The video that Sakshi posted blew out of proportion, Abhi's catastrophic knockout by a significantly smaller female boxer seems to be a fan favourite around the campus today. The boxing champ fell for a girl literally this time was one of the things he overhead, usually he would hold confront the guy and deal with him in a bully-ish way but today he decided to have peace with the situation and just deal with the throbbing headache. Huge swarm of teenagers try to get their orders from the canteen counter, Abhi is one amongst them, he does look noticeable when he stood in the crowd of average college students, due to his physique and he manages to trick his way in and gets his energy drink. The girls surround him around the canteen where he is periodically gulping his redbull drink and it's interrupted when a short girl in a sweet voice asks if he is hurt, if his head is fine. He tilts his head down, locks eyes with hers and replies in the most cheesiest way, "seeing you worry my heart aches more than my head", "Aww" goes one of the girls and the others join in too. The one who asked blushes.
Veena sipping her protein shake, smirks, "Wouldn't expect anything less from Ravindra's son" at the show he is putting up. The bell rings and they scatter, Abhi still sits there, scrolling through his head and adjusting his neck every few minutes in an attempt of reducing the pain.
Veena walks up to him and shoots a comments while looking away, "It seems you are one of the popular breed in college who attracts herds."
"Professional Hazards. Also today's extra concern from the lady friends was all because of your kind gesture yesterday" ending with a smug.
"Aww I hope it isn't hurting as much champ, I was still pulling my punches. Don't you have class to attend after break?"
"Pfft... Class? that's not for me. I can do better than this" he walks away dangling his bag on his right shoulder. Veena follows him. Abhi turns back after setting his foot outside the college's main gate and turns around to see Veena pauses just at an arm's length behind him, he raises his eyebrows and she shakes her head gesturing nothing. He takes a few steps ahead and turns around again, Veena stops again and smiles this time.
Abhi looks back and swiftly turns around and jumps into the bus speeding by. Veena runs behind the bus in an attempt to follow him but fails to match with it's speed but lucky for her that the bus finally stops at the traffic signal, she gets in and starts searching for Abhimanyu inside and he is nowhere to be seen, she looks from the front window as the traffic starts clearing up and the bus starts moving and she sees him sitting behind Sakshi on her scooter and waving her bye and vanish. They jump the traffic signal and speed through the turn only to be stopped by a cop for not wearing a helmet and not following the traffic signal.
Veena who was in the bus passing this scene gets down and jogs up to the cop. Sakshi drops the side stand, Abhi gets down and takes a few steps away from the scooter while she tries to make the police understand her affiliation with the local MLA, Abhi looks away, when asked if he is that politician's son, he straightaway denies saying that his father is a school teacher and Sakshi is a pathological liar who would say anything to get away from the cops. Veena steps in the conversation and speaks with the traffic police in his native language which she figured out by looking at his name on his badge pinned to his shirt pocket and solves the issue. Sakshi is furious at Abhi, she starts her outrage about how useless he is when it comes to using a little political influence and Abhi retorts by saying that the law is above all in a sarcastic tone. Sakshi fakes throwing the helmet that she took out of her scooter's dicky while convincing the police earlier. Abhi then lifts his left leg to sit behind her but before his butt made contact with the seat, she rode off without looking back. Abhi smiles and turns around and says "Where is our bulletproof chariot?" and sees Veena throwing a piercing look at him. To defuse the situation Abhi in his most fake bubbly tone says, "How about we get some lunch for all the calories I made you burn? "
The black sedan which is supposed to be used to chauffer Abhi around is parked beside Darbar - a popular Shawarma joint, a 15 minutes drive from his college. Abhi and Veena sit in it with the doors open as Veena almost finished her shawarma while Abhi was still slowly eating the starting part of it, unwrapping the paper around it.
Veena while cleaning her hands with the tissue shoots, "So what's with not using your dad's name? Most of them would kill to have a dad as influential as yours."
"This isn't the part where I vent out about my daddy issues. Also I haven't got any. What can I say, my dad's an okay guy."
"But..."
"It's just your first day... I doubt if you are even going to put up with me for more than a week. Why does it bother you that much?"
"Uhmm... you are right. It shouldn't bother me. But how about I cut you a deal?"
"Deal with me? Will you be able to match up to my stakes?" He throws a wicked smile.
Veena rolls her eyes
"What are you ready to offer though?" he continues.
"Anything..."
"Anything...?!" he asks in an excited tone.
"But... but..."
"Usually I am a fan of butts, not this one"
"If I stick around for even a minute after 7 days, you stop all this childish escapades and behave like an adult who requires to be under my surveillance "
"You will be wasting your time but anyways looks like we have a deal here madam"
They both shake hands on it and Abhi thinks that it's time to begin his mission - "Mission: Goodbye Veena"