Kanak and Surendra return to college, excited to reunite with friends and resume classes. Though they're classmates, their dynamic has always been a mix of friendship and friction — both are strong-willed and competitive, often clashing over the smallest things.

On the first day back, their professor assigns a group project in their additional subject psychology class. Due to alphabetical pairing, Kanak and Surendra end up in the same group. Neither of them is thrilled, but they decide to work together — for the sake of grades, at least.

During the planning session in the library, the group is discussing who should handle which part of the presentation. Surendra suggests they use a digital storytelling format. Kanak disagrees, saying it’s too complicated and prefers a live, in-person skit for better audience engagement.

The disagreement escalates quickly. What starts as a debate over presentation style turns personal — Surendra accuses Kanak of always wanting control, and Kanak retorts that Surendra never listens to others. Voices rise. Other students start to take notice.

Their friends try to mediate, but both storm off in opposite directions, not wanting to back down, there's tension in the air. Their project suffers.

It was a quiet evening at the college dorms. Kanak had just finished a long day of lectures and was looking forward to studying in the common room. The air was crisp, carrying the scent of autumn leaves through the open windows. But as she walked down the familiar hall toward the lounge, a voice stopped her dead in her tracks.

Surendra.

She could hear him speaking from inside the lounge, his voice low, but the tone was sharp, different from the one she was used to. Her heart skipped a beat. Kanak paused, uncertainty gnawing at her as she stepped closer to the door. She didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but something tugged at her—something in the way Surendra sounded. It didn’t feel right.

She pressed herself against the door, heart pounding, trying to make out the words.

“...she trusts us. She’s always trusted us. But that’s the problem, isn’t it?” Surendra’s voice rang out, venomous. “She’s so naïve, so blind. She never saw how easy it was to use her.”

Kanak’s stomach flipped. What?

Inside, Surendra was pacing, the sound of his shoes tapping on the floor echoing in the otherwise quiet room. "We’ve all played our parts, haven’t we?" he continued. “She thinks we’re her friends. She thinks we’re safe. But I’m done pretending. I have done all this just to make her fall in love with me and then broke her in the way no one could ever did to her."

Dev's voice cut in, unsure. "Dude, this feels wrong. We’ve been friends for too long for you to just turn on her like this. She’s... she's done nothing but help us, Surendra. You know that."

Kanak’s breath caught in her throat. Dev, no...

You’re still holding onto some misplaced loyalty?” Surendra scoffed, his tone bitter, filled with something cold and calculating. "She humiliated me. All of us. You saw it, didn’t you? She made me look stupid in front of everyone. I’m done being the joke."

“Surendra, we can’t—” Jonathan voice broke in, quieter than before, filled with hesitation. “I know you’re hurt. I get it. But this... this isn’t the way. Revenge? We’re not those people. We’re not him.”

There was a long silence, and Kanak could hear the crackling tension in the room. Her hands were trembling, her pulse loud in her ears. The betrayal stung more than she could have imagined.

Surendra laughed, but it was hollow. "You think I’m just angry? This isn’t just about anger. This is about justice. She needs to pay for what she did to me. What she did to us. She will feel what we felt."

“But…” yash’s voice faltered. “We’ve been through so much together. All those late nights studying, all those times we laughed... You really want to throw that away for this? For... hurting her?”

The flashback of all the happy moments he spent with kanak started shadowing over him, he felt something, a pang in his heart, somewhere in his heart he too wants to stop all this but his ego was much more bigger than it.

"Surendra, I know you too want to stop it , so juts end all this, kanak is really good, I have never saw someone with so kind heart, her soul is really pure", Vatsal's voice broke the silence.

Everyone was feeling heavy with the guilt and regret being the part is such a plan.

"Kanak—"

David eyes landed on the kanak standing outside hearing them talk about revenge,the door was not fully closed .

Everyone's eyes landed on her, kanak eye's were empty, not a single year came out from her eyes, the betrayal she got today was a lot for her to bear.

She entered the room, her eyes roaming from one end to another and finally landed on Surendra,the leader.

Kanak moved closer to him and a small chuckled left from her mouth.

SURENDRA'S POV-

Her eyes are empty but still I can feel she is hurt and it's because of me.

The chuckled is the silent sob, I know I'm wrong but everything that I have done for her, every moment I had spent with her was pure there was no revenge, I don't know when I forgot about my revenge.

"You have done so much just to take revenge on me?", kanak questioned her voice holding every emotion she is trying to hide.

She started laughing like a mad woman, "like really! Surendra you have put so much efforts just to hurt me".

Silence ...

" Surendra ka to samjh me aata hai vo gusse me kuch bhi karta hai lekin tum sab, you all know I have also considered myself lucky, blessed to have you all in my life as friends, as classmates" kanak looked at others standing, no one has the gut to meet her eyes .

" I truly considered you all as my friends because you all made me felt so much special, precious like a gem, but it was all an act—an act which I consider to be real", kanak's voice tremble.

" Well! You all are really very good actors , you all should join cinema ", kanak clapped for them very hard.

She looked at each of us in turn, her gaze unwavering. "I trusted you. And I thought you trusted me too. I helped you through your darkest days. I laughed with you when the world felt too heavy. I shared my secrets, my soul. You were more than friends. You were family."

A silence fell, heavy and thick. Her words cut through the air like a knife.

"I didn’t expect this," Kanak continued, her voice now trembling with the weight of her emotions. "I didn’t expect this from you. Revenge? What could I have possibly done to deserve this? What was so terrible that you felt the need to betray me this way?"

One of them, a figure who had once been her closest confidante, tried to speak up, but Kanak silenced them with a single gesture.

"No," she said, her eyes burning with a quiet fury. "I don’t need your excuses. The truth is, you were never my friends. Friends don’t do this to each other. They don’t plot behind each other’s backs. They don’t break each other’s trust. They don’t... betray each other."

She took a deep breath, the pain evident in her eyes, but she stood tall. "Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I should have seen the signs. But I chose to believe in you. I chose to believe that we were in this together. And now, all I have is this emptiness... and the knowledge that I was never as important to you as I thought."

It was over. And though her heart was shattered, there was a strange sense of relief. She had finally seen them for who they truly were.

The room was silent, the weight of her words lingering in the air, as her former friends were left with nothing but their guilt and the pieces of the friendship they had destroyed.

"Kanak, it's not true please listen to us first —", yash tried to make her understand but kanak stopped him raising her finger

" Don't, please I don't want to listen to your any of the justifications, and you, Surendra, you should have told me earlier only that you all have so much problems from me , me being in this class, I would have already left this class in silence", kanak questioned me.

" If you have made all this efforts for some other girl, she would have been really impressed by you and would have fallen in love with you", her words came out like a knife.

" But I have already told you Surendra Rathod that I'm not the one who you can use and throw it like some garbage, I don't believe in love or any person", kanak shouted on my face.

" And look again you lost and I won, this game was unfair to me but still look like I won", her words were sharp, but its was a truth, a harsh truth.

Author pov-

Kanak Started exiting from the room but Surendra's voice Stop her.

" Kanakk".

" I know I'm wrong but please let's end all this and start with a fresh and new beginning, still we all can make things right", Surendra's word only fuelled her anger, he really has bad timing.

Kanak looked at him with a disbelief that even after so many things he is asking her for settlement.

" You know what Surendra, people are right about you, you are really bad , you don't have heart, and yes I hate you, I hate you the most."

His heart shattered into pieces these were the last words kanak spoke before leaving the class.

Everyone was looking at eachother what to do, " we should talk to kanak, she will understand us, let's go", Dev said and all came out of the class.

Surendra was already behind the kanak, trying to stop her.

They all came into the college the campus which was filled with the students, kanak increases the race of her foots .

Surendra, who was continuously Trying to stop her and call her out grab everyone's attention.

"Kanak, please try to listen to me, just for once", but kanak was very heartbroken to take anything further.

"Kanakkkk, I'm sorry", Surendra shouted from behind.

Everyone looked at Surendra with the most shocking and surprising looks, kanak feet stopped, she turned around and looked at him but ran from there.

"Yash, Surendra ne pehli baar sorry bola, mene to uske muh se sorry pehli baar suna hai", David spoke slowly in the ears of yash.

( Yash, This is the first time I have Heard sorry from Surendra's mouth)

Surendra without looking at anyone left from the college. Everything was shattered, the happy moments they both felt which was real were now fake for kanak.

Naman, Garv, sapna,tej and prachi have listen to Surendra's sorry but we're not able to understand anything.

Thay asked yash about it but he did not tell them the truth that this might effect the relationships between all of them.

As the three girls left , garv and Naman again asked him about what is going on, on this Yash told them the truth.

"Surendra had problems with me then you all should have taken revenge with me, why you all have to include kanak in all this matter, for this I'm really not going to leave Surendra", Garv warned them angrily.

After the painful betrayal by her closest friends, Kanak returned home, her heart heavy with confusion and anger. The moment she stepped through the door, she was greeted by the concerned faces of her roommates and close friends—Sapna, Prachi, and Tej. They could see the hurt in her eyes, the way her shoulders drooped, and the exhaustion that seemed to weigh her down.

"Sapna, Prachi, Tej... I—" Kanak started, her voice breaking, but she couldn't finish her sentence. All the emotions she had bottled up inside her after the betrayal flooded back, making it difficult to speak.

Sapna, always the empathetic one, stepped forward first, her voice gentle yet filled with concern. "Kanak, what happened at college? We’ve been trying to reach you all day. We heard some things... but we need to hear it from you.

Prachi, who usually kept her distance from conflict, now stood close by, her expression soft yet eager to know the truth. "You’ve been avoiding us. We thought... maybe it was just a misunderstanding. But, if there’s more to it, we’re here for you."

Tej, who had been quietly observing, couldn’t hide his frustration. He’d always been protective of Kanak. "Kanak, you don't have to go through this alone. Just tell us what happened. We want to understand."

Kanak felt a lump form in her throat. Her emotions were a whirlwind—betrayal, confusion, and the strange feeling of being completely alone despite being surrounded by friends. She had been through so much, and now, her own group of friends were acting like strangers.

The room was thick with anticipation, and Kanak finally gathered enough courage to speak, her voice shaky."It's nothing, I just have a fight with Surendra over the group discussion".

Kanak lied again just to save all of them.

"Don't lie", sapna told her.

" I'm not lieing, it's the truth this time I really have a big fight from Surendra that's why, and you all don't need to think about all this, you know na how I and Surendra fight", kanak manipulated them in such a way that they all believe her.

" Don't worry, like everytime, you and Surendra will get along", tej said hugging kanak.

They all hugged each other tightly and afterwards kanak left for her office.

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