Fates

Part 112- The Heart Always Remembers

And standing in front of the door was none other than... Rishi.

"Why are you ringing the bell, don't you have a key?" Pragya asked confused.

"Oh, I actually... forgot it... at the office." Rishi said sheepishly looking down at the floor.

"Oh, that happens sometimes." Pragya said nodding her head in understanding.

"Okay now go freshen up, you must be tired." Pragya said caringly as Rishi entered the house.

"What happened why aren't you going?" Pragya asked confused when Rishi remained rooted to his spot, looking at Shahana and Prachi's room which was closed in confusion.

"N- no nothing... I'm going to go." Rishi said, tilting his head in confusion, as he started to walk towards his own room.

'Why did I feel like Priy- no that's impossible how would she be here? I'm just imagining things.' Rishi thought to himself shaking his head.

He then went inside his own room closed the door behind him, slid down the door, leaned against it for support, hiding his face in his hands, rubbing his face with a heavy sigh, thinking that he was going insane.

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"Okay, okay, truce, I call a truce." Prachi said out of breath as she was standing out in the still pouring rain, without an umbrella.

"Of course, you call a truce now that I have the umbrella." Ranbir said he was too out of breath as he stopped running to look at Prachi, the umbrella in his hand now.

"Ranbir come here!" Prachi yelled chasing after him as he started running again.

"Never!" Ranbir yelled behind him, as he tried to outrun Prachi.

"Hah. Got you." Prachi said victoriously, as she succeeded in grabbing the handle of the umbrella.

"Let go, Prachi." Ranbir said trying to tug the umbrella away from her hand.

"No, you let go." Prachi said tugging back.

"Hah, you'll never catch me." Ranbir said happily as he roughly tugged the umbrella from her hold, starting to run again, but then stopping to catch Prachi as she who wasn't expecting that pull, lost her balance.

They stood there, lost in each other's eyes, one of Ranbir's arms wrapped around Prachi's waist, holding her, and an umbrella in the other hand, covering both of them from the rain, a picture-perfect moment.

"What's happening here?" Said a teasing voice, breaking them out of their trance.

"Oh good you're finally here, I was beginning to think that you might have gotten lost, or maybe your weak immune system won and that you were somewhere being sick right now." Prachi said jokingly, as she straightened up while Ranbir moved away from her.

"Hey Pikachu, I'm here now, so don't insult me, that's rude." Riya said in her defense but with a small smile as she guessed what might have happened between them.

"Okay, but why do you look like that? You're going to actually get sick." Prachi said, ever the overprotective one as she came to stand in front of Riya who was drenched from head to toe.

"Why do I look like this? You should be asking yourself that, you look worse than me. Had a little too much fun playing in the rain, didn't you?" Riya asked teasingly, as she covered herself and Prachi with the umbrella in her hand.

"No... it's all just idiot Kohli's fault." Prachi said with a light blush coloring her cheeks, as she thought about what had happened.

"Oh my God, I already apologized for that. When will you let it go?" Ranbir asked dramatically as he came to stand next to them, finally breaking out of his trance of looking at Prachi fondly, seemingly lost in thought.