''So, dear students and respective guardians we have something interesting to share with you all''

''This is our first ever event with so many famous personalities in one place. I'm quite sure none of You have never thought of such a competition like this would happen ever. But look, we organised it. we organiser this big event for our future generations and see it is one of the most successful events so far.''

''Let's cut the details and let me tell you one of the biggest secrets of our event. In today's competition we did something unusual. you students must have noticed something different in today's competition. yess I am talking about the question papers. we gave each student 4 different question papers. Each question was different from each other. It was up to the students which question they wanted to answer. they were free to choose their own question."

''You guys already know all this but what you don't know is that In between those 4 question papers we had included one such question which is not from your syllabus. That paper contains high level questions.''

Hearing this, many students tried to object..

''Calm down young starts. I know you might think we did injustice but believe us. We did It keeping something very important in our mind. We wanted to check your IQ level. And we did this though this exam. And let me clarify one more thing. As you can see we have distributed trophies among the winners. We have done this based on the normal question so no one can say that we have done injustice to so many students. We have already given you what you guys deserved. Now it's time for the special category.''

''Some of you may wonder who would take the risk of answering the difficult question set leaving the easy ones. Some of us also thought the same. Still we included those question and we all proved wrong. Yess. You heard it correctly. one student took that risk. Yess. Only ONE. What do you think? Was he able to solve that set of difficult questions correctly?''

''Obviously he/she has done worse.'' Akash said to Payal.

''Why do you think that?'' Payal asked with a frown.

''Konsa duffer aisa question choose karega? if anyone did then He/she might be a mental patient.'' Akash replied.

Payal kept quiet listening to his bakwasss.

''That student got the highest score.. Yess highest scour. No one got that mark even by answering the simplest questions.''

Everyone was surprised.

''Yes. We were also surprised to see his test paper. He is a genius. We can't just give him a simple first position for his outstanding performance. Can we? Therefore, We had to think of a better position for him. That's why we waited so long to give this special prize.''

''So, the time has come the give the price to The best Warrior of our ''Warrior Competition''

Everyone waited to see the Champion.

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''Arnav....''

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.....mmmm...'' okay.. no surname. That's fine. soo Arnav...... From xpz school''

Hearing the name of the champion, everyone clapped their hands and started looking for the boy who won this competition..

But the champion was in a state of shock ...

''Arnav! You there?'' They called him again.

Arnav sat in his place like a statue. He couldn't believe he won. Won? How did it happen?

''Arnav''

''Arnav''

''Arnav''

Arnav could barely hear anything. Arnav looked around and saw the curious eyes of the audience. He got afraid. He didn't want to face this crowd.
He didn't want them to crowd around him for a while and then leave him alone all dejected.

He tried to hide himself in between the crowd. He knew his name had been called repeatedly but he didn't want to step out into the spotlight. He closed his eyes tightly thinking he could get vanished from there if he did so.

But he couldn't close his eyes for long as he heard his name again..

Earlier His name was called several times but he didn't respond that time but this time he wanted to respond to this particular caller.

His Khushi. His Khushi was calling him. How could he stay quiet even after hearing her call?

One the other hand, Khushi was getting tensed as Arnav was not coming out. She badly wanted to see him on the stage. She wanted him to make an appearance in front of the whole crowd.

''Pls Arnav. Come out. Don't do this. Please don't hide yourself...Pls don't...'' Khushi mumbled and then again shouted ''Arnavvvv''

This time Arnav stood up from his chair and a spot light fell on him. Someone screamed '' Yess.. yess. This is Arnav. This is Arnav.''

Arnav felt something wet on his cheek. Apparently, tears flowed down his eyes without his knowledge.

He touched his cheek and found tears.

He was crying. Crying because he did it. He didn't disappoint his friends, his Khushi. He was so overwhelmed that he couldn't look up and see the overcrowded students.

He started walking ahead without looking up but he was stopped by a sudden hug.

Arnav felt someone hugging him tightly and mumbling something in his ear. He knew who that person was. He didn't have to look up to see who that person was.

Yes, the person who hugged him was none other than khushi. Khushi hugged him tightly and started shouting like a fool. Till now arnav was silent due to an unknown fear but now he felt relieved. because his khushi was there with him. He didn't have to think about anything because Khushi would handle everything. He had that much faith in her. But the problem was that in his fear and excitement he lost the ability to hear anything. Everyone around him was shouting and congratulating him and most importantly his khushi was saying something to him but he couldn't hear anything. All he could see was Khushi moving her lips rapidly without any break. He frowned and tried to understand what she was saying. But he couldn't understand anything.

Didn't know what happened to him but khushi understood his problem and instead of telling him anything else she embraced him in a warm hug. Arunav happily returned the hug as if he was just waiting for this hug. Everyone was watching them in aweee.

''Sorry for the disturbance kiddos but if you guys are done with your hugs and all can we get our winner on the stage pls.''

Finally they broke apart from the hug and Khushi nodded her head and pushed Arnav forward to go to the stage. But Arnav stood immobile holding her hand on his tight grip. Khushi nodded her head negativity and pushed him so that he could go to the stage and started moving back.

Arnav wiped his face and started walking towards the stage. The host welcomed him with a warm hug and took him to Mr. Oberoi.

Mr. Oberoi looked at the boy in front of him with a lot of admiration and felt proud of his timely decision. If he didn't agree with that pagal girl that day then they could have lost this gem of a student.

He took the medal and crest for awarding this amazing boy..

Arnav felt foggy. He didn't know what happened after Khushi pushed him towards the stage. Everything became a blar for him. He didn't know what he did, who he met. What he said. All he knew was that his heart was searching for only one person whom his eyes couldn't locate in the crowd but his ears heard her calls. All the while she was cheering for him, calling his name and his heart felt at peace listening to her voice.

Just like that everything ended, without him realising anything. All he remembered was Akash and payal, who accompanied him all the time like a shadow as if he would despair if they didn't follow him.

He tried looking for khushi many times in the crowd but couldn't find her anywhere. Then he tried to look for Aman and Zoya but luck wasn't in his favour as he couldn't find any of his friends and at the end of the day he found himself sitting alone on his dirty bed in the store room

HP saw the gold medal he got in the compilation and felt really proud of his Arnav baba. He always knew that his Arnav baba was a gem of a person who lost his way after his father's death. All he needed was a little care and guidance to show him the right direction and the Almighty finally heard his prayers and sent an angel like khushi bitiya in his Baba's life.

HP caressed the medal for a while longer and then handed it back to Arnav.

"Keep it safely baba! This is your first achievement. May you get many more models like this and become a prosperous person in your life just like sahab dreamed of you'' HP blessed him with teary-eyed and left from there weeping his tears.

Arnav felt good hearing HP's words. He smiled thinking about Khushi. He didn't fail her. He fulfilled her dreams but couldn't get any chance to meet her after the program. Where was she!

His family was having their dinner outside and the TV was kept on. The News was telecasting on the tv and his mumma and di were talking about something. Suddenly he heard the news of their event . Arnav could hear everything from the store room. How the reporter was talking about the show. Then they show the clip of him, receiving the prize and the news goes on with some more details about the event. And at the end they show a short interview of him.

''So, Arnav, tell us something about you. Who is your inspiration?'' Asked one of the reporters.

''My mumma'' Arnav replied without thinking . He still doesn't know why he said that. Maybe because in the past it was always his mumma who took him to all his competitions. She had been very excited about every competition he went for and was always there to support him or cheer for him. Maybe that's why her name came out of his mouth like that.

After that he answered some more of their questions. Arnav placed his ear to the wall to hear what his family members were talking this event. But all he could hear was silence. They completed their dinner silently and left from there as if they had heard nothing. Arnav felt bad.

After having his dinner silently, He was about to sleep when he heard the sound of the bell ringing. He looked up to see the clock.

''11:49! Who can come at this time? '' Arnav thought..

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So, here is the update and I will try my best to give regular updates . Hope you guys will support me like before.

And sorry for the Clift hanger.

''Who do you think came to RM?''

Let me know your opinion through comments.

Thank you.
Krity🤍