Does Love Happen in Books?✅

The Unexpected Clash!

"Siddharth takes the ball forward to try to score a basket, along with his partner Adhiraj. And here Siddharth passes the ball to Reyansh who passes it to Uday. Adhiraj tries to block of some St Xavier's students while Dhruv gets a chance to bounce the ball and pass it back to Siddharth." The commentator says, noticing how the game was going.

"Over here!" Sid says, waving his hands in the air, focused on just one thing, the ball. He had to get the ball and score this basket. Dhruv looks up at Sid and passes the ball to him. Sid jumps in the air and catches the ball, dribbling it all the way to the end of the court, while his team members tried to defend the opposing team members from getting in his way.

Sid dunks and shoots the ball in the basket, winning the game for St.Xavier's college by 70-69. He closes his eyes as his team members come running towards him. He could hear the crowd cheering for him and that managed to settle down his own heartbeat. Sid could see Adhiraj glaring at him and walking away from him. He smiled watching the wannabe walk away from him.

He had never liked Adhiraj much for the simple fact that he tried to take over Siddharth's position in the team 'thinking he was able to give him competition. He imagines Soha his princess congratulating him and hugging him tightly while his eyes were closed. He opens his eyes and finds Reyansh asking him about where he is lost?.He nods in nowhere and hugs him while smiling sarcastically over Adhiraj who is always jealous of him.

The whole St.Xaviers collage broke into an uproar and ran towards the basketball court, eager to congratulate the basketball team. While Sid enjoyed his moment of glory, Adhiraj was busy getting angry inside the locker room.

"Damn you Siddharth!" Adhiraj yelled in anger, banging his fist against the locker.

Adhiraj hated Sid, not because he tired to always show him a downfall but because as much as Adhiraj had tried to become friends with him, he would always ignore him. Everyone else had said that Adhiraj and Sid acted as a team to make St.Xaviers college's name in the Basketball field but no one knew how actually things went around here.

For them, they only paid attention to what they were seeing, not actually going inside and feeling what was happening. It may have just been an ego problem between Sid and Adhiraj that may have acted up once in a while, but for it, it was just Sid's problem of taking a lead in everything that was eating him up!

For Siddharth, things were different. He didn't hold any grudge against Adhiraj but it just angered him with the fact that Adhiraj would try to interfere in everything he did, making comments about everything Sid did. Sometimes it just felt like a punishment to work with him on the same team, and have to act 'goodie-good' with him
As Adhiraj thought about what to do next, St.Xavier's college was having a blast to celebrate the happiness of winning the State Championships, 4th time in a row!

"And here comes our college's rockstars !" Mr. Banerjee proudly announces the basketball team's arrival.

Sid, Ray, Uday, Adhiraj and 6 other team members walk inside the college and are greeted by warm hugs from Xavier's students. While Siddharth is kissed on the cheeks by numerous girls, Adhiraj is greeted by hugs from the students. Uday and Ray are given high fives.

While the hallways were in an uproar to welcome the basketball team, the college geek, also known as Nikhil Oberoi made his way to the library, ignoring all the chatter, and laughter and the noise. He wasn't a noisy person, more of a bookworm many would have described him. A part of him, even plugged his ears to avoid the noise while he walked to the library.

"I'll never understand why the college is in such an uproar about winning a basketball match. The debate team never gets this kind of a welcome when they come, even though I never want one anyways." Nick says to himself.