"... so let me get this straight, you, want me to come to your sleepover, where that annoying mendhak will also be, doing his 'tartar' every once a while when i'm literally inches away from him?" A pause. "Nope thank you-"

"Arre Naira!" Tanvi pulled her back before she could run off. "He's not soooo bad! So what if I invited half our friends, it'll be fuuuuuun!" She pouted.

Naira glanced to her right where she could spot that idiotic mendhak still staring at her with those dreamy eyes and love-sick smile- eeek not falling for it! "Per Tanviiiii!" She whined.

"I don't get how you don't fall for him. He's legit the hottest boy around here, oh how I wish he'd ask me out~" Tanvi sighed dreamily, earning and eye roll from Naira and also a nudge, snapping her out of her trance. "Right. You're coming, and that's final. Tonight at 7, be there, love ya!"

"Arre per Tanvi- chali gayi." She face-palmed. Great. She was forced to come to a slumber party. Excellent. Spectacular. Amazing. Marvelous. Anything else left? Don't think so.

"Hello there ms. sherni." A voice greeted her. She glanced behind her.

"Oh. hey Kartik." And she turned back to panicking over the sleepover. A pause. She turned back to him eyes widening, while he grinned his toothy grin.

"HA YOU ACTUALLY GREETED ME WITHOUT SHOVING ME OVER, YEEEEEES!" He started jumping around in joy while she growled.

"Oh hello, I did so such thing mendhak! Now get outta my way!" She shoved him over again and huffed, stomping into class while he was again, caught by Naksh.

"Dude. she just greeted you." Shubham gave him a look.

"Which she never does, ha!" Kartik continued grinned his cheeky grin.

He wondered what would happen at the sleepover.

.....

First rules in sleepover. Have some fun, popcorn and music, films and all, pillow fights, makeover, blah blah blah! They'd done half the things, and were now getting bored, just chilling around in Tanvi's room where the sleepover was, and thankfully her parents were away.

A little while ago, Shubham had the brilliant idea of playing truth of dare. The others hadn't minded and were quiet enjoying the game.

Naksh got up, walked to the hall, opened the fridge, pulled out some whipped cream, came back in the room and sprayed it all on his face. The rest burst into laughter and Kirti scooted away from him. He had to after all, stay like that for the whole night.

"O-okay okay everyone!" Shubham calmed them down through his own fit of laughter. "My turn! I choose..." He looked over the many choices he had. Most had been asked truth or dare, all except... "sherni." He smirked at Naira who jumped at the mention. "Truth or dare Naira?"

She huffed. She was not backing off from challenges. "Dare!"

He pouted, knowing she'd choose that. She was sherni after all, why wouldn't she? But what could he possibly... his eyes fell on the curious Kartik and he smirked wider. She might kill him for this, but it was worth it.

"... I dare you, to spend as much time with Kartik Goenka as possible, for the next year."

Silence. Dead, silence. Shubham gulped suddenly realizing the mistake he had made, as Naira's confused eyes slowly turned to glare daggers at him.

She could easily refuse, but not like she was gonna. She wasn't even thinking of refusing. "... fine." Everyone gasped surprised. "I'll spend the next year with that mendhak, but only at one cause."

Shubham looked confused. "Which is...?"

She smirked and stared right into Kartik's surprised eyes. "The game of dares, continues."

Kartik was on cloud nine, he'd admit. Which is exactly why he fainted. He'll thank his little best brother later and shower him with gifts and blessings.

Naira's POV:

I can't believe I just agreed to that! It's like- like- like agreeing to something I don't wanna agree to! Oh how am I going to explain to baba when he sees me and Kartik together, he knows very well that mendhak annoys me to no end. He even fainted by just HEARING the dare, I wonder what will happen when I actually START the dare.

"Hey hey hey wait!" I stopped everyone when they started laughing at the passed out stupid idiot. "Anmol, get some water."

"But Naira di-"

"Go get water na yaar!" he pouted and got up to get water. Geez, my cousins are all so lazy! I looked back at Kartik who had that famous, TRADITIONAL love-sick grin on his face. I really want to punch him awake, but that would be mean... I wonder if I can do that afterwards...

... ANYWAYS!

When Anmol returned, I took the glass of water and smirked, before tipping the whole glass over his face while everyone else burst into laughter. He jolted awake and yelped at how cold the water was. Thank you Anmol, for bringing cold-ice water.

"Huh?! Wha happn?" He asked dazed and I started laughing as well.

"You, mr. Kartik Goenka, are gonna be with me for over a year." Hearing that he stared at me wide-eyed...

... and passed out again. Oh this'll be fun even if I may regret it later.

..... Next chapter! THE FUN BEGINS!😄😄 A sleepover takes place and Naira is dared to spend time with Kartik, which she agrees to. I know, the chapter doesn't seem much and there is not much Kaira at all, but it'll progress in the upcoming chapter, no worries😅😅! Comment below if I should continue or not, thank you all for the support! Sorry for this crappy chappy, Love you all!😙😙❤❤