*Asha Pov*
I got ready and calmly went downstairs gulping continuously. Please god I don’t want bad news please!!
I begged god in my heart. This time save me please.
My Dad was sitting on the couch and a feel of déjà vu hit me hard.
I calmly sat infront of him and waited for him to talk whatever he wants to now.
“How are you?” Dad asked shocking the whole house.
Yeah if we imagine dramatically and think that each and every person heard that question. Then they must have stilled in that very moment.
I cleared my throat and said “I am fine Dad. How are you?”
“I am fine. I want to discuss something important.” He said in his usual manner.
I just nodded and didn’t say anything.
“Look, we all still think that you are perfect for Lakshman.” He said.
“Dad!..” I started to tell him to stop but he cut me off showing his hand.
“Let me finish. I know you both break up and we don’t know the reason behind it. But we three want this to happen.” Dad said and started typing something in his laptop.
I just sat there because I don’t know what to say.
“See he got a girlfriend now for the past three months. Now he is going to introduce her to his parents.” Dad said turning the laptop towards me.
I saw Lucky with some girl. She is very beautiful. I read below that her name is Sandhya but everyone calls her Sandy.
“She is beautiful.” I said smiling.
“That is not important here. Panchi thinks that she is not a good girl and is very bad for Lakshman.” Dad said taking his system back.
“But Dad! That is just completely wrong.” I said immediately.
“Wrong?” he asked confused.
“Yeah! How can she assume that without even meeting her? She should first meet Sandy and then decided something.” I replied.
I mean that’s what everyone should do right. Without knowing everything about them we can’t assume some stupid things.
“Well we don’t care. We just want you both to get married.” Dad said shrugging.
“It is not making any sense dad. What are you trying to say?” I asked him completely confused.
“At present Anil and Panchi are staying at the beach house. So Lakshman is taking this Sandhya girl there and also stay there for one month. Now you need to go there and stay with them.” He replied calmly.
“Dad! Why should I? It is so wrong to stay there as I am his ex.” I said getting up.
I can’t believe this. What are they planning to do?
“Look Anil and Panchi wants Lakshman to leave Sandhya and marry you. Now you are going to go there and help them.” He said getting up.
“What?” I asked raising my voice a little.
What do they think me as? I am not some person who will break someone’s relationship.
I will never do it in million years.
“You need to do it for all of us.” Dad said looking at me.
“Why don’t they like her? They should atleast try right. I mean what is the reason behind not liking her. Is her social status or something else?” I asked him all the questions.
I don’t know who is she but I don’t think it is right to judge someone by their status.
“We don’t care about it. It is just that they both want only you as their daughter-in-law. I don’t want to hear anything else. You will go there by tomorrow and that’s it.” He ordered and left the room.
I rushed inside my room and fell on my bed.
They both want only me? Is this crazy or what?
Here I want just love from my Dad and they both are obsessed with me.
Urgh!!! Why me???? I want to shout out loud.
I heard small knock on my door and heard someone enter.
I looked around to see Aunty entering my room with pity look.
“You heard everything.” I didn’t ask her but just stated.
She nodded and said “Sir asked me to pack some of your clothes for one month.”
I nodded but was just unable to say anything.
I need to talk to my best friend. Why is he so far away from me when I need him?
I took my mobile and called him. After few rings he lifted the phone and said “How are you Asha?”
What is with today everyone asking me whether I am fine or not?
“I am fine. How are you?” I asked him.
“I am fine. So what is this sudden surprise?” He asked me.
“I miss you. I wish you were her.” I replied closing my eyes.
“What did he do now?” He asked and I can feel the anger in his voice.
I calmly explained everything to him and waited for his reaction.
“Come and stay with me Asha.” He said after few minutes.
“Yeah right! London is just at the corner of this building right.” I said rolling my eyes.
“I am serious. Just leave that place.” He said.
“What are you trying to say Rahul?” I asked him confused.
“Asha you have a great talent. And if you come here, I will keep you as my assistant. Your life will change Asha think about it.” He replied.
“But am I that good to be able to teach the people in London.” I said worriedly.
“I know you can. Who knows your talent better than me? I am your teacher right.” He said.
“Ok so I just have to assist you in teaching right?” I asked finally.
“I have planned so much for you Asha. You just have to come here that’s it.” he replied and I can feel the happiness.
“But what about my Visa?” I asked him again another problem.
“I will talk to some friends of mine. It will take atleast one month. Don’t worry! So you will come here right?” He asked me.
“Yeah! I will. For now I need to go there according to my Dad. So when my Visa is ready, just call me. I will immediately leave to come there.” I replied smiling.
“Good! I am so happy that you decided this. Be careful ok.” He said.
“I will. Bye Rahul.” I said hanging up.
Yes! He is my dance teacher and also my best friend.
He is so protective of me. When he was leaving one year back, he said when I want to leave this place I just have to give him a call.
I always thought he is saying it as a kindness gesture but I never thought he is so serious.
He is 26yrs old. Four years older than me.
I am excited that I will be going there but also sad that now I have to go to that beach house.
I just hope nothing goes wrong there.
I want them to accept Sandy and everything will be cool.
Please god! Stop them from pressuring me do anything which will hurt anyone!
*Asha Pov*Wow! It is the only word flowing in my mind when I reached near the beach house. It is so big and beautiful.And the beach, don’t even make me start about that. I am in love with it.My driver left me after dropping me here. It is his luck that his parent’s house is in the near town so I asked him to stay there.I will just give him a call when I need him. I looked around and can feel that these would be best holidays if only the reason I was invited here is a good one.When I went inside I was eloped in a very tight hug.“Oh Asha! It’s been so long since I last saw you.” Panchi Aunty said hugging me.“Aunty! You just saw me one month back.” I said smiling.“Well one month has thirty days dear.” She said releasing me.“Now please don’t start saying how many hours are there in each day.” We heard coming from the stairs.We looked up to see Anil Uncle standing there smiling at us.We all laughed and I hugged him when he came down. They asked me how am I doing and everything.
*Sandy Pov*I just wish that Lucky’s parents accept me. I want only that and nothing else.When I had to leave him after high school because we had to move to another state, I felt so bad.But four months back we met again and the sparks just flew again. At that time we both were single so just decided to date.I think it will be very hard for them to accept me because we are competitors. Well my brother is the competitor.He is Prem Agasthya, C.E.O of “Agasthya Corporations”. I am so proud of him.After our parents died six years ago in car accident, he joined our company to not make it drown. And now it is top company in India.He even has few branches outside India. With all these success there is the need of more hard work too.So he is always busy and only busy. He is just 26years old but act like some thirties.Our company is very important for him but he never ignored me. He always keeps me as his top priority and then his work.I am happy but I don’t want that. I want someone
*Asha Pov*How can she just say that about me?I know the way Aunty talked about me is wrong but she judged me so easily. I don’t want to be here at all.The tears just didn’t stop after starting when I entered the room where I am going to stay.Do I have to bear these accusations for this whole month?I don’t think I can do it. I need to get out of here.I fetched my phone from the bedside table and called the only person who can take me out of here.“Hello!” He said picking up.“Rahul!” I said and controlled my tears.“Asha! What happened?” He asked immediately.“I don’t want to stay here Rahul. I can already see the judged looks from them.” I replied letting few tears flow.“Shh.. Don’t cry. Now tell me what are you talking about and whom?” He asked and then I told him about what happened.“Ok. That is completely wrong. She shouldn’t have said like that but the big culprits here are your Dad and Lucky’s Parents.” He said calmly.“I know that. I am not angry at her. But also I don’t
*Asha Pov*Next day I woke up with slight headache because of that stupid crying.After getting ready I went downstairs near the Kitchen to see few helpers are moving here and there totally terrified and making breakfast.“What happened?” I asked them entering the Kitchen to drink some coffee.“Our head chef is not feeling well so she can’t cook today.” One of them said and I can see they are worried.“Is she ok? I mean nothing serious right?” I asked them.“She just needs to take rest for today.” Another one replied.“Then why are guys so terrified?” I asked them confused.“Because Maam, we don’t know what to prepare for all the courses today.” One helper said.“That’s it. Here I will tell you the items and you just prepare them.” I said asking for the notebook.They happily gave me one and I wrote the menus for breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.“OK. Now you can prepare Breakfast.” I said handing the book.“Oh God! There is only one hour.” One said and everyone panicked again.“Hey! It wi
*Sandy Pov*After Asha called my brother as Uncle we all rushed out of the house and stood on the front porch.When we just stood there calmly we all suddenly burst out laughing.“Poor Asha! I don’t know what will happen to her now.” Madira said giving me highfive.“I still can’t believe you told her that he is my uncle.” I said turning towards Vicky.“Well it is so boring here. So I told her that to have some fun.” He said winking.“I hope your brother will not be too hard on her. He despises the person who ever call him that do you remember.” Lucky said and we all can see the worry on his face.“Yeah! He was a step away from throwing a punch at me but you saved me from him.” Vicky said shuddering.“Why does he hate that word in the first place?” Mandira asked me.“Well we all call him that because he works too hard right. So when he hears it he immediately feels that if our parents are alive he need not work like this at all. In that process he gets the memories of our parents in hi
*Asha Pov*I am fuming would be an understatement of the year.I have many reasons to fume and I can’t just pick one.Few are the way Sandy’s brother treated me. I mean who drags someone like that.I am not his friend. Hell I don’t even know him.Yeah he is handsome. So??And then they discuss about my lacking of knowledge about companies like some debate. Like seriously?I know I shouldn’t talk to them harshly but I just kind of exploded a little. Now I should definitely apologize to them.I suddenly turned back to see all five people following me calmly.They too stopped after I turned. I can see they are thinking that I will lash out again.“I am sorry.” I said looking at them.Everyone just looked at me not saying anything. Then I heard ‘It’s ok’ from Sandy’s brother.To his reply they all nodded and I too nodded with them. Then we started to go near the beach again.And they all acted normally taking to each other.We walked until there are not many visitors in that place. Select
*Asha Pov*At present we all are sitting in the dining room and waiting for the dinner to be served.Why should we? Don’t we have our own hands to do it? I thought rolling my eyes.My phone ringing brought me out of my thoughts. I looked at the caller Id to see it is ‘Rahul’.I glanced at Lucky’s parents to see them busy talking with each other.I picked up my phone and pressed it near my ear to hear “Asha! I have some good news.”“What is it?” I asked excitedly and immediately felt five pairs of eyes on me.I ignored them completely and heard Rahul saying “I got in contact with my friend today. He said that he just needs your certificates and then in few days Visa will be ready.”“That’s great.” I said happily.“Yeah! Now address me where you are living so that he will come there and take them with him.” He said.Then I remembered one thing and immediately said “Oh shut!”“What happened?” he asked immediately.“I didn’t bring them with me. I kind of forgot them at my home.” I replied
*Sandy Pov*For few days we didn’t saw my Brother at all. We would have thought that it is normal and ignore it.But to our surprise we didn’t even saw Asha much.My brother always shows his presence at Lunch and Dinner time correctly every day without skipping but Asha is not attending even them properly.She is skipping them too much. We all are sitting at the front porch.Lucky is very worried about her like too much. I decided to ask him finally.“Lucky! Why are you so concerned about her?” I asked him.Hearing this both Vicky and Mandira too concentrated to hear Lucky’s reply.“Sandy! I had already told you and I am telling you again. She is good person.” He replied.“That doesn’t answer my question Lucky.” I said looking at him.“First of all tell me how I am concerned about her?” he asked me back.“That’s easy. Whenever she tries to skip eating, you ask her to not do it. Why?” Vicky asked him.“That’s because you don’t know her guys. She always skips like that for the past many