"What is going on between you and Zee?" Shreya asked coming to sit beside Srinivas with a beer on his hands.

It was the last day of their vacation. Flight leaves the next morning. SO everyone had gathered in the back yard for a barbeque party for the night. After stuffing themselves to the brim and getting wasted, everyone had scattered away now.

Time flew away just like that but they all did get to relax which was the whole reason everyone came here in the first place. Between all the bantering, playing games, and loitering around on the beach, the two weeks felt like a blink of an eye.

Everyone else had knocked for the day. It was only Shreya and Srinivas here. Shreya was sipping on her drink while Srinivas just sat there enjoying the tranquility of the night until of course, Shreya broke the silence between them.

If it had been before, Srinivas would have probably dismissed her saying it was personal. But these past weeks, something changed between them. So he just let out a sigh and said lightly, "I asked her out!"

Shreya's eyes widened in shock instantly as she questioned, "You asked her out? Really?"

"Well, sorta actually. She ran away before I could get to the part of actually asking.." Srinivas said with a grave face.

"Wow!" Shreya said not even bothering to make an attempt to conceal her amus.e.m.e.nt with the whole situation.

Srinivas rolled his eyes as he said sarcastically, "That is so you.. Mocking the beaten.. You are so heartless sometimes," His lips pouted unconsciously.

"I am not heartless.. I just love seeing the live drama. It's entertaining.." Shreya shrugged without batting an eye.

Srinivas just smirked but did not reply.

"Wait. But how do you know that there is something going on between me and Zee?" Srinivas asked breaking the silence.

"Zee told me. Okay, she did not tell me per se. She asked me to change you.. she asked me to switch her personal detail.." Shreya replied getting herself another bottle of beer and handing one to Srinivas.

Srinivas's eyes widened in surprise but then the same turned into a self-deprecating smile. He should have after all expected this from Zee after all this time. He did not really comment, after all, he did not know how to reply.

"You want me to help you get her?" Shreya asked arching her eyebrows at him.

Srinivas took a minute but he shook his head and answered, "No.. Just reassign me. It's okay. This may be for the better actually."

"You are giving up already?" Shreya asked frowning.

Srinivas gave her a sly smirk and asked back, "What do you think?"

"NO.. You are just going to let her rot for a while and let her come to you on her own, aren't you?" Shreya said looking at his sly smile.

"What can I say? You read minds!" Srinivas said slyly smirking back at her.

"Okay, then you just report to me as soon as we get back. Ayush and Nakul are going to be following Bhavna and Hank wouldn't be able to handle my detail and uncle at the same time. And as frustrating as it is to accept it, I do need people around me here on now that the cat is out of the bag. Report to me as soon as we get back. And I am out of here.. Good night!" She said getting up from the lounge chair and walked back to her room.

Srinivas gave her a small nod and stood up too. But just as he was going to go back to his room, he decisively turned halfway and went to knock on Zee's doors.

When there was no answer after a while, he tried the knob and it opened without a hinge. And when he walked in he saw Zee snuggling into the bed completely hammered. She did not even bother to take off her shoes.

Srinivas sighed and got to work. He first took off her shoes and got a wet towel to clean up her face. Then he shifted her properly in the bed and pulled her blanket to her chins.

When he looked at her face, this was about the first time he had ever seen her so peaceful. All the time she was awake.. for some reason.. no matter the mood, there was always a sense of gloominess surrounding her. But when he saw her now, for some reason, it did not seem to be the case.

He couldn't help his hands from stretching out and caressing on her head and tidying up her hair a bit. His hands lingered for one extended minute before retreating from the room.

The whole mansion had quieted down except for of course Bhavna. Ayush was having a hell of a time trying to put an extremely drunk Bhavna to sleep.

As he was eager to spend some time with her- when the question came as to whom to send Bhavna to her room, Ayush obviously volunteered. After all, she was barely taking two steps without the risk of face planting into the floor.

But the trouble started when Bhavna refused to go to bed and dragged Ayush to the balcony in her room.

Her room balcony was very spacious as was her room. Since she was the youngest in the group, she obviously got the first dibs when it came to room allotment. She dragged Ayush out with her in her wobbly legs and tried to open the sliding door. When it did not budge seeing as she was sliding on the wrong end of the door, he helped very diligently. Ayush was scared if he did not, she was going to find something to actually break the door.

Once outside she looked around and took a deep breath in pure bliss. Then as cliched as it was, she somehow successfully tripping on her own feet and dragged Ayush down with her very conveniently. But since Ayush had been distracted looking around the balcony, he failed to brace himself for the impact and actually fell down on his back. Thankfully there was a swing chair behind them and Ayush made a safe landing on his back with Bhavna secured in his arms.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked once he had steadied himself.

But Bhavna did not reply. Instead, she shifted around in his arms and found a comfortable place for herself and went to sleep.

"You got to be kidding me!"Ayush muttered to himself in disbelief. God knows how much he had tried to convince her to go to sleep but got dragged outside the balcony. And now that she was out, she actually went to sleep?

After a lot of struggle, he successfully got her back into the room and on the bed. But the did not have the heart to go out just yet. So he sat on the bed beside her and let her even breathing calm him down.

He did not actually understand himself.. Typically, he liked girls who are quiet, mature, and gentle. At least that's what he thought was his taste. But Bhavna was none of those.. it was painfully apparent. But still, he really found it hard to stay away from her.

She was loud, spoilt, and bratty. But then he came to realize that none of this seems to matter to him. He just liked her and it had nothing to do with her personality or how she was.. it was just her. And before he could even have a conscious thought of liking her.. he was already following her around like a lost puppy. And everybody around had caught him.. not that he was doing a very good job of hiding it.. but still the only one person who did not notice was actually Bhavna herself.

Ayush rested his palms on her cheek and leaned forward to slightly peck on her forehead and wished her, "Good night.." It was just a whisper. He quietly exited the room switching off the lights behind him.