Sanvi's POV
I cringed as Rishabh Rathore marched up to me in all his glory,— ready for the class.
Of course, the perfect student as always, in academics as well as PE. I had always been jealous of that malleable trait of his.
I was pretty good with water-sports myself but I had been off practice for many years and I honestly despised anything to do with that past phase of my life then. But nothing topped my hatred towards the early morning Physical Education class in the scorching sun.
"Don't you think that you must be forgetting something?" He smirked with his arms folded across his chest.
How much I kicked myself in my mind for immediately noticing how his tee-shirt with the school logo clung perfectly to his well-defined chest. I would be castrated in hell for being such a sleaze-bag in my head.
"Oh, bad morning." I rolled my eyes in annoyance and he chuckled at my response.
"And what am I forgetting?" I furrowed my brows at him, not exactly getting what he wanted to imply.
"The worst of the morning to you too. And my tee and trousers from last night when we did... stuff and you almost slept over at my house? I didn't entirely gift you those as far as I remember..." He narrowed his sparkling eyes at me while leaning against the door frame of the girl's lavatory.
You see, I took certain pride in my quick-witted mind. As a girl born with a great presence of mind could easily tell that the girls still changing inside must have had already pasted their ears to the wall to listen to the unusually 'normal' conversation between a pair of enemies.
If that was not of their interest then the voice of a male student,— specifically of the one popular genius,—Rishabh Rathore, right outside the female lavatory would definitely pique their interest and compel them to eavesdrop. And I'd let the earth be destroyed before let any of our 'shenanigans' of last night out for the public ears.
Without wasting anymore time, and not wanting to fuel the gossip train of the entire school, I pulled him by his arm towards the abandoned corridor, a bit far from the public eye.
His expression indicated that my action had taken him by surprise. Well he might not care about his reputation but I didn't want to ride up the public radar right in the last year of graduation.
"Whoa..whoa.. What's with the eagerness, Dixit?" Rathore joked as I pulled him over. I stood in front of him with a stern expression.
"Shut up..." I bellowed at him before looking around us for any stragglers. Once assured of our privacy, I turned back at him.
"Get one thing straight Rathore. I don't want the other batchmates to know about ANY of the happenings of last night. We have a championship coming up and I don't want any distractions. You might not have any self respect but I do! I do not want to be associated with you in any way. Calling me up in front of the Girl's lavatory? Have you lost your mind?"
I don't know why but I felt really angry at him for some reason that very moment. Perhaps the pent up anger of the morning was finally being let out. And the jerk didn't yet apologize for announcing my nudity to his entire neighborhood last night! He was walking around like it was some kind of fun thing that we were involved in last night.
'Well it was quite fun, wasn't it? '
'Shut up, mind! '
I was still reeling from the morning banter with my mother.
"And what makes you think that I'll be so eager to announce an insignificant issue such as YOUR unexpected arrival at MY party last night? I have nothing to hide and no one to fear!" He matched my pitch.
Wow, he was the one to yell!
"Idiot.. Not about the party! But YOUR stupid deed...but also your obnoxious party." I rolled my eyes while seething all the same.
"And what was that?" He snorted, catching me off-guard with his aloof tone.
I was suddenly tongue-tied. What was he trying to accomplish there? Huh?
"You...You kissed me forcefully.. I believe you still remember that stupid deed?" I saw his eyes soften a little but it was just for a moment and he was no sooner back to smirking again.
I felt blood rush up to my neck. I wasn't blushing, was I? That would truly be so so low of me to be blushing in that embarassing situation.
"Forcefully? As if you didn't enjoy and respond to it equally?" His grin clearly indicated that he was enjoying the sudden change in my expression.
I scoffed.
"Do you even know how freakishly strong you are? I would have lost an arm trying to pry you off of me, you dinosaur! I kissed you back so that I could catch you off guard and get you away from me."
I flared my nose while spitting out the facts. He was the one at fault and I still stood by that notion. If he hadn't groped me and kissed me in the dark without even looking at my face, we wouldn't have been in that sticky situation.
"Oh, I didn't know that you need to kiss a person back in order to stop them from kissing you? Great logic. Also goes well with YOU moaning MY name into the kiss!" I grimaced as my poor actions resurfaced in my mind.
"But Dixit, tell me something honestly, didn't you want me to kiss you even after that in the balcony?" He smirked haughtily because he knew he had the upper hand there.
I had already lost the battle last night when I had stupidly closed my eyes, all hot and bothered by our closeness in the balcony when he had pulled that stupid prank. I was really screwed.
I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply while pinching my temple. I was grinding my teeth together to stop the rage in me.
I shouldn't hurt him. I shouldn't punch him right on his perfectly pointy nose. I shouldn't disfigured his handsome face.
Handsome?
What the hell was wrong with me?
"That was...nothing. You're delusional. Own up to your own fault and stop pestering me in school! We are not known to have 'friendly' chats in the school corridors and you being like this might just bring bad attention towards this...whole thing. I don't want to be the gossip of the month because of YOUR mistake...and your stupid slippery mouth..."
I had finally been able to piece up a few wobbly arguments to tackle the accusations. And I honestly was going to give him a piece of my mind before I got rudely interrupted by him.
"I don't think you get why I am here. I should make it clear to you then. I wasn't supposed to kiss you... YOU hopped in out of no where when I was about to get lucky with my very first kiss with a very agreeable girl. She was really hot."
I couldn't believe my own ears as he spouted out word after word in the most despicably Rathore fashion of speaking as there ever could be. All I could do was simply blink a bit too fast for my own liking because I didn't like what he was implying there.
"I didn't even know that YOU were the one whom I was kissing! It was right after we broke apart that I got to see your face. Otherwise, what fool would waste his first kiss on a shabby and unappealing girl like you? Go and check yourself in the mirror. You are no where close to my type."
I am sorry, what?
Rishabh ended his monologue with a gruffy scoff, feeling almost too good for himself after that. It almost made me want go scratch his eyes out right at that moment.
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To Be Continued.