefully dabbed the tissues on my lips. "You are so adorable Frogmouth. Never ever change, okay?"
"Okay," I said with a smile.
"So the lovebirds have united," Alisha says as she picks up a glass of orange juice. I give her a glare.
"Hello Alisha," he says very formally for the first time and I know why.
"Okay, thank you for the surprise at goa," she said. That brought a satisfactory smirk on his face. "You made our first day very memorable."
"Pleasure," he said. She was about to leave when she turned around to face me, "This might be a day off from the trip or something, but, just so you know, we are still on our trip. Hope you know the rules." I nod at her reminder and she leaves. Vivian gives me a look but I ignore it.
It's fifteen to twenty minutes now and I don't see Vicky anywhere. "Are there any spare rooms anywhere. I mean she has three floors for her office there might be a spare room right. Even a store room is fine," he said.
"Excuse me?"
"Let's make out," he said.
"No."
"Please."
"No," I said. "Didn't you hear what Al said?"
"I did but I didn't know what she meant."
"Before we planned this trip we made rules. One of those was no boyfriends and no getting intimate. And as you heard, this is also a part of our trip. So I cannot make out with you," I whispered to him.
"I seriously hate your trip," he said leading me to the seats. I can see the paparazzi already settled. Still no sight of Vicky.
"I have to go find Vicky," I said and left him alone.