Ayana's P. O. V

"Good morning sir, Ayana here," I say and I hear shuffling on the other side.

"Yes Ayana, tell me," he says and I take a deep breath.

"Sir, I just called to apologise for not coming to college. I didn't know that my presence there is necessary when I'm training the two new boys who will represent our college, even after I basically appointed everyone to do their respective tasks," I say extra sweetly and I hear sir sigh on the other end.

Yes, he is my authority and I respect him more than anything, but I'm not the kind who's going to shut up about something wrong just because there's a person with authority involved.

"I know Ayana, but they all came with a valid point that even though you gave everyone the jobs, that's the only job you did for the competition. Then came the partiality card. Besides, without you here, everything was a little haywire, so that's why I appointed Alia temporarily," he explains, the power and dignity in his voice intact.

"Sir, I think she has misunderstood you, because she thinks that with being temporarily in charge, she also has the position to question and taunt us and turn all the working members against us," I inform sir and I hear silence on the other end before he breaks it.

"She did that?" he asks me.

"Yeah, Vihaan just called me and told me about it. You can ask Amber, one of the guests who is with Vihaan. She's the neutral one," I say and I hear shuffling again.

"Okay then, if what you're saying is true, Alia will be taken care off, I hope to see you in college tomorrow," he orders and I bite my lip before continuing.

"I will be there," I say and he hangs up. I remove the phone from my ear and place my other hand on the warm railing of the balcony. The view and breeze here always has a calming effect on me.

"You know I thought you never take orders from anyone," I hear a familiar voice and I look over my shoulder to see its Rey leaning against the door.

I look back ahead with a smirk."It depends on who's barking orders at me."

"I order you to flirt with me," he says, trying to sound all authoritative and I roll my eyes before raising an eyebrow at him.

"Okay, so I'm not the person you'd take orders from, noted," he says awkwardly and looks ahead.

He becomes silent and I sigh.

Trust me to ruin the mood.

"Hey, it's okay. I don't mind you flirting. As long as it's harmless, it's cool," I say and he looks at me and smiles a bright smile.

"Off course it's cool. Cool people say only cool things and I know for a fact that I'm as cool as ice," he says, turning to face me and I furrow my brows.

"And how is that?" I ask and cross my arms on my chest.

"Because I start to melt in the company of girls like you," he says with his flirtatious smile and I scoff.

"So you're basically calling me a stove or a heater?" I ask and he pales.

"No no no-" he says trying to cover up and I start laughing.

He sees me laugh and slowly a smile breaks onto his face. He breathes a sign of relief and looks ahead again.

"You're wasting you're time on me. I'm a hopeless case. Besides, how about you come to college tomorrow. I'm sure there would be a lot of girls there who would love to keep you company," I say and he smiles wickedly.

"Now we're talking. There's one more thing you need to do. Just convince Krisanne that we should go out right now. Please I'm really bored," he pleads and I chuckle before nodding.

"But you owe me one," I say and point my finger at him. He nods and shows me a thumps up.

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"For the hundredth time, where are you taking us?" Ethan asks me again and I frown.

"And for the hundredth time, you don't know the place even if I tell you the name, so just wait," I say sarcastically and he shuts his eyes and rubs his temples.

"We passed so many good looking restaurants, why can't we just eat in one of those?" he says and I run a hand down my face.

"Because sophistication is boring. I'm with my friends, so sophistication can go fuck itself. They don't even need the money we'll spend there-" he cuts me off.

"Yaya, I know. It's just that it's so unhygienic and risky to eat-" he starts grumbling and I half yell in annoyance.

"Then don't eat!" I blurt out and he frowns. I realise what I just said and shut my eyes before looking ahead and walking.

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It's obviously easy to eat the gola, I just don't understand why he's creating so much of an issue about it.

Then comes something I see for the first time. That goofy smile. I had almost believed that this guy is only capable of frowning. But the way he exchanged glances with Rey, I had to admit, it was really cute.

Yeah, you have officially gone mad. What is with you and compliments for Ethan?

Then came the photograph and he was back. The old, boring self.

But that goofy smile proves he's much more than his facade of seriousness. But then, why does he behave like this?

I stop him efficiently and then the glaring match begins.

I couldn't stop myself from taunting him about not eating balli. Then I realised he had a reason. I also realised that he's his Mumma's boy.

Who would have thought that this well built, good looking, 18 year old swimmer who's serious all the time would be his mother's pet.

I don't know what's there in that phone of his, I'm going find out one day.

Whenever he looks up, he glares at me.

Does he have to glare?

Once we're done eating, we all start to walk back home. Vihaan and Amber are so oblivious to what's happening, it amazes me. There's definitely something happening there.

I'll have to speak to Vihaan.

That's when I remember.

"Amber, can I talk to you?" I say and that catches everyone's attention, because well, I'm loud like that.

"Yeah," she says and Vihaan walks ahead and starts talking to Ethan, putting his arm around Ethan's shoulder.

Once he's at a distance, I ask Amber."Aren't we forgetting something?"

She shakes her head."I haven't forgotten at all. Infact, I have my question ready," she says and I make an 'ooh' sound.

"So go on, ask away," I say and she furrows her brows, trying to sense something I guess.

"Krisanne's not here," she says and I smile.

"You're good," I say before turning to call Krisanne.

"Kris?" I yell and she turns and jerks her head to ask me what happened.

"Come here," I yell and again, all the three boys are looking at us.

"What are you girls gossiping about? Even I want to know," Rey yells and I rolls my eyes.

"Sure, you want to apply nail paint, wear a dress and grow you're hair too?" I ask sweetly and he frowns before turning around and walking with Vihaan and Ethan. Vihaan is busy laughing at Rey's expense and Ethan, for the first time, has a full blown smile on his face, and boy it's gorgeous.

Why can't he laugh more often?

"Yeah girls, what's up?" Krisanne asks and takes her place on the other side of Amber.

"It's time for question of the day. Amber has her question ready, so go ahead Amber, ask away," I say and she smiles before clearing her throat and asking us.

"When and who were you're first crushes?" she asks and I smile at the stupid memory while Krisanne tenses.

"His name is Farhan, eigth grade. Nice height, nice body, very soft hair, very charming smile, but unfortunately he was a dick and I'm too high maintenance, so it didn't quite work out," I say and Amber along with Krisanne start to laugh. I roll my eyes and they start laughing harder.

"Okay, Krisanne you're turn," I say and both of us turn to Krisanne.

"You remember the best friend I spoke about? The one who ditched me?" she asks and both of us nod.

"Yeah, I had started to like him only," she said and Amber nods.

I guess she understood the rest.

"Your turn," I and Krisanne both say together.

She takes a deep breath before starting.

"Well, there was this guy..."

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A/N - Well, I hope you guys like it. That's the end of day three for Ayana. Amber I might just do one quick chapter, but It'll be a good one.

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