26 chapter 26

He remembered how she made a promise not to intrude, the last time they met and true to her words, she maintained her stance. Not that he approached her, he did not and he knew he wouldn't either. The University was vast, with thousands of students being thrown into various activities on a daily basis and it was quite difficult to spot a known face unless you belong to the same class or you know the person. Although in their case, it was the later, Arnav did not want to acknowledge it, nor did she. And hence even though they did run into each other sometimes, they were nothing less than mere strangers"or so he wanted to assume.

He has his own reasons. The mere two times that he met her, she managed to extract uncommon reactions from him and that's did not seem healthy for him at all"he decided. But he did found himself throwing glances at her, every now and then in situations like this and more so, she would look back to meet his gaze too. More like their eyes were doing the conversation part while they both refused to do. He had a strange good feeling about such ventures and before he knew it, he was looking forward for the next such venture with her, where they would be busy in their own different worlds, yet attuned to each other's eyes.

Today though, it was different. He was not in any other world but is just being the distant observer of her world while she was being oblivious to him. He couldn't quite figure out what was he doing there in the first place. He observed her again and frowned at the choice of clothes she chose with so many guys around. Again how does that concern him, he have no clue about. Just when he was about to get up, pretending to be unaffected as usual, he saw her turn around to meet his gaze directly. He then saw her dust the back of her denims while casually running towards him.

"So Stranger, here to play?" she asked nonchalantly settling herself at the side of his legs.

"And you finally decided to talk---" he answered keeping his study gaze on her as she removed the band on her hair, letting the strands fall free and she turned around to look at him.

"It was what you wanted by the way and besides, I was getting annoyed with your staring--"

"Excuse me??" he asked incredulously.

"What?? Are you gonna deny that you have been staring at me all these days? Oh common Raizada, you know better than to lie to me--"

"And you were not?" he raised an eye-brow surprisingly enjoying the conversation.

"That's not the point here; the point is you were staring at me, why would I stare at you anyway? I'm not the one without friends around here---"

And that caught him off the guard. The nerve of this girl; "Yeah right, you have got great friends really, commendable job! So much for the trust lecture you give? Going out at late night with almost unknown friend to illegal parties, roaming and playing along with guys looking like like--" he paused waving his hand over her dress""Like this!"