When The Heart Lies | ✓

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Sakshi kept glaring at the white board that would soon be showing his lecture slides. Her heart was drowning by each second thinking that she was degrading herself by coming here. That professor didn't deserve to see her in the same way after what happened in Chandigarh.

"Don't fret over it. I am telling you. This time, you are helpless. His time would come too. I'll make sure of that," muttered Aarush while glancing at Sakshi.

"It's not right. Sitting here would make him feel that I am accepting this," said Sakshi worriedly.

Aditi interrupted, "Chill. You are a student. Marks and attendance are important. You cannot just care if the professor is your fiance."

"He is not," Sakshi whisper-yelled. "I have denied my family. But it's still idiotic to see him ruling over me."

Aarush shook his head, ignoring Aditi who was glaring at him. "If he does anything, I am here."

"Of course, you are." Aditi gritted her teeth while turning her head to the front just as the class turned silent at their professor's entry.

"Good morning," he replied back to the students sitting in the front while his eyes moving frantically over the staircase seats, checking each face.

"Here goes my self-esteem," Sakshi muttered under her breath while lowering her eyes.

Aarush sat closer to her, whispered, "Look in his eyes and glare."

Aditi clenched her jaws at his tactics and kept her mouth shut, deciding to not involve with them anymore. Both were hypocrites.

Sakshi gulped while doing as Aarush suggested, her eyes narrowing just as Kabir smirked at seeing her. His gaze resting on her for seconds until it narrowed down when the best friends exchanged a glance. He hummed to himself before finally beginning the lecture.

The whole time during the lecture, Sakshi felt his gaze over her. She had lowered her eyes, not really paying attention and writing his words obediently to avoid meeting his mischievous eyes. For her, this one hour had turned into a torture.

He seemed confident, playful and clever just like he truly was. Shyness was not a trait of his, she had noticed. It was just a word to lure her. If Mihir hadn't liked the girl in that cafe, she wouldn't have known that the guy was a teacher. That was why, he didn't show up.

Now, this was clever.

Not shy. Absolutely not!

Too bad, the cousin was liking her enough to get that professor married to her. Her Tai ji had called two times in the morning but she wasn't picking up. It was only her brother whom she had called and told that she had reached safely.

Reached.

Her eyes widened just as she remembered that she hadn't called back Shrey. Her hand reached to her pocket but absentmindedly, her eyes caught the professor noticing her. She took a long breathe while bringing hands back on her desk and glaring at him now, fully.

An eternity passed and finally, the period ended. Aarush groaned when Aditi got and left hurriedly, stepping her high-heeled boot on his foot on her way.

"Bitch," he muttered while collecting his notes and getting up. He watched her smiling at the professor, wishing him just like every other girl in their class. He shook his head and sighed. "Is this you call her liking me? I am sure, if you give her a chance, she would kill me happily."

Sakshi rolled her eyes while following him out of the rows. "You need to talk to her and apologize," she told him.

"Wait. Why me? She hates me and she is being rude."