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Aarya was staring at the white board as she fought hard to not to fall asleep. She took a glance at the wall clock which was her favourite past time during physics class. "Shoot! It's still 40minutes left for the period to get over.", She muttered to herself.
Physics usually bored her to death , it was even worse then maths for her and on a scale of 1 to 10 she hated maths at like 24. She had already done that topic so it was of interest to her in the very least. She couldn't make up for her night's sleep too as the professor was really strict. Her late night talks with jack used to last sometimes till 2AM in the morning. They used to go at sleep only after one of their phone's battery went dead. So staying awake in class right now was taking up all her will.

As she continued to stare at the board , while trying to sleep with her eyes open, a note slipped on to her desk.
The note was written in a hurry however still it managed to look neat.

This chapter is so boring like black and white movie boring. Want to play 0& ×

She looked around to see who was it from and she found Amit smiling at her.
She hurriedly wrote on the back and passed it back to him.

Shut up, I am trying to concentrate, I really don't want to get caught. Have you looked at the professor? He looks like a freaking dementor.

Amit stared laughing as he wrote back.

Yeah! He is kind of scary. He looks dull but he has eyes like a hawk. Nice handwriting by the way .
And gave it back to Aarya.

As Aarya read she heard her and Amit's name being called out in a strict yet subtle voice. Both of them stood up straight as a deathly silence pierced the classroom.

The dementor 's spects rested upon his nose while his hair were neatly parted to his left side. He gave them the kind of look you give when someone asks you to donate one of your kidneys. Then after a few seconds which seemed like hours , he finally spoke ,"miss Aarya Jain and mister Amit Bhagat, perhaps the notes you are passing are of far more importance to you then the knowledge being imparted here and therefore I must ask you to leave the class at once".
"But sir", she tried arguing but couldn't come up with a good excuse.
As she found Amit moving out ,she followed his suit.

After they were out of the building, Aarya spoke fuming with anger. "Thanks, for getting us kicked out by dementor by the way".

"Don't mention it, it was my pleasure", he replied winking at her.
"You are such a jerk", she said now walking ahead of him.
"So I have heard. Now that we are out of that oh-so-boring lecture, what do you want to do?".
"What makes you think I would want to spend time with you?", She countered.

"Because I am smart, funny and I play guitar. I am kinda every girl's dream".
"Get over yourself Amit Bhagat", she replied laughing.
"So you know a lot of stuff?",she added on after a while as they walked in the rose garden of the school. It was out of bounds for students but they ended up roaming their anyways ( yes they have a rose garden in school their school is that big and no thankfully Aarya didn't start her campaign about the unfairness of rose dominating every garden)

"I wouldn't say a lot of stuff but yeah a fair few things", he said running his hands through his tousled hair.
"What's the full form of PS?"
"Post script".
"Distance of moon to earth?"
"384,400km ", he replied as if he had known all along what Aarya will ask.
"That was easy try a bit harder Aarya", he replied seeing the irritated look on her face. She looked so cute, he really enjoyed seeing her this way.
As Aarya thought about what to ask next ,her hair glistened in the sunlight which made her look like so pretty. Amit looked at her awestruck she was pretty obviously but there was so much more to her then that. She was also really cool, intelligent and with an amazing sense of humor.

"Chocolate or ice cream",she finally asked After nothing crossed her mind. After all no important information comes to your mind when you need it.
"Ice cream definitely, I hate Chocolate",he replied.
Aarya looked at him as if he had just committed a murder.
"Wait wait...",she said holding him by the shoulders while standing in front of him. At that time the colour of his face quicker than you can say chocolate.

"How can you hate Chocolate? Hating chocolate is like a cardinal sin",she said looking serious.
"I am pretty sure it's not",he said laughing.
"But chocolate is like tasting nectar from heaven, it's like as if God himself made it from his nectar and ambrosia".
"Actually chocolate was first made by...",Amit started teasing her . He loved the way she got angry at smallest of things. It made her more human, less as if she was a dream.
Aarya was a proper chatterbox, she always had something to speak about.
"Shut up",she said with a look of mock anger on her face.
"Says the girl who can't stop talking".
Aarya just rolled her eyes.
Silence followed after this as chirping of the birds was the only sound heard.
"How many girls had a crush on you till now?". She asked suddenly to start a conversation. Partly because the silence was getting kind of awkward but mostly because she wanted to tease him.
"4 I guess. Like they were my good friends so they told me I don't know about the rest", he replied.
"So what did you say, when they told you they have a crush on you".
"I said good and laughed",he replied.
"You are so mean", she added after a while.
"How come I be mean", he asked looking slightly offended.
"Ok ! So if I said I had a crush on you how would you react?", She quipped.
" I would still say awesome babe. Although on a totally unrelated note are you saying you have a crush on me?", He asked giving a devilish grin.
She punched him hard on the shoulders and then said, "I don't have a crush on you Amit Bhagat , because you are a jerk".

"Right",he said smiling.
"So do you write , like you have a blog or something?", he asked trying to continue the conversation.

"Kind of.. well I have an account on Wattpad so I post there".
"You know there's this guy captnjacksparrow well, we have been talking a lot and he is kind of amazing. I really want to know who he is, it's going to be amazing when we figure each other out",she added on after a while.

"That's.... that's great", Amit said his expressions turning grave. "This this couldn't be", he thought.
The girl who was supposed to be dev 's crush is Aarya.

"Aarya I got to go somewhere, I will meet you later", he lied and then moved towards the exit of the garden.

Amit ran and he didn't stop untill he was standing under the banyan tree. It was his thinking spot. The banyan tree was in the midst of a small forest at the back of the hostel area in their school. He had stumbled upon that place when he was in sixth grade and since then whenever he required to think he would sit under the tree and just let the thoughts flow into his mind. There wasn't anything special about it but somehow it became so special for him. He didn't tell about this place to anyone though because once you start sharing it with someone it's just not only yours anymore. It looses it's charm and he didn't want it to.

He sat down with his back against the bark of the tree and soon the fragrance of that tree filled the air around him. He sat there processing everything he discovered.
Aarya was the girl who was helping dev. Dev wanted to change for her. But Aarya likes Amit too and if she ever chose him over dev. "No",he said thinking out loud. That can't happen if a girl again chose some other guy over him he would never trust anyone again. He loved Aarya true enough but he loved his brother more. "I won't let her choose me, I won't let this happen.",he
mumbled.
Dev needed Aarya in his life. If someone could bring him back it was her.

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