It had been a month since Janhavi was back to her college after the Diwali holidays. The classes and students had pretty well settled by then and it was time for their formal welcome into the college. Freshers' fest was not too far away. Poorvi was super excited for the party and had been blabbering nonstop to Janhavi about what to expect, how she had heard from people it was so much fun. She was way too pumped up and also surprised by how Janhavi was not

"OMG...wowww....I just can't believe our freshers is just around the corner.. ohh la la....fun, food, frolic, booze and boyssssssss....Yayyy... I just cannot wait yaa... You know I have heard, it is hosted in Delhi's one of the most happening clubs! I mean can you like beat that? Yaar main bahot zyada excited hoon"

Janhavi had been calm and composed, more so now, after the diwali holidays always minding her own business and was into her own world. This was making Poorvi mad with irritation and she thumped on Janhavi's bed facing her, looking straight into her eyes

"Dude! What's wrong with you? Can't you show some excitement atleast for a party freak kid like me? Come on! Drop your notebook and all that stationary shop right now! Poori dukaan khol rakhi hai... Band kar isko! We're going to decide our look for the party today! Yayyy.... that sounds fun! Isn't it? Chal chal chal.. drop your boring stuff here! Come on yaa Janhavi"

The fresher's party was slated to be held in the weekend at 'Bizzare' which was one of the most happening clubs in the city. But since she hadn't really formed many friendships in Delhi, she used to mind her own studies and used to mingle only for work, quite professionally. There was only one who she was comfortable with and hence considered her a friend and that was her roomie cum classmate Poorvi. However, Poorvi was a fun and easy going chilled out girl. She used to hang out with people a lot and enjoyed with all her friends going out for coffee, dinners, movies, shopping and clubbing. She was a cool cat among her group and very jovial in nature. Janhavi didn't want to attend the freshers bash but Poorvi insisted

"Achha miss Janhavi Joshi...No yaa its boring...Wait..umm...JJ! right that's what I am gonna call you...yesss! So JJ.. tell me no, how does this dress look? Should I wear this black or that black? But actually you know that black has frills and this black has better fitting? Hey... kya soch rahi hai? I am talking you to dude! Bata naa... Achha teri dresses to dikha? JJ.. Janhaviiii" Poorvi screamed shaking her and found Janhavi making faces.

"How much do you talk Poorvi? My gosh! Well, I liked both! Wear whatever you like... and I am not going yaa... just don't feel like" Janhavi replied half heartedly making Poorvi again question her.

"Tujhe ho kya gaya hai Janhavi? You look so dull and no excitement. Do you know Bizzare sirf nam se hi Bizzare hai... In real, it's fucking huge man! I mean all the big shots go there partying. Our college has booked the entire club for the freshers and you are sounding so dull and depressed. Listen! I don't want to hear your bahane... Come on... get up.. move your lazy ass and show me your dresses.. If you don't have, we shall go shopping! Don't gimme your attitude... Chal chal... get up yaaaaa... don't spoil the fun and mood! We don't have much time.. Dress and then we have to book the salon for getting ready for the day. I mean nails to karwane hi honge naa. I will go for bold red. You go for subtle French with some Aztec or geometrical or umm..we shall see... chal uth ab"

Janhavi had to give in to Poorvi's constant persuasion. She and Poorvi finally decide the dress. However, Janhavi still wanted to give it a miss. And finally, the day had arrived, Poorvi had dragged Janhavi to salon with her. They had gotten Nails and hair done. Janhavi had got big blow out and her long caramel highlighted hair looked really pretty. She had worn a triple layered frill white short frock that had noodle straps and a big bow design in the center at the midriff while Poorvi had settled for a classic LBD with bold red lips. Janhavi had kept her makeup neutral with bold brown smokey eyes and nude lips. A 3-inch tie up stilettoes made her look cute yet sexy and hot.

As the dusk fell, both the girls had reached the club Bizzare, booked entirely for the freshers and they could see some known faces. Poorvi met all those she knew while Janhavi softly said hello to the few she had talked to before. And someone's attention was on her since she had entered into the club. It was one of their classmates Arjun, who liked Janhavi and had asked her out for coffee quite a few times. Standing tall at 5'11", he was a good natured, fair and well-built young guy who had a charming smile. He liked Janhavi for the no-nonsense and not-so-easily-approachable kind of girl that she was. Physically too she was indeed beautiful and attractive. Brown eyes and rosy cheeks complimented her fair complexion and petite self. She was a polite girl who mostly kept to herself that had attracted Arjun to her. His intentions were not ideally bad and all he wanted was to befriend her.

Finding Janhavi standing and taking a look at the entire space that was glowing blue and green with the neon lights, Arjun approached her and hugged her lightly "Hey Janhavi! Wow... someone's looking pretty! It seems there are gonna be loads of eyes on you tonight. What are you waiting for? Come.. let's get a drink... hard or soft?" Arjun asked pecking her right cheek and hugging her lightly without making her uncomfortable and took her with him dragging her hand.

The freshers were addressed and welcomed with pomp and show. Media too had covered the event that would be printed in the city times. Janhavi really for a day didn't feel out of place as Arjun and Poorvi kept her mingled with others. After a long time, probably in weeks, she had smiled and had enjoyed. Arjun, a sweet and sensible boy, genuinely liked Janhavi as a person and he had been trying to befriend her since long and in the party, had got a chance to mingle with her. They got along well and she shook hands with her another new friend Arjun, while he was happy having Janhavi accepting him as a friend. They all had hung out together in the entire party, dancing and boozing the night away.

"Poorvi can you please hold this for me darling?" Janhavi handed Poorvi her clutch and phone as she was heading to the loo. There were quite a few girls in the cue and hence Janhavi had asked Poorvi to keep her belongings safe, forgetting to lock her phone.
It was 12 noon in Boston when the notification buzz took Agastya's attention to his phone. He saw Janhavi's name flashing as he opened the Instagram, he saw few insta stories posted from her account. They were few candid shots that were posted where Janhavi was smiling and looked happy with the bunch of guys and girls. Her white frilled short frock made her look exceptionally cute and her smile was capture worthy. One of the pictures was a group pic where Arjun had rested his hand on her shoulder on one side while they all had been smiling broadly, it was captioned "Didn't know such cool people were around me all this while"

Another one was a story from @that_sassy_poo reshared by her, where Poorvi and Janhavi were pouting with margarita glasses in their hands and the caption read "bestie in town". There were few more clips and videos that had the club, crowd and the dance floor buzzing with people and the ambience of the club which was tagged. And the last one was an absolutely candid one. It had Arjun in the center while Janhavi was on his left and Poorvi was on his right. He had his elbow resting on Poorvi's shoulder and had the other hand holding Janhavi by her shoulder, he was looking at her while Janhavi was captured laughing. There had been few drunk guys that had made Janhavi laugh with their antics while they were being clicked and she didn't realize that the capture would come effortlessly beautiful and natural. This particular picture was captioned "a handsome and the hotties" with a heart and star emoji.

Agastya played and replayed her insta stories and a smile appeared on his face till he saw those two particular pictures where a guy had kept his hand on Janhavi's shoulder and in one he was found looking at her fondly while she was laughing. They all were either group pictures or with few more people but Agastya could only notice the guy's hand on Janhavi's shoulder. He smiled again thinking finally she had moved on.

What she and even Agastya didn't know was all the stories on her social media account were posted by Poorvi for the sake of fun. Agastya could only see, revisit and smile. Looked like they had really moved on, had they?

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Happy reading....plz do vote and comment...how did you find Arjun n Poorvi? Stay tuned to find out what more is brought forward....and the insta game looks like strong... doesn't it?

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Shefali and Asmi 💕