Fates

Part 101- Hide and Seek

"At least let go now!" Shahana whispered yelled as she and Aryan walked into the college building, side by side, their conjoined hands covered by Shahana's dupatta.

"No, as I said before 'pyaar kiya to darna kya' right?" Aryan asked jokingly, holding her hand tighter.

"What's happening here?" Pragya asked coming up behind them, Priyanka next to her, Aryan instantly letting go of Shahana's hand.

"Uh- nothing- we- we're just walking to class." Aryan stuttered out, turning around to face Pragya, while looking at Shahana to back him up, to which Shahana nodded.

"Hah. 'Pyaar kiya to darna kya' my foot, scaredy cat." Shahana whispered under her breath with a short chuckle, but Aryan who heard her made a face.

"But Shahana's first-period class is in the other direction." Pragya said raising an eyebrow in question.

"That's what I was trying to tell him Maasi. But he wasn't listening. Come on let's go before we're both late." Shahana said quickly, as she all but pulled Pragya in the other direction, before she could ask any more questions, looking back at Aryan with a soft smile before she left with Pragya.

"Control, dude, control." Priyanka said with a teasing smile as Aryan who was lost in dreamland looked like he was going to fall to the floor in happiness.

Breaking him out of his trance as she went the other way towards her own class, leaving Aryan alone in the hallway as he made a face in every direction that everyone else had gone in.

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Ranbir froze mid-way while he was walking toward his class as he saw Prachi leaning against a wall in the college hallway.

"Hi, Ranbir." Prachi said with a smile waving at him.

"No you're not-" Ranbir began to say, coming to stand in front of Prachi in a trance-like state. Touching a loose strand of her hair to see if she was indeed real, making her forehead crease in confusion.

"No, she isn't real, she isn't real." Ranbir whispered to himself, stepping away from Prachi, and closing his eyes, confusing Prachi even more because all that she heard was Ranbir mumbling under his breath, not being able to hear what he was saying over the loud noises in the hallway.

"Ranbir, are you okay?" Prachi asked confused, laying a hand on his arm, causing him to open his eyes.

"Oh my God, you are real." Ranbir whispered in shocked amazement, still too low for Prachi to hear. Not knowing what to do.

"What's going on here?" Riya asked curiously, as she came out of the bathroom that Prachi was standing next to, in new clothes, with a towel around her shoulders.

In silence Ranbir looked at Prachi, then looked at Riya, then back at Prachi, eyes going wide in realization.

'Oh my God, this is all real.' Ranbir thought to himself with a regretful face, realizing that he had made a fool of himself in front of Prachi.

"I- I'm going to go." Ranbir said quickly finally loud enough to be heard, in so much confusion, as he all but ran in the other direction, even stumbling for a bit.

"What in the world was that?" Prachi asked genuinely shocked and confused.

"I have no clue." Riya said with a shrug but with a knowing smile.

'Ranbir, yaar, you're so deeply in love with Pikachu, but yet you refuse to admit it, I have to do something about that.' Riya thought to herself with a soft smile.

"Pikachu what are you doing?!" Riya yelled breaking out of her thoughts when Prachi took the towel that was around her shoulders, to rub it against her head.