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Part 2: No

Gauri turns to the other side after he was near the bathroom and before she could walk away, he holds her hand and stops her.

She feels a shiver pass down her spine and gasps, not wanting to face him.

She tried to slide her wrist out of his hand and failed, as his grip was tight. Having no other option in front of her, she rotated her body towards him, lifting her gazes while staring into his brown orbs, after many years.

"Gauri. . ."

"Why are you back?" She interrupted before he could say anything further.

"I'm sorry." He uttered, lowering his gazes with guilt and she swallowed her spit, knowing the reason behind his apology.

"D. . . Did you know, I. . . I was going to be here?" She struggled to ask, holding her breath, praying in her mind to not hear a disheartening response.

"I. . . No, but when I heard the name 'Gauri', I assumed it to be you, though I prayed. . ." He went silent, glancing back at her watery eyes.

"You never cared." She whispered in dismay, holding his hand with her other hand and freeing the wrist that was trapped within his hold. "And you never will." She added, walking away while closing her eyes, as a lone tear slides down her left eye.

He watched her figure vanish from his sight and clenched his fist with frustration and regret. The pain in her eyes had awakened the pain inside him, that he had stopped feeling after the incidents his life had experienced.

He lowered his eyes with a tinge of sadness, wanting to go pacify her but he knew if he had cared, then he wouldn't stand in front of her again to give her more pain and unhappiness.

*

Gauri stopped outside her room and held the nearby door to hold herself from breaking down, she opened her eyes with the past playing in her mind.

"She needs to know who she messed with." Om sighs, walking around the college corridor while glancing into each of the classrooms.

He finally stops after seeing Gauri taking a seat in the classroom. He glances down at his hands and back at her, throwing two green and blue coloured bombs inside the classroom, running away instantly.

The class panicked as they see the two bombs rolling inside and within few seconds, the bombs explode, making everyone scream and the room had filled with smokey air, which was releasing from the bombs.

Om waited at a distance, hoping to hear what the bombs had been specialised for. Soon everyone's laughter pricked his eardrums and he curled a smirk, walking away from his spot to avoid being accused for that.

Those bombs were laughter bombs, that release a gas/smoke which tickles everyone's funny bone after being inhaled and encourages them to laugh continuously.

While Om was running, the fire alarm was alarmed after the smoke travelled to its nose, providing a chaos for the whole college. Students began to run out along with teachers, praying to step into the campus ground to be free from any risks and hazards.

The class that had been victims of the laughter gas walk out while laughing, not knowing why. Gauri's eyes had been filled with tears due to excessive laughing as her stomach couldn't tolerate the extent of laughs she was giving. She wanted to stop as it pained but was helpless.

"Om, what did you do?" Ishana asks, walking towards Om.

Om stays quiet, following the students out of the college building. Aman and Ravi catch the pace the two were walking in and join them.

"This has to be you." Aman says, confidently knowing it was Om.

"Two, one for you and one for me." Om replies, which Ishana and Ravi didn't understand.

"So you took revenge from that girl for our insult?" Om nods at Aman's question and this is when Ishana and Ravi understand.

Aman glances at Gauri, who was laughing while walking. She had placed her hand on her stomach, trying to stop herself. Aman curled a smile and placed his hand on Om's shoulder.

"Good one." He utters and Om stares at her. "She was fond of laughing, now no one can stop her from laughing."

Ishana and Ravi chuckled.

"Shoot! Dedpasli's coming!" Aman sighed, which had stopped Ishana and Ravi's laugh.

They glance at their principal, Mr D Sengupta, whom Om, Ishana, Ravi and Aman call 'Dedpasli' as they don't know what the D stands for in his name. While Mr Sengupta was walking, he hears laughters and stops, staring inside the classroom to see the teacher laughing, he angrily faces Gauri, who was stood outside the classroom.  

"May I know what is funny?" He questions and Gauri turns towards him, trying to breath while laughing.

"S. . . S. . ." She wasn't successfully able to speak during laughing and seeing her not stopping had irked Mr Sengupta.

Before he could further yell at Gauri, he sees few other students laughing while walking past him, now this had confused him as in his logical book, it isn't a coincidence to hear the students and the teacher laughing at the same pace and not stopping.

"You're not laughing on purpose?" He questions Gauri and she nods her head while laughing.

She gestures an explosion with her hands and Mr Sengupta narrows his suspicious eyes.

"This Mota Sengupta will find out it was us if we stay here for long, let's leave." Ravi utters to which they agree and walk away before the big suspicious eyes of the Principal fell on the four.

*

After a while, the whole students were in the campus ground, outside the building standing while facing the Principal who held an megaphone in his hand, preparing himself for his speech.

"Attention students!" He cleared his throat, staring at everyone.

Om, Aman, Ishana and Ravi were right in the back, sitting on the benches while yawning.

"There goes his lecture." Ravi sighed, leaning against the bench board.

"Om, what happened, why you gone quiet?" Ishana asks, noticing a change in his behaviour.

Om shakes his head, replying with "Nothing. I'm just tired."

"Then go home and take some rest." Aman advices and Om shakes his head negatively.

Before he could respond, the Principal starts speaking through the megaphone.

"So, this fire alarm is a false alarm. Someone played a prank on a teacher and their class by using a laughter gas. Which is used to make people laugh uncontrollably."

"Nah, it's used for digestion." Om sarcastically utters, getting his mood back into business. "Obviously it's used to make someone laugh, the person didn't name it 'laughing gas' for no reason." He added, making Ravi Ishana and Aman chuckle.

"This Dedpasli is just wasting our time." Ravi sighed as he stops chuckling.

"The class and the teacher that had been victims of this dreadful act have been sent home, please pray for their recovery and all of you can get back to lesson. Thank you!"

"Lol, he's behaving like they got ran over a lorry. Who prays for someone to stop laughing?" Aman sarcastically remarked, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Exactly, Dedpasli's cracked in here." Ishana uttered, pointing at her head to convey what she meant by 'here.'

The students start to move and the four stand up.

"Let's bunk."

"If I do then Bade-Mama will kill me."  Om replies to Aman, while having glimpses of the strictness his Uncle Durga Prasad carry's.

"Who'll tell him?" Ravi asks, and Om looks at him in disbelief. "Dedpasli will ring him personally. He wasn't satisfied with Lucky's suspension, he wants mine too and is looking for very good reasons, even if they're small." Om replies, stressed with the Principal's torture.

"Bhai, don't worry. . ." Ravi dramatically says, placing his hand on Om's shoulder. "Till how long will we tolerate Dedpasli's hooligan behaviour. . . We're here." He completed with a fake sad look, which was obviously used to create comedy.

"He's very evil isn't he?"

"Evil? That's a small word, he's a beast. . ." Ravi stops as he turns, holding his breath while seeing the Principal walk towards them.

Om, Aman and Ishana had also turned when they had heard that voice.

"I mean the best." Ravi lied, trying to handle the mess he had blurted out.

"Enough! You were behind this gas attack right?"

"Gas attack? Sir, I don't fart so why will I be behind the gas attack." Ravi pouts, faking to be innocent and Ishana bites her inner cheeks to control her laugh.

"Shut up!" The Principal shouts in his stern tone. "I mean the laughing gas."

"Sir, why are you torturing us students? It's your job to find out who was behind it, why are you trying to frame us?" Om asks, pretending to be upset.

"Enough! Useless fellows, I am sure you are behind this and I am doing my job of finding out. Wait for the proof and I promise you'll be out!" The Principal challenged as well as insulted while storming away.

"Oh fishhhh!" Aman, Om and Ravi looked at Ishana who had smacked her forehead.

"Tomorrow is camping." She added, surprising the three boys.

"Damnnnn! I can't tolerate Dedpasli's boring antics, plus Lucky isn't even here for this one." Aman sighed in displeasure, regretting the day he had signed his name.

"Shoot!" Om sighed, looking at Ishana "It is going to be boring, we planned a lot for this camping but Lucky's gone." He added, not really feeling up for the camp trip.

*

Gauri was sleeping in her room after her mother gave her tea with sleeping pills. It was becoming hard for Gauri to control and the only option her mother had was sleeping pills, which had helped her calm down and sleep.

Her mother's heart had worried and is still worried when she saw Gauri walk inside the house with the laugh which was becoming hard for her to control, her mother had even prayed it was nothing too serious as she couldn't see her daughter in pain. Now she wasn't really comfortable to send Gauri back to that college.

"Gauri." Gauri wiped her tears and composed herself, turning around to Anika, who walks towards her.

"Where's the bath. . ." Anika stops as she sees Gauri's wet eyes. "You were crying?" She asked and Gauri swallowed, shaking her head negatively while pretending to take something out from her eyes.

"No." She scoffed, blinking at Anika. "I think something went in my eye, can you please check."

Anika leans forward to check Gauri's eyes. "Oh, there's a lash stuck in your eye." Anika uttered and Gauri was glad at her luck taking her side today.

Anika managed to take it out and Gauri wiped her eye with her scarf. "Are you feeling okay now?"

"Y. . . Yeah." Gauri replies with a fake smile curled on her lips.

After wiping her eye, she looks at Anika. "You were here to. . ."

"I was looking for the bathroom."

"Come, I'll take you." Gauri offered and Anika nodded, following after Gauri had started guiding her.

*

Omkara had stepped into the hall after drying himself. Mrs Sharma gave him a pleasant smile and he returned it, taking a seat besides Rudra.

"You took long." Rudra whispers and Omkara understood the tease behind it. "I was drying myself, so I obviously had to take time." He replied with a whisper, defeating Rudra's chance to annoy him.

Shivaay turned his head towards Omkara. "Hey Om, we found some pleasant facts about Gauri. She studied in the same college as you did."

Omkara was silently shocked while Mrs Sharma had started getting confused after hearing 'Om'.

"Did you two meet before?" Rudra asks and Mrs Sharma waited for his response as she felt her heart clutch.

Omkara's heartbeats increased, not knowing what he should say. If he had said yes then the family would agree for the marriage instantly, which he doesn't want as he never intends to see Gauri in pain cause of him.

"No, me and Omkara hadn't met before." Shivaay, Rudra, Omkara and Mrs Sharma looked at Gauri, who was stood with Anika.

To Be Continued. . .

Up Next - The Flashback Continued and. . . Is it a 'Yes' for the alliance or a 'No'. . . What will be the final decision?

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