Fates

Part 133- The Calm Before The Storm (Long Update)

"But how am I supposed to work on the project, when I don't even have a partner?" Aryan asked in a whiney voice.

Since Pragya had ordered all of them to work on their respective projects. Shahana and Priyanka, on one sofa in the living room working on their project. As Rishi and Aryan watched them work from another sofa. But while Aryan was lost in a trance of Shahana, Rishi was just glaring daggers at Priyanka the entire time.

And by some miracle Ranbir and Prachi were silently working on their graphs, making a point to sit at the opposite sides of the sofa that they were sharing, as far away as possible, but that did not stop them from stealing glances from each other every so often.

"Oh yes, let me call her and yell at her as promised." Pragya said jokingly as she came out of the kitchen, where she and Saritaji were currently preparing for dinner.

"Wait, let me do the honors. She's going to be so surprised when she hears your voice." Aryan said dialing Riya's number on his phone and handing it to Pragya, smirking as he did so, everyone else watching them in amusement, knowing that Riya was in for it now.

"At this time the number is busy, please try again later." Said the voice-mail automatically, and Pragya did not know why her heart dropped at that moment.

"What? No, she's probably ignoring me on purpose, let me try again." Aryan said, taking the phone from Pragya and dialing Riya's number, only to have it go to voice mail again.

"Wait- let me try." Pragya said fumblingly grabbing her own phone from the table, not knowing why she was becoming so panicky all of a sudden.

"At this time the number is busy, please try again later." Said the voice-mail once again.

"Mumma don't worry, she's probably not picking up because she knows the lecture that you would give her." Prachi said jokingly, seeing the look of absolute worry on Pragya's face.

"Yeah Auntie, she's probably never going to come in front of you again because she knows that it would be her end." Ranbir joked, only making Pragya's worry grow.

"I don't think she will pick up for a couple of hours, because Aryan called her first and all he does is annoy people." Shahana teased jokingly, to which Aryan just made a face.

"Yes, that's true. Plus she has this bad habit of keeping her phone on vibrate, she probably doesn't even know that you called, I'm sure she'll call you back, once she looks at her phone." Priyanka reasoned.

"Yeah- I guess." Pragya said hesitantly, still distressed for some reason. 

"But what about now? What do I do for the project?" Aryan asked in a whiney voice.

"I'll help you! Of course, if the professor allows it?" Rishi asked a little too happy for some reason.

"Sure." Pragya said in a faraway voice as if her attention was somewhere else. Before she silently went back to the kitchen.

"Great... let's go to my room... there are too many distractions here... plus we have a lot of catching up to do." Rishi said, giving Priyanka a look before he all but pulled Aryan away toward his room.

"Where are you going?" Shahana asked confused as Priyanka stood up from her seat as if she was on fire or something, realizing what Rishi planned to do.

"Uh- bathroom." Priyanka said quickly before she all but ran from there.

And even though Shahana wanted to ask Priyanka something else. Her attention was diverted toward Prachi and Ranbir.

"I was going to take that." Prachi said annoyed as they had reached for the same marker on the table, their hands over each other.

"So take it." Ranbir said as he removed his hand from Prachi's.