TOMBOY FALLS FOR FLIRT

Ch-11- Keya! Not Again!

Keya and Aarav's friendship was becoming stronger each day.
They would study together, hangout together, eat together and, spend the whole day with Zahra and Sameer.
Zahra and Sam, now fully knew Keya and they supported her and loved her like any best friends would do.
In short, the semester was going out great for them!
The semester exams were on and today was the last paper.

"How did it go?", Zee asked K as they had the same paper whereas Sam and Aarav had another paper according to their specialisation.

"It was great!", She said fist bumping Zee.
"Tom!!!", Aarav exclaimed jumping from behind on her shoulder.
"Are you mad!?", she asked rubbing her shoulder.
"How was it?", Zee asked the other two about their paper.
"Passable.", they chorused laughing.
"Lets go then?", Sam asked.
The other three nodded.
They were going for a outing to Blue mountains because they had got over with their exams.

"Wow.", Zee said as soon as they stepped out.
"Who is up for some posing for DSLR?", Sam said taking out his camera.
"Come Tom, lets get pictures.", Aarav said pulling her in frame with Zee.
"Nope. Thanks.", She said moving out of the camera range.
"Hey!? K, I want pictures with you!", Zee complained.
"What? You don't want pictures by my baby? Don't say that he might feel bad!", Sam said keeping hands over imaginary ears of his camera.
Keya laughed finally.
"What is the heart saying?", Aarav asked.
"It says a yes but I havent clicked a picture in the longest time. I don't know. But heart is beating fast like it wants this picture.", she said with a small smile.
"Come on. He wants you to click the picture.", Aarav whispered in her ears talking about Akash.

"Okay.", she said standing straight in front of camera.
"Okay. Posing basics- Lesson 101.", Aarav said in a teacher voice and made Keya hug Zee and asked Sam to click their picture.
"Oh! It came out nice.", Sam said showing the picture.
"I love it!", Keya exclaimed.
"Told you. Now one with three of you together.", Sam said and Keya was made to pose again by Aarav and Zee.
They clicked lots of pictures, Sam and Zee, Sam-Zee and Keya, Keya and Zee, Zee and Aarav, the boys and the girl and the boy and the girls, in short all the combinations they could.
"I guess we are done!", Zee said finally.
"Nope. I don't have any pics with Tom.", Aarav said.
"Okay! Pose.", Sam said holding up the DSLR to his eyes.
Keya stood up in a side hug pose beside him. She learnt a little posing with all the photos they took.
"One more.", Aarav said to Sam.
This time before Keya could pose, Aarav posed in by giving her a forehead kiss.
Keya got reasonably shocked but sensing that it was pretty much normal for the other three she stayed normal.
The rest of the day went in by having fun, eating and enjoying.
They were on their way back to their houses.
Zahra and Aarav had slept off in the back seat and Sam was concentrated on driving. Keya was looking out of the window.

She was thinking about the amazing day she had. Now the studying semester had got over, few more months along with her final project and she will get a proper post graduation degree.

'But what did that forehead kiss mean?', her brain constantly kept prompting.
Forehead kiss was not a big matter but it felt weird, a different kind of weird when Aarav gave it.

It was a different feeling and surprisingly, it was pleasantly different.
And this was a sort of validation for what she had been experiencing for the past few months.
Yes, for the past months after she told everything to Aarav about herself, he had been supportive like a rock. He had made her slowly mend her relationship with her mom, took care that she didn't perform any self harm and kept her happy. He even accepted Akash as a part of her life. No one except Maahi in her life had been that supportive, their were certain things she couldn't even tell Maahi, because they might have found their mother but Maahi always considered Keya as the mother figure in her life. Aarav was making deeper imprints on her heart each day.
She had started feeling for him more than a friend.
"Keya...?", she felt Sam shake her shoulders.
"Yes?", she asked coming back from her own little world.
"We are at your home. I called you three times. You were really lost. You okay?", he asked concerned.
"Yeah! I am fine. Jus..Just a long day!", she said getting down with her bagpack.