Chapter 3 Walking by the Road

Louis rolled his eyes and looked at the time, which indicated they were running late. His eyes widen, and he looks towards Shrey, who is busy chewing her food and applying Chapstick.

"Hurry, Shrey, we are getting late; we have only 5 minutes or else we will be late and Prof. Sorte will punish us," Louis said, pacing in the small room,

"Yeah, yeah, I'm done; let me just drink this juice, and surely next we'll be leaving for college," Shrey said, quickly taking juice from the tray Reva was holding. "Easy bruh," Reva said as Shrey gulped the juice down.

"It’s done, Reva, let’s go." Shrey said, taking the tray from Reva’s hand and placing it back on the table near the bed frame.

She then scanned her room for the last time, which was messy, and decided to clean it later. She held Reva’s hand and dragged her out of her room.

“Louis let’s go man” Shrey yelled as he was busy picking up the bread omelette left on Shrey’s plate and stuffing it in his mouth.

His This kind of behaviour always irked Reva, as he was a fitness freak and avoided eating a lot but when it comes to Shrey he always behaved like a pig and always eats her leftover.

Reva rolled her eyes and now she dragged Shrey down the stairs as Louis finally left Shrey’s room.

“Here, lock the door” Reva announced as she threw keys towards Louis, he caught it and rolled his eyes, and ignored her and did what she said.

Shrey silently observed and sighed, as this was a daily scene played in front of her, and now she was used to their bickering.

They had a fixed schedule to get to college on time, so when they were slightly late today, they quietly and steadily began walking without talking to each other until,

"Shit!" "Did I put my project book in my bag or not?" Shrey said, and she looked inside her bag to check the spiral-bound book. "I had put it in the morning itself," Reva said as she was walking next to her, and Louis was busy on his phone chatting with someone.

"Oh yes, I found it," Shrey chirped and smiled, finding her project work, closing the zip on her bag, and looking towards Louis, who was smiling at the phone.

Shrey signalled Reva to look towards Louis’s direction.

Reva, ever the mischievous child, tried to peek at his phone to see who he was chatting with, but Louis quickly moved his phone in another direction.

"What?" Louis asked, raising his eyebrows at Reva, "Nothing; I just wanted to know with whom you were chatting and smiling." Saying this, she snatched the phone from his hand and started running.

"Hey, give me back my phone," “come and get it, if you can,” she said, sticking her tongue out and looking in his direction. She quickened her pace when Louis started running as well.

This view was pure delight in Shrey’s eyes, so she started running after them as well.