Writer's view
The boys were just chilling, chatting, and laughing with each other. They were thinking about the things that happened tonight. From dinner to Sharav's kiss. They were about to go to their respective rooms when the mobile pinged with notification.
"Whose phone is it?", Daksh questioned them.
"I guess it's mine", Viren and Sharav replied at the same time. Daksh narrowed his eyes at them. The other two just shrugged their shoulders in response.
"At least say whose message it is?", Daksh asked Viren impatiently.
"I don't know. The number isn't displayed. It's showing just as 'PRIVATE NUMBER' ", replied Viren frowning. Daksh turning towards Sharav asked him the same question. And Sharav replied the same as Viren.
"Now it's suspicious.", said Daksh, whilst the other two nodded their heads. "Guys check the message. What is it about?"
After reading the messages both had a confused look on their faces. "Tell me what it is", Daksh questioned them.
"The past is full of mysteries. The time has come to narrate those mysteries".
Both Sharav and Viren read at the same time.
"What could be the past with mysteries?", Daksh asked them. Whilst both they just shrugged.
"But one thing I'm sure of, whatever it's gonna be, it'll hit us hard".
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The condition of the Ahuja's was worst. The message was something, that started scaring them. Who could that person? It was the only thought running in their mind.
"Could this be Raghu?", Sheela questioned her husband in a scared voice.
"No. He could be dead by now!!", he replied, ed in a worried tone. "But who could it be? Someone from our past?"
"That's what I'm thinking too Rakesh. It's totally confusing us. I think maybe someone's pranking us"
"Yeah. That's what it is. Come on!! Let's sleep it's late already".
Saying this they closed their eyes. But Sleep was far away from reach. Something from their past is being opened up, they couldn't have asked for any worse. Sighing heavily they drifted into their sleepless sleep.
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This was the last day in Paris. All of them got ready eagerly for an outing. The guys woke up Daksh way before his normal time so that he could get ready on time. Getting ready everyone met in the hall of the hotel. Greeting each other, they headed out to the restaurant. Grabbing their breakfast they head out for their trip.
They first went to Euro Disneyland, since Akruti and Daksh wanted to go there. Not knowing what to do, the other three agreed to their demand. The moment they reached there, Daksh and Akruti went crazy. They started running, holding each other's hands.
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Viren Khanna
Those two are really kids. They're going crazy more than the kids. Sighing we started to run behind them so that they don't get lost. After playing and clicking pictures, we went to Versailles.
It's a grand palace which tells us the monarchy in France. We walked through the different rooms of the palace, stopping to admire the view of gardens, which can be seen from the Hall Of Mirrors.
After that place, we went to the Louvre Museum. It's one of the famous museums in the world. It's such a big museum, that you need at least complete two days to see. We selected two places to visit. One was Egypt and the other one was looking for French decorations and painting.
During all this time, I was looking at Akruti. She was watching everything keenly. Sometimes she pouts, sometimes she smiles. Whatever she does, just makes my heart skip a beat. I was watching rather say gazing at Akruti when I felt someone nudging me. I turned around to look at the person. It was Sharav grinning like a fool.
"If you like her, go tell her. Don't be some creepy guy. Tell her how you feel about her", he said to me.
"What if she doesn't like me in the same way I do", I explained to him my fear.
"Is Mr. Khanna being afraid that he might get rejected?", Sharav asked me wiggling his eyebrows at me.
"Maybe!?", I responded back.
"Hey man! Look here, she likes you too. It's totally evident from her. It's just you who can't look at it. "
"How can you guys be so sure of that??", I questioned him back
"Guys? Who else told you this? ", this time he questioned me.
"Sahil. Akruti's brother."
"See, even he knows it. It's just you guys who should know. And I should make Daksh confess his feelings to Nila too. You guys are dragging. Don't let the things go when you have the chance to grab it. ". I just nodded my head to whatever he said.
I again focused my attention on Akruti. She was looking at the Mona Lisa painting with an ' aw 'Â expression. Whilst I smiled at her expression.
Suddenly yesterday's message popped into my mind. I turned towards Sharav and questioned him, whether he got any messages from the unknown number. He just shrugged his shoulders.
"I even tried calling that number. But the person didn't attend my call. Do you think we can trace that person?", he asked me.
"It's showing unknown number Sharav. Maybe it's some prank. I think by mistake we would have received it. If it happens again, we'll try our best to trace. For now, we'll just leave it.", I told him and he nodded his head in agreement.
After the trip to the museum, we went to the Eiffel Tower. Akruti and Nila were just looking at it. Then we started clicking pictures. I was about to click the picture of Sharav when Daksh's comment made us laugh.
"Sharav be careful. Else some girl will come and kiss you". We were laughing so badly recalling the moment. Then with the reply, Sharav came back, made us shut our mouth.
"Well, I have already lost my first kiss. So it doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is, you guys might lose your first kiss probably.", saying this he started laughing whilst Nila and Akruti joined him.
After our little group banter, we had some light dinner, since we all were hungry. We were still at the Eiffel tower. It was starting to get dark. The sun started to shut himself out and let the moon brighten the sky. When the sun has finally set, the Eiffel tower was glittering like golden glitters.
Akruti's eyes were just strained on the Eiffel Tower, whilst mine was on her. The same was Daksh's condition. Clicking pictures of the tower from different angles and posing themselves, they were so tired that we went to have dinner.
After having our dinner, we were sitting on the grass of someplace, Sharav gestured me to tell Akruti, my feelings. I just nodded my head. Then Nila stood from her place.
"Why are you standing? Are you going somewhere?", Akruti questioned her.
"Yeah!! Just thought of looking around. You wanna join?", she offered Akruti. I was mentally praying for her to tell no.
"No, Nila. I'm tired of walking. You guys go. I'm staying here itself", she said and I exhaled my breath which I was holding without my knowledge.
"I'll join", said Daksh and Sharav at the same time. She nodded her head, and they started walking. I waited till they reached out of our eyesight.
"You didn't go", she asked me.
"Nope"
"Oh okay!!", she said and remained quiet. There was a comfortable silence between us. I cleared my throat to start a conversation.
"Umm...A-Akruti...", I started stammering.
'You dimwit. Don't stammer and scare her', my subconscious reminded me.
"Yeah"
"I need to tell you something"
"What?"
"Um...I don't know how to start, where to start? I've been having this weird yet nice feeling from the day I saw you. It's like I feel happy when I see you smile, laugh, and do some cute stuff Every time I see you laugh, my heart skips a beat. And when you cry it actually breaks my hearts and tears pool in my eyes too. I actually didn't believe in this kind of thing. But you're making me believe in these kinds of stuff It's like a closed chapter of a book which has something connected to it, which made me not believe in all the stuff I'm feeling. So I wanna say you one thing 'I like you Akruti'. I like you so much, that I can't imagine being without you."
I completed my lengthiest dialogue, while she just sat there numb. Not even reacting. I was getting scared.
'Oh My God, what happened?'
"Akruti please respond", I pleaded her, while shaking her shoulder.
"Huh!! Really?"
"Yeah, of course, I do!!"
"Oh okay".
That what she responded. Like seriously I told her, that I like her and she's like 'Oh okay'. But what she said next made my head turn towards.
"I do feel the same about you Viren. Maybe more than that. I doâ", the next second I placed my lips on hers and kissed her. Even she felt the same as me. So I did what I wanted to do for long. I freaking kissed her.
It was like magic, kissing her. Her lips were damn soft. As soft as rose's petals or baby's lips. And I was happy that we both shared our first kiss with each other. Our kiss wasn't perfect the first kiss since both were inexperienced. But we'll learn with time.
Our lips moved in sync. For a minute she was shocked and then tried imitating my moves. But I had to move away from her when I felt her go out of breath. Our first kiss, in the city of love, confessing each other's feelings. What could be more romantic than this? Her eyes were closed after our heavy make out.
My forehead touching hers, our breaths mingling with each other. God, I wanted to kiss her again. But I don't wanna scare her. So I just kissed her forehead, and she sighed happily. Then I asked her to open her eyes. She didn't, but her cheeks started turning red. Once again I kissed her forehead, this time she opened.
"I like you", I told her in my husky voice. Her eyes went wide, and with a small smile on her lips, she too replied to me, but in a different way.
"I wow you Viren."
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