After all the chaos, finally we were all together back to work doing our best in our fields, when this happened.
I went to my basketball coach to ask about the selections for the school team, when I found Shaurya to be there.
" Good morning, sir" I said to the coach.

"Good morning Sanya, I was about to call you, this year less girls have shown interest in the game , so we think there can't be a different team for girls"

"Sir , are you proposing a single team for both boys and girls?"

" I was Sanya, but Shaurya disagrees"

" Of course sir, boys and girls can't compete in games which require physical strength, I think Sanya will agree with me here."

" Definitely not Shaurya, I believe this will make the team even stronger as we can have the best players from both boys and girls and don't have to take average players just to complete the team"

" If girls give auditions against boys none of them will be selected"

" Is that what you think? You know what Shaurya, I challenge you for a one-on-one match , right now".

" Someone is really overconfident today".

" Yes, you" .

"Okay then challenge accepted".

Since we both were in our sports uniform, we ran to the basketball court, and on our coach's whistle, we started the match. I accept the fact that Shaurya was a good competition, but I won.

" Congratulations Sanya" ,

"Even you played well Shaurya" , we said to each other formally.

" But every girl of the school is not Sanya Agarwal , right?", he said in a sarcastic tone.

" That would be seen during the selections Shaurya Malhotra", I said as I picked my bag to leave.

I told the whole team to work their best but not over pressurize themselves, as there is no performance pressure. We all worked hard in the evening for the selections next day.

Next day, the selections happened and the results were quite fair, with 5 girls (including me) and 7 boys ( including Shaurya) in the team. Definitely, Shaurya trained his team well too. We used to practice daily together in the evening after school.

The day before our first interschool match as a team, when everyone left, we both were packing our bags when I caught Shaurya looking at the cheerleaders , who were there for the cricket team.

" Seriously Shaurya"

"What?"

" It's so easy for girls like her to distract you boys" .

" I thought cheerleaders were there to appreciate your game , not to distract anyone" .
" But someone looked distracted".

"Jealous because no one is distracted because of you" .

" If someone is to be distracted, it's the other team , not my own , I just don't know why even I am having this conversation with you, just make sure you don't let us down tomorrow ".

He came close to me in a challenging way and said " I can play better than you".

" Oh!! Really, I thought someone lost against me in one-on-one match".

" It was your day, I challenge you to play a one-on-one match right now" he said forwarding his hand towards me.

" Challenge accepted ", I said shaking hands with him.

We both kept our bags on the stadium and started the match. We made the equal number of baskets, and Shaurya was going for another one , which could have made him win , but I flipped my hair and whistled, and Shaurya got distracted, while I took the ball and made the basket which made me win.

(Sanya & Shaurya)

Shaurya strokes his fingers in his hair innocently.

"Looks like someone got distracted because of me, actually now I knew why you didn't want a single team for boys and girls because boys will be distracted".

" I wasn't distracted, I let you win this one, because I didn't want your moral to be down before tomorrow's match".

I took my bag and while leaving said" Just don't let this happen tomorrow ".

" Like someone won by the skills" he replied as he went for his bag, but I was already out of the court by that time.

The whole team's hard work paid off and we made it to the finals.

On the day of the Finals, we were playing well until a player from the other team made me injured. They pushed me hard and made me fall which caused my ankle to twist, and somehow convinced the referee it was an accident.

" We can't win this match without Sanya" Abhinav said .

" We should now be happy with the silver" Urvi added.

" Definitely not, we can't let those cheaters win".

" But Sanya your ankle is twisted" Abhinav said out of concern.

" You won't be able to even jump to go for the basket" Urvi said as she gently rubbed her hand on my ankle.

I stood up and said" I can't let those cheaters win, I will show them where they have taken it " .

I played the game and brought the ball near to the basket and passed it to someone to make the basket. We were on equal scores and I had the ball in my hand but everyone was covered and couldn't take the ball, so I decided to make an attempt to go for the basket but was unable to jump when Shaurya came from behind and took the ball from me, and made the basket and we won.

"We won, Sanya and Shaurya make the best team" everyone cheered.

" You both decided to play as a team, and that made us win" our coach said.
We both looked at each other awkwardly.

" Anyways, congratulations for the victory to both of you", he continued breaking the silence.

" Thank you, sir", both of us said together.

After that we went back to school and cultural week was round the corner and everyone was working really hard for it when another incident happened. Our class teacher came to the class to make an announcement

" Class, hear me out, there is an interschool dance competition before the cultural week, interested students contact me by EOD", she said

" Sanya, I want you to be there in this , but not the group, there has to be a duet dance and you are performing" she whispered to me , in an ordering tone.

" Okay ma'am" I said obediently.

But when I went for the practice after school, I found my partner in the duet dance was no one else, but.... SHAURYA.

After everything was sorted, one after other incidents were happening where Sanya and I had to work together.

First, we were together in the basketball team , and then we were dance partners in a duet performance for the interschool competition. Although I don't believe in this, but I think the universe wanted us to be together;).

Anyways, I don't think that's what any of us wanted, after the whole incident. But there was no way we could come out of this.

Again, I had to work with Shaurya, that to a dance performance. We practiced daily after school. It had some aerial steps, some slips, some flips and even some lifts, which were okay when performed in track pants, but on the dress rehearsal day with the costumes, it was horrible, but we figured things out and performed well and again won this competition as well.

After that we won in the cultural week as well but separately in our different events with our partners (Dhruv and Aditi).

So, it wasn't that we were winning as a team , we were winners and winning anyways.

After all that happened, from me being jealous about Sanya and Dhruv's relationship, to proposing Aditi, then Sanya clearing the misconceptions in Aditi's mind to both of us working for almost a month together, so closely , I released what a stupid I was to say no to Sanya when she asked me out. She definitely knew me better than I knew myself, that's why she knew I may not understand my own feelings, or even if I do, I won't be able to express them and that's why she asked me out, and I was so stupid that I said no. But after this realization , I decided to tell everything to Sanya and propose her. I didn't tell anything to Aditi right now as I didn't want her misconceptions to come true in a wrong way. I knew if Sanya gets to know about this, she maybe furious with me, but she will never let Aditi's heart break and handle it in a far better way than me.

Will Shaurya be able to tell his feelings to Sanya? Will Sanya and Shaurya cheat on their partners? Will Sanya say yes? How will Sanya react to Shaurya's feelings? How will Dhruv and Aditi react to it? Will they even get to know about this?