Fates

Part 86- Feelings and Confusions

"What do you mean you still want to play another round of truth or dare, aren't you tired?" Aryan asked in a whiney voice, as they were now sitting down on the sofas, all of them having little cotton remains of the pillows still in their hair, even though they had cleaned up the best that they could.

"You might be tired, but we aren't, after all, we got you guys so good." Shahana said with a victory smile, sharing a high-five with Prachi, both of them giggling.

"You didn't win we let you guys win." Riya said in her defense.

"Oh really? I'm pretty sure that you literally begged me to stop hitting you with pillows." Prachi said teasingly, sharing another high-five with Shahana, making Riya pout cutely. While Ranbir remained uncharacteristically quiet, looking at Prachi seemingly lost in thought.

"So are we doing this or not people? I have some very good ideas for truth and dare right now." Shahana said with a smirk looking at Aryan with an 'I will destroy you' expression on her face causing him to make a regretful face.

"Yeah come on let's do it." Prachi said excitedly, that Aryan and Riya had no other choice but to go along with it too to prove that they weren't sore losers.

"Oh hello where are you lost?" Prachi asked confused, noticing that Ranbir was the only one who hadn't gotten up, waving a hand in front of his face to bring him back to reality.

But Ranbir who was still lost in thought, just cutely tilted his head to the side with a soft smile at seeing Prachi so close to him, everything happening in slow motion for him.

"Huh-, what happened? Ranbir asked breaking out of his thoughts as Prachi snapped her fingers in front of his face, while Prachi raised a confused eyebrow at him.

"Do you need a special invitation or something? Come on we're playing truth or dare again." Prachi told Ranbir, not understanding why he was looking lost.

"Oh- okay." Ranbir said getting up from the sofa to follow Prachi.

'What was that, Ranbir? Get yourself together man.' Ranbir thought to himself confused, hitting the back of his head, and sitting down on the floor.

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'So the boy does like the girl.' Riya thought to herself with a soft smile as she saw how Ranbir was looking at Prachi. Thinking back to a time when...

"You and Sahil like each other." Rishi said to Riya, causing her to spit out the soda that she was drinking.

"Wh- wha- what?! Have you gone crazy!" Riya yelled unbelievably, making people look at her weirdly, grabbing a tissue to wipe her mouth,
as they were sitting on one of the tables in the college cafeteria.

"I'm just telling you the truth." Rishi said with a shrug and a knowing smile.

"There's no truth to that! I don't like Sahil and I never will! That man makes my blood boil! Someday I will grab a hammer and break both him and his scooty!" Riya whispered yelled in all seriousness, while Rishi just chuckled.

"That's the same thing I said about Priyanka. Do you remember how much we used to fight? But guess what? Now we're dating. And all the things that used to annoy me about Priyanka are all the things that I love now. And that's what love is." Rishi said with a soft smile, as he looked at Priyanka lovingly from where she was standing by the counter getting food.

"Well that's you and Pri, and honestly you two are weird, so like it was expected, but I don't have any weird hidden feelings for Sahil." Riya said unconvincingly in her defense.

"Okay so tell me this why did you agree to go on that date with Sahil?" Rishi asked knowingly, raising an eyebrow.

"Duh... because I lost that bet." Riya said confused as to why Rishi was asking such a question.