My Love Story

First Meeting

/Flashback/

8 YEARS AGO

Vivian POV:

I wouldn’t say I studied harder to be part of this business school; I would say my parents have a lot of money. They always give importance for money; I was told that Malhotras should always have the best in everything. Since I need to join our family business in future, I had no option other than studying MBA and as I said Malhotras should always get the best, so I am in one of the best business schools in India. I am a friendly guy but short tempered also, so most of the people can’t put up with me. The only person had enough patience to put up with me other than my family is Rudra. My best friend from my kindergarten days, we both are always together. He is always there to help me in escaping from my home or other places where I don’t want to be. Do you think why do I escape from my home? Because even though everyone who sees us think that we are a happy family there is a more to that. My mom is the hardest and strongest woman I have ever seen. All she cares is about our business, she never cared about other feelings and when I say others it includes me also. All she wants from me is to be the same hard and strong person and be perfect at everything and like a perfect son takeover the business. Seriously, I don’t say I wouldn’t want to take over it, but to that I don’t want to turn out like her.

Rudra and I stay in college hostel itself; it is better to bear that family music occasionally than on daily basis, and Rudra being my best friend he just convinced his parents and ended up staying with me. Since we stay together and live together life is fun to live. Even though I have issues with some people in college I can’t help my short temper gets the best out of me. Other than Rudra I have a batch of friends who study along with me, we always bunk our classes together and go out and have fun. Among the other friends I have Preethi, she is daughter of my family friends, so we are petty much closer to each other. Life was so simple until today, But I never knew today will be the starting point which changes my life drastically. When I reached college, the first thing I found is Preethi is a mess in tears. When I went near her, she didn’t speak anything but hugged me and started crying. I was concerned for her, but she was crying so hard that she is unable to get any words out of her. After a good time of consoling she said that she was bullied badly by Aman, that she ended up in tears.

AMAN!!!!

I don’t know what the hell is this guy’s problem but from the day one we met he hates me. Why? Even I don’t know that, I just know he hates me, and he is always back of Preethi and bullies her when she is alone. Today I am not in a mood to let it go, So I started walking in search of him and Rudra understood my intentions and came along with me. After some time, I have found him in parking area, and he is with a girl whose back is towards me. I just went to him and shouted “What is your problem Aman? Why are you always back of Preethi?” once I said that his laughing face changed, and he gave me a hard stare. “I am your senior and it doesn’t mean bullying, it is a part of raging. So now shut up and don’t dare to raise your voice once again” he arrogantly responded to me. That’s when the girl turned towards me giving a questioning look. I tried to not to look at her, but I felt like she is too beautiful not to look at. I guess Rudra and Aman are aware of me starring at her because Rudra nudged me from my back and when I shifted my eyes to Aman, I can practically see the smoke coming out of his ears. OOPS!!! Aman turned to that girl and asked her to leave, in an instance her questioning eyes changed into a mean glare and she started talking to him.

Riya POV:

I love my college. I am doing my MBA Finance in Business School. You can simply call me a nerd. Because I am always with books and you can either find me in class or library. I like numbers, and I know I must study as harder as I can if I must have a career that I am dreaming right from my childhood. I don’t have much friends in college, since I am pretty much busy with my books most of the time, I am alone. But I do have a cousin in the college who is a year senior to me, Aman. No matter what, he always sticks to me and make sure I am comfortable. He is such a sweetheart to me, please underline the word to me. When he joins his batchmates and starts ragging he can be an i***t, stupid and lot other things, since he is a sweetheart to me, I can’t say the words to him. I was walking to my classes when he joined me in the parking area, he is trying to get me to help him with his project but as usual I am not accepting for that. We were teasing each other and was laughing about that, just in time I heard someone shout from my back “What is your problem Aman? Why are you always back of Preethi?” I felt my eyebrows hit my hairline what was that? Then I have seen Aman relaxed face expression changed to a hard stare and he said “I am your senior and it doesn’t mean bullying, it is a part of raging. So now shut up and don’t dare to raise your voice once again” See? I told you he can be many things. That’s when I turned around to see the junior who have enough guts to shout at the senior and when I had a good look at him, he stopped talking and continued to stare at me. Uh-oh, not a brighter move, Aman is not goanna like that.

His friend nudged him from behind, understanding Aman’s expression I guess, uh-oh once again. Aman pulled me facing towards him and asked me to leave from there, seriously? I gave him my deadliest glare and asked him what he has done with that girl. “It is just a part of ragging, now you go to your class” he said in an authoritative tone. It just made me more anger “So part of your ragging is making girls cry and fear you? That is not ragging Aman, it is bullying” He is giving me a hard stare and I can see that he is loosing it, when I was just about say something to cool him of, that guy said from Aman’s back “Whatever Aman, make sure this is not repeating when I get to know it is repeated once again trust me it is not goanna end up well for you. Keep your distance from Preethi” Uh-oh! I can see Aman’s eyes are red with anger, when I was about to stop, he turned around and gave a hard shove to that guy “Don’t you dare to tell me what to and what not to do Vivian” he shouted. Oh! So, his name is Vivian. Nice name, while I was in my thoughts they started shouting and shoving each other. That’s when I understood that Aman is about to punch the guy, don’t ask me why I did that, but my stupid brain acted on its own and I jumped in middle of them trying to calm them which was the biggest mistake. Because next minute I took two punches one on my left cheek and the other on my right temple which made me see stars. After that I can’t stand any longer and I fell, Wow, I can even count stars that’s how hard those punches were. In an instance the fight stopped and both guys kneeled near me, while Aman trying to make me sit up, the other guy saying something worriedly and me still counting stars. That’s when I lost my conscious and the final words from my mouth is “PLEASE DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME”