Heartstrings and Heartaches

Chapter 2 ~ Who is he?

As the bus rolled near the school, i could see the big iron gate with the school emblem in the middle. It was held by two ivory pillars. And beyond that stood, the enormous campus of Vedic International School.

V.I.S. is renowned in the entire state for it's glorious academic excellence and the spectacular display of culturals and sports.
It was hoarded with four academic buildings, and one extra-curricular building, famously known as the loft.

The admin building consisted of all the offices and the pre school classes along with audit and the Vega terrace, which had the most magnificent view of the mountains nearby.

Our classes, that is standard 11th along with
12th took place in the Meraki building, which was adjacent to the loft and the corridor passing beside classes faced the basketball court.

I walked towards my class, as Anny went in the direction of admin building. The weather was fine, with the sky looking extra bright and the light river wind that calmed the scorching heat from July.

My best friend, Kritika bounced towards me with a smile in her face. "You gotta hear this" She squealed dragging me towards the new classroom

I looked around the class, and it was a classic VIS one with beige walls, wood coloured benches . It was nothing new but there was a hint of newness in the air, like the first day of January and the environment felt crisp.

"Diya from 11/B cheated on Ishaan" She said

"Old news" I scoffed while sliding into my seat beside Kri. I saw Jiggy's bag on the seat infront of us but she was not there, which was weird because usually she would be attached to the hip with Kri.

"Yeahhh" she drawled, "and they broke up but she wanted to be back together" her eyes were lit with the prospect of gossip.

But before she could continue Jiggy came in with a scowl on her face that she got marked on herself since before summer.
Don't get me wrong, my girl was always grumpy but nowadays she's more irritated than usual.

"And, that asshole thought it would be cool to ask her out and humiliate her" Jiggy said

"Noooo!! what did he do" I cried

Kri looked annoyed at Jiggy, she had a thing for Ishaan, "She cheated and he just pretented to not know her on their so-called date"

I gasped while Jiggy tossed the words, "In a crowded cafe" and I gasped once more.

"She looked so broken Rue, and honestly it wasn't even cheating, some guy kissed her"
Jiggy said.

"Bro, how could you!" I said then "Ishan is our friend"

Jiggy though seemed to not care, she was in her hate-men era and we let her be.

By the time Anny came with all our class schedules, it was time for the back to school assembly.

Anny and Kri walked ahead while talking about some k-drama Anny discovered.
I walked alongside Jig while searching in the crowd for a certain someone.

He was in the assembly committe. You know, the people who'd prepare for the assembly if there was one.

"Oh man! not again" Jig mumbled to herself, I looked towards her line of sight to see what has gloomed her already gloomy mood. It was none other than Aarav Gupta, Jiggy's infamous ex and enemy and the bane of our existence.

And there he was. Beside Aarav, leaning on a pillar with his long legs crossed ahead of him, stood Rivaan Ahuja.

The hottest guy in the entire school. I'm not exaggerating trust me. The straight loose fit uniform pant and white shirt, whose sleeved he rooled upto his elbow, made him look like some model from my pinterest board. Even the tie which made most of us look like fools complimented his look. He wore some expensive ass watch on his right wrist and that somehow managed to enhance his light skin.

Rivaan was beautiful, with his long sindhi nose, perfectly sharp jaw and a beautiful fucking bow lips. His raven hair was perfectly styled with longer on front and shorter on the back, but it was not messy. He had long curled lashes that I could only dream of, his eyes looked like some lighter shade of brown i don't know what the shade is called. I seriously don't know how he managed to look handsome yet cute with all his sharp edges.

Girl, just stop ogling it's embarrassing. The good part of my subconscious reminded me. I darted my eyes from him to the opposite direction. But now, I could feel his eyes on me. I was sure I was imagining it. I slide closer to Jig and suddenly was very interested to whatever she was saying.

".....energy" Jiggy said

"What?" I asked and she looked at me with raised eyebrows

"Did you just zone out on me" She asked then and I so didn't want her to know what I was doing.

"Nuh uh, but what what were you saying?" I steer the conversation to a safe zone. Jigggy hated Aarav obviously and his friends, because she thinks they are all the same.

Jigyasa with her wavy hair, tall figure and the cute button nose is the most beautiful and good at heart person I've ever known along with Ann and Kri. And I agree what Aarav did was unforgettable but I don't know what does Rivaan has to do with all these.

"Do you think I'm emitting a lot of negative energy nowadays" She repeated her question.

"Like the electron?" I volunteered and she rolled her eyes.

"You can't loose yourself and the best possible parts of you just because bad thing happened, you can't let your soul break just because your heart did" I pause before continuing again "Teenage heartbreaks won't matter in a few years but teenage memories will"

"You make this sound so insignificant" her voice was small, I felt bad for reducing her emotions, I didn't know what to do. All I had were some silly bunch of delusions in the name of love life.

"She's not" Anny said, I didn't know she was listening to us. "And I'm not saying it's insignificant but it will be, in a few years"

"And you missed the Saturday Meet last week which is like crazy because who is he to take you away from our weekly ritual, from us" I said with an animated expression.

Jiggy smiled then and Kri added "Also this has been going for a long time babe and there's an emergency and we need to figure it out why did Rue have Ahuja's Aunt on her insta search list"

Jiggy and Anny burst out laughing in the ugliest sound ever.

"Stop logging in my account, gods why have I ever shared with my account with you " I cried

"Whats this obsession baby, his aunty really" Anny said laughing

"What were you checking for? In-laws" Jiggy added.

We were in the assembly hall and everyone were making queues, teacher's were taking there position and we, were standing in a circle while my friends laughed at me.

"You guys are literally the worst" I whined, just as the voice I will always know spoke from beside me.

"Oye, the vocal trails will be after the first break in loft, inform everyone in your class" he said. He was holding some sort of technical stuff. I felt his eyes on me so I looked in his direction.

"Tell everyone" he repeated to me, as if it wasn't me who was trying for vocals. But he probably didn't know that.

His arms brushed mine as he passed and I could feel flutters in my belly. He scent has engulfed me and all I could think was how stupid I am.

After he went towards the podium, Kri said imitating his tone, "tell everyone". And they chuckle again while joining our class line.

Just as the principal's voice boomed through the speakers, "Welcome back everyone, I hope you had an amazing summer"