Pranbir and Arhana were the ones to win the second task too. Since there were four of them, they had managed to gather all the necessary stuff.

"Can I help you?" Ranbir asked kneeling down beside Prachi who was busy arranging the things for cooking.

"Do you know anything about cooking?" Prachi raised an eye brow.

"Of course. Give me a task and I'll show you my skills." Ranbir replied confidently.

"Cut the vegetables then." Prachi ordered him to do the easiest task because she didn't believe that he had any culinary skills.

"Are you planning to make me eat boiled vegetables?" Ranbir teased while starting his work.

"Where were you sleeping when God was distributing brains? I'm making chicken sandwiches."

"What's the use of this vegetables then?"

"What shall I put inside the sandwich then?" Prachi asked.

"Only chicken and cheese." Ranbir grinned.

Prachi rolled her eyes at him.

"Here. Done!" Ranbir said finishing his work.

Prachi was surprised to see that he had done it perfectly.

"Wow! I didn't expect you to do it. How did you learn knife skills?" she asked.

"When I was a kid, I used to watch mom cook and help her sometimes." Ranbir explained.

Prachi was impressed as she didn't know many guys who were interesting in cooking. But, she wasn't going to admit it.

On the other hand, Aryan and Shahana were not faring better than Prachi and Ranbir.

"I wish I could get internet connection here." Aryan said trying to operate his phone.

"Why do you want to use the internet? Come here and help me." Shahana ordered.

"Help you? Do you know any about cooking? I was trying to find tutorials from YouTube. Guess, we have to go hungry today." he shrugged.

"Who told you that I can't cook?" Shahana huffed.

"So, you can cook?"

"I.... I agree that I'm not an expert like Prachi or maasi, but I can make food that's eatable."

"We will see that." Aryan said in a challenging tone.

Everyone was busy doing their work meticulously. When a loud noise was heard.

Rishi and his teammate Tina were looking in horror at a black mass which was supposed to have been their dinner.

"What happened?" Prachi enquired.

"We were cooking and dadi had called me, so I had gone aside after asking her to keep an eye on it. When I returned, I saw this." he replied sadly, pointing at the burned dinner.

"I'm sorry..... I got engrossed in chatting with my friend and forgot about it." the girl apologized.

"Well, as nothing can be done now, you can share the our dinner." Prachi said kindly.

"No need to take troubles for us." Rishi denied the offer.

"Prachi is correct. All of us can share our food. It will be fun eating together, won't it be?" Shahana said looking at Ranbir and Aryan.

"Errr..... I don't know about fun, but I guess there is no alternative to this." Ranbir and Aryan weren't happy with the arrangement, but they couldn't let anyone be hungry either.

Though they asked Rishi's partner to join them, she denied and went to join her friends.

"Your dishes are delicious as usual, Prachi and I must say that even you have improved, Shahana." Rishi praised them.

"Wasn't I supposed to praise Prachi?" Ranbir whispered to Aryan.

"I suspect that he burned his food intentionally to join us." Aryan whispered back.

Rishi was eating peacefully until his glance fell on Ranbir and Aryan. They were giving him weird looks which made him stop chewing the food which was in his mouth.

Prachi noticed it and followed Rishi's line of vision to find Ranbir sitting with a poker face. She wasn't able to understand anything and poked Shahana to show her the odd behavior of their friends.

"Didn't you like the food?" Prachi asked.

"No! I love it. I was just thinking about something." He wasn't lying. He was actually counting for how many hours more would Rishi be with them.

He was relieved to find that it was not much and he wouldn't have to see again.

The thing he didn't know was that destiny had other plans.

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Prachi couldn't sleep at night. So, she decided to go out and have someone fresh air.

The night sky was laden with beautiful stars and the atmospheric was illuminated by the numerous glowing fireflies. Prachi had always been enchanted by the beauty of the nature. She sat down relishing it.

She was enjoying the solitude when a soft music entered her ears. She closed her eyes and was lost in it.

[Bgm: Dil Hareya] (Thank you vaida_pranbirian for helping me with the song)

"Beautiful....." the words escaped Prachi's lips as the music stopped.

"Prachi?" the voice of the musician sounded familiar.

"Ranbir? What are you doing here?" Prachi hadn't expected Ranbir to be awake.

"I can ask you the same question...."

"I couldn't sleep, so I came out to have spent fresh air."

"Same with me. By the way, did you like it?" he enquired eagerly.

"Of course, it's so melodious. I haven't heard it before."

"Ummm....that's because I have composed it." Ranbir said shyly.

"Well, I must say that you are a good musician." Prachi praised him.

Ranbir was ecstatic to know that Prachi liked his song because he had composed it for her. 

"Thank you."

Both of them sat talking under the sky which was as beautiful as the bond between them.