ARNAV's POV

All my tries of talking to Khushi had been in vain, she was totally mad at me and I could understand why, I just hoped she would let me explain to her, I was literally stupid for doing what I did.

I sat in the hall, staring at the walls trying to figure out a way to talk to her, it had been two weeks since I even saw her and I missed her.

I saw Stefan walking inside the house, he looked really pissed about something, Stefan was mostly the calm kind of a person, you would rarely see him angry, so if he was angry today it had to be something big.

He stopped in front of me, grabbed me by the collar of my black shirt and punched me on the face. Ouch, that hurt.

"What the hell Stefan!" I looked at him angrily, why was he punching me for no reason?

"That should be what I am supposed to say, what the freaking hell Arnav? I mean how is it possible that in all this years of being your friend I never knew you well? Leave that I dint even know my own brother well.

I trusted you! I trusted you with the girl I loved you idiot! I told her it wasn't a bet, I made her believe it wasn't a bet because I thought you wouldn't stoop so low, but you two had a bet about her and hid it from me? I mean what the hell? Seriously how could you do this to her? How could you do this to me Arnav?" Stefan looked at me angrily, I know he was hurt, I know I had done a stupid thing and if I could, then I would go back in the past and change everything about it.

"Stefan calm down." I tried to calm him down. I don't even know how he found out about the bet, for the past two weeks Damon and I had tried our best to keep it from him, we even convinced Khushi's friends not to tell him anything and they agreed for the sake of Stefan but I guess Khushi must have told him as she came to university today, of course Stefan must have asked her why she hadn't been here for the past two weeks.

"No! I can't calm down Arnav. You weren't supposed to hurt her like this. The only reason I stayed away from her was because she loved you and you were my friend and I thought you would keep her happy and that was enough for me Arnav, but you ruined everything. Did you even really love her? How could you this to her Arnav, most of all how could you do this to me? I was your friend wasn't I? if you dint love her, you would have left her alone, at least maybe then she could love me, but you took her away from me and then ended up hurting her like this.

Since when did you become so heartless? I thought after what happened to your sister, you would never dare to hurt any girl and any way but you proved me wrong Arnav.

Honestly I am so disappointed in you and today I am ashamed of calling you my friend and I am ashamed of calling Damon my brother." Stefan looked at me sadly.

I wish I could tell him I was ashamed of myself too, but he wasn't going to listen to me anyway, look where this stupid bet brought me, I ended up hurting the two most important people in my life.

"If it was in my hands, I would kill you for hurting her." Stefan looked at me angrily, he walked towards me once again, and punched me, harder than last time, it left me bleeding.

"You deserve this jerk!" he said as he turned around and walked away.

I fell down on my knees, I never knew there would come a day I would ever cry for a girl, apart from my sister of course, but I don't know how Khushi changed me, so much that here I was, on my knees, crying for her.

I never thought I was even going to fall for her, all this was just supposed to be a bet wasn't it?

*****

Damon wouldn't just stop laughing at me and teasing me how a girl had managed to beat the shit out of me twice, I mean a tiny girl like her, how did she even have all that strength?

I was literally pissed, all I wanted was revenge, I mean no matter what I did she ended up turning out stronger than I thought and I hated it, I hated that she was so strong, I hated her guts and I hated that she could fight me like this and I hated that she dint have any effect of me on her.

Who was she? And why was she liked this?

It's had been less than a week since I came here and this girl was winning in everything against me, there was no way I could let that happen.

"You lost against a girl Arnav, it's hilarious." Damon laughed making me angrier.

"I don't lose Damon, Arnav Raizada doesn't lose, not to a girl at least." I looked at him angrily.

"Oh come on Arnav, that girl is ahead of you in everything, I mean she fought you twice, and won against you, she doesn't get intimidated by you and worse of all, and your charm doesn't work on her. I mean that has to be something big, I can't remember the last time I girl ignored you like she does, what's happening to your charm bad boy." Damon laughed at me.

"Oh so that's what it is about huh, you think I can't win her over in anything, try me." I challenged him.

"Okay, you see you've already lost two fights against her so I don't expect you to win any, maybe you can prove it to me that you aren't such a loser by getting her to your bed." He smirked.

"What?" I looked at him in surprise, this wasn't what I had in mind.

"Why, are you scared already? This is supposed to be a piece of cake for you Arnav isn't it? I mean how difficult can it be for you to take a girl to your bed huh?" Damon said.

"Just so you know, I don't lose not in something like this. That Khushi girl or whoever she is, she will be on my bed and I'll make sure of it."

"Okay, let's bet upon it, I bet she would never even talk to you properly let alone sleep with you."

"What if I get her to my bed?"

"Then I'll believe you're still a man and not a complete loser." He smirked.

"It's a bet then." I said as I walked away from him angrily, I really dint care about a thing, all I knew was a dint want to be a loser, if I dint win this bet, Damon was going to call me a loser for the rest of my life which I wasn't going to let happen, not at least because of a girl that I hated so much.

Damon was right though, it was going to be difficult, not because of how strong she was or something, because I really hated her, I dint even want to talk to her and now if I wanted to complete this bet, I had to talk to her, I even had to flirt with her.

It was ridiculous!

I mean if I started talking to her nicely all over a sudden or flirting with her, she would smell something fishy, I had to be very careful about what to do. I had never flirted with a girl I hated, I had no idea how I was supposed to do it.

*****

My thoughts were disturbed by Karthik who bent down near me with a first aid box, trying to dress the wound I had got from Stefan punching me.

"Please don't do this, I don't deserve care." I said.

"You don't bro, and as much as you've disappointed us, I am your brother and I love you no matter what, even when I want to punch you like Stefan did." Karthik said.

"I am sorry Karthik." I looked at him sadly.

"I really wish it was enough bro, I really do. I mean after all that happened to our sister, I never thought you would dare to do anything horrible to any girl no matter what. I mean you were literally finding Zion to kill him because he had hurt our sister, then how could you think of hurting anyone else's sister like that? How bro?"

"I know I did a terrible thing Karthik, don't you think I also regret it? I was just stupid, I mean I had just met Khushi and she was messing up with me for no reason and I really hated her, to make it worse Damon kept calling me a loser, I just couldn't take it, so I had this stupid bet with him." I shrugged.

I knew no amount of explanation was ever going to justify what I did, it was wrong and I shouldn't have done it, but it was done and I couldn't change a thing.

I had made so many stupid decisions in life but this one was the worst of all, because I ended up losing the girl I actually fell in love with when I thought I was never going to fall for any girl.

I should have ended this stupid bet the same day I told her I loved her, but no, I had to satisfy my stupid manly ego so I acted careless, despite knowing her past and hurt her in the worst way possible.

She was right for hating me, I hated myself right now too.

How did I become this horrible person anyway? How did I do this to the girl that I love? How Arnav how?

No amount of regret was ever going to heal the wound I had given to her. I was left wondering what to do, how to heal the heart that I had broken, but little did I know that's he wouldn't even allow me closer to it.

In the process of trying to prove myself a man, I lost the girl I loved, Damon was right about me all this while, I was a freaking loser!