Nitya looked at the face of the person who had grabbed her hand with abject shock, only to find that he was the new boy in her class who had visited her in the hospital a few days ago. She was quite thankful to him, but she couldn't really express her gratitude in front of everyone else- it would make some of the holes she had patched together by herself, to hide Siddhant's secrets, come undone.
So she just smiled and repeated, "Sorry, but I don't think can sit by your side as well, as I sit with my friends-"
"I know I know- Kanan and Atharv, right? And we have one more of your friends here!"
"One more friend? Who?"
"Aman! He has been narrating the stories of your undergrad to us, since morning. Come on, let's join everyone else!"
