“Oh my god, oh my god. What is all this. Holy shit.” Manav shouted. He was in a state of shock.

“Why what hap­pened?” Dhruv asked. Then Manav pointed towards the wall. We rushed in. On the wall was the print­out of Manav hold­ing Sak­shi in his arms. The ones I had taken out.

“That seems to be Manav and Sak­shi isn’t it.” I said as if I didn’t knew anything

“Yes it seems so.” Rohit.

“How did this come here.” Manav.

“Now what else proof do you need Manav.” Aakash.

“hmm some­thing is going on. That photo shows it all.” Sahil.

“Yeah, you didn’t have faith in us.” Deepak.

“But this is all wrong.” Manav.

“Is it not you in the photo.” Karan.

“Yes. But not the way you think.”

“And what are we sup­posed to think.” I said.

“Well I was hold­ing her but not in that sense.” Manav.

“What sense.” Deepak.

“You were hold­ing her. Weren’t you.” Karan.

“Yes….”

“You went after her after she got angry.” Sahil.

“Yes..”

“You were with all the time yes­ter­day night.” Rohit.

“You love her ? Say yes.” I said.

“Yes…”

“Hey he said it, yes he said it.” Dhruv.” I have got to tell this to every­body.” Dhruv tried to run out and Manav ran after him. We chased them.

“Come back Dhruv, come­back. If you say any­thing see what I will do to you.” Manav while running.

They ran towards the swim­ming pool. All the girls had gath­ered there. Dhruv ran towards Sak­shi. As soon as he reached her. He pushed her over Manav. Both lost con­trol and fell into the pool. Manav caught hold of Sakshi.

“Smile please.” I said and took a click.

Every­body just burst into laugh­ter. Then we ran back to our room. Manav also came.

“Why don’t you tell her that you love her.” Rohit.

“I don’t know how to tell. Besides what will she think.” Manav.

“Why do you worry when we are there.” I said.

“We will help you.” Sahil.

“Well let’s fix up a lunch for the two of you alone. In the restau­rant.” Rajeev.

“That’s a good idea.” Aakash.

“Well okay.” Manav.

We planned the lunch. The plans were told to the girls but were told to keep it a secret from Sak­shi. Then the two of them went for lunch.

“Where is every­body else?” Sakshi.

“Well come sit they must be com­ing.” Manav. They sat at the table we had booked for them.

“what will you have” Manav.

“Any­thing.” Sakshi.

Manav ordered. The waiter then got a cake in the shape of a heart and pre­sented it to them.

“What is this we did not order for it?” Sak­shi sur­prised by it.

“Well I did.” Manav. The waiter left. “Sak­shi this is for you from me. Sak­shi I love you.”

“What did you say?” Sak­shi said, she couldn’t believe her ears.

“I love you.”

“I love you too.” Sak­shi and Manav got up and Hugged each other. As soon as they did we ran to con­grat­u­late them.

All the guys got a coke and show­ered it over them. Then they cut the cake and we had a party. We got the music rolling. Oh it was just lovely. We enjoyed our­selves. Then we all went to my room.

“So Sak­shi how do you feel?” Ritu. She just blushed.

“Yes­ter­day when we were say­ing the same. You acted as if noth­ing was there.” Aakash.

“Well till yes­ter­day there was noth­ing of this sort. But today I want to tell the world.” Manav.

“What will you tell the world the world knows it by now.” Rohit. “don’t you see those pho­tographs.” This time we had all the more pho­tographs all over the place.

We all then went to the beach and sat over there. Then we told how we had worked out all the plan and how we had fooled them.

Sak­shi and Manav were sit­ting and won­der­ing how we could have done such a thing to them. But all that mat­tered was that they were happy and together.

It was evening. The sun was set­ting we took a walk on the beach the red sun seemed to have melted into the ocean. Then Diya and I moved away from oth­ers and went to the small rocky por­tion near the shore. We sat there.

“Doesn’t this set­ting sun fas­ci­nate you.” I said.

“Yes. It is so roman­tic. Janu don’t you have some­thing beau­ti­ful to say on it.”

“Well let me think. Okay.

The sun is set­ting.
Melt­ing into the sea.
My heart is beat­ing.
Every beat call­ing only thee.”

“So roman­tic, how do you come up with such lines.”

“Well once you are in front of me things just comes out. I wish you always stay in front of my eyes and I keep say­ing things like these.”

“I will always be with you.”

“I know. Because you live here in my heart.”

“Janu I love you.”

“Me too.”

The oth­ers were sit­ting and chat­ting. We also sat for some more time and then moved on where every­body was sit­ting. We played antak­shari for some time. It was so fun to be with everybody.

After din­ner all the guys gath­ered in my room. We all sat and were talk­ing about the inci­dents that had taken place in the past few weeks. It seemed only like yes­ter­day when we used to go to school, today we our in col­lege. Try­ing to make some­thing out of our lives.

“Do you all remem­ber how we used to bug the girls.” Karan.

“Yeah.” Rohit.

“When­ever they used to play with their dolls we would go and dis­turb them.” Aakash.

“They would then go and com­plain to their moms and we would get a scold­ing.” Deepak.

“These mem­o­ries are so pleas­ant aren’t they.” Sahil.

“Yeah.” Manav.

“Hey Raj. How does it feel to be in love.” Sahil.

“I can’t explain. I don’t have the words for it.” I said.” But I can tell you one thing it is a won­der­ful feeling.”

“Yeah I agree.” Dhruv.