"Bro, why did you do that?" Akshay asked Aakarsh.

"What did I do?"

"With Mounika."

"Yeah, what about her? Oh that! I wasn't wrong. The entire college almost knows that Uday likes Mounika, like just look at him when he passes by. By the way, why are you taking her side?"

"Cuz I've been thinking about it, and I feel like it was wrong to do that."

"Well, it would be a lesson to anyone else who does that. Girls would be eligible to like me if they are, ya know..."

Akshay rolled his eyes, and they both slept.

Later, it was the weekend, and Mounika won't come out of her room for a very long time. Sandhya came knocking, but Mounika didn't answer. "Mounika!"

Sandhya heard a thump. "What happened, are you good in there?"

Mounika fell off her bed when she heard Sandhya yell. "Uh, yeah sis, I'm coming."

As she comes out, Sandhya asked, "Tell me the truth."

"Yes, I was crying. Leave me now."

Mounika had every part of her heart carved with his name, while Uday was sort of in the same situation, because now, he didn't know what to do. "Anand, I don't get it. I was planning on confessing sometime now, but this idi-" He paused.

"Go on, Uday."

"I want to call him an idiot, and it is at the tip of my tongue, but I can't say it. She likes him."

"She used to, not anymore."

"Still."

Anand didn't know what to say, so he covered himself by saying that he was running late for a class. Meanwhile, Nishita comes in. "Why are you crying when you didn't do anything wrong. If your love is so powerful, why fear such obstacles?

"But is it really powerful?"

"Bhaiyya, stop being so filmy, of course it is. Come down, let's watch the new movie."

Nishita leaves the room, when Uday throws his diary to the ground. He picks up the diary, consisting of a Ziploc bag of her cookie crumbs, a flower which fell from her head, which he saved to look back at. The weekend went by with Mounika and Uday locked in their rooms.

The next day was a Monday. Back to college. Back to those memories.

Mounika got dressed, and she didn't even look at Aakarsh even once. Uday didn't talk to anyone in class, not even Anand, and he instead just looked at Mounika, to see if she was doing well. He couldn't digest the fact that it all happened in front of the school, when Anand stopped him and said, "She doesn't know it was all real."

Uday came out of his memories. "Uday, go up to her and talk to her if it hurts you that bad. Don't sit here like a potato. Talk to her and make her cheer up, but don't propose to her just yet. Understand?"

"Fine." He wasn't sure indeed.

Lunch that day was unusual. Everyone stopped talking about the three. Mounika didn't go to get tissues and forks, and neither did Uday. He controlled his eyes, but they were involuntarily being dragged to Mounika. No Uday, don't do it.

When Uday passes by Mounika's class, he sees Ms. Grey trying to get Mounika's attention as she was wandering in her daydreaming land. "Mounika!"

"Yes, ma'am?"

"Are you listening?"

"Uh, ya, yes of course."

"Fine, tell me some of the methodologies I just went over. Tell me the methodologies, the complexity level, and when each methodology is helpful."

Silence.

"Come on."

Silence again, but it was broken by some girls who started chuckling. Akanksha was signaling Mounika to see her notes, but Ms. Grey saw. "Akanksha!"

"Sorry ma'am."

"Fine, Mounika, sit down and listen, don't just daydream. Don't think computer science is a joke. We're having a major project starting the day after, understand?" Everyone nod.

Uday left as he was getting late to class, but he couldn't leave from her thoughts.

After college, the two went to their homes. They weren't happy, but they weren't sad. They were just, there, thinking about the past few days. Nobody asked. Nothing was answered.