Mahi sat down and nothing happened, her friends were waiting for the reaction or to at least see the tears, but the class teacher called Mahi's name for the attendance and Mahi happily replied, "Present sir." And everyone of her friends finally realized, that what they planned didn't happen... they failed, and they all looked around, trying to realize what actually happened...but Ishan just took off his eyes and acted like nothing happened and like he doesn't knows what happened...but it was enough for Mahi's fake friends to completely become angry...and they all just looked at Mahi angrily, while Mahi looked at them with a decent smile.
And Ishan was just watching...he realized that Mahi is going to be trapped badly. But he tried to act normal, and didn't react anything over it and just let it move on until he feels important to save Mahi. He was sad from inside that Mahi is a sweet person, who was lovely in his previous life and in this as well she is, but she's getting such a wrong person in her life now.
The classes continued and the lunch period arrived, Mahi saw around and her friends have already left. Suddenly she got a message from them...and they were calling her to the washroom which surprised her, but she had no problem and she just stood-- but Ishan hold her wrist and she looked at him with surprises.
"They just want to bully you and want to make fun of you...it's better to have no friends than having wrong friends. Don't go to them, they just want to trouble and satisfy themselves by watching you suffering, don't go there." Ishan warned already...but Mahi acted like she doesn't even knows him and just a random guy is teaching her rubbish like he is a completely experienced, Mahi just took away her wrist and started leaving without any word and she left...and Ishan sighed, and lied his head down on the desk, "...What can I even do now? Should I follow her and save her?"
"Yes, save her...I am on your side Ishan." And Ishan smiled with a sweat, stood and looked back and Ichinose was standing behind him in a pose...Ishan has really weird friend, this friend to whom he would never consider as a friend ever. Ishan just started walking away and Ichinose followed him. "I really think...that you are the one who plans everything and appear when I have to save or I am involved, you are the one who plan everything evil like this, don't you?"
Ichinose just smiled but shook his head slowly, "Nah, I just know what is going to happen, don't plan these things. I just get to know about everything and find something benefit which can lead me to my ultimate goal." And Ishan smiled with a sweat once again, "Benefits? Do you get money in exchange of good deed?" And Ichinose started sweating, "...Not actually money, but it just leads to my ultimate goal...as I said." And Ishan chose to say nothing else now, because each word of Ichinose will just fly from his mind anyway.
Zara opened her eyes...and she woke up, and she was on her bed. She yawned loudly and jumped from her bed and looked around, she looked at the wall clock and she was surprised, it was ten a.m. and she called her mother, "Mama, you didn't wake me up today for school? I think it is Saturday, no?"
And her mother from the living room answered, "No, you came late at home, at six or seven, and you were asleep and Lisa dropped you here, you were gone somewhere with her, didn't you?" And Zara remembered...she fall asleep when the sun was going to rise and she yawned again and started moving to get ready, "By the way, what were you doing? Was it a sleepover?"
"No...whole night I was playing volleyball with someone, but thanks for not taking for school...it was exhausting to be honest, after playing so much and enjoying, I was tired."
Ishan was running and looking everywhere, he searched everywhere at all the classes and bathrooms but he couldn't find Mahi, he looked everywhere, asked for help if others would have known where she is but she was gone missing and Ichinose also disappeared, he started running away and he decided to search separately to find her because he doesn't knows where she had gone! He doesn't knows?!
Ishan was now panicking, worrying a little bit but he kept on searching...and he looked in front of the hallways, and he stopped...and Ichinose also stopped running in front of him, they both had searched her everywhere but having no idea where she had gone. Ishan was exhausted and Ichinose was calm, but also worrying...suddenly Ichinose and Ishan heard a little voice of water drop and Ishan looked back...and at side, there was a bathroom which was the only one Ishan hadn't looked and Ichinose hadn't come there either...although, that was a woman washroom but they had already looked at many during searching for her and they didn't enter in any.
Ishan hoped...that it wouldn't be the one and Mahi would be just fine, he opened the door slightly and Ichinose and Ishan looked...and their eyes widened...
Mahi was crying, sitting down...and her fake friends were laughing and dropping the water on her, and it was cold water which Mahi couldn't face...her whole body was shaking, crying with silence and she had finally realized..."Ishan..."
Suddenly the door opened with a bang, and Ishan and Ichinose were there, but not all alone... there was a teacher as well, standing angrily and Ishan was recording the video as an evidence and Ichinose stepped in and said, "...I will be the one now, Ishan--" But Ichinose suddenly slipped and fell down...everyone was left frozen, but Ishan was goggling, "Come on Ichinose...have some respect--" But suddenly Ishan saw...Mahi's one ankle was bleeding heavily...and he was left completely speechless...