Chapter - 10: Her first crush?

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Sidharth's POV :

"Let's sit somewhere and talk" I suggest, stepping forward I carefully weave my fingers through hers and give a squeeze before leading her further. Her friend followed us closely behind, I knew by the way he was grunting.

"Who told you before me?" Kaira questions guardedly as we sit at 322 west street café on the farthermost corner.

"How does it matter? We have more important things to discuss. From when is this going on?" Ritik waves his forefinger between us to specify.

I heard her mutter something like "I'm going to kill Bhai" and tried to stifle a laugh and keep a blank expression.

Kaira groans when she heard his question and leans back in her chair, I could see the worry lines on her forehead.

"Past 2 weeks." I answer instead but stop when I feel her palm over mine. When I look at her, she was glaring at her friend.

"That isn't a question to ask. You want an answer from me then ask nicely. And stop acting like you don't know. I told you last time we met, you know math calculate." She snaps.

Ritik's eyes snapped from me to Kaira as he glared at her "You told me you met someone, not that this someone is the one you are getting married to. I thought this was just one of your crushes."

"Oh yeah? When you told me about your assistant even I thought she would be one of your— One night stands, is she yet?"

I see him clenching and releasing his fists at her mock and I can't help but smirk internally.

"You know it's not like that, Kiri."

She rolled her eyes "Fine. Ask what you want nicely."

"Why didn't you say no?"

She shrugged "I did. On Sunday, dad had come up to announce that he has fixed my marriage and expects me to get married and out of the house by the end of this year. What do you expect me to do? Of course, I'd say no. Dad doing all this was like, yeah do whatever you want. But Bhai? He was okay with it? I had little argument with him as well and he left after giving me a pep talk. Of course, I don't back down my protest but then with continuous texts from milkshake, Bhai's chocolates and talk with Shreya suggested that I should meet the guy first so, yeah it happened and here we are."

He raised an eyebrow at me as she completed "What did you even like in him?"

My heart skipped a beat as he asked that, ready for her answer. I met her eyes when she looked at me.

She smiled before looking back at him "Don't know. It just feels right?"

So does, Kaira, it so feels right with you.

"It does, doesn't it?" He smirked from his place.

In response, she shrugged and grinned at him.

"Arav bhai is willing to go with uncle on his decision of marrying you? How is that possible?" He reminded again.

Doesn't Arav and his father go along? They are professional in every business meetings, they don't look like they have any clashes amongst them.

"Even I was surprised that day when I knew. But now, knowing that my leaving would give him a ticket out, I don't doubt it. Anyway, he was living there for me, so when I'm not there anymore, why would he live in dad's house?" She offered her point.

What is wrong with her father exactly?

He fell silent once again.

"Bhai is pretty excited for this though." She smiled down at the table "He promised, even if it's not happening at the right time I wanted, he will make it as I wanted. So, decide fast and join him to make this event successful."

He smirked at her once he made up his mind "You've thought about it for a long time, haven't you? Fine then. I'll get on with helping Bhai."

She passed him a grin "Good. Now leave, you are spoiling my date."

"Of course you wouldn't want to skip through this one for better comfort of your bed rather reading a book, the times changed seems." He teases as he gets up. Bidding his goodbye he left us alone.

"What was that skipping part?" I ask amused at how cutely her arms folded to her chest looking annoyed.

"Nothing much. A few years back when I used to accompany some name sake friends for shopping and all, I used to be bored to death so immediately I would text either of them to get me out reasoning that I would prefer to read a book in the comfort of my bed rather." She explains as we get up.

"So you stayed beacuse of the place you are at?"

"Eh, I'm enjoying the company more." She stated as she walked forward.

I couldn't stop the smile spreading on my lips or the fast beating of my heart. I immediately speed up to walk beside her as silence wraps around us.

"What is wrong with your father exactly?" I finally asked when we passed another jewellery shop.

She sighed softly looking at the people in front when she started "He is a good businessman."

My eyebrows furrowed "And that's the problem?"

She shook her head "He has given all his time and energy to his business from as long as I remember. When you focus on something fully you end up neglecting something. We, his family ended up neglected. I'm not saying dedicated to work is bad, all I'm saying is, there should be a balance of personal and professional life. He forgot that border, treating us like his employees when we grew up, like ordering us around, expecting us to do the work in the given time, deciding things for us, and so much more. Arav Bhai hated his attitude from start but then since the day dad started treating me like that as well, he lost it and refused to ever cooperate with him or ever call him father again. This was when I was 7."

Listening to her talk about her father's neglecting attitude towards her family melted my heart even more for her. Slowly I intertwined our fingers and gave her palm a squeeze.

"Your mother supports you, right?" I whispered softly.

She chuckled before continuing "Seeing dad's behavior towards us, my mother, pitying me actually because she loves my brother so much, tagged along until I was a teenager. Once I hit 13 I was Arav bhai's and Milkshake's responsibility or as they took me in."

She paused to remember before going on "As a child, I always wanted to impress my parents, like every other child. Little did I know my efforts were hardly reaching their line of view. When I was small, like 8, I used to admire dad trying to do what he wants and all. Then getting no response, like a good girl that I was, I left him alone. But my brother has been my role model ever since I was 4, I don't think I could ever tell him how grateful I am to have him as my brother."

Her love for Arav shone in her smile and glittered in her eyes made me smile unconsciously. She went in to talk about her brother and I encouraged with squeezing her palm and chuckling and their stories.

"Hey, What was it that you wanted to buy?" I asked as our motive of coming here today drew to me when she was at pause rewinding memories.

She froze "Shit. I forgot about them. We didn't skip the shop, did we? No, we didn't." She mumbled looking around.

Almost 10 mins later when we found the shop she was searching for, we went in. She asked the shopkeeper to show her paints. My eyes took in all the colors she commented on, liked and disliked.

"I have to paint a scenery on my east wall." She informed me as she went through the shades of the paints. Nodding I let her rum through the cans.

Once she was done, we walked out after she paid for the cans. I argued for carrying the bags as we walked away from the shop. She smiled handing them to me.

"Tell me more about your best friends" I said as his face came on my inner eye.

She chuckled at some memory "Ritik, I had a crush on him when I was 12, actually my first crush, when he moved in the house next to mine."

I froze as I heard it. Her first crush?

"Oh?"

"Yeah, we were small and he was cute. It lasted for some months though until I realized it was just a simple crush and he saw me as a little sister. When I look back now, I laugh at how native we used to be when we were small."

He sees her as his sister, huh?

"We bonded over badminton. Milkshake, Ritz and I used to go for cycling in the evenings, play all sports, race around, play indoors, went through all shit they got themselves in together. My brother joined us on a few occasions, usually it was to see how am I doing and put them in line when they trouble me."

I smiled as she went down her memory lane again. Her laugh was all I wanted to hear as she excitedly told me about her friendship with Ritik.

"Milkshake I know from the day I know my brother. He was there from my birth, we've gone through all our stages together. When we were young, he was usually dumped in my house, as we grew up and as I wanted to run away from my parents I used to stay up at his home. It's my second home, I still go there like its mine, even when he isn't there."

She chuckled as she went on "Milkshake gets himself in so many problems, sometimes, I'm tempted to disown him. From his late teens, he got into flings, I'll be honest, it was the time I was so disgusted I wanted to run away from him as well, but god knows why I couldn't."

So it was that milkshake who has made her immune to the thought of me having flings.

If it was any other girl she would have thrown a fit as to why would I be using girls and disgusted to stay with anyone like me. Kaira though is different.

She understood something I haven't yet.

Why did I fuck around? Why didn't I just wait for her to come in my life? Probably it was the curiosity and hormonal changes that we went through in teenage.

She went on telling me her stories with her two best friends and I smiled at every innocent memory of them, laughed at the stupidity they did as teenagers.

Time goes by slowly as we walk through the streets, we stop by a few stalls, to eat our fast food, to look at some art piece she likes, or to check out the book stalls.

A/N :

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