Chapter - 20: Don't be like that.

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Kaira's POV:

"Are you going to give us, only this ice cream? Not even a pizza party!?" Nikki whines from the park bench she is sitting. On her right was Sam eating her vanilla and their boyfriends were with Sidharth leaning against the tree beside the bench.

"What are we even celebrating, Kaira?" Kabir immediately asks.

"It's not a celebration and I'm feeding you to keep you guys from leaving." I roll my eyes chucking my cup in bin.

"And why would you want to stop us? Isn't that what you always wanted?" Karthik asks before going in for another cup of ice cream.

"Oh you can leave alright, I don't care anyway. I need my friends and Sidharth here. Kabir can stay if he wants, you can leave with your dignity." I snap "Hey, keep strawberry one aside or he will kill me!" I stop him when I see pink ice cream inside his cup.

"Who?" Sam gobbled with a mouth full of vanilla.

"Me, baby, who else?" A known voice interrupts our banter "I won't let anybody else to even touch my bunny."

Everyone turns to look at the person walking over to us. I didn't though. The voice was irritatingly familiar.

Duh, I've been hearing his sick voice for more than 2 decades now.

Looking down at my watch I say "Its just 7:30 milkshake, why don't you come after an hour?"

He chuckled behind me, feeling everyone's eyes on us he says "Now bunny, wouldn't you be angrier at me if I were to come 2 hours late than you've called me?"

"That's the point! I thought you learned the value of time! You... What did I tell you about clinging onto me?" My words come out mocking the moment he draped his arm around my shoulder.

He simply smirked down at me "That you love it when I have my arms around you?"

I gave him a smile "I remember it happening differently." Saying so, I grabbed his wrist and jerked it off, stumbling he grinned at the ice cream cups.

"Are you giving my welcomes back treat to everyone out here?"

"Nope, you are paying 80% of the amount." I inform.

He looks around then mocks teasingly "Bunny, now if you would be so kind to introduce your lovely friends to me, and your fiancé who by the looks of it, is going to kill me the moment you are out of here. Well, didn't you arrange this get together for us to meet?"

This time I choose to look up at Sidharth who really was glaring at milkshake.

I clear my throat gaining his and everyone's attention as I announce "Sidharth, I told you I'd meet you up with milkshake when he returns. Here he is, unfortunately my best friend, Abhishek Mehra."

Milkshake grinned at Sidharth, walking over to him he placed a hand on his shoulder saying "I won't give you sentimental speeches like her friends here did, I just am going to say that if I can make her agree to marry you I can also make her run away before you get tied together, so think before anything you do."

Sidharth jerked, his eyes burned with revenge as he looked at milkshake.

Why revenge?

I roll my eyes as I walk up to them saying "Don't take him seriously, he can't make me do anything. He is just jesting around with you."

"If that's a threat, Abhi, then you know I don't take them nicely." Sidharth gives his reply.

The way he says it, had me narrow my eyes at him and milkshake's grin confirmed my doubt.

He knew! He knew! Bloody hell, he knows!

"I— don't believe this! You useless piece of shit! I so am going to kill you!" I snap at my best friend and step forward angrily. All I could see was red.

What I didn't see was that he shifted at bullet speed to stick a foot in my way to make me stumble and fall in the arms of my fiancé.

"Ah! Young romance! I'm so happy you finally are getting your share of romance." milkshake exclaims from behind me. I nod at Sidharth to let me go and when he does, I turn and stomp a foot on milkshake's toes which made him jump groaning much to my satisfaction.

"So, now that know you are well acquainted with Sidharth, so you must be with his friends?" I finally ask after his jumping is over.

He smirked wickedly "You bet! Of course, I do! They are my group of friends, remember my college mates?" I raise my eyebrows at him, memories flash and my lips form an 'O'.

Of course, how can I ever forget? Your college friends.

"Good going then. Nikki, Sam, you got it who is this person here? You may have heard about him as well, he somehow also happened to be in the music industry a couple of years ago. But don't give much importance to that, he doesn't care anyway."

"Bunny!" Milkshake groaned.

"What?" I blinked innocently "Am I saying anything wrong? If you cared enough, you would have stayed instead of giving up."

"Later bunny." He snapped. I scoffed.

Nikki cleared her throat trying to neglect the tension in the air. Sam on the other hand though, was still staring at my best friend open-mouthed.

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Abhi. You see Samaira here is one big fan of yours so she is little too happy to show it." Nikki stomped her foot on Sam's hard.

Sam jerked to reality where milkshake was smirking his ass off, Karthik was getting red by seeing his girlfriend swoon over his friend, Kabir and Sidharth were amused at Sam's reaction while Nikki and I were rolling our eyes at the same.

"Yes! I am a big fan of you. Your songs are amazing! I love them, and I love you too, your instrumentals are great—" She goes on telling him everything she likes about him.

"Oh, Sam! I don't really want to interrupt your lovely fan moment right now, but please don't feed his ego so much! Though his stomach is big enough, he still needs to eat food to keep him alive." I say finally applying a full stop to her admiration.

Milkshake though didn't share my relief, he gave me a slap on my back before walking over to my poor Sam.

"Really Miss Samaira? Why don't you dump this piece of shit and start dating me?" He says in his sweet come, come fall in my trap voice as he tries to get hold of her palms.

She immediately stepped back mumbling apologies and I laugh "See, I told you, you cannot have everyone."

Glaring at me he snorted "Your friends after all! I bet you trained them well before I came." I grinned mischievously.

Oh yes, I did! I can't have my poor Sam falling in the trap of devil like milkshake now, can I?

"So- Kaira.. You are— his bunny?" Kabir voices out slowly and I tilt my head half an inch eyeing him.

"No one else. But the point is how do you know me?"

"He talks about you." Karthik shrugs going back to his cup and I mock my eyebrows in surprise.

"Really? Like what?"

"You'd be surprised." Sidharth added coming over to me "He actually praises you and your talents and organization skills."

"Oh? And not how much of a trouble maker I am? Impressive.. but—" I offer my eyes snapping to milkshake "I never thought you'd do that milkshake. I always assumed I'm an embarrassment to you, like to almost everyone else. What's the point of showing off for the world? They are either going to judge or criticize."

By now, everyone's eyes are zeroed on me. Especially the 2 people who I do give more importance, my best friend and my fiancé.

"That's where you go wrong bunny, I talk about you to my friends and not the world. Friends do neither of those." milkshake explains. I smiled sarcastically.

"Really? Who are you trying to fool? It's very much clear from their faces of what they are judging about." I scan Karthik's face once again and continue "He probably thinks along with the lines 'how many times she might have fucked with him?'"

As soon as the words are out of my mouth everyone snaps to attention with Sam holding a palm over her mouth and Nikki has her jaw dropped. Sidharth simply froze.

"Kaira!" Sam exclaims and I throw her a look which I know she understands pretty well.

Others continue to stare at me before Karthik breaks the silence with a shrug followed by words.

"Honestly, I was thinking something like that. You say, your best friend, it means you do spend a lot of time with him.. It doesn't leave much for imagination—" He doesn't get to complete as a punch lands hard on his nose.

"Are you serious? You knew what was coming with your friends as witnesses, milkshake. I told you to keep it out while you are in front of my friends! Do it when they are not around, I don't want you to scare them away.  Anyway, he doesn't count in the people who can question me, just if *my head tilts in Sidharth's direction and I give him a smile* someone else had asked, I surely would have answered." I snap back at milkshake as he glares at his friend knocking his nose in place.

Maybe they are used to broken noses. Who am I kidding? He is a doctor, obviously he is used to it.

"And if you answer to that, I'll make sure you regret every second of it!" he growls at me.

I put up my hands in surrender "Alright, alright. Keep it in your pants, will you? Have this strawberry ice cream, I've saved it for you, thank me later." I shove the ice cream cup in his angry hands.

"Its all your fault you know." he mumbles stuffing the ice-cream "If you just had let me fuck you, we wouldn't be needing to answer questions like that. A simple yes would have kept us from details."

I roll my eyes and snort "Oh, milkshake and his fantasies. Never going to come true."

"They can. If you allow." he winked.

Isn't he over doing it too much? Sure I allowed for sometime but it's going out of hand now.

"If you don't shut it, Abhi, then you can eat your ice cream in hospital." Sidharth glared at milkshake with the same revenge I saw earlier.

Milkshake kept his mouth shut only because he was eating his favorite ice cream, other than that he just smirked our way.

After a while of feeling tired I lean against the tree behind me, eyes closed, feeling cool breeze tickling my face, I smile into the air.

I listen carefully to their talks when my palm is pulled in another strong one. Squeeze. With closed eyes I lean my head on Sidharth's shoulder.

"So how was your job back in Delhi? When did you return anyway?" Kabir questions and my head snaps up.

I'm sure I'll have a sour neck by the end of the day!

"2 days back." he wobbles out in between his ice cream fantasy.

"I see milkshake, your friends knew about your job opportunity in Delhi. Wasn't I the last one to know? Like always?" I smiled at him.

He looked at me in eyes "We need to talk about this bunny."

I raised my eyebrows "Really? I thought I'm getting it all correct. Yet we need it, a lot."

Milkshake then wiggles his eyebrows at Sidharth beside me "So, tell me, how was she? Have I trained her well? Wait, don't tell me you haven't fucked her yet!"

My friends choked, their boyfriends' expression was torn between amusement and shock while, I, once again roll my eyes at milkshake's regular question. Sidharth was stiff again, his hold on my hand tightened.

"Go on, tell him. Past a month, I'm tired of answering to that one." I urge my fiance.

Giving milkshake a look, Sidharth parted his lips "That has nothing to do with you."

Milkshake grinned in reply "Oh yes it has! If you haven't, I get more time to train her into a seductress. Oh and bunny, we need to go shopping!"

"Why? To buy a hammer to ram your head with or to refill your stock of protection?"

He smirked, "I don't need one for you—"

He didn't go far. Why? Because Sidharth decided it was time to pull up his possessive armor over me again.

He said "Neither do I need anything to ram your head in blood. Just because you by mistake ended up as her best friend doesn't mean I will tolerate your crap."

Milkshake's expression didn't change, though everyone was looking between the two of them, just like me.

"Ooo, possessiveness! I like it, take care of that delicate flower, won't you?" milkshake cheers.

Delicate flower?

My jaw clenched and out of reflex my foot shifted, a pebble under it went flying to my best friend, who without a doubt dodged it.

He was a good goal keeper, what can I say?

"And she has thorns, beware." he grinned.

I leaned on Sidharth's shoulder closing my eyes at the comfort after sticking out my tongue at milkshake childishly. Some peaceful moments later, I carve for more butterscotch.

Ya ya, I'm a greedy pig! Now let me have peace with more of my butterscotch cup.

As thought, I excuse myself from the group to buy a new one and start nibbling on it as soon as I had it opened.

"So tell us Abhi, from when do you know Kiri? How did you two become friends and then best friends?" My friends were in the mood of asking a lot of questions.

On my nickname given by Ritz, he stiffened for a second before he let loose and grinned at them, excitedly giving them his full attention he started.

"From the day she is born!" He exclaimed, from the looks of everyone present they didn't believe him, except for Sidharth of course who already knows, he continued nonetheless "She was so cute, so small! I fell in love with her the moment I saw her! She was so fragile. When I first poked her cheek she looked up at me with her big brown eyes like I was a godfather for her. She used to cry a hell lot of times and would be happy to come in my arms. If you should know, when she grew up she used to jump on me in the mornings to wake me. Then she grew up some more, a lot more, and into a sexy young woman, she is now. Ah, the time flies so fast."

"And if you should know, milkshake grew into a disgusting piece of ass, from who I kept my distance for obvious reasons. Oh wait, he kept pushing me away."

Everyone turns to welcome me back to the group. Milkshake didn't let my words affect his expression though regret flashed in his eyes for a second.

He mocked "Oh well Bunny—"

I shake my head at him "Enough milkshake, stop it now. You aren't fooling anyone."

His smirk is replaced with a smile and I knew he ended his act. He announced "You are wrong there. But I'll stop here, because, when a girl says no, then its a no and we should stop. I learned it from my best assistant. Get it Karthik?"

"Who happens to be your assistant if I may ask." Nikki dared to ask when silence resumed over our group.

He gave her an amused smile "I don't think bunny has gotten that invisible yet, has she?"

I knew what would follow his recent confession. It involved a lot of interrogations demanding to know what all I keep from them, especially my friends.

Sidharth wasn't much affected by the newly acquired information. He held my gaze for a moment, nodded one of his slightest ones and went back to his main concern, without a doubt, his lovely phone.

Another 5 mins of silence and Kabir shoved his phone in milkshake's hands, from the looks of it, they were photos. My friends huddled over to peep in.

"Bunny! Pink isn't your color then how did you end up wearing that?" Milkshake calls, holding up my engagement pictures.

"I chose it for her." Sidharth answers instead, winking at me.

"And I liked the shade." I say before he made something out of it. Of course, it doesn't stop him.

"Oh so now you even started wearing his choices huh? Not bad, not bad at all!" Milkshake teases and my natural heating devices turned on, luckily no one noticed.

Feeling bored Nikki and Sam came over to me when they kept aside Kabir's phone and talked about some new brand of sports gear.

"So Kiri, the plan is still on, right? What all we will be needing?" Niki asks.

"You booked the things you had to?" Sam follows.

"Yup! Everything is done. We will need..."

"Where are you girls going?" Karthik interrupts and Kabir looks at us just as confused.

I share a look with Sam which screamed, none of your business!

But of course, my friend had to spoil it.

"A weekend trip to hill stations!" Niki exclaims getting excited, both Sam and I throw glares at her.

Kabir mocked his eyebrows "In monsoon?"

"The best season." I shrugged.

He shared a look with his friend then look at us with a grin "We are in!"

"No one invited you!" I tell them as nicely as possible.

"We don't need invitations." Karthik smirks.

"Oh please! We don't want any extra baggage! Plus if you want to be with your girlfriends and coming for that sake, then stay out of it! I won't allow you to spoil one of my last trips!"

"Guys, what's going on?" Milkshake speaks up who was busy with Sidharth for some other matter until now.

"Bro we are going on a weekend trip with these girls. Are you in?" Kabir asks as if it has been his plans.

What the hell? Who does he think he is?

"Girls? Great, Count me in." He immediately agrees then turns to Sidharth who is now totally into his phone, he simply shrugs.

"We all are in." Kabir exclaims looking at us.

"Aren't you guys busy?" I narrow my eyes.

"I can take a leave or two." Kabir starts.

"My schedule isn't too busy, I can take a few leaves. So its yes from me." Its Karthik.

"I recently resigned. Finding a new job will take me a week." Milkshake followed, I sent a glare at him.

Obviously.

All heads turn to Sidharth again "I won't be able to come, I'm busy." He shrugs, too engrossed in his goddamn phone.

Great indeed!

"Hey! Your friends are coming, I need an escape so you need to come along. If you don't come, neither of them are coming. I won't carry extra baggage for nothing." I exclaim and he chuckles.

Kabir looked at me then at Sidharth then back at me before asking "Is she flirting with you or insulting us?"

Milkshake laughed "That's bunny for you!"

"Fine, count me in too." Sidharth declared and Karthik and Kabir highfied like school kids.

"How come you didn't tell me you were going off?" Milkshake narrows his eyes accusingly.

I send him a smile "For that you need to be around and not kilometers away without telling me prior. I thought I can do that too."

"Are you ever going to let it go!?" He whined I chuckled.

"Not really. So now, I have to change many things." I look up at the boys "You guys are

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