Chapter 29

Shashi Gupta was smirking. Oh yes, he was.

And he had a good reason to smirk also. Because finally, finally, FINALLY he had realised what exactly was being hidden by him by his darling daughter and sweetheart wife since last night.

The reason behind that brilliant smile on his daughter's face and the lightness in his wife's eyes. The reason behind why his daughter and his wife had spent an entire night talking and yet not a tinge of fatigue had marred either of their beautiful faces.

HE HAD FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!

And who had helped him with the realisation or rather the confirmation of what had been going around in unrecognised circles in his ageing but still sharp mind? Who else but the one man he had always trusted to be by his side in his most troubling times, the one man on whom he leaned the most right after his wife and daughter, the one man who went around by the name of Arnav Singh Raizada.

The way Arnav had sprinted on hearing Khushi was unable to attend the office because she was behaving strangely had finally put two and two together in his mind and viola! he had his answer!

And the answer you ask?

Well Arnav and Khushi were friends again!

And finally, after a long long LONG time Shashi Gupta let out a long breath of relief because finally after a long long LONG time things would be back to the way he liked them - peaceful.

Just how mistaken he was would become clear to him soon, very soon because just when had things concerning Arnav and Khushi ever been peaceful?

Even when they had been friends in their childhood, they had wrecked havoc together. From destroying the neighbours' garden by letting lose Arnav's honestly malicious beagle (who was so aptly named 'Ma Beagle'* after a character who was not nearly half as malicious as her when the USP of the character was that she was one evil beagle!) in it whose favourite pastime was digging holes just because the neighbour had refused to partake in the chanda' for Ganesh Chaturthi to disabling a teacher's chair in school so that it fell and she sprawled on the ground because she had dared to slap a classmate ("Corporal punishment is not allowed, Papa! Arnu and I were just teaching her a lesson!") to the times they used to dismantle various appliances around the house just because they were bored.

Yes, you read that right.

Because they were bored.

No other reason.

None at all.

And they did this not in their own houses...

They did this in others' houses because they were bored.

Bored.

So going by this historical record, Shashi Gupta's relief seemed to be a tad bit...misled.

But he was not yet aware of his miscalculation and so he called his PA to his office and declared that he was off to his house and if need be he can be contacted on his home number before picking up his briefcase and sauntering out to the basement, whistling to the tune ofSuhaana safar aur yeh mausam haseen'...



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*Ma Beagle - An adorable evil character from the awesomer than awesome 'Ducktales'. She is the mother of the Beagle Boys - both biologically and evilly! In this story, she is the mother of MojoJojo, the beagle dog Arnav now has...so I guess Arnav likes to name his pets after adorable evil characters! ;) :D

I have two dogs identified as both these characters from Google images, if you wish I can post their pictures in the next update.

The update should be up by the weekend. Thanks for the feedback to the last chapter and I hope you enjoyed this teaser...poor Mr. Shashi Gupta...such a naive fellow...tsk tsk ;) :D

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