Just you and me

Clay

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Mahi entered his apartment with a smile resting on his face unknowingly.
"Cheeku?" He called his brother.

Rohit and Virat immediately came out of their bubble. A slight pink hue was seen on their cheeks as they settled back in their original places. The air seemed to be tightening around them as they looked at each other awkwardly.
"Cheeku?" Rohit laughed as Virat shooed him with his finger.
"I will go greet my brother. You clean this up." He ordered Rohit.
"Ok Cheeku. The name suits you." Rohit teased a retreating Virat who blushed harder.

"Yes bhai?" Virat asked his brother
"Did you bathe in glitter?" Mahi asked looking at his brothers disheveled condition
"Did you go to a bar?" Virat questioned
"No." They both simultaneously answered

"Then why are you covered in glitter?" Mahi was confused
"Then why are you smiling if you are not drunk?" Virat was shocked
Mahi quickly composed himself again. While Virat tried to dust off as much glitter as possible. The silence didn't last long as Mahi saw a figure arriving from Virat's room.

Rohit looked at the mess around him when Virat had exited the room. He felt it was too much for one person to clean up. So naturally, he didn't even try. He thought he should meet the man whose house he had visited. So putting on his best smile he went in the living room.

"Bhai, this is Rohit." Virat introduced on seeing Rohit arrive .
"The little rascal who locked you in the washroom." Mahi said stepping towards Rohit to intimidate him.
Though Rohit himself was strong and very well built but Mahi still had a bigger aura than him. He easily hovered over a scared Ro as he threw daggers with his eyes. Rohit gulped as Mahi was way too close and it felt like he was going to thrash him any second.

"No. No." Virat said pushing his brother. He stood like a wall between Rohit and Mahi as he protected him.
"That was a misunderstanding. He is now my friend." Virat explained as he silently nudged Rohit to break his fast of silence.
"Hello sir." Rohit stuttered
He was so nervous that it seemed like he was asking Virat's hand in marriage from his strict father.

"It's good that I didn't get you rusticated then." Mahi smirked
"You what-" Rohit was not sure if he had heard it right
"Nothing. Just his practical jokes. Hahaha." Virat covered up giving a side eye to his brother

Virat pushed Rohit inside his bedroom before his brother could threaten him more. They put the final touches in their project and then cleaned the room together. Surprisingly, the mess didn't seem that much when Virat was ordering him to clean it. Rohit wondered why.

Scenes at Rishabh's house were very different. He was pacing around in his background while frantically typing out curse words on his phone. He was trying to kill Kul through texts because he was late. Kul was offline and was not responding to any text of his. Rishabh cursed his luck.

He had gone a different way on the project and had decided to use a 3-D model to depict the thesis. He was going to use clay to make it. The idea had seemed simple but the execution was not. The clay simply was not listening to him and not moulding the way he wanted to. He stomped his feet in frustration as he threw the lump of clay with all his power.

"Ouch." Rishabh exclaimed as something like a rock hit his back. He turned around to find it was the same lump of clay.
"Keep you litter in you house." Shreyas exclaimed as Rishabh looked at him embarrassed as he had no idea that it had landed in his neighbour's backyard.

"Why are you sulking? You look even more ugly when you make that face." Shreyas asked as he hoped the hedge between their houses.
"I am not able to make my project." Rishu replied as he ignored Shrey's comment
"Where is your partner?" Shrey questioned
"I don't know. Kul is not picking up." Rishu whined
"Strange. Jaddu is also ignoring my calls." Shrey complained

Rishu plopped down on a patch of grass dejected.
"Want my help?" Shrey offered
"You know how to mould clay?" Rishu asked suspiciously
"I am good at many things." Shrey confidently replied
"I doubt that." Rishu narrowed his eyes

"Come on." Shrey said as he offered his hand to Rishabh "Up."
Rishabh accepted his hand as he pulled himself up.
"I will help you." Shrey said as he started teaching Rishu how to mould clay.

A shiver ran down Rishabh's spine when Shrey got behind him. Shrey's breathing was hitting a sensitive spot on his neck as their fingers intertwined. Their bodies were touching and were almost pressed together. With slow, deliberate movements Shrey started to give the clay the shape that Rishu wanted. Rishu couldn't concentrate as his heartbeats were running out of control. He was afraid that Shrey would hear them.

In fact, Shrey did feel them. He could feel the intense radiation that was reflected from Rishabh's body. He liked the way he could make Rishabh reduce to a blushing mess. He liked the way Rishabh's hands worked on his command. He liked how Rishabh smelled especially on his neck. The smell of Rishabh's sweat and perfume filled his nostrils.

"Uhm. Uhm." Their moment stopped when they heard two distinctive people clearing their throats. They separated as they looked at their friends with an angry look.
"Where the hell were you?" Shrey asked
"In a jam." Jaddu replied as he looked at Kul who was determined to ignore him at all costs
"Why didn't you pick my calls?" Rishabh questioned his friend
"My phone ran out of battery." Kul replied with his head lowered while Jaddu smirked a knowing smile.

"Let's go inside." Kul hurriedly grabbed Rishu's hand and pulled him inside.
Shreyas and Jaddu's eyes followed them for as long as they could. Their eyes then landed on each other. They both saw something suspicious, an unknown emotion in the each other's eyes.
"What?" They asked simultaneously
"Nothing." They both replied together
Not wanting to get exposed in any way, they too hurried inside to finish their project.

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