Little naina was sitting on the dinning table.. with folded hands and pout...on her face.

And another little girl across the table smiled at her

Tina - tumhe pancakes pasand hai...

Naina - I have never eaten one before

Tina - mera try karo... You will like it
And tina loaded the pancake with mangoe syrup.... before advancing the plate towards her.

Naina smiled and took the plate....

And they heard a quarreling from study

Ashok - it was a mistake lavanya.
Mere aur maya ke beech ab kuch nahi hai...
Mujhe to pata bhi nahi tha is bachchi ke bare mein...

Lavanya - I don't care whom you sleep with ashok..
Just learn to keep your illegitimate affairs outside the house...
That girl need to leave

Ashok - maya is dead Lavanya
She was suffering from a terminal disease
Isiliye wo naina ko yaha leke ayi

I had to keep her
She is my responsibility

Lavanya - I am not going to let that illegitimate girl have your name
You better prepare a story to tell ....
Anything....

And she stormed outside the study room and came franaticly towards the dinner table

And giving an angry glare in Naina's direction
Clutches tina's arm

Lavanya - do not talk to her ... Or you will be in trouble
Rekha ... Rekha

She yelled one of the servent's name..

And the lady in house uniform came running

"Ye ladki dobara is dinning table pe nahi dikhni chahiye
Iska khana ise iske kamre mein dena
Take her away"

She command and rekha immediately made naina stand up from the chair making her drop that pancake back on the plate... And took naina with her to her room.

Tina - dad told me that she is my sister
She complaint as she felt her mother was so cruel to them

Lavanya - she is not your sister
Just a distant cousin...
And you better stay away from her

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The canteen is busy and crowded.

Naina is sitting in a corner drinking her black coffee....
When rajveer came dashing on her front empty seat.... Disturbing the air around her....

"Itne table khali hai
Kahi aur ja ke baitho please"
She said as she pulled the book towards her , which are kept on table.

"Lekin mujhe jo chahiye wo tumhare pas hai .."
He tried to make it sound double meaning
Making her frown....

"Notes my dear notes."
He said to bring her normal.....

"Financial risk management jo last lecture mein cover hua....mera miss ho gaya tha... .....
I am sure tumhare notes ready honge...
Please can I have a jist of it.

"Tum class attend kyun nahi karte ho"

She argued back....

"Are main to aya tha..
Par profesor ne bahar nikal diya

"Kyuke tum class mein baith ke phone chala rahe the..."
She said

"Phone nahi chala raha tha...
Porn sites check kar raha tha...
Mia Khalifa ka latest video release hua hai."
He said earning a horrifying look from naina... Which he finds always amusing.

"To ek kam karo
Jake Mia Khalifa se hi notes lelo
Financial risk management ke..."

He said closing her books in anger.

And he laughed at her expense....

When suddenly a scene grabbed their attention.

They heard tina's voice

You cheat

Tina slapped a boy
Which naina know is her boyfriend...

"You bitch....."
The boy was about to slap her back.
When in no time rajveer rushed to their table holding that boy's hand..

"Easy tiger..."
He said scaring the boy to diffuse the tension....

The boy stepped back .... Deciding not to get in trouble with rajveer.
Everyone knows, that you do not mess with rajveer"s friends

And tina left the canteen Crying...
Rajveer was about to follow her but he saw naina following her already and he decided not to meddle.

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In girls restroom
Tina was weeping bending over the washbasin...
Over her broken relationship...

Her materialistic mother and ignnorent father .... had managed to raise an emotionally vulnerable girl..
Whose rudeness and anger is her defense...
Yet she try to hold hard any arms that can give comfort.

Tina felt someone's presence and saw from her peripheral vision...

"What"
She asked with her regular rudeness.

"Are you fine"
Naina asked with concern in her voice.

"Why do you care....
Just leave me alone"
She said with more rudeness

"No one should cry alone
It's horrible"
She said

While tina didn't reply to that one.

Naina kept lingering in the restroom
And even took out a water bottle from her bag to offer her

She took the bottle without protest as she remembered seeing the bottle that she is actually very thirsty.

And then next came from her bag
A chocolate bar....

"Seriously chocolate"?
Tina gave her an irritating glare...

"How old am I , you think"
She bickered

"When you are sad
You should start munching something
Mind distract ho jata hai..."
She said with a smile.

But tina didn't took the chocolate
And naina kept the chocolate on vidushi's phone kept on slab

"I have some errands to run"
She said as she make her way towards the door...

Tina took another minute before grabbing that choclate and started munching it...

"Though she didn't feel any better
But she definately stopped crying"

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"Is she fine"
He asked as he started walking beside her , the moment he spotted her leaving the premises.

"She will be
She is tough"
She replied , as she was searching her car's key in her bag.

"You two are cousins , but you don't get along well...
Ek ghar mein rehne ke bawajood
Can I ask why"
He asked casually

"She thinks I am weird...
She doesn't like me"
She said with plain honest tone... Making him uncomfortable with so much of truth in one sentence....

He didn't wanted the conversation to go in that direction.

"You are not weird"
He protested immediately with a serious face for a change...

As they slow down their speed arriving near her car.

"Tum bhi to mujhe meena kumari bulate ho...
Even you think I am a bit odd , don't you"
She asked , this time looking directly in his eyes ..
Making him more comfortable than before

"I call you meena kumari
Because of your beautiful eyes... Which holds lots  of secrets...and so many emotions...
But those emotions are not happy at all....
Just like meena kumari...
I have seen soo many movies of her with my dadi....."

He said with so much honesty
That she had no other choice but to believe him....

"I never ment to offend you"
He gave another honest confession
Making her soft towards him...

"I should go "
She said tearing the vision from him

And he saw as her car left the premises