"oh no not again Vrish Sharma please, Archi, was it necessary to spoil my morning like this?" Parth complained. An expression of irritation was clear on his face.

"you can pull my leg whenever you want, and you have problem if i touch your weak point Parth? this is called male chauvinism and don't forget i am an active feminist, a member of women commission too" Archita narrowed her eyes.

Parth sighed .from epic to feminism , what a wide range of discussion, better to change the topic, otherwise she will go into details of women's right or the movement of her association to legalize castration of rapists.
"who told you Vrish Sharma is my weak point? Parth Kapoor doesn't waste time on self boasting arrogant people like them." Parth shrugged

"whatever you pretend but you can't ignore the fact the name still affects you" Archita stated

"Vrish Sharma is a closed chapter for me , which i never would want to reopen, am i clear?" Parth's voice rose

"Calm down Parth. if Vrish is a closed chapter why are you getting such pissed off on his mention? let's face it that something about him still does haunt you, even after he went from your life 4 years back." Archita said with a cold voice with typical teacher's attitude.

"cool Archi , if you know this much then tell me , what does the thing that haunts me?" Parth would have lost patience if it was anyone other than Archita , but due to balanced view of her he doesn't get hyper over this knowledgeable girl. Because sometimes although very distantly but she reminds him of someone.

"an insecurity , that if 5 years back the unfortunate storm of tragedy wouldn't have destroyed Vrish , he could have taken the honorable post in sports department of Central and State Government in your all he too won world championship , gold medals in Ashiad, Commonwealth and silver in Olympic too, just like you." Archita opened the list.

"Archi historians should remember more details, I won world championship 3 times , where your Vrish Sharma won only once also i brought gold medal from Olympiad and Ashiad and during Commonwealth i participated with ill health..and he got an open platform" Parth continued boasting.

"well i read many news articles where some experts said Vrish Sharma was more talented but because of poor background and coach's favoritism on Parth Kapoor , he failed to get same level of advanced training , hence Parth Kapoor was more skilled" Archita's eyes were recalling old articles

"i just don't care who says what, i don't need to prove anything to anyone, i know what i am , it was your favorite Vrish who wanted to prove himself better than me not other way round." Parth's annoyance was evident.

"well Parth all i know since he was closest competitor to you, hence you can't escape the comparison, but why are taunting me in my slightest praise for him? don't i praise you? is there any rule that both Parth Kapoor and Vrish Sharma can't be one's favorite together? err you are again reminding me the online fight on epic." Archita smirked

"no i just wonder what makes girls falling for that jealous soul" Parth gave an arrogant attitude.

"well almost same reason of girls falling for you, Vrish was drop dead handsome as you, with pointed Greek god feature, rough and tough appearance , angry young man attitude and at last but not the least the tragedy that had hit him" says teacher normally.

"oh i forgot you people are admirers of tragic hero, but have you ever thought does the so called arch rival of mine deserve this stature?" asks Parth mockingly.

"don't be so heartless Parth , i admit you had problems with him but can you deny, being positive in dope test is worst nightmare for any sportsman? and that too when it was only because a physician's irresponsible mistake of prescribing medicine containing drugs prohibited for sportsman, and for the mistake which was not his own Vrish's international sport career got banned permanently. being a sportsman yourself you can feel that means death for a sportsman." said Archita calmly, sympathy was evident in her voice.

"well Vrish openly accused me for the conspiring a trap against him, how can i sympathize with him who can bring such insulting allegation against me? even after the charge was proved baseless, he didn't apologize to me for trying to tarnish my reputation in news papers. So i have enough doubt of him being innocent ." said Parth gravely.

"okay but his tragedy didn't stop there, shortly after the suspension of him , he lost his entire family in a car accident , his parents, sister and beautiful wife who left his few months old daughter alone." Archita's voice almost chocked remembering the news paper article 5 years back.

"i really feel bad for the girl , who lost her mother before realizing what does the word mother mean, but i don't have any sympathy for her father, rather i hold him sole responsible for this accident, it was Vrish who went missing for days after suspension and in an attempt to search him , the entire family got killed, so its his irresponsible behavior which brought tragedy over him i don't see any reason to be sorry for him." Parth paused.

"whatever is it i feel for him. The tragedy destroyed him from inside, hence he was forced to leave India forever and settled to U.S.A." Archita still sounded sad.

"for your kind information , if he was such greatly affected by tragedy he wouldn't have got married second time just a year later after losing family, specially his pretty and loving wife whom he was madly in love with as per his claim. And then leaving his only daughter with in laws he peacefully moved on in his life with new country, new career and most specially new wife. what a great sign of responsibility of your tragic hero? and you call me irresponsible? " the taunt in Parth's voice pinched Archita.

"well so are you jealous that your arch nemesis got married twice and you are still bachelor?" Archita pinched him back.

Parth smiled helplessly "okay Archi you won , i can't argue with you anymore."

"why are you trying to argue with a teacher anyway? when the most important person in you life is a teacher himself? The great scientist of Cambridge Dr. Soham Chauhan or in short Krish? without whose mention one day doesn't pass for you?"

"Krish" with a blissful smile Parth muttered the name.

"okay i am getting late for college. see you later" Archita's sixth sense asked her to leave immediately , she took the plates and left hurriedly.

Krish , his Krish , how long it had been Parth didn't see 4 years Krish didn't visit India. Parth is missing him with every part of his beings, although they often used to do video chats but nowadays Krish is busy in taking care of his pregnant British wife and Parth too is busy with his own only the mention of the very name is enough to wipe away all tension and stress from parth's heart and to transport him to another world.
with a smile on lips Parth went to change , he needs to leave for academy.

Only the name of Krish brings flood of beautiful memories in his heart, including the dream in the form of Krish's cousin sister Subha.