Newcomers

Priya and Divya anxiously waited for Visha to show up. The last round next week would be the last chance they will have to humiliate Visha in front of everyone. Even if they had to go overboard they will. Priya wanted Visha gone so she could have Vikram and Divya didn't want competition as the Queen bee. When they saw Visha enter through the college gates, Priya nodded at Divya and left her to greet Visha.

Visha called out to her and waved her hand as she saw Priya in the crowd. Priya waved back and gestured her to hurry up. Visha caught up to her and then they headed to class together. Visha sat down at her desk and started talking to Priya. Their teacher entered with a cute girl in pigtails and a young boy in glasses following her.

"Students! These are your new classmates Vishakha and Pranay. Be friendly."

Visha instantly recognised them. They were the witches at Dhira's place yesterday. The ones from that Devdoot coven. Visha waved at them with a smile. Pranay ignored her kind gesture but Vishakha waved back and dragged Pranay to the seat behind Visha.

"Hey, it's good that we are in the same class. I was worried cause I didn't know anyone." Vishakha looked relieved.

"I can understand. I was like that on my first day too. Relax, I will definitely help you around." Visha knew that these people were important. She should keep them pleased for the sake of the coven and Dhira. After the lecture was over, a few girls approached Visha and surrounded her.

"I really loved your dress at the fashion walk." one said enthusiastically and Visha smiled humbly in response.

"Yeah you looked so fabulous. I'm a fan now."

"It looked really expensive. Was it some famous designer?"

"I don't know. A friend lent it to me for the show. I'll ask her and then inform you." Visha explained apologetically. They shrieked in excitement and told her to ask right then. Visha picked up her phone and called, Priya tried to steal a glance and saw Big Sis written on the screen and sighed. She had made these idiotic girls praise Visha in vain. She couldn't find out her helper in the end. Dhira picked up after a few rings, "What is it?"

"Who was the designer of that dress you gave me?"

"What?"

"Some girls in class wanna know."

"It was custom made by the famous French designer Pierre. They won't find it anywhere."

Visha sighed and disconnected the call. She told the girls what Dhira had said. They were very disappointed about it. Priya was smiling, she may not have known the identity yet but she wasn't going back empty handed. She now knew that Visha's helper was rich enough to afford custom made dresses. And that narrowed down to very few people in the college. She texted Divya to inform her about this new development. Whoever it was helping Visha cannot be more rich and powerful than the person behind Divya. People in Divya's class knew that she was related to someone powerful in college. But only a few people knew that she was the younger sister of Dhira!

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Shivam entered the class to see Dhira on her desk reading a book. He went and sat beside her. Dhira looked up to see Shivam look like a bomb about to explode.

"Do you know that you have a sibling in the college?" he asked.

Dhira was confused by his words. He was well aware that Dhira was an orphan. Where did a sibling come from? And why would he know about it and not her?

"There is some fresher going around saying you two are related. Don't know who but the rumor is spreading like fire."

Dhira sighed at this stupid intel, "I don't have time for some stupid rumor. Anything on the 'Ambassador Group'?"

"Ambassador, really?" Shivam hated the weird names Dhira gave people. Dhira squinted her eyes and Shivam sighed. She was right that's irrelevant.

"Guess who payed the big thug to knock you?"

"They did." Dhira said sounding obvious.

"You're such a spoil sport. You could at least act surprised. Anyway it was payed by some shell account I traced back to Aditya."

"And the attack on Visha?"

"They were some local thugs. Anyone could pay a minimal amount to hire them. Just some cheap goons."

"Keep working on finding out who hired them and why. Leave the Devdoot circus for Srisha to handle."

Shivam nodded and left for his next class. At the gate he saw Shreya and Aditya, he greeted them with a smile before leaving. Both of them entered and the whole class was stunned. Another person that felt scary like Dhira and suppressive too. Everyone looked down as they felt her overpowering aura. They came in and sat down a few benches away from Dhira.

Does she really have to increase it that much just to show me? Dhira scoffed at her. Shreya just wanted to establish her power in Dhira's domain. But if she knew her, she would've known that Dhira could not care less about it. She will not be involved in this stupid childish competition Shreya clearly wanted.

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