9 Chapter 8

Mitch reached the address which Aayat texted him and found her waiting for him outside her friend's house. Aayat greeted him with a grin.

"Hey"

"Hi" he greeted back with a smile

"Come on let's go inside", she said as she locked her arms with his. Mitch felt his breath hitch in his throat by her action; he looked down at their locked arms and felt himself being pulled towards the entrance of the house by Aayat.

As soon as they were inside the house, they were greeted by one of Aayat's friend. She released her arms from him and went to hug her friend. Mitch felt disappointed at the sudden loss of contact but quickly puts on a fake smile as her friend greets him.

"Hey man good to see you. Come on guys lets go inside" her friend said

He dragged Aayat and Mitch to the area where they were playing darts.

He handed three darts to Aayat but she couldn't get any of the darts in bull's eye. She groaned in disappointment. One of her friend's, Riley, offered Mitch three darts "Hey Asher, you want to play?"

"Sure" Mitch took the darts from her and as he was about to throw, he was interrupted by Aayat, "Mr. Journalist have you ever even held a dart before?" she taunted.

Mitch didn't say anything and just gave her a smirk before throwing all the darts on the dartboard. All the three darts hit straight bull's-eye. Mitch heard cheers and applause behind him. Aayat also seemed very impressed but before he could talk to her, he was suddenly pulled aside by a man in a very ugly looking hat and sunglasses.

Mitch was about to punch this guy but stopped as soon as he spoke "Yo Katniss, you might wanna ease down with the aim and all"

Mitch then stared at him and spoke "Grant is that you? You look ridiculous" he mocked.

"Yes it's me, it's the only thing I could come up with as a disguise. Anyways what are you doing aiming bull's eye with the darts? You are a journalist here, not an assassin remember." Rupert hissed

Mitch realized his mistake and for once, Rupert actually made sense. "Umm yeah, I got carried away. I'll be careful next time" and with that Mitch walked away, towards Aayat.

"Hey where were you?" She asked

"Oh umm I went to the bathroom" He replied

"Oh okay. By the way Mr. Journalist, I never thought you'd be this good in dart" she said with a smirk

Mitch gave a nervous laugh and scratched the back of his neck, "Oh that was nothing. I used to play darts a lot back in college so yeah"

They were at the party for almost two hours. In the first hour, Mitch and Aayat were busy getting to know each other more.

"So what else do you do besides work, college and occasional parties", Mitch asked her.

She replied "The Istanbul Music & Dance Festival is coming up in two days and my friend is the organizer so I'm helping her with the sounds and lights and tech stuff"

"Man you're good in forensics and tech as well. Is there anything you can't do", He said

She chuckled, "Well what can I say, I'm multi talented", she continued "There is also a seminar at my university in a few days. I'm one of the speakers there who is going to be talking about what exactly can students do by majoring in forensics. Mr. Shaikh is also going to be there so you can come and as your colleague said *observe him*." She teased

Mitch laughed and said with a warm smile, "I'll be there"

Aayat stared at him for a few seconds; Mitch noticed that and asked, "What's wrong?"

She replied, "It's just, that is the first time I've seen you smile like that. You should smile more often. It looks good on you"

Mitch felt his heart flutter at her words. God what was this girl doing to him. This was such a foreign feeling to him. He couldn't let someone have this effect on him, but there are some things he cannot control.

He simply replied "Thanks"

The next hour was pretty boring. Aayat was surrounded by her friends. Mitch didn't want to intrude so he just stayed back and drank some beer. He felt really bored after a while and Aayat seems to be enjoying with her friends so he didn't disturb her. Instead, he started heading out towards the main door but was stopped by Aayat.

"Hey where are you going?" She pulled his arm and asked

"Oh well honestly I was kind of bored so I was about to leave and you seem to be enjoying so I didn't disturb you" he said

Aayat frowned "I'm so sorry. I asked you to come with me to this party and totally neglected you"

Mitch shook his head "No, it's nothing like that. I had fun really—" she interrupted him "Lets go out" she intertwined their hands together and they left the house.

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