"Have fun, dear!", her parents bade her farewell as she got into the train, and Meera turned back and waved at them, before going in to find her seat.

"Shall I help you?", Arun got up from his seat on seeing Meera.

"Sure.", Meera couldn't help but smile back at him.

"Your seat is here.", Arun gestured upon finding her seat.

"Thank you, Bhaiyya!", Meera nodded at him.

"Oh my god! You are bhai-zoning everyone!", Meera turned to see Karthik seated next to her, and Omkar sitting next to him, checking his phone.

"Good morning, bhaiyyas!", Meera said, before yawning. Damn long distance trains and their early timings!

"Why does she have to sit here!", Omkar scowled.

"Excuse me?", Meera asked, surprised at his rude behavior.

"You can exchange places with us if you want to, Omkar. Stop being rude to Meera.", Deepak offered.

"No thanks. I like my place too much. Just not the one girl in the immediate vicinity to it.", Om said.

"Meera?", Leah called.

Meera ran out of her chair to greet her friend, glad that she didn't have to face the awkwardness that the boys were presenting her with.

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"What do you want to get?", Meera asked, as they made their way to the small roadside tea-stall that all of them had gone for a drink.

I guess the 7 hour train and the subsequent 2 and a half hours bus ride till now took a toll on their bodies, she mused. I don't know how we are going to survive the rest 3 and a half hours more.

"I want the Lemon tea that they are making.", Leah gestured towards the stall.

"Ok.", Meera replied, as they made their way towards the stall.

While Leah who had finished her whole tea in a gulp and had gone to get more, Meera stood alone, nursing the hot tea, basking in it's warm.

"Which drink? Is the normal one better or the Lemon one?", Arun suddenly emerged through the crowd, and asked.

"Lemon is good.", Meera answered, eyeing the other five guys behind him, bickering, chatting, taking selfies the usual....

"Omkar! How are you! Long time no see!", Leah said in a sing-song voice when she came back.

"I'm ok", he replied stonily, and left along with the others to the stall.

"You know him?", Meera asked Leah in surprise.

"Umm, yeah? He's my cousin."

"Wait. He is your cousin?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Nothing.", Meera replied, not being able to fathom how cold and rude Omkar, and sweet and caring Leah can end up in the same family tree.

"He's a good person if you really know him.", Leah told her.

Meera nodded, tiredly.

"Let's do something.", Meera said, suddenly remembering her mother's warning to take photos with a parent's mobile, so that they can immediately send it to her. Meera's phone, sadly, lacked data, much needed to instantly send them to her parents. And Leah the scatterbrain, forgot her mobile's charger, and so was keeping it switched off for most of the trip.

"Shobha aunty! Please take a pic of me and Leah please!", Meera requested.

The duo smiled at the camera, and then made their way towards, the phone to see how the photo looked.

The photo stunned them beyond words... Meera and Leah stood hand in hands smiling at the camera, while Karthik stood behind them, angling himself in such a way that looked like he was kissing Meera's cheek!

"Aww! You guys look cute! Shall I post it on the group?", Shobha Aunty asked, smiling.

"No!", both Meera and Leah shrieked at the same time.

"Please aunty?Delete it!", Meera said before turning towards the cause of this photo's failure.

"Karthik....", she thundered, a murderous look on her face.

He's going to wish he was never born.

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Glossary:-

Aunty: Although everyone already knows this, I'm still going to explain it. Aunty is how every non-relative adult female is addressed, in India. Similarly uncle for males. Makes life simpler if you forget their names right?

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Hi lovelies!

Long time no see!

I can't wait for you to read the next chapter!

It's going to be deep!

And we are slowly inching towards Shaitan's Reveal.

I have not planned it, because, I go with the flow. I'll definitely tell you if I do end up planning it because, I might feel responsible as an author to write stuff with quality.

You know quality is important right?

Apart from that, I've nothing to say.

Ciao!