"The date went good." Mallika had said when she saw her bestfriend lying on her bed staring at the canopy with a dreamy look on her face.

"Yes." Was what she had answered before she turned to squeal in her pillow. The pillow muffling out her voice. Mallika chuckled. She opened her phone to check the notifications, when a particular one caught her attention.

"WHAT THE HELL?"

Anika jumped, startled by the sudden exclamation.

"I will kill that Mohit." Mallika said as she moved towards the door. Anika grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the bed.

"Leave him. I told na my date went good." She said with a big smile on her face.

"Oh yeah. If you didn't go on a date with Mohit and your date went good. That means you went on a date with someone else-" she connected the dots.

"Who was it?" She turned to her excitedly.

"You won't believe me if I tell you." Anika said looking at her nervously.

"Come on now. Tell me who is it." Mallika whined.

"Okay, so I went on a date...with-" Anika closer her eyes, as she imagined the drum rolls.

"-Shivaay Singh Oberoi." Mallika breathed in awe.

"Wait how do you know that?" Anika opened her eyes to look at friend quizzically. Mallika just flipped her phone, so that the screen faced Anika, too shocked to say anything.

"Had the best time with the prettiest girl I have ever encountered in my whole life." Anika read the caption out loud, her cheeks burning. He had posted the selfie he had taken when they were about to leave.

"Omg, he even tagged you-" Mallika squealed happy for her friend. "I'm sure, half of our college knows you by now." Anika just rolled her eyes at that.

She opened her phone to check the notifications and sure enough they were flooded.

ss.oberoi has requested to follow you.

She immediately accepted and followed him back, pointedly ignoring Mallika's teasing looks.

They were scrolling through her socials when an unknown number messaged her.

Hey it's Shivaay
thank you for the wonderful time
looking forward to our future dates.
save my number, if you haven't already.

Was what it had said.

Anika felt light headed. That boy was the dream of the every girl of their college. And she went on a date with him. He asked for her number. He dropped her off to her dorm. He tagged her. It felt like a dream.

"Pinch me." She whispered.

"OUCH! Not that hard." She glared at her friend who just smiled sheepishly.