Immortal Memories~[KaSh]-COMPLETED (Page 4)

Armaan-still eighteen--Shilpa-still seventeen

"I never kissed anyone," Shilpa confessed to the curious girls.

Shilpa was invited to a grand sleepover. Although the girls who invited her hardly knew who she was, they decided to invite Shilpa regardless. Their main motive was to get close to Armaan Maalik. Armaan was the heart-throbbing gorgeous, the eye-catching guy who everyone wanted to get their hands on. Even though he had left Ridgeway High School a year ago, no sophomore, junior or senior girl could fully adjust to him graduating. Shilpa Malohtra proved to be their ultimate ticket to Armaan. The rabid girls would never let such a golden ticket slip away from their hands especially not such an easy, facile ticket. They conjured up a brilliant plan; they would befriend Shilpa and invite her into their inner circle. After all, who could resist a chance to join the Pink Clique?

"You never kissed anyone? You're kidding, right?" One of the members of the Pink Clique said. "Shilpa sweetheart, what can we do with you?"

"She's such an outcast. I can't believe we invited her," another girl whispered to her friend.

The Pink Clique broke into a laughter as Shilpa sat in humiliation. I knew I shouldn't have come. She had vacillated about arriving at the supposed sleepover for a very long time. These girls who ignored and degraded her for three years had suddenly invited her to their Pink Sleepover claiming they want her to join in their clique. To tell the truth, she did not want to join their promiscuous clique. However, she wanted to be friendly and alternate their ignorant animosity to a peaceful truce. Armaan had advised her not to participate in their sleepover. "They must have a motive to let you join," Armaan said. Shilpa angrily retaliated his words, "Is it so hard to believe that they actually want to be my friends, Armaan? I am not as invisible as you think!" Armaan didn't argue back, instead he gave her an apology. Nonetheless, without accepting his apology, Shilpa stormed out of his room wrathfully.

"I guess we'll have to show her how it is done?" The leader of the Pink Clique, Tina, said. Tina ushered the boys to join their circle. The guys eagerly got up from the couch and came over to Tina.

"Boys, which one of you will take this lucky girl into my room and give her an intense and romantic first kiss." Tina smirked at the senior guys surrounding her. They would do anything for Tina because not only were they afraid of her but they were helplessly smitten with Tina.

Shilpa became extremely tense. She knew, in her heart, that having boys in a sleepover meant danger; however, poor Shilpa did not find out that boys were invited in the sleepover until she had arrived.

"I'd rather wait for the perfect guy," Shilpa replied candidly.

"Oh, Shilpa, how can you be so stupid?" Tina snickered. I'm not stupid. Shilpa bit her lip in frustration. Her heart began to thump as a formidable sense of trepidation crept through her. "So which one of you guys would like to kiss Shilpa?"

"Tina, I appreciate your kindness but I can wait a little longer for my first kiss," Shilpa persisted. There was nothing more she wanted to do than escape from this horrifying sleepover. She had not predicted this. Shilpa genuinely believed that the reason why Tina invited her was actually to make friends with her. Yet, once again she was left with misinterpretation.

"Honey, you don't need to know the guy to get a perfect first kiss. Okay, why don't you take Shilpa into the other room. I am pretty sure she'll enjoy you." Tina winked at the guy and gestured for him to take her into the room and give Shilpa her superficial first kiss but Tina knew, all too well, that the guy would give her more than just a kiss.

Shilpa looked up at the guy Tina had chosen. His name was Tim Perry, reputed mostly for skipping class and picking fights but he was also suspended for dealing drugs and sexually assaulting teenage girls.Teenage girls, just like Shilpa.

Every part of Shilpa's body signaled her to take action, to preclude the worse from occurring. She could not kiss such a stranger, especially someone who she held no high regard for. Shilpa lucidly knew that he too held no deference towards her wishes.

"Tina, I don't want to kiss him," Shilpa stated. Tina pretended not to hear and once again told Tim to take her away. He grinned as he violently gripped onto Shilpa's elbow and forcefully took her upstairs into Tina's room.

"Tina, what are you doing? Can't you see Shilpa doesn't want to be with him? I thought we were going to be her friends." One of the girls asked discombobulated.

"No, Candy. I just wanted to get close to her so I can be with Armaan. Who cares about her? She can go die for all I care!" Tina sneered at Shilpa who was halfway dragged up the stairs. She scoffed and rolled her eyes. "C'mon, let's keep playing spin the bottle."

"Let me go!" Shilpa insisted as Tim threw her down onto the bed.

"You heard Tina. I'm gonna give you your first kiss." Tim grinned.

"Then why are you putting me into a bed. I though it was just a kiss," Shilpa inquired although she already knew the answer.

"Oh sweet Shilpa, there is more than a kiss in store for you." In a second, he was on top of her. Shilpa writhed under him avoiding his sloppy kisses as he violated her.

"Stop moving, damn it!"

Shilpa never kissed a boy. She only dreamed of fairy tales where her prince charming would carry her away serenely and shower her with incessant happiness. She wanted everything to be impeccable like a romantic tale that she watched in movies. The first kiss would be clandestine but chaste. He would hold her chin with his index fingers and make her look into his eyes as he leaned in to kiss her. He would cup her face into his hands and tell her she was beautiful, the most ravishing woman he has ever laid eyes on.

However, her dreadful first kiss started out with a harsh slap across the cheek as the boy pinned her to the bed. She squirmed helplessly but he would not release her. Impatient with her noncompliance, he ripped her dress and threw away her dupatta. This was the start of her formidable first kiss. 

Shilpa's mind became blank as she stopped moving. Tim smiled iniquitously at her and kissed her lips then her neck. She felt numb and ghostly. Is this a nightmare? Let it be a nightmare, please. She screamed but no one heard as Tina had made sure to blast on some music after she was gone. The tears she shed soaked her hair and her exposed chest but nothing could assuage the inner pain she experienced. For the first time, Armaan was not here to protect her and shield her from agony and violence. She was alone.

"You may be stupid but you sure would make a pretty prostitute. What career did ya choose for Career Day again?"

Then, the adrenaline rush came to her. It raged through her cold veins. Her eyebrows creased as infuriating tears continued to escape from her eyes. She kneed him hard directly in his weakest area. He groaned in utter pain as he loosened his deathly grip on her. She slipped out of his grasp and pushed him away causing him to fall out the other side of the bed.

"Call me stupid again and I won't hesitate to kill you," she replied bitterly. Shilpa ran out of the room clutching onto her dupatta. Armaan, help me. Mujhe madat karo. She escaped through the back door and ran across the house. She knew Tim would eventually come after her and attempt to force her because that was his nature. He didn't give up, and though Shilpa hated to convict people of wrongdoings, she had a strange, peculiar feeling that Tina knew his nature just as well. Probably that was the reason why she....

Shilpa's hand shook as she reached into her sweater pocket to retrieve her cell phone. Armaan, I'm scared. Help me. Please. I'm sorry for yelling at you. You were right. I was wrong. Her heart still refused to steady though she had managed to escape. Shilpa felt Tim's touches tainting her body, seeping through her skin. She felt his violent slap indented into her cheeks burning away her shell. It was as if Tim had shredded her shell and now she was left feeble and fragile. She felt dirty, like a contaminated poison created to leave a soul in utter calamity.

"Armaan?" She said into the phone.

"Kya hua, Shilpa? It's three in the morning." Armaan complained lethargically.

"Can you come pick me up?" she asked trying hard to keep her voice in control but she felt her own voice tremble with every word she uttered.

"What happened? Are you crying? Where are you? You're in Tina's house, right?" Armaan interrogated her. He instantly sat up from his bed.

"Armaan, please pick me up. I'm scared. I want to go home." Shilpa said into the phone. Her voice broke into thin pieces as her body shook from the spate of tears. Shilpa shivered with alarm. "Armaan, hurry. He's going to come."

"Who is? Shilpa, I'm coming. Tell me what you see. Can you tell me where you are?" He asked calmly. Armaan reached into his drawer and put on the first shirt he found. He hastily sprinted out of the house and into his black Volvo. Armaan rushed to start his car. As he drove over the speed limit, Armaan demanded Shilpa to keep talking to him. He wouldn't let her hang up on him, not when she was in danger.

"Shilpa, where are you? You think you can get away with hurting me. I'm going to find you," his deep, menacing voice chimed from across the street. Fear crawled through Armaan's spine as he heard Tim's voice faintly. He prayed Tim would not find Shilpa.

"Shilpa, don't move. I'll be here in five." Armaan whispered into the phone. "Stay still. Don't move. I won't let him hurt you. I promise."

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