The Rivals (Rewriting)

Shot-55

Continuing from when Sanyukta awakes with a splitting headache in Randhir's room, completely oblivious of the events of the night before in their welcome party to St. Peter's, in lieu of their annual interschool competition. This chapter ensues from when Sanyukta tries to remember what went on last night.

*Flashback*

Sanyukta's POV

The party was in full swing.

I was pulled to a corner by a girl—the same 'purple-haired' girl who had abducted me that afternoon and taken me to Rehan—just as I entered the party with Randhir. Unfortunately, Randhir was too occupied with the scene to notice that I was being dragged away from him. Perplexity arose within me as I gazed upon her anxious face.

"What the hell do you want now?" I seethed, pulling my forearm out of her hold.

"I need to tell you something.." She spoke through the blasting music making me frown at her.

The only thought that popped in my mind was 'Was the whole school bipolar or something?'. At first Rehan behaving so weirdly and then her completely different demeanor made me utterly puzzled.

"The only thing that you should be telling me is an apology for what you did this afternoon.." I gritted my teeth at her as she passed me an uncanny smile.

"Yeah that.. Well I apologize for our behavior then. That wasn't a good welcome on my part but you see, Rehan wanted to talk to you but you wouldn't come with us if you knew.. So we had to.." She had the audacity to grin at that!

"Besides, you should also apologize for your friend who almost broke Sammy's nose!" She yelled at me over the bass as we both tried to move away from the humongous speaker which made it impossible to communicate. Though I wasn't at all on the part of talking but I couldn't be that rude to anyone; all thanks to my helpless forgiving nature. Argh!

"Well their reaction was justified!" I scoffed and bobbed my head above the crowd to catch a glimpse of my team. I was least interested in chit-chatting with her.

"I am Raka by the way." She calmly extended her palm towards me which I didn't pay attention to. Yeah she was bad news.

She sighed, retracting her palm.

"Listen, I know what we did before was bad and I am not trying to make you feel uncomfortable now but there's this thing that I need to get off my chest and it's about Rehan.."

Right then, all I wanted to do was get out of this absurd situation as soon as possible because one more mention of Rehan would have flipped me out. And the girl wanted to speak with me about Rehan?! Uh. Not happening.

"Look.. You can tell by my expression and behavior that I am totally NOT interested in discussing about Rehan with you.. So if you'd excuse me.." I pressed a fake smile at her and turned to move away when she blocked my path.

"Rehan has leukemia.."

Her words snapped like a lightening bolt at me making me swivel right back at her with eyes as wide as saucers.

Ah, what?

"That day after your boyfriend spilled the beans about his deadly prank on you in front of Rehan's grandmother, she was so disappointed in him that she almost disowned him.." I looked back at her, dumbfounded and didn't even retort to that 'boyfriend' remark of her. That was the extent of my shock.