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" Will you become our friend?" hearing those words, Arya froze in her place.

“FRIEND” is a word which felt very familiar at the same time very unfamiliar to her. The past from which Arya was running away flashes in front of her eyes like a broken record . Arya glupled as she remembered those memories and A lump forms in her throat and she slowly turns around to face Diya and Anirudh.

They both smiled and waited for her to answer. Arya fake smiles at them, covering her emotions.Of course she didn't want others to know about her and her past and she sat on the nearby table and they both got settled in her front seats.

" How can I make friends after that incident? How can I trust them? What if they are pitying me?" She thought to herself and looked at the two people who were eagerly waiting for her answer.

" Hmm, why do you want to become my friend? I am just a new student and a mere stranger to you guys?" Arya questioned them

“ Stranger se hi toh friends bante hai” Diya said looking at her, Arya gulped hearing her and said “ but i don't want to make friends here,mei bus padhne aayi hu” i don't want to make friends for some temporary time who in the end leave me” she whispered the last part, while fighting with her fingers, Diya and Anirudh thinned their eyebrows as they heard her words.

" Why? Everyone wants to make new friends in their life" Anirudh asked her and Diya nodded supporting him,

“ But i don't want to" Arya said looking at them with her blank face ,

“ See, at least try, we really want to become your friend,” Diya said stubbornly.

“ Kon dosti karega mere saath, kya pata kal tum log mujhe chodoge toh” Arya said and continued,

" You know I have trust issues, I am an introvert, I am a chubby girl, I am not a person who hangs out. Mujhe apni bed pe pade renha bohot pasand hai, mai tum sab rich kids ki Tarah nahi hu.These are the problems and no one wants to have a friend like me," why would anyone want to become friend of a girl who has a terrible past” Arya said to them and whispered the last part. Meanwhile Anirudh and Diya grinned at her.

" What? Why are you both smiling? It's okay if you change your mind, I can understand, because everyone does the same." Arya uttered as her overthinking kicked in. Diya looked at her for a good few minutes as she scanned her face and said

" You are perfect Arya Remember YOU ARE PERFECT.we don't know why you have trust issues but just give us a little space in your life and about trust, we will gain it with the time, it's up to you to trust us or not. But remember we are always with you.we both are introvert too, we don't hang out a lot too, hum ho sakte hai rich kids however we are just like you that's the reason we are best friends since childhood and being chubby means you are healthy there is no bad in it , it's just people who make difference, that's it." Diya took a pause and again said

“ And yes, remember jinko hum apna mante hai na unhe hum kabhi akela nahi chodenge, aur tum hum Hari ho, aaj se tum humari ho, you accept us or not but hum tum Hari saat rahenge,tum Hari saat gumhenge, aur tume bohot annoy karenge ,jab tak tum hame apni dost nahi mante” Diya completed with determination in her eyes, the same emotion was mirrored by Anirudh's eyes too.

Arya's eyes filled with tears, as she heard Diya's words .No said these things to her. Like No ONE , even her family members called her Golu.

Everyone just abused her ,making fun of her for being chubby.This is the first time in her whole life someone, that too a mere stranger who she just met a few minutes ago said these words to her, they didn't even know her properly. Properly — they don't know anything about her except her name .

Arya was a selfless girl all her life. She thought people were joking even though they were disrespecting her about being chubby. They even said she was a selfish girl, gold digger and many more which hurt her but she let it go thinking that they are her people. But one day she got to know the truth and then her life changed totally.

Is being chubby a problem?

No right?

Jaise patli log sundar hote hai, vaise hi chubby log bhi Sundar hote hai.

Every time people called her selfish, Arya used to feel bad, but today she wanted to know how it feels to be a selfish girl.

So this time Arya thought to become selfish for once in her life and she accepted to become their friend.

" I will become your friend" as she said a smile formed on their face and they got up from their place and hugged her tightly. There was an unknown happiness in Arya's heart while Diya and Anirudh are on cloud 20 as she is accepted to become their friend.

Little did Arya know that this decision is going to change her life completely.

Whether it is for good or for bad.

They talked for some more time .Arya said that she is looking for a place to stay and Diya offered her to stay with her in her own penthouse. Arya thought about it for some time and accepted it. They exchanged numbers with each other and then left for their respective places.

Time skip......

On the other side...........

At Verma Mansion,

The Verma mansion is decorated beautifully to celebrate the birthday day of Samuel Verma. He is the head of the house and the oldest member . Meanwhile his wife Ruth Verma is ordering every worker to make everything perfect .

Then her sight fell on her husband who was sneaking into the kitchen to eat his favorite gulab jamun but to his bad luck his wife caught him red-handed.

" What are you doing here?" Ruth asked him standing behind him. Making Samuel flinch and slowly turn to face his wife and smile as he said "nothing, just wanted to check on my wife." Ruth just rolled her eyes at her husband. And asked " oh really? here from the kitchen?"

" Haa, you know yaha iss angle se dekhu toh bahut sundar lagti ho!" Samuel whispered in her, making the old lady go all red as he winked at her and she glared at her husband.

It's been years since their marriage, their children got married and even their grandchildren are in the age to get married but Samuel never stopped showing his love for her.

Dev, Alice, Paras and saniya smiled looking at their little banter—romance.

" Everyone come, the party is going to start!" Aayush said, grabbing everyone's attention and they nodded and left for the garden.

The birthday party started long ago as the Verma's has 2 big companies, there are so many guests who will attend the party and soon the elders got busy attending to the guests. After that Samuel cut the cake then everyone had a few business talks then they had dinner and the party came to an end.

——☘️

After the party ,The siblings are sitting together on the terrace while talking about how their day went today . It's a daily ritual between them, they share every little thing with each other. Anirudh cleared his throat taking every one's attention

" Guys I made a new friend today.she is good, and our classmate too" as he said ,Harika asked him curiously,

" Is she beautiful?"

" Yes, she is." Anirudh replied honestly

" Then why didn't you fall in love with her? Vese toh road Pe Jane Vali haar ladki pe crush hota hai tumhe ??" Harika asked him sarcastically and Anirudh glared at her while everyone was having a hard time controlling their laughter.

" Vo, alag hai,and mujhe har ladki pe crush nahi hai bus apni anatomy mam par hai." Anirudh said with a little blush while Aayush threw a pillow at him and the others looked at him in disgust.

“Chiiii, sharam karo, vo tum se bhot badi hai”Harika said while making faces.

" So, when are you going to introduce her to us?" Aayush asked him to divert the topic as he knows they are not going to stop their fight

" Soon Bhai, as for now she is shifting with Diya. So she doesn't have time ." he replied and everyone nodded.

In all this Avyansh the elder son of Verma's was lost in his own world thinking about the girl he met today.

She was beautiful, with her long hair, dark pitch black eyes, button nose, plumpy pink lips and last but not least her cute chubby cheeks. Simply, he was just mesmerized by her beauty.

Avyansh was never a person who would compliment girls, he never had a girlfriend in his life.

Love was never his thing but after meeting her, he had a weird feeling in his heart, his heart started to pound in his chest, when she looked into his eyes for the first time.

Never in his life ,he had feelings for any girl but her just one glimpse makes his heart beat fast. no one literally no one makes his heart race but she did in just a mere meeting. Even when he was going to his first surgery he was very calm and composed.

A healthy heart beats 1 lakh times per day but today Avyansh's heart crossed its limit and beat more than it was, just because of her.

Little did he know that he fell in love with her, and has feelings for her but his brain is not accepting the fact that he fell in love, however his heart says otherwise.

He is not ready to accept that fact, it was just A Coincidence that they met ,he didn't know her name, hell, he didn't know anything about her except for her dark pitch black eyes,even in a large crowd of people he can recognise her eyes.

" Bhai..." Avyansh came out of his thoughts as Ankush called him and he looked at everyone who were looking at him in concern as he was not responding to their words.

"Hmm"

" Is everything okay, you look like, you are lost somewhere?" He asked in concern.

" Nothing, I am just exhausted, due to all the work in the hospital and then the party, I will go and sleep." Avyansh lied smoothly, it's not like,he didn't want his siblings know that he has started to feel for a girl whom he just met few hours ago but at first he just wanted to know about her and then he will tell everything to them after clarifying that is it really lo

ve he is feeling or something else.

Sensing his low voice everyone nodded and stood up to go to their respective rooms. Calling it a night.