First Impressions

Chapter Eleven

"But then why do I find something fishy?" She asks opening the refrigerator door and handling me a bottle of water to drink.
For Neha, there is always something fishy in everything.

"Thanks." I mumble taking the bottle from her. My voice is throaty and I am dying with thirst right now.
"It's just as simple as that. Why can't you just believe me?" I reply, turning to open the lid of the bottle.

I gulp down the the cool water from it, quenching my thirst.
Ah, what a feeling.

I was tired of convincing Neha that all we did was check the lectures of the whole week and not something else.

"No. There was something else to it. With the way he pulled you out from us there is got to be some other reason why he did so."

"Why are you making this a big deal. Ask Aryan. We were actually checking our lecture time table. Last week the sir hadn't come and.."

"I am not making a big deal. Just asking casually. Is there something that I should be knowing?"
She asked wriggling her eyebrows.

She has been nagging me with this for the past half an hour or so.

Now before her thought processes go to La La land and she begins imagining all weird stuff regarding me and Aryan I decide to tell her.

Even if I don't she would soon somehow find out.
And by the way, she is of course far more closer to me than Aryan. So basically she should have been the first one to get to know about that instead of him. So if he gets to know about it, she surely does too.
She was my first friend here in Hill Valley and now I feel that I can trust her with everything.

I sigh giving up all my attempts of hiding with Neha's eyebrows raised up in curiosity.

I wonder what she has been thinking.

"It's about his brother." I state.

"What?" she chokes and seems utterly confused at that.

I nod.

"Raghav?"

"Yeah."

"What about him?"She implores as we take a seat on her sofa.

And I begin narrating the whole incident all over again, this time to Neha.

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"And You kept it from me all this while. Why Rhea? I told you that you could share everything with me. It's been two weeks that it happened and you are telling me this now?"
She seemed highly disappointed that I didn't tell her about this.

"I..I thought things would be better if I just let it go like that"

"What did Aryan say?" she asked.

"Nothing. He just simply listened to everything intently and after I was finished he asked if I had told anyone else about it to which I denied"

"Oh well. Now he wouldn't stay quiet"

"What? What would he do? I don't want him or anyone else for that matter to get into this and for a fact I guess it's all over. I have nothing to do with them anymore nor do they."

"I had told you to stay away from them. Hope you don't encounter them again" she wishes.

"But Rhea"she speaks up again.

"Yes?"

"How did Aryan sense that you had something to do with Raghav?"

Oh goddd.

It's actually very embarrassing to mention that I had been running away from Aryan in the corridor mistaking him to be Raghav.

"I-Actually I was walking in the corridor when Aryan called me from behind. I don't know why but his voice sounded exactly like Raghav's so without even looking back at him I began running away from him but he was fast enough to catch up till me."