While Manasa and others are chatting, Aditya is running.

He is already on the first floor and the idiots are still chasing him. Some of them are already down as they couldn’t run any further. As Aditya ran through the corridors, he noticed that some other group is blocking his way downstairs.

He is pretty sure that they are not present in the room when he was provoking them, it seems like they even made calls to get more people.

But he turned to the side and jumped off of the first floor corridor into the garden downstairs.

The idiots were dumbfounded by his decision and ran downstairs, but Aditya already got the lead as he ran towards the crowd.

There are not many people in the Mechanical engineering block and it seems to be the tacit understanding as this place is where the idiots from the C-gang party, but the crowd is not too far away.

Aditya ran through the crowd and went towards the common bathroom. He ran at his full speed as he avoided clashing against others.

But the group following him garnered too much attention and the crowd got riled up, they started pointing fingers towards Aditya’s direction and he couldn’t help but curse these people inwardly.

After all, if they minded their own business, he would have already escaped.

But now, he could only change his direction once again.

After some failure at entering a washroom or an empty room due to the nosy crowd, he decided to just run with all his might. He is sure that with his enhanced endurance nobody would be able to catch him, even if they try their best. Particularly when they are drunk.

And that is exactly what happened, by the time Aditya reached the Computer Science Block, the group has thinned down, many of them tripped and fell or just fell down with exhaustion and the last remaining few are barely jogging.

Aditya picked up his speed and entered one of the washrooms of the Computer science block. He removed the handkerchiefs and took of the shirt, turned it upside down and wore it.

After he was done, he washed his face and wiped all the sweat he could with the handkerchiefs and threw them inside the dustbin before walking out casually.

He went to the other side of the building and came down through the stairs.

He took out his phone and called Manasa.

“Is he alright? Did you bring him out?”

Manasa who is currently outside the Mechanical block along with his roommates and her friend walked to the side and said.

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“Yes, he is out. How are you? Where are you right now?”

“I threw them off. They couldn’t keep up with me in their drunken state. Come to the cafeteria. I am hungry.”

“Okay, we are coming.”

Manasa said and turned around…

“AHH…”

She shrieked in fright as she saw her friend’s beautiful face right in front.

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

She calmed down and scolded her friend.

“You know that guy, don’t you?”

“what guy? This is another one of my club members. I asked him for the metal art competition. We are having lunch to discuss that.”

“Oh, then you don’t mind me joining for the lunch right?”

Manasa wanted to reject it, but she couldn’t find a proper reason to, so she can only agree.

When they reached cafeteria, Aditya is already waiting for them. He stopped panting, but he is still sweating a bit.

He waved his hand at them and looked at Harshita who tagged along with confusion before turning his attention to Suraj, who is still feeling pretty down.

“Are you okay?”

He asked with concern.

“I am alright.”

“You really can run. Not only did you manage to lose them, you even had time to change the shirt.” Before anyone can speak up, Harshita said to Aditya.

“No, they were drunk.” And before Manasa could cut off, Aditya already replied.

Manasa was dumbfounded as she looked at her friend and Harshita gave her a look that said ‘you are done for.’

She could only shake her head and introduce them.

“This is Aditya. New member of SAE club and my partner in Metal Art Competition. Aditya, this is Harshita, my friend and also the person that got Suraj out.”

Aditya smiled and said.

“I would shake hands, but they are not exactly clean at the moment. Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you too. I didn’t expect that I would see another junior who is so daring enough. But at least you are smart enough to hide yourselves from the group.”

“More like afraid. I don’t want to be a target for some annoying idiots.”

They spoke as they went in to order food.

Meanwhile, Suraj was filled in by Sanjay and Venkat which made him dumbfounded to say the least. He was shocked that Aditya pulled off a stunt like that.

He went towards Aditya to thank him whole heartedly, but before he could speak, Aditya extended his hand and asked.

“Your Wallet.”

Suraj was confused.

“Your Wallet, you dumbass, today is your treat. I am really hungry, so you better brace yourself for the impact on your wallet.”

Suraj didn’t even know what to say, before Aditya unceremoniously took the wallet out and ordered one third of the lunch menu for himself and paid with Suraj’s money.

Suraj was met with a shock and before he knew it, he is already sitting at the table with the rest along with the table full of food.

He looked at his wallet once again and looked at Aditya hatefully.

“Now, now. That is not the way to look at your savior. Just eat.”

Aditya said casually and started devouring his food.

Harshita looked at him with an amused expression and asked.

“You can eat all of that?”

“Of course. Why would I order if I can’t eat that much?”

“No, your size doesn’t match up with the food you eat.”

“Oh, I am different, I guess.”

They finished the lunch with some small talk, but Manasa didn’t speak much and kept on eyeing her friend while giving her some signals. After lunch the boys and girls separated. Aditya went to the dorm while the other three decided to look around for a while.

Girls went to woods to relax for a bit.

“Harshita, I will kill you.”

Manasa said while she relaxed under the cool shade of the trees.

“What?”

“I will kill you, if you do whatever you are thinking.”

“What am I thinking?”

“Don’t play around, you know what I mean. Keep Aditya out of your psychopathic games. If he becomes the C-gang target and If I learn that it is because you revealed the identity, I will cut your hair off in your sleep.”