Raman spent half of his day removing the makeup as he had already mixed it up before. The marker took him almost two hours. His face still had traces of marker. Ishita's prank was enough to wake up the evil beast in Raman.

"Ishita Iyer! Now you wait. You will regret this." Raman said through gritted teeth.

He picked up his mobile and quickly saved her Whatsapp Dp and then took screenshots of her Instagram pictures and the next he did was evilness on her pictures and followed.

While on the other hand, Ishita was laughing thinking about Raman's face and looking at the pic she had secretly taken while he was covered in the marker. She couldn't help but giggle. How from cute and adorable he changed to funny and horrible.

Ishita bit her lip thinking what would have happened when he would have woken up. She was so going to ask him the details.

She wondered why he didn't call her or accused her by now. Maybe he forgave her as they are more like friends.

Little did she know that her prank was going to be avenged by another prank.

******

Raman entered the school gates and looked around the ground. He looked at his watch and sighed in relief knowing very well Ishita wouldn't have arrived.

Mostly it was Raman who came late and right now he had come almost half an hour early. There weren't much students so it was easy for him to play pranks now.

Just to make sure Ishita hadn't come, he went to their class and sighed seeing she hadn't arrived. He placed his bag on his chair and took out another small bag which contained items for his revenge.

He walked towards the hall leading to Gate No. 3 which was the school gate through which Ishita came.

He wouldn't play prank. He would play pranks. Since they were more likely almost friends Ishita wouldn't actually think he would do this. He had another reason for not getting caught and that was—he hadn't shouted at her or called her, accusing her of the prank.

His thoughts were confirmed last night when they had a small sweet chat where he tried his best not to show his anger.

He hid behind the wall and from his bag came out a box in which a small insect with 8 legs and other similar creatures were there.

In other words, Spider and his family.

He had managed to get those spiders from the Pet shop under his apartment who even sold spiders even though no one really bought them.

He heard a laugh. A laugh that belonged to a certain someone. Ishita's. Her soothing laugh made him smile. If he hadn't been angry, he would have hid and listened to it. Wait! Did he really just think that? He tried not to smile but his lips lifted up in a smile that was not ready to fade.

Sighing, he placed down the box.

"Oh Ishita! Your laugh is going to turn into cries!" Raman whispered lowly.

He placed the box near the end of the hall where Ishita would make her first step. He heard her voice indicating she was near. He opened the box and ran down the hall hoping the CCTVs didn't caught him. Even though he knew they did.

Ishita made her first step towards the hall and felt something creeping up her legs. She ignored it and continued talking to Mihika.

Mihika told Ishita about her crush on Mihir while Ishita was teasing her.

That something increased and that made her look down. Her smile faded, her face turned pale, her sparkling eyes replaced with fear and her hand that was halfway on Mihika's shoulder dropped by her sides.

And then she did what she always did. She screamed. She screamed with fear and that too so loudly that half of the school surrounded her. The spider seemed to like her leg as it stopped on her knee and every now and then would pierce its legs lightly into her skin.

Phobia of spiders was something Ishita wished she didn't had. Tears sprang up her eyes and she tried shaking off the spider from her shaking, trembling legs but she couldn't remove the grandfather, meaning the biggest spider. Spiders are creepy and she couldn't even look at it. She started jumping up and down, screaming making almost half of the student population deaf.

Mihika shook her head while Raman was laughing loudly but his laughter mixed with those of the others. Raman wiped a tear from his eyes as he laughed harder.

Ishita's tears fell down as fresh tears made their way down her cheek.

The sight of her jumping that was making him laugh was no more mattering to him. The tears caught his attention and his heart ached inwardly. He didn't know why? This feeling was unknown to him.

Mihika reached out her hand and shook off the spider. Ishita took a deep breath still trembling and wiped off her tears. Raman relaxed as she wiped off her tears.

"Oh Ishu! It was just a spider." Mihika shrugged.

Ishita composed herself before scowling at Mihika.

"It was just a spider? Seriously?" Ishita asked in disbelief. She shook off her thoughts that came up running to conclude who planned it. She thought maybe the spiders were there from before.

Raman was amazed seeing her so called trust on him that he won't plan something like this.

The next thing Raman did was run off to their class. Since Ishita created a scene, his whole class was out.

Raman pulled out glue from his pocket and with a mischievous grin, he spurted the glue on Ishita's bench and spread it around.

Last time he did this was to embarrass her and that time Ishita had to walk around the school with her hands at the back. That sure was a funny sight.

It was like he was repeating most of his pranks. Raman picked up his bag which he placed on the floor earlier and walked out of the class and waited till everyone returned back to their classes. Raman came back to class with his bag hung on his shoulder and acted as if he just entered the school.

The class was still gossiping about Ishita while Ishita looked down at her hands as she sat down on her chair.

With an innocent face, he asked Ishita who was sitting on her bench,"What happened?"

Ishita explained him everything and stood up—almost stood up. Her skirt made a chirrr sound making her freeze. Her skirt just tore? Didn't it?

She put her hand behind her back on the tored part of the skirt and looked down. This was so humiliating. Everyone was laughing at her.

Ishita was ready to burst into angry tears. This was her second humiliation of the day.

Raman couldn't control so he burst into fits of laughter.

"You did it right? Aren't you the one who put those spiders?" Ishita asked with furrowed eyebrows as anger spread on her face and her nostrils flared.

"What? I just came! And why would I do it? I know you are afraid of spiders and we are now friends right?" Raman reasoned making Ishita nod and agree that he just came.

The class was laughing making Ishita turn red, embarrassed.

Raman knew the prank was enough since she was embarrassed and humiliated.

The class was laughing too much than he expected. He couldn't help but shout at them.

"Shut up! Aren't you all laughing too much? Imagine something like this happening to you and others are laughing!" Raman shouted and looked back at Ishita who was looking at him with a small smile.

He couldn't help but think what she would think when she would come to know he did all this.

He shrugged off that thought and then his eyes widened a little in realization.

"Hey! Today Game's period is there right?" Raman asked Ishita who nodded confused.

"Which means you would be having your game's skirt?" Raman said with a knowing look.

Ishita's mouth opened as she realised he was right. She nodded vigorously and jumped on him, hugging him.

Raman froze and hugged her back. He looked over her shoulder and saw a boy looking at her torn skirt through which her underwear could be seen.

Raman possessively kept his hand on her hips hiding her underwear which made the boy look up at Raman and when he saw Raman's glare that would kill him, he looked away.

Raman looked satisfied but didn't remove his hand. It was like he wanted to protect her from evil eyes.

Ishita broke the hug and placed a kiss on his cheeks before keeping her hand at the back and running off to the bathroom with her spare skirt.

Raman didn't have the heart to play his next prank. He just wanted to forgive her but that egoistic Bhalla in him urged him to complete the last prank.

The next prank Raman did was in between games period. He quietly came out from the line in middle of the period and made a bucket of water mixed with rotten eggs and several other items. Raman grinned evilly.

He placed the bucked on the top of the door which was half closed, balancing it on the top and wall.

As the bell of the next period rang, he made sure Mihir and Romi sent Ishita in first but unfortunately it was the Principal who came first and he was covered in eggs and other disgusting things. This time thinking it was Ishita, Raman couldn't help but laugh loudly. The principal looked up at him knowing very well he was the one doing it. He thought all the pranks he did on Ishita weren't noticed by anyone.

The principal had watched every prank he did on Ishita and had come to scold him and ended up getting stuck in his prank.

"Raman Bhalla!" The principal shouted on top of his voice.

The whole class gasped as they came in seeing the principal dressed up in eggs and what not.

Ishita came out from the crowd and looked at Raman who was looking horrified. She was confused.

"What do you think Raman? The pranks you played on Ishita today was not noticed by anyone?" Ishita gasped at principal's words. It was Raman who was doing all this since morning?, Ishita thought bitterly while the principal continued,"Those spiders and that glue. All that you did was captured on CCTV and I always keep a watch on everyone. Even this was for her right? Gosh! Our school's reputation would surely go down!" The principal exclaimed and then glaring at Raman he said,

"My office now!"

Raman looked up guiltily at Ishita who was looking at him with hurt and disbelief. He was screwed.

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Long time huh? Sorry! I had been admitted in hospital for two days and then I was busy with diwali shopping!
Finally! I edited it! I cringed seeing what I wrote before. Now that short update turned long! Happy?
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