You're Mine, Remember?

2. Mission Impossible Begins

As Vardhaman had promised, not only Lunch but Dinner was also very delicious. She thoroughly enjoyed the hearty meal which she had missed for such a long time.

She didn't know she could laugh so much, but thanks to little Shaurya, she could feel her old self coming back.

"Ready for Bed??" Vardhaman asked as he stood at the doorsteps with eyemask in one hand. The other hand was held back behind him.

She nodded as she looked curiously at his hand which was behind his back. He chuckled as he noticed where she was looking at as he made his way to the bed and sat beside her. He handed her the eyemask to which she took it without glancing up.

"I know, you get nightmares, so wear this eye mask. It will help."

She just nodded, playing with her nails nervously.

"No need to be nervous around me Nidhi. Things happen. But what we have to do is overcome them and move on. I know it's not as easy as it's said to be, but I know you will do it without any problems."

"I hope so, You guys will be there for me right?? To help me?" she asked hopefully.

"Yes, we will be. But there will be someday at some point in time that you'll be alone and you'll have to make the decisions yourself. You should be prepared for it."

She kept quiet as she processed everything in her head. Vardhaman smiled at this and ruffled her head slightly.

" You should sleep now. We'll be going to successfully enroll you into St. Theresa and you'll be starting college soon."

After exchanging some lazy goodnights, Vardhaman exited the room, leaving Nidhi lost in her thoughts.

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"Nidhi..!!! Nidhi..??? Why are you running away like that..??"

She stopped on her tracks with a huffing and puffing Parth stopping near her.

"Nidhi..Have you turned deaf over just a matter of one week or you are purposely ignoring me.??" he accused with a fake hurt expression on his face.

She bit her lip and sighed loudly. Her eyes searched for someone, anyone who could save her from this "Genius". But to her bad luck, she just realized that they were alone in the house.

So she slowly turned, like a culprit does when he/she gets caught.

"Guess I should say this dialogue too.' Hands Up'.Right..??"

Parth chuckled at her expression but she frowned and picked at her nails, clearly showing him that she was not interested in his Jokes.

"What is it that you want to say. Say it quickly. I'm very busy." she uttered while still picking at her nails just so to avoid him.

"I see you are trying your best to avoid me. But common, I'm sorry to scream that way at you when we had first met. It was just my natural reaction. I'm not used to talking to girls on a daily basis. So.."

"Who said you should talk to me then?? Our meeting is not something I want to remember. I know Uncle should have told you to make me comfortable here and take care of me and all that but whatever, I bet I'm sufficient enough to take care of myself. So Dude, Do 3 things. Pretend that you don't know me at the College, Cut out the formalities and Mind your own Business !!" Nidhi now had enough and walked away. She just wanted to have some alone time so that she can plan on what to do with this problem called "Engineering" and "F.I.T.E".

Parth shrugged unhappily and sighed. "What a weirdo. Here I was trying to be nice because of Jiju and here not only she's stepping on my politeness but stamping on my ego as well. Go to hell then. Huh, stay alone for all I care." He went his own way too.

(Jiju:Brother-in-law)

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Another crumbled paper landed into the trash bin as Nidhi groaned in frustration.

What the hell is wrong with my mind today.?? Every day I used to get so many ideas to escape that goddamn juvenile home and here I'm not even getting one single proper idea.

One more idea popped in her mind and she scribbled it down but at soon as she completed writing, she crumpled the page yet again and threw into the trash bin but somehow a little hand caught it.

"Shaurya ?? What are you doing up so late ?? Don't you have school tomorrow ??" She sat up and pulled the cute boy down on her lap. He giggled and tossed the crumpled ball of paper in his hands while looking at it with curiosity, an act when he becomes mischievous, she had noted.

"Didi what is this ??" He made an attempt to open it but she snatched the ball away and opened it herself.

"This is about 'ways to escape engineering' by Nidhi Menon" she chuckled as the little boy looked at her, confused.

"What is 'Engineering' ??" Shaurya asked as he looked at the paper, not understanding a single thing written. Not that he didn't know what was written, but blame the horrible handwriting with which she had written it was impossible to read anything that she had scribbled down.

"Even I don't know what it is. But I know that it's something which I would never do in my life, or let's just say I don't want to do. So it's something which I don't want to do and that's why I'm making a plan to escape engineering." Shaurya giggled and poked her cheeks in mischief.

"I have a plan, only if you are interested to hear it" his eyes twinkled as he mentioned the supposedly formulated plan on his mind. Nidhi chuckled and rolled her eyes but decided to hear it anyway.

And boy was she shocked !! Vardhman was definitely not lying when he said that Shaurya was the exact replica of herself. Devilish even at the age of 4.

"I'm going to be 5 next month you know" he grinned. Nidhi did a salute to him and pumped her fist in the air in joy.

"It's time for some fun."

-*-

Smoothening her wrinkled denim shirt for the umpteenth time she picked at her nails as she waited for Vardhman to start the car. Vardhman noticed this and smiled. He removed the candy floss from his dashboard and handed it over to her.

"You always seem to pick at your nails whenever you are nervous. Eat this candy floss and just calm down okay. It's just a college and I know you'll definitely enjoy doing engineering." Vardhman smiled again at the irritating noise from the seat beside him.

"Uncle you are being mean right now. You know I wanted to do Architecture. Why am I being dragged into this crap called 'Engineering' ?? Why ??"

"Nunu why not Engineering ?? I and your father had also done engineering and see where I am today. Engineering can make your life a fairytale, bring you a good job, and whatnot. You just have to make a career in engineering successful. That's it."

"Uncle, you do believe your and our generations are totally different. Times have changed and so have priorities. I don't believe engineering is for me."

"But Nunu, you need to understand that..." Before he could lecture her more they reached their destination.

"Here we are. Bye Uncle, if I'm going to be here I'll find my way on my own. You can leave." Without letting him retaliate she just jumped out of her seat and quickly opened the back seat and took the only bag that belonged to her and skidded away with inhuman speed.

"Nunu !!!! Go slowly and be safe okay ??? And don't think much about being alone, Parth will be there to accompany you !!" But too late, his words fell on deaf ears as she had already disappeared inside the college.

"Hush, she's just like her mother, mad but at the same time adorable !!" He sighed and wheeled his car, ready to pick up his lovely wife.

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"Uff what a headache this college is. It's just like a never-ending circle and my legs are paining like hell. Where the heck is this admin office?? F*cking headache." Nidhi groaned in frustration as she tugged the bag which miraculously had gotten heavy with each passing moment.

Thankfully she spotted a bench to sit and quickly dashed towards it before anyone could sit there. Once she sat down, she took a deep breath, and air fanned herself, blaming the college for being so big and huge, cursing the college in her mind.

Just then a voice disturbed her cursing business and she looked over at the person sitting beside her. There sat a guy beside her. Oil shone from his hair as he kept moving his head, adjusting his specs all the time. His clothes looked more bright and creepy in a very creepy way. But what was most shocking was he was the only person who sat there with a book in his hand and his other hand was stuffed in his mouth. He was actually biting his nails with his teeth while chanting something which he was reading.

Eww , so disgusting !! Firstly he had oily hair and his clothes looked creepy, and now he was also biting his nails too.

She mumbled incoherent words for the boy and quietly got up, mocking him for his actions. The boy seemed to be having a sneeze coming his way and sneezed inside his textbook.  Quietly he tore the page away from the book, wiped his nose with the same page, and stuffed it inside his pocket. Quickly turning away to remove the scene from her mind she moved further away from the corridor. Seeing all this was ill for her eyes and she felt bile rising up from her stomach and reaching to the end of her throat. If she hadn't gotten up and escaped from the scene, she would have surely puked her guts out at the guy who was still hostile to his own thoughts to notice his surroundings.

"Gosh, what a weirdo he was. And a very Ewww guy too without any manners. And also, Who studies on the first day of college ?? I wonder what he must be studying for."

She just made a disgusting face and shrugged off, finally spotting the admin office.

"Ahhhh just what I was searching for !! " She leaped forward to go but a foot obstructed her party and she landed straight on the floor.

'Ohhh boy !!! Did this person just tried to mess with me ??' she thought as she quickly stuffs back and without having a glance at the person, she removed the pepper spray from her pocket, sprayed the contents all over the person's supposedly face.

"Take that buddy, you just messed with the wrong girl !!!!"

But froze the second that person removed his hands of his face.

F*ck he was HOT !!!

WHAT DID SHE JUST DO ???