"Hey beautiful!" Vihaan, whose arm was still around Shreya's waist muttered slowly leaving Shreya fuming in anger.

Keeping her free hand on his chest, Shreya pushed him back and stood up.

"You-!

"Hey Baby, I know you are angry but please forgive me this one time, pretty please?" And even before Shreya could burst out on him for bumping into her, he wrapped his arms around her and spoke out loud.

She stood there shocked, in his arms as the other girls present there looked at them shocked.

"Listen!" Shreya pushed him away once again and was about to speak when Rhea came ahead and put her hand on her shoulder.

"Shreyu, I know you are angry at Vihaan bhai for coming here without informing you but please forgive bhai," Shreya's eyes widened as she looked at her best friend who gave her a puppy look.

"Vihaan, you have a girlfriend?" A girl asked from behind and Vihaan nodded his head. He walked behind Shreya and held her shoulders.

"She is Shreyu, my girlfriend!" He introduced and Shreya immediately slapped his hand making him draw it back with a fake 'ouch'.

It took another two minutes for the girls to go from there and as soon as they did, Shreya glared at Rhea.

"What was that?" She chided.

"Look Shreyu-" Vihaan started but was interrupted by Shreya,"It is Shreya, not Shreyu!" She shrieked making him step back with his hands in his air.

"Okay, chill young lady. Why so hyper?" Shreya couldn't believe her own eyes that this guy was being so cool after announcing her as his girlfriend infront of almost half the college.

"And you- I will see you later!" Shreya warned Rhea who chuckled nervously at her.

Shreya walked out of there while Rhea turned to Vihaan. She grinned before hugging him tight.

"Bhaii! I am so happy." Vihaan burst out laughing as Rhea blabbered few more sentences in happiness.

"By the way, that Shreyu, I mean Shreya- She is your best friend?" He enquired and Rhea grinned nodding her head.

"She is so rude!" He commented making a bad face while Rhea slapped his shoulder.

"Bhai! She is my best friend, Don't say like that," Vihaan rolled his eyes seeing his dear cousin sister defending someone else infront of him while Rhea continued," Shreya is a very nice girl. Give her sometime, I am sure you two will make good friends." Vihaan made a bad face as if saying he isn't interested.

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"Wow, this place is cool!" It was afternoon and Shreya was at hers and Rhea's apartment when Rhea came inside with Vihaan.

Shreya's mouth was left open when she saw it was not Vihaan but also his luggage entering inside the apartment.

"Rhea, What is he doing here? You know boys aren't allowed here." She walked to them and Vihaan who was looking around turned to her.

He scanned her from up and down and his lips moulded into a perfect 'O' seeing her minion filled night suit.

Shreya realized that and immediately walked to the couch to take her dupatta.

"Shreya, as our apartment is near the college, Aunt suggested Vihaan bhai to stay with us. So, can he stay here? Pretty please?" Rhea knew it would be difficult to make Shreya understand but she also knew her best friend wasn't heartless. At the end, she would understand.

And just as she expected, Shreya muttered a fine and went back to her previous place ignoring the hoots from Rhea.

Shreya didn't know why, everything moved with the speed of 2x. She was going crazy with the thought of staying with an unknown guy under the same roof.

Okay, Vihaan wasn't completely unknown. He was Rhea's brother but still she didn't know him properly! She had hardly exchanged few sentences with him and she was sure he was a playboy.

It was around two hours later when Shreya moved to the kitchen to make herself coffee. She asked Rhea who in return asked her to make one cup for Vihaan too. Though, she wanted to deny but then, she couldn't say no to Rhea.

She had just put the milk on the stove when Vihaan came there whistling out loud. His hands stuffed in his pants pocket while loud music coming out of his mobile which Shreya believed was in his pocket.

"Hey Minion!" He walked to the refrigerator and pulled out the water bottle while Shreya fumed in anger.

"My name is Shreya!" She corrected only to have him laugh out loud. Her nostrils flared as she around to face him. What was so funny? Was she looking funny? Or was there something on her face that made him laugh like a joker?

She couldn't understand why this particular person was irking her so much!

Was it because he had called her beautiful?

Or because he hugged her without her permission?

Or maybe because he referred her as his girlfriend and didn't even clear it later?

It was useless to even think about him. She should just ignore him. Yes, that's the best.

Shreya was determined not to cross paths with Vihaan but the whole universe was against her today.

Just when she thought ignoring him would be really easy, he kept the half filled bottle on the shelf catching her attention and Shreya hated disorder!

"Keep it back in the refrigerator." She requested politely as he was about to step out of the kitchen.

"Excuse me?" He stepped back and came in front of her,"Did you just order me?" He mocked it like it was the world's biggest joke but Shreya didn't find it funny.

"You aren't excused Mr.Vihaan Malhotra! Keep the bottle back in the refrigerator," Vihaan swore nobody would've talked to him in that tone. He was so pampered at his home, and was a complete rebel in school or college, nobody ever raised his voice in front of him and here, this tiny girl was ordering him in the world's most rude tone.

"Listen-" He stopped in between as Shreya took the water bottle and emptied it on his head.

"You!!"

Rhea was in her room waiting for Shreya to call her to have coffee when the loud shouts from the hall caught her attention.

She frowned and came out only to gasp seeing her brother and bestfriend holding each other. No, not romantically but angrily.

Vihaan stood there, water drops dripping from his wet hair while his shirt was wet too. He was holding Shreya's both hand behind her back and even though Shreya's face showed no pain, she was wriggling in his hold to free herself.

"Apologize!" He gave her a death glare but that didn't scare Shreya at all.

"Bhai! Shreya! What the fuck you are doing?" Rhea interuppted with a loud shout as her eyes fell on the boiling coffee on the stove.

"Language Rhea!" She got the same reply from both of them. Rolling her eyes at their childish behaviour, she walked ahead and moved them away from each other before turning off the gas.

"Stop behaving like toddlers guys! Grow up!" They both turned and glared at her making her shake her head in disbelief.

"What happened?" She asked both of them as they turned to her half way.

"She threw water on me!" Vihaan accused.

"He left the water bottle on the shelf! You know I hate this behaviour!" Shreya complained and in a swift moment was turned around by Vihaan.

"What do you mean you hate this behaviour? It was just a freaking bottle!" Vihaan argued holding her shoulder and as she eyed his hand, he drew it back.

Typical Indian!

"Bhai," Rhea tried to interrupt but Shreya didn't let her.

"Excuse me-"

"Excused!"

"You!"

"Shreya-" Rhea tried again.

"Shut up!"

"You shut up!"

"See, See look at the way she is talking to me! Mannerless- Oww!" Vihaan shrieked in between feeling the hot coffee all over himself. Rhea had palmed her mouth in shock while Shreya stood there fuming in extreme anger.

"Suits you!" She flipped her hair walking out of the kitchen as Vihaan jumped, fanning his shirt to get rid of the burning sensation. The coffee was hot and he was sure there were going to be burns.

Oh his perfect six packs!

After sometime

"It hurts, Rhea!"

"Bhai, let me do this. This will give you relief!"

"No, leave this. I can't believe you don't even have ointment with you!"

"But bhai, it is red and I had ointment, I don't know where it went!"

"Urghh!" Shreya clutched her head and cursed the two siblings in her mind. They both were shouting so loud and it was doing nothing but making her feel guilty.

Though she had come out of the kitchen with pride, the moment she heard his painful shriek in her room, a feeling of regret consumed her.

Why was she so stupid?

She shouldn't have thrown the coffee on him. It was so hot. He must have got burns. She agreed, he deserved that water, but not the coffee. She definitely overreacted.

After fidgeting with her feelings for near about half an hour, Shreya stood up and took out the ointment from the side drawer.

She came into the hall and finding it empty, walked to his room. She knocked at the door but getting no reply even after five minutes, she walked inside and heard sounds of water running from the washroom, confirming he was taking shower to get some relief.

Before she could drown into the pool of guilt, she decided to keep the ointment there and leave. She walked to the side table and kept the ointment there when her eyes fell on the pen and sticky notes kept there.

Thinking for a moment, she took it and wrote a sorry before leaving the room.

"Miss.Minion is gonna regret throwing coffee on me!" Vihaan blabbered coming out of the washroom. His eyes were struck on his chest which was red with burn marks, all thanks to Miss.Shreya Desai.

He wasn't going to leave her. Her bad days were going to start from-

Vihaan stopped in his tracks as his eyes fell on the ointment kept on the side table. His eyes twinkled as he thanked Rhea thousand times in his mind thinking that it was her who kept it there.

He was about to open it when his eyes fell on the sticky note and it didn't take him a moment to realize who kept it there.

He fumed in anger and wearing his clothes, walked out of the room.

If she thinks an ointment can make him forget what happened, she was certainly wrong.

He stormed to her room with the ointment still in his hand. He was about to knock at the door when he heard her voice from inside. It seemed like she was talking to someone.

Though eavesdropping felt completely wrong, Vihaan smirked leaning onto the door.

Maybe he could get some spicy information and use it against Miss.Minion. There was no way he could let go of this golden opportunity.

While Shreya, completely unaware of Vihaan's presence was talking to her parents.

"Maa-Papa, It is Rhea's house too!" Shreya sighed as she tried to make them understand.

Being an obedient daughter, she couldn't hide from her parents that Rhea's maternal cousin brother was living with them.

She had expected her mother to get angry but she didn't expect her to instantly call her father and tell him everything.

"We don't know anything, Shreya. Ask him to shift somewhere else or you shift somewhere else!" Shreya's father was a strict man. He did believe his daughter but he didn't believe the society. What was the guarantee the guy was a good man? What if he did something to his daughter?

All the bad thoughts were roaming in their mind and they refused to even hear her point of view let alone understand.

"Papa, I get your point of view but please understand mine too. It is the only good apartment available near my college." Shreya sighed again. For a second she regretted telling her parents about Vihaan staying there but then, till when could she hide?

One or the other day, they will come to know the truth and then they will be more heartbroken.

"Don't worry, Papa. I will never ever give you any reason to be upset with me."

"Yes, I will never ever let any stupid feelings develop in my heart for anyone, Papa. I promise you, your daughter will never disappoint you."

The way she had said it, Vihaan knew she was controlling herself from crying.

His gaze softened as he understood the reason behind her behaviour. He thought she was of orthodox thoughts but now when he knew the reason, he couldn't help but admire her for her honesty.

She could've lied to her parents but she didn't. She respected them enough not to hide anything from them.

Unknowingly, Shreya developed a small corner for herself in his heart.

He looked at the ointment in his hand and smiled.

"So Miss.Minion is actually not that bad!"

He chuckled and walked back to his room, thinking of ways to say thankyou and sorry to her.

To Be Continued.

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