Later that night, I left the note I had written outside the door hoping that whenever the stalker would come, he would find my note read it and maybe things could work out in my favor.

We dint even bother waking up in the middle of the night because clearly we had no idea how this stalker was working, besides I had already figured a way on how to deal with him so I wanted to give it a try.

Tanvi was caught up somewhere so she also came late, we all just had dinner together and headed to sleep.

When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was to go outside and see if there was any note left or the one I had written gone, I dint hear the doorbell at night so I wasn't sure if the stalker came or not.

When I opened the door, I found the note I had placed outside gone, and there was none that had been left behind, I really hoped that this plan was going to work.

"Is there any note?" Arnav asked as he walked out rubbing his eyes like a babe, oh how adorable he looked.

"No." I smiled as I closed the door and headed back inside.

"That's great, looks like he got tired of it, I'll go take a shower." He said as he headed back inside the room, I just settled down on the sofa waiting for him to get done with his shower so I could take one myself, I had only one bathroom here.

As for Tanvi, that sleepy head was still sleeping so I decided to wake her up after I was done taking shower. I just sat on the sofa thinking about random things for a while and Arnav still seemed to be in the shower, why was he even taking this long.

He would make all of us get late for classes, I stood up and headed to knock at the bathroom door, but just as I was about to knock, he opened the door and walked out.

He had a towel wrapped around his waist, his hair all wet and some water droplets on his body here and there, and he had abs, freaking six packs damn it. Why did he suddenly look so hot?

"Wow!" I said and then I regretted it immediately.

I mean Arnav and I had been best friends for years, but I think this was the first time I was seeing him in this state, we dint really do the stayovers much and whenever we did, this kind of thing never happened.

So it was like the first time I was seeing him walk out of the shower, and damn I liked the view.

"You like what you see?" He smirked.

"I must admit Arnie, that body and those abs. No wonder all the girls keep running around you." I giggled.

"What do you think about my abs?" He smirked.

"I see that you weren't lying when you said you were going to gym, I always thought you were just going on with girls." I giggled.

"Now you know I was actually going to the gym."

"Now I know." I smiled.

I tried so much to look away from him but every now and then I would end up looking at him or his stupid abs. Oh God, help me.

"You want to touch my abs?" He smirked.

"Jeez, use that line on the girls you flirt with." I rolled my eyes and turned away from him immediately.

"Sometimes I like to flirt with my best friend." He said as he came in front of me flaunting his perfect body again. Idiot.

He grabbed my hand and purposely put it on his chest, he kept moving it all over his chest and then heading towards his abs, and I dint want to stop him, it dint even feel weird or strange for some reason I had no idea about.

And just like that, everything I had started feeling for him was somehow doubled and just like last night, I wanted to kiss him, even though the kiss dint happen, right now I had this strong urge of wanting to kiss him.

No Khushi! He is your best friend, you will ruin your friendship.

I kept on telling myself that but it wouldn't just get stuck in my mind, somebody help me, I was about to ruin our friendship.

"Quick question, does your stranger boyfriend have such abs?" He smirked but still looked disappointed as he mentioned him.

Well Arnav, he was an imaginary boyfriend, maybe he did have abs if that's how I imagined him to be. And now the urge of wanting to kiss him had gone, just like that.

"I need to take a shower." I shrugged as I turned away from him.

"Why don't you ever want to talk about him? Is he so perfect you're scared someone would still him from you?" he asked.

"Yes Arnie, maybe he is so perfect." I rolled my eyes at him as I headed straight inside the bathroom, why did I lie about having a boyfriend? Arnav and Tanvi would never let that topic go, I should have lied about something else.

*****

We arrived at the college and headed to the canteen immediately, as usual, it was our breakfast place.

Just when we were entering inside, a guy came to us out of nowhere, he stopped in front of me and smiled at me.

"Hey, you're Khushi right?" he asked.

"Yes she is, now stay away." Arnav said as he stepped forward and pushed him backwards, I was left confused, why wouldn't he let him talk to me? Did he know him or something?

Quite strangely, this guy looked similar to the one we had seen in the cctv footage, and I hadn't seen him around here, he must be new or something.

I mean of course I hadn't seen the guys face, but his height, his body and everything looked so similar, he also had an ear piercing just like the guy we saw in the footage, maybe this could be the guy and maybe he came to talk to me because I had left the note outside.

"Arnie, let the guy talk to me." I said.

"Since when did you start talking to strangers Shona?" He looked towards me angrily.

"Since one approached me, I mean wouldn't talk to someone if they don't approach me and this is like the first guy in forever who had approached me so let me talk to him." I looked at him seriously, why was he acting so overprotective suddenly?

"What is wrong with you?"

"What is wrong with you Arnie? I mean you can talk to all the girls in college and flirt with them and when a guy wants to talk to me you're acting all protective, you are not my boyfriend, so step aside!" I looked at him angrily, why was he behaving like this suddenly?

"Fine." He rolled his eyes as he grabbed Tanvi's arm and pulled her along inside the canteen.

"I'm sorry about him." I said to this new guy that had approached me.

"Wow, I'm surprised, dint know you are this sweet." He smirked.

"I don't think the few words I spoke said I was sweet but what did you expect me to be? Rude to you?" I asked.

"No... Just that I am new here and since the first day I saw you I've been wanting to talk to you."

"So what took you so long?"

"The guys around warned me against it. They said I shouldn't dare talk to you or I'll be in trouble."

"I'm not some underworld mafia's daughter, why would anyone be in trouble if they talk to me?" I looked at him in confusion.

"I don't know, mostly all of them seemed pretty scared, and they were telling me you were rude and stuff and I shouldn't try but I decided to try and talk to you anyway, that's why I said you're sweet because I was expecting you to be rude to me or something." He smiled.

"Wow, that is crazy, why would anyone spread such rumor about me? no wonder no guy ever approaches me." I said.

"Well I'm glad they never did, because I got the chance." He smirked. Okay although he did look like the guy from the footage, he was cute, and I wasn't even sure it was him, and he was the first ever guy that tried to talk to me, I wasn't going to stop talking to him just because I though he was the stalker, if he was, I was going to find out first.

"So I was wondering if you'd like to have dinner with me sometime." He looked at me nervously.

"Sure, I would love to." I smiled.

This was the best thing to have happened in a while, I mean going out with him and all would finally help me sort this strange feelings I had started having about Arnav.

"Great, you can give me your number, I'll text you."

"Sure, if you tell me your name first." I giggled.

"Shit sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Armaan Malhotra."

"Armaan, you have a nice name Armaan." I smiled, he handed me his phone as I saved my number on it and then headed inside the canteen. Arnav was seated there frowning like a baby.