Hold Back The River

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Hold Back The River: 1 | Are you kidding me?
| Annika Trivedi |

Mallika and I look back at each other and burst laughing at what Om just said. "Yeah, Om. Did you and Rudy switch places?" I ask still laughing and patting the ground while everyone one of them look at me and Mallika.

"Guys, I'm serious." Om says and we see the serious tension on their faces. Mallika stops laughing and so I. We look at each other , still trying to laugh the matter off.

"You can't be serious, Omkara. How could you possibly even say that?" Mallika grabs his collar and glares him while saying this. I look towards everyone, Rudra, Priyanka and then Shivaay, walking towards him while he bows his head down.

"What is this, Shivaay? Is-is that what you think of our group? Is that what you all think?" Mallika and I look over to everyone who bow their head down. the moment of truth.

"Guys, we are us, remember? Didn't we used to say that nothing could break us apart? Hey, this is just highschool! There would be so much bigger problems than this and we can't run away from them! Please, everyone, remove these face masks and get back to normal!" Mallika begs and I nod still looking with hope towards Shivaay that atleast he would agree with us but , alas!

"Shivaay? Seriously? Rudy, tum bhi? Prinku?" Mallika basically shouts in our ears roaming and wandering from one place to another. "You all are just-just mad, alright? All of you are insane!" She yells.

"What if its not us, Mal?" Shivaay finally speaks up. He looks forward and into our eyes. "What if it is you?"

"Are you kidding me, Shivaay?" Mallika scoffs. "You all come to us one day, after like 10 years of our friendship and say that we have to part and we are the insane ones? What the heck is wrong with you guys?" she turns around with rage visible all over her face and tries to control herself.

"You know what, never mind. We don't need your pity friendship. Annika and I are no longer a part of your so called us. Atleast I know she wouldn't abandon me even when we go separate ways! So, goodbye." Mallika inhales deeply.

"Mal, why are you behaving like them?" I yell at her as she drags me out of the empty classroom. "We don't need some fake friends Annika, trust me, we don't." with that, we walk out on them, leaving our friends, our us behind. Leaving my fricking boyfriend behind. What the heck is going on?

"Mal, You need to calm yourself down at first place! we can't just pounce upon a decision so soon." I try to put some sense in her brain, which I'm sure must be dancing upon so many decisions out of anger right now. "Oh, So now you find 'em right too?" Mallika yowled at me, hurt clearly visible in her eyes. "I never said that, its just, shouldn't we try to figure out these thing together, Mal? We need to give them a chance to explain themselves too!" I protest as calmly as possible.

"Annika, why don't you clearly say that you wanna be with your boyfriend?" Mallika scoffs a bit harshly this time. Okay, I know a part of my heart still wants to be with him but that doesn't mean I can my best friend let go . "What's wrong with you, Mal? Did you lose your senses?" I retort back at her, anger running down my veins too. "At first you just insanely, without thinking twice let go our gang and now here, you are yelling at me!" I spat, all thanks to the situation at the moment. Everything felt fine a day back , completely normal. we were fighting, teasing, cracking lame jokes, pranking and also, romancing. I have no clues what had gotten into them out of nowhere.

"Of course , You'll find me wrong by now. As because of me you had to leave your boyfriend out." Mallika again groans. "Will you stop dragging Shivaay out of nowhere, for the sake of Jesus?" I sally back to her throwing daggers at her with my eyes , at least that's what I intended to. "How can you do this A? You're taking their side in this piece of crap and leaving out bestfriend since second grade?" Mallika lashes again. I can't handle it anymore!

"I'm sorry! happy?" I give up, I know too soon but those events have already drained me out and I really can't fight and loose her too. Without uttering anything else, Mallika steps out in corridor and hurries towards her locker.

I stand at my place, rooted. I feel as if the weight of my heart has increased in just fraction of moments. All these turns that just took in my life are making it hard for me to breath. I sigh, and find a chair to sit on. Everything is shattered right in front of my eyes and I couldn't do anything! Everything broke apart and I was still! I lost everything, Mal, Shivaay, my friends, damn everything!

My mind wasn't in a state to think more, everything in just one day has shattered all our precious moments we spent together. Realisation struck as all stood up to greet the teacher. Wow! Now I am freaking stuck in a class and I don't have the patience to sit down and listen to the lectures.

I got up to walk towards the professor who had been fixing his glasses from the time he had been here. I clear my thought to gain his attention and in return I recieve a stern look from him. "Yes Miss Trivedi?"

I had already made up my mind about what I was going to speak or lie to him. "Actually, I am having a severe head ache, if you allow me, can I get home?" He blinked for a second before answering me with a 'sure'. I exhaled out the gas I had been holding up for long.

I ran out of class as fast as possible, I could possibly guess what the students would have been thinking when I ran from the class, that - The most intelligent girl in the class is bunking it! Like always I don't give these people unwanted attention.

I looked around, my eyes searching for my gang but I couldn't find a trance of them. Walking ahead in corridor, there I spotted my boyfriend, leaning against the wall and chewing something repeatedly. His jaws felt clenched and he stared at nothing particular.

How the hell am I gonna mend everything back to normal? It was hell a job to do that!

I try to find Mallika to apologise to here first. While roaming around, I pass by the class I just got out and see inside if Mallika were there! In process of that, the professor caught me staring from the window with a strick detention look on face. oh, great! Can my life get any better? :)

so, here it is, our first piece of crap 😂.
so, what do you think is going to be ahead? will annika be able to mend her relation with mallika? will shivaay and annika be back together again? will all of them be separated or the conflict would be resolved? keep guessing until next time 😛
btw, the beautiful cover is made by crazymaniac_♥

Velligurlsx ♡
8th August, 2018.