A Tale of Trust - A DevAkshi & SamAina FF

Chapter 13 - Past and Present.

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"Naina phone baj raha hai." Swati told Naina for the nth time.

"La la la la" Naina ignored the reminder again. The girls had been preparing their beds.

Naina's phone started ringing at 10 in the night. The girls were having a chat with Sonakshi. As soon as the number flashed Naina began urging everyone to go to bed. The trio finally came to sleep at 11. Naina's phone was ringing at the frequency of 3 calls after every 5 minutes.

"Dekh Naina ya to tu phone ko silent pe kar de ya phone utha le. Aise beech me kyu latka rahi hai Jijajee ko?" Preeti picked up Naina's phone and handed it to her.

She took it with a frown.

"Ye ladki bahut confuse karti hai." Swati said in between her yawns.

Naina stared at her phone as if waiting for it to give a solution for her problem but the rude, black screen stared back at her without a reply.

"Arz kiya hai" Preeti nudged Swati "Na raha jaye, na doori sahi jaaye." 

"Waah waah" Swati said with her eyes on Naina.

"Na raha jaye, na doori sahi jaaye;" Preeti raised her eyebrows as if waiting for the girls to complete the shayari.

Swati and Naina looked at each other with confusion. That was when Naina's phone began ringing again.

"Mujhe neend na aaye, Mujhe chain na aaye." Preeti completed the lines of her shayari with a now infamous song while pointing at Naina's phone.

"Chup." Naina scolded the two.

"Silent kar de ya utha le." Swati repeated Preeti's advisory.

It wasn't just a matter of Naina picking up Sameer's call. They were actually hinting towards Naina's state of limbo. On one hand Naina was using all her sash on Sameer along with emptying a month's quota of rudeness on the poor poor boy but on another hand she couldn't digest the sight of him with someone else.

"Tu baat kar le." Naina passed the phone to Preeti.

"Na Munni Na." Swati said no and Preeti laughed at her Munni reference. The girls got engaged in a pillow fight. They weren't being of any help to her.

When Sameer was about to give up Naina finally picked the phone.

"Hello Naina" He couldn't supress his excitement.

"Hmm"

"Tumhe pata chala ki humein college fest host karna hai?"

"Hmmm"

"Toh?"

"Toh?"

"Toh kya?"

"Kuch nahi."

Sameer could bang his head then and there.

"Tumhe yaad hai school me humne assembly me Dhumrapan ke nuksan par speech di thi? Yaad aaya?"

Naina couldn't help but laugh a little on their amateur speech.

"Haa yaad hai."

Sameer thanked his stars for making Naina speak a little.

"Toh iss baar bhi waise hi chila chila ke, mechanical tarah se bolna hai ya thoda dhang ka kuch prepare karna hai?"

Naina remembered her speech and her guard fell down a little.