By the third day of school, Aaradhya Kapoor had developed three strong opinions:
~Chemistry labs were cursed.
~Agastya Rathore flirted with Amayra Agarwal like it was an Olympic sport.
~Rudra Singhania was the most irritating human being alive.
Unfortunately he was also suddenly everywhere. In the canteen, In the library , In the corridor , In her friend group against her will.
“You attract problems,” Aaradhya informed Amayra while opening her lunchbox.
Amayra shrugged innocently. “Maybe problems are attracted to us.”
“Us?” Aaradhya repeated.
Before Divya could answer, someone slid into the seat beside Aaradhya casually.
“Move,” she said immediately without looking.
“No.”
Rudra Of course.
Agastya dropped into the chair beside Amayra with a dramatic sigh. “I’m emotionally exhausted.”
“You’ve done nothing all day,” Amayra said.
“Exactly. It’s tiring.”
Aaradhya ignored them and continued eating.
Rudra leaned back lazily. “You know, Kapoor, for someone so tiny, you threaten violence a lot.”
She looked up sharply. “For someone who talks so much, you should’ve been muted by God.”
Agastya slapped the table laughing. Amayra tried hiding her smile behind her water bottle.
Rudra smirked slightly. “You always this rude?”
“You always this jobless?”
“Mostly.”
Their eyes locked for half a second. Then Aaradhya looked away first. Not because she was nervous.
Mostly because his stupid eyes were annoyingly distracting.
The problem with school rumours was that they spread faster than Wi-Fi.
By lunch break, half the class believed Aaradhya and Rudra secretly liked each other.
Which was ridiculous.
“People are insane,” Aaradhya complained while walking through the corridor.
Amayra looked suspiciously entertained. “I mean… the tension is there.”
“There is no tension.”
Right then, Rudra walked past from the opposite direction.
Without breaking eye contact, he stole Aaradhya’s pen from her blazer pocket and kept walking.
Aaradhya stopped mid-sentence.
“…Did he just—”
“RUDRA SINGHANIA!”
The entire hallway turned to watch.
Rudra kept walking calmly while spinning her pen between his fingers.
“Come take it, Kapoor.”
Her eye twitched.
Amayra was laughing too hard to breathe.
Aaradhya chased him through the corridor while students moved out of the way like it was an action movie.
“Give it back!”
“Ask nicely.”
“I will end your bloodline!”
Agastya nearly collapsed against a locker from laughing.
Rudra finally stopped near the basketball court.
Aaradhya grabbed his blazer sleeve furiously. “Enough!”
For a second, both of them froze.
Because they were suddenly standing too close.
Rudra looked down at her hand holding his sleeve.
Then at her face.
“Relax,” he murmured, unusually calm.
Aaradhya quickly let go. “Just give my pen back.”
“You’re cute when angry.”
Silence.
Agastya’s mouth dropped open dramatically.
Amayra whispered, “OH?”
Aaradhya stared at Rudra like he had personally committed crimes against humanity. “You need therapy.”
Then she snatched her pen back and stormed away.
But unfortunately , her ears had turned red.
And Rudra noticed.
That evening, dark clouds covered the sky just before dispersal.
Students rushed toward the gates as thunder echoed loudly.
“I forgot my umbrella,” Amayra groaned.
Agastya immediately opened his bag. “I brought two.”
Amayra blinked. “Why?”
He looked equally surprised himself. “I… don’t know actually.”
Rudra smirked knowingly beside him.
Meanwhile Aaradhya stood near the school entrance watching the heavy rain pour outside.
She hated rain.
Not because it was romantic or dramatic or poetic but because roads became muddy, autos disappeared, and her hair transformed into a national problem.
“You waiting for someone?” Rudra asked, appearing beside her.
“No. I enjoy standing sadly near gates for fun.”
He chuckled quietly.
Aaradhya frowned slightly.
Why did his laugh suddenly sound… nice?
No. Illegal thought. Delete immediately.
“I’ll drop you,” he said casually.
She looked horrified. “Excuse me?”
“My driver’s outside.”
“I’d rather swim home.”
“Bit dramatic.”
“You literally tripped me on the first day.”
“And you survived.”
“I almost died from irritation.”
Rudra shook his head like she was impossible.
Before Aaradhya could continue arguing, thunder cracked loudly across the sky.
The lights flickered.
Instinctively, she flinched.
Very slightly.
But Rudra noticed anyway.
His teasing expression faded for a second.
“You scared of thunder?” he asked softly.
“No.”
Another thunderclap sounded.
Aaradhya looked away immediately.
Rudra didn’t tease her this time.
Instead, he quietly stepped closer to the edge of the gate so the rain wouldn’t splash onto her shoes.
Such a tiny thing.
So small she almost missed it.
But Aaradhya noticed anyway.
And for the first time The idea of Rudra Singhania became slightly confusing.
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