If This Is Love 2

Part 17

A week passed by peacefully, and gladly this time Arnav actually avoided me just as much as I avoided him, the only times I really saw him was in class or in the hallway making out with random girls.

Everything was so peaceful and normal just like it had been before the storm named Arnav had entered my life.

I passed my exam and topped the class as usual, I concentrated on my classes better even though he always sat around me but at least he never spoke to me.

I mostly kept myself busy, I was either in the class or in the library studying so I could avoid any dramas with Arnav and his other friends.

Not that Karthik and Damon ever really tried to talk to me but Stefan was now kind of a friend to me and I really couldn't avoid him much.

"I thought I'd find you here." I heard a voice, I lifted my head up from my books and found Karthik standing in front of me.

Okay this was weird, way weird. Since they joined, I had talked to all the boys apart from him and now he was here talking to me, why?

"Why were you even looking for me?" I asked in confusion.

"This isn't something I usually do but I thought I could really use your help." He pulled a chair and sat down facing me.

"What help?" I asked curiously.

"Actually it's about Bonnie. You see in the beginning I thought I could just be friends with her, but now I realize I really don't want to be just friends with her, I can't stop thinking about her at all, and she told me very clearly that nothing could ever happen between us.

I've tried all I could to stay away from her but I don't know, she's like got into me. Can you tell me what I can to do for her to trust me at least?" He asked.

"Okay this is surprising. You could have asked for help from Caroline or even Katherine, why me when you all boys clearly hate me?"

"We don't hate you Khushi, I mean maybe Arnav does and Damon doesn't like that Stefan likes you because he thinks you aren't the right one for him but seriously we don't hate you and I thought you'd be the best person to ask for help, I mean I saw the way you fought those guys for her that day which makes me believe you can do a lot for your friends so that's why." He smiled genuinely, honestly I had never expected Karthik to be like this.

"You know Bonnie is really different, she isn't like me or Katherine or even Caroline, she's been more of a simple kind of a girl, she likes to stay away from trouble completely and you my dear, you have trouble written all over you."

"But you are the same as us, you also have trouble all over you but she's still friends with you."

"And she's also friends with you. Look I'm going to be honest with you because I love my friend, she did tell me she liked you but you being the bad boy and your history scares her, so if you really want her to trust you, find a way to make her believe that you won't ever hurt her, not physically at least because emotionally, we all hurt each other even when we don't want to."