Just Wanna Be With You

Chapter 3 - Second Meet

Chapter 3: SECOND MEET

 I look at him and he looks back at me with his beautiful eyes, smiles, and it pathetically makes my day.

 KAVYA’S POV:

 “Kavya Kavya KAVYA get up! I have already called you some 10 times!”

 I got up all groggy to hear Aliya shout at the top of her voice.

 “OK OK I’m up!” I shouted back. I wasn’t really a morning person. I could stay up all night but I just absolutely hated getting up early. I groaned and got up. I dragged my feet to the bathroom and took a quick shower. I headed downstairs to hear loud chatter. As I entered, I saw that my parents had been invited for breakfast.  They got my bags. I beamed and went and hugged my mother. We chatted a while before Aliya came bouncing down with her bags. After a while my parents left.

At about 1030 the guys finally appeared honking. We got out of the house. As I approached I realised that there were 3 guys in the car excluding the driver. After keeping my bags, I got in the back of the car and saw Rahul sitting. Aliya sat between us. We left immediately. I saw that another guy was sitting shotgun. As I was just wondering where the 3rd guy was, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see none other than Ahaan. Ahaan Phadnis. Ughh! Why did it have to be him?

He was smirking, “So we meet again. Whenever you feel like it, please tell me what you meant yesterday?” I didn’t even listen to him. I just looked in the front and saw Rahul smirk as if he had planned this to happen. I just ignored him and looked out the window.

Rahul then cleared his throat and introduced us to all the guys in the car.

“Kavya and Aliya that’s Siddharth in the front and Ahaan sitting or may I say lazing behind.” They both ended laughing as if he just cracked a joke. I just shook my head at their immaturity and kept looking out the window. I guess Rahul took this as a cue to change the topic. He and Aliya ended up chatting while I was listening to my Ipod.

After a while I realised, only Aliya and I were awake and both of us started chatting. There was a new band coming in town today evening and I wanted to check it out.

“So can you come with me, please?” I asked Aliya.

She looked excited and all of a sudden she frowned and said,” Can’t. My colleague is throwing this party and it’s today. I am sorry. Try asking Vidhi maybe, she will come.”

“Oh ok, forget. She’s not a band person. Maybe we will go next time.”

Before we could say anything more on this the car stopped at a nearby fast-food joint. We all got down immediately and went in to eat. By the time we got back in the car we all had hit it off. Of course, everybody but Ahaan and I. I had avoided him again.

Instead I had chatted with Siddharth and really liked the guy albeit as a friend. As we got in the car, everybody changed their seating order. Aliya and Rahul went behind. Siddharth was still shotgun. That meant I had to sit next to Ahaan. Not even 5 minutes after we left, I realised Rahul and Aliya had fallen asleep. I smiled and looked in the front. Ahaan and Siddharth were chatting about Team India’s performance in the recent match and asked my opinion once in a while. As I was disinterested in cricket, I just gave my humble opinions in between listening to my Ipod. After a while when Siddharth fell asleep, I realised Ahaan was staring at me. I slowly looked towards him. He didn’t seem to realise that I was looking at him. I smiled and waved my hand in front of his face.

“What are you looking at?” I asked.

“Sorry”, he managed to reply.

He looked at me and asked, “So what did I really do? Common tell me. You seem to really hate me.”

“Nothing”, I simply answered.

“One word. Impressive. Are you always this talkative?” he asked. That made me smile.

“And are you always this quiet?” I asked sarcastically.

He laughed and kept looking at me. “Could you stop that?” I asked.

“What?” he asked back.

“Looking at me like that.” I replied.

“Not until you tell me what I did to make you hate me so much.” He said.

I sighed and realised this guy was so not going to give up. Just as I was about to answer he got a call. I was relieved and after 5 minutes I feigned sleep. After a while, I actually dozed off. I was woken up by Aliya right as we reached. I got down, hugged and thanked Rahul, hugged Siddharth and gave a smile to Ahaan.

As I turned to leave, I heard Ahaan whisper loud enough for everybody to hear, “You owe me a hug.” I turned around and glared at him which totally didn’t come out right because his comment had kind of made me happy. And since everybody else was laughing I just shrugged and left.

What was happening to me? He made me happy? That could not be happening.