5 years ago, when the story actually began.......

Anu's Pov

A pillow was smashed onto me really hard, waking me up from my dreamland. I woke up fumingly to kill the demon who dared do such a sin, but the moment I saw the time on the clock, which was oh so gracefully shoved on my face. All the anger evaporated and condensed into panic.

"Oh, God!!! Why the hell didn't you wake me up early? Do you know how important this trip is to me? If I miss the flight I'm so not going to spare you. My friends are going to kill me if I miss the flight. For God's sake, where the hell are my bloody clothes? Why is this happening with me? ", I shouted panickingly at my sister simultaneously trying to find my clothes.

She whistled at me to catch my attention. I turned and saw her standing relaxingly near my study table with folded hands and eyes pointing toward the well-ironed clothes, which I had kept the night before. She gave me that amused look which indicated that she was highly entertained by the situation.

"For god sake. Why the hell didn't you tell me earlier.", I shouted at her.

She rolled her eyes at my melodrama...

"Chill down kiddo!!! Don't worry, we still have time to catch that flight of yours. You better get ready and meet me downstairs in ten minutes, we will take Dad's car and will reach the airport in no time. Have trust in my driving skills", she winked and left the room.

Her driving skills are as crazy as she is, but beggars can't be choosers

I reached for my cell phone and was not surprised to see fifty missed calls and dozens of messages from my friends. All kinds of colorful words were showered on me by my oh so wonderful friends-

Where are you? Where did you reach? I just reached and standing outside the airport waiting for you, so wru? Everyone is here, so WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU??? At least tell me you are on the way? For God sake pick up my call or else you're dead meat. I am warning you if you fail to reach the airport on time we are going to leave you here and enjoy the trip alone and meet hot guys in Spain. OMG, Don't tell me you are still f**king sleeping?!..............

Yup, some more like them.

I didn't reply, just rushed to my bathroom and took the world's fastest bath and changed into my clothes. The only saving grace was my bags, which I had already packed two days earlier amongst all the excitement.

I immediately ran downstairs and was met with an uncanny silence. This is weird because the last time I checked this house had six crazy and loud members along with Neo, our Labrador Retriever who resided here. Probably everyone must be busy or it might have slipped out of their minds that their youngest member will be out of the country for months. What a loving family I have!

I just shrugged the disappointment and ran outside to meet my sister. I saw my sister and dad standing near our car and surprisingly, the remaining members of my family were well settled in the car and waving their hands at me to hurry up.

"What are you guys doing here?" I asked

"Obviously, taking you to the airport," Dad replied and moved towards the driver's seat.

Anil, my dad is in his mid-forties yet he still looks dashing and young, all thanks to my mom and his love for volleyball. He always has our back, despite how much ever he acted strictly.

"Dad, Why don't you sit backseat besides mom and enjoy the ride today. Today, I will be in charge of driving." my sister said.

" Okay. Just don't drive rashly." Dad warned and hesitantly handed over the car keys to my sister.

"Yeah, sure Dad! She won't, now can we just get inside because I'm getting late." I settled myself in the passenger seat.

Today I wanted my sister to drive, not because she a great driver, it's just because I wanted to reach the airport on time. My sister and dad are poles apart when it comes to their driving skills. She on one hand drives the car as if she might be competing in some Formula One race, whereas our dad on the other hand drives like my grandma or probably worse. For a day I can handle her reckless driving instead of a dad's tortoise speed.

"Everyone tighten your seat belts and just enjoy the ride!", my sister announced and turned on the radio to full volume.

Everyone was indeed enjoying the ride, laughing at our grandpa's out of tune singing, whereas I was sweating like a pig despite the AC due to anxiety. My mom was busy stuffing my mouth with her homemade sandwiches, which I do not want to eat. Why do our Indian mom always focus on eating so much?

"Anu baby eat more, god knows next when are you going to eat? In that foreign land, who is going to feed my kid? I have seen on television that people in foreign only eat non-vegetarian food. But don't worry, I have already packed lots of vegetarian snacks in your bags, along with all-weather clothes. I don't understand why do you have to go so far for a trip? Instead, we all could have easily gone to some spiritual place....." before my Mom could continue with her monologue my granny cut her in the middle

"Come on Bharati! Leave the poor kid alone. Let her enjoy her life a little bit and explore the world on her own. You know even I am not interested in visiting those spiritual places of yours. So stop worrying too much or else people will start confusing you to be her grandma. Anyways, my granny senses are strongly indicating that something really good is going to happen to her on this trip. Who knows, she might find her childhood Prince?!" my granny cooed.

Yup, that's my melodramatic mom, Bharati, and my super cool granny, Priyadarshini. These two superwomen are poles apart, yet they respect and love each other. In normal circumstances, I would have loved listening to their entertaining conversations, but today all my focus is on the damn watch and the road.

"Anu, do you think your Prince would be able to beat me in handsomeness?" my seventy-year-old grandfather asked me with a wide smile on his face.

I am sure he knows I am stressed about being late so the sneaky old man is trying to distract me by is engaging me in the conversation. My grandpa, Krishna has been the oldest yet the most laid back member of our house. According to Granny, he was quite a player back in the days.

"No chance Dadu, no prince is handsome enough to beat you and dad," I replied which caused a smile on both grandpa's and dad's face.

The lively conversation continued until we reached the airport, and it did help me to calm my nerves. I stepped out of the car and quickly hugged each one of them, who had their own rule, instruction, demand, and request for me.

"Don't forget to get me a pack of Sherry.", Dadu whispered in my ear while hugging and stuffing a stack of money in my front pocket. I nodded and moved to hug my granny.

"Enjoy your trip and send me photographs.", Dadi said while hugging me like a koala. I nodded.

"Ma doesn't worry, I am old enough to care for myself. I will call you every day, now can you let me go?" I pleaded before she could even start saying something. She nodded and got all emotional while hugging me.

"If you need my help, remember I'm just one call away! Come back soon champ." my dad said after getting my luggage from the car.

I got hold of my luggage and hugged him. My sister was waiting for her chance to hug me.

"Thank god, I don't have to see your ugly face for a few months. Now rush before you miss your flight. " My sister said teasingly after hugging me quickly and pushed me toward the terminal gates.

Our family becomes too sentimental during such kind of situations. So after all that drama I entered and checked in, as all my friends are already inside and probably finding ways to kill me.

I saw my friends standing near the McDonald's with their backs toward me. To surprise them, I ran towards them and in excitement, I failed to see the person approaching from the opposite direction. I dashed into someone.

!!!!!!!!!!!!BOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!

To make matters worse the respective person's coffee got spilled all over me. From top to bottom I was drenched and smelled like coffee. Can the day go anymore normal?!

"Bloody hell! Are you blind, you an idiot??" I shouted at the person without even looking at him, busy cleaning my coffee drenched clothes.

"Honestly, if in the first place you would have walked like a normal human being, you wouldn't have landed in such a situation." my factly brainy stated.

Right now I am in no mood to listen to my brainy.

"Excuse me, Miss! I think you should better watch out your steps next time and mind your language before blaming someone innocent," said in his annoyance laced authoritative voice.

I looked up at him with disbelief and ended up being dazed myself. The guy standing in front of me was undoubtedly the most handsome guy I have ever seen. But the way he looked down upon me was outrageously insulting, like how the royalties used to look at their menial peasants.

It just got on my nerves and thus I demanded him to apologize, but he being a Royal ass didn't even utter a word. So in a moment of rage and to teach him a lesson, I did something childish. I took his chocolate pastry and smacked it on his face and poured the rest of the coffee on his expensive-looking clothes.

After the whole messy business, I looked at him for a minute and just couldn't stop myself from laughing like a maniac at his chocolaty face. Before he could say anything I just ran towards my friends.

I think the whole incident had probably caught my friend's attention because all the three were laughing instead of killing me as previously stated in their threat messages.

We four of us are quite different from each other yet we gel along quite well. Radhika aka Ratzz and I have been friends since childhood. Molly and Polly are identical twins and have become an integral part of our group since college.

"O...oh...go..god...Anu, that..was..hilarious." Polly said while laughing with others.

"The poor guy was in utter shock when you threw that coffee at him," Molly said laughingly.

"Still guys, don't you think he looks familiar? I think I have seen him somewhere." Ratzz said confusingly.

"I don't know such kind of arrogant and idiotic person and neither do I want to meet that maniac ever again in my life," I replied fumingly.

" Okay, Don't get angry. Now tell us all where were you? Why the hell are you so late??" Molly inquired.

"I was so excited about the trip that I wasn't able to sleep early last night," I replied sheepishly.

"Molly, Stop grilling her, now she is here so just chill," Polly said calmly.

Ratzz excused herself while we were excitedly discussing the upcoming trip. I came to know that Molly as usual, had made a to-do list of the places we were going to visit in Spain, while Polly was mostly excited about the beaches and the handsome Mediterranean guys. These two are as different as possibly can be despite being twins. Molly is geeky and the responsible one, while Polly is the extrovert and cooler twin.

After a few minutes later, Ratzz comes back with a tall, dark, and handsome guy.

"Hey girls, he is Rey, my boyfriend and Rey, they are my best friends." Ratzz introduced us to his boyfriend and vice versa.

All we know about Rey is that he lives in Rajasthan and he belongs to some royal family. Ratzz had met him a few months ago when she had gone to meet her Granny yet she already is in a serious long-distance relationship. She believes in true love and according to her, it was love at first sight with Rey. She is crazy to even believe in such things.

"Hey everyone! It's nice to meet you all. Ratzz has talked a lot about you all. I am looking forward to knowing you all." Rey enthusiastically stated.

He was way too friendly and down to earth to be royalty. Let's hope, he turns out to be a decent guy.

"Anyways, Girls, Rey, and his friends are going to accompany us to Spain. Isn't it great?!" Ratzz announced excitedly.

"What?" All three of us were shocked by the news.

She didn't say anything regarding him or his friends accompanying us for the trip.

"Babe, Why don't you go back to your friends for now, and later we will meet after we, all of us are settled in the plane?" Raatzz told Rey

"Yeah, sure. See you later love." he pecked her on the cheeks and wave goodbye to us.

As soon as he left, we all started firing several questions at Ratzz accusingly.

"When were you going to tell us about this arrangement?" I scoffed.

"Are all his friends hot?" Polly blurted.

"Seriously Polly? In such a situation is it really necessary to know whether his friends are hot or not? Are you for real? How can you even be related to me, let alone my twin?" Molly cursed her twin.

The twin's bantering was distracting us from the main issue, so I interrupted.

"Can we please keep our family matters aside and just focus on the issue at hand?", I requested and they agreed.

So we are back to the issue and waiting for the culprit to give an appropriate reason for changing our well-sorted vacation. She was giving us her best puppy look to get away from the problem easily.

"I swear, It wasn't even my idea of tagging them along with us. Rey just randomly suggested one day and I agreed to it, as even we were going to Spain. Honestly, I miss him and this trip gave an excellent opportunity to know him more so I just thought it will be great. But I am sorry for being selfish and not telling you'll beforehand. " Ratzz voice trailed off at our raised brows.

I growled at the situation, not happy to accompany the guys, but Ratzz puppy look was melting me like an ice-cream. Molly slightly nodded her head towards me to signal her approval. While I needed no such signal from Polly because her eyes were glowing with excitement, probably still thinking about Rey's hot friends.

"Fine! They can accompany us, but they better be decent, or else I will cut their balls and shove it down their throats." I warned.

"Thank you, Guys! You'll are the best! Don't worry, they all are decent and funny guys according to Rey and I trust him. We will have so much fun on this trip." Ratzz jumped in excitement.

We'll board the plane and got settled in our respective seats. I excused myself to the restroom and change my coffee-stained clothes to a much cleaner pair. But as soon as I came back, I saw Rey was comfortably sitting on my seat, which was besides Ratzz.

I looked at the couple with my eyebrows raised questioningly.

"Hey, Anu! Can Rey, sit here on your seat, please?" Ratzz eyes pleaded.

"No!!! He can't sit on my seat, you idiot, go to your own seat."

This is what, I wanted to say, but, I resisted.

"Don't be, Sheldon Cooper over that silly seat. Let someone have a love life,unlike you." Brainy rolled at my childish thought.

"Okay, no problem. But, where am I going to sit?" I queried.

"Hey, thank you so much. Come, I will show you your seat and introduce you to my friends" Rey sounded genuinely happy.

"Yeah, sure" I said with fake enthusiasm.

I waved my friends goodbye and took my handbag with me. As we reached my seat, technically his seat. I saw his friends, one guy was busy texting someone and the other one was continuously poking his other friend who was sleeping or probably trying to ignore his friends and for some reason, he had covered his face with a napkin.

Rey introduced me to his three friends. Jai, the texting guy had a fair complexion with a military haircut and muscular physique. Monty,the poker guy was lean, dark and had shorter stature. Abhimanyu, the napkin guy was least interested in the introductory session, so he didn't bother removing his napkin or probably he must be sleeping.

Before leaving, Rey ordered his friends to treat me well and to take care of me, which I thought was a sweet gesture from his side. The other two guys were quite friendly, and for a second I thought it wasn't a bad idea for them to tag along with us.

I settled myself next to the napkin guy, who still hasn't woken up. Monty discreetly whispers something to the napkin guy, by which he was getting more frustrated. If this guy is awake, then why is he acting like a brat and not listening to his friends? So after several persistent efforts, the napkin guy finally unveiled his mysterious face and what I saw next was like a nightmare.

"Karma is a B***h girl. "My brainy laughed at my dilemma.

"You!!!" He shouted, looking at me.

The napkin guy was none other than the Royal ass coffee guy. Can my life be any more complicated?!

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