chapter 13

I replied in a very low voice, “I am just checking facebook and instagram notifications.” Vaishali - In the ongoing period? You have never done that before. Divya - But I am doing this time. Vaishali - Tell me the reality. Divya - I am not lying to you. Vaishali - Show me your mobile.Divya - Not now… You are not my mom. The teacher said loudly, “Divya and Vaishali, stop talking!”Vaishali - Sorry, mam. We started looking at our books. After some time, the bell rang and the school was over. We got on our scooties and set off for our homes. Vaishali teased me on the way, “Is the bike boy going to come today?”I looked into the rear view mirror. I saw Vicky and said, “Vicky has come!”Vaishali - Vicky! Who is Vicky? She looked back and saw the bike boy, “Oh! Is he Vicky?”I smiled. She said, “How come you know his name? What the heck! It means something is going on under my nose and I don’t even know about it.” I giggled. Vaishali - Hey, tell me. What’s going on? I giggled again and said, “Nothing is going on.”This time, I didn’t increase the speed of my scooty. Vaishali was observing everything. Vicky reached just by the side of me and started smiling at me. Vaishali was surprised to see that I was not doing anything. He said in a normal tone but smilingly, “Hi Divya.” I said, “Hello Vicky.” A faint smile appeared on my face. I was trying to hide my smile but somewhere I failed. Vaishali noticed my failure. Vicky - Don’t you think we should talk for some time?Divya - No, I don’t think so. He smiled, “Please.”I giggled and said, “Are you begging?”Vicky - Kind of. I promise you, you will feel good. Vaishali said loudly, “She will feel good or you will feel good. Haha!” I burst into laughter. He also started laughing. Then he said, “We all will feel good.”Vaishali - What do you mean by all? Am I also going to go with you? Vicky - Yeah why not? We all are friends. Divya - Hey, I am not your friend. Vicky - But we have one common relationship. We all are students. We can also talk about studies. I chuckled and said, “Vaishali, he is an arts student. What will he talk about studies to us? Hehe!”He tried to convince us that our talks are going to be interesting, “I will  talk about english literature, geography and sociology.”Vaishali said, feeling irritated, “Don’t bore me by talking about studies. Daily eight periods we hear about study, study and study. I want to have fun now.”I looked at Vaishali and frowned. I thought, “He may misunderstand her words and interpret them very differently.”Vicky - Sure. Don’t worry, I will not bore you. Vaishali - I want to eat a cheese pizza. Vicky - Okay, sure. I frowned at Vaishali and said slowly to him, “What are you doing?”Vaishali - Let him buy a pizza for us. One, we will get a cheese pizza for free. Two, we will get a chance to talk to him. We will come to know what kind of a boy he is. Divya - I guess it’s very risky. Vaishali - He is not going to eat us. If he tries to do anything mischievous, we will slap on his face and go. In pizza shops, there are always people around us. We will be safe. Divya - Okay. Vicky - What are you talking, girls? Let’s go to a pizza shop. Vaishali - I will choose the pizza shop. Vicky - Alright. We reached a pizza shop that Vaishali selected. We selected a table and sat on the chairs. I could not believe what I was doing. It was for me the very first time that I was sitting in front of a boy in a pizza shop. It was a kind of date, I guess. He ordered the pizza. Vaishali asked him, “One thing I have come to know is that both of you are not fully strangers to each other. Now, tell me your story honestly.”He started smiling but didn’t say anything. She added, “I am not going to ask the same question from Divya because I know she will never tell me the truth. Being very honest, I have come here to this pizza shop to hear the real story.”Vicky looked at me. I looked at him. With his eyes, he was trying to ask me if she should tell her the truth or not. I didn’t know what to answer him. Vaishali said, “Hey, don’t give cues to each other. Tell me the truth. Don’t forget, I brought Divya here to the pizza shop. If I had not tried, you would have never got a chance to sit with her.”He said smilingly, “Being very honest, I don’t know much about her?”I questioned him abruptly, “How come when she saw you, she started smiling.”He said, surprised, “What? Did she smile?”I looked angrily at Vaishali and said, “When did I smile?”Vaishali - Don’t lie to me. I saw you.Vicky - Actually, when I met both of you the last time. I gave her my number and we started chatting. That’s all. Vaishali - Oh… you gave her your number. She also started chatting with you. I don’t even have any idea about it. Very bad, Divya, very bad. How can you do this to me? Divya - Vaishali, I was about to tell you…Vaishali - But you didn’t tell me. I kept on asking you over and over again whom you are talking to in the class but you didn’t answer properly. Now, I understood whom you were talking to. Divya - Vaishali, we just chatted with each other. There is nothing more than that. She said in an almost teasing way, “Oh, ho.”Divya - Vaishali, today, you are speaking so much. Now, let us talk na.(It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)