||Together In Delhi||

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Day passed in a blur and both of their classmates wished Shravas and Lasya all the best and they gave them a best of luck card, too.

Lasya's friends Nihi and Pooja hugged her tightly together and patted her back wishing her all the best.

"All the best Lasya. I know you will win this. But still try harder and get us the Nationals trophy making our college very proud all over the country", Pooja said and pulled away from her hug.

"Sure dear. I will get the trophy and work harder to make sure that we will put our tough side so that the competitor won't forget their opponent", Lasya said in determination. Pooja grinned like a child and gave her a thumbs up.

"I know you will do your best. It's just that we are always here looking for you. So no matter what, whatever be the results we will never judge you or your capabilities. Be yourself and win this for yourself, for us and for our college. Also don't forget to bring RamLadoo. Else I am not going to talk with you", Nihi pulled away from her hug and winked at her.

Lasya giggled and nodded her head. She mouthed 'I won't forget' and gave her a HiFi.

She then turned her side to look at Shravas who was already looking at her with an emotion which she didn't understand. He winked at her without getting caught by others.

Her face flushed instantly and cheeks started changing its color to a crimson making her more shy in front of him so she ducked her head and covered her face with strands of hair. He chuckled seeing her condition and felt proud with the effect of him on her.

They bid bye and boarded the bus. Shravas seated behind Lasya, in his usual seat and had an unknown smile sworn on his face. The smile never left his face not even for a second.

'why is he smiling like this?' Lasya thought with a frown on her face.

"What happened? Why are you so serious?", Nihi, her friend asked shaking her from her thoughts.

Lasya could see Shravas looking at her through her peripheral vision with a happy grin. Lasya raised an eyebrow at her friend and gave a 'dare to ask me again' look!

Nihi shut her mouth and made herself busy with her earphones.

Lasya turned to Shravas and narrowed her eyes in confusion.
"What?" He asked innocently.

"You know, what?" She gave him a reply in duh tone!

"Well, I really don't know", He shrugged his shoulders in defeat.

"Then tell me, why are you smiling like this? What's the reason behind your non stop smiling face?" She asked for a challenge to answer her.

He gulped seeing her daring eyes and without saying anything, he started playing on his mobile.

Lasya sighed and turned to sit properly and closed her eyes to get a peace of mind. But she too had a smile on her face seeing his smile.

'crazy guy' she thought.

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At night -

As soon as the clock ticked 7 o'clock Shravas rang her door bell. After three bells she opened the door pantingly. Shravas looked at her from head to toe to see why she was panting so much.

"I hope you are alright. Did you run or something?" Shravas asked in concern.

"No.. nothing like that. I was cleaning the washroom and heard the bell rang. So I came up running so as not to make you wait. That's it." She said shrugging her shoulders and clearing her way to allow him to enter inside.

"Okay as you say. But it was not necessary. You could have taken your time to open, I wouldn't dare to complain", He stated as a matter of fact.

She rolled her eyes and sighed. "Next time then, I will make sure you will wait long enough!", She smirked looking at him.

Then they both looked at each other and burst out into laughter. After a whole 10 minutes, they stopped.

She offered him a juice and she went on to continue cleaning the washroom. Within 20 minutes, she reached the living room with all dressed up.

Meanwhile when she was busy, he started loading her luggage into his car trunk and checked the kitchen appliances whether it was off or not. He tried to check her bathroom's geezer but to his dismay, she didn't allow him to enter inside due to awkwardness.

"Shall we go now?" He asked while checking his watch.

Looking around, Lasya made sure everything like windows and doors were all closed. Also switched off the main electric supply. Then took the neck rope of Ritchie and made him wear it as he has to tie in a closed place for the next 4 days. Lasya patted his head and locked the door.

Shravas opened the passenger door and waited for her to get in.

"You don't have to do that, Shravas." Smilingly she sat in the passenger seat and Ritchie got settled on her lap as he knew he was going to miss her.

He then closed the door and jogged towards the driver's end. He made himself comfortable and ignited the engine.

"It's okay. Being a gentleman once in a while is what I would like to do especially for you", Shravas said and he put on his seat belt and drove off to his house.

They will be accompanied by a driver from his house since they will be dropped to the airport later.

Within 20 minutes they reached his house and like usual, the car journey was silent where Lasya was just admiring the buildings that passed them and Shravas was concentrated on the road even though he took glances from her every now and then without letting her know.

'I don't know how happy I am. In fact I am on cloud nine. I am going to spend 4 whole days alone with my girl, with my little hearts. Oh God, how lucky I am. I am planning to give her a surprise. I am sure she will be happy with me these days', Shravas thought with a smile on his face.

'i am wondering how I will be spending time with him for these upcoming 4 days and that too all alone with him. I hope I feel comfortable and I would enjoy his company. Yes, I do enjoy now but still hope he finds happiness to be with me. The day after tomorrow is the event and after those two days we will roam all around Delhi. I am hell excited. I have a small wish to visit Taj Mahal to see how emperor Shajahan has shown his love to his wife Mumtaz', Lasya smiled in her thoughts and it was noticed by Shravas.

'she is smiling in her trance. What is she thinking about?' he thought shaking his head.

"Your smile makes me feel something Lasya. And it is not fair for me; so may I know the reason for your smile because I would love to smile with you." He said slowly.

"Uh...ho... No... nothing", she stuttered and looked away outside the window but then she replied with a smile, "I want to enjoy the next four days in full bindass as this kind of trips I have never been to so I am going to make the most of this trip also, I want us to visit Taj Mahal if we have time. So yeah, this made me smile like a teenage girl".

"Aww, I would love to visit and yes, you should enjoy it. In fact we shall have lots of fun on this trip. After the event let's roam around. I shall show you places as I have been there for a few years when I was young. So is it a deal?", Shravas asked.

"Really? Wow, then it's a deal. Bring it on Mister", Lasya jumped with excitement.

Shravas laughed out loud after hearing her excitement.

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Soon they reached his house. First they took Ritchie to his new cage where he will be spending his next 4 days.

"Ritchie, be a good boy. Mumma will soon come and pick you. Okay, don't be sad and remember, you are my cutest and most adorable one", Lasya caressed him and gave him a smooch on his head.

Ritchie barked back and wiggled his tail showing the love back to her.

She tied him to the cage window and put some dog food into his bowl.

"Be a good boy, and see you soon Ritchie", saying this Lasya walked back to the main entrance of the Shravas house.

Ritchie barked aloud and Lasya had tears in her eyes. She has never left Ritchie for more than one day from her eyesight. Now she is not going to see him for 4 days and without him, she will surely feel aloof. After all he was the only one who was there for her all this time.

'Ritchie is so lucky to have her in his life', Shravas wondered.

"Lasya, shall we start?", He asked.

"Yeah, else we will get late right?", Lasya sighed.

They later entered his house and Lasya got blessings from his parents.

"All the best Dear. I know you two will win. Enjoy the trip and bring the trophy", His mom commanded her with a small chuckle.

"Sure auntie. Thank you for your blessings. Now I am sure, we will win", Lasya assured by hugging her tightly.

"Enjoy the trip also and all the best my son and dear Lasya", His dad said to her taking in her and Shravas for a side hug.

"Of course uncle. We will do our best and will enjoy our trip. Thank you." She assured them once again.

Both of them bid bye and their driver accompanied Shravas and Lasya to the airport. Since it's night time and after office hours, the traffic was much less so they reached the airport pretty early.

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After waiting for 30 minutes, they boarded the flight.

"Hm, Shravas can I take the window seat please?", Lasya asked feeling embarrassed.

Hearing a chuckle from him, Lasya went red and to hide the shyness she kept on acting like she was keeping her back pack in the upper compartment.

"Sure, I hope you love to see the view", Shravas teased her smilingly and got up from his seat and occupied a seat beside her.

"Yeah, you know this is my second time in flight. First one being to Goa. So I am very excited and don't make fun of me", She said shyly with joy and her eyes were shining with never-ending happiness.

That made Shravas's heart flutter and beat faster. He also smiled at her.

"Sure Lasya, you do get a window seat. So it's all yours. Enjoy the view also, don't forget I am also sitting near you", Shravas whined like a kid.

"Let me think about it", saying so Lasya chuckled and sat near the window seat.

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This was a journey of 2.5 hours and they will reach Delhi by around 2 in the morning. They will get one day to prepare for the event and it will be a live event.

Topper channel has already claimed the coverage license and live air will happen at the same time which can be seen all over the country.

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Lasya didn't take her eyes off from the window. She was just mesmerized by the view that she is seeing - a hay of clouds floating in the air and looks just like a pile of cotton candy.

She had that beautiful satisfactory smile on her face seeing it. She didn't get time to look on the other side or any other area as she was just busy admiring the night sky which was so enchanting with stars, moon and some falling stars.

Shravas was sitting beside her and was admiring her since she sat near him. He had a smile seeing his love's happiness and he adored her all the way while she was busy gawking at the night sky.

'how cute she looks when she is happy.' he thought.

-*-*-*

'this is serene... I love this. Also I am with my shravas.' she thought.

'mine, how come? When did he agree for that? So delete it - I am with just shravas.' she chuckled mentally.

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Time flew by and they heard the announcement of their flight reaching Delhi.

Upon getting down the flight, Lasya looked all around the airport which was filled with smiles and tears of people.

Some are bidding good byes and some were welcoming their inmates hellos.

'this place is the turning point of life in all the novels', Lasya thought foolishly.

"I am getting us a cab. Wait here. Don't go anywhere. I will be back within a minute", Shravas requested her and went away leaving all the luggage with her. She nodded her head and checked her watch. It showed 3 o'clock. She sighed and leaned to her chair closing her eyes since she was busy gawking at the night sky. She didn't sleep at all on the plane.

Exactly after a minute, Shravas came running and shook her from the shoulders.

She woke up with a jerk and opened her eyes to meet brown ones which were very near to her face. She was lost in his eyes and they had an eye lock.

She could breath his breath and his breath was fanning on her nose and lips.

He was looking at her lips and unknowingly he licked his own. Lasya's breath was uneven like Shravas.

Due to the ringing of the phone, their moment broke and they straightened themselves.

'shit, alarm', Shravas swore mentally.

"Come let's go. Our cab is here and it will take us to our hotel. You should get some sleep at the earliest", Shravas whispered.

"Yeah, you are right", Lasya agreed and marched towards the cab point with her luggage.

"Let me hold for you", Shravas offered his help but Lasya turned it down.

"What are you? My chauffeur?", Lasya chuckled. "It's nothing. I will do that myself Shravas. Please don't bother"

"It's not like that Lasya. I know you are a strong girl but since you are feeling sleepy, I don't want you to fall down because of the weight. So thought to offer the help", Shravas said shrugging his shoulders.

"Thank you for your concern Shravas. I appreciate it. Ok then here you go", Lasya gave her luggage to him and walked together with him.

Shravas smiled mentally and carefully took her to the cab point

Within no time, They reached outside the airport and their cab was waiting for them in gate 6.

The driver helped them to load the baggage and they occupied passenger seats.

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They reached the hotel within 20 minutes and they collected their room keys from the reception and went ahead.

Their rooms were opposite to each other.

"Lasya, take rest. I will accompany you later in the morning for breakfast. Also, I would suggest you not to go alone anywhere but if you wish I am okay you can go alone but please do carry your mobile with you always", Shravas said for which she rolled her eyes.

This made him irritated.

"I don't want to lose you in the unknown city so please listen to me. Or else you will see my other face", he warned her with annoyance and she sighed and nodded her head.

"Don't worry. I will not go anywhere and yes, if I need anything I will call you. Now goodnight see you later", Lasya said while opening her room door and entered inside hurriedly waving a bye and not waiting for his reply.

She heard him laughing and she had a smile.

'such a controlling freak' she murmured to herself shaking her head.

She quickly changed her clothing to a comfortable nightwear and jumped onto her bed after refreshing herself.

On the other side, Shravas also entered into his room fully exhausted. He also refreshed and then jumped into his comfy bed and fell into a deep slumber.

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