"Siddharth takes the ball forward to try to score a basket, along with his partner Adhiraj. And here Siddharth passes the ball to Reyansh who passes it to Uday. Adhiraj tries to block of some St Xavier's students while Dhruv gets a chance to bounce the ball and pass it back to Siddharth." The commentator says, noticing how the game was going.

"Over here!" Sid says, waving his hands in the air, focused on just one thing, the ball. He had to get the ball and score this basket. Dhruv looks up at Sid and passes the ball to him. Sid jumps in the air and catches the ball, dribbling it all the way to the end of the court, while his team members tried to defend the opposing team members from getting in his way.

Sid dunks and shoots the ball in the basket, winning the game for St.Xavier's college by 70-69. He closes his eyes as his team members come running towards him. He could hear the crowd cheering for him and that managed to settle down his own heartbeat. Sid could see Adhiraj glaring at him and walking away from him. He smiled watching the wannabe walk away from him.

He had never liked Adhiraj much for the simple fact that he tried to take over Siddharth's position in the team 'thinking he was able to give him competition. He imagines Soha his princess congratulating him and hugging him tightly while his eyes were closed. He opens his eyes and finds Reyansh asking him about where he is lost?.He nods in nowhere and hugs him while smiling sarcastically over Adhiraj who is always jealous of him.

The whole St.Xaviers collage broke into an uproar and ran towards the basketball court, eager to congratulate the basketball team. While Sid enjoyed his moment of glory, Adhiraj was busy getting angry inside the locker room.

"Damn you Siddharth!" Adhiraj yelled in anger, banging his fist against the locker.

Adhiraj hated Sid, not because he tired to always show him a downfall but because as much as Adhiraj had tried to become friends with him, he would always ignore him. Everyone else had said that Adhiraj and Sid acted as a team to make St.Xaviers college's name in the Basketball field but no one knew how actually things went around here.

For them, they only paid attention to what they were seeing, not actually going inside and feeling what was happening. It may have just been an ego problem between Sid and Adhiraj that may have acted up once in a while, but for it, it was just Sid's problem of taking a lead in everything that was eating him up!

For Siddharth, things were different. He didn't hold any grudge against Adhiraj but it just angered him with the fact that Adhiraj would try to interfere in everything he did, making comments about everything Sid did. Sometimes it just felt like a punishment to work with him on the same team, and have to act 'goodie-good' with him
As Adhiraj thought about what to do next, St.Xavier's college was having a blast to celebrate the happiness of winning the State Championships, 4th time in a row!

"And here comes our college's rockstars !" Mr. Banerjee proudly announces the basketball team's arrival.

Sid, Ray, Uday, Adhiraj and 6 other team members walk inside the college and are greeted by warm hugs from Xavier's students. While Siddharth is kissed on the cheeks by numerous girls, Adhiraj is greeted by hugs from the students. Uday and Ray are given high fives.

While the hallways were in an uproar to welcome the basketball team, the college geek, also known as Nikhil Oberoi made his way to the library, ignoring all the chatter, and laughter and the noise. He wasn't a noisy person, more of a bookworm many would have described him. A part of him, even plugged his ears to avoid the noise while he walked to the library.

"I'll never understand why the college is in such an uproar about winning a basketball match. The debate team never gets this kind of a welcome when they come, even though I never want one anyways." Nick says to himself.

Nikhil goes to the library to see it locked. He reads a notice on the library door saying Library is CLOSED due to an epic win by the Basketball team. Please come back tomorrow.
Nick sighs and angrily turns back to leave when he bumps into someone. A girl wearing a blue anarkali dress, and her hair tied up in a ponytail. He drops his binders and all the pages go flying up in the air. As Nick tries to get a hold of his books, he remembers that the girl that he had bumped into was still in his arms, with her faced covered up by her duppata. He was confused as to what do to.

Shanvi smiled at herself, being held in the arms of her Raj as she had presumed while papers rained down on them. Even though her face was covered up by a duppata, much unlike those movies, where the actresses eyes came in contact with the hero's, but she knew, that nothing in her life had ever been perfect and this was just an exact copy of that. As she waits for her Raj to remove the duppata off her face, so she could see his face, he doesn't do that. Instead, she has to remove the duppata off her own face and while she did that, she saw the guy nervously looking down around her. As she moved her eyes around underneath her, she saw a whole pile of papers lying on the ground and felt proud. Too bad, those pile of papers were a pile of rose petals.

Nick looked up at her eyes for the first time. He hadn't seen here in St.Xavier's college before. As she comes out of her dream and waits for her Raj to lift her up in his arms and make her feel like a princess, her dreams are shattered when her nervous Raj looks down at her and suddenly lets go of her, making her fall down to the ground.

"I am sorry but my class starts in 2 minutes!" Nick says, not caring for the girl and quickly gathering his papers and runs to class.

Shanvi opens her mouth wide open in shock, and rubs her back. It hurt. This man could not have been her Raj because he was NOTHING like the Raj she had presumed. He was nothing but a lifeless character, who could think of nothing but books. Surinder Sahani of Rab Ne Mila Di Jodi she thought.

"Hey do you have eyes or not? Can't you see that a girl has just tripped in your arms but no! you don't have time? You idiot! If we ever meet again, I will tell you who this Shanvi Singhania is!" Shanvi yells after that guy who had just left before settling her hair and dress.

As she turned around to leave, she saw eyes looking at her as if she was a true original master piece. An embarrassed Shanvi makes this comment at those wandering eyes "What? Have you all not seen a girl yelling before?" she says, making everyone look at each other and then walks away.

The whole college is busy dancing alongside Siddharth and the basketball team, his eyes fall on the sounds of someone's anklets, ringing like a bare violin in his ears. He stopped dancing and jumping around and walks towards the sound of those anklets, completely drained in the sound, moving away everyone in his way, even the principal. It was as if some strong magnet was pulling him closer towards the sound. As Sid reached the end of the main hallway, he noticed a girl walking down the corridor steps, her face as simple as an innocent angel. He smiles as suddenly he feels a gush of air blow his hair away from his face, sending shrills down his spine. She wore a pink churidaar and looked very nervous.

Sid placed his eyes down to her feet, to see the anklets dancing around those clear, warm feet. He blushes and walks up to her, not thinking what would happen next.

"Hello." Sid said trying to act like a nice boy.

"Hi." She replied, looking up and lowering her eyelids down once again. He could see she was nervous and Sid liked girls who were nervous.

He smiles and suddenly pulls her into a hug. The girl Jhanvi doesn't respond back at first, staying frozen where she was, perhaps shocked or taken aback by this sudden behaviour. Once she gets into her full senses, she starts fighting against him and pulls him off her, pushing him away.

"Hey babe, chill! I was just greeting you! That is how Siddharth Kapur greets everyone!" He says, turning around to see the whole college stopping to see what had happened. This had been the first time anyone had ever dared to push him away from them.

Jhanvi looks up at the crowd watching her and gets nervous, but not afraid. She places her hand on his shoulder, who by now was smiling. She turns him around to face her and tightly slams her hand against his cheeks, making them turn partially pink. Everyone gasps at what had just happened.

"Never touch me again' ever!" she says, and walks away a shocked and angry Siddharth. As she is about to leave, she turns around and innocently says "Sorry for the slap by the way. That was not intended." And turns away and leaves.

Siddharth turns around to find everyone in the college staring at him in wide shock or horror as anyone could have described it. Images of the girl slapping him on the face flicker a fire in his mind. This had been the first time anyone had even dared to turn Siddharth Kapur down and even gone as far as slapping him. Feeling the anger and fire burning inside him, Sid leaves in a huff, feeling that his honour and respect had just been tainted by that one girl.

~*~

Seeing Sid leave, Dia , Uday and Ray turn wide-eyed, and non-responsive. "Dude' what just happened." Uday asks, shocked.

"I don't know dude, but it looks like Sid just got slapped." Ray replies back, his mouth wide-open in shock.

"Should I be laughing or should I be angry and shocked?" Uday asks Ray while scratching his hair.

Ray turns around towards Uday and is confused. It wasn't as if he hadn't understood what Uday was saying, it was just that he was confused about what he had just said. "What do you mean by laughing? I am sorry Uday, I am human so I have natural reactions to things." Ray replies back.

"I mean, think about it dude. Siddharth is the stud of the college, right?" Uday says, putting his hand on Ray 's shoulders who seemed to be thinking about what Uday was saying.

"No of course not Uday, how can Sid be the stud of the college, real stud of college is you!"Ryan replies back sarcastically. It kind of ticked him off that Uday was mentioning the most obvious fact that even a 5th grader could have known.

"Shut up Ray and just listen. So there is our Sid, whom everyone loves and adores, and suddenly this girl comes and slaps him on the cheek. Its funny isn't it that the college stud got slapped by a normal girl but no one did anything!" Anindya aka Annie explains.

"Yeah, I get that, but why would you be shocked?" Ray asks when he notices that Annie was taking him straight to the cafeteria.

"Shocked because the girl that slapped Sid, is my cousin sister, Jhanvi." Dia replied, smiling and grabbing a slice of cheese pizza off the counter and quickly nibbling on it.

"Aah tsk ..." Ray retorted, not quite familiar with what Dia had just mentioned and when he did get what Dia was saying, this was his new reaction "WHAT!!??" Ray said, surprise and shocked at the fact that that girl was Dia's sister.

"Why are you so shocked Ray?" Dia asks moving his mouth away from the pizza.

"That girl...is your COUSIN!!?? Candy !" Ray asks, trying to make sure that what Dia had said was right.

"Hold on let me remember. Dude, she was my sister for exactly 18 years now, but unless she has gotten plastic surgery done, to change her face, yes, she is still my sister." Dia replies back smiling while walking back to the classroom.

"Dont you dare to tell about the slap to Suhana or Veer guys otherwise they will make fun of me responded Sid while patting his cheeks which just got slapped by a girl." said Ray in worried tone .

" Never Dude, we wont tell them about it. But what if they come to know about it from that Uday?.asked Dia.

"I will rather kill him one day" replied Sid with a stern look on his face while leaving home on his sports bike and fixing his keys.

~*~
NEXT DAY
Shanvi enters the Accounts lecture room to see every space filled with at least two people per seat. She smiles seeing an extra seat in the second row of the classroom. She goes and takes her seat, placing her bag on the desk.

As she takes her books out of her bag, she feels a sudden movement when a bag comes flying down beside hers and someone grabs the seat beside hers. She looks up and is surprised to see that same old 'Sadu' Surinder Sahani.

Nick turns around to look up at the girl he was sitting next to and found her to be the same girl he had bumped into in the hallway. He rolls his eyes at the newest discovery.

"YOU?!!" Both Nick and Esha screamed at the same time.

"What are you doing here?" Esha asks angrily.

"Doing what I have come here to do. Study and learn something important and by the way, what are you doing here? This is my regular seat." Nick replies back, slamming his books tightly shut.

"Oh hello, Mr. Sadu, I am also here to study but guess what, today I came to this desk earlier, so it would be a really nice thing if you could just take the commitment of moving somewhere else. Now go, and let some air come in. I am feeling suffocated." Esha replies back with attitude, still angry and mad about the fact that he had dropped her to ground and not even given a proper sorry.

"Oh really? You feel suffocated huh? Well tell you what Ms Chipkali, you are new to this college, unlike me, so I would really appreciate that you stop following me everywhere I go, and be original and actually find a place where I am not there, which means, out of St.Xavier's college." Nick replies back, thinking of Chipkali as the perfect name for this monster.

"Aye! Whom are you calling Chipkali, Bandar!" irks Esha feeling insulted that this 5'9 man had just called her a Chipkali.

"If you don't shut up, then I would call you every single swear words in my Merriam Websters Dictionary and if you need , then I will even use 'Online translators and dictionaries too!" Nick replies back, with crunched teeth.

"Dumb fellow" Esha says, and turns her head to face the front when she saw Professor Rai entering the class.

Ms.Aahana,a new teacher enters the class "Hello everyone, this is Ms.Aahana Rai your accounts professor for this six months semester. So I would like an introductory session with you all. See which questions I am asking straight to the point questions from you and like my golden rule I should expect straight to the point answers as well isn't it? Oh Nikhil Oberoi, my favourite student of St.Xaviers including Siddharth Kapur and Dia Singhania right from the very first day of my teaching career. I hope you all know them.Shanvi Singhania, you are cousin of Dia if I am not wrong you are from Darjeeling and it's your first day over here.".

Shanvi answers boldly " Yes Ma'am you're right. Dia is my uncle's daughter and it's my first day over here in St.Xaviers. But Ma'am some people over here in your class are showing me such a nice chivalry that my heart melts for them.$

Ms.Aahana chuckles and asks "If you don't mind my asking may I know who was showing you a nice chivalry and showcased their talents?.".

Shanvi answers eagerly" Who else will be that Ma'am your favourite student Nikhil Oberoi was addressing me Chipkali Singhania as he read my name in Students' list while I mocked him by calling him Bandar Oberoi. "

She pulls Nick's cheeks which turned pink, making him embarrassed in front of whole class.

Whole class suppressed their laughter, knowing very well that when Nick will see Annie Matthews, Chitra Jain or CJ or Ryan Matthews smiling at him, will kill them with his fluent English words which he learnt from his bestie Siddharth.