He moved closer to me and hugged me tight, it was after long that I felt at peace, I had missed this, my best friend and such kind of hugs from him.

I broke the hug after a while and slapped his arms.

"What the hell were you thinking doing all this drama Zion?" I asked angrily.

"So you find me alive and all you want to do is slap me? I expected better." He pouted as he headed back inside the house while Stefan and I followed.

"Will you tell me or should I beat the shit out of you so you can finally explain?" I asked him and then I turned to look at Rachel.

"And you, I thought we were in this together but you just decided to disappear." I felt angry on her for doing this to me.

"I am sorry, Zion called me and told me to come here without informing anyone, he also made me switch off my phone, so not my fault, give that look to him." Rachel said.

"So Zion, how many times should I have to ask so that you can explain this to me? I mean what the hell on earth made you pretend to be dead? I thought such things happened in movies only but you managed to do that in real so kindly explain." I folded my arms and looked at him seriously.

"Okay fine I'll explain. There's someone following me, now don't ask me who and why I won't be able to explain that but the person wants me dead, at first I tried all I could but it was difficult to escape every time, so unwillingly I had to fake my death.

I hired some guys to pretend that they were arguing and fighting with me in public at the mall and then I pretended a fake suicide, I did a lot of work to make it look real, I had so many people hired to make everything work, from me jumping off the building to making sure I fell down but dint get hurt and all, it was all planned.

I thought if I faked my own death this person would stop following me and forget about me and maybe after a while I could return back but I guess things dint seem to go as I planned.

I don't know how but he just got to know I was alive and since then I've just been hiding from him, that's why I dint contact any of you, I dint want to risk anything but in the end you still found me, if it was easier for you to find me, I'm sure he also knows where I am." Zion explain.

"Who is he? And what did you to make him come for your life." I asked.

"I am sorry Khushi but I can't tell you that right now, just give me some time, I promise I'll explain everything." He said, I looked at him in disbelief, I was his best friend, why did he have to hide things from me?

"Fine whatever, but you're no more hiding, we're going back home and you can even stay with me but you're not hiding anymore, we'll deal with this person together." I said.

"No way, I can't come back Khushi." Zion looked at me like I was crazy, well I wasn't, I was just trying to help him get back his normal life.

"Zion why are you this scared? I am with you, why are you fearing anyone when you have your best friend?" I asked.

"Because you're important and I don't want to risk your life Khushi." He looked at me sadly."If I am important and you really consider me your friend you will come back with me, otherwise consider our friendship dead.

You already did a lot of stuff without even trying to talk to me about it, today you have an option, you will either trust me and come back with me and I'll make sure you are safe or you stay and forget you had a best friend." I stood up and turned the opposite way, I wasn't much an actor so if I'd look at him, he would know I was faking all this blackmail, but come on I was his best friend, I wasn't surely going to leave him just like that.

"Please don't trap me like this Khushi." He said.

"Zion the question is about your believing in me or not, when I'm promising you that I'll keep you safe why are you even thinking about this? Or you are just underestimating me like a lot of people have done before thinking that at the end of the day I'm just a girl, what could I possible do to save you?" I turned to look at him pretending to be really angry.

He stared at me for a while and the sighed, yep I knew he would always listen to me.

"Fine, I'll come back, but if something happens to me, I'll take you to heaven along."

"Deal." I smiled at him excitedly, finally things seemed to be falling in place.

*****

It was almost midnight when we arrived home and for once I couldn't even believe that this was real, it all looked like a dream, I mean Zion was alive, he was actually alive!

I parked the car as we all stepped out and looked at each other.

"So let's get in." I said, Zion and Rachel picked up their stuff and started walking inside but Stefan dint move so I stopped and turned to look at him.

"Aren't you coming inside?" I asked.

"No, it's pretty late, I think I should head home, remember we have university to attend tomorrow." He smiled.

"It's midnight Stefan, you should stay here, it will take you long enough to reach home, come in, I'm sure we have enough rooms in this house to fit Zion, Rachel and you too." I smiled.

"Umm, I don't think that's a good idea." He shrugged.

"And why is it not? You're my friend, you can stay at my house, come on... no more excuses." I said as I grabbed his hand and pulled him inside.

Mom and dad were in the hall waiting for me as usual, they never slept until I was back home even though I always assured them that I was going to be okay, but well right now there concentration wasn't on me but on Zion.

They were staring at him with both their eyes wide open like they had just seen a ghost, well ofcourse, we all thought he was dead.

"Zion, is this actually you?" Mom asked as she rushed towards him and cupped his face just to make sure he was real while Zion giggled at her reaction.

"Yes mom, it's Zion and he's alive but no more questions please, he's tired let him rest, I'll explain everything to the both of you later, and now that I am back home and safe you both can sleep too, I've told you so many times to stop worrying about me, I am fine." I said.

"Well you are our child, no matter how strong you are, we'll always worry." Dad said as he walked towards me and hugged me.

"But we'll talk tomorrow, it's pretty late, all of you should head to sleep, Khushi I think you'll manage to show them their rooms." He smiled at me, I nodded as they both headed upstairs to their rooms.

"Zion, you know where to go so get going, Rachel you can stay in the room next to Zion's he will show you and Stefan, come with me, I'll show you your room." I said, everyone nodded and headed to their rooms while I took Stefan to the room beside mine.

I unlocked the door and led him inside, while he looked around, I opened the cupboard and got a blanket that I placed on the bed and then looked at him.

"So have a goodnight, if you need anything let me know." I smiled at him.

"Sure." He smiled back, I walked towards the door but stopped before leaving.

"Stefan." I called out his name, he turned and looked at me.

"Thank you for all the help, I'm glad I have you as a friend." I smiled at him, he nodded as I walked out and headed to my room, it was a tiring day, all I wanted was to sleep.

*****

I guess I was the last one to wake up, because when I walked downstairs, I found everyone gathered at the breakfast table.

"Oh here's the sleepy head." Ayush giggled as I settled down beside him and served myself some breakfast, I looked at everyone turn by turn and smiled at them.

Everyone was busy concentrating on food when we were disturbed by the sound of footsteps, we all looked towards the entrance and saw Arnav walk in.

He stopped a bit further from the table and looked at me with a huge smile on his face but then as he looked around the table at everyone else that was seated there, his expressions changed slowly and I couldn't really make out what he was thinking.

Was he jealous like last night because Stefan was around or was there another reason? Maybe there was, his eyes weren't on Stefan but on Zion.

Did he know Zion from before? Although Zion dint seem to know him because he just looked at him once and turned away, I stood up and walked towards him, he looked at me and smiled a bit.

"Good morning Love." He smirked as he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer, I gave him an angry look and pulled myself back.

"Stop it, my parents are here and I hate this PDA thing." I rolled my eyes at him as I headed back to the table, he joined me but he still wouldn't stop looking at Zion, why though?