Attracting Akira {first}

✩ Shopping is my Cardio ✩

Chapter 4 ~ "Shopping is my Cardio"

EDITED.

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Akira's POV

After Shanaya had waltzed ragingly down the halls, the rest of us were staring at the door in slight shock for quite a while. Well, I was most definitely in shock.

Stella ushered her class back into their seats, and after bidding goodbyes we left her to continue with her course.

"She's not replying to her texts." Meera sighed, running her fingers through her straight hair. "If Vivan finally caught up to her, one of them is not leaving that conversation unharmed."

"Vivan most likely."

"How about I look around this floor and see if I find her, and you guys can head down to the car. If you see her, shoot me a text." They nodded as I turned away. Hearing their heels clicking away, I focused on trying to finding Shanaya.

Six years and nothing changed, I sighed.

Passing through numerous corridors, thoughts from the past plagued my mind once again. Shanaya and Vivan had broken off their relationship before the horrid graduation trip that took everyone to hell. I was still lacking details that Shanaya had withheld, but understood that my best friend was yet to overcome the heartbreak.

Glancing over the portraits of previous graduates along the wall, I came to a stop in front the 2011 one. My gaze traced over all the faces, bringing back memories of time spent here. The smiles on our faces, so genuine and carefree, unknown to all the ache the world would give us. I shook the rather depressive thought free of my mind, and giving the frame one last look I stepped into the last hall in the wing.

"Please, just listen!" came the sound of a husky voice from the end of the hall. Quickening my pace, I headed toward the voice, recognizing it to be Vivan's. I could hear the clicks of heels furthering away from me, proving that my best friend was still trying to avoid him, rather unsuccessfully.

"Would you stop following me like a dog?" The shrilled response from Shanaya bounced off the cemented walls.

"I would if you acted like an adult for more then two seconds." He defended. I just sighed, and slowed my pace to match theirs.

"What do you want Vivan?" She huffed, finally coming to a stop.

"I just want you to hear me out."

"If you're talking about what happened six years ago, then I don't want to hear it, okay?"

"Just listen to me once, please Shanaya." The way he said her name in desperation made my lips tilt down, feeling the loss of their connection affecting him as well.

"If we could go six years without speaking, I don't see why you have to break the routine?"

"Routine? Is that what you call it? You left." He scowled.

"And you cheated."

And I stopped short, hidden just around the corner from where they were, my eyes growing wide at the revelation.

Silence seemed to stretch on, and I could physically feel Shanaya's short temper growing quicker by the second.

"I didn't cheat. I've told you countless times that I didn't cheat."

She scoffed in return, "I'm not the idiot you took me for Vivan. I may not have had as many relationships, but I understand that when a girl is draped over you with you so willingly laying under her—while knowing you have a girlfriend—translates to adultery." Her voice broke near the end.