Just A Crush?

11. The Rain Fun

His words and his tone were continuously ringing in my mind. What does different mean? In many novels I have read a guy tell a girl that she is different. But that type of different is different from the different which Vivaan told me. I know I am not making any sense but it is bothering me. He did not smirk or howl or gave me a blank expression but rather flashed a smile which he offers so less to me. Ughh... I think I should call Hiral or else I won't be able to process the things.

I dug out my mobile from my pocket to dial Hiral's number.

"Hello Aaru, come fast to my home. Have to tell you so many things. Ok. Bye. Come fast huh", Hiral gushed and ended the call.

I rang the door bell to Hiral's house and in a milli second, Hiral opened the door and yanked me in. Her mother and Het, her younger sister were giving us odd looks. I mumbled a quick 'hi' to them and followed Hiral to her room. Hiral was overly excited. After her breakup with Dheer, she did not show much interest in crush and all those stuff. But now she is here, overly excited to pour me of her new crush. And I so wanna see that guy who managed to bring Hiral back to herself. Who that guy might be? Do I know him? Is he from our clique? He can be anyone... Arjit, Jay, Vivaan or maybe even Sarthak or anyone from our college?

"So who is he?" I asked.

"He is-", Hiral is about to say the name when she is cut off by music blaring from her phone. She grimaces and then stands up to pick up the call and almost verbally murder the person who intervened our so important talk. She read the caller id and a big, very big smile appeared on her face.

"It is his call", she said, grinning and then picked up the phone.

"Hello, oh yes. I will be coming in 10 to 15 minutes.....", she continued talking to her crush and I managed to read few alphabets of his name and it took no time for me to guess who he was. The starting letters were A and R and the name ended in T. So without any doubt it is Arjit. She ended the call and was capering around.

"So he is Arjit", I said and crashed her into a bear hug. I was so happy for. Arjit is really a great guy and a full boyfriend material. He won't hurt her like Dheer. She now has a tiny crush on him but I am sure Arjit will treat her like a princess and she will fall for him harder. And there is a big probability that Arjit may also fall for Hiral. God! I am so happy for her. Her choice is really very good.

"No. He is not Arjit. He is Archit. Archit leaves in the same building and is calling me down to play", Hiral corrected me and I was left 'o' at that. I don't know who Archit is. I haven't seen him. So right now, I really can't encourage her feelings for him. If she gets hurt again, I don't think she will ever be normal and believe in love.

"So who is this Archit guy?" I ask her.

She opens her laptop and logs into her facebook account. She types Archit Joshi on facebook and there appears a very cute looking on the screen. I see the posts through his timeline and it seems that he is a good humoured and a dignified personality. I guess he is stick to his goal as his status, captions, some posts are kind of inspirational ones. I scroll through his timeline and kind of get shocked when I see his one group pic. It has Jay, Nick, Sarthak, Vivaan, Archit, Juhi, Khushi, Muskaan and two more girls and one more guy. Arjit is also there.

"Umm... Hiral, Archit, I suppose was a part of our clique", I told her.

"I know that. I have kind of stalked his profile so many times. I also talked to him about this. He is still their friend. They all studied in the same school and were the most popular group there. He is now an ARTS student and so he is not in our college. These all are friends from sixth grade and some even before. He also said that sometimes they use to bully the other students. Not the extreme one, but yeah...they used to do it. But at that time they did not know what bullying actually was. They were unaware of that word. When they realized what they were doing was wrong, they immediately stopped it and apologized everyone. Arjit was also a part of their clique. Don't you ever wonder why Arjit does not sit with them during the break time, though he is their so close friend?" Hiral asks me and I nod. This question did pop many a times in my head but didn't ask about it to Arjit or anyone else as it was their group past and that they should tell me only when they are comfortable.