The Partial Affection

Chapter 3

Rest of the day spent by me attending all the classes and Rohan being by my side the whole day. He is a bit self centered but that's fine. He is cute, and really helpful. Then the last class ended and all of us started going to our way home. I knew my father was going to pick up but now I see my brother. At least I'll have someone to talk to on my way back home.

Suddenly, I see, Dada looking beside me. Maybe he doesn't believe I made a friend already. "Hey Sarthak bhaiya, what are you doing here?" I hear Rohan speak. Wait, what? Rohan knows my brother?

"Hey, I'm here to pick my sister." Dada replies and looks at me awkwardly.

"Wait wait. How do you guys know each other?" I say, being confused.

Then Rohan looks me and him and realizes. "So Shruti is your sister?" He asks Dada.

"Oh, yeah." "How do you guys know each other again?" I ask. I mean, how?

"Oh, well, Rohan is my best friend's brother. That's how we know each other." Dada puts and end in my confusion.

"Yeah, Sarthak bhaiya comes to my house often." Rohan reassured me. Well, what a coincidence.

"Oh." I say.

"Next time when you come, take Shruti with you." Rohan indirectly invites me in his house through my brother.

"Yeah, sure." My brother throws a grin and we wave hands to say bye.

After getting in the car Dada speaks after few minutes. "So Rohan huh?"

"What?" I was thinking about something else.

"You like him, or what?"

"Dada, it's only first day of college!" I feel shy.

"So what? You can't have a crush on the first day of college?" He teases.

"Nooo. It's not like that." I have to convince him. Otherwise he will keep teasing me.

"You sure?" He asks with an evil smile on his face.

"Sure. He is cute and attractive but I feel like he's gonna be a great friend to me." I confirm the way I feel about him.

"Well, that's cool. At least you made a friend. I'm already relieved."

"Yeah me too."

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The drive was good. After a long me and dada talked calmly and I feel better already.

As we get home my parents ask me about my day. I tell them everything, leaving Rohan. My father didn't show any emotion and my mother congratulated me in a fake cheerful manner.

"The best part is that she made a friend!" And I look at my brother as soon as he said it with complete rage and I can feel he instantly regrets what he said. Now they are gonna forbid me to speak to him ever again. Cool.

"Did she now?" My father sounds sarcastic as I never am good at making friends.

"Who is that?" My mother asks curiously, and I can tell, she is ready to judge.

"Actually I know him. He is brother of one of my college friends." I can tell, Dada is trying to say what they wanna hear. That he is from a good family.

"And who is your that friend?" Mother is totally ready to break us down as she is looking at dada with her hands on her hips. It's hard to contain my laugh.

"Utkarsh." Wait. Utkarsh bhaiya is Rohan's brother? Well, on his first year of college, Dada used to talk a lot about him. He even came here few times.