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There was an entire section dedicated to that. It had pictures and accomplishments of all the students who had studied at Simha University through the decades.

Since she knew the year of her father’s graduation, she clicked on it followed by a search with her father’s name.

A proud smile broke on her face seeing the picture of her father listed as the student topper. She clicked on the rest of the photos, which she had seen before in her father’s photo album. But there was one picture where her father was standing with a group of guys. They were all holding up a huge trophy.

Even though she had seen the picture before, this particular one had the names listed. She was shocked when she saw that there were three students who had the Simha last name.

Were they Papa’s friends?

It was strange because her father never mentioned knowing anyone from the Simha family.

Maybe they were just teammates and Papa just played sports with them.

If those men were reckless and entailed like the current Simhas, she was glad her father didn’t make such friends.

She kept clicking on the rest of the pictures and stopped on the one where her father was standing next to a different group. This time with his medical college mates.

It is Neela madam!

She knew her father studied together with Neelima Raj. She smiled at the picture because everyone looked so young and in a fashion that included huge hair and bellbottoms. She scrolled through the names and there was only one last name with Simha. But surprisingly, it was a female name. Vaishnavi Simha.

Ava recognized the woman to be the same one from the picture on Neela madam’s office.

I should call and ask Papa about whether he knew the Simhas.

“There you are!”

Ava jumped when a familiar voice spoke behind her. She turned to see Neeraj standing behind her.

“Hi,” she greeted.

He smiled, coming closer to her. “I was searching all over for you. And I was worried when you didn’t answer your phone.”

Ava looked at the missed calls on her phone screen. “Sorry. I kept it in the silent mode while I was finishing up my assignment earlier.”

He nodded. “We are going to put together a manifesto for the elections. I thought I could use your help.”

The student council president elections were due in a week. Neeraj was one of the final candidates. And so was her tormentor.

Although Ava wanted Neeraj to win, what she wanted even more was for Abhiram Simha to lose. Her tormentor deserved a humiliating loss.

“Sure,” she replied with a smile. “I have a few ideas.”

“Awesome!”

Ava closed the archives, deciding to follow it up later. She had an immediate job to do.

She was going to help in any way to bring down her tormentor in the student council presidential elections.

CHAPTER 20

Ava spent every free minute of the next few days in helping Neeraj prepare for the upcoming elections. During that time, she did come across her tormentor. She had glared at him while he watched her with his usual unreadable look.

Although she had managed not to communicate with him, she couldn’t avoid him indefinitely. She had no choice but to meet him during the drama classes. They were to prepare for the new scenes that the director added to the script.

“With the chemistry between you both, I asked the script writer to up the game a bit.”

Ava didn’t know what the director had meant with that. She only hoped the play wouldn’t be unnecessarily prolonged. Although she loved the story of the play, she didn’t like her male lead.

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