Author's Pov

Mrs. Malhotra was quite different from what they had imagined. Being the wife of such a big business tycoon and the owner of such a big make up brand, Mrs. Anita Malhotra was a very down to earth lady. She herself was from a middle class family who had started her own business with her hard work and set up a whole brand. She had become quite successful even before her marriage to Narayan Malhotra and after marriage, it seemed as if no one could stop her. But she had only one weakness. Her son Ahan. Ahan was their only child and hence his father had kept him in a very strict environment since childhood. He always took all the decisions of his life himself and Ahan could not refuse even if he wanted to. Mrs.Anita Malhotra had seen Ahan sacrificing his desires for his father's happiness since childhood. She had never seen Ahan getting close to anyone. Neither could he make friends nor could he have a best friend. Hence, she always wanted someone to come into Ahan's life who would teach him to forget everything and live for himself. She had called Samira to meet her because she actually wanted to know whether

Samira really likes Ahan or not. She wanted to test her with her own eyes. Otherwise, it was easy for her to know everything about Samira while sitting at home.

And when she got to know that Samira is actually the daughter of Partha and Anahita Chakraborty,who were her and Narayan Malhotra's collagemates but due a misunderstanding between Narayan and Parth the friendship broke and they become business rivals as soon as Parth Chakraborty retired from army and jouned his family business..but all these doesn't matter to Anita Malhotra she was happy to know who Samira is and she take it as a chance to revive that old broken friendship.  And found the perfect girl for her Son.

Mrs. Malhotra asked Samira very excitedly, “So Ahan also likes you? And since when has all this been going on?”

Hidden in embarrassment, Samira said, “ummmm,…actually, not Ahan”.

“What??....” Mrs. Malhotra interrupted and asked, “don't tell me that you have not told Ahan anything about this”.

And Samira bowed her head in denial.

Diya and Arjun who were till now trying to listen to them from a distance, felt that maybe now Samira will not be able to handle the matter and a scene will be created. So, they ran towards her to support and stood in front of her.

“Aunty she is saying the truth, it was just an accident, there is no fault of hers”, Arjun said in one breath closing his eyes. Meanwhile Divya pushed Samira's chair back and stood in front of her. She slammed her hands on the table and said, “That's it, now you cannot torture Samira any more”.

Mrs. Malhotra was not able to understand anything.

Samira pulled Diya  aside and said, “No no! You have misunderstood, she has not tortured me, you both please calm down”.

Diya nd Arjun started looking at Samira in confusion. “What do you mean?” Diya said angrily looking at Mrs. Malhotra, “We ourselves saw Aunty shouting at you”.

Samira put her hand on her head in embarrassment and said, “You both sit down, I will tell you everything”.

Samira told them everything, they both were not able to believe her words, but the truth was sitting in front of them.

Mrs. Malhotra asked them with a slight sarcastic smile, “Oh so you all came with a plan to fight with me. And Arjun, Beta you too?”

“No no Aunty I was already telling them that you are very nice, I know you”, Arjun started speaking to cover his mistake.

In all this Doua spoke in between, “So you want to say that Samira should go and express her love?”

Mrs. Malhotra said seriously, “Yes! .... I know Ahan very well, if you don’t tell him, then he will never look at you in that way. If you want to make him fall in love with you, then first tell him clearly that you love him”.

Samira asked doubtfully, “But what if he refuses?”

“ There no if, he will definitely refuse”, hearing this from Arjun, Diya slapped him on his shoulder and said, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

“But I am telling the truth,...........” Arjun said looking at Aunty, “You didn’t understand what Aunty said, she wants to say that Ahan needs to be made aware that officially Samira likes him. So that he can look at Samira in that way only”.

Mrs. Choudhary said while getting up, “What’s the matter Arjun beta, you have become very smart huh, just like your mummy, I am impressed”.

Then she looked at Nikita and said, “Look bacche, there is no hurry, you still have your whole life ahead of you, if you still want to think more then think about it, but once Ahan graduates then maybe he will be ready to spend his whole life with the girl suggested by his father to make him happy. You have only 4 years”.

Mrs. Malhotra started to leave from there, “I am leaving for now. I cannot help you more than this Beta for now.”, saying this she left from there.

Samira put her hand on her head and worriedly asked , “What should I do Diyu, this is a big problem for me. On one hand his mother said that I should tell him everything and on the other hand yesterday such an awkward scene happened, what should I do yarr, I am not able to understand anything.”

For the first time Diya also did not have any idea. She held Samira's hand and said, “I am also not able to understand all this, in such a situation the only option left is to do whatever Aunty said. Now you see  much older she is than us and if anyone knows Ahan the most among us then it is her”.

They all started thinking of ideas to make Ahan melt on Samira's love confession.

Samira after the freshers party scene

Today again she was nervous to go to college. She was not this nervous even on the first day of college. She was worried about how she would face Ahan, and now she had to express her love as soon as possible. Diya was not going to come to class today due to some project of the fashion society. This made her feel even more nervous. She reached the class early and sat on her seat. By that time only 1-2 students had come to the class. Samira sat down and started thinking of a way to express her love to Ahan.

She was lost in her own thoughts without paying attention to the people coming and going in the class when suddenly 2 girls came to the class and stood in front of her. One of them was Mohini, the winner of that year's Ms. Delhi competition and with her was her friend Anjali.

Mohini was actually very fashion updated and came to college every day dressed as a model. No one could take their eyes off her when they saw her coming. Mohini was also Ahan's classmate during school time. She considered Ahan as her property, that's why no girl could ever come close to him in school.

Mohini said without looking at Samira, "You are the same girl from Freshers, right?"

Samira who was lost in her thoughts as usual, said happily on seeing Monika, "Oh! You are the same girl, right Ms. Delhi, I had seen your photo in the newspaper, I had heard that you are also from this college, I saw it today as well".

Monika felt like laughing on seeing Samira being happy like a child, she said laughing, "Yes I am the same girl, till today I also used to think that if any girl has the most confidence here, then it is me. But no, you proved me wrong in just one night. You went and kissed Ahan Malhotra on the night of the Freshers party, what a thing!!" Saying this, she started clapping and her friend also joined her in this.

After listening to Monika, Samira realized that her and Ahan's photos had gone viral not only in their class but in the entire college.

She spoke in embarrassment, "No, there is nothing like that, it was just an accident".

"Ha! Accident!" Mohini said in a high tone, "I have seen many such accidents and people who cause such accidents too".

The class was about to start in a while and many students had already come to the class. To avoid further embarrassment, Samira got up and went out of the class. Mohini and Anjali also followed her out of the class. Anjali held Samira's hand and stopped her and said, "Your act will not hide away if you just run away without saying anything". Samira was very angry at both of them but she did not want to create any scene again.

“Look, I don’t want to create a scene here, and the truth doesn’t change by asking again and again”, Samira said while freeing her hand, “please go away from here”.

Mohini was quite rude. She went close to Samira and said, “I have seen many girls like you, why did the accident happen with you and Ahan only? I understand all your techniques very well, you are deliberately doing all this drama to get close to him, I understand that very well”.

Samira was trying to control her anger for a long time, she said in a choked voice with tears in her eyes, “please, go away from here, I am saying it for the last time, I have not done anything, it was just an accident”.

Before Mohini could say anything, someone said from behind, “It was not an accident”. Samira turned back and saw Ahan coming towards them. He came and stood near Samira with his hand on her shoulder.

Ahan looked at Mohini and said, “Yes! It was not an accident, I kissed her intentionally.”

Mohini looked at Samaira and said to Ahan, “A-A-Ahan….you here, I don’t know why you are taking her side, but I know you very well, you did not kiss her, you can’t do it, she---she is not your type.”

Ahan pulled Samira towards himself held her by waist, brought her closer and said, “You are right, she is not my type. But yesterday in the party she was looking very beautiful, so I could not stop myself, nothing more than all. This is my problem and I do not need anyone else’s opinion in this. Our class is about to start right now, so let’s go.”

And Ahan took Samira inside the class. She was not surprised at all by whatever had just happened because she knew that whatever Ahan did, whatever he said, he said it only to get her out of that situation. So she went to the class with Ahan without saying anything and sat on her seat. She did not make eye contact with anyone and just kept looking at the floor. Her tears were not stopping even though she did not want to cry.

Ahan said while offering his handkerchief to her, “Don’t think too much about them.”

He was looking at her with a side glance. Samira held the handkerchief without looking at him and started wiping her tears.

“Whatever I said outside, don’t take it seriously, I don’t mean it, I just……”

Samira interrupted him and said, “I know, thank you, if you had not come, I would have beaten up a couple of people today.”

Ahan looked at her and looking ahead with a light smile said, “Oh! It didn’t seem like that.” There was a light humour in his voice.

Samira saw him laughing and said, “Hey! Are you laughing at me? What do you think I will get scared of them? I am not scared of anyone, it was just that I was not in the mood to fight”. Ahan ignored her and took out his books and started reading. There was a slight smile on his face, which cane due to Samira.

After class, Samira went and sat outside Diya's fashion society and started waiting for her. She called Arjun sitting there and said, “What happened Arjun, is everything alright? You didn't come to class today?”

Arjun was driving the car so he said in a hurry, “Yes, I am about to reach, I had to take Dadi to the hospital today for a check up so I got late, I will come and talk”, and then he disconnected the call before Samira could say anything. Meanwhile, Diya also came out and seeing Samira waiting for her, she ran towards her happily. As soon as she came near her and saw Samira, her mood changed from happy to serious. She held Samira's face with both her hands and raised it up and looking at her eyes said, “What is this? Why are your eyes swollen? Did you cry? But who made you cry? What happened, tell me something?”

As usual she asked a line of questions. Samira removed her hands from her face and said, “I will tell you, I will tell you, only if you let me speak. Sit here”. Meanwhile Arjun also came there in a hurry and said, “Sorry Samira, I should have come early today, I did not think that it would not be right to let you go to class alone today”.

Samira looked at Arjun in confusion and said, “You already know what happened today? But how?”

Arjun said while sitting, “Yes! I came to know from Ahan, I called him to ask about today’s classwork, then he told me about Mohini”.

In all this, Diya, who was not able to understand anything, interrupted them and said, “One minute, will anyone tell me what happened today? And------and who is this Mohini?

Samira told Diya everything, then after listening to her, Diya got up in anger picked up her bag and started leaving from there. Samira looked at Arjun and then at  Diya and asked her, “Where are you going now?”

“Where are you going? What do you think? To teach that Mohini a lesson,where else? How dare she say all these things to you?” She started leaving from there shouting.

Arjun and Samira somehow caught her and makung her sit they calmed her anger.

When her anger subsided a little, she looked at Tarun and asked, “What do Mohini and Ahan have to do with each other?”

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Okayyyy so did you like Anita Malhotra Ahan's mom...I liked her.

Anyway let's see will she help Our Samira or not and what's with his Mohini now?!!

Do shower your love on this chapter I will see in the next one..

Bye bye 👋

-pritihearts 💕💕