The other compartment was however different from theirs. With complete silence and everyone already ready to sleep their professors themselves in a deep slumber. Divya pulled out her phone and checked the time and was shocked to know it was already 1am.

'Where did the time go by?' she wondered. From the moment she had boarded the train something or the other was going around. She had completely forgotten about her phone, the evidence was completely in the battery that was still 89 percent having not used it since late afternoon. Divya laughed to herself as she thought how if she would have been home now she would have had it charged by now getting ready to watch kdrama or maybe read some novel. But now, here she was getting ready to wake her friend up so that they could have some more fun...the timing of sleep is still undecided.

"Simran wake up." She shook Simran who quickly woke up and asked her what it was.

"The boys have started drinking, we will be playing some games or may be just chit chat... wanna join?'

"yeah, just give me a minute...where is Rohan?" Simran asked.

"he is with Nandini." Simran got down from the berth and the two walked off towards their berth. However unlike earlier the scene at the other side was now different. The boys were dancing about and hooting quite loudly. Nandini stood from her berth along with Rohan to check up on them.

"Nandu they are quite loud." DIvya said the moment she reached their seat.

"I know," they were still observing them when the girls saw Manav removing his t-shirt and dancing about along with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

"ohh fuck" the girls exclaimed and at that very moment walked off towards the boys, opening the door both Nandini and DIvya said, "Guys... Aman... Madhav shhhhh" None paid much attention to them, whereas Atharva himself shushed them even further. Shaking their heads, The three of them decided to stand there when Manav, a very drunk one to be exact, walked towards Divya and Nandini and said, "Arre Nandini...Divya you guys came?"

The two girls looked at each other and then towards a very drunken Manav, quite amused themselves and said, "yeah we did...but Manav how much did you have?' even before Manav could explain he stumbled a bit towards the open door, Divya being the closest quickly took hold of him and closed the door and made sure that all the boys were in the middle.

"Divya, you stand here, make sure none of them go to the door, I will stand there with Madhav and Dev, they are smoking I might as well take a few puffs." Divya nodded her head and stood there watching the scene unfold. The moment the voice would go on a higher note she along with Simran would shush them. The songs still played along with now Rishi, Sanket and Manav dancing in the circle that had now got constructed there.

For Divya this whole thing seemed so amusing, but she knew if her mom or dad were to see this she would be so dead. This was something they had always been against, but as the cold wind of Gujarat passed through the door and engulfed each one of them she looked around. There was Aman who smiled at her wickedly as if he knew something that she was not aware of. Then there was Atharva, as usual enjoying in his own way along with his playlist.. now in fact with the sips of alcohol in his system even making sarcastic comments more than that he would in a minute. Manav was busy clarifying everyone that how, "Meine toh pee hi nahi hai... mujhe toh chadi hi nahi hai." Divya knew by morning he wouldn't know anything and that was going to be the best thing to watch as the rest would torment her.

And then there was Madhav and her and that friendship that was developing amongst them. She had enjoyed and treasured all those moments when he had called her up to talk about adjusting the seats, of planning things, being unjust in the games. She felt special with every time he would ask her, her opinion. It wasn't the first time this was happening... but you know, it would always be special when the one who was special to you gave you a bit of attention...yes that had to be it. She thought as she smiled at him looking at him as his hair ruffled with the blowing air.

"alright Aman I guess we all should get back to our seats...I don't know if he is acting or not, but it's fine for one night." Divya said as Aman nodded his head and the group went back to their seats. Surprisingly the lights that they had set up the one that would blink with different colors had now got adjusted to a perfect angle, the girls took out a blanket and all of them covered their legs stretching them on the other seat with it, the songs of 90s began to play mostly all of them being of Shah rukh khan as the group kept on chatting, talking about the different things happening around and when Madhav shushed everyone and said,

"aree, this train will be stopping at kota!!" Divya raised her eyebrows questioningly at him along with Nandini unaware about the celebration that was now going around between Madhav and Aman.

"what's wrong?" she finally asked when even Nandini didn't knew about it.

"Aree Kota has one of the best Kachoris." Madhav said. "then we should have it for breakfast...do we get it at the station?' divya enquired.

"yes I think so." And with that Madhav began looking into the schedule once again after about a few minutes Dev stood up from his place to go for washroom, and Manav began asking everyone, "do you think I am drunk?' to which some would say no, while other would say yes...however to all he had just one statement to say, "terko lagta h meine pee...lekin meine pee hi nahi hai...merko toh chadi hi nahi hai." And Nandini to everyone's amusement had been the volume tracker for him the moment his voice would increase she would say, "Manav volume 3" and Manav the good boy that he was would turn down the volume to three. The whole scene was turning into a perfect comedy show with Manav's target now being Madhav.

Tired and quite exasperated, Madhav walked near Divya and asked her to shift a bit. He sat down beside her and laid his head on her shoulder and the moment he did Divya felt her breath getting stuck in her throat. This , this having someone lay their head on her shoulder was quite intimate for her. She had never done that other than Parth, her brother and sister...and now Madhav, so close to her, with the environment around them was giving her all kinds of sensations that one shouldn't feel. To distract herself she took out her phone at the same time even Madhav did.

"Guys tell me what all you are going to eat for breakfast. The options are upma , cutlet and bread butter."

"anything that is available would do." The boys said while the girls gave their options as Madhav filled the form and submitted it in the group. A few minutes later when everyone made Manav sit in his seat Divya saw Madhav looking into the M indicator, an app that showed the time table for trains, bus and traps etc.

"what are you looking for?' she asked.

"aree, I am checking when will this train reach kota so that we can wake up accordingly."

"Ohh but you can check it in the app itself , they have a feature. It works on my phone, wait let me check." She quickly pulled out her phone and entered the train number as the two checked the timing. It showed 6am by which the train would reach there and somehow the train was running on time.

"6 it is." DIvya said.

"what 6?' Aman enquired.

"the train will reach kota at 6." She informed me. "yeah I know that." Aman smiled at the two cheekily as Madhav cussed him and said, "then you mother fucker why didn't you tell this to us earlier?"

"I thought the two ofyou might know this."

"well we didn't."

The two were still bickering when Manav stood up and said, "shhh... tum dono merko ek baat bato tumko lagta hai meine pee?'' Everyone royally ignored him as Nandini helped him sit back down. Soon the whole area grew silent as Manav kept on explaining a few things in his drunken stupor. Divya was still listening to him with deep interest when she felt her Right shoulder getting heavy, turning around she found Madhav sound asleep with his head on her shoulder. For quite some time she kept on looking at him. The way his slight stubble and the not so prominent jaw line that made him look sexy as well as cute at the same time. His mouth was slightly open, she thought how childlike he was in his huge being. He looked so peaceful and beautiful at the same time. Before she could admire him more he lifted his head from her shoulder pulling the blanket in which they were wrapped in and rested his head on the window.

Worried that the window pane might be cold she was about to call him when she heard Nandini "Are, Madhav slept." The whole attention was now on them. Divya straighten up a bit and covered him with the blanket and said, "I guess we all should as well sleep for sometime. Its already 4." The rest of them nodded their head and stood up. Taking this as an opportunity both Nandini and DIvya clicked a picture of Madhav, his hickey quite visible if seen clearly. The two snickered and called madhav.

"Madhav, get up go and sleep on your berth." He nodded groggily and moved to the opposite side to sleep on the slowest berth. Before he would sleep he held Diya's hand and said , "put an alarm for 6 and wake me up...just call me else I won't wake up." Divya nodded her head and went to the other side to sleep.

It was already 5:55am when Diya felt the train moving in a slow motion, turning around she looked down through the window to check where she was but couldn't really say where they were. She then took out her phone and checked their live location and was truly at the Kota station. At that very moment her alarm rung as well. Quickly snoozing it off she took off the blanket and began calling Madhav to wake him up,at about third when he still didn't answered it she let out a heave and decided to wake him up herself. Scared to get down even from the second seat, with wobbly legs she had got down and had just turned around when she saw Madhav standing there in his hoodie, his head covered in the cap.

"Fuck!" she exclaimed. "you scared the shit out of me." Madhav smiled at her and said, "chill you survived, come let's go and check."

"yeah wait let me take my wallet." He nodded and waited while she fetched the wallet. The two got down the train quite nervous and jittery. "I have never got off a train on a middle station." Madhav said as they looked around. "Nor have i." smiling at each other the two moved towards the waiting room only to find it locked.

"how about we check out there...it's not fresh but we can ask them where we can find it." Madhav suggested to which Diya nodded her head as the two held each other's hand and walked towards the stall.

":Uncle , do you know where we can find kachoris here?' Madhav enquired.

"Dear the kachoris will be available at the shop 10 min from the station." The vendor said. "uncle don't we have one here at the platform?' Diya asked. Her hands felt the warmth that was spread across her body due the heat that was emitting from Mdhav's hand. She wondered was it normal to feel so dizzy, excited and nervous at the same time? It was as if everything that was happening was completely hazy, a dream and that all she could do was only feel it...nothing could be remembered through the picturesque form...but this feeling, the feelings that she was feeling at that moment was something that she would remember always.

"No Dear, there ain't any, if you want you can take these." The two looked at each other and then made a face at each other as madha said, "No uncle thank you." Moving away from the stall they looked around .

"do you want to check there." Diya asked. "but the train?"

"we still have time. The halt was for 10 min." Madhav nodded his head as the two sprinted towards the stall at the end of the platform. It was a bit dark there as Madhav enquired, keeping Divya behind him a bit away from the crowd of all men who stood there. Divya then thought how stupid she was to get down at the kota station just like that at 6 in the morning. What if something was to happen and they were to miss the train? This was no movie and so many things could just go wrong. But then again, she wouldn't have then got this experience this time that she and Madhav had. Divya wasn't sure what Madhav felt of this early morning here at an unknown place with her fetching for a few kachoris...but she, she was so happy, she could only imagine how wonderful the next 7 days were going to be. She might be stupid, she thought and made a promise to her self that she wouldn't hold herself back.

She would enjoy whatever was to come her way. This was her only chance...only chance to know what it felt like to enjoy and to know what Madhav thought of her..whether there was any chance between them for anything at all.

"Divya," she was brought out of her thoughts as madhav called her. "they only have fried pakoras...do you want some?' she shook her head in negative and asked whether he wanted any. He himself nodded in negative and they decided to move from there to look somewhere else, when they heard a loud sound of the train's whistle.

"ohhh shit!" the two exclaimed and began running off towards the train. Divya was running ahead of him as Madhav found it difficult with his pants almost falling off and the obvious way that he ran. When Diya turned around she couldn't help but laugh at him. She stopped for a moment and took hold of his and helped him

"I think we should get in through this door rest we will see." Divya suggested.

"Nah it's just the third door, come." Madhav now pulled her along with her as the two kept on laughing, running towards the door to catch the train. Divya wondered who said that Life wasn't any Bollywood movie? Here she was experiencing her own Bollywood moments.

The moment the two got into the train and stood there catching up on their breaths, Divya stopped Madhav as the train besides their began moving. Did it then struck her. "Ohh shit the train was going to halt for 10 minutes, and it's just 6:05.:" the two couldn't help but laugh as they made their way towards their berths.

"whatever I am sleeping...what about you?"

"same, I am really tired." And with that she climbed up to her berth wrapping herself into the blanket when she saw Nandini rustling a bit as she looked at her and asked, "where were you?"

"Ohh I and Madhav had gone to get Kachoris."

"Did you get any?"

"Nahh."

"okay good night," Nandini wrapped herself in the blanket once again as the two went off to sleep. However Divya couldn't help but feel giddy. She so wanted to get up again and narrate the whole story to Natasha, Simran and Nandini.

A/N 

Since the update was late, here is a double update for today. 

But I have one more question for you all. 

What is that one place that you all would like to visit with your friends? 

I always wanted to go to Manali, and I did went there, now the other place that I would love to go is Jaipur... I wish my friends and I could make it there. fingers cross. 

but do let me know your destinations and what was the best part according to you in this chapter. 

Happy Reading.