"Beta, I don't think it would be a good idea to go to the movie theatre," Aarti said, "You're Nani, Dad, and me are also going to be out of town for the entire weekend because of a wedding we have to attend next week."
"Mom we weren't planning on going to an actual movie theatre, just the one that is in the basement," Anjali said.
"Oh, I totally forgot about that," Aarti said, "Then it's fine."
*next week*
"Khushi hurry up!" Lavanya said from outside the stall in the locker room. A few second later Khushi opened the door and came out wearing her uniform. It a cut sleeve dress that went till her mid thighs. Today was their first football game and that too at home. All the girls were in the locker room, changing, doing their hair and getting ready. Khushi put the clothes she had just taken off in her bag. Both of them went up to the mirror, and tied their hair in a high ponytail, since that was the requirement. Khushi took out her makeup bag, and applied eye shadow to match her uniform. They were the St. Teresa Tigers (totally made up by me).
"Hey Lavanya!" she called out.
"Yea?" Lavanya asked putting her things away also.
"Can you put this in our locker?" Khushi said handing the bag to her. Lavanya took the bag and went to her locker and put in their. The girls were required to share their gym locker with another cheerleader, so Khushi and Lavanya had decided that would share.
"Come on girls! Let's go!" the coach said entering the locker room. All of them put their things away and grabbed their pompoms. They made their way out to the field, all of the stands were pretty packed, obviously since it was the first game of the season. On one side of the field, were the supporters of her school; on the other side were the opposing team.
Khushi and Lavanya walked to the bench on their side of the field following all the other girls.
"Khushi!!!" they heard a scream from the stands as they sat down. Khushi and Lavanya looked back into the stands to see where the sound was coming from but couldn't figure out. Then they heard it again, "Khushi! Lavanya!"
The looked up a bit higher spotted from whom the sounds were coming from. There, Payal, Akash, Anjali and Shaleen were seated high in the stands waving to the both of them. They waved back with a smile. They heard the sound of a voice on the intercom and turned around to look at the field. All the players from both teams came out in their uniforms. The crowds cheered and applauded for their teams. The cheerleaders got up and started cheering for their teams, waving the pompoms in the air and screaming. Everyone got settled down, and the game began. The first few minutes of the game were kind of boring and not much to see. Number 12 from the other team was trying to make a touchdown, but number 9 from theirs stole the ball and made a touchdown for their team. The crowd got up and cheered. The player who had made the goal turned towards them and waved, Khushi looked around to see who he was waving at and founf Lavanya waving back at him.
"Who is that?" Khushi asked her.
"NK," she replied back, "see his jersey on the back says Sehgal, his last name."
Khushi looked up and noticed that also. She looked from jersey to jersey and spotted the one she was looking for, on the back it read Raizada. He had his back to her, and as if reading her mind, he turned around and looked towards her. Khushi quickly looked the other way, realizing that she had gotten caught string at him. Arnav had been standing there waiting for the next play to start when he felt a pair of eyes gazing him, he turned around and met his eyes with Khushi's. But like a deer who had been caught by headlights of a car, her eyes slightly widened and she looked the other way quickly, a pink color rising on her cheeks. So she was already looking at him, he thought and smiled to himself, not exactly knowing why it made him happy.
The game started again and was a hard competition between the two teams. Arnav made two touchdowns throughout the team. Once in awhile, Arnav would glance towards Khushi. A few times their eyes would meet and she would look away. The game ended an hour and half later, and they had won. The players went and shook hands with the players from the other team.
Khushi and Lavanya were really happy, along with the rest of the team. The students from the stands ran from their seats and went to the field congratulating the team. Either everyone had left from the stands or was in the middle of the field. Anjali, Shaleen, Payal and Akash had come down the stands and were standing next to Lavanya and Khushi. A few minutes later, Arnav and NK appeared from the crowd and were walking towards them. Lavanya ran up NK pulling him in for a hug and said, "Congrats!"
"Congrats Chotte!" Anjali said hugging him, "and to you too NK!" she said when Lavanya and NK were walking towards them holding hands.
"Thanks," both of them said.
"Congrats Bhai," Akash said patting him on the shoulder.
"Yea, you both did a great job," Shaleen said also hugging him. They all congratulated both of them and Arnav moved down the line as they did, and was now standing in front of Khushi.
"Congrats!" Khushi said with a bright smile and was about to bring her arms up to also hug him like everyone else, but then brought her arms down realizing what she was about to do. Arnav noticed this slight action of hers and smiled. He himself moved a step forward and wrapped his arms around her hugging her and chuckling. Khushi stood there shocked, what she wasn't going to do because of embarrassment, he ended up doing.
"You know you can hug me, you're my best friend," Arnav said into her ear and smiled.
Khushi hugged him back and said, "I know from now on."
They pulled away from the hug and smiled at each other. Arnav moved to the side and stood next to hers and said, "Di I think we should get going, the driver is probably waiting."
"Yeah, let's go. You both get your bags from the locker rooms then we can leave," Anjali said.
"Where did Lavanya go?" Khushi asked looking around trying to find her, she was going to walk with her to the locker room, but she was nowhere to be found.
"NK and Lavanya already left and said they would meet us at the front of the school," Payal said.
"You all go to the front and call the driver, we'll meet you there after going to the locker room," Arnav said and they all left.
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