Krisanne's P.O.V (day 5)

"Because you turned out to be the best thing I never had," I hum while moving the brush at a constant speed on the sheet of canvas in front of me. This canvas is a piece I've been doing for a while now.

Ayana and Ethan just left and so I thought it is a good idea to sit in solitude and paint. Why? Well because painting is therapy for me. Considering the kind of stress I'll be in today, I thought I could use a little therapy.

So here I am, with my two favourite things, in the girl's room. Good thing Amber is a heavy sleeper. It's contrasting thing, that she's a heavy sleeper, because hearing is her strongest attribute.

Either way, it's a good thing for me.

"And this is the best thing I've ever seen," a very familiar voice speaks up and I see Rey leaning on the door frame. My eyes widen and then narrow down to slits.

"Ever heard of knocking?" I spit out and he raises in hands in surrender while walking slowly towards where I'm sitting.

"Don't go all Ayana on me now. By the way, you can paint really well," he says and I looks away towards the brushes while fiddling with my fingers.

Yeah, compliments make me nervous but that's not the only thing I'm feeling right now."Yeah, thanks. Like guys even like painting," I say sarcastically, a very old wound burning up again.

His eyes narrowed."Well, I guess I lost the thank you somewhere in there," he said with a frown and walked out of the room. I saw him walk out, the words stuck on the tip of my tongue.

After he gets out of sight, I sigh."Thank you," I say and regret being so mean with him for something that happened years ago and for something he knows nothing about.

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"Rey, who's is this?" I say with a grin while lifting the spongebob square pant boxers in between my two fingers.

Yes, I feel kind of weird touching them but yes, this is funny.

Ayana called me up and her evil cousin has decided to make an entry and so here we are, clearing our tracks. Rey has been a little hostile and I'm trying to break through it.

He looks up from his bag which he's currently stuffing with his clothes. His eyes widen slightly and his cheeks redden. He rushes towards me and snatches it from my hands with a slight glare.

"Don't touch private property," he says and I chuckle.

"And it's fair if you walk into private rooms without knocking?" I say and cross my arms on my chest, mock-glaring. Yes, I'm just pulling his leg.

He immediately turns and steps into my private space."Well, you snapped when I entered, so it's fair that I'm snapping when you touch my stuff," he says and he's breathing heavily.

Sure, all of us have snapped at him alot but he's never reacted this way. I wonder what's wrong...

He's pretending it's about the boxers but his eyes and expression tell me it's a different story all together.

"I know and I'm sorry. I realised I shouldn't have snapped. It's just that this hit me where it hurts. It was not your fault and I shouldn't have snapped," I say and his expression softens before he sets his lips into a grim line.

I turn to walk out before he says anything else."Clean the room spotless and by the way,"

I reach the door and turn to glance at him before finishing,"nice boxers."

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"Why is it that it bothered you so much?" Rey asked me for the third time and I sigh. We're in the cab, on our way to where the qualifiers are going to be held and all that he's worried about is what bothered me.

"Rey, you realise we're going for the qualifiers. You need to focus, I want you to slay this thing," I tell him patiently and he simply rolls his eyes.

"But why did it bother you?" he asks again and I sigh.

This guy is impossible.

Even today morning, when we had a calamity at hand, he was more bothered about this. I cleared the hall and Ayana walked in on me doing that. I could tell she had sprinted and that reminded me about how bad the situation actually is. I went back to the guy's room to see Rey looking in the distance and thinking while working slowly.

Ayana helped me clear the room while Rey just told us which stuff belonged to whom. Ethan was also behaving like a baby and was just not ready to leave Ayana alone.

Stupid guys.

Now, he's pestering me about this.

"Okay Rey, let's do it like this. If you qualify, I'll give you the answer to that question," I say and his eyes light up.

"Promise?" he asks very seriously and I smile

"Yeah, promise."

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"Common Rey, common Rey, common Rey," I'm murmuring to my hands that are joint and covering my mouth right now.

The qualifier is only question answer, luckily, and not all the other activities that are going to happen in the finals.

They have done fairly well in the first three rounds and Amna is on fire. She's clearly researched alot and she's giving her answers well. Rey has also given a fair amount of answers.

This is the last round and here each team member will individually have to face a rapid fire of five questions.

Amna rocked it and Rey is answering his questions now. Delnaz is yet to go and I'm confident she'll do fine.

He's finished three questions he's on his forth question now. For every question, they get two points. He's just lost a point because he couldn't give the exact name of the movie.

The next question is-

"What to Hindu women wear to signify their marriage?" I judge asks and he looks to the side, a smile taking over his face. He looks up at me and gives the answer.

"Mangal Sutra."

I smile. Thank god he remembers.

"Give us one difference between the film industry in India and Abroad?"

"That you'll express some parts of the movie using music and dancing," he says still looking at me and I jump slightly ans clap my hands, a wide smile on my face.

He smiles at me too before returning to his place. Delna comes in and starts off with her questions.

I keep glancing between Rey and Delnaz and he is doing the same between me and him. I look away whenever our eyes meet simply because I feel weird.

Delnaz answers her questions well, getting 4 out of five right.

The judges stand and the contestants stand with them.

"The results will be sent to you tomorrow," one if them said before they turned to leave.

I nodded at the hospitality team who rushed behind them to take care of them.

I didn't even realise when Rey walked up to me.

"Hey," he says and I get a little startled. I turn to him with a stupid smile."Hey."

"I did well, now you have to tell me something, right?"

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I haven't even reread it so there are alot of typos, please forgive me. I'm really short on time.

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