Chapter 4

I slowly stood back and raised my head to see the person standing in front of me shaking his head; turning back I looked at Raghav and gave him a death glare.

"I am really sorry. I didn't see you coming towards us. ", I said and walked towards that person to clean his suit but he held his hand up and motioned me to stop.

I gave him a nod and stood back and was about to ask him who he is, and whom he wanted to meet, when Vihan came from the entrance of the garden and said,

"Anshuman, everyone is… what the hell happened here?"

As soon as I heard ANSHUMAN I forgot everything and squealed "Anshuman! ", and again hugged the person standing in front of me.

So, everyone, this is Anshuman, Arjun's eldest brother; when we were kids and they still stayed here I was very close to him. In fact I used to tie him Rakhi at that time, and he would specially wait for my Rakhi.

I thought by now he would have recognized me but who am I fooling? ?Firstly, even though he is older than me and I remember him very well and his features were easily recognizable I was not able to recognize him, then how was he supposed to recognize me with all this mud on my face.

"Anshuman didn't you recognize me, I am Arohi " I said to which he smiled broadly and hugged me tightly, and I hugged him back.

We separated and then soon everyone hugged him, as we all were completely bathed in mud we cleaned ourselves over here with water and then moved inside.

"What the hell happened to you all?" My Mom asked.

"You all were setting up the stage then how did this happen, and Abha it's your engagement tomorrow even your in-laws are sitting over here ..." Abha's mom and my mom started bombarding us with questions and the rights and wrongs.

Poor Anshuman due to us even he was scolded. We didn't have anything to say hence kept quiet and went to our respective room and got ready.

We all were sitting on the central balcony of the mansion talking about random things when Nitya said, "Even now Arjun didn't come. What's wrong with him?" we didn't have any answer to these questions, in fact we all had the same questions.

It's the times like this when that stupid Arjun makes us feel helpless. Soon we all started to talk about various movies and then the topic diverted to horror movies. I really hate timings like these when we all friends talk about aimless things.

But now that we were animatedly talking about horror stories especially Kabeer who had one of the worst horror stories to tell. I was literally scared like hell, I was about to stop him but we heard a loud voice from the corridor, which made us all scared as it was just us who were there in the Grewal mansion as Abha's parents and the rest of the guest had gone for some Pooja at nearby temple which they said was to be performed at night itself.

"Who could it be?" I asked no one in particular.

"Well Arohi we are here with you and don't have any telepathic conversation with the intruder so I really don't know, but yeah it might be possible that it is Bramarakshas. Remember I had told you the story where he comes at this time of the day and ..." he couldn't complete the sentence as suddenly the lights went off and it was completely pitching dark I was really scared as I hated being in dark. And to top it all the introduction of the fictional or real character was not at all helping us out or may be should I say - me.

"You all girls stay here we boys will go and check out the lights and the loud voice as well." Vihan suggested. We all were a bit scared but had to give in.

"Where are these boys? It's been more than fifteen minutes." Rhea pointed out, and should I say that she was damn right.

We were trying to calm ourselves but it turned to the worst when we saw a very well built man walking towards us. As he neared we began walking backwards to avoid him, it was automatic, the way we closed our eyes when we saw that he was about to turn towards us but when we opened it there was no one.

I took all my courage as I walked towards the door to see who it could be. I was leaning against the door when I felt a warm minty breath on my ears which sent shivers through my body. Soon a voice rested in my ears saying "You should not have worn this dress, I hate the purple color. Now you will have to face the consequences."

Before I could understand what was said, I was lifted up from the floor and was put on a very firm and hard shoulder, as if I weighed nothing.

"aaahhhhhh help ...put me down... I promise I won't wear this top and this color ever in my life again please put me down I don't want to die!", I kept on hitting on his back with my small fingers.

Soon I was tossed on a mat which made me bounce a bit. I was really scared like hell and started crying pleading "ahhh let me go." Then soon I could hear my other girlfriends who were crying and pleading.

Instead of words we heard chuckles around us, and then soon the lights came back since we all were scared and crying it took us some time to understand what was going on, but when we composed our self we found out that all the boys were standing in front of us with another guy who looked dead drop handsome, and his laughter seemed so familiar.

I was brought out of my stance when he said, "oh God you should have heard her ‘please let me go I don't want to die soon!’ that was so much fun!"

This made us realize that it was a stupid prank of my friends. I stood up and started walking towards the stairs, but was made to stop in the middle itself by a strong hand whose touch made my stomach flutter with a butterfly. I shook my head and turned around to meet the same guy who was teasing me a minute ago.

"Oh come on now don't spoil the game," he said which made everyone laugh.

I took a deep breath and said "well thanks for the show and small chit chat but I don't talk to strangers." I removed his hand which held my wrist and then turned towards Vihan and said, "If you want me over here then tell this arrogant bastard to stay away from me."

I again turned around and was about to go when Kabeer called out to me, "Arohi you didn't recognize him. Though the bastard and the arrogant term is quite acceptable, he will always be with us ... God Arohi he is ARJUN and Arjun this is AROHI "

As soon as I heard this I was very happy to see one of my oldest friends was back and very successful, the little information was good enough for today's antics to be forgotten but how could I forgive him for not contacting us for such a long time, and hence I said" who Arjun, I don't know any person by this name, I knew only one person but now he has gone into some kind of hiding, and don't want to talk to us and have any contact with us, if this person is him then I am sorry mister Arjun Singh, the day you decided to ignore us you lost our friendship. And since I don't talk to any strangers I hope you would respect my privacy."

Before anyone could say anything the elders came and were quite ecstatic to see Arjun.

Arjun was my childhood friend, as soon as I said those cruel words the look on his face was pricelessly scared, hurt.

"Arohi yaar, he has come back after such a long time we should welcome him with open arms don't you think? "Misha asked.

To which I said "Yes we should, but don't you think that he should work hard to get our friendship back? He knows that we will take him back easily. That's why he left us once, but I don't want this to happen again ... I want him to know and fix it into his brain that if he ignores us and leave us like last time he will lose us and the way he looked at us all I am sure we mean a lot to him, and we have to take today's revenge as well " My eyes narrowed at the smiling Arjun, with lots and lots of wicked plans swarming in my brain which will make the boys beg for forgiveness or should I say "They would see stars in bright daylight.".

The girls agreed and we soon started our plan which would be executed tomorrow in the morning ... poor boys now only God could save them from us.