WRAPPED WITH LOVE

chapter 19

Abhi woke up because of Arvind's phone call.

Arvind: hey abhi. Good morning. How is college?

Abhi: morning bhayya. College tho aaise hi the.  Itni subah subah ye puchne ke liya call kiya?

Arvind: Its karthik's birthday today. We are planning for an early morning ride. All my friends are getting ready and i am feeling bored. So i called. Hey, you wanna wish him??

Abhi's eyes grew wistful as she recalled her Hyderabad trip. But,  before she could say anything, Arvind handed over the phone to karthik.

Karthik: hello! Abhi?

Abhi: umm ... hi hie

Karthik: hi abhi. How are you?

Abhi: good. Happy birthday.

Karthik: thank you so much abhi. Abhi, was anything wrong that day? Why did you leave all of a sudden?

Abhi: woh mujhe jaana tha. Bye karthik.
Saying this she hung up. She started weeping . Nithu woke up and sensed something wrong has happened. Abhi explains everything and nithu consoles her.

Nithu: Abhi please usse bhool jao. He is not the one for you.

Abhi: I am trying to!

Nithu: Today Varun and priya are quitting engineering. So you cant be like this. We should be happy for them. Orelse they might lose their courage. Chalo nah. Ready ho jao.

Abhi: ya. Teekein yar.

All of them met at the entrance. They headed to principal's cabin. Abhi is princi's favourite student. Whatever she says, he'll definitely implement it.
He is a genuine elderly person with bald head and white beard which is as long as santa's. Some of the students call him santa and some others dumbledore!

Abhi knocked the door and he sighed to come in.
Abhi: morning sir! We are here to discuss a life issue with you sir. We need your advice.

Principal: morning abhi. What's the matter?

Abhi explained everything about priya and varun.Nithu depicted their family situations.
The principal thought for a while and replied.

Principal: So varun, since you mentioned this to your family, you can change your course. I know the chairman of woxen journalism institute very well. I will recommend you . But promise me that you will make us proud!

Varun: I will sir for sure. Thank you.

Principal: And Priya, because your family dont know about your decision, i cant allow you to take a turn. But still, you can opt designing as your minor.

Priya: sir ! How can i handle my subjects and minor too? Won't it be an extra burden? I already have enough backlogs!

Abhi: sir please try to do something. May be half of the course subjects and minors will do.

Principal: That kindof curriculum is allowed only in bangalore branch not in DIT ,chennai. She will have to change her college location in that case.

Priya was depressed at the very thought of moving away from chennai.

Abhi:Is there any other alternative sir ?

Principal: No abhi.

Varun: Sir, is woxen institute in bangalore too?

Principal: yes they do have their branch in bangalore. Why do you ask?

Only his friends knew why he asked. They are happy to see priya and varun smiling looking at eachother.

They made it.
All the permissions were granted and the necessary paper work was done. They booked tickets for day after tomorrow.
Tonight, they planned a farewell party. All of them started off in a cab.
They reached hard rock cafe.

At the hard rock Cafe:

They are eating, drinking,dancing and having fun. It was then varun and rahul saw Tej coming towards Abhi.

Varun: Rahul, i completed every little thing that i should do here as i am leaving .  But this one is yet to be done. Shall we?

Rahul: haa meri jaan. Lets kick his*** so that he won't even dare to look at Abhi .

They dragged Tej and bet him blue and black . Varun broke his specs and watch. When Rahul is about to kick him in his abdomen, abhi arrives.
She holds Rahul's hands and asks him to leave tej as he is already bleeding.

Abhi drags both varun and rahul aside. Appu books a cab . Within no time, cab arrives and nithu asks them to enter into the cab.

In the cab:
All of them were damn silent. Priya noticed that Varuns hand is bleeding .  She carefully wrapped it with her scarf.

Priya: Are you okay varun?

Abhi: Why did you do this guys? Is this necessary? Are you out of your minds?

Priya: Abhi, some stupid is troubling our friend and how can we be so silent?

Abhi: so you support them? Even after seeing him bleeding?

Priya:Can you imagine how can the person ,  who looks after his friends this well ,takes care of his partner ?

Rahul: wow! Thats romantic now. Arey i too beat him yar. Praise me too.

Abhi : Rahul are you hurt?

Rahul: ya. Hurt from inside. See everyone is praising varun only(in a childish tone)

Priya: arey! Why will i praise you when my boyfriend is beside?

And all of them laughed. They reached hostel by 9'O clock.  They spoke as they walked to their rooms.

Rahul: nithu, you and Abhi help priya in packing her luggage tomorrow. Else, she might take 2 or 3 days for packing itself! And, my varun should be alone in bangalore... waiting for her!

Priya: shut up rahul. I will make it fast. They will however help me. By the way, i will take good care of your dear friend. Dont worry rahul. I might not fill the void, but i will try to.

Rahul: I know priya. I just want to say one thing: you are so lucky to have him as your life partner.

Priya blushes.

Nithu: And, varun is equally lucky too. Our priya is so pure at heart!

Rahul: ya, i accept that.

Rahul notices priya holding varun's hand.

Rahul: priya, atleast now,leave him to me nah. He will however be so busy with you that he won't be talking with me regularly from now on!

Saying this, he holds the other hand of varun's and takes him to room.

Priya: look at that idiot! How possessive!

Appu: Afterall, they had been together for two years yar.

Abhi: we should look after Rahul. We should see to it that he doesn't feel lonely.

Nithu: We will definitely.

Priya: And dont worry about varun. I will take away his every little pain. Just make sure that Rahul is fine. Thats enough for varun to be happy.

Precap: Varun and priya leaves to Bangalore........ Appu, Rahul and Nithu plans a surprise for Abhi's birthday......