RAGHVANSH'S POV CONTINUES:

"Ansh, but you could have told me, right?" She whines.

Letting out a chuckle, I shake my head, "that wouldn't have been fun, right, Venus?"

She glares at me whilst plugging in her AirPods. "You got some real money, Pihu." I smirk.

I hear her soft chuckle, "that is very rich coming from you, Ansh."

A laugh escapes my lips and I pull the baby pink blanket over myself.

"Hey you, Ansh! That's mine!" The girl on the call whines causing a smile to break out on my face. So fucking cute, isn't she?

"But now that you aren't here, I shall use this." I inform her slyly.

Gaping at me, she narrows her eyes and I continue to do what I am supposed to do—Adore her. How can someone not?

I watch her screen tilt as she places her phone flat and all I can see is the ceiling of her room.

What the fuck? "Piha."

A nervous chuckle falls onto my ear, "you want my blanket, right? Take it no."

I snort at the girls audacity, "show me your face, Venus."

She giggles once again, "why should I?"

My lips curl into a dominant smile as I inform her, "I'm just using you quilt, Venus. You're wearing my sweatshirt too, aren't you? Then why don't you wear something else? I'll use something else too."

Piha immediately enters the frame as I see her whine, yet again, "no!"

She shuts her mouth and opens it again, "that quilt is very special to me, I don't let anyone touch it."

I watch her frown over the little thing and tell her, "don't you say I'm special, Venus? Then, is there no exception for me?"

Staring deep into my eyes, she states chuckling, "okay!"

Shamelessly grinning, I pull the thing over my body, "let's stop talking about all this nonsense, Venus. Come on tell me about your first day at college. Was is fun? Did you enjoy? Did you meet anyone? Did you have fun? How was the orientation—"

"Ansh! One question at a time!" She complains.

Okay.

It's kinda wrong to blame me here.

It was her first day at college, how could I not be excited. Giggling to myself, I look at her once again, "okay fine! Tell me, how did you feel?"

She gives me satisfactory smile and then pulling the pillow to her lap—placing her chip upon it, she informs me, "it was boring...I mean, you know, the campus and hostel etcetera was nice but the orientation was really long and...I just did not enjoy it."

Well, that's not really surprising. I did not enjoy it either.

Who are you lying to Raghvansh? You did not even attend the orientation.

Whatever.

"Might be Venus. I did not kind of attend it..." I rub my neck awkwardly. She's gonna probably think I'm that kind of 'bank bencher' who doesn't care about their life or studies - which I pretty was. But yeah.

She widens her eyes at me, "Ansh ya, who bunks college on the first day!"

Chuckling I tell her, "by the way. Utkarsh and Aaraya are planning on getting married."

She visibly freezes as she probably soaks it in. I don't blame her. Especially given that she's protective towards Aaraya.

"Pihu."

She sighs and rubbing the face, "I did see this coming. I don't know to feel about this, honestly. I'm really happy..." The girl lies without caring about the fact that I can understand her like a transparent sheet.

"I told you not to put up this pretending game in front of me, didn't I?" Her sad brown orbs look at me. "Pihu, I know where this is coming from, it's natural of you to be sad, so no need to act all strong. Okay?"

She leans against the wall beside her bed and hugs herself, "I know."

I keep my mouth shut for a while and do not disturb her silent session. It might be hard for her, but it had to happen someday or the other. And, its Utkarsh, my brother, she has known him for a while - he's a good person too. She knows it. When why is she not happy?

I look the her figure which finally relaxes and ask, "What are you scared of, Venus?"

Finally looking at me, she brushes her fingers through her mercury red hair, "I don't know Ansh...I just can't simply accept the fact that Di will be going away—that I can't have her with me anymore, in the same room, in the same house. We won't be that close anymore. She's going to have her own family then, and probably we wont be able to be the same again."

I exhale harshly once again as I get a little nostalgic, "didn't you say the same thing when you were going to PGI. Look now, we're taking right? We haven't drifted apart right?"

"But it's just been just 3 days since I left for college—"

I cut her negative thoughts off, "if we can connect this way for three days, then we can for three years too—if we genuinely want to, Piha. The same way, you can be close to your Di even if she doesn't live in the same house as you do. As for having a family, are you not her family too, Piha?"

She sighs once again before looking up, "I know I'm still going to stand that importance in her life, but, maybe this has been happening too Quickly Ansh. I surely did not imagine them getting married so early."

I honestly answer, "I did not either, Pihu. But things happen when they should be. This is what they want, right? You and I cannot change it and we shouldn't either. Both of them seemed to be so happy, as if it was all going the way they wanted it to go."

Her face instantly lights up, "they were very happy?"

Nodding, I inform, "of course they were. Honestly, I've never seen Utkarsh that happy in my entire life. And Aaraya, she seemed happier. What is the possibility of two people destined together—to meet, to fall in love and have the opportunity to get married? They have it, Piha. Aren't you happy for them?"

Okay.

I know, I'm making her feel kind of guilty. But then, I can't see her sad and all depressed over something she should be celebrating.

Aaraya and Utkarsh are getting married after all.

She now panics, "I should be happy, why am I being so selfish." Scratching her temple, she says, "now that I think of it—she is marrying someone she loves so much. I don't want to be sad and ruin all this just because of some silly thoughts."

I smirk, "that's more like my Piha."

Her cheeks instantly turn pink as I watch her grab the water bottle and take sips from it.

Am I forgetting something?

Of course I am.

"Pihu, tell me more. How was your first day? Did you meet someone? Maybe from your previous college or maybe someone new?" I curiously ask. Having friends at college is necessary. Especially given that she's away now—she should be making friends.

She nods happily, "yes I did! Khushi obviously, like my roommate. She's so nice you know, and kind too. Okay, wait, also, she went too MAMC too, like your college!"

Throwing her a surprised look, I say, "did she? That's great. She's trustable then, people from MAMC are quite nice."

"Yeah, she is very nice. Also, I spoke to the guy sitting next to me. I didn't really ask him which college he was from, but he was nice too. Like as in friendly and interesting you know. Qaudir, Quadir Bhatt, he's from Kashmir. Gulmarg to be specific. And through out the lecture, he was telling me about J&K and Srinagar, Gulmarg, and many places there. I felt a little nostalgic to the time Di, mom, dad and I went to Jammu. I miss it now." She finally gets out of her dreamland and looks at me.

And do I look at her? Yes. A bit too much.

"Quadir Bhatt?" I yell.

Oh fuck.

I need to behave, I'm at her parent's place.

She blinks, "yes, Quadir Bhatt. Do you know him? Was he at MAMC too? Might be, after all he was AIR 14."

No way Quadir can be at PGI Chandigarh. Why don't I know about this? That has be a big freaking coincidence...but wait, I might be mistaken too. I mean, it can be some other Quadir Bhat too right? But then again—he's from Kashmir and also Gulmarg to be specific.

I need to inform her about this.

I scratch my chin as I watch Piha with interest, "you know Rizwan, right, Venus? Rizwan Bhatt?"

She widens her eyes instantly as realisation hits her, "don't tell me they're—"

"Yeah they are probably siblings. I'll quickly ask Rizwan...?"

She nods once again, "put it on speaker na please." The girl throws me her puppy eyes and even if I want to I cannot object. Which I wasn't going to anyway.

So.

I instantly try to fish out my phone from my pocket but I do not find any. I look at Piha only to realise I'm on call with her on my phone so I technically cannot call Rizwan too.

But of course I have an idea.

I tell her, "Venus, now that I have to call Rizwan—I'll need my phone. You have an iPad, don't you? How about I FaceTime you?"

She throws me a thumb sign, "okay! Tell me your gmail ID."

I quickly type out my ID and the MacBook which is open and placed a few centimetres away from me buzzes and I hear her say, "you can hang up from here now, Ansh."

I mumble a 'wait' and get the devices on my lap as I tap on green button and see her angelic face just a second later, "yeah, you can hang up now."

"Okay."

The call ends and I open contacts—tapping on Rizwan. I put the phone speaker as it continues ringing. He picks up within a few seconds.

"Yo cap!" His joyful voice falls onto my ear and I look up to Piha—who gestures me to continue.

"Hi Rizwan," I say cautiously. That doesn't sound like you Raghavan.

Yeah, somewhat I guess.

He sounds concerned as he says, "you okay, Raghvan?"

I get unnecessary thoughts off my head as I tell him, "yeah, I'm fine, Bhatt. I wanted to ask you something. You're free for a sec?"

I hear him sigh, "I got scared na, you should have told me that before. What is it that you want to ask?"

I throw a gaze in Piha's direction and she gestures me continue again—which I do, "Rizwan, didn't you tell me Qaudir was going for his Post graduation? So...which college did he select?"

Rizwan giggles making me confused, "yeah, I totally forgot to tell you. He's studying in PGI Chandigarh, you went there too, right? In fact, both him and Haider—my cousin I told you about, the one from Lukhnow. So yes, they stared with their college today itself. Anyway, why would you ask?"

I Quickly cover up my shock as reply, "nah, no-nothing really. Just been a while since I-I meet Quadir so."

I can easily sense his confused self on the other side, "Oh, Okay..."

"Okay, I gotta go. I'll see you later," I say at the speed of light as I hang up and involuntary look up staring into the girl I love's eyes.

"Quadir is Rizwan's brother??!" I watch her panic.

I nod, "yeah, you heard it. And also, I know Quadir. We've met before. He's a really nice guy, Venus. You can trust him if in case you want to be friends with him—or like in case you meet him again."

She stare at me for a good five minutes and then says, "he asked me to join him for dinner."

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Author's Note*

Sorry for being extremely late! I'll try to update the next chapter within a week—or two at maximum.

So...Raghvansh finally know about Piha and Quadir and he happens to be knowing him too. The next chapter will be kind of different ;-)

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