ArShi SS: The 10 Days Challenge[COMPLETE]

If you let your secrets be out to the winds, you cannot expect the wind to not tell them to the trees.

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There are secrets that you want to keep locked forever and throw the keys away to the land of Timbuktu so that no one can fetch it and nudge with what you have kept hidden.

And then there are secrets that become the worst kept ones in no time, due to catalysts that can be a person, the wind, your thoughts, and anything under the sky.

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Teacher caught you peeping into your classmate's answer sheet?

Check.

Mom caught you stealing ice-cream from the refrigerator at midnight when you thought everyone's asleep?

Check.

Dad caught you sneaking into your mansion's bar and trying out the royal brands of scotch when you were only 16?

Double check.

Your entire class seeing you make out with your self proclaimed arch rival-turned girlfriend-turned pretend arch rival?

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No comments.

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That's what Arnav Singh Raizada felt right now.

SAME DAY OF REVELATION

The Commons, Department of Science, Hillridge International College.

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"So. You ARE dating Gupta? For REAL? For like, really, really, really Real?"

Aman asked, for the nth time now, in the last 15 minutes.

"Add a 100 more REALLYs to that, the fact wouldn't change! Yes, I am dating her! Problem, much?"

Arnav retorted, his tone fully coated with the ASR approach.

He looked around and saw the Science Commons to be looking like an interrogation room though, like we see in those movies? The CIA interrogating an accused.

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"But how?! I mean HOW, ASR? I mean, I mean.. YOU and... GUPTA?"

It was Ved's turn now to express his shock.

"Yeah so?"

Arnav spat.

"So? So I mean, you guys HATE each other."

"Uh-uh. -TED. HaTED."

Arnav corrected the still in shock Ved in a theatrical fashion.

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"Okay, hated each other. Then how? How can all this-"

"Oh give me a break Ved! Looks like someone needs to give up studying science for a while and pay attention to some Mills & Boons stories. Perhaps then you can get the answer to that HOW!"