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"Please take a break for 10 minutes. I am exhausted" kaushik said. His hands pressed on his knees and he bent down heaving high breaths.

"What a synergy guys, superb. Your co-ordination was remarkable. I thought it would be easy to defeat you both." Rahul applauded.

I wasn't that good, I am sure but atleast i didn't let the game down. Earlier Ayan and I used to play badminton in our colony playground and we followed the same tactics today in the court. May be it is called co-ordination but for me it is understanding him and acting according to it. I knew his speed, so that is when i left the ball for his shot. I knew his eye contact and guessed right when he wanted me to take the shot. I knew his weakness and took all the under-waist shots. I knew his agreesiveness and let him take the last shot. We exists together. We are complementary.

"Good job farha. You haven't lost your aptitude." Ayan said hitting me hard on my back head. That was his way to celebrate victory.

"Ayan, next time you do that, i wil kill you." I yelled at him. And guess what, he did that again. I tried to be calm in front of his collegues. "Time for the next round. Everybody ready?" I asked.

Rahul took out a white handkerchief from his pocket and swayed it to and fro in the air. "I surrender. No more round please."

I looked at Kaushik. He too pleaded for the game to stop. I turned my gaze to Ayan. He smiled and said " we have work tomorrow and we don't want to die today."

Ridiculous! Does playing games leads to death? I wanted to shout. They were the ones who triggered me and now they want to leave. "Ok fine, see you all tomorrow." I said bidding good bye to the wounded souldiers.

Ayan followed me. "You managed pretty well in that salwait suit." He began untieing my dupatta and placed it on my shouldiers. His nearness made me fumble. How dare he touch me dupatta as if it was a curtain.

"Your strap was visible." He said, hiding his gaze from me.

"It is ok. You dont have to look embaraased everytime, Ayan. Atleast you know how costly it is." I said and winked at him mischieviously.

He was amused and nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I know but my friends don't." He said. His voice demanded my attention.

"Oh sorry. I should have been careful." I apologised.

"Tomorrow be ready at 4 in your proper outfit" He said with authoroty.

" I don't take orders and I barely take suggestion. So lower your tone, Mr. Alien." I growled at him.

"Ok, Miss attitude, tomorrow please do come here to spend your valuable time helping me to lose some calories." He said his voice coated with too much sugar and sarcasm. He chuckled and escorted me back to the car.
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*The game is on. Will Ayan express his affection to Farha?*

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