Willing Pretension

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WILLING PRETENSION

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 I will never get over the difference between this family and my family. All of them are always composed and stoic whereas we had no animosity around each other.

Karan's father and step mother are sneering at their surrounding, obviously unimpressed with the state of the house.

Megha is busy typing away on her phone, Ishika hardly ever speaks so, she too is sitting quietly and Karan is sitting there too.

Seriously! This is how they interact.

I get noticed by Mrs. Singhania first. I join my hands and greet her not bothering to touch her feet, I was too far gone with these people to actually care about respect, morals, and manners.

"What kind of dumpster are you living in? I thought you'd be good in at least one thing, that is , keeping a house hygienic." She greets me back. How lovely. She truly is a monster-in-law.

"Your son partied all night, smooched away with some woman I didn't bother to remember the name of, and now you want me to clean after his mess, I am sorry I am not being paid enough to be his personal maid." I jab back. But mind you I was polite enough to maintain my composure and tell her all this in a publicly civil manner.

"Karan! Did you see how she spoke to your mother! I will not tolerate this disrespect, make her apologise this instant." Of course the other Monster Singhania, the daddy bear , had to speak.
Karan gave me a guilty look, then stood up from the sofa to stand in front of me.

"Ridhima, I hope you understood my father. Apologise now." My mouth fell open, I was almost hurt but I realised why he gave that guilty look , he is acting or I hope he is acting because if he is not then we are over for good.

"No." I reply simply.

"What did you say? So you are ill mannered enough to disobey your husband." His step mother chimes in, her affronted tone almost made me feel guilty, as if disobeying my husband was the worst crime in the world.

"Ridhima, don't push me. Just do as I say" Karan says.

"I will apologise but give me one good reason, as to why I need to apologise?"

"Maybe the sarcastic comment would be a good reason for starters, bhabhi" Megha contributes her two cents.

"That may have come out sarcastically but it is the truth" I tell her and then turn to Karan "Didn't you party last night, honey?"

Deciding to ignore them, I move to the kitchen to get something to eat for myself and give the Singhanias some snacks as well.

"Bhabhi,  wait I am also coming. " I hear Ishika behind me.

We both prepare some snacks and coffe for everyone , while a maid, Karan called for, cleans up the house.

"Did you tell bhai?"

"About what?"

"About what I told you."

"No, not yet atleast"

"Then why does he look so detached and mad at dad?"

"I didn't tell him anything but he found out. Don't worry about it."

"What is he going to do now?" Ishika asks me, as we both carry trays laden with food towards the drawing room.

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"What are you going to do now?" I ask Karan as we lay down to sleep, finally done with the day. It was one of the longest days of my life, no kidding.

This apartment is not as big as the Singhania Bungalow back in India, so whenever I went to kitchen , I ran into one of the unpleasant elements of the Singhania family, karan left soon after the snacks, saying something about pending work.

"Hmmm?"

"Karan!"

"What? Geez! Woman! I know everything is alright between us now, but it won't be if you keep waking me up when I am about to fall into a deep slumber."

"You want to sleep? Fine." I move out of his embrace , pick up the blanket on my way to the sofa and plop down on it. "Good night. May you have nightmares"

I give him one last glare and turn my back on him.

"You know I can't sleep now, you were obviously saying something , just repeat it. I am listening now." I hear him move around and soon feel his hands turning me by the shoulders towards him.

"I thought your sleep is more important."  I snap at him.

"I am sorry, I am just exhausted, it has been a long day. Just tell me what you were saying before." His words don't contradict his appearance. He looks exhausted and the slight appearance of dark circles under his eyes is proof enough, I put him out of his misery and concede with him, not wanting to pull this petty squabble  any longer.

" I was asking what are you planning, regarding the video you saw and it's content.?"
I sit up and give him space, he immediately occupies the space next to me, resting his arm over my shoulders, and pulling me closer, to snuggle next to him.

"I have not thought about it yet." He frowns as he says that.

"We can release it to the press." I suggest him.

"Media will not care much about it, they can make it a case of a marriage being forced on you, and ask the government to give you an easy divorce other than that it proves nothing , rest of the things are just words being thrown around."

"True. then we don't have a plan yet." 

Karan just hums his response, dozing off again.  I snuggle closer to him , following him into a deep sleepless slumber.

An ache in my neck pulls me out of my sleep induced coma. Stretching my neck to get rid of the ache, i open my eyes and i am greeted by the lobely sight of my husband talking on phone near the window of the room, coffee in hand. that is a sight i can get used to. he glances towards me , realizing I am awake ends his call and approaches me, picking another cup from the table on his way to me. 

" coffee?" he offers me the other cup he picked.

" yes, please."

" here you go" he hands me the cup.

" Thanks. Who was on the phone?" 

" No one important, just work related stuff." we have a quite breakfast in our own room. karan has hired a maid yestarday, so i didnt have to cook for the whole singhania clan and god knows what they are doing right now.

" What's the plan for today?" I ask him.

" I am going to the office right after dropping mom, dad and Megha at the airport. Ishika is at her friends place right now. She'll stay for a while." 

" How about we have lunch together then. I don't have anything to do anyways."

" okay, but i cant come to pick you up, I have a meeting around noon and can't bail on it." 

" that's fine, i'll come to your office then we can leave together." 

" okay. It's a date then."  

Karan left after making plans, I didn't bother to go out to see off the Singhania trio. 

Time slows down when you are excited for something, same happened for me,  Lunch time approached slower than a snail.

I ended up leaving house for Karan's office half an hour earlier.  and reached earlier as well. 

His secretary greeted me, when i reached at his office door. 

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Singhania. Mr. Singhania is still in the meeting, if you want I can inform him about your visit."

" No need to do that we have plans, he knows I'll be coming, I'll wait in his office." 

" Sure,ma'am." 

Waiting is the most tiresome work of all time. I even put an extra effort on my looks today, curled my hair, applied makeup, and even changed my outfit three times. 

Getting bored of just sitting and looking around, I moved from the couch, to his desk which was covered with stacked papers, expensive looking pen stands with even more expensive pens, and files. 

the file kept on top of the stack had my pictures, my likes and dislikes, and it had highlights on some words. Did he investigate me, to find what i like and don't like? 

"dummy. should have asked me about it." 

The file below it had pictures of Siddharth, where he lives, his phone numbers, family history, where he works, histroy of  jobs, even the girls he has dated. that is some huge level of stalking. 

A black file with a small red 'G' printed in the upper corner of that file was kept at the right side of the table. curious as to what was that I picked it up. 

The first page read :  

SCANDALS INVOLVING GUPTA INDUSTRIES.

It had a list of all the illegal activities Gupta Industries have ever been a part of.

Rape. Child trafficking. Export at a cheaper price without paying taxes. 

And shockingly the further I went through the file, I found out it had all the cases my dad has ever been involved with, lawsuits against him, every detail, with pictures as supporting proof. 

"Hey , you came early.." I look to find Karan at the entrance. His expression clearly tells that this file was something he didn't want me to see. 

"What is all this?" My voice sounds scratchy, and I belatedly realize that I have tears in my eyes.

why does it feel like another betrayal.

"I didn't know how to tell you, last night but this is my plan." He starts but I am too impatient to listen to his halfhearted explanations. 

"What exactly is this ? what is your plan?"

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Thank you so much for sticking with me for so long, I am trying to complete this story as soon as possible, because I have a new story bubbling at it's surface.

P.S. 

Is there anyone who loves South Korean Dramas? Beacause I am addicted to them.

 

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