Prologue

Riya stepped inside the café, carefully holding her assignment against her chest with a small smile resting on her lips. She had spent days and night working on it, and now she has came here to check it, one final time before submission.

At that very moment, a young man walked toward the café entrance, his attention fixed on the phone in his hand.

Neither of them noticed each other.

And within the next second...

They collided with each other.

THUD!

The hot coffee spilled all over her assignment. brown stains quickly spread across every page.

For a few seconds...

She said nothing.

She just started at it in shocked.

She quickly picked up the papers. the ink had already begun to spread. some pages were completely soaked.

Two months of hardwork...

Gone.

Just like that.

She slowly looked up.

And at that moment she didn't cared about anyone, the crowd, the caffe, the people watching them. all of them just disappeared before her eyes. she just shouted at the man standing before her.

"What the hell!! are you blind or what??" riya yelled at him.

"I am sorry. It was an accident." the boy apologized.

"Do you think your sorry will fix this?"

She said holding up her assignment towards him.

"I can pay for this."

"Tell me you can give me my time, my hardwork, my sleepless nights which I have spent in doing this assignment, all of it back to me?"

Silence was the only answer she received from him.

"You don't have answer to that. Do you?

"No you don't."

"Because you can't...you can't give all of that back to me."

"And now because of your stupid mistake my whole assignment is ruined."

"Can't you watch who is coming from the opposite side or were you too busy scrolling through your phone that you couldn't even watch around."

"You could have also watched who is coming from the opposite side." the boy said.

"Oh! so now that is also my fault." she said sarcasm dripping from her voice.

"Now a person can't even live peacefully in the quiet environment." Saying that she got away from there showing daggers at him.

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"Hey you black car. listen to me come back here." she screamed at the person inside the car who has just broken her phone.

The boy looked back from his rear view mirror to find the girl from the yesterday's event. with whom he had a fight in the caffe.

"She had came here also for her assignment. I had already told her I will pay for it but she doesn't listen." The boy in the car said.

"It's our first day of college and I don't want any trouble to happen on the very first day of the college so please just drive and Ignore her." the boy said to his driver.

Then the car started going.

"NO! Wait." the girl shouted but the car was already gone.

"Ugghhh!! Why does he seem to have some sort of problem with me, I don't understand." She said keeping both of her hands beside her hair and gripping them tightly to calm down her frustration.

"First my assignment."

"Now my phone."

"I just really hope that I never meet him again."

Saying that she loosened her hold on her hair a bit and said.

"Now I have to go back home and change my clothes....he is just too arrogant to notice things around himself." with that she angrily leaves from there.

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"Are you kidding me?" Maya almost shouted.

"I mean you had a fight with one of the richest man in this city." said anika next.

"Okay. let's not forget our deal about what you said earlier about dating him." zara reminded riya.

"I am not gonna date him ever."

"Even If he will be the last boy in this earth, then also I will never gonna date him."

"I will choose to stay single all over my life and never get married, rather than choosing him to be my partner." she said remembering whenever she was with him she always got herself in trouble.

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Riya stood silently, finding the shelter at a side of the road , staring at the rain with tears glistening in her eyes. She wasn't crying because of the weather.

A few moments later, hurried footsteps echoed through the rain.

"You'll catch a fever," she whispered, her voice trembling.

He smiled faintly.

"I would rather catch a fever than lose you."

The tears she had been holding back finally escaped.

"Why?" she asked brokenly. "Why do you care for me?"

"Just tell me.why?"

"You know..." he murmured softly, resting his chin on her head, "there was a time when seeing you irritated me more than anything."

"And now..."

"My day doesn't begin until I see you."

"My heart doesn't feel at peace until I know you're smiling."

"It's like..."

He stopped thinking for a right word to say.

"It's like... my world stops without you not being beside me for even a second."

And then he looked straight through her eyes and said.

"And if someday the whole world stands against you..."

He gently wiped away the tears rolling down her cheeks with his thumb.

"Then I'll stand against the whole world."

Riya stared at him with trembling eyes.

"And in every lifetime after that..."

"I'll still find you."

"I'll still choose you."

"Again and again."

"No matter how many lifetimes it takes." He said looking lovingly into her eyes.

"I LOVE YOU!! I love you so much that I can't leave you even If I want." she shouted cryingly.

"Then don't. don't leave me. be with me, Love me, hate me, get angry with me, do whatever you want to do with me. just don't leave my side and go away from me, because I can't take away the thought of you not being by my side for even a single second throughout my life."

"I can't stay away from you. my only motive is to live in this world is you. and when only you will be not there in my life...then I don't think I will be able to live in the world where you are not beside me waiting for me to take your hand and walk by your side forever."

And with that, without giving her a chance to say anything, he kissed her forehead softly and wrapped his arms around her. finding comfort in each others embrace.