Suchitra rolled his eyes at him. "I did not even talk about those crackers. And about Shubman and his I'd card only the panel was aware. And Ishan stop lying, I have checked the CCTV footage. So you better not lie on my face. You know just because of your mischief an innocent boy was going to be punished today. Why can't you just stop all this? I am just done with you Ishan." Suchitra kept scolding her and Ishan sat there quietly with his head down.

"Look if all this does not stop, I will take you back home. You will not be allowed to live in this dorm any longer. If you do not want to go back home, start behaving yourself." Suchitra warned her making Ishan look up with a jerk. "That place is not home and I not coming back there. You know well that I hate this place." Ishan said angrily with teary eyes. Suchitra sighed knowing she had hit Ishan's soft spot. She massaged her head.

"Ok fine I will not ask you to return back till you wish to but please stop with all this. I cannot cover you up always. I am leaving. You can continue with your work." she said getting up. She cupped his face and kissed his forehead. She left.

Ishan shut the door with a thud. 'Today my mom scolded me because of you Shubman Gill. Do not think you will get away with this easily. Maybe you might have been saved from the punishment today although I did make an effort to frame you but do not worry I will not leave you now. Now I will make sure to me make you cry on everything. Earlier I was just gonna get you kicked out. But now you will not be leaving from here so easily. I will trouble you a bit everyday.' With that he got back to his assignment.

And true to his words, Ishan started troubling him a bit everyday. He did not do a big blunder at once, just small things. One day, he put chewing gum on his bench making his pants getting torn. The other day he threw ink on his face. One day, there was no water in room washroom, so students went to take bath in common washroom. Ishan stole his clothes forcing Shubman to walk back in towel to his room. Although it might not be big thing for someone else but for Shubman, he was extremely uncomfortable and felt really shy while Ishan recorded his video often teasing him to put it on the college instagram page making Shubman beg to not do it and he would do anything in return.

Ishan had no intention of making any of his pictures or videos viral. All he liked was Shubman getting embarrassed and begging in front of him. Abhishek was so done with all this but did not know what to do. 

One sight that Ishan really hated was seeing Sara and Shubman together. His insides burnt with rage seeing them. He felt something was happening between them and he hated this. But on the other hand, they were only friends. Shubman did find her pretty and Sara found him cute. But Shubman was just interested in his studies and he was not up for any relationships at least not now. But he definitely liked spending sometime with her. Abhishek enjoyed to tease him innocently with her name but he knew his best friend was never gonna date her. They all were just good friends. 

Or Sara had some other plans? Who knows? Though Abhishek always teased Shubman but he often had a doubt why would the hottest girl of the college go on dates with a nerdy boy like Shubman. No doubt Shubman was good looking and really good hearted boy but why would a girl like Sara approach a non-popular, introvert and nerd guy like him. He literally hated limelight while the whole college was aware about Sara.

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One night, Shubman was sitting on study table with lights busy in his works while Abhishek watching some movie on his laptop and Shubman continuously cursing him and asking to stop it as he was trying to do his work. "Agh why don't you ever listen to me? Just shut it down and let me work." Shubman shouted at him. "Bass kar be kitna padega." Abhishek said coolly.

[Leave it now. How much are you gonna study?]

After listening to a lots of nice words from Shubman, he sighed and finally shut down his laptop. Shubman thanked God. Abhishek went to washroom. After coming out, he switched off the lights. "Are you blind? Dikh nhi raha idar kaam kar raha hu mein?" Shubman shouted at him.

[Can't you see I am working?]

"Chhod na kal kar lena ab. Mujhe movie nhi dekhne dega to ab mujhe sona to hai na." Abhishek said band lied on his bed. 

[Leave it now. Do it tomorrow. You didn't even let me see movie. Let me sleep now.]

Shubman switched on the lights and git back to his work. This was Abhishek was the one cursing at him to switch off the lights but Shubman was paying deaf ears to him. He continued doing his work while Abhishek started throwing things at him. It continued for an hour. Abhsihek tried sleeping by many ways like covering his face with pillow or blanket but no luck. Finally, Shubman was done with his work and was stretching while sitting on his chair.

Abhishek groaned in frustration after changing sides after nth times and threw his pillow at Shubman. "Oye band kar light aur sone de mujhe." he shouted.

[Switch off the light and lemme sleep.]

Shubman took up the pillow from the floor and looked at his dear roommate with narrowed eyes. He stood up with the pillow and walked to him and started hitting Abhishek with it. "Chhod na pagal kya kar raha hai?" And both ended up having a pillow fight with lots of laughters and giggles. Both of them ended up sleeping on Abhishek's bed after getting tired with lights on. 

[Leave me idiot. What are you doing?]

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Shubman woke up because of the alarm and shut it off when he saw his bestie struggling to sleep because of the irritating sound. He smiled remembering about the fun they had last night. He went to get ready. After coming out, he woke up Abhishek and called at home to talk them by the time Abhishek got ready.

Abhishek came out and picked up his phone and checked the date. His eyes widened and his face got pale. "Oh shit hamari assignments aaj submit honi thi na. I forgot. Oh my God. I will fucking fail this semester. How can I forget such an important thing?" Shubman saw him panicking and rolled his eyes. He went to his table and threw a file on his face. Abhishek frowned and was about to shout at him but stopped looking at the name written on his assignment. 

[Oh shit we had to submit our assignments today. How can I forget such an important thing? I will fail this semester oh my God.]

"Nautanki matt lar zyada aur agli baar se time karna firse nhi karoonga." Shubman said plainly.

[Stop your drama and I won't do it from next time.]

"Tu raat ko ye kar raha tha?" Abhishek asked but Shubman just shrugged.

[You were doing this at night?]

Abhishek ran towards him and hugged him from behind and started kissing his cheeks. "You are the best mere bhai. Thank you so much. I love you." Shubman  pushed him away. "Ye sab matt kia kar tereko ktni baar bola hai?" Shubman said irritated wiping his face off.

[How many times have I told you to not do all this?]

"Sorry but you know you are really the best." Abhishek said quickly kissing him and ran out before getting another scolding. Shubman sighed and smiled at him.

Both of them went to the mess and had their breakfast. "Mein washroom jaakar aata hu. Tu chal." Abhishek said.

[You go ahead. I gotta use washroom.]

"Ok" Shubman replied. He picked up his bag and went to class. But in the way, someone made him trip on his feet and he felt down on ground and groaned in pain. He did not need to look up as he knew very well who it was. But then he felt someone snatched his bag. He immediately looked up and it was Ishan who took out his assignment from his bag and threw the bag at him. Before Shubman could react, Ishan ran away.

Shubman quickly got up and took his bag and ran behind Ishan. "Ishan please return that to me. I really did a lot of hard work on that." Shubman pleaded running behind him. Ishan stopped in front of him and acted like he was gonna tear it. Shubman's eyes widened. "Ishan please no don't do that. You trouble me all day. Isn't it enough for you? I will fail the whole semester. My admission will get cancelled. I can't afford a suppli in any exam. Please don't do this. I will fail Ishan. I will do anything you ask me to but please don't do this." he begged Ishan who smirked.

"You will do anything. Then let me think." he said putting finger on his cheek like thinking. "Ok if you beg touching my feet, I will think of giving this back to you." he said innocently. Shubman looked at him with wide eyes. That was extremely humiliating for the poor boy. "Be quick before I change my mind." 

Shubman sighed and sat on his knees and shut his eyes tightly. He brought his hands forward. "Better open your eyes and look while you do this. Shubman opened his eyes and took a deep breath and touched his feet. "Please give that back to me. It's a question of my whole career. Ishan tore the pages and threw them on his face while walking away quietly. Shubman kept sitting there on his knees with hot tears rolling down his cheeks while biting his lower lip to stop the sobs to come out of his mouth.

Bell rang indicating the starting of first lecture. He stood up dusting his clothes and walked towards his class. He saw the teacher outside. He ran to her and tried requesting her for a small extension. "I am sorry Shubman but it's not in my hands. You needed to complete it on time. Now I can't do anything." she walked away followed by Shubman to the class. He was about to walk towards Abhishek but Ishan held his hand and forcefully made him sit beside hi. He closely wanted to observe his broken face while Shubman did not have any energy or mood to fight back. Abhishek frowned but it was nothing so he let it be. 

"Everybody come forward and submit your assignments and sign on this sheet beside your name before starting the class. And let me make this very clear there is no extension so if anyone had not done it, I am sorry you gonna fail this paper and have to repeat it next semester." the teacher announced. Maybe suppli or re-appear was not a big deal for many students but it definitely for Shubman.

To be continued

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