4 years ago.........

Avyansh - 23

Arya - 18

                Arya's pov

It was my first day as a medical student. The feeling of being a medical student is euphoric. I can't express it in words.

How does it feel when your dream comes true?

Just like now, the way I am feeling — happy, excited and mostly I wanted to cry, cry my heart out due to the happiness.

I still remember the 15 year old Arya sitting in her room with a bunch of books and thinking about her future. The only question I asked myself back then was “will I be able to do this?”

“Am I worth becoming a doctor?”

And after multiple prayers, sleepless nights, early mornings , here I am standing in front of India's top medical College AIIMS.

Ek chotasa sapna tha , ki bade hokar doctor banna hai aur mummy papa ko proud feel karvana hai aur aaj maine vo sapna pura kar diya.

My last lecture just got completed and now I am sitting in the canteen which is near the campus , while eating my favorite maagi.

Maagi kisko pasand nahi hota hai?

Mujhe toh bohot pasand hai. I love it.

While I was enjoying my Maggie , I felt someone gaze on me which made me feel very uncomfortable. But I let it slide thinking that it must be other students but just then a girl suddenly appeared in front of me out of nowhere .

I looked up at her with no emotion on my face thinking that she would leave looking at my straight face.but she smiled instead of leaving, which made me scrunch my nose.I swear that was the ugliest smile I have ever seen.

But Suddenly she did something which I never expected. She took my phone and then ran away.

What the hell?? Like seriously??

Meri pyaari phone,

How dare she??

I immediately ran after her but she was faster than me. After searching for a while , I was about to go back. That's when I bumped into a wall.

Wait! Wait!! Wall??

Where did the wall come from?

That too in the middle of a walking path?

Thinking about all these I looked up and my mind went blank and my voice got stuck in my throat making me go speechless .

It was not a wall but a well built chest of a handsome man. I think he is in his early 20s.

Damm, he is beautiful .

He has ice blue eyes which look like an ice cube, he has a well shaped jaw with light beard, a pointed nose and black jet hair , which made him look attractive.

But, but .

Why does he look like an American?

While having Indian features?

“Maybe one of his parents is American and the other is Indian,” my subconscious said and I agreed with it .

don't ask me how I know that he has American features. I because my bua also married an American.

Then suddenly Someone cleared their throat making me come out of my delusional world.

Shit!! What the hell was I even thinking ?

“Get a grip on you Arya” I said to myself and I noticed that I was standing too close to the person in front of me so I moved back.

I looked around to ease my embarrassment. That's when I noticed 2 more people standing on either side of him. I just smiled at them being embarrassed.

My cheeks turned into a dark shade of red due to embarrassment.

" Are you okay?" The handsome man asked me. Even though it should be me who should ask that question because I was the one who bumped into him, but I nodded my head as my words got stuck in my throat as my brain stopped functioning at the moment.

That's me, my brain stops functioning on meeting new people for the first time.

And that's when I make mistakes.

" Why were you running? " The man who is right to him asked me and there it all clicked .

my phone. My eyes widened at the thought, shit!! She must have gone far by now.

Arya, what a dumb person you are?

“Mummy will kill you with her bare hands if she will get to know about this” my subconscious said and I gulped at the thought of my mother.

Then an idea struck in my brain and I looked at people standing in front of me, gathering some courage. I asked them my voice a mix of scared and emotional "can you guys please help me?"

Sensing my worry they nodded their heads and the man on the left side standing asked me "did something happen to you? you don't look good?"

What the hell does he mean by looking good? Stopping my urge to look at myself i said

" No, —I mean yes . a girl came to me and smiled then, she took my phone and ran away" i completed while fumbling on my words and they looked at each other and then asked

" Did you see, where did she go?" I nodded my head and showed them the right curve she took before disappearing from my sight. And after 30 minutes my phone is back in my hands.

I mean mujhe nahi mili in logo ko kaise mili vo ladki?

Chodo yaar meri phone mil gayi mujhe, I am happy that I am saved from mummy ki maar.

I thanked them and they left from there.

Then I returned to the canteen to take my bag but only to frown as it was not there," This is where I kept my bag, where did it go? " I thought and started looking for it. I looked everywhere then suddenly I heard a voice.

" Are you looking for this?" Someone asked from behind and I turned back to look at the person only to find him holding my bag. Anger started to bubble inside me, first that girl took my phone and now him.

Everyone is having fun annoying me.

" Give me my bag ." I asked him in a no-nonsense tone ,in return he just smirked at me. This bastard.

" Take it " saying that he threw my bag at a girl. I looked at her only to get shocked, she is the same girl who just robbed my phone.

Chor.

"You? What the hell are you doing here? And give me my bag." I said to her, In return she threw my bag to another girl.

Now my anger is reaching its peak.

Pehle din tha meri aaj college Mai .

Everything was good until this girl robbed my phone.

I made a wrong move coming into this canteen.

"See, don't test my patience and give me my bag back or else the consequences will be worse" I said and she looked at me from up to down .

What is she doing? such a pervert

" What will you do? " She asked me in a challenging tone . I internally smirked as a sudden idea struck in my mind and i took my phone out and started recording them

" Look, these three are threatening me, they even took my bag and are playing catch ball with my bag. I am a new student here and they are bullying me on my first day!" I fake cried while recording the voice and they widened their eyes looking at my act. Trust me when I say this ,they look so scared and suddenly the boy screamed on top of his lungs,

" Delete the fucking video" and now it was my time to smirk 😏

" No" I said as my smirk widened more looking at their misery .

" I will give you your bag" the girl who is holding my bag said in a hurry.

Oh she got scared, good.

I acted like I was thinking and nodded. She threw my bag in my direction and I caught it. Finally, I smiled looking at my bag and was about to delete the video but the boy Said loudly ,

" You will pay for it , very soon little girl and I will make sure of it." Saying that he went away with the girls. His words just angered me more, instead of the delete button I pressed the upload button Now the whole world will know about them. Especially about the bad things they do.

How dare he?

Hearing to a clapping sound i turned back to see a boy and a girl looking at me with an amused expression.I raised my eyebrows at them, and the boy who looked like my age said

" When we entered the canteen we saw them bullying you. We were about to help you but.... Tum ne kamaal kar diya, aaj tak kisi ne ye nahi kiya hai" he completed and the girl nodded agreeing to his words.

I just gave them a small smile. And suddenly there was an urge in me to ask and i asked them

"Who are they? I am a new student here,so I don't know about this." i clarified my point so they don't think anything wrong.

" Two of them graduated from our college and the other one is a business student. It's been 2 years since they graduated but they still come here every day and bully the students , sometimes by troubling them, sometimes by taking their money and eating their food" the girl said her voice was filled with pure hatred.

" Are they from a rich family? " I asked them as I saw their clothes that looked branded. They both nodded and said

" Yes, the boy is Rakshit Shergill, a surgeon, his father is the CEO of a pharmacy company and the girl next to him is Riya Sethi. She is also a graduated dentist and her father is a business partner with Rakshit 's father and the last girl who gives you your bag is Ishika Chowdary. Her father is my father's best friend and a business partner too " the boy completed and I made an O face.

And then suddenly the girl exclaimed in a loud voice which made me flinch a little,

" Oh shit! We forgot to introduce ourselves. I am Diya sen and he is Anirudh Verma. We both are studying first year of MBBS and we are your classmates." She completed it. I nodded not interested but, Wait! Her one word caught my attention.

They are my classmates.

I need to stay away from them.

Yes, I should stop talking now, or else something will happen which I might regret later.

I think I should go from here, I internally nodded my head and suddenly they forwarded their hands. I didn't want to shake hands with them but still I did.

I need to leave before they ask that one question.

Then I was ab

out to leave but Diya asked me something more precisely a question which I didn't want to hear but I heard it and I stopped on my track and froze at the same time .