Fates

Part 132- To Befall

"Someone was ringing the doorbell, you all were just being too loud for it to be heard." Pragya said she opened the entrance door, finding no one in front of her.

"I wasn't being loud, he was being loud!!" Prachi yelled defensively from inside the house.

"You're the one who's yelling right now!!" Ranbir yelled in retaliation, Pragya shaking her head in disappointment, as she looked around for who had rung the bell, turning her head to look at...

"What are you two doing?!!" Pragya yelled shocked, thankfully not being heard from inside over Prachi and Ranbir's yelling. As Rishi and Priyanka instantly separated, semi-out of breath, not making eye contact with Pragya. Though Rishi still had that possessive look in his eyes, he moves his hands away from the wall, letting Priyanka pass, and then they stood in front of her side by side, head down, like scolded children, waiting for her to say something with regretful faces.

If there was ever an article about the top ten worst ways that someone found out about your relationship, this would definitely make the list. But Pragya did not say anything, just stood there looking from Rishi to Priyanka and back, piecing it all together.

'There's a boy.' Priyanka had told her in the car. 'That's because he seems to have forgotten every promised he made.' Priyanka had said at the dining table while looking at Rishi. 'She means that he kind of just forget about us after he graduated.' Riya had covered with an awkward smile. 'She was even too weak to walk so Rishi had to carry her.' Aryan had said with a hint of a smile.

Pragya thought about all this, her mind flashing back to how sometimes she would catch Rishi staring at Priyanka with a certain longing. And how Priyanka would look back at him with a certain pain in her eyes. How Riya and Aryan would always act weird around them. Realizing that all of them knew. Slightly hurt that all of them had hidden it from her.

But still, Pragya did not say anything, just wordlessly reached up with her pallu to swipe away the smeared lipstick from Priyanka's chin, making her blush red like a tomato in embarrassment, while the regret on Rishi's face grew, at this point even yelling would be better than whatever was happening right now.

And then Pragya grabbed onto Rishi's arm and led him inside the house, without a word, giving Priyanka a look that told her to follow behind, she did so with a regretful face wondering what was going to happen next.

"Oh! Come! Come in! You'll be our tiebreakers! Who do you pick?" Ranbir asked as soon as they entered the house, and at that moment they were forever grateful for him, because Pragya paused in the middle of the living room, letting go of Rishi's arm.

"Rishi, we live in the same house, pick me! And Priyanka, yesterday who helped you? It was Shahana and she's on my team, so pick me!" Prachi yelled urgently.

"Priyanka, you've known me longer than you have her, don't betray me like that! And Rishi, yesterday you lend me your clothes, and that is a pathway to awesome friendship, so pick me and don't ruin our future friendship!" Ranbir yelled in his defense.

"Don't listen to-!" Both Ranbir and Prachi began to yell.

"Enough! At least let them speak." Pragya said sternly, shutting them up, as they went back to glaring daggers at each other again. While both Rishi and Priyanka looked at Pragya with a moment of hesitation as if asking permission to speak, to which Pragya just gave them a blank look.

"Okay so.. what are we picking you guys for?" Rishi asked, confused, finally speaking.

"They're fighting about who should do the graphs for the project again because one of them ripped them." Shahana informed, with an amused smile.