Humesha- An Accidental Love Story

10.The Patna Girl

Nandini

Aiyyappa!

Nandini Murthy how do you manage to get late everytime?

"Because you love sleep more duh" my subconscious mocked and I pouted.

Ignore Nandini. I G N O R E.

I repeated under my breath and left home for college.

After an hour of travelling in the stupid traffic I finally made it to my class 10 minutes late than usual but I think it's fine since the teacher still hasn't arrived. I sat on my usual seat with my earphones plugged in when I felt the seat next to me getting occupied. I turned to find the girl whom I had saved from getting bullied the other day looking at me with a big grin and did it look creepy.

"Uh hey. You need something?" I asked, awkward and unsure whilst she kept staring at me.

"Nahi actually hum toh tumhe thank you kehne aaye the" she said with that huge grin on her lips but I frowned.

Hum? But she's toh alone na? And why does she want to thank me?

Frowning, I looked all around me but found no one except her so I decided to express my confusion.

"Tum aur kaun? Aur tum dono mujhe thanks kyu bolna chahte ho?" I asked confused but the girl laughed at my question.

What was so funny?

"Are hum matlab main. Humare patna me main ko hum bola jaata hai na isliye aur thank you kyuki tumne uss din hume unn shaitaano se bachaya" she explained and I mumbled a quiet Oh.

"By the way I am Nandini" I introduced myself, forwarding my hand for a handshake that she didn't accept.

"Hum hai Navya Naveli from Patna aur hum na Ranbir ke bohot bade fan hai" she said excitedly, with a glint of excitement in her eyes that made me smile.

She seemed very naive yet fun loving. She was going to be an interesting company for me for sure.

I smiled at her while she continued to blabber about herself. I didn't stop her since I knew it was useless to do so. She stopped once the teacher entered and we got busy in making our notes.

Our lectures for the day were done and it was time to go home, the place I had started to loath.

Sigh.

I bid bye to Navya and walked towards the parking lot when I felt a hand pulling me and even before I could shout or understand what happened, I was pushed back again and till the time I turned, I found no one around me.

Wierd.

I reached my car and started putting my stuff on the backseat when I saw a sticker kind of a thing on my arm which said 'danger alert'.

Yeh kaha se aaya?

I shrugged and threw it away and grabbed my bag to fish out some chocolates to hog on whilst I drive but instead found a note that read-

"You messed with the wrong person Murthy"

Ok now I was getting angry as my thoughts wondered around people who could do such pranks and the first name I could think of was Manik. I nodded to myself and was about to sit in my car when I found Manik walking towards me, busy on his phone.

Look how nonchalant he is after pranking me like he did nothing at all.

"Manik" I called out even though I knew our conversation was nowhere going to be sane.