Rishika's defence tactics worked as that person immediately turned her around and pushed her towards the basin. She could not kept control and fell on the floor, she kept shouting but the person immediately opened the door and ran away.

Rishika was still in shock, but she managed to find her mobile and said "Send SOS to Ritu". In a minute Ritu was in washroom, by then Rishika was checking herself. She explained her whole story, Ritu suddenly was very concerned. She had her face red.

"I know who he was" Ritu's voice had conviction of a person who speak directly from heart.

Now Rishika was shocked "What do you mean, who was he? Tell me please"

"It was Mitesh" Ritu was still in shock while saying this.

"WTF, are you crazy?" Rishika just knew Ritu is confused.

"As soon as you left, he followed you, and never returned after that. When you messaged, exactly that time he returned" Ritu saw it and was pretty sure of it. She continued "Dude, this craziness shit is going too far, if you are not really interested in him, let's go and talk to parents from both side and close this for real. Before that lets go and confront him in front of the group, am still not sure about these folks, that Rads give me such weird looks anyways"

"Shaant gadadhaari bheem shaant, let me think about it first, let's behave that we trust the group fully" Rishika had something in her mind.

Ritu was still unsure why Rishika was not believing her fully, she trust her blindly (no pun intended, she thought and smiled). But she always go with Rishika's hunch in all tricky situations so got ready to play along.

They reached the group and told what happened in washroom. Everyone became really concerned. Samar immediately talked about reaching to professors to complain, Mitesh was worried about Rishika more. Rishika told everyone that she want to wait this one out, she was still not sure about how things turned out and her gut feel was asking her not to rush on this. Mitesh saw her face and was convinced that she knew what she was doing and convinced everyone not to rush and give Rishika sometime.
Ritu was fully convinced now that it was Mitesh, she was really worried about Rishika now and kind of acted as a wall between Rishika and Mitesh during rest of the day and even went back to drop Rishika home. She promised Rishika that she will not mention anything to Rishika's mom till Rishika is ready.

Rishika was still going through the whole thing again and again. She kind of remember something about the person but not able to make out. For sure the person came near her earlier too and she felt the same vibes earlier from him, atleast she was sure it was a boy, that much she could be confident of.

As usual, she asked Alexa to open her voice message before going to bed that night to hear message from her new special friend, this is her every night ritual last few days.

Message ended with these lines...

".....and she was brave and strong
Knew how to handle conflicts
Leave her hand and give her some space
She will find her way with her instincts
Good night~ Ghun "

~TallGuy