"Khushi, look who's here." I heard my father's voice which I decided to ignore, it was because of him that I had lost a friend like Aditi and I don't know if she was ever going to forgive me for what I did.

I wish she could, I would do anything to get her forgiveness, all I wanted was our friendship to get back to what it used to be.

I heard a knock at the door of my room and it made me mad, I don't know why I was feeling irritated of everything today.

"Leave me alone!" I shouted angrily hoping my dad would let me be in peace for a while but instead he wanted to make me madder so he opened my door.

"What is..." Before I could complete my sentence, I saw Aditi walk in instead of my dad.

Holy Shit!

"Oh My God! Aditi." I looked at her in surprise, I dint even know why she was here, maybe she was here to forgive me, maybe he was here to tell me horrible things for hiding things from her but I still felt happy that she was here.

"I thought I'd come to talk to you given that I left just like that earlier today." She smiled faintly.

"It's okay, I understand. I would have left the same way if I found out something like that too." I said.

"So... I talked to my mother and it turns out, you were right." She said as she settled down on the bed, I sat down beside her looking at her, I dint even know what to say to make her feel better, I was terrible at comforting people.

"I am sorry Khushi for staying mad at you for so long and I'm sorry for ruining your dress, I just thought I wasn't important to you because you left just like that. You never even called."

"What would I have said if I called Aditi, the problem was that I was hiding things from you and I dint want to."

"I don't believe our parents could do something like this, I mean first of all my own mother. I am so ashamed of her." She wiped off the tears rolling down her eyes.

"It's okay Adi... its life, shit happens." I said as I moved closer to her and put my arm around her shoulder to comfort her.

"I don't even know what to do now, where to go from here. Should I tell dad? Should I let him stay in the dark? Why the hell did she have to do this to us? If I tell dad there's a chance of my entire family falling apart, if I don't, I will fall apart." She cried.

"Hey... you don't have to make the decision right away. Give it a few day, you can relax and then think whether you should tell him or not."

"I guess you are right."

"You know you can stay here if you don't want to go home today."

"I know... I just don't think it would be comfortable, I've hated you for so long." She tried to giggle.

"I know, but I promise I won't make it awkward, we can forget whatever that happened and just act like the way we used to in high school." I suggested.

"That is if you have forgiven me." I added.

"Let's see, I am thinking of forgiving you for leaving me and keeping such a huge truth from me, but what are you willing to do to get our friendship back?"

"Anything." I replied immediately.

"I was kidding you don't have to do anything." She laughed as she pulled me into a hug and I finally felt at peace after so long.

"So I think I'm staying over then, and then you can tell me all about your boyfriend and stuff."

"I don't have a boyfriend." I rolled my eyes at her.

"Then why am I always seeing you with that guy, what is his name?"

"Jai?"

"Yeah him. Seriously you've got horrible choice in men." She rolled her eyes.

"Shut up, he's my friend and there's nothing going on between us." I laughed.

"Okay, if not with Jai then who else? Arnav?" She looked at me suspiciously. Did she know something? No, she haven't really seen me and Arnav talking apart from the time he gave me his mother's dress for the party.

"Nothing with him either."

"Great then, I was nervous, I dint know how I would have told you this if you two had anything going on." Aditi said

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

"I want you to stay away from him Khushi. He's not a good person, he can end up ruining your life, and I don't want you to have anything to do with him." Aditi looked at me seriously.

"He's not that horrible Adi. I mean I know he's done stuff but I..."

"You don't know him like I know him Khushi, why are you even trying to defend him?"

"How do you know him? tell me then, what is it about him that makes you warn me to stay away from him, I mean what could he possibly do to me?" I asked.

I mean I had seem both Aditi and Arnav arguing every now and then and I knew they dint like each other much but I dint think she disliked him that much. What could he have possibly done to have Aditi hate him?

"We've just got back our friendship, if anything will be able to jeopardize it again it will be him. I mean it Khushi, stay away from him. You can take this as a blackmail but I don't care, I am saying it for your good. If you want our friendship to stay like it is, just stay away from him okay?"

"If you say so then I will, but you have to tell me why you hate him so much though." Well the idea of staying away from Arnav wasn't really working even when he himself wanted me to stay away from him, why was I lying to Aditi then? How was I possibly going to stay away from him?

What about our talk in the parking lot? I had already made my mind, did it mean I had to change my mind? But I dint want to.

"I will tell you one day Khushi... I just need time." She sighed.

"Okay." I nodded, she smiled at me as she stood up and headed to the washroom and at that moment my phone beeped, I quickly picked it and looked at the message I had received on WhatsApp.

"Still waiting for your answer - Arnav."

Shit just got real. Where did he get my number from? What was I supposed to do now? I did say I would do anything to get Aditi and my friendship back but what about this?

Shut up Khushi, your lustful desires aren't bigger than your friendship. My inner voice said strictly. I know, I had to do this for Aditi and I knew if Aditi was telling me to stay away from him, she must have a solid reason so I had to, even when I didn't want to.

So I guess I was just going to have to ignore his text to. Damn it, why was it suddenly so hard, it was just basically lust, I should get over it within a week.

I wasn't going to lose my best friend because of a guy.

Nope, never going to happen!

"I know you read my message, are you ignoring me or you are playing with me?" another text popped up.

Stupid WhatsApp. Why did it have to show people that I had read the message?

"Seriously Khushi. I just need a Yes or a No. How hard can that be?"

Jeez, wasn't this guy so impatient. I guess I should just say no at once so he would stop bothering me. but I dint want to.

Khushi control your freaking hormones!

What if I agreed and we got done with it, it was a onetime deal anyway, and Aditi never had to find out about it.

No, but that would be betraying her, even after she told me to stay away from him.

Seriously, why couldn't she tell me to avoid him after we were done with our business?

"You either reply to my text or I come there to get my answer." Another text came. Holy shit! No! As soon as I started typing, Aditi walked out of the bathroom.

"Who are you texting?" She asked with a smirk.

"No one." I shrugged as I quickly put my phone inside my pocket so she would take it and start checking my texts, she did that a lot before I knew she could to it now too.

I dint even get time to reply to Arnav, I just hoped he wasn't actually going to show up here.