"Omg omg...He is coming" Vasu squealed in excitement standing on a table in school canteen. Her teeth closed together and her eyes were twinkling like they held stars in those black orbs when she looked at her friends for an equally exhilarated reaction.

It was the evening of the last day of their tenth standard board exams. All the students were asked to arrive at school once they finish their exam in their respective examination centres for some important announcements.

All the students were cheered up and relaxed in the aftermath of exams completion. They were extremely relieved like someone had lifted a big rock from their tiny heads.

They all were discussing about how each of their exam was, was invigilation tough? Who faced the most frightening invigilator?Is there any scope for copying?Who got caught while cheating?

The canteen was filled with students murmurs and some gasps, everyone was busy in their own world eating, giggling and making fun of each other, when vasu grabbed their atttention standing on the middle most table of the canteen. Middle most table should 'have' to be reserved for her. It's her favorite spot. Surely she's an 'Attention please gal'.

"Chill vasu. Who's coming?" the dream beauty of the school and of coarse one of the bestest friends of Vasu, Ash. She spoke out tilting her head up to Vasu who was standing on the table placing her hands on her hips.

"Guess who?" Vasu quizzed lifting her brow to which everyone in the canteen frowned. By now everyone was murmuring among themselves.

"Shahrukh khan?" one of the nerd among those students stood up from his seat in excitement.

"Not shahrukh khan you fool. Harsh...Harsh Aryaaaahhh. Every girl's eye candy. Whose one look forces our heart to stop beating. He is coming. That too here...our school" Vasu sounded super excited.

She placed her hand on her heart and she mimicked to faint at any instant. All the students cheered in excitement, they were going crazy along with Vasu.

"Wait....calm down guys. Vasu darling, who told you that he's coming? And by the way why in the world will he be invited for our annual day celebrations? He's not any celebrity, he's just an old student of our school, remember?" Nandu asked her trying to be stern as she was doubtful of his arrival while inside her heart she too wanted to see him closely.

"Nandana darling...that you'll know if you have had the habit of sparing a glance of your most beauuuutifull eyes to the notice board." Vasu mocked nandu playfully leaning down as pinched her cheeks.

"Guys I've just read the notice, Mr.Harsh Arya ,the former captain of our school's football team is going to perform on the annual day with his team mates. And the best part is...guess guess????" Vasu paused leaving every girl out there wide eyed waiting for the next blast.

"Vasuuuu.. spit it out already!" Ash who was visibly anxious and biting her lower lip in anticipation stood up from her chair.

"He's gonna take our, means 10th standard girls' auditions after a week and whoever he selects will get a chance to perform with him. Wooooo!!!!" she announced out loud to which everyone cheered including boys for girls even though they felt a little fire in their chests.

After announcement and chilling in canteen everyone made their way out of the school. Every tenth standard girl's biggest research from now onwards will be 'how to impress Harsh?'.

It was more important to them than the results of their board exams that they've just gone through.

"God...He's so hot. You guys just watch me, I'll be the one to perform with him. Not only that I'll make him fall for me during rehearsals. I'm not gonna leave any stone unturn to make him mine." Ash stated determined.

Hearing this two of her friends dropped their faces in realisation. Because they know Ash is the most beautiful girl in the entire school. She has boys falling left, right, center for her.

Nandu and Vasu looked down as they walked home holding their bicycles, but there was another of their friend who was least bothered about her chances with Harsh.

She always admired him for his looks and track record at school but she also knew he was out of her league. She had frowned for other reasons, thinking about the probabilities of Ash's chances with him.

Ash was her friend, she wished everything best for her. But deep inside she doubted if a guy like Harsh would date Ash, when he has some super model college girls hovering around him.

"But Ash...if he is that hot and handsome, why would he show interest in us?" The most shy and invisible girl of them four finally spoke out her doubt.

"He's a college going guy and we've seen in his instagram stories city's some most beautiful girls macking all over him... Like every girl has a crush on him, so definitely he'll be choosy and...." Kavi got mum when she noticed Ash glaring at her.

"I'm not at...all talking about you Kavi. I'm talking about me. Don't you feel I'm pretty? Why are you spoiling my mood?" Ash turned her face away from Kavi disappointed.

"No no Ash I didn't meant that. I'll be more than delighted if you get what you wish. I was just cautioning you as a friend not to get your hopes too high. I don't want you to be upset later. " Kavi said as she tried convincing her friend. "And ofcoarse you are the prettiest girl in the world, not just our school. " all the three Kavi, Nandu and Vasu shouted in unison to light up their friend's mood.

"Okay. We reached my house. Bye gals." Ash waved to them and made her way to her rich creme and gold bungalow. She was the only rich girl among the four. Aside from her, Nandu was from upper middle class and the rest two had not so well off families. And aside from Ash the rest of the three were scholarship survivors at the city's prestigious The St. Nicholas School.

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She reached home and barged inside her bedroom completely dazed that her mother's words fell on her deaf ears. She jumped on her bed throwing her school bag in a corner. The redness in her cheeks won't fade and so the abnormal thumping in her chest wouldn't relax. Her hand crept into the pillow case, from where she pulled out a polaroid picture.

She looked at the picture and just one sight of the person in that picture made her cheeks tighten up with blush, her doe eyes shrunk and her full lips were wide into a stupid helpless smile.

She was feeling like she has reached the top of the world. Her crush was visiting her school and she could see him for real this time, instead of admiring him through this one picture she had of him.

Still after all this time, she feels stupid and guilty that she almost slaps her forehead whenever she reminisces of the moment she got that picture which was pasted on their school's notice board. To be more precise she actually stole that picture.

It was the custom of their school to place the name and picture of yearly football team's captains. So... it all started then for her, when she joined this school and her eyes randomly fell on Harsh's picture.

'Harsh..Harsh Arya' she had spelled his name blushing and smiling stupidly when she first saw him on the notice board.

She haven't seen him face to face yet, but his one picture was enough to turn her mad that time and that ecstasy, that sudden skip of heart kinda feeling existed in her ever since.

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