"No..Mom..What are you saying.Why would I blush?"she defended herself intensively.
"Okay.I understand.Why are you rebelling?As if you are caught red handed while stealing."she continued teasing her even after her protest.
Aarohi ran upstairs to her room and closed the door.She leaned to the back of the door.What was that feeling?She kept her hand on her chest and felt her heart beating rapidly.'Why isn't it beating normally?Is my B.P. high?Do I need medicine?God!What is happening to me?'She questioned herself.Then she recalled the words of Sid which made her blush.And out of the blue,her phone rang.It was Sid and within a nanosecond she picked it up as she already knew who it was.
"Hello."
"Thank god.You picked up my call.Sorry I was too busy to call you today.Are you okay now?I got the call for broadcast out of the blue so..."
"Sid...listen to me.."Aarohi interrupted him.
"hmmm."he gave a nod as he pouted for being interrupted.
"Actually,I am better now.You gave the speech right now....It was good."Aarohi wanted to be facile but how could she talk about that 'things' so directly,so she thought to beat around the bush.
"Aarohi,don't worry about the future plans,we will always remain best friends no matter what happens in future.I will always protect our friendship."
The moment he finished,tears formed in corner of her eyes.She wanted to cry and cry hard.He knew her inside out.He was her shoulder to cry on.He was her all weather friend that she was nurturing from her past entire life.He is so good to her,what's bad in having a life partner like that.She don't know what is love and where she will find it.Why not go with the flow and she was not going to get married tomorrow.There were years in front of her.Why should she worry about it now.Why not to nurture the relations she have now?While going through all these things in mind,she didn't realised what she said next.
"Thank you for being world's best friend.You are the best."she said excitedly as if Sid have done his magic spell on her.
Sid heave a sigh of relief.At least, the issues between them are solved for now.
"You must be tired,go to bed.We will talk tomorrow."Aarohi said to Sid because she knew ceremonies like this are always tiring.
"Okay.You go to bed too.Its late now"
"Hmm."
"bye."They both hung up.
Sid leaned to the wall beside him and patted the left part of his chest.'I can calm you down but how will I calm down these weird feelings that keep popping up whenever I see or hear you.'He thought in his mind.
...
Next day.
Emerald Heights International school.
Aarohi was again filled with the energy she always possess,which make anyone get attracted to her.In the library,Aarohi and her brother were discussing over businesses with heavy bottom lines sitting at the corner near window.Meanwhile,Faisal was sitting on benches in centre of the hall.He was staring at his crush.A man came behind him and squeezed corner of his shoulder.He turned around and saw his elder brother who was wearing a formal business navy blue suit.Faisal was about to get up when his brother gestured to be sat and he also sat beside Faisal looking towards the girl his brother was staring before.
"So you like her?"he asked to his younger brother who was still perplexed about the presence of his elder brother there.
"Hmm.Isn't she beautiful?"He replied when got back to his senses after the perplexity of couple of seconds.
"So,what's the progress?"
"Progress!..She is too cold towards me.I can notice the annoyance on her face when she sees me as if I am the Guinness world record holder of most irritating person.And of course,she is one of those 'great girls' who would like to get paired up by her parents.She is not someone who would just cling on anyone.Also she hails from respected family.Her every single step is watched by society.I don't think I have any chance."
His elder brother knitted his brows."Are you really my brother.How can you give up so easily?"
"And what can I do?"Faisal asked curiously.
"Dude you have 500k+ followers on social media.Your single post about her will make her star of city S.Which girl would not like such attention from everyone?"
Faisal gave thought to his idea.May be Aarohi would like the attention she can get because of him and start to notice him.
"I think you are right,I should use my followers to get her attention."Both of the brother bid good bye to each other.
At the drop of the hat,Faisal posted something which made his follower and areas around city S go crazy.
The post said:
"To Aarohi Jain
The day I saw you I thought that you are beautiful.Then I got to know you as truthful,open and sincere person.I thought that I liked you but the truth is that I love you."
And the moment he tapped on option 'post',complete city S went crazy.Netizens started commenting.
"God!Our god have fallen for someone.I am changing my long time crush....By the way,who is these Aarohi.Is she on social media?"
"No,I checked,she is not on social media but a friend of mine,who is schoolmate of our Faisal,told me that she is in their school."
"I want to see that beauty who won the heart of our god.She must be the most beautiful girl of city S."
"I know her.I have studied in Rosewood Primary School and there I knew a girl named Aarohi Jain.May be she is the one."
"There are very less Jain families so chances are that it can be her."
Soon netizens started analysing her background.People who didn't knew her wanted to see her pictures.And people who knew her wanted attention of others so many of them posted either celebration photos or class photos marking Aarohi with red circles.Pupil from Queen's secondary school posted their farewell photos which were latest photo of Aarohi.
When Aaditya heard this news,instantly he called Aarohi.Within three to four hours after the post,she started getting calls from her old chaps and school buddies.She didn't picked up any call thinking that those people must have got some huge gossip and wanted a gossipmongers as partner.
But when Aaditya called her she smelt something fishy and picked it up.
"Hello,Aarohi.Are you alright.Don't worry okay.I will handle everything.Okay."he said in a single breath.
"What happened?Why are you panicking.?"
"You don't know yet."he sounded perplexed.
"And what should I know?"
"Dude,Faisal have posted on social media that he loves you.And also that he admire your beauty and personality.Let me text you his post."
The moment Aarohi heard the word 'loves',her face darkened and a evil beauty conquered her body who was ready to kill her target shot dead.Aarohi was ignoring him because he didn't yet harmed her but the moment she found herself in deep water,she activated her army mode to destroy the world.If Faisal was in front of her right there,she would have killed him then and there.But she calmed herself down and thought to understand the situation before reacting.
She got a text from Aaditya which was a copy of his post.Being an introvert,she would never like public confessions.How dare he use her name on social media?
Meanwhile,Aaditya called Sid and told him about the scandal.Aaditya also told him that there are girls who can harm her due to jealousy.Sid told him to be around her and not to let her go out.
Sid searched Faisal online and read his post.He clenched his fists in anger the moment he saw that post.Solving that issue was a piece of cake for him and of course he knew what to do.
Within ten minutes,the post was deleted and the pictures posted by other people marking Aarohi was also deleted.Faizal and netizens went crazy.Some thought that Faisal deleted it but even Faisal didn't know where did it go.
While everyone was in daze,in city M,Sid pulled himself away from computer and took a sip of coffee from his mug.Truth to be told,Sid was a born hacker and it was a piece of cake for him to hack Faisal's account and delete that post.But why was Sid feeling that angry?Loving someone is not wrong.When he calmed down from his anger,he thought of his reaction.Why was he feeling jealous of some unknown person who was chasing his best friend.'But she is not just my best friend now,she is my girl.How dare he confess to my Aarohi.'Face of Sid grew red the moment he thought her as his girl.