#14---ARJUN EXPOSES HIS OTHER SIDE...

[SATURDAY @ AASHRITHA'S CAMPUS; TIME: 3:55 PM]
[ARJUN AND NIHAL ARRIVED AT THE SAID PLACE A BIT EARLIER THAN THE SAID TIME.THEY WERE GREETED BY THE GIRLS AS THEY ENTERED INTO THE PREMISES OF THE CAMPUS...]

Aashritha: Hey Nihal, you guys are very punctual isn't it?

Nihal: hi Aashritha. Yeah we are, right from our childhood, especially when meeting girls.

Neeraja: Hai Arjun, How are you?

Arjun: yeah I'm good buddy. What about you?

Neeraja: Me too, feeling good. I wonder what Nihal wants to talk to me?

Nihal: I'm going to take you somewhere and I am gonna disclose the matter to you over there.

[SAYING THIS, NIHAL TOOK NEERAJA ASIDE TO A PLACE, THROUGH THE BUSHES IN THE CAMPUS GARDEN, A PLACE WHICH WAS EARLIER DISCUSSED ALONG WITH AASHRITHA.
THIS ACTION FROM NIHAL TOOK BOTH ARJUN AND NEERAJA BY SURPRISE. ARJUN WAS SHELL SHOCKED UPON NIHAL'S BEHAVIOR AS IF IT WERE A PREVIOUSLY WELL REHEARSED THEATRE ACT.
 HE COULDN'T AND DID NOT WANT TO RUIN NIHAL'S PLAN , SO HE LET IT BE WITHOUT INTERRUPTING HIS ACTIONS.]

Arjun: What's happening??? And where is he taking her through the bushes?

Aashritha: Don't worry. He's taking her to a classroom .

Arjun: CLASSROOM??? HO... That's fine. I thought he took her somewhere else.
 Idiot, he could have told me that he was planning all this.

Aashritha: Never mind, Arjun. It was all pre-planned and he didn't want you to know about that. 
Fine, leave it.
This way, let's sit in this room and chat while they complete their first major meeting.

[BOTH TAKE THEIR SEATS ACROSS A TABLE IN THE ROOM, TRYING TO GET COMFORTABLE WITH THE SURROUNDINGS.] 

Arjun: OK.Fine. So, Hii Aashritha!

Aashritha: Hai Arjun!. I'm really pleased to meet you after a gap. 
Special thanks to Nihal for bringing you along with him.

Arjun: No need to thank him. You helped him and he's doing his best to rectify his mistake.

Aashritha: Mistake? What mistake?

Arjun: Nothing important, Aashritha. Let's talk something else.

BOOOOM!!!!! BHAAA MM!!!!!!

[ A TRANSFORMER GOT BLASTED AND THERE WAS A POWER-CUT IN THE CAMPUS. ALL THE LIGHTS AND FANS IN THE ROOM THEY WERE WENT NUMB AND LOST THEIR LIVES.]

Arjun: Oh! my god!. what has happened?

Aashritha: Don't worry. It's just a power cut. Everything will be fine.

Arjun: Do you believe in ghosts and demons??

Aashritha: No, why are you even taking up that topic. do you believe them and their stories?

Arjun: No, I don't like them either, they are damn creepy creatures.

Aashritha: Then why are you even discussing about them with me?

Arjun: It's just that when I enter into old, large,  scary and dark buildings, I get a weird feeling in my heart which people call "fear".

Aashritha: It's " large , old , dark and scary building"

Arjun: Yeah, that was what I said.

Aashritha: No, the order of the adjectives was different when you told.

Arjun: Wow, that's very interesting to hear that someone at least cares about the grammar spoken by a person. HATS OFF madam...

Aashritha: Stop it, Arjun. Enough.

Arjun: I never thought someone could be as attentive as you are, Aashritha.

Aashritha: Come on ,Arjun. Stop flirting with me.

Arjun: I don't know if I am. But me and flirting don't get along well.

[SUDDENLY THE INCHARGE OF THE ROOM CAME CLOSER TO THEM , LIGHTED A CANDLE AND WAS TERRIFIED ON SEEING BOTH OF THEM SITTING ACROSS A TABLE IN THE PITCH-BLACK ROOM]

Arjun: I've heard many stories about 'candle light dinners and stuff like that', but, I have never even imagined about something like this, a candle light study with a beautiful girl.

Aashritha: What are you studying in the candle light's brightness?

Arjun: Your "eyes". Those are the most beautiful pair of eyes  I've seen, of course, after my mother's eyes. But seriously, they are the ones that grab attention of the people to have a glance at you.

[AASHRITHA BLUSHED AND LOOKED TOWARDS THE GROUND...]

Aashritha: That was the best I've heard from someone and I appreciate your try to impress me.

Arjun: So are you impressed? There's nothing I did, just copied the last line from the ROM-COM book I was reading last night.

Aashritha: I guess, you haven't heard me saying "try" to impress me.  

Yeah, Arjun, I'm impressed a  lot. This is the first time in many days that I've felt so happy . Special thanks to you.

Arjun:Can I ask you something very personal?

Aashritha: Yeah sure, Arjun.

Nihal: Hey Arjun, one second man. Sorry Aashritha, please excuse us for a moment.

[ARJUN'S QUESTION WAS INTERRUPTED BY NIHAL'S INTERVENTION]

{TO BE CONTINUED...}