~Winter Formal~
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One week later
Karan and I have been working hard on the mission and we have gotten way closer to finding the person.
We eliminated 95% of the school and are still working on the 5%.
Speaking of, Karan is starting to fit in school.
Girls are drooling over him and he doesn't give a single shit.
He's made friends out of my friends. Twins, Hiral, Himanshu, and then Aarshiya and Manvi. He is still pretty reserved but we are getting there. Oh, and We've started to become friends too.
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Lunch
I'm talking to the girls when Karan and Himanshu pull up. Karan finally made a guy friend and they hit it off pretty well. Himanshu is one of my good friends, he has tan skin, black wavy hair and an adorable Punjabi smile.
"I told you man, I was right wasn't I?" , Himanshu says playfully hitting Karan.
"No man, your not gonna get anywhere , he says annoyed and laughing at the same time.
They take a seat.
"Hey Tejasswi", Himanshu says sitting next to me and hugging me.
He has the sweetest manners.
I smile and him and glance at Karan. He stares at me and gives me a small smile. We all are deep into chatter when Karan takes a seat on the other side of me.
Karan leans into my ear and talks loud enough that I can hear but quiet enough that the others can't.
"I'm heading to train today after school. You wanna come train with me?"
I look up at him confused.
"Train? Why?"
"Could use a punching buddy."
It takes me a few seconds to know he's joking. I punch his arm and he chuckles.
His laugh sends chills down my spine.
"Fine I think I have time," I say.
"Ok, I'll pick you up at 4"
"Deal."
"Deal."
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4:17pm
We head into the wrestling room and put our gloves and gear on and warm up with a few stretches and laps. Karan takes his jacket off, and now he is in black pants and a tight black Dri-Fit shirt.
"I was thinking on working on defense skills today", he says adjusting his grip gloves.
I agree, adjusting my gloves too.
He looks up at me." Alright cool, lets get start-",
I swing a punch to his left cheek and he swings away just in time, not prepared for it.
He rubs his brow to make sure I didn't hurt him. "Tejasswi, give me warning next time yeah?"
"Enemies won't give you warnings when your fighting them", I say proud to catch him off guard.
"You're right", he says quickly recovering to throw a punch at me.
I defend myself with my hands and give him a "game on" face.
"Oh two can play that game", I say throwing punches out of the blue.
He and I quabble back and forth till we are huffing and tired. Once we are done he sighs and lifts his shift up to wipe his face, and a super toned tan torso peeks through showing defined abs. When I punched him during training I felt how defined he was. He's definitely toner than he looks.
"Gape a little less yeah?" , he says looking at me playfully.
I roll my eyes and we had to his car when I see a familiar person pass by.
It looked like...Kiana?
I turn to see the shadow gone. I shake it off and leave to the car.
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3 weeks later
Karan and I have trained together 3 times already and we've gotten better. We just finished a season when I saw a familiar silhouette again.
This time I walk up to the person to see Kiana.
"Kiana?"
She looks up at me startled.
"What are-", she starts.
"What are you doing here?", I ask on high alert.
I hover my hand on my gun tucked into my jean waist and she realizes.
"Tejasswi, don't shoot I'm a spy here", hands up in surrender.
"What? No your not", I say confused.
Karan stands behind me equally confused.
"Yeah I am, I'm taking the beginners program here, I recently became a member like three weeks ago", she says nervous about my hand on my gun.
"So I did see you that day didn't I?"
"Yeah", she says sheepishly. I ran because I was surprised to see you here ."
"How old are you?", Karan asks.
"I'm a sophomore I just turned 16."
"Wait how do you know my name?", I ask suddenly remembering I zapped her memory.
"You go to my school. I see you in the halls", she says confused like it's obvious.
"Right, uh what were you giving out at school? I saw you doing something", I say trying to play it off without triggering her memory.
"I was doing an errand for my boss, that's it."
I look at Karan and sigh. She's not guilty of anything she was just training to be a part of Black Light.
"Uh, I'm not that good at fighting and I saw you guys are really good. C-could you maybe help me?"
"Yeah sure", I say glad to clear out suspicions of her.
"Okay cool. See ya", she says walking out.
Karan and I look at each other and walk out to the night air.
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December 5, 2022 - one week later :)
It's Tuesday and I cannot wait for the week to end. I have too many tests in a week and I really need to be done with all of it. I head up to Aarshiya putting my books in my locker.
"Hey Tejasswi, guess what's in 3 days?"
I reply dryly. "Ooh lemme guess. Friday."
She rolls her eyes.
"Yes but you know what else? Winter Formal! I'm sure you have heard of it. Who you going with?"
"Yeah, I'm not going I don't have a date", I say less bothered for a dance.
"Ooh come onn! Your like so hot and hot and smart and hot. There is definitely someone drooling over you", she says exasperated.
"Name one person who would go with me", I say facing her and putting my hands on her hips.
It didn't even take her 3 seconds to name "Karan".
"No", I say. "No, not Karan."
"Yes Karan."
"No, we are just friends. And he probably has a date", I say rubbing it off.
"He does not, I asked and-"
"YOU WHAT-"
"Just listen Tejasswi!" Aarshiya huffs. "Just ask him if you guys want to go as friends. I'm just saying he's quite hot and you two look good side by side. Just think about it, it's our last Winter Formal as a high schooler just go."
I think about it for a while contemplating. I'm too busy with my job but she has a point.
Anyways, Karan knows my spy secret so it wouldn't be so hard to go.
"Fine, I'll ask him about it", I finally answer, heading to class and leaving Aarshiya smiling.
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Wednesday
December 6, 2022
8:03 pm
Boss has given us more information on the person who broke in, but no one can find the person. It's so weird, considering we find people in seconds and it is certainly brain churning. Karan offered me a ride back home after and we spent half the ride in mostly silence in his dark leather car.
"Hey", he says breaking the silence.
Finally
"Yeah?"
"What's the Winter Formal?"
I turn around in my seat to face him.
"It's like, a dance that high schoolers go to in the Winter and you dress up. Sort of like prom but a bit more chill", I say explaining best as I can.
He nods still driving in silence.
"Why?", I ask.
"I hate dancing."
I laugh. "Then why did you ask?"
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