15 chapter 15

"And why are you here alone at this time of the night anyway?" he added after rolling his eyes.

"I was supposed to go for a party and was lied to by the one whom I thought was my friend--" it is only when her voice sounded from a distant, he realized that she was already walking around the car to take her seat at the passenger side. "Who said I'm dropping you?" he called out over the car.

"You dint say a no' either, besides I thought you said you stopped by to help me?" she smirked and got before he could give her back on that. To his utter disbelief, he actually smirked too and joined her inside.

The next minute saw a beautiful blue of a car setting off the street with its brilliant speed.

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"What is your name again? Happy?"

"Its Khushi!" she pointed out snarling a little and he arched an eyebrow.

"Yeah same---"

"No not same! It's Khushi Kumari Guptha! K.h.u.s.h.i, Khushi" she spelled the letters clearly as if he dint know what the spelling was.

"I can't stand someone forgetting my name! It annoys me like hell!" she added when he remained nonchalant.

"Well, you are going to be annoyed at me always, because I have difficulty remembering names of strangers"

Her mouth rounded into a perfect O' at that, but she refrained herself from commenting. Its Arnav Singh Raizada after all, going by his image, she couldn't expect anything else from him not that she would want to anyway. But he was helping her, and the least she could do was be civil the mere few minutes in his car. Right?

"So, I was saying""

""Ofcourse!"

"--That I was invited for a weekend party with some music and dancing at a friend's place, and I had to literally beg my parents to let me go, but here I come and realize it was a party full of drugs and hukka and so I confronted my friend for lying and she in turn insulted me for not being fit for such parties and I walked out---"

"Drugs and hukka for 17 year olds? It's illegal!"

"Well, they were all seniors except my friend and me"

"What??? How do you know them?"

"Not me, my friend, she knew them and I trusted her, she broke my trust, I'm never going to trust her again!

"Trust!" he laughed bitterly.

"Ofcourse! You should be able to trust your friends, that's the minimum thing in a friendship--"

"That's what got you here" he pointed out.

"Well, we learn from our mistakes--"

"So you will not trust anyone easily like you did this time? Is that what you have learnt?"

"NO! Trusting comes naturally to me. I trust my friends and its perfectly right that way, just that your judgment could go wrong sometimes, I have just now learnt to be more careful in judging people and then decide on the trust factor, seems like a good plan yeah" she seemed more like reassuring herself and suddenly he have seen a matured girl for the 17 year old she is, unlike the chirpy, blabbering, clumsy and immature girl who he thought she was--- yet she still seemed nave; Nave of the life's complexities, pure and innocent and unaware of the big bad world and the damage it could do. He sighed.

"That reminds me--" she started off again and he rolled his eyes.

"I trust you too"