Bab 50: Nora handling mess

"Brother Ryan! You finally came!" Krish delightedly walked to the entrance where Ryan was greeting Carter.

"Nora? With Ryan? What a pleasant surprise." Carter gave a welcoming smile.

Giving a cheeky smile to him, he followed after Nora while replying. "Just got a thought of having dinner with you guys. Can i?"

"Yeah. Of course. You are most welcome here."

Krish walking by Ryan, profusely nodded his head in affirmation too. "Yes must come often, I missed you. I've got so many things to tell you. Come with me. I'll show you something."

Krish contentedly brought Ryan to the drawing hall where he not just wanted to show his designs, but also wanted to share his problems with his school life. With time, he started liking Ryan more and more as a close family.

Once both the boys left, Carter couldn't stop himself and asked away.

"Why is he here? I am sure you won't invite him."

"I didn't."

"So?"

"We met at the entrance of the complex. He looked disturbed and was hungry too."

"Can you please complete things at once?"

"He asked me if he could join us. So all I did was to say yes."

Carter's lips twitched with her last nonsense. Passing her the glass of water, he whispered. "You think he came here for food?"

Nora nodded mindlessly. "Or what?"

He speechlessly looked at her. His heart was itching all over to ask all his doubtful questions, but can't, knowing that Nora won't allow that.

Looking down at his feet, he grieved. "God please give her some senses."

While talking with Krish, Ryan kept looking at Nora. The girl never got bothered by his presence. She always stayed nonchalant around him, whereas he himself acted like a whole new teenage boy.

His reactions, his words always become unexpected. He himself doesn't know how he would react next moment. Every single time he acts according to his heart.

However today things got different. When his mother said those words his heart wanted to retort fully, but also didn't want to disrespect his mother.

Once his father left, his mother almost lost control and abused Nora, but in that case also, Ryan decided to ignore and leave. Somewhere in his heart, he felt guilty towards Nora.

Not knowing where to drive to, he ended up right outside her Avenue.

That day, he also got to know about the commotion Nora had with Parth. Seeing her that close to Parth he got all inflamed. He almost lost his control too. But what happened next gave him all the meaning of that ruckus. He saw the beef, dislike, and grudge in their exchange.

After realising that, his displeasure subsided, but not his anger. When he thought about the reason behind his actions and thoughts, he excused himself with the thought of Nora as his responsibility given by his father. He had to take care of her for his father.

Meeting her later on, he wanted Nora to tell him on her own about all the problems she is facing, however even after a five minute silence they had in the car, she said nothing.

In the end he gave up and was about to ask on his own when Nora got someone's call as she stepped out of the car.

***

After meeting Nora, Parth's presence of mind hardly took a stable position. Whenever he thinks about avenging him, he also thinks about her pure gaze that wasn't scared of anything or of any of his actions.

Whenever he thinks about the words she left with, he feels guilty. But on next second his ego built a more tough wall against his heart.

He wanted to carry on with his work, not minding what could be happening to Nora. But no matter what, how many times he tries, his attention keeps going back to the same girl.

It's been a few days since that incident happened. And since then he was getting all frustrated. Annoyed by small things. He wanted to forget about her.

However it was not just his guilty mind that keeps reminding him about her, but his so-called close friends kept discussing Nora all day in their office.

Not just small things, but Aman as a whole package. His curiosity for that girl irks him more than anything. Him kept saying that he wants to meet that girl or talk to Nora, was very much annoying to his ear and mind.

He was still in the middle of his thoughts when Mike from the couch crushed the can in his hand. The sound took everyone's attention in the room.

"What just happened?"

"..."

"Mike?"

Aman waited for him to speak his mind. But when he still didn't say a word after a half minute, he couldn't hold his curiosity and asked. "Are you gonna tell us or not? Why are you angry?"

Parth didn't ask nor looked at Mike's direction. But he had stopped his work and waited for him to speak too.

'Scoff' Without saying a word Mike looked up and stared straight at Parth.

The moment their eyes clashed with each other, Aman didn't dare to say a word more. Even knowing no source of such anger, he had no courage to ask any more questions.

"You sure know how to take revenge don't you?" Mike asked.

"I sure do. But may I know who we are talking about?"

"About the one with whom you had a ruckus in the corridor recently."

Mike piqued all Parth's attention. His eyes wavered little. "...That girl. What happened?"

Mike sneered. Without looking away from him, he threw his phone directly to Parth's hold. "Check it yourself. What you have done to that girl."

Before Mike could complete his words Parth was already on it. Not wasting his time he read the post uploaded on their college forum.

Not just one post of that day, but for a long time, almost all the posts were only on either Nora or on Parth. By now, the whole college has come to know about her back and forth. Her name, Batch, Enrollment number, Schedule, everything they might need while stalking her.