"Eby, can't you hear it? No means no. Is here no one worth singing other than me?" Farhan heavied a fed up sigh.

How long he had been giving excuses before those annoying ones?

"It's our last year here. And after few days, we will be parting ways. It was our dream to make you sing. But you.." Farhan avoided eyecontact as Eby switched on to his senti mode.

"Wait, we will be parting ways for real?" Aju muttered to Eby for which he got replied with a hard glare.

"We had never compelled you for anything before." Eby came closer to stand face to face with Farhan, passing a questioning look.

Farhan looked at the whole crowd through the backstage and back at the duo. Eventhough he was trying hard to heal his bleeding heart inside, he could not just blow away their happiness. He nodded, throwing his look somewhere else.

"Where the hell is Ainu? She is supposed to be here by now." Aju whispered to Eby before their eyes fell on the other one who was looking at them, leaning on the wall.

"Is everything okay? When I asked about her to Farhan, he treated me with his murdering look." Said Aju while heading to the hallways with Eby.

Eby chose to keep silent as he himself could not figure out the thing between those three.

Giving a break to his thoughts, Eby took out his phone to call Ainu as he watched Farhan unzipping his guitar bag.

Few minutes later, Anjali and Rinu came to them. "Can we announce his song now? Or else we should shift it after the break." Enquired Rinu.

"No. You better put it in evening programmes. Ainu said that she too wanted to be here when he sings."

"Then where that frogii girl had gone?" Asked an extremely annoyed Anjali.

"It was Neil who picked up her phone. He told they were in the orphanage to transfer a cheque as ordered by Ishaan. But I'm clueless how she ended up being with him." Eby scratched the back of his neck.

"Well, it was Ishaan who said to do so." Anjali said, shifting a teasing smile to the trio. Eby shook his head in disbelief.

"When will be the phone breaker coming?" She asked out.

"I don't know the exact date. Anyways, he called Ainu yesterday. You better ask her."

"WHAT? Are you for real? You mean.. Ishaan? Calling? That too Ainu?" Anjali gaped at him with a popped out look as well as Rinu.

"Yeah! I know, it's a horrible thing to believe this but I can literally make anything possible." He smiled at them with his head up.

But his smile did not last for more and changed to a thin line as he came to see Farhan behind them. Farhan moved to take a position before Rinu, his hands shoved in pockets.

"Rinu, tell them not to change the list. I would be the one performing next. The very next. Did you hear it?" She narrowed her eyes, double checking what he had said but nodded, watching his fury eyes.

      "Har ghadi badal rahi hai
       Roop zindagi..
       Chaanv hai kabhi kabhi hai
       Doop zindagi..
       Har pal yahan, jee bhar jiyo
       Jo hai samaa Kal ho Na ho..."

"Despite of his wild and mysterious character, his song is so good to hear." Zoya commented with much difficulty. Praising was something she hated to the core!

Getting no response from Shreya, she turned her side to look her.

"Shreya? Hello?" But she was so dipped in her thoughts.

"Oh sorry! I forgot that you are in London Now." Said Zoya, focusing her look to the stage again.

His song was treated by a loud applause from the crowd contrary to the fact that he was liked by none. But the sad part was that he himself being the reason for it.

Amaaya ran through the hallways as soon as they reached the college.

"Arrey, take me too yaar." Neil yelled out.

But Amaaya had already gone. She stopped at the main hall, panting, only to see Farhan on the stage. She stood there without even bating her lashes for once.

"Ainu?" Aju's loud voice helped everyone to notice her presence.

Farhan stepped out the stage, heading to the other side after which the announcement for the break made. It did effort to wipe out a major portion of the students there.

"Faru.." Amaaya called out almost muttering.

He thought for a while before spinning around to face her. "What?"

"Where have you been these two days?" She ignored the matter regarding his song to enquire the most important.

"Why should I tell you?"

"What?" She thought what she heard was wrong.

"Is there any rule like I should tell each little things to you?" He let out a sarcastic chuckle. "Afterall, who are you to question me?"

"Whoa! Whoa! Fantastic." Zoya smirked.

"I liked it." Added Lenin.

"Can you guys shut your dirty mouths for a while?" interrupted Shreya.

Amaaya gulped at his harsh words as the other four watched them with disbelief.

"But Faru.." She began.

"Stop it with your Faru Faru! I'm not that desperate to hear you. Hear you again. I, I had enough. Now please leave me alone. Please." He pleaded with his hands.

"What happened to you? You are talking like someone else." Tears began to fall down her face.

"Ofcourse. I will be behaving strange to the one who changes their mind time by time. See, I'm not a kid to live by your words. I know what to do. Where to go. And I don't have to convince anyone about my personal matters. You got it?" He accused a finger at her making her even more weak.

"Farhan, what drama is going over here?" Eby intervened, raising the question playing on every heads.

"Please Eby, don't interfere!" He looked back at Amaaya who kept weeping.

"What? Are n't you going? I have already told you damn. I don't want to see you. Please! Please leave me alone."

Amaaya took a step forward to him to which he moved back, raising his hand.

"I don't, I don't understand what you..." She lost her control, breaking into more tears.

"STOP IT AMAAYA! STOP IT!" She got jerked up with his high frequency tone.

What he had just called her?

"If you have a little thing remaining for me, the best thing you can do now is leave me alone."

That was way too words leaving her with no more reasons to be there. Amaaya looked him one last time, making a thin line on her lips. The next second, she stepped out the hall, briskly.

Watching him tightening his palm with uncontrollable rage running on his eyes, "What you have just done man?" asked Aju, palming his shoulder.

Farhan took off his hand and walked out the main hall leaving the others gaped.

                            ●●●

Eby impatiently watched Farhan packing his things in a bag. "Are you gone made yaar? Where will you go leaving here?" He asked out but the response was null.

"Sure you won't be going back home. Then where will you go?"

No response again.

"I know. I know what is running on your mind now. Ainu. Right? If you have this much feelings, why did you react that way yesterday?" Farhan kept silent looking into his bag.

"Then why you kept saying that she was nothing but your soul friend? It's all your mistake Farhan. Only yours. You could have said it at the beginning itself. You messed up everything!"

Eby paused to say, "I don't know how Ishaan will react to all these."

Hearing that particular name again, Farhan locked the vision to control himself. 

"Ishaan already had his own problems? And the latest one is you!" Eby sighed.

"Enough! Ishaan. Ishaan. Ishaan. Is he a son of God or something? Everyone is sticking to him as if he were the breathe to their lives."

He went on, "I got it! I got it now that the only thing which matters is money. Only money. That's why you too sided with him, right?" Eby was shocked to hear those unexpected words from him.

"I'm ashamed to say that I had been with you people. Who changes with time and treat others according to their brands."

"Ishaan has everything. All the money and power. And look at me. I'm a total zero. No wonder why you people keep running after him." He paused shrugging.

"But I never thought she too would..." Farhan stammered.

"I can't believe you are blazing with jealous. It's not good Farhan. It's not good. Don't forget that he had been always there with you in your bad and good times. You were more important for him than anyone. How? How could you think that way?"

"Man, this is it! I can't even understand how he is hypnotizing everyone around."

"And you had been the first in list. You better don't forget it!" Eby watched Farhan searching something in his pockets and the next moment he threw the credit cards in air.

"I was wrong then. Terribly wrong! And I don't want his money anymore. Not even his company. I regret! Regret everything that even I started to hate me for who am I." Farhan turned to face the other side, letting out a restless breath.

"How can you change this way? What had he done to you? It's all your fault and you are blaming each things on him?" He paused glaring into his deep eyes.

"I had never thought Ainu would be a reason for you to even hate him!"

"Dammnnn!!! What on earth made you to think that way? Me and Ainu? It's true that she was.. was my everything. I loved her more than anything. But not in the way as you think." Farhan jabbered, his eyes firing with frustration.

"Then?" Eby wrinkled his brows skeptically.

"It was always her. Only her. Shreyaa.."