My mom dropped at us at the country club and we walked into the hall where the party was being held.

And damn!

I knew Reyansh certainly had something grand in store for the party but I hadn't expected this much.

The whole place looked like it was out of a high school musical. The hall was dazzling with purple disco lights. Tables were laid out on one side and there was a food counter next to it. On the other side, I saw the DJ playing the latest Bollywood tracks and people were already dancing. Waiters were going around with glasses of strawberry smoothies.

I saw Reyansh talking with Abeer and Varun. Seeing us he waved and walked up to us excitedly. He looked impossibly good in a black tuxedo. If he was my boyfriend, I would have described him from page to page but since he is not, let's end it there.

I expected Mishti to hug him but she was most annoyingly helping herself to a strawberry smoothie.

She finally looked up and spotted Reyansh. "Oh hey! Happy Birthday!"

"Thanks" grinned Reyansh.

"Oh and the smoothie is very good! I didn't know you liked strawberry" she said unabashedly. I turned away and smacked my forehead.

Mishti was a hopeless case. I mean who on earth concentrates on a stupid strawberry smoothie over the coolest guy in school?!

"Girls carry on. I'll see you around." he said and went back to join Abeer and Varun.

"Mishti you are such a.." Zoya began

Mishti raised her eyebrows questioningly as she slurped her smoothie.

"Honestly, things more important than a smoothie are happening here.." she lectured Mishti.

"Hey are those Chicken Wings?" she said suddenly. I stared in confusion as she pounced upon a poor waiter passing with a plate of chicken wings and picked one and shovelled it into her mouth.

I turned away angrily and flounced off to find someone to talk to. My BFF's were behaving like five year olds!

A lot of familiar faces swarmed by.

Reyansh was certainly brave calling so many of our classmates and even some seniors inspite of not knowing any of these people for long. I had been in St Xavier's for thirteen years but hadn't managed to pick up the guts to throw a party at the country club.

I was a little confused to see a lot of girls from Aaliyah's clique. Even Maya was there. But she was looking sulky. This cheered me up slightly.

I even met Reyansh's mom. She was extremely stylish and definitely didn't look like she had a sixteen year old son. She was very like Reyansh. Extremely, vivacious.

I spotted Omkara standing close by the DJ and talking to a tall girl with long hair in a red outfit and stilettos. And then the pretty looking girl turned around. I was flabbergasted.

It was Aaliyah!

So Omkara was the guy with whom Aaliyah was coming?! But surely, he was aware of her vain personality?! He knew all about my animosity with her! And what happened to Lisa?!

I tried to slither away before either of them saw me. But unfortunately, Omkara spotted me, "Hey Riya, why don't you join us?".

"Bhaiya I was em..looking for.." I stuttered.

But Aaliyah cut me across, "Yes Riya join us, we got ourselves some soft drinks" she was actually smiling. It was pure lipstick coated nastiness.

Before I could retort her phone rang, "Excuse me..mom's calling" she said and walked away leaving me with Omkara and I instantly burst out.

"Bhaiya you're the head boy! You could have asked anybody! Or you could have even come on your own! Like me. Why that creep? You can't possibly be seeing her!"

"Riya I am at perfect liberty to ask out whoever I like" he said unperturbed.

"What about Lisa?" I asked.

"Can I be honest? We fell out" he said in an annoyingly brusque tone.

"But you and Lisa were so perfect. What happened?"

"Come on Riya. Why are you so interested in my personal stuff? Here's a suggestion from your brother. Go get yourself a boyfriend. Maybe then you wouldn't mind too much about other people's social lives or at least you won't have the time."

Before I could retort, Aaliyah came back to us, beaming just like she had a few minutes ago. I had hardly seen her without that ugly smirk on her face.

"Riya, coke?" she placed a glass in my hand and flashed her sickeningly fake smile!

God!

"Mm..thanks", I didn't want to lose my temper and end up looking like the villain.

Soon two plates of chicken wings arrived and I started devouring them, determinedly avoiding both their gazes. I wouldn't have minded sitting with Omkara if he had brought Lisa along.

But this was so sick!

I was looking for a chance to give them the slip. "Where are Zoya and Mishti?", Omkara asked me.

God! I had almost forgotten my friends.

"Um..they'll be around here. I think I'd better go find them" I said quickly and got up to go.

"Your coke" said Aaliyah handing me the glass. I expected to see the fake smile again but to my surprise the smirk was back on!

And then I realised Omkara wasn't looking. Damn! So this girl was only being nice to me in front of him. I took the glass and turned but just at that moment, Aaliyah stuck out her foot and I tripped.

I fell right on my face and slopped the coke all down my front. The DJ who was close to us stopped the music in shock. But I wished she hadn't as the sound of the glass breaking to pieces now echoed around the hall. Everyone stared at me.

"Riya! What happened?" Reyansh was rushing towards me. He gave me a hand up as I struggled to get on my feet and handed me a box of tissues. I wiped the stains off my hands and face. But then I stared down at my dress. The beauty of my white floral dress had been completely marred!

"RIYA!", two familiar voices shrieked behind me.

Zoya and Mishti were hurrying towards me looking, stricken. "We've been looking for you for ages. What's happened?"

They stared at my dress and it was a mark of the strength of our friendship that neither of them laughed. "She just tripped over girls. Nothing to worry" said Reyansh.

"Nothing to worry? This is a designer gown from Ralph and Russo, Reyansh!" I yelled at the poor guy. I wasn't even sure why I was yelling at Reyansh. I actually wanted to yell at Aaliyah.

I turned around and saw her standing there next to a shocked looking Omkara with a victorious smirk on her face. I couldn't take it anymore.

"You bloody bitch! You tripped me on purpose!" I screamed pointing my finger at her.

Aaliyah said nothing but chewed her finger nails with an indifferent expression on her face but Omkara intervened, "Riya stop that at once" he said.

"Oh yeah? You dumped Lisa and now you're coochie cooing with her. I don't know how many other girls you're running after. You don't lecture me now", I snapped.

SLAP! Omkar had hit me right across the face! I was flabbergasted. People stared worse than ever.

"To the restroom." said Zoya quickly and grabbing my arm and leading me away before further drama was created.

Both of them were upset about my outburst and said nothing as they quietly did their best to sponge out the stains though my gown was way beyond damaged. I would have preferred them to shout at me. This silence was too much.

"Why did you loose your temper like that in front of everyone? Everyone knows Aaliyah is a complete geek!" said Mishti finally.

"I am sorry" I said "But bhaiya shouldn't have slapped me"

"I can't say I endorse that. What did you mean when you said all those things?" Mishti snapped back at me.

"To be honest I don't feel any less angry myself. Anyway it's over. Reyansh will cut his cake soon." said Zoya.

"Guys I can't believe Aaliyah created all that drama and got away just like that"

"Listen. I'll see if I can get you something. You two wait here." said Zoya and walked out.

I suddenly felt very guilty. My BFF's were stuck here with me instead of enjoying the party and having fun. "I am so sorry. You both should have been out at the party." I told Mishti.

"Forget it Riya", she said gruffly.

Zoya came back in after a couple of minutes holding a black shrug. I quickly wrapped it around myself. It wasn't as bad as I had imagined, though the grace of the outfit was gone.

"Riya, don't go out there and loose your temper again. And apologize - - " Zoya began.

"What? Apologize?!"

"To Omkar bhaiya" said Mishti.

I stared at both my BFFs defiantly and they stared as defiantly back.

"Fine" I muttered.

I walked out of the washroom expecting to see people staring but barely anybody seemed to notice me. They had all obviously got over it and moved back to the fun. I hadn't!

I went over to Omkara who was now talking to his friends. Aaliyah was seated a little away meddling with her phone.

"Bhaiya, see, I want to tell - -". All the guys sitting at table looked up at me, except Omkara.

Shit! It was sooo embarrassing!

But Omkara suddenly just got an attitude about the whole thing and stood up and walked away from the table acting like I was part of the wall.

That was it!

I flounced back to my BFFs and told them what had happened.

"He must really upset" said Zoya.

"I can't believe I won't be on talking terms with the head boy anymore. It's going to be disastrous!" I complained.

"The cultural festival will be ruined if the head boy and Fine Arts secretary have severed ties!" Zoya said gravely.

"You brought this on you, yourself" Mishti rounded on me.

"It was not me. Aaliyah started it! I can't believe she's gotten away with it" I said angrily.

Though the rest of the party passed smoothly, there was not much for me to enjoy.

The one helpful factor was Reyansh who didn't seem to mind the drama at all and had brushed aside my apology.

I was overwhelmed by how he was being so generous even after I had created so much drama at his party. After Reyansh cut his cake, the guests started to leave.

I saw my mom's car, come around the driveway and rushed out. I wasn't willing to stay there for one more minute. This was supposed to be an incredible evening. Yes it had been incredible! But in a massively disastrous way!

A/N : So guys, this one took me a long time to write and I hope you liked it. If you did, please do leave me your votes and feedback.

Lots of love!