His Chaste Bird

6.💛

After returning from fair , everyone were happy. Aarohi had carefully placed those sandals in her cupboard, as if it was a precious jewellery. Next day the test went well and now it was time for result. All the participants had gathered in the conference room , nervously waiting for result. The tension was palpable in the air. The Vice Principal, walked on the stage and held the mic ready to announce the results , "Good morning students. I know you all are waiting for your results so without any delay , let's announce it. In the boys , Raghav Rajvansh has scored the highest." Both Neil and Armaan hugged him tightly. Many other students too congratulated him. The Vice Principal continued , "And in girls Maithili Thakur had scored the highest." Aarohi and Maahira almost jumped from excitement , hearing her name. Maithili immediately thanked God by joining her hands. While , Raghav's smile widened more , after seeing her smile. "Now , the contestants for next round are - Pakhi Sawant , Aarohi Kapoor , Maahira Sharma , Maithili Thakur , Raghav Rajvansh , Armaan Rajput , Kushal Singh and Neil Chauhan." He concluded and left the stage.They all sighed in relief hearing their names. Now it was time for next round. This round was , "Cultural Castle". In this round all the left participants have to collect information on their given topic and have to make a project on it , in a group of two people. The names and topics were allotted.

Group A - Neil Chauhan and Pakhi
Sawant.
Topic - Heritage Sites

Group B - Armaan Rajput and Aarohi
Kapoor
Topic - Global World and Food Cuisine

Group C - Kushal Singh and Maahira
Sharma
Topic - Dance and Music

Group D - Raghav Rajvansh and Maithili Thakur
Topic - Poetry

"What the hell!!!" Both Armaan and Aarohi exclaimed together after reading the Groups. Aarohi's reaction was understood but Armaan ? Why was he so desperate to become Maahira's partner. Neil also didn't like when he heard name with some other girl instead of Aarohi. But inside he thought that it is good that Aarohi is not her partner, otherwise she would have bothered him a lot. But both Neil and Armaan were happy for Raghav because he got Maithili as his partner. Their project has to submit Next Monday. So they has one week to prepare for it. Walking out of Conference room , they went into their hostels for rest.

In Girls Hostel...

Aarohi was sitting on the bed , folding her hands accross her chest in anger. Maahira and Maithili helplessly looked eachother and then her. "This is so unfair!! You both don't know about that Pakhi. I hate her. She is my biggest rival and she also have a crush on Neil and Neil , stupid !!" Aarohi spoke out of frustration. Maithili said , "Relax Aarohi! Don't take too much stress. Believe in God everything will be okay and you are saying na that Pakhi is not a good girl then Neil will not give her any lead." Aarohi sighed a relief and said , "Hmm...hope so. But Maahira you please be careful from that Kushal. I mean , I don't know much about him , so just because careful." She warned Maahira who nodded in yes. After changing from Uniforms , they all went in the Art room which was opposite to the Library. Everyone sat with their partners and started discussing about the topics.

Aarohi and Armaan sat in front of Neil and Pakhi in order to keep an eye on them. While , they were engaged in their work. Aarohi's eyes fell on Armaan , who was shooting daggers to Kushal who was talking to Maahira with a creepy smile on his face. In irritation he averted his gaze and watched Aarohi looking him with a confused face. He cleared his throat and spoke , "Hmm..let's start." But Aarohi kept looking him with same expression and raised her one eyebrow, as if asking why was he looked him ? He avoided her gaze and she spoke , "Armaan!! Are you also feeling jealous?" He snapped his neck in her direction , because her question was right. If she was sitting with Kushal then was he feeling jealous ? He shrugged off his shoulders and asked , "Not at all. Just I don't like that Kushal. He was in my section last year. By the way , are you feeling jealous ? For whom ?"