CHAPTER-12

Misti's POV –

Almost seven days passed since Mr. Ishan joined our college as a guest lecturer. Since that day no further issue arises between Archana and Mr. Ishan. I wanted to talk with Mr. Ishan because I wants to give him his money back but I did not get any chance to do so. Today I was determined that I would talk with him and would return his money. 

We were waiting for Mr. Ishan in chemistry class, he entered the class and asked us to submit the previous assignment which he gave us in our last class.

Everyone was submitting the assignment copy to his desk, I was the last one and I placed my copy on his desk and Archana was waiting for me near the teacher’s desk, she submitted her copy just before me. 

After submitting my copy I was about to walk towards Archana but before that, I slipped on the floor and was about to fall on the ground but before that Mr. Ishan held me by my waist and prevented me to fall on the floor.

“Be careful,” Mr. Ishan said to me.

“Thank you,” I said to him.

He was still holding me tightly and watching my face intently, so, I cleared my throat and said “Sir, I am fine now.”

“Oh, ok,” he said and then he removed his hand from my waist.

“Are you fine?” he asked me again.

“ Yes, I am absolutely fine,” I said to him and gave him a small smile.

Archana asked me “ What happened to you? How did you slip suddenly?” 

“I do not know,” I said to her and we both came back to our respective seats in the class.

Mr. Ishan started to take our class and after he finished his class, he said to us “I will check all of your assignments today and after checking the assignments I will hand over your notebooks tomorrow.”

The class was already ended, so I and Archana was leaving the class, we both 

had one period off after this class, so we both decided to go to the canteen and there we would eat something and of course there would be some girly chit-chat.

Mr. Ishan was arranging all our notebooks on his desk, I and Archana were about to exit the class, “ Misti, please help me to carry the notebooks to the teacher’s room,” Mr. Ishan suddenly said.

“Me sir?” I pointed my finger towards me and asked him.

“As per my knowledge only your name is Misti in this class, isn't it?” Mr. Ishan said to me.

 I did not say anything and just nodded my head and walked towards the desk to help him.

“ Let me also help you,” Archana said and walked towards the desk to help us.

“Too many cooks can spoil the broth,” Mr. Ishan blurted out.

“What do you mean?” Archana asked him.

“ I meant that I do not need your help, I need only one person to carry the notebooks to the teacher’s room and Misti is here to help me,” Mr. Ishan said to Archana.

“ We are going to the canteen, we have some personal work,” Archana said to him.

“ Misti, Do you have any problem?” Mr. Ishan asked me.

“ I said we are going somewhere else, so obviously she has some problem,” Archana said to him.

“ I did not ask you anything and I believe Miss Misti is capable enough to make her decision,” Mr. Ishan said to Archana.

They both were glaring at each other, before their verbal fight took any further step, I said to Mr. Ishan “ I will help you, sir.”

Then I turned towards Archana and said to her

“Archana, you go to the canteen I will join you within ten minutes,” I said to her.

Archana didn’t like my answer but she didn’t argue with me and nodded her head in response and left the class.

Now only me and Mr. Ishan left in the class, Mr. Ishan already divided the notebooks into two parts, he handed me one bunch and he took the other bunch and we started to walk towards the teacher’s room.

“Sir, I wanted to talk something,” I said

“ Please do not insist me to take the money, I ruined your dress, though it was an accident I owe you a new dress,” Mr. Ishan said to me.

“ Please sir try to understand, you don’t owe me anything and you paid not only for my dress but also for Archana’s dresses, we both don’t like that and we want to return your money, so please accept the money from us,” I said to him.

“Okay, I will accept it but only on one condition,” he said to me.

“What condition?” I asked him.

“ Let’s meet after college,” he said.

“What? Why?” I asked him.

“ If you want to return the money then meet with me after college, today, I will wait for you in the parking area,” Mr. Ishan said to me.

“ You can trust me, I won't eat you alive,” Mr. Ishan said to me.

We already reached the front of the teacher’s room, I handed the bunch to Mr. Ishan and he entered the teacher’s room, and just before that he said to me “ If you want to return the money then please come, bye.”

“ Bye, Sir,” I said to him.

Then I joined Archana in the canteen and told her the whole incident.

Archana said, “ Misti do not go, I do not think he is a good man and his intention is also not good.”

I said to Archana “ But, Archana we do not have any choice, I want to return his money.”

“ So, do I but do not go alone, I will come with you,” Archana said to me.

“ Ok, then after college we will meet Mr. Ishan and return his money,” I said.

“ Ok,” Archana replied and after that, we do our girly gossip and then we both went towards our respective classes.

A few Hours LATER –

I was walking towards the parking area, Archana could not able to come with me because suddenly she had to join some extra class of mathematics, last-minute math teacher announced that he would take some extra classes today.

Mr. Ishan was waiting for me beside his luxurious car, I joined him, I was super nervous.

“ Hi, Sir,” I said to him.

“ When we are alone please don’t call me sir, just Ishan,” he said blatantly.

“ It's not appropriate sir,” I said to him.  

“ Why not? I am not that much older than you,” he said.

“Still, you are my teacher,” I said.

“ Oh, come on we can be friends,” he said.

I understood that he was trying to flirt with me but I ignored him and handed him the money.

“ Would you like to join me in a coffee?” Mr. Ishan said to me.

“ No, thank you for your offer,” I said to him and bid him goodbye, and started to walk towards the college.

Suddenly four to five miscreants came into the parking area and started to misbehave with me and one of them tried to snatch my gold chain from my neck it was a birthday gift from my parents on my 18th birthday. That miscreant was about to snatch my chain but before that, someone pulled that miscreant away from me.

I looked at my savior and it was none other than Mr. Ishan who saved me but the miscreants were started to attack him from every direction but to my surprise, he was fighting with them fiercely.

“Misti, leave,” Mr. Ishan said to me.

But I did know what to do because Ishan was involved in this fighting to save me, so I didn’t want to leave him alone in this situation.

All of a sudden one of the miscreants suddenly hit him with a rod in his head and he fell to the ground, blood was dripping from his head.

“ Help, help, please somebody help us,” I screamed at top of my lungs.

But there was no one and those miscreants started to laugh menacingly and two of them started to walk towards me and the expression on their face was dangerous, I was walking backward until my back hit one of the walls of the parking area. These two miscreants were only a few inches away from me ….