Chapter 52

"still busy!" Roli glanced at the clock as she heard the busy tone for Sid's number for the umpteenth time. 

"It's 11 in the night but, sir is still busy" keeping her phone aside, roli huffed. She wanted to talk to Sid but, he was busy with office work and couldn't answer her calls. 

Roli tried to sleep but couldn't. It's been two days without seeing Sid after shifting to new house. And today she didn't even get to talk to him. All thanks to his office work!  

A few minutes later, her phone started ringing, pulling her out from her trance. 

"Hello!" Roli answered excitedly, finding the caller was Sid. 

"Why are you not sleeping yet?" Hearing Sid's stern voice, roli's excitement got faded away. 

"I was waiting to talk to you. But, you're busy" roli replied in a low voice. 

"Yeah, I was having continuous meetings in office. And was talking to a client now when you called" Sid explained, laying down on his bed. 

"Oh.. then take rest. I'll talk to you tomorrow" after hearing Sid's tired voice, roli didn't want to disturb him anymore, though she badly wanted to talk him. 

"Tomorrow also I'll be busy" Sid spoke before she could hung up on the call. 

"Then day after tomorrow?" Roli asked slowly. 

"Busy" Sid replied in just one word. 

"After that?" Roli pouted. 

"Busy" Sid again replied with same answer. 

"Go... Cutty" roli hung up the call without waiting for his reply. 

Sid chuckled looking at his phone screen. How he was missing to see her puppy face when she'd pout. 

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Next day morning, roli got freshen up and came out of her room holding her phone, thinking to call Sid but, the next moment remembering his one word reply 'busy', the previous night, she pressed her lips together like an angry kid and didn't call him. 

When she reached the hall downstairs, she was surprised to see the person standing next to her father. 

"Sameer!" Roli exclaimed in surprise as she rushed near them. 

"I'm back" Sameer smiled, warmly. 

"You said you'll be leaving to US tomorrow, right?" Roli frowned at him. 

"Yeah, I was about to leave tomorrow. But, papa has taken up a new project with bharadwaj industries in collaboration. He couldn't come from Mumbai due to his health issues so, he asked me to handle it" Sameer replied. 

"Then you're going to stay here for few more days" roli was excited as she would get to spend time with her friend. 

"And I'm saying him to stay with us in this house but, he's not agreeing" jamnalal complained. 

"Why so? You're going to stay here and no more discussions about it" roli said sternly that Sameer couldn't deny and had to agree to stay in dwivedi house. 

After having breakfast together, jamnalal left to his office. 

"So, I've to go to bharadwaj office to discuss about the project. Would you like to come?" Sameer turned to roli and asked. 

"No" roli said in a low voice. 

"Don't you want to meet Sid? He'll also be there in the office" Sameer asked in a teasing tone. 

"He is busy" roli rolled her eyes thinking about Sid. 

"But you're not. And won't you feel bored by sitting at home all the day?" Sameer urged her to come with him. 

Though Roli wanted to give silent treatment to Sid, she couldn't resist herself from accepting to go to his office. 

- BW Office -

"You go to Sid. I'll go meet Rajender uncle" Sameer suggested to roli and left. 

Roli watched around the busily working staff and headed towards Sid's cabin after asking an employee for the direction. 

She knocked on the door and received a voice "come in" from inside. 

Sid was seated in his chair facing his back at door so, he couldn't see who the person was. 

Roli walked near him and stood behind his chair. She was about to speak when she heard him saying. 

"Have you prepared the file of Mr.Mishra?" Sid asked without raising his head from the file he was reading. 

"I don't know any Mishra's file" roli replied, a bit pissed off at his workaholic mode. 

Hearing the familiar voice he was longing for, Sid immediately turned around to find roli standing before him. 

"You? What are you doing here?" Keeping the file on the desk, Sid got up. His eyes glittered in the happiness of seeing her. 

"You're very busy and don't even have time to talk. So, I myself had to come to see if you're really busy with work or with anything else" crossing her arms across, roli stared at him. 

"With anything else?" Sid raised his eyebrows to know what she meant by saying that. 

"Yeah.. just saw now, there are so many female staff here. Who knows if you..." Her words got stuck in middle as she received a hot glare from Sid. 

"If I? What? Continue" Sid urged with a stern face. 

"No.. nothing. I will go meet papa" roli turned around to run off before he could burn her with his glaring. 

However, she was immediately pulled back by his strong arm. Twisting her hand with not much strength, Sid wrapped his other arm around her neck from behind. 

"So, you think I'm busy with the female staff here?" His stern voice rang near her ears while his warm breath hit her cheek. 

"I didn't mean that" roli literally felt like crying for her blabbing. 

"My hand is paining" she quickly found an excuse to escape. Sure enough, he released the hold and turned her to face him. 

"If you get such stupid tattoos, won't it pain?" Holding her wrist, Sid stared at her. 

"It's not any stupid tattoo" keeping her gaze down, roli murmured. 

Despite of being angry at her getting tattooed, Sid still asked in a gentle tone "is it still paining?". 

With his tender touch, she felt so soothing. "no" she answered with smile. 

"I missed you so much" roli said in a feeble tone, wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed herself into his chest. 

"But, I didn't miss you" hugging her back, his words lied while his heart smiled in happiness for having her in his embrace. 

"Do you have to pay any tax for telling the truth?" Looking up at him, still being in his arms, roli complained. 

"That's the truth, roli. You see how busy I'm..." 

"Enough of your busy talks. Now I'm gonna talk and you have to listen. No matter how busy you are" pissed off, roli rose from his chest. 

Sid sat back in his chair while Roli went and settled in the chair across to him and started her nonstop talking. Though Sid kept making faces now and then, he was enjoying her talks. In fact, he was actually missing listening to her endless talks. 

A little while later Sameer entered Sid's cabin, making him surprised. 

"Woah. I thought you left India" Sid was taken aback at sameer's sudden appearance. 

"Had to stay back" Sameer responded as he took a seat next to roli. 

Three of them started talking in general. A few minutes passed by with Sid teasing roli while Sameer supported Sid, making roli annoyed. Just then Sid got to attend a phone call. 

"Any problem?" Roli queried after Sid ended the call with a sigh. 

"Nitesh and ruchi are getting married in few days. He asked me to arrange for a wedding planner which I forgot to do" Sid answered, placing his phone on desk. 

"We already have a wedding planner with us here" roli turned to Sameer, addressing him. 

"Really?" Sid too looked at Sameer with hope. 

"Me?" Sameer turned to roli in surprise. 

"Yeah. You said you've started this new venture of wedding planning few months ago, right" roli reminded in case if he forgot about it. 

"But, the whole team is in America. How can I take up this all of a sudden?" Sameer was clueless. 

"It's not a problem. Their marriage is ten days later. So, you've time to bring your team here. I'm caught up with office work and can't search for a wedding planner now. You're going to handle this wedding, that's final" Sid said firmly. 

"You both are really couple goals, making me to agree with your orders" Sameer sighed helplessly as he thought about how Roli made him to agree to stay in dwivedi house. 

"Fine then, I'll contact my team and inform them to come here. And now again my stay in India got extended" Sameer shook his head. 

"May be you're going to settle here itself" roli giggled, making Sameer roll his eyes. 

Meanwhile Sid informed Nitesh about Sameer being the wedding planner. 

"I must tell that you're a great business person. Handling multiple businesses simultaneously" sid looked at sameer with appreciation.

Sameer was of same age as sid. Though being in such young age, he was handling business matters with great ease that sid found very impressive.

"He's in to business even from his school days. I don't know what interested him in this boring business works" roli made a face as she said. 

"Kiddo.. even you are going to handle this boring business later" sameer said as a reminder.

"I don't want to do all these boring stuff. How about you both take care of my papa's business too. Then I can take rest" roli came up with an idea, which made both sid and sameer to look at each other helplessly.  

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A/N : Finally, after facing a writer block, I'm back with this! Forgive me if I went off the track. It's been long since I've written this ff and also lost the plot so there is high possibility of going off track. Please kindly forgive it. I've lost the plot to the extent that I even once considered of leaving this ff incomplete. But, there's something about this ff I cherish the most. So, I couldn't really abandon it. 

 After making every corner of my brain work, I could finally come up with an idea to continue this ff. And I'm telling you guys it's going to be crap, trust meBut, still I can't leave it incomplete so, I'm going to continue with the new plot I've planned. Hope you guys will support.