Drugged Love (On Hold)

Chapter Three

Chapter Three

Ishan rushed to his bedroom and picked up his phone. The notification light was blinking. He picked up his phone and read the text...

Unknown number: It's Elena, from school.

Shit. So it is her, Ishan thought. He was trying the hardest not let his emotions reflect on his face. Okay okay .Take a deep breath. No big deal. Chill.

"Chill" was the last thing he could do then. With his heart in his mouth, he texted back,

Ohh. Hi Elena.

Her message came at 7:50 and it was 9'o clock already. The last thing Ishan expected was her replying instantly. He put his phone in his pocket and had his dinner with his parents where he was pestered with questions about studies from his dad.

He hardly shared anything with his parents and they were happy not being at his throat all the time.

His father was a busy man, working long hours trying to get a promotion. His only concern was that Ishan and his sister studied well.

After dinner he checked his phone and Elena had replied,

We have to do a group project in Physics. Did you forget? The professor decided the groups by himself. You,me Akshay and Aarushi are together. Just write a small report on Hydraulic bridges. We'll discuss more tomorrow. Night.

So that was why Miss Perfect had texted him. A stupid physics project, Ishan thought and let out a chuckle.

He replied back instantly,

No, I remember. I'm halfway through it. He grinned while he wrote that. Just by the way, how did you get my number?

Much to his surprise, she texted back immediately,

We're in the same class since three years. Don't you think we'll have some common friends? Night.

Well, that had been a really stupid question to ask, Ishan realized. He wanted to say, "Yeah right Miss perfect you're smart we get it ", but decided otherwise and texted back Goodnight.

The next two hours, Ishan spent on his computer doing something which was painfully boring for him. He wrote about hydraulic bridges and when he thought that he'd written enough, he switched off his computer and went to bed.

Before he could peacefully go to sleep he had to do one thing.

He unlocked his phone and saved the unknown number by the contact name Elena.

The next day at school Ishan was relieved to see Reuben back at school although he was reprimanded by almost all the teachers. In the Math lecture, the teacher asked him, "You missed school yesterday, didn't you? "And Reuben, as nuts as he was had the gall to reply with a grin on his face, "Not so much sir".

The whole class burst into a hysteric bout of laughter and poor Reuben was sent to the Principal's office where to his good fortune, he was let off with a warning.

In the physics lecture, everyone was allowed to work on their projects. Ishan and Elena being in the same group sat beside each other.

When two people are meant to be together, the universe conspires to bring them together. A force greater than everything and beyond everyone's understand is constantly trying to create such situations which humans call "co-incidences" to bring them together.