"Dhruv, I fucking promise you. If you don't get out of the washroom right now. I am going to send the picture of your balls in the school WhatsApp group" Cabir spat while banging the washroom door of the boy's toilet, making the hinge almost lose its life. Dhruv was kind of threatened.

"You won't dare!" Dhruv chuckled, "hold on, you don't even have it." He scoffed, purposely trying to piss Cabir off by not opening the door. He was not even doing his business inside the washroom cabin.

"Dhruv!" a familiar soft voice called her, which he had grew to love and admire more and more each passing.

He grinned, "Yes baby?"

"Please come outside, Cabir needs to use it urgently" Nandini demanded softly, genuinely feeling bad for Cabir. Not to mention, the march past parade for the annual sports day was due in an hour, they have to also reach the stadium. They were already running late.

She heard the click of the door getting opened, and Dhruv appeared behind it grinning but dropped his expressions as he saw Nandini glaring at him with narrow eyes.

"Baby, I-" he tried explaining himself while scratching the back of his neck, a habit he had developed from his father but looked nowhere attractive as the latter looked while doing it. Nandini brushed of those sinful thoughts as soon as it appeared and glared back at Dhruv more threateningly.

"Keep it" she brushed passed Cabir's shoulders, scaring out few other guys in the washroom, who wear doing nothing but roaming around in their boxers. Nandini's face flushed bright red in embarrassment as she excited the boy's washroom. Wow what a great start of an important day she thought.

"Navya" Nandini called for Navya, while looking for the house captains. Navya nodded at her as if indicating her to go on as she tied the clash of the green house captain around her body, pinning it up at the top of her shirt just above the surface of her collarbones.

"You should leave with all other house captains, you all have to collect the flags first." She requested quietly, simultaneously hurrying to arrange her black pencil skirt to wear it on.

"Okay, I should take my leave then. Will directly meet you at the stands" Navya smiled at Nandini and hurried to go.

Once Nandini was dressed, tying her waist length hair up in a high ponytail. She looked around to find Mukti. They were the anchors of the day, and they have leave for the stands as soon as the march past group dispersed after the tej-chal.

"Mukti, what the fuck? Why is your hair like that?" Nandini screamed in horror, as she looked at her best friend's hair, they were unruly and messy, and her hair-cloth band was not even on it.

"Come here, let me do it for you" she dragged Mukti with her, and sat her in front of the mirror. In spite of Mukti's numerous protest that she didn't want that boring hairstyle, Nandini did it and finally sighed in relief.

"I hate you" Mukti puffed up her face and shoot daggers through her eyes towards Nandini through the mirror.

Nandini grinned as she came behind her best friend, throwing her arms around her shoulders, "I love you too".

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The sight of all the staff of 'SPACE ACADEMY' greeted Manik as he stepped out of his 1950 Mercedes benz-300 SLR, along with the annoying and buzzing crowd of students.

"Good Evening, Mr. Malhotra. We were waiting for your arrival, all the other trustees have already settled down on our private stand." The vice-principal of the academy greeted him, to which Manik replied with a stern nod.

As he passed through the crew of female staff, they started giggling comically, trying their level best to get noticed by the handsome billionaire, some almost sighing when his manly cologne filled their nostrils. Only if they could have him.

Manik grimaced, their overly cheerful faces caked with arrogance and pride made him more disgusted. He wished Nandini wouldn't have been a student of this school, then he wouldn't have even bothered showing up.

His face screwed up even more, when one among the female staff members came up to him, to the place he stood at the uppermost part of the stadium stand, him looking around under his dark brown aviators, his desperate pair of chocolate brown eyes searching for the girl who made his heart beat rapidly.

"Mr. Malhotra, please feel free to ask me if you ever need anything" she grinned at him with her yellow teeth making him almost throw up then and there. Her eyes subtly glancing towards his lips made him clench his jaw hard.

He turned towards her with a tight lipped smile gracing his face. "Probably a water bottle. Chilled. Thank you" he hissed, restraining himself to not choke the air out of her lungs. He just wanted her away from him, so that he could continue finding his Nandini among the vast crowd of people.

The excitement her eyes held faded at his demand, she did expect him to demand something else. She huffed and turned around to leave when her eyes found Nandini helping Mukti with her pencil skirt.

"Nandini" she called, making Manik turn around quickly, dying to have a glance at her. He immediately shifted his gaze from her eyes to her body when he saw her coming towards him at the command of her teacher. Fuck she looked hot.

"Yes, miss ruby? Do you require anything?" Manik smirked when he saw her being so polite to her teacher. His good little girl.

"Yes dear, can you please bring Mr. Malhotra over here a chilled water bottle." Miss ruby asked her, causing Nandini eyes to enlarge when she saw Manik leaning on his seat, his legs parted making her take a soft breath.

"Yes- yes I mean of course." Nandini nodded quickly at miss ruby and rushed to bring the bottle, she was heavily intimidated by his intense gaze and after last night, how was she supposed to ever control her breathing in his presence.

"You will?" Nandini let out a happy squeal, forgetting about her surroundings for a moment. She was so relieved suddenly.

"Yeah" Manik smirked, "but"

"But?" Nandini frowned, extremely confused with his constraint.

"I want a little favor too"

Nandini's heart thundered, a favor what can she, a common teenager ever give the man who already had everything?

"Favor?" her confused yet scared form asked him with uncertainty.

"Yeah" Manik smiled, a real angelic smile at her. He thought Nandini was getting too scared. His smile did calm her nerves but also took her breath away. She has never witnessed him smiling before. His smile was so so beautiful it did some highly severe damage to her heart.

"Spend the weekend with me. On any place of my choice." His demand left her shaken, how can she spend her weekend with this gorgeous human for whom she had feelings for since a really long time.

But somewhere within the deep chambers of her heart she knew, she did want to be with him, even if it was only for a weekend. So she took a deep breath and looked at him determined, still unable to hide her flushed cheeks which made Manik quietly chuckle behind his fingers.

"Okay Mr. Malhotra"

She turned back once to a glance at him, to find him looking at her, his aviators were no more on, which gave her the chance to look at those pair of eyes that made her forget her sanity. His smirk widened when he found her looking back at him, what made him pass a subtle wink at her after which he turned forward and wore his aviators back on trying to hold his smile off.

Nandini gasped and flushed immensely, she ran outside the stand and stood outside the room, leaning her back against the wall, her right hand which was clutched against her heart which couldn't stop beating so fast.

Stupid heart!