Author's POV-
Pratiksha's heart caught the storm of irritation.
Reyansh Khurrana the thorn in her side, the ink stain on her pristine pages has become a constant presence. Their verbal fights echoes through the college corridors, a dance of wit and frustration. But she's unable to understand why she is having his dreams daily.
It's been her routine when she act bitterly to her family and bestfriend because of the dreams she is having.
Reyansh and her, dancing under the moonlight sometimes on their terrace, sometime in her room or sometime in a very unreal place, holding each other's hand twirling on the beat and music of the beautiful bollywood songs. And when they lean to kiss each other, her eyes quickly gets open.
She would unwillingly try to continue the dream but it never goes further their leaning phase.
Maybe someone else is continuing the scene in his dream.
In her dreams, they sway together, Reyansh's hand on her waist, the rhythm of love guiding their steps. The beats sync with her heartbeat, and for those stolen moments, irritation melts into something softer.
Pratiksha wonders if destiny is a DJ, spinning their story on vinyl, mixing irritation with desire.
As she flips the pages of her assignments but her concentration was not on it. Niharika is reading a romance novel sitting next to her.
Bollywood dances play out in her mind, their steps choreographed by fate. She imagines him twirling her, their laughter blending with the music.
She wonders why now she is having the dance only with Reyansh in her dreams and not with that faceless guy who used to be in her dreams till now.
It's been a week since she saw him in college around her thanks to god, she thought.
But he is with her in the dreams at night or in the form of her bestfriend's talks in the days, yes, Niharika would just tell her about his achievements or any funny incidents of him in the college and also tell her that he would always avoid fight and violence in the college but she didn't believe her as only she knows the truth of his peaceful pressence.
She wonders how Niharika knows him that much, but now she thought that they are not that typical bf and gf of today's generation who would leave eachother on the second day of their relationship. They indeed share a very great bond that he bought her those things that are necessary for her and Niharika knowing him this much.
She felt very bad that she's having dreams about her bestfriend's boyfriend which sounds extremely awful but the thing is she can't control her dream.
She sighed, trying to shake off the lingering thoughts of him.
The college garden, with its blooming flowers and chirping birds, seemed like the perfect place to find some peace, but her mind was a mess.
Niharika looked up from her romance novel, noticing Pratiksha's distracted state. "What's wrong, Pratiksha? Why do you look so worried?"
Pratiksha hesitated, biting her lip. "Niharika, umm mujhe tumse kuch zaroori baat karni hai." (Niharika, I need to talk to you about something important.)
Niharika closed her book, giving her full attention to Pratiksha. "Yes, tell me. What's the matter? WAIT don't tell me you are pregnant. Ohh god I'm going to become Maasi hayeee. But I was shipping you with my-"
"Arrey ruk ja meri Maaa, aisa kuchh nhi hai. Ye sab is book ka kamaal hai har cheez pregnancy pe nahi aake rukti!!"(Hey, wait it's nothing like that. This is the wonder of this book, everything does not stop at pregnancy!)
"Umm yeah unfortunately, So tell me what is it then?" Niharika sighed.
Pratiksha took a deep breath, her heart pounding. "Well... I've been having very I mean very very strange dreams for a few days."
Niharika raised an eyebrow, intrigued. "Kis tarah ke sapne?" (What kind of dreams?)
"Ohh my god, sorry Niharika I'm ashamed but It's not like I have control on it and-and-"
"It's okay Pratiksha don't be panicked just say what it is?", she held her hand.
Pratiksha's cheeks flushed. "I'm actually having dreams of him and I every night ... we're dancing. On Bollywood songs. And then... then we're about to kiss. Hey bhagwan, I'm sorry please"
"Wait you and who? Don't be sorry it's just a dream. But whom you are having dreams of?"
"Uhh please I'm sorry. I don't know how-how- to pleae I'm sorry Niharika but I can't hide this from you and can't tell anyone else about this.", she stuttred with sadness but her cheeks are so flushed that it is noticable despite having brown skin.
"Hey you don't have to. Just tell me who is it."
"It's-It's Reyansh"
Niharika's eyes widened, and then she burst into laughter. "Kya? Tum aur Reyansh? Yeh toh kamaal hai!" (What? You and Reyansh? This is amazing!)
Pratiksha's face turned crimson.
"Niharika, yeh mazak nahi hai! Main sach mein pareshaan hoon. Tumhara boyfriend hai woh!" (Niharika, this isn't a joke! I'm really worried. He's your boyfriend!)
"KYAAAA!!!"
"CHHEEEE!!!"
They both heard two voices, they looked behind their seat and found two men standing with mouth hung open.
Pratiksha didn't recognized one of them but the one she recognized was the last person whom she wanted to listen her talks.
"Tum dono yaha kya kar rahe ho? Aur Pratiksha, tumhe kisne kaha ki Reyansh mera boyfriend hai? Woh mera bhai hai!" (What are you both doing here and Pratiksha, who told you that Reyansh is my boyfriend? He's my brother for god sake!), Niharika's voice was loud as hell.
Everyone looking at the scene.
"Oyee tum log ye Bigg Boss chal rha hai kya yaha? Bhaago yaha se!!!" (I'm not going to translate)
Pratiksha's jaw dropped. "What? Your brother? Hayee Ram!! I thought....", she gave them the reason why she doubted them being in relationship as Niharika knows everything about him and him buying her shoes and chocolated. She looked at him and then diverted gaze as he was looking at her in disbelief.
Pratiksha buried her face in her hands, mortified. "Ohh god! This is so embarrassing. I'm I'm sorry you didn't told me this before and I thought-"
"I thought I've told you this before. Atleast clear the things before concluding anything Pratiksha but it's okay just leave it. It's not that big scene we are creating." Niharika said.
The man beside him couldn't help but laugh at the misunderstanding. He walked over to Reyansh having a hand on his shoulder, a mischievous grin on his face.
"Toh, Pratiksha, tumhare sapne kaafi interesting hain, huh?" (So, Pratiksha, your dreams are quite interesting, huh?), the unknown man said.
"Who are you Mister?", Pratiksha asked scrunching her nose as the situation was not to comment something.
"Why everyone is having problem with me dude? Firstly, Reyansh then Niharika and then You. Please everyone."
Ignoring his words Niharika introduced him to Pratiksha.
"Pratiksha he is Raj Singhania, my cousin sister's brother-in-law, he is here because umm I don't know. He just wanted to have a look of our college as he is unemployed." She introduced him being uninterested.
"Ohh madam, what kind of introduction is this? I'm your guest atleast give a decent introduction to your bestfriend. Leave it..Hey I'm Raj as she already told you. I'm currently starting a business and yeah I'm not unemployed." Raj said shaking his hands with Pratiksha.
Pratiksha being the queen of embarrassment again embarrassed herself shook her hands with him.
"Sorry I-I didn't knew you umm"
"Hey it's okay currently you have another situation to handle." he said looking at Reyansh who was staring at Pratiksha in disbelief all the time.
"Now as Dadi ji told me, I guess Niharika have some work" Raj said smirking at Niharika.
"Ohh yeah, she told me you have have some shit to do with our director for your agency."
"That's business miss leave it, so show me the way." he said giving her his arm to hold but she gave a punch on his arm and made her way towards the director's office not before giving raising her eyebrows at Pratiksha and then looking at Reyansh indicating her to have a talk with him with a smile. Raj followed her leaving both Pratiksha and Reyansh alone, not before winking at Reyansh and giving a toothy smile to Pratiksha.
She returned the smile but Reyansh was still looking her in disbelief.
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