The front row was already occupied by Shaleen, Anjali, Payal and Akash. In the second row, NK and Lavanya were sitting next to each other, leaving the back two rows empty. Khushi decided to take the seat next to Lavanya, leaving Arnav standing where he was. He also followed her and sat down next to her, not wanting to alone by himself in the last rows.
"So what movie to do you guys want to watch?" Anjali asked opening up the family netflix account.
"Di it's your birthday, you can decide," Akash told her.
Anjali settled for a classic bollywood movie (ok, so no one gave any suggestions, just think of any bollywood movie). The movie had started out and they were all enjoying it. One of the servants had popped some popcorn and brought it down for them.
Khushi was trying to watch the movie, but the noises that were coming to the right of her kept on annoying her. She looked over and saw Lavanya and NK cuddling with each other and talking sweetly. She looked over to her left and saw Arnav was no longer there, she looked behind her and saw he had decided to move a row back, lying down on one of the sofas and occupying it to himself only. She got up and joined him back there also, in the other sofa.
Arnav was lying down when he saw a figure approaching, he sat up and saw Khushi come to sit on the other sofa. He moved to the arm rest towards the center and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"I decided to give them some privacy," she said nodding to NK and Lavanya, "What about you?"
"Same reason, but decided that a little while back," he said smiling.
"It's so cute though, when people cuddle together," Khushi said looking at NK and Lavanya.
Arnav looked between them and Khushi, he swung his arm around Khushi's shoulder and said, "Do you want me to cuddle with you?"
The shocked expression on her face made him chuckle, "I was just kidding you know."
And she just smiled back. He removed his arm from around her and they continued to watch the movie, casually talking in between the scenes. The movie finished by 11 and they all made their way upstairs.
"Should I order pizza?" Anjali asked as they sat on the sofas in the living room.
"Di, it's kind of late and maybe we should just cut the cake only," Akash said.
"Yeah, I don't think anyone is really hungry since we all had popcorn," Shaleen added and they all agreed.
"Let's cut the cake Di, before it's 12 and your birthday actually is over," Arnav said standing up, "I'll bring it here."
He left to go to the kitchen and everyone else was chatting in the living room.
"Oh I should also go get the plates and spoons from the the kitchen, Chotte will probably forget," Anjali's said.
"You stay here, I'll go get it," Khushi said offering to go and left.
Arnav had taken the cake out of the refrigerator when he saw Khushi entering also.
"Did you need anything?" He asked her.
"Woh Di said to bring the plates and spoons," she said.
Di, what she had now started calling his sister. Anjali had awhile back told her to call her that because she was the same age as her sister, and it just seemed better than saying Anjaliji all the time.
He told her that the spoons and plates were in the upper cupboard. Arnav also told her to grab the candles and matches that were lying on the counter. They went back to the living room and settled down. Akash placed the candles on the cake then lit them up and moved he came in front of Anjali.
They all sang her happy birthday and clapped. She cut the cake and fed the first piece to her brother and Akash, then everyone else. They talked afterwards and then decided to go to sleep. The boys going to sleep in Akash and Arnav's room; NK with Arnav and Shaleen with Akash; and all the girls decided to sleep in Anjali's as they wanted to still talk and gossip.
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The weeks passed by as they were soon busy with the new projects and exams, barely getting any time to hangout anymore other than the weekends and. They would all eat lunch together everyday and catch up on their lives in that amount of time. Their friendship amongst each other was growing and they all had become adjusted to each other. Arnav and Khushi had also gotten very adjusted to their friendship, always talking to each other in and outside of school. Also because of football and cheerleading, they saw each other a lot and spent time together on their ways to trips and the games. They still continued walking together in the morning to their classes, neither having a problem with it or noticing this continuous pattern. It had become a daily routine since the first week of school.
Khushi had just sat down at the lunch table to eat when a very happy and excited Lavanya came running in with NK right behind her. They both were always the last ones to make it to the table since their classes were on the complete opposite side from the cafeteria.
"What happened to you?" Anjali asked her as she sat down.
"NK asked me to homecoming!" she said with a smile on her face.
"Oh congrats!" Payal added.
"Yeah that's great," Khushi told her.
"Yeah, he asked me this morning," Lavanya said, "You guys have to come along also."
"Anjali and me have to go to a birthday for one of our classmates," Shaleen said.
Lavanya looked towards Payal, but she said she was camping for a club that she was in, and Akash just plain out refused.
"Khushi you and Arnav are the only one left and you both have to come with us," NK said, "We don't really want to go by ourselves."
"Please guys you both have to come!" Lavanya said.
"But--," Khushi started off and was interrupted again by Lavanya.
"Please come! I don't have that many other friends other than you other than a few on the cheerleading team, and many of them are very stuck up," Lavanya added.
"Fine fine, I'll go," Khushi said.
"And Arnav you have to come along also, I don't want to be the only boy with them," NK added and Arnav also agreed to come along.
"But don't you also need a date to come along with?" Khushi asked.
"Yeah you are suppose to have one, but some people go also even if they don't have one. So it's okay to come along," Lavanya said.
A date? Was she thinking of asking someone to come along with her? Arnav thought to himself, and just the thought of some stranger being with her made his heart tug.
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