Naina stepped into water, she finally convinced karan for a seaface date. Karan thought to better stay aside with his best companion, his umbrella🌂. But his eyeballs were stuck at naina. She released her hairs which were tied in a bun. 🎼rhtdm theme was continuous playing on his mind while staring at her. 'maybe because he is a musician or maybe  because its his favourate song' he paused all his romantic thoughts but by giving such an excuse to himself was he fooling himself? 

naina realised that she left karan back and went near him, " oh hello, what? come na ." saying so she went to grab his arm while he moved backward.

"please don't force me naina "

"okay fine" 🤗she thought of changing the topic " do you like me?" with this question she left him in shocked.

"what?"😮 he asked in utter confusion

"do you like me?" 😏she repeated with confidence

'did she caught me staring at her?' he wrinkled his forehead 'offcourse she must have kc you were staring at her continuously with an idiotic smile.' 🤯

naina smirked ," I mean , actually I like a guy and soon I am proposing him. so, just asking your opinion."

"oh in that sense, well is he a nice guy?" 😅

"yeah , he is the best person I ever met"

karan frowned😕, "how can I say whether he likes you or not? is he really close to you?". naina replied " actually we are just friends not that close , and your my friend as well plus ur a guy , so tell me, do you like me?"

"have he met your other two friends, I bet you if he has then he definitely likes you, the other two are just nuisance" he grined 😏.

"don't  you dare haan ? atleast they are better than your friends"

"okay I accept that"🏳

"bulbul was right every boy has to accept his defeat in front of a girl"

"see nuisance I told you" he shook his head in disbelief to which she passed deadly glares," okay on a serious note, I think he might like you" 

"suppose you are that boy and I proposed you now tell me what will you say, just imagine haan"😉

"fine, naina your are the most sweetest, kindest person I have met💕. your not just beautiful from outside but from inside as well, you have kept a small child alive within you just as pure, as innocent as a kid and more than that you are a great friend, my heart starts bouncing when you smile, I...I really like you and i accept your proposal" karan poured his heart out "hey" he said as naina was completely lost in his words, his deep eyes.

"thanks kc for helping me out , lets go back I wanna talk something really important with bulbul"

"ok after you" while walking back karan thought,' I must be happy for naina and also now I can stop this unwanted feelings of mine distracting me, but I am not '                                                                

~gh~

just when purab was about to leave he heard the sound of door🚪 getting locked by bulbul. He went in living room just to find the door locked. "shit"🤦‍♂️ he frowned and sat on the sofa took his phone📱 out "koi baat nahi inn ka wi-fi toh hack karlun" in a second he changed his mood as well as the name of their wi-fi by hacking it, from-" himmat hai toh hack karke dikha😝" to-"challenge accepted🤙" 

"This is the bad boy style"😈

~on ground floor~

"lucky I need to tell you something, how about a coffee☕ at my place?" rags asked with an awkward smile

"sure" lucky passed a mild smile. Just then the lift arrivals and bulbul comes out of it "hey guys how was your date, I mean how was your date laksh?😅"

"first of all it wasn't a date but still it was slenpdid and hilarious offcourse" he smirked looking at rags.

"good for you"🙄 she said in confusion "ah rags , I need to go home jiju just called me n asked to come over for night ."

"ok then, ask Khushi to visit us someday I miss her, give her lots of love😘"

"sure, bye"

"see ya"  

"bye"🙋‍♂️ lucky waved as she left them  with their awkward silence again, its more awkward because they aren't normally this silent when together.

~gh~

rags opened the door just to find purab sitting on the sofa🛋 playing pubg🤨 "am I in the wrong house"

"its ur house, use sense rags if it wasn't urs then how could you opened the lock" laksh spoke from behind her.😎

"then whats ur idiot friend doing in here?"   

"I know he is an idiot but how do I know what he is doing here?"

"then asked that idiot whats he doing?"

"I guess you guys have completely forgotten 😑that I am here and u r calling me idiot on my face don't you think that's rude, eh?" purab interrupted them. "first tell me what are you doing here?" rags lift an eyebrow.🤨

"a ... well ... actually ... bulbul haan.. bulbul locked me here. you know she hates me n also she finds it illegal to be so handsome "😎😏 and he left with a smirk leaving raglak annoyed. "he thinks too high for himself " laksh nodded in disbelief😒.

"well lucky ... I mean laksh .. its weird but actually I was.." rags closed her I eyes 'shit' she thought mental slapping herself  "ok I was trying to use you and that's why I helped you, I clicked our pic while on the bike to send a guy to complete a challenge .. but I couldn't send it as I felt guilty for cheating a friend like you. so I wanted to apologise. I will accept my defeat as the challenge is impossible to complete. I'm sorry😖" her eyes were still closed and when she opened it, she shuddered by finding him to close to her with a smile. 

"let me correct you first as you said🧐, ' while on the bike to send a guy to complete a challenge' its 'complete the challenge' he said with a lopsided grin. wrinkle formed on ragini's nose😠 " what?  I just confessed something really important and you are busy correcting my grammar?"

Maintaining eye contact "and what if I  say I knew it from the very beginning"
"say it what?😱" gaping her jaw. laksh continued "well send that pic to him and tell him I am ur boyfriend now, come on u saved me from that bitch I can atleast help you with that as*hole and save you from publicly apologising that idiot" 

"but how did you know that ?"

"uhm... bulbul told me last week"

'bulbul ki baachi 🤬I so damn hate you' rags cursed her in her thoughts . "don't curse her she even told that you won't ditch ur friends and will urself confess it, she was right"

"but dude she ditched me" 😡rags huffed she hates it when her friends lie/ditch her for somebody else whoever it is, as she feels her complete right over them like a family just opposite to what bulbul thinks, she feels everyone has their own right to decide what to do be it family or friend and thus no one have right on her neither she expects anything from others, while naina is in between somewhere the combination of both ideologies .

"anyways you know I never felt guilty about dumping someone u r exceptional so what I just realised is that u r special then lets be best friends😁🤝" rags cooled her anger and changed her mood which she and rocky are masters at. Both of them shared a great quality of switching their moods in a nick of time. 

"oye aise nahi bante best friends time lagta hai"

"mere toh aise hi bante hai  because I am like that why to follow the long boring route of promotion. strangers then friends then good friends then close friends then best friends then besties forever, if one will be keen to follow this toh aadhi zindagi toh yehi track karne main nikal jaegi. for me its either friend, best friend simple. and why to think more if you can feel is the person special or not."

'am I special for her' turning his ears red☺ "maybe your right" and shook hands 🤝with a wide smile, ragini initiated a side hug lucky reciprocated. Today laksh is actually happy by knowing ragini even better, to know that a soulful ragu❣ resides in a badass spoilt rags 'she is something else'.

~abhigya mansion~

bulbul's car 🚘enters through a huge gate with the name plate 'abhigya mansion'. after parking the car she enters into a house which is not less than a palace , off course her di and jiju's collective efforts brought them this luxury. Her di, pragya mehra 👩‍💼a huge name in business world, a perfect example of an independent girl. suddenly a girl of her age comes and embrace her in a hug. Its aaliya , pragya's sister-in-law and her best friend being brought up together. they were neighbours since childhood abhigya's marriage united the families into a one big family under the same roof.

"after so long time" aaliya said teasing "so bhai said you have 3 male neighbour😝 any ur kinda boy"

"please 😒all of them are one of their kinds and one of them is too weird " bulbul said recalling rocky "you know at first he was flirting around now he behaves too weird😤 "

"are u going to talk about them only or meet us" pragya spoke getting down the stairs.

"off course not first let me meet the mum to be" trapping pragya into a tight hug😘. They sat on couch and trio started chit chatting.

~gh~

raglak enters into rags & naina's room which was filled with many paintings, her colourful room had joy in every corner. "nice room" laksh was amazed with the decor.

"well as a best friend you must know that your bestie is national treasure"😎 rags replied with gleaming eyes thrusting jaw forward.

"don't tell me you painted these"

"off course, only my close friend know this, its a kinda secret"

"so now atleast tell the meaning of chamandu🤯" laksh pleaded to which rags grinned sheepishly😜 "never chamandu" , she thought to herself😰 'if there is no meaning only then what will I tell him' and scratched her forehead with a mike smile.

"ok then atleast answer me about the other thing "

"and whats that?"

"that day when you were drunk, you were murmuring something like 'god already snatched my family once he is doing the same again'" ragini frowned "I mean we just became best friends we know each other from few months I know its not appropriate to ask personal stuff but honestly that thing stuck in my mind since that day. if your fine then u can share, if and only if u want" laksh spoke with a sad smile and brows pulled together.

"laksh when I called you my best friend I mean it, and there is nothing to hide among friends. my family... I left them, actually I hate them for certain reason the only person I love is my di, swara I even lost all contacts with her, the last thing I know about her is that she got married. I ran from Kolkata when I was 17, since then no contact." ragini had moist eyes😢 laksh could sense that she misses her family by her red water filled eyes as well as anger with them by her clenched jaw. Ragini was laksh's mirror image, today in true sense he felt for her, the special bond she was talking about, he could feel it now. he moved towards her and hugged her from back "tu load maat le yaar"

"u don't worry I am good your the one getting senti rajkumari" 🤭rags smirked teasing him and lightening the mood. "will you please stop my naming ceremony for god's sake😩" he broke the hug with a puppy face.

"the answer is never " showing her tongue out.😝

~abhigya mansion~

"missed this so much yaar bulbul"

"off course , if only she remembers that she has a house and family too. finally , exactly how many months back u showed ur face last" a voice in mocking tone came from behind sourcing out from bulbul's mother. Bulbul closed her eyes out of frustration 😣and thought not to get in any argument so she ran upstairs.

"maa what was the need. can't we just act as a normal family someday"😒

"you pampered and spoiled her pragya. Running away has became her habit now. Go now convince ur baby sister."😠

~bulbul's room~

"relax bulbul " "I can't di, I can't just switch my mood just like that"😡 bulbul spoke clenching her jaw , dilating her nostrils. "that's why I avoid coming here"

"maasi" Khushi came running and hugged her "I missed you so much"

"I missed you too my baby💛" Khushi was the only person who can bring smile on her face and even forgetting her anger  "you know rags maasi and naina maasi  misses you as well honey, and now we have 3 boys in our group too you will love meeting them"

" I don't wanna meet any uncles"🧐 Khushi said with a cute pout raising her brows to which bulbul couldn't control laughing🤭😂 " yeah now you should definitely meet them and call them uncle👨🧔 purposely. damn, their faces will be so hilarious" the duo continued their talks. Although bulbul had many people around herself to talk and pour her heart out but talking with Khushi actually satisfy her heart❣.

~gh~

"bulbul " naina called her out loud. Rags who was making noodles🍲 screamed from the kitchen "she has went at pragya di's place and I guess she will be back tomorrow morning"

"shit "😣naina frowned 'I wanted to tell her personally now when will I tell her that I don't like karan' "but I love him❤" she by mistakenly said the last words loud out of excitement . Just then rags came out running from kitchen "whom?"🧐

"haa... what?" naina tried to act innocent😅

"haan what ki baachi I heard that " she smirked n went closer to her " now tell me who is he?" naina blushed, she started glancing away biting her lower lips.☺

"speak up u nasty being"

"karan "

"karan singh Chauhan?"

"who is he?"🙄

"kc yaar, nice choose but a little grumpy😑" naina huffed on these words " Aa no yaar , why do u guys say like this, he is nice. that day bulbul called him weird and now you are calling him grumpy"

"actually bulbul was right he is weird😂" rags with a proud tone "😎well I am right as well he is grumpy plus weird. 🤫don't you tell bulbul that I said she is right... wait a second... she knew about karan before me?"😳

naina looked away tried to set the pillows on the sofa "nothing like that" with a fake laughter. "nainaa" ragini cross folded her hands with suspicious looks, naina faced her closing her eyes "she was the first one to know. sorry".☹

"I knew that u love her more but atleast u could have told me dude" rags frowned "anyway I am not talking to u "when she was about to leave

"but you are the first one to know that I love him. she knows that I like him."

"Does that make any difference?"

" it makes a huge difference" 😏naina said with wide eyes n puppy face. Which brought a smile on ragini's face "sachi"

"muchi"🤞

"aur baata" rags grabbed her from her elbows and made her sit on sofa "starting se baata" believe or don't believe bulbul and ragini always had a cold war ⚔maybe due to the clash of their ideologies, their egos, or maybe because they are same kind of people with different, strong personalities to cover their true soft hearts❤. naina finally told rags everything right from the beginning .

"tu pagal hai kya. don't listen to bulbul, u know she is so against the term love and stuff. Listen don't wait for bulbul's green signal🏳, don't waste ur time its too precious⏲ . if u think u love him then go for it. love, friendship aren't the things to do practically by researching 🧐and overthinking. they are those feelings which are lived in moments😍. listen to your heart and not the brain " rags said passing the spark from her eyes to naina's who finally know what to do ,"I know what to do now" she hugged rags🤗 .

"thank you so much rags. I will confess my feelings to karan tomorrow" her smile expressed the joy inside her. Heart ❤and brain🧠, neither of them are wrong . It is said that A brain see👀 the world n heart see 👀the life . Ragini was the heart ❤, she saw naina's love which was clearly seen in her eyes. bulbul was the brain🧠 she saw the troubles naina would face aftermath. well it is said for a right decision brain n heart should be balanced. Naina being stuck in between the human forms of brain and heart, will this bring trouble in her life ?

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whom do you listen brain or heart?
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I am back. hope you all are safe, stay home🏠 and read 🤓as many stories as u can.😷 take care guys.

                                                 -meera  ❣