Kiara's POV:

"You didn't answer my question. What are you doing here?" Ritik asked and before I could reply anything I heard him ask another question.

"Wait, Are you here to get an extra piece of cake?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Hey no, I was here to..." I was explaining myself but stopped immediately when I saw him smile. So he was just teasing me. That smile did nothing but making me want to smack his head so hard.

"Why do you keep teasing me?" I asked raising a finger at him however he immediately intertwined our fingers and put my hand down.

"Chill girl, I was kidding and moreover I'm here to get that extra piece of cake." He said as went and brought a plate and knife for himself. Wow, the pot is calling the kettle black. As I kept looking at him pull a chair from beside the kitchen counter and cut a large piece of cake for him. When he saw me looking at him, he gestured if I want it to however I shook my head and looked away.

"Okay." He replied and took a loving glance at that piece of cake before putting it in his mouth.

"You know what, this the most delicious cake and if I don't eat it now, Mom and Aashika will not let me have a glimpse of it again." He stated making me laugh a little. Idiot.

"You still didn't answer me, What were you doing here?" He asked. What is up with him and this curiosity?

"I was thirsty, so came to drink water."

"And who cleaned all the mess over here?" He asked further. I just looked at him letting my eyes answer his question.

"Why?" He asked. I guess his birthday has gone into his head, that's why he is asking stupid questions.

"What why? Aashna aunty would have to clean it so I helped her a little." I replied and saw him looking at me with amused eyes. Did I said something wrong?

"What?" I asked because he kept looking at me. Ritik didn't answered, he just shook his head with a small smile and concentrated on his eating. I think I should leave now.

"Why were you sitting alone?"

"Did you notice?" I blurted out. So stupid.

"Nothing serious. I had some work to do." I replied.

"Ok. Are you done doing your work here?"

"I guess." I replied looking around. I did clean everything, so there was nothing left.

"When you come out, Please don't sit alone. Join us." He said and turned to leave.

"By the way, I know earlier you called me Monkey." He said, this time I was not able to control my laugh. Ritik Monkey, so funny.

"I'm sorry." I apologized, still trying my best to stop laughing.

"No worries. I know you love monkeys." He said with a wink and pointed towards the monkey tattoo on my wrist. No doubt my smile immediately dropped and replaced with epitome of embarrassment. I was little happy to see Ritik moving out of the kitchen but then he stopped again and turned to look at him. He looked excited this time as if he was going to come and tease me. Here you go again!

"Where is my gift?" He asked. Really man?

"Gift?" I asked back and saw him nod seriously.

"Whatever gift dad gave you, That's combined gift from all of us." I replied honestly. After we stopped talking to eachother we never gave any gifts to eachother.

"Miser." He teased again.

"Forget about gift, You didn't even wished me yet." He said further making a very innocent face. Didn't I? Oh no, how did I forgot to do that.

"I'm sorry." I said slowly however he ignored it.

"I'm hurt. You forgot to wish me." He said and started moving from there. Why am I so stupid?

"I'm sorry Richie rich. I seriously don't know how I forgot to do it." I said holding his hand in order to stop him. That idiot should have stopped when I held his hand however he still decided to continue walking, I had to put a little extra efforts and then finally succeeded in stopping him.

"I'm truly sorry. A very Happy birthday." I wished.

"Ok. But what about my gift?" He asked. Why is he so determined to get a gift from me?

"Ok tell me what do you want?" I asked seriously. He looked at me with the same amusement his in eyes which he had earlier.

"We were good friends during our childhood, Right?" He asked. Good friends? I considered you as my best friend, My friend, my lover, my secret keeper, I saw everything in you.

"Why did you stopped talking to me Kiara?"

Next day,

"Then? Did you answer him?" Anika asked. I love this thing about her, she is always so curious to know about me and my life and won't leave until she finds answers to all her questions. No matter how boring the story is, she still listens to it with same curiousity.

"Be my sister-in-law please." I requested.

"Shut up. Your brother is out of my league." She replied.

"Oh come. You are out of his league. That idiot will never find someone like you even if he goes on hunt." I stated and saw her laugh however like always she didn't took that topic further and told me to answer her question.

"No. Firstly I didn't had answer to it and secondly, Kriya aunty came there so Ritik went away." I replied. Somewhere I was happy that Kriya aunty came but on the other hand, the way she looked at us made me think about so many things. She must have thought why Ritik was in kitchen with me when he should have been out with his friends.

Ritik handled the situation saying that he was there to get water and I reasoned out about the cleaning work. Aunty didn't said anything, she smiled at us and went away. Ritik looked at me once she was gone but he didn't ask anything. He just told me not to sit alone and then went out of the kitchen.

"That means she disturbed you both. You know what? Sometimes I feel like locking you both in one room and not opening the door until you both sort things out."

What will happen if we sort everything between us?

"Now stop blushing. Just because I told about locking you in one room doesn't mean you should have perverted thoughts in your mind." She said almost in a teasing tone. I didn't had any perverted thoughts in my mind but telling the same to her was of no use, so I kept quiet.

"You girls have more perverted thoughts than us boys and yet you blame us." Veer said making a weird face.

"Whatever." Me and Anika both said at the same time. Veer is our bestfriend, so there is never any kind of hesitation while talking about anything.

"Let's go now. I'm bored." Anika said. Veer was going to sit in library so I said bye to him and went towards the hall.

"Hi Ritik." Anika greeted, almost screamed like a fan girl. Now she will again make things awkward for me. I cursed myself for not stopping Anika.

"Hey, How are you?" He asked cheerfully.

"Too good. So how was yesterday's party? Kiara refused to tell me the details, so you do the honours."

"Oh party, It was too good. I had fun." Ritik answered.

"But you know why she refused to tell it?" Ritik asked pointing towards me. No doubt Anika's curious self came alive again and with that even I was curious to know his answer.

"Because I caught her red-handed." Ritik replied. Wait, what?

"There was a cake which was yummiest of all the cakes I had till now and Kia was in kitchen to secretly get an extra piece." He said further making me so damn angry and my bestfriend, being my bestfriend started laughing.

"You liar. I was not there to..."

"Wait, what did you just said?" I asked cutting my own sentence. I felt different kinds of sparks inside me and why wouldn't I get them? It was after so long that Ritik finally gave me back my nickname. Kia!

"You were there to get an extra piece of cake." Ritik replied.

"No, not that. What did you called me?" I asked more specifically this time.

"Kiara."

No, I swear I heard him calling me Kia but why is he lying or is it because he is regretting?

Maybe!

"Ok." I replied and looked away.

Ritik's POV:

"Hi guys." Sakshi greeted us, both Kiara and Anika answered her however I choose to ignore her greetings because of all the teasing I faced from her. She saw Me and Kiara in kitchen and then afterwards I asked her to go and talk to Kiara as she was sitting alone even though I told her not to. I could have let go of her thought but something didn't felt right, it was highly disturbing to see her sitting alone. All these days Aashika was behaving normally with her but yesterday she didn't talked with Kiara so Sakshi was the only option left. No doubt she obliged my request but teased me as well.

"I heard you are going to dance in our college's foundation day, is it true?" Sakshi asked.

"Yes it is. Are you going to be there?" Kiara questioned.

"I'm sorry but no, I get bored with all the speeches by principal and vice principals." Sakshi replied and I saw Kiara pout. Idiot Sakshi, you are talking about half of her family members.

"But I will miss your dance." She added.

"No problem, You can see her rehearsal now. Infact now we are going for the same. Join us." Anika suggested.

"Yeah. Nice idea." Sakshi said and dragged me with her to the hall. Once we went inside, I saw Vihaan sitting there.

"Hey, I was waiting for you." He said giving a side hug to Kiara which she happily returned and whispered something to him.

"You jealous?" Sakshi asked.

"Why would I be?" I asked back and sat on the chair beside me. Anika arranged for the music where as Kiara and Vihaan went on the stage and started with their performance. Everytime he touched her, I felt like someone is stabbing my heart. I tried my best to get over that feeling but failed at it.

Why why why?

Why does it feels like I'm back to our old days? Kiara was always fond of dance and I was fond of seeing her solo performance. I hated when she had a dance partner. She was my bestfriend, I didn't liked her getting friendly with anyone but she being the social butterfly got mingled with anyone very easily.

Today when I saw her dancing with Vihaan, I didn't felt good. It disturbed me to see him so close to her. I mentally cursed myself for being so sensitive but I hated to see her with him.

I looked back at the stage and saw Kiara still dancing with Vihaan. To see her hand in his was highly disturbing. Unable to control my emotions, I straight away came out of the hall.

What is happening to you Ritik?

I remembered our good old days, I don't know if Kiara knew about my insecurities but whenever I used to come out of the hall, she always used to follow and scold me for leaving her performance.

However the things were different now. Today when I came out of the hall, there was no Kia asking me reason for the same. So without glancing back I straight away went home.

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