9 WISHES by hima (dark academia books to read .TXT) 📖

not his fault to have mean friends."i said.


"Wait,did you say HARRYPOTTER-6?????????"i was all excited.


"Hm!remember multiplex."she added"so are you in?"


"Like, i would miss it for anything?"i added gleefully.


"Pick you up at 7,"she said.


I was so excited.These stupid clock is winding so slow.Another hour to go!!!!!


I heard someone ringing the bell.Oh!it's probably some door delivery for laundry or something.It's too early for them to come.


Anna was calling me.(she is my nanny.she is all i have close to a family.she is with me like forever.)


"Honey,someone's here for you?"she said.


Oh!who would be calling upon me now.


"hey,all set?"jyo said giving me a big hug.


"It's only 6."i said looking at the wall clock.


"Just come on,i thought we could grab something before the movie."she said all smiling.


"Hm!good idea.give me a sec."i said and hurried to nana to take my leave.


She gave me a perk and gave me all precautions.


"See,what did i say?"she was asking.


Rahul was giving me a smile and opened the door for us, to hop into the car.Here was the trouble.Mr.raj is here, behind the wheel.


"Why does he always follow him?"i whispered into jyo's ears.


"Can i go anywhere without you or can you go without me?the same with them."she whispered back.


"Fine."i said.


"What were you saying to rahul before?"i asked.


The thing is we had sort of bet.Rahul said that you probably won't be ready since it was like an hour early, but i know how big fan you are for harry and Rowling.so i insisted on coming here.Rahul smiled at me.I caught the smile of raj in the mirror.His smile was really alluring.How could such a person with sweet smile be so mean?


Everything went well(Movie was great as usual harry rockzzzzzz.)except for the part where i accidentally placed my hand on raj's and had to apologize.


4


What's wrong with me???I mean, seriously, this hasn't happened to me until now.

Do you know what i mean?Raj,the mean and hot guy was in my dreams.We were both holding hands and he was looking at me the way rahul looks at jyo.Guess what?I'm practically blushing.


(Ha!as if that could ever happen??)


I was practicing my song for the cultural events when raj walked into the auditorium.My friends were all dancing at the other end of the room.He looked at me,got his backpack and before leaving the room, he took a step towards me and said with his deep masculine voice "You have a beautiful voice."


"Thanks,"i barely replied before he smiled and walked away.


All the day his voice seemed to be reverberating in my mind.


At noon jyo sided me and said"I saw raj talking to you."


"Just saying that i have a beautiful voice."i said not to show any enthusiasm in my words.


She gave me the look like,Didn't i say he is a good one?


Few more days passed without any dreams or voices reverberating in my head.


"Honey,call for you."nana shrieked at top of her voice to be heard over the music.


Since it was a weekend.I'm having capital time by listening to my favorite songs over the music player and watching tom and jerry at once.


"Who?"i asked.


"Jyo,"she said.


"Thanks,nana."i said taking the receiver into my hands.


"hey,jyo.how are you doing?"i asked.


"Where were you?i have been calling for ages to your mobile."she said.


"Oops!silent."i said.


"Ash,i need your help."she said.


"I'am all yours."i said.


"Can you come to my home and take me out?"she said tentatively.


"Look,you said all that stuff about you being an interruption to my privacy.I understand it,but my mom says that i can't go out.I have no other choice except for you to come in and ask my mom's permission, to take me out."she said.


I considered for a few minutes and said "okay."


That's how i ended up sitting on the sand and picking the shells again.It seems that rahul has some trouble too for getting away from home since raj was sitting beside me with his ipod on.


I sat there silently for a few seconds unable to bear the silence.


"What are you always listening to?"i asked but remembering how last time he didn't answer.I dropped the question.


"Do you wanna hear it?"he asked.


I nodded.He gave me his ipod.


"That's my favorite number."i said.


"Yeah,mine too."he said.


I gave him one earphone and we moved closer since the length of the wire is short.


"What else do you have?"i asked.


He is showing all his favorite ones, most of which i liked.


"Top one, on your list of favorite songs?"i asked.


"I want it that way."he said.


"That's great,mine too."he said.


"Have you learnt classical music?"he asked after a pause.


"Yeah,a few years back."i said and raised an eyebrow questioningly.


"It's just your voice is good and you seem to know where to stress and where not to."he added with a smile.


I don't know why it happens but every time i see him smile my stomach twists.It's not like something bad, it's just a weird feeling.


We talked a lot about music.It seems that he knows a lot more about music than anyone in the world.


"Thanks,for the help."rahul said.


"Don't say that.you are my friend,right?"i said.


"I should thank you for giving me a good friend like raj."i added.


Why did i say that?Do i really think him as my friend?or was i just being polite?Either way i'm nuts.They dropped us at jyo's home.


"Good friend?"rahul inquired.


"I seemed to be wrong about her,she is a good girl."he added,"we had a good chat about music back there."


"Good friend?good girl?nice improvement."he mocked.


5


Why do i keep seeing him in my dreams?Only it was worse yesterday.I was in his arms and he was singing me a love song.(love song?really i'm nutssss)


With cultural event in two days.All the campus is busy with the arrangements.Our hod announced that there is a screening in the noon session.I had a good chance of seeing raj's dance.It was a love song sequence.He really did well.


"You are pretty good, back there."i said.


"Thanks,"he said.


I smiled and left.Later committees were organized and leaders were assigned to preside over each committee.With luck or without luck, me and raj got into cultural committee,jyo and rahul to registration committee.


The two days had gone by easily,What with everyone burdened with loads of work.We are preparing a time chart.We are having capital time, discussing about school gossips When i was called by my professor to hand-out me a notes that has some changes in it.When i returned back all of raj's friends are like "What's up between u and ash?"


"Nothing,we are just talking."he said curtly.


"Oh!born enemies turns out to be friends, next what lovers?"they said.


"There is nothing between us.get out of here."he said.


"Oh!he wants us to be out of their way so that he can be alone with her."one of them said.


"You know what.what you said is true.so why don't you leave us alone?"he said so rashly.


That's when i coughed to show my entrance.They all left immediately.I sat silently not wanting to talk to him anymore, how can he say that to his friends.Past few days, i thought him to be a really nice guy,But when am i ever wrong?


"What are you thinking?you are so lost in thoughts."he said looking at me.


I blurted out all that i was thinking aloud.He didn't even apologize, for what he did even after me getting mad over it.


Fine.If he cant even apologize for his mistakes, what kind of man is he?


"I was wrong about you."i said that and left him with revised time table.


"Ash,i need to talk to you."raj cornered me during the vote of thanks.
"There's nothing to talk,I have been completely blind to your follies.I was right at first.You are mean and prejudiced.What do you think, if a girl talks to you,then you can assume that she loves you."i said and started to leave pulling away from his grip.
"No,you cannot leave without me explaining to you," he said tightening his grip on my hands.
It's hard to stay angry when he is so close to me.Suppose,if some role model looking so god like, is so close. Would you take eyes away from him or supposedly speak something to him?That's what it is when i stay near to him.Anyway i yanked from his grip and ran into the sea of parents and then to my car that is awaiting outside.
6
That night i had yet another dream of raj,standing so tall and handsome with his alluring smile on his face and calling my name in his sweet enchanting voice.
ASh....Ash....
"Ash,hon,wake up."nana's voice brought me from that wonderland to the real world.
"Oh!nana remember today is a holiday.let me sleep."i said sleepily.
"I remember well."she pulled my covers and added,"your mama and papa are back from their business trip."
I ran the flight of stairs two steps at a time calling papa.Even though i have very few precious moments with my parents.i hardly can't wait for those moments
"hey,honey."my mom said planting me a kiss on the forehead .
"Since when did you become a sleeping beauty?"my papa said embracing me in a bear hug.
"Had a long and tiresome day."i said winking.
"We have a good news for you."my mama said enlightened.
"We are extending our business to Delhi now."mom said.
"Oh!that's great."i said all surprised and happy but inside i was like, that means you will be more away from me than usual.
"Ash,call for you."nana said.
Oh!thanks it could have never have worked that me pretending to be happy for so long.Mama was so good at knowing my moods.
"Hey,Ash."a soft voice called from the other end.
"Hey!jyo,"i added "What's up?"
"When did you leave yesterday?"she said more like demanding.
"Oh!i felt too tired so i left."i said(OMG!can anyone lie as stupidly as me.No doubt i'm going to get caught.)
"Honey!there's a party to night.Invite your friends."mama called.
"Oh!Is that your mama?Are they back?"she asked.
Good the subject is dropped.
"Yeah!hey jyo we are having a party to night,you should come."i said.
"I will be there,so they are having another branch in other city or what?"she asked.
"You know i sort of ignore my parents business deals."i said.
"Okay,i gotta go."i said and put the receiver down before she brings the subject again.
Mama and papa were busy inviting guests.I happened to invite some of friends from college.I helped mama to select the menu for evening and presiding over the decor.
Day rolled soon into night and guests started arriving.Jyo was the first to arrive,We went up to my room and started dressing up each other.
"Ash,look at you,you look like a fairy princess."she said.
"And you...look like fairy princess best friend."i added,"you look gorgeous in blue."
"Wish rahul could see me now."she added with a