Update : I'm unwell with cough and breathing problem rn. Still thought about you guys awaiting a chapter. So here it is.

I'm so lovin the chapter title. Varun is like that irritating lil brother of yours, you want to tease the heck out of! IDK why ? He totally friendzoned by all and the one he got for himself is mashallah! ^no offense^ 

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[Alia's POV]

Adi spinned the bottle for distracting the current mood set by the hyperactive ishaqzaade's. VD got his luck.

He choosed Shredz with a victorious smile and said "Truth for you! Describe a childhood incident of yours that has still gripped you with emotions" he winked at her.

Shraddha looked a bit lost for words. She wasn't responding to his deliberate attempt of leg pulling. Sid snapped her out of trance.

"Hey Aisha, go ahead." Sid did his best to give her a push. Rannu smirked at them and said "Now don't start the keech de usse adheron se ujiyalon mein, shit!" referring to the inspirational dialogue from their film ek villain. 

EPIC 

"Yeah Arohi! You can do it my girl" encouraged adi in his aashiqui avatar. Great, now everyone's getting nostalgic.

"Hhuh...??" She got snapped quite late from her chain of thoughts and must have missed the whole filmy encouragement from her co-stars.

"Arohi ?" he cooed. She looked at him in bewilderment and asked.

"Haan..bolo"

"Kuch nahi.......bas yunhi!" he said with a smile and sighed at her which made all of us roll back our eyes. Too much cheesiness.  

"Now all we need is mohit suri and arijit singh! Bohot ho gaya drama. Kahani bata chirkut!" snapped VD.

"It is surely not the terrible part of my childhood, but yeah. I was certainly sad after this incident took place" She started. We keenly leaned in to listen. It might be something grave. 

"I was like eight or nine back then. And I had the most amazing of people surrounding me - family, friends and all! I was always chirpy, bubbly and a happy go lucky girl" she finally started narrating her tale.

"Woh to tu abhi bhi hai! Ismein naya kya?" asked a curious Rannu. I glared at him to shut his mouth full of illogical questions.

"Chup! Bilkul shaanth! You continue bro." I silenced the rest and smiled at her to continue.

"Haan..so one day I decided to convey my feelings to a certain someone. His decision could have changed both our lives forever. I had this crush on my childhood buddy and slowly after being fully sure of my feelings, decided to confess it to him. We were at darjeeling along with our family for a quick holiday. I called him up at a secret hill top where we would meet up secretly almost the day we discovered it. I waited for him at the hill top and finally he did came. I was feeling all shy suddenly and was terribly blushing. He asked me the reason of my sudden call. I mustered up the courage to tell him that I really really like him a lot and want him to be with me! He looked angry at my confession and throwed away his favourite  blueberry muffins that I brought with myself for him. He told me that nobody can ever fall for a chirkut (cockroach) like myself and he hates me. I cried a lot that day and after this incident I never smiled much. I had lost my happiness, it felt. I lost my confidence. I became this shy byproduct. Coming into bollywood and meeting you all made me revive the old Shraddha Kapoor back a bit! Thank you guys for all the love and support!" she ended her story with a weak smile and a tear drop escaped her eyes.

We all were kinda shocked with this new revelation. We never knew that such a thing ever happened to her. I side hugged her and soon adi followed.

"Waise, shredzy who was that boy? I so wanna punch the hell out of him!" said Sid slipping into his  protective brother shoes.

She smiled at him and looked at a certain someone in our group. I followed her direction of vision and saw VD sitting all lost and gloomy. I couldn't match this to the question asked by Sid.

 "She was talking about me!" VD shocked us. Tears were flooding his brown orbs. He came and sat near Shraddha and gave her a warm hug. They wiped each other's tears while the rest of us sat like fools guessing the whole situation. 

He, what ?

"It was me who broke her heart! That boy in her story was me folks. Chirkut, I don't know if this makes sense after so many years but I'm extremely sorry. I was so stupid back then. You were so naive. You deserve a lot more better looking and loving person than me. I love you my Chirkut. We always will be the bestest of buddies." He said and kissed her forehead with affection.  We all made an awww voice as it surely was an awwey moment!

"Awww!! Love you to Batuklal. I forgive you! Don't you dare to hurt me again. Or else I have my two bodyguards - My Villain Bro Siddy and My beautiful bro Alia with me. They're gonna smack you for sure." She winked at us. We smiled and did a mock saluted.

"And what about me? Mekko sab bhool gaye!" pouted Adi in a childish way.

"Rahul....I love youu!!" Shredz tried to lighten his mood and he gave her a bright orbit teeth smile.

So the game continued. Rannu spinned the bottle and it pointed Sid.

He choosed Adi and in return Adi gave him a sensational flying kiss. Ewww... I sighed as another bromance was on its way , as if we were not fully brainwashed and satisfied with Rannu-Fubu and VD- Ayu!

"So Adi, I dare you to sing a song but make sure it is terrific in the most besura of all voices. I know you can make us all proud." I badly wanted to punch Sid by now There was no way Adi would sing. He'd wake up my family. Not that they'd care but they won't appreciate a bad singer gargling his throat!

He got my angry signal vibes somehow and said " Its ok! You gotta just sing in such a way that it is audible enough to wake up rahul bhai, a room next to this one" he winked.

"Bhai tu mujhe marwaayega. I'm scared of all that physique." Adi frowned.

"He is not gonna eat you for sure" I tried to fight back since they were talking about my lovely brother who certainly wasn't that lovely in these situations! It's not as if bhai is some jurrasic monster always on the verge of action. Yeah but if you get on his wrong side, then boo! 

Enjoy.

"Have you ever tried to look properly at him? He is so tall, broad like Khali with all those biceps and six pack abs" Adi reminded me. We laughed at his pathetic condition.

"Okayy...ummm....here it goes. Although I have a mesmerising voice, I would still try to sound as badass I could be, thorough to my capability!" he said.

He cleared his throat, did a "Floor pranaam" and Ayu blessed him. He finally started his raag....

"Sun rahaa hai na tuuuuuuu????? Ro rahaan hoon mainnnn!!!"

Uh-oh!

I've always wondered how dinosaurs hot extinct. Like a single explosion can't wipe away the entire race of species from the face of earth. But now I got it. They must have heard something as horrendous as this. It might have turned them lunatics and then, whoosh! 

They got extinct!

Heaven, it was so pathetic! Never expected him to shout like that and call it singing. If his voice could penetrate deep down into the earth, it could create a commotion underneath. Honey singh still made colourful raps. But this guy ?  

"Sun rahaa hai na tuuu..kyun ro raha hoon mainnnn!!" he was taking his raag pitch a notch higher. That could be his call to leave this world soon. 

Before all of our ear drums could explode and we turned deaf, a masculine voice screamed and finally it saved us from his not-so-amusing voice!

"Kaun ro raha hai raat ko ?"

God! 

It worked!

Rahul bhai stood in front of my room in all his glory looking at us as if he would pulp us down at any instant. I tried to show the ever successful puppy eye expression but it didn't worked here. 

He was angry.

"Who among you doesn't values their life? What was about all that shouting aloo?" he asked. Ayu covered Adi from Bhai's sight and it looked cute to me.

"Umm...we were playing Truth and Dare bhai! Usmein we had given a dare to one among us!" said Rannu with a frightened face.

"To wake me up , right ?" asked bhai.

"Gosh! Your so genious bhaiyaaa!!" shredz squealed in an unbeliveable excitement tone.

Stupid Girl!

"Ismein genius waali kya baat?" asked a rather cute and confused VD. 

Stupid Boy!

Bhai gave a murderous death glare to VD.

Good for him!

Adi stood out of nowhere  and  straightaway gave an apology and accepted his folly surprising all of us! Bhai looked impressed with his genuine apology. 

It worked.

"Okay! You kids better be silent now. Abb so jaao please" with this final warning he stomped out of my room.

We sighed a heave of relief.

"Acha! Ab final ke two chances are left. We'll end this game after them and would go to get some Alright?" I asked them before they could come up with something else.

"Aye aye CAPTAIN!!!" they all mocked a salute at me.

NOTE : I've officially kickstarted the work on my new story, a muslim love story inspired by a serial. The book name is "Qubool Hai? (A modern muslim love story)" As of now I've updated the AN note and characters with their beautiful picture descriptions. You won't regret checking this out. 

Love, 

Jemi :)