after few more days of awkwardness, anushree finally decided to talk to aryan. literally the whole class was talking about them and how aryan keeps looking at anushree. 

it was lunch time and anushree was roaming around in the campus, searching for aryan. "oi anushree, looking for your boyfriend?" samaira , the class topper asked with a stupid smirk on her face. 

anushree scoffed and ignoring the topper, walked away from there. in the playground she spotted aryan running with the boys as they were playing football.

"yo!" ashutosh suddenly ran up to her causing her to roll her eyes. 

"I want aryan t-"

"you want aryan??!!" ashutosh fake gasped, trying to hide his stupid smile. 

"I want to talk to him idiot!" anushree glared. 

"fine.i'll go fetch him." said ashutosh before running up to aryan who was busy chasing the football. anushree looked away when ashutosh pointed at her while blabbering something to aryan. seconds later, anushree glanced at aryan to find him walking towards her. 

"hi, you wanted to talk to me?" he asked, smiling slightly. 

"yes. . . " anushree trailed off, not sure how to initiate the conversation. 

"tell me." aryan urged while anushree was still not sure how to start. 

"ANUSHREE!!" came the screeching voice of sara and anshika who grabbed her by her arm. 

"what?" anushree frowned, glancing at the two of them. 

"come on, we need to tell you something." said anshika. 

"sorry aryan, see you later." sara grinned before dragging anushree with her. 

"hey stop stop." anushree tried to wriggle out of their grasp. 

"we need to tell you something!" said anshika. 

"what?" anushree frowned. 

the girls reached a more deserted area and made sure that nobody was around them.
"we think that-"

"aryan is going to ask you out!" sara squealed. 

"what!" anushree shrieked, her eyes going wide in response,"what are you even saying!"

"we heard him talking to ashutosh about how you were practically ignoring him." anshika explained. 

"that git!" anushree gritted,"no.seriously. what's wrong with everyone? we're just what- so young." 

"oh shut up anushree." sara groaned,"he's so sweet. you can't just break his poor heart. he's so damn good. excels in every field."

"what's wrong with you two? I'm not here for dating or anything. I thought we were good friends, best friends actually. I really need to sort things out."

with that anushree ran away from her friends, to the playground where aryan was talking to some other boy who anushree didn't know. 

"aryan, can we talk for a minute?" anushree asked causing aryan to look at her. nodding he excused himself and walked a little away from the boy. 

"yes?" asked aryan. 

"okay let me get this straight." anushree took a deep breath,"we are just friends okay. nothing more than that. I don't want it to turn into something which would make us awkward. it's really good knowing that I have someone like you. I feel so relaxed when I talk to you. you're one of my best friend aryan and I want it to stay that way."

aryan dumbfounded stared at anushree but hesitantly nodded. 

"okay, I'm really sorry that I made you feel uncomfortable. . . " he apologised. 

"no, no, it's not your fault. it's okay." anushree smiled awkwardly. 

"so what are we?" aryan asked. 

​​​​​​anushree thought for a moment before answering,"buddies.sounds cool."

"yeah." aryan chuckled lightly,"but let's change it to best buddies."

"best buddies." anushree repeated, smiling at him. 

a/n: i- don't come at me ಥ‿ಥ