THE HEIST

Linda

Getting out of a different situation room after watching the video, we were walking towards our suites quite shaken by the video...

"Let's get our minds off of that, shall we?" Karan asked, smiling at me. I nodded in agreement, still in a state of shock after what I saw in the video. "The best course of action is to get you back on track with Arya and make sure we have the best three days ever." Karan pointed out. I agreed with Karan but my mind was still back in the room, pondering over the contents of the video. 

Karan punched me, hard and said "You need sleep, Ghade. Come over to my suite, I have better beds than your cheap ones." I smiled, even though I was pulling off a fake one, acknowledging the fact that Karan was trying really hard to bring me back to normalcy, even though he too had been through exactly what I had, and was himself thoroughly in shock.

While heading to sleep, I couldn't help but think about what's and the why's which kept popping up about the content of the video.

SPLASH! 💦

I woke up with a gasp, drowning in my dream. Karan however, was rolling on the floor laughing like a maniac. "I'll have my revenge, Karan! I swear I will!" I screamed as he gestured to have a look at the clock behind me. "WHAT THE!!" I screamed again. It was already 1 pm and I just realised that I had slept for over 9 hours! "Arya must've gone crazy looking for me you idiot! Couldn't you have woken me up earlier??" I was on a scream-a-thon.

"That's good stuff right there, Ghade" Karan pointed out, getting up from the floor "Even though I sensed only anger against me when you woke up, you're still thinking about what Arya must be going through." Disregarding his comment, I kicked him over while running to the bathroom for a quick bath.

Getting out of the bathroom, I mentioned "You seem quite squalid yourself, asshole." pointing at Karan's state. " Go have a bath, you idiot!" I said, still visibly irritated for the way he woke me up. "Crap! In all this mess, I almost forgot to tell you something I found out at this morning's buffet breakfast." Karan said, getting up from his sofa, with his face lit up. "What?" I asked, giving him 'The Rock' face.

"The reason, my good sir, of me being so jubilant!" Karan said, trying to pull a Shakespeare on me. "Then I pray to thee, an ill-roasted egg, before I throw thy arrogance from the frying pan into the fire, enlighten me with the reason" I replied, as I was used to his Shakespeare by now.

"Linda." he said.
"Linda?" I asked.
"Linda Morra." he exclaimed.
"Linda Morra?" I questioned.
"Dudeee. LINDA." he screamed. 

"I don't have time for this, Karan." I said, waving him off and heading towards the door. He ran between me and the door, and said "Linda Morra, Ghade! The girl I had a crush on and never was able to get? The ONLY girl who wasn't swooning all over me back in INSEAD??"

"OOH!" I did a facepalm. "Her name was Linda? I thought she was called Mirinda" I tried to pull a poor joke even though I knew exactly who she was the first time he mentioned her. "Ghade, please! She's on the ship with us... And I've not told you something..."

"What?" I asked, presuming the worst.
"I'm dating her." he replied.

I lost it. Karan always did this. In most cases, he would tell me only after he had broken up with the girl. "What the fuck? And you thought this was the right time to tell me? What were you doing all this while? Waiting for the trip to end? Heck, why are you even telling me this now? You should have actually not told me before we got back home. Better yet, why tell me at all? Eh? Who am I to you anyway?" I said, punching the shit out of him using my new found strong fists. "Stop it Ghade it hurts!" Karan said, trying to run away. "And As if the fact that you hid it from me this entire time makes me feel like I'm on top of the world, Karan!" I screamed, running after the nutcase.

We finally stopped, exhausted, but I still didn't let him go, and he kept getting as many punches as I could possibly give him.

"Fine man. She can fit in into the next 3 days too. I know that's why you bought her up, otherwise, she'd be just like all the others, where I'd get to know only after you both broke up." I said while shrugging heavily.

Karan smirked, happy that he was successful in getting her in. "Alright then. I'll sit and plan our next three days while you go ahead and check on your ladylove. Cool?"

"Cool." I said, giving him a smirk back.