Next morning, Karan was looking tired and his eyes were proof that he didn't sleep properly last night. He came and sat next to Aman who was as usual on time and was practicing maths for an assumed maths class test. Aman saw Karan from the corner of his eyes to find him lazily trying to open his bottle cap to drink water.

The force he was applying on to the bottle cap was not sufficient enough to open it. Aman noticed the light dark circles below karan's eyes, he kept his pen aside and snatched the bottle away from Karan.

Opening the cap, handing over him the bottle he told "Ye le (Take it)", Karan took the bottle, gulped little water down and then taking the bottle cap from Aman's hand told him "I could open the bottle cap myself", to which Aman replied "I know right..?! I could very well see that". Karan shot him a light irritated look murmuring "Get lost" taking out his books.

Aman shook his head and started practicing again, after sometime he asked Karan "You look tired today, What were you doing last night..?" Karan quickly replied "nothing" he didn't want to tell what was he doing yesterday because if he would tell Aman would make fun of him, laugh and might also tease him. He didn't want any to happen.

Aman teased him "Were you thinking about Aditi..??". Karan eyes went apart all of a sudden, he turned his head towards him giving him a "How do you know" look. He shook his head replying "Noo, Why will I think about her...? U better be prepared for the class test today otherwise be ready to take orders Mr. Monkey-head".

Karan lightly chuckled telling this, making Aman roll his eyes, he shot him a glare replying "Shut up..!! Nothing sort of that gonna happen. It's Maths test dude" Karan's eye became small, he scratched his forehead confused muttering "maths test..??"

Aman nodded head replying "Haan".

"Par aaj toh... (But today we..)" Karan stopped midway listening to Kanishka.

"Hey monkey-head you ready for the test..??" Kanishka asked. She was standing right in front of them folding her hands looking confident and smirking at Aman. Aman looked at her and narrowing his eyes at her words murmured to himself "Aa gayi phir se dimag chaatne.. jungleee kahi ki (Here she is again to eat my head..! Such a wild..)"

She couldn't listen to what he just told, Karan heard and he chuckled. She asked raising her eyebrows "Kya Bola?? (What did you say..??)"

"Nothing, I'm ready and you better preapre yourself so that you don't cry later" Aman told running his hand through his hairs.

His words were filled with over confidence but his face was looking so handsome. Everytime he runs his hand through his hairs he looks devilishly handsome, Kanishka wouldn't disagree this as well but his arrogance and attitude filled talks always makes her angry. Even now listening to him, she tightened her fist.

She brought her hands close to his hairs in order to pull them apart. But stopped mid air thinking "Why do I care about what he does with his hairs?".

She huffed "Ek din tere baalon mai aag laga dungi dekhna.. (One day I will fire up your hairs just see)" she clenched her fist mid air groaning and treaded heavily to her seat.

Aman was lucky as his hairs were not in between those tightly closed fists.. otherwise Aman would have been left with nothing on his head to move his hands through. Aman rightly knew it. Her sudden anger on his hairs was both scary and confusing to him.

One could see the fear in his eyes when kanishka clenched her fists. A lump formed in his throat listening to her. Even after she left he was looking blank. Karan was laughing, he saw Aman staring blankly at the place where she was standing before as if she was still standing there.

He waved his hands in front of his face, but Aman didn't react. Karan suddenly grinned thinking something.

He went near his ear and yelled "Amannnn wake uppp". Aman came out of his thoughts, he almost fell off the bench but somehow managed to keep balance over himself. He yelled "Paaaagal hai kyaaaa be..??? (Are you crazy..??)" making Karan giggle.

Karan replied laughing "baithe baithe tu kho ja raha hai aur pagal mai hun.. wah..! (You are the one who's day dreaming, And I'm the one who's crazy..? Wow..)".

Aman didn't answer, he couldn't admit that he was imagining his hairs on fire, which was not really burning his hair but instead giving him a look of Super Saiyan Goku.

Aman told avoiding the question "First you tell me what's up with you..? Why didn't you sleep last night..?" Karan shook his head at the mere thought of telling his stupidity he was doing last night.

*Flashback*

It was 12 already but sleep was far from karan's eyes. He was restless, tossing and turning every minute on his bed. His mind was revolving around those blue eyes and he was imagining how he's gonna speak while having an eye contact with her. He had practiced earlier in front of mirror, but he knew practicing in front of mirror not gonna help him from those mesmerising eyes.

He loves those eyes, he wants to look at them, he can't help himself at times..! He ends up staring them even after controlling himself and that's what he's scared of. He doesn't want to portray himself as a creep in front of her. He's scared that he might end up embarrassing himself.

All these thoughts were revolving around his head, he was staring at the ceiling fan engrossed in his imagination. He had enveloped his mind to that extent that he was now talking to himself. He asked himself "Why do I like those eyes so much..? What's so special about them..? What makes it different from others..?"

His heartbeat slightly increased by the answer he got from himself "Because it's Aditi's ". He shook his head at the mere thought of it and clarified to himself "No, it's because I love blue color..! Its all because of my love for the blue color and nothing much."

He thought of something. He sat and getting up from his bed started searching something beneath his bed. He took out a small old trunk. Before he could open he jumped far from trunk striking his head hard on wall, he was so scared he didn't really realize or feel the pain. He got up and climbed up on his bed. He started throwing pillows all around.

But Cockroach was not ready to leave him yet, it came on bed , forcing Karan to do hip hop on bed, jumping all around his room. Finally it flew out of his room from the window. By this time.. Karan's room had turned into a mess, pillows and bedsheet could be seen anywhere other than on its place "bed".

Karan hated insects, cockroaches topping that list. He just hated them more than any other insect, also was scared of them the most. Not sure what was so scary about them but for once if a Gorilla would come in front of Karan, he won't be that scared but if the smallest of smallest cockroach would, he would run miles away in no second scared and this one wasn't even small, it was one of those biggest flying cockroaches.

After it went, Karan examined his room standing near the door which seemed like before sometime a tornado came there. He shook his head, massaging his temple, he organized things back which nearly took him half an hour while it didn't take half a minute to unorganize them.

Someone has told very true that "It takes years to create something, while it takes just a minute second to destroy it".

Karan finally completed with this, but his work was not done yet. He moved near the trunk, hit it with his leg keeping his body far from trunk, checking and making sure that this time their is no surprise waiting for him. When nothing popped out, slowly he sat near to it and opened it. It's been months he opened it last, last was when he kept his 13th birthday gift, first from Aman though inside it. Karan keeps all his memories safe inside this trunk.

He smiled looking at the gift he had got from Aman, a simple friendship band written "Best Brothers Forever" over it, Karan smiled caressing that words by his thumb and laughed remembering how Aman gave him that gift.

Aman was hiding the gift from Karan, but Karan had seen something in his hand, somehow he managed to take it from his hand, checking the friendship band Karan smiled and saw lovingly at Aman who maintained a poker face, showing no emotions, being Aman. Karan smiled and thanked him for the gift.

Aman replied "Tere liye nai laya tha, chal tu rakh le phir bhi (I didn't bring it for you, but it's ok you can keep it)". He smiled at last looking at karan's flushed face. Karan narrowed his eyes replying "Bhag, rakh le tu hi, de dena jiske liye laya tha (Get lost, you only keep it, give it to the one for whom u bought").

Aman replied chuckling "Chal chal, rakh le, rakh le.. tu bhi Kya yaad rakhega, Happy Birthday..!! (Leave, leave .. keep it.. What will you remember..!! Happy birthday)".

Karan asked frowning "Aise Kon wish karta hai birthday pe..? (Who wishes like this on birthday..?)" Aman replied patting his back "Mai karta Hun (I do)".

Karan shook his head grinning and laughing remembering this. He kept it back safe, and among beautiful memories took out what he was searching for.

A soft toy, A small teddy bear which had blue eyes. He smiled taking it out and closing back the trunk and pushing it back beneath the bed. This was his gift from his mom when he was crying for a teddy bear. His mom bought him a teddy bear with blue eyes specifically seeing his love towards the blue color.

His mom would have never thought while gifting him that some day in future he would use it to practice speaking assuming it to be a blue eyed girl.

Karan placed it near the mirror and sat in front of the mirror in his bean bag sofa. It was quite funny practicing in front of a teddy bear assuming it to be Aditi but at the very same time Karan had no option left, he couldn't embarrass himself.

Karan practiced for some one hour, he hallucinated Aditi's blue eyes which had the natural shining to that of Teddy's blue eyes which had no shine. Many a times he got distracted, loss of words while imagining those pale without any shine marble to be shine filled beautiful eyes that of Aditi's. Even though it didn't help him very much, he got the confidence that he can speak, which was enough for him.

It was 3'o clock when he finally felt he was ready enough to see and speak in front of her, he got up. He went to sleep, again after 2 minutes he woke up and went near the mirror and took the teddy bear. He held it in both of his hands, unknowingly a smile played on his lips, he took it with him to the bed.

He made the teddy bear lie down next to him, and slept wishing it good night. He slept nearly 4 hours late from his usual timings.

*Flashback ends*

Karan quickly replied "Tu wo sab chod, apne maaaaaaatttths test ki tayyari Kar (Leave all that, start preparing for your maaattths test)", he deliberately stressed on word "maths" and winked at Aman, a weird smile played on his face looking at which Aman got confused.

He couldn't understand what was that wink for, making a weird face at him he told "You are behaving weird dude, you better visit a mental asylum, you really need it". Karan smirked replying "Keep your advices to yourself, you might need it later"

Aman was going mad he told angry "Duhhhh! Something's very wrong with you.. get lost..! Don't eat my head", Karan replied "Sure". Aman shook head listening his reply, and started practicing again.

---

"Mam I guess I have got wrong paper..!!"

"What's wrong with it..?"

"I got social science paper"

Everyone starts laughing listening to him, Mam gave him a look raising her eyebrows before speaking

"What the hell do you mean by you got social science paper..!?? Everyone has got social science paper only"

"But why everyone has got social science paper..??"

Whole class started laughing again, Aman still had no clue of what was going on.

"Have you gone crazy..?? You don't even know what subject test you have..!?"

"I know, But this is social science paper..!"

"You bloody moron, You got social science test, so obviously you will get social science paper, were you expecting maths paper to be given to you..?"

"Yeah"

The word escaped Aman's lips, still shocked trying to digest the words which mam said just now. Mam was fuming in anger, watching the entire class erupt laughing again. She yelled making everyone go silent "You all just shut up..!! And you whatever your name is.. Write the test otherwise get the hell out of my class".

Aman saw Karan to find that he was already looking at him and laughing. Now he understood what he meant that time. He saw Kanishka who was also smirking at him. Aman raised his eyebrows, he was glaring at her would be a understatement, he was trying to frighten her from his look, which conveyed his message "I will not spare you this time".

In return, Kanishka laughed sticking her tongue out, her thumbs around her ears and the remaining fingers wiggling at him. Her gestures mocked him, it was to make him angry and he very well knew it. But still he could not stop his smile from appearing on his face seeing her cute gesture. He masked it with a frown and turned back, he chuckled thinking about her childish behavior.

His smile disappeared seeing the social science paper lying in front of him, the subject he hated the most. He understood the entire ploy now. It was to make him angry and make him accept the challenge. She knew very well that while he's angry he would not think much before agreeing to her.

Her strength was social science, so she challenged Aman for that test, she knew she would score more marks than him, knowing very well that Aman was weak in social science. Her ploy worked, Aman was stuck now. He could not back out from his words, cursing himself, he started writing. Only thing he knew in the paper being his name and the date.

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"... And this is how I won the challenge" kanishka finished explaining Tanu everything. She squealed in joy, making Aman roll his eyes, he was eating silently all this time with narrowed eyes listening to Kanishka blabber about how she defeated him. He finally spoke "By cheating, Dhokha hua hai mere saath.. Dhokha (By cheating..! 'Deceived...' I have been deceived)"

Everyone giggled whereas kanishka replied "You had agreed yourself, what is Dhokha here.. I didn't say it was maths test, I told tomorrows class test", Aman replied in no second "You neither told it is social science test".

She replied "Whatever it may be, you are lost and now you have to do and listen whatever I say, you understand..?", Aman rolled eyes telling "Whatever, I am man of words".

"Chal ek glass pani de (Now give me a glass of water)" kanishka ordered teasing Aman, he rolled eyes, everyone laughed. She and Tanu did a high five chuckling at his narrowed eyes. Aman was looking at them and his heart melted at this scene, how could he be angry even after this...? His anger had vanished away long back when she teased him during class, winking and wiggling hands at him.

They finished their lunch, coming out of house they bid bye to Tanu, bidding bye she wished all of them "Best of luck guys practice well" everyone mouthed a thank you leaving Aman.

"Good luck to you as well bhaiya, you need it the most" Tanu told to Aman not listening any reply from him. She told Aman smiling at kanishka who smiled back showing all her teeth to her. Aman rolled eyes, he replied "Ohhhh thank you" in a sarcastically happy tone.

They all were returning to the school with Karan and Aman walking ahead followed by kanishka and Aditi. Karan told Aman making sure that only Aman could listen "Ek advice du..? (Shall I give you one advice..?)"

"Nai bolunga toh bhi tu bol ke hi rahega (Even though I will say no, however you will say it)" Aman replied looking not so interested, he was walking with his hands in his pockets.

Karan chuckled listening to it, he replied "you better find a mental asylum, you will need it soon". As soon as he told this, he was nowhere to be seen around him.

Aman was miffed already, listening this he couldn't stop himself, he punched Karan or to say where Karan was there before some moments. Aman's hand didn't hit anything, and he almost fell down losing his balance  but somehow balanced himself. He saw Karan running and entering the school gate.

"Aj nai chodunga (I will not leave you today)" mumbling this Aman ran behind Karan.

***

"Wow Karan, that was really good, you did really well" exclaimed Aditi, clapping for Karan. Karan smiled, his practice had done wonders, he actually spoke looking straight at Aditi's eyes. He became nervous at times when Aditi blinked her eyes, his heartbeat became abnormal but he managed to keep himself cool and look normal.

Her eyelashes many a times distracted him, at last teddy didn't had eyelashes. Whenever he got distracted he lowered his eyes and shook his head taking deep breath and continued speaking again. He didn't want to be staring at her eyes whenever he got distracted so he showcased it in a way that Aditi will feel that he forgot his points and that he didn't knew what to say.

He mentally thanked the teddy when Aditi clapped. At last because of that teddy he got the confidence that yes he can speak in front of her, she was happy looking at Karan's new raise in confidence. Karan couldn't help his smile from spreading over his face looking at Aditi's happiness, he didn't really see her smiling but her eyes were evident enough to tell him that she was happy.

She looked at him, but he was already looking at her. She lowered her eyes feeling something weird inside her, meanwhile she noticed his eyes.

"Looks like you practiced a lot last night, Is this the reason you got light dark circles under your eyes..?" Aditi asked looking at his eyes. Karan broke his stare, he didn't know what to reply so he just simply nodded his head.

"Oh.., don't worry much, you are improving and soon with some practice you will be perfect" Aditi told, Karan hummed in response. They started practicing again with Aditi speaking now and Karan listening.

She spoke clear with no mistakes and flaws. Karan was admiring her speaking, at the very same time listening to each of her words she spoke keenly. She completed, Karan clapped smiling and complementing "Wow, that was so perfect, you speak so well". Aditi smiled replying thank you.

***

"Karan what are you looking there?" Aditi asked looking at Karan who was raising his shoulder trying to get a view of first rows.

"Don't you feel it's so weird" replied Karan still trying to get a view.

"What is weird..??" asked Aditi unable to understand. Karan replied turning to her "This Silence.. How come there's so much of silence here..? I'm worried if they are fine..!!"

Aditi stood replying "yeah, we better check them out once". Nodding, Both of them stood and started rushing to the front rows.

As soon as they reached, the view in front of them made their eyes go apart in shock and disbelief. Their mouth hung open, this was the last thing they had expected to happen. For once a murder scene wouldn't have given them such a big shock, than this actually did.

They saw each other, and again to the view in front of them. Still unable to believe it.

***

Hello everyone..!!

I hope you guys are doing good..! I'm doing very bad i know .. things keeping me busy.. exams on head.. and much more.

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