Suhana snuggled her cheek into the pillow, refusing to open her eyes, while she could recognize that it was definitely past 9.

Cuddling closer she breathed in, as a familiar cologne hit her nose. With her brain processing the possible factors of her smelling this familiar and peculiar scent at this time of an hour, Suhana slowly raised her head backwards as her eyes widened.

She immediately threw her head away from his chest, withdrew her hand which was swirled around him, with her brain frozen, not sure what was happening.

"Did I just--" Suhana mumbled to herself confused, "Did I really do that--" Suhana turned back and saw Vikram sleeping.

Yeah you were just cuddling with your 'new-friend' aka your husband, her mind voice snapped back at her.

She quickly turned to her left and then her right trying to locate the border she had created with those pillows lying around, last night.

She mentally slapped herself when she saw those pillows thrown away near the entrance far away from where she had placed it last night.

Crawling towards the pillow, she grabbed them swiftly and moved back to Vikram, and started placing them back at its place.

"Okay nothing happened, these pillows are at the same place since last night" Suhana murmured as she assured herself that there was nothing to panic.

"It was just a small mistake that I rolled in towards his side like a swiss roll, and it's definitely not wrong as it wasn't done intentionally" Suhana murmured to herself as she placed the last pillow between them.

"What are you doing?" Suhana flipped her head towards her left and saw Vikram staring at her.

"Huh--hmmm...Nothing....I swear nothing at all. I was just patting the pillows. Nothing else. They have been here only....since yesterday. It wasn't thrown near the entrance as well, it was placed here and I was adjusting the pillow cover" Suhana said it in a go, with her eyes widened.

"Ohh" Vikram nodded casually as he stood up and ran a hand through his silky black hair and walked outside as Suhana placed a hand on top of her heart and let out a deep breath.

"Now I am sure.

He is going to be the death of me. Definitely not in a good way" She muttered to herself"

•••

After drying out her hair, Suhana tossed the towel on top of her right shoulders as she moved towards Vikram's tent from the bathroom venue.

"I wonder what kind of Gymnastics is happening over there" Suhana gave a sly look as she crossed her tent which apparently is occupied by Rohit and Megha right now.

As she entered Vikram's tent, she saw him seated in the same position as yesterday, reading some random novel.

Trying to ignore his presence Suhana started to fold her blankets and arrange them neatly in one corner.

"I slept well last night" Suhana snapped back and saw him glaring at his book as usual, acting as if he hadn't said that.

"Ohh" Suhana turned away, quietly arranging the pillow on top of the blanket, as she opened the lid of the water bottle that was aside.

"And the side pillows were astonishingly too comfy last night" Suhana gasped, as she almost choked on the water, spilling some.

"Pillows?"

"Yeah, those pillows give away the touch of a human and makes us feel as if we are cuddling" Vikram said coolly with a smug look underneath his clueless face.

"Haha...yeah same...this pillow is also too comfortable as well" Suhana grabbed the pillow she sleeps on, desperately trying to divert the topic.

"It's...perfect..... perfect amount of air blown inside and if you remove the air then it's easily portable...so many features you know, thanks to Harsh" Suhana mentally slammed herself for blabbering all possible rubbish found on earth.

"Harshad?" Vikram raised his eyebrows, as he placed his novel aside.

"Huh, yeah it was too difficult to blow...but nevermind though, he offered to help and got it done within a few seconds" Vikram leaned on with his hand forward as Suhana handed over the pillow to him.

Vikram threw the pillow on the ground and laid his head on top of the pillow barely for a millisecond and immediately sat upright as he removed the nozzle, and deflated the air pillow.

"What are you doing?" Suhana wailed on top of her voice, as Vikram replied calmly, "It's not even comfortable, and look..."He pointed over at empty air and murmured,"It was filled with negative energy"

"You can't do that!" Suhana stared at him with her eyebrows meeting together, "Now you better lend me your pillow or else..."

"Yeah you can have my pillow, it even has hands and cuddles you all night and even wakes you up like an alarm with its new features, snoring!" Vikram said sarcastically as he threw the deflated pillow to the extreme corner and walked outside his tent, leaving Suhana behind with her jaw dropped on the ground.

"So you were faking your sleep Huh?" Suhana ran behind him outside the tent.

"Maybe" Vikram halted in front of Megha's tent as Suhana ran behind him and stood beside him.

"I don't snore okay so you better...What are you staring at?"

"That brat hasn't been seen since last night, do you think they made up?" Vikram put forth his confusion with his eyes fixed on the tent entrance.

"Probably! But it's also possible that my sister murdered him and whole night was searching some place to bury him and had to destroy the evidences and..."

"Please don't watch low rated thriller movies anymore" Vikram said, fed up with her never-ending unimaginable scenarios.

"Hey Suhana" Both Vikram and Suhana both swayed their heads to the right simultaneously to find Harshad and Zaara walking towards them.

"Hey, it's time I guess. Shall we leave?" Suhana pulled in her new trench coat towards her, as she realized how comfortable it really was.

"Yeah we'll leave for the camp in another fifteen. And...well we just got to know that it's Megha's birthday today" He exclaimed as Suhana nodded with a smile.

"So we kinda...thought we could have a campfire tonight after dinner hours? Like just our close circle!" There was a spark in Harshad's eyes as he expressed about the plan.

"Uhm..." Suhana dragged her words, buying some time to think.

"Well thanks, but we're not interested " Vikram snapped before Suhana could reply as Zaara walked towards him.

"Oh come on baby, it would be fun" Zaara spoke with her high pitched fake tone as Suhana took a step away from him.

"Ah anyways I knew you wouldn't be coming" Harshad snickered.

"And why would that be?" Vikram threw away Zaara's hands that were on his shoulders as he moved away from her, closer to Suhana.

"Cause you are a sociopath...and literally hate people" Harshad put his hands up defensively as if he was spitting facts.

"Ouch, that was....rude and mean Harshad" Suhana was shocked to hear it from Harshad. Though it was something Zaara would definitely say.

"Sorry" He mumbled immediately as soon as he noticed the change in Suhana's expression, which gave away the 'I-didn't-expect-that-from-you' look.

"It's okay Psychopath" Vikram said with a straight face as Suhana nudged his shoulder.

With Harshad's face growing wild, Suhana interrupted to clear the air between them.

"I think it's time for us to leave, let me just grab my phone" She nodded as she ran back to Vikram's tent, as Vikram gave the two of them a look and walked away from them.

"Do you atleast now see it?" Zaara nudged his shoulders.

"See what?" He asked cluelessly.

"There's definitely something going on between them and I can...."

"Come on Zaara, if anything was there between them, they would have been engaged and in fact would've even been married to each other, but they're not so.."

"Oh please, Megha and Rohit are staying together in Suhana's tent, where do you think she stayed and had her good night sleep last night? Look over there" She pointed to Suhana running in and out from Vikram's tent.

"If you really want to win that clumsy woman over there, you better put that stupid brain to use."

"Huh...I don't...me..suhana...no I don't "

"Yeah keep denying to yourself and watch her get married to someone else"

"Okay fine! Yes I love her and I feel like my life would be perfect if she is in it "

"Good that you accepted soon enough! Because that would be of great help to me, and finally get rid of that annoying brat from Vikram's life"

"First of all she has a name and secondly if anyone who is annoying that's Vikram and not Suhana" Harshad eyed her.

"Keep talking nonsense! Now hear my plan, and the more you pull up yourself to execute it today at the camp fire the more it's going to be easy for you to win over her. Firstly when everyone gathers tonight make sure to....."

• • •

"Wait, Does Megha have any idea about the campfire?" Rohit almost blurted out the plan loudly in the name of whispering.

"She does know about it, but she doesn't know that we have a cake ready and that we are planning to give her a sweet shock in the middle of a serene camp fire" Suhana grinned, proud about herself.

"You know that I am actually happy for you, right?" Suhana side hugged Rohit, as he gave in a heartfelt smile.

"But you could've gone back to your room once you both had made up! It was unnecessary for you to stay at her tent" Vikram joined the conversation uninvited.

Rohit turned his gaze towards Suhana for assurance as suhana actioned him to just ignore Vikram.

"You're coming right?" Anika who just then joined them directed her question to Vikram.

"I just don't understand why you wanna have a freaking camp fire with those demons" He pointed at a distance, two siblings arranging the woods for the fire.

"Come on I don't like them as well, but let's not dump such a good plan because of them" Anika patted his shoulders encouraging him to join them.

"Yeah at least then no one would have the guts to call you a sociopath. " Suhana tried to say with a straight face but somehow laughter squeaked in between.

"But I swear those two are definitely up to something " Vikram said with his eyes fixed on Harshad and Zaara, boring a hole through them with his gaze.

"Hey Suhana!!" Everyone moved their heads in sync towards the direction of the voice, as Harshad was signaling everyone to join them, with the fire raging brightly behind him, probably for the good, everyone hoped.

"So what...we should just sit around this fire and leave when it's extinguished?" Anika questioned sarcastically as Zaara interrupted.

"Come on, I am not that mean! We are planning to play a game to celebrate Megha's wonderful birthday" Zaara grinned widely as Megha joined the group.

"What game?" Megha questioned, as she sat on the ground in between Suhana and Rohit, while Vikram was seated between Suhana and Anika and exactly opposite to Zaara and Harshad.

"Truth or Dare" Harshad claimed as few of them were excited, while some weren't.

Those 'some' were Vikram and.....Vikram.

"Who plays such kiddish games?" Vikram asked, frustrated.

"Kiddish? So you think you can answer every truth question and complete all the dares as well? I don't think so! '' Harshad asked provokingly, as Vikram's eyes glared at him wondering what he's up to.

"Oh come on, let's just start the game. Whoever gets the bottle lid has to ask the question while whoever gets the bottom of the bottle has to answer the truth or do a dare." Zaara interrupted as she placed the wine bottle on top of the small wood table in the center.

With everyone anticipating the game , Zaara rubbed her hands together and spinned the bottle.

The bottle's speed started to fade as it came to a stop with the bottle lid facing Anika and the bottom facing Megha.

"So Truth or Dare?"

"Truth please" Megha replied with an anxious smile.

"Okay" Anika rubbed her hands, getting ready to put forth that one question that has been lingering on her mind for so long.

"So when did you realize that you were in love with Rohit, because we do know that Rohit was the one who fell for you first!" Anika chuckled as she sat right eager for the answer.

Megha blushed with her cheeks all going red, "It was actually....a few weeks after he had proposed to me and had asked me to go on 3 dates with him and then give him an answer. It was our last date and he had picked up a theme park as the venue, which was unlikely for a Vice President of a successful MNC to do." Everyone was choking on their own laughter.

"And we were on this roller coaster ride and when we were in the middle of the craziest of turns on the extreme top, I turned my head towards him against the heavy breeze....and all I could see was him fighting for his life and trying to summon all the gods from heaven to save his life. And at that moment I just knew...that it was HIM"

"Woahh" Suhana started clapping first as Anika hyped them up as Rohit leaned in to his right and planted a kiss on her cheek.

"Time for next spin" Zaara spinned again which ended up with the lid facing Rohit and the bottom facing suhana, with the bottle almost at the edge of the table, ready to fall down.

"Truth or Dare?" Rohit asked with a smirk.

"Dare" Suhana replied.

"Hmm...I dare you to explore the woods over there and return back with 5 different white coloured flowers."

"Why would I even go there alone?" Suhana raised her eyebrows as Rohit continued.

"Of course I won't let you go alone, so you can go with anyone whose name starts with a 'V' and ends with a 'M'. Don't worry you can do the dare tomorrow"

"You must be kidding right?"

"Of course not, I mean there are so many names starting with a 'V' and ending with a 'M', like Vikram" He covered his mouth with his hand trying to hide his laughter, as Suhana glanced between Rohit and Vikram.

"Your questions are so boring! Please let's go for the next spin" Zaara interrupted, clearly jealous as she spinned the bottle again as this time the lid ended up pointing at Harshad and with the bottom facing Rohit.

"Truth or Dare?"

"Dare! It's way more fun you know"

"Okay...then send your 5th photo from your camera roll to everyone present here" Harshad put forth her dare question as Rohit pulled out his phone from his pocket.

"5th photo...hmm..." He opened his gallery as a smug smile appeared on his face.

"I swear you don't wanna see this, it's personal" He smirked as Vikram interrupted, "What kind of dirty stuff you've got in there?"

"Oh really! Now you're gonna regret saying that to me, brother" Rohit snickered as he sent that picture to everyone privately.

"Ahh, I didn't bring my phone " Suhana hit her forehead.

Harshad paused on his actions as he opened the picture as Zaara yelled, "What the crap" while Vikram remained calm, staring at the picture.

"What did he send?" Suhana tried to peek inside Megha's phone as she pulled away her phone giggling.

"Ahh why won't you show me" Suhana turned towards Vikram and grabbed his phone as her eyes grew wild.

"Rohit!" Suhana shook her head at him disappointed at him, as she glared at the picture one more time, embarrassed to the core.

The one where she was laying her head on top of Vikram's shoulder in the bus, on the day when he claimed that she had drooled on his shirt.

"Enough! Let's move to the next" Zaara sounded pissed as she signaled Harshad.

Harshad spinned the bottle this time as it stopped precisely with the lid facing Zaara and the bottom facing Vikram.

"Okay now it's my turn!" Zaara squealed.

"Truth or dare"

"Dare"

"Okay then....I dare you to kiss the girl in front of you" She said it with a smirk leaving everyone to gasp.

"Huh! So this was your plan! With you sitting right in front of me plotting for this moment all along" Vikram stood up from the ground glaring at Zaara.

"Maybe! But it was worth it right?" Zaara also stood up standing against him.

"Don't tell me you're gonna back off now Vikram, I thought you weren't such a scaredy cat!" Harshad interrupted as everyone slowly stood up from the places considering the tension in the air.

"It's a shame to know you're no different from your sister Harshad" Anika spat her words at him.

"Oh don't worry, I am not backing from this stupid game" Vikram returned a death stare at him.

"You don't have to do it Vikram please" Rohit moved towards Vikram.

Suhana stood there still not sure what was unfolding right in front of her, but she sure wasn't ready to watch her husband nor her newly-made-friend kiss some random girl, who is obsessed with him. She could feel the cold air sticking to her leaving her body extremely cold, despite wearing a trench coat.

Zaara walked past the wooden table and walked towards Vikram standing opposite to him with a smug smile. "So...shall we?" Zaara leaned in, as Vikram turned to his left, away from her.

"Oops Zaara, The kiss isn't for you anymore, considering that you're not the one standing in front of me! " Vikram smirked, as Suhana could feel her stomach playing tumbling monkeys, while she stood there frozen, right infront of Vikram.

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I just came across a meme tho, it said,

LOL

Sorry for my late updates, I am a university student so I barely get time amidst those assignments and lectures.