They Don't Know about Us

Chapter 21 - "Jealousy looks so hot on you"

Riddhima stared at her reflection in the mirror. She was wearing a plain black miniskirt accompanied by a full-sleeved lace corset. She looked hot. With her hair straightened and the red lipstick, she looked like she was about to set the world on fire with her beauty.

It was Anjali's bachelorette party and the theme for all her friends was to wear black whereas she, being the bride, was going to wear white. They were going out to an upscale Mexican bar for dinner. Riddhima wasn't big on bars, however, for Anjali's sake, she had said yes. She also felt forced to say yes since Dr Keerti had cleared out Anjali's closest friend's schedule for the nights of her events out of courtesy and Riddhima had no other reason to avoid.

The weight of telling Anjali about hers and Armaan's relationship had been weighing down upon her. It had been so many days since she had told Armaan she was going to tell her but any opportunity she had gotten, she couldn't do it. She got so anxious that she would have to block the thought out in order to avoid the potential anxiety attacks.

What had been also concerning was that after that day, Armaan hadn't brought up the topic again. She was afraid he had thrown the ball in her court and was now waiting for her move. She had to break the news to Anjali soon because she could not afford having another fight with him. However, as the days passed since their decision of breaking the news, she felt more and more mentally unprepared.

Given that Anjali was getting married in a week, she felt that now the time was not right. She did not want to stir up any drama during her events. This news was definitely not going to settle well with Anjali and now was definitely not the time to break it to her.

Taking a deep breath, she forced herself out of her thoughts upon hearing the doorbell. Muskaan and her were driving to dinner together where they were supposed to meet Anjali and her girl gang.

"OMG you look so hot girl wtf?" was the first reaction Riddhima got out of Muskaan as soon as she opened the door. Riddhima blushed and mumbled a thanks while grabbing her keys and moving out, locking the door.

"Damn I wish this was a joint party, I can't stand Anjali's friends alone, I need Rahul to be there" Muskaan sighed while turning into the parking lot of the bar they were going to have dinner at. They had spotted Anjali's Porsche and parked behind it.

"I am not enough for you?" Riddhima pouted out of the car as Muskaan fiddled with her keys to lock the car.

"You know what I mean" Muskaan rolled her eyes and they both giggled as they entered the restaurant. They hadn't even gotten their food before one of them spotted the boys walk in.

"I can't believe these boys crashed my bachelorette party!" Anjali groaned looking at Armaan and Atul walking towards them, a few of Atul's friends walking behind them as well.

"Leave it Anji, it's going to be even more fun with them here" Sneha smirked, eyeing Armaan, licking her lips. This action of hers did not go unnoticed by Riddhima who was fuming mentally but unfortunately couldn't act on her anger.

It's not like Armaan was going to give this bimbo attention anyway.

"What are you guys doing here?" She asked her fiancé who winked at her and went in for a hug. Riddhima smiled at them, and looked at Armaan who wasn't looking at her. She followed his line of sight to see him smiling at Sneha.

You've gotta be kidding me!

"I don't believe we have been introduced before" she diverted her attention from Armaan to the tall man standing next to Atul. He was smiling down at her and held his hand out. "I'm Abhimanyu, orthopedist, I believe we haven't worked together before?"