Praja SS-My Princess CHP 5-PG NO 8 ON 5/1/15 - Page 4

Originally posted by: jyotic74

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Originally posted by: Anjori_ArSha

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In any case, after she leaves, Ajab says cheerfully that Phool's reaction sure was cool. And so she was, until she leaves " once outside, Phool looks much more bothered than she lets on...

She heads straight for the arms of Krishna, because this drama really wants us to hate her. She rebuffs the guy's affection and backstabs him professionally, then seeks consolation in his arms? Urrrghhh... Krishna's too much of a nice guy and holds her comfortingly.

In the morning, she gets some startling news and hurries to tell Pratap Singh to stop his father from making a mistake. Uday Singh is, at the moment, holding a press conference throwing his full support behind the restoration of the monarchy. In fact, he's chosen a truly shocking (but likely effective) way to gain support for the move " the day that the vote goes through for the restoration, he will donate his entire wealth to society.

Pratap Singh tries to get in contact with Ajab, finally locating her at the school cafeteria. Before they can leave, a crowd of reporters appears and fires a barrage of questions their way.

Their attention is directed at Pratap Singh (asking for comment about his father's announcement), but he covers Ajab's face with his jacket to shield her identity from the horde. She's confused, but he warns her that if they're photographed together right now, things will get complicated.

Pratap Singh leads her out, and then they run in earnest from the rabid mob, while curious bystanders include Ajab's friend and Krishna. Pratap Singh manages to shove her into his car before being accosted and smilingly tries to fob off the reporters with jokes and smooth words. He almost succeeds in making his get away, except for the untimely appearance of a smug, confident reporter who asks directly if the woman is a princess, and that increases the furor.

To put a swift end to speculation, Pratap Singh declares that she's his girlfriend. Describing her as a sweet, ordinary student, he asks for them to back off, since they're freaking her out.

With that, he drives to his hotel and hurries Ajab inside " or at least tries to. She resists, saying that as a "business competitor," she'll be barred from entry " equating her teeny home operation to this luxury hotel, ha! I love her.

Now safe on home turf, the staff keeps the wall of reporters out of the building. Pratap Singh ushers her to his suite, which she initially balks at, eyeing him with suspicion. She whacks him in the face out of reflex, and then apologizes for acting before thinking. Hilariously, he flinches automatically when she raises her fist, and then realizes she was joking and tries to cover up his flinch. It's adorable.

Pratap Singh explains that having his photos snapped and his private life exposed can be horrible, which he knows from personal experience. When she asks about his family, he admits Dad has been out of the picture for 20 years...always a kind of busy.

That comment strikes a chord with Ajab, who knows how it feels to be fatherless. Seeing her reaction, he offers up a "funny" tidbit, but it's more sardonic than amusing " that as an 11-year-old boy, he was only one death away from being the head of Sisodias Group. As a result, he's been hounded by reporters since a young age, as well as potential kidnappers and ill-intentioned opportunists. But after enduring all that in the name of being the heir, now that his father says he won't leave him a dime, isn't it understandable that it would make him angry?

Ajab pats him on the head sympathetically, since to her 11-year-old self, Mom giving her sister an extra bit of sausage would have counted as a grave injustice. Her chipper attitude wrings a smile out of him.

They turn their attention to the TV, where the newest report is all about Pratap Singh's girlfriend. Making the report is that smug Reporter Raghavendra; Pratap Singh's statement at the school has now been twisted as Ajab is called his fiancee.

Ajab presses Pratap Singh to remove all their photos and videos from the internet " surely the ruler has enough clout for that? " And even agrees to claim the role of princess if he does. But surely he won't want her to do that and usurp his inheritance. In any case, she doesn't believe she's a princess, because "My father... is going to come back soon." Aw, sad.

Uday Singh understands that Pratap Singh did this to protect the princess, but he's upset that the move may undermine his own objectives.

Phool politely tries to suggest that ruler was hasty in making his announcement about his exercise in noblesse oblige, but he says he's relieved that his old dream is finally realized. They've found the princess and the stage is set.

When she's alone with her father, Phool vents her hurt and displeasure about this whole princess business. All her life she has lived suppressing resentment of her father's dedication to the ruler, who always came first. She put up with it, thinking her day would come when it would all be worth it, but that hasn't happened.

Her father considers her an important person in swaying Pratap Singh to the ruler's side, but she declares that she cannot live like her father. She then turns to Reporter Raghavendra for reasons unknown, but knowing that the reporter is a sleaze ball, this just solidifies her status as the Bitch of the drama. You know, in case you weren't sure.

Phool then heads to Pratap Singh's suite, and once again awkward timing intervenes as Ajab emerges from the bedroom.

At first Phool is upset with Pratap Singh, believing the obvious. She still thinks Ajab's name is ratan(from that encounter at the museum) and points out that although she and Pratap Singh haven't exactly had a passionate relationship, it's understood (by themselves and their families) that she and Pratap Singh would marry.

So to get everything into the open, Pratap Singh makes the official introductions, defining the relationships clearly to both parties. Phool is the woman he will marry, and Ajab is the princess his father has located. Immediately Phool's disgruntlement fades, and she joins in with Pratap Singh's offer to help.

Ajab continues to deny being the princess, and Pratap Singh interprets that this means she's holding out for more from him. In exchange for agreeing to go abroad, what will she ask of him? He anticipates that this matter will take three years to settle in its entirety, and offers to send her anywhere she wants, and to take care of her family in the meantime. Yes, hide the problem, Pratap Singh, and it'll just go away! Like herpes.

I'm not sure if she's merely stunned or if she's perhaps a bit insulted by his high-handedness, but Ajab accepts his offer with a challenging tone " she'll go away if he gives her all his wealth. He warns her not to joke or piss him off, because he can be quite unpleasant when angered.

He has been instructed to bring Ajab somewhere, but she is in no mood to oblige him " not until he says he'll take her to meet her father.

He takes her in a helicopter to avoid running into the press, and as Ajab looks at her fancy ride, she recalls a memory of another day when she'd seen a similar helicopter in the sky. She'd been a young girl, who'd accompanied her father to his construction job. The memory of her doting father has her in tears, though she smiles them away.

Oh, this isn't going to end happily for her, is it? The look on Pratap Singh's face is a dead giveaway; he observes Ajab's nervous anticipation with a regretful expression.

Upon their arrival, they join the ruler and Secretary. But her face takes on a confused expression when she's led to a gravesite " and the ruler addresses the deceased as "Your Highness."

As though anticipating her pain, Pratap Singh looks away when Ajab looks at him, trying to absorb what this all means. In denial, she bursts out, "I told you my father wasn't dead! Where is he?"

Pratap Singh advises her to hear the truth, which he has been waiting so long to hear, but she doesn't want to know any more, thinking that the truth means her father abandoned her.

Uday Singh explains that he was responsible for her father's death, and relates the story.

It turns out that Ajab's father had known of his highborn origins, but he'd voluntarily left that identity behind, and was surprised to be tracked down. He'd told him that the "bad fate" between the ruler and his own grandfather (the last emperor) was all in the past, and that he wanted to leave it buried.

The ruler hadn't been willing to do that, so Dad had slipped away in the night with Ajab. The ruler had followed with his men, so Dad had hidden Ajab in a side street, promising to come back right away, and turned back to deal with his pursuers. But in the process, he'd been hit by a car " the one carrying the ruler, who'd been speeding off to find him.

After hearing the story, Ajab kneels by the grave dully, sapped of her energy. She turns to go, and the ruler urges her to give her formal bow to her father. He adds that she doesn't have to forgive him, and with a hard look his way, Ajab agrees that she probably won't " she won't ever do anything to make him happy. Even if that includes bowing at her father's grave.

Pratap Singh finds her sitting at the bus depot, where she bitterly vows to do things expressly to antagonize his family in the future. He calmly reasons that that's only going to hurt her, and that her father would be saddened by it.

He offers her the one way to get her revenge upon his father: Destroy the monarchy. But she knows that he's not saying that to help her " he's saying it out of his own wish to protect his inheritance. He calls it a win-win for both of them, and so she agrees to go along with his plan, on a condition. She wants a photo of her father, which he retrieves from Secretary.

At school, news of Ajab's rich fianc has spread, and her two officemates are eager to hear the details, particularly since she's taking a leave from school.

Phool meets with her to give her study abroad documents, and now that she's been assured that she hasn't been replaced in Pratap Singh's affections, she takes on that friendly-but-ever-so-smug attitude, telling Ajab that she need not pester herself with meeting Pratap Singh again. She'll handle all the arrangements, and besides, she and Pratap Singh are practically married anyway.

Ajab pointedly says that Phool sure has a lot of men she's practically marrying, since everyone knows she's also in that kind of relationship with Krishna. Phool waves it off, saying that she tends to attract these kinds of rumors (since she's, like, sooo popular). But when Ajab replies that it's a good thing Pratap Singh didn't believe that rumor, Phool looks a little worried. Serves ya right.

Ajab is lost in thought as Krishna walks by, though her face lights up when he calls her. She assures him that all the stuff about her marrying the diplomat are untrue, adding that there's someone else she likes, which he immediately understands to mean himself.

He says that she must really be a princess, to which she answers, "How did you know?" She realizes she's slipped when he admits he was just fishing around, and she asks him to keep it a secret.

He gives her a ride home, just as Pratap Singh pulls up behind them. Immediately the dick-off resumes and I love that even though nobody's pretending to be anybody's lover this time, the guys still macho it up with each other. Old habits die hard. An example: Pratap Singh asks pointedly why a professor is taking a female student home in broad daylight, to which Krishna responds that he must only give women rides in the dead of night.

Pratap Singh retorts, "And what do you know about me?" Krishna replies that it's public knowledge that he, the famous rich heir, is in an uproar about the potential loss of his inheritance, and adds that he and Ajab aren't even really engaged. Plus, she likes somebody else, a pointed reference to him.

Pratap Singh shoots a disgruntled look Ajab's way before catching sight of a reporter down the street, talking to her sister Ratan. Pratap Singh quickly pulls her toward his car, and she urges Krishna to hurry away as well.

Oblivious to them, the reporter asks Ratan for information about the engagement, to which Ratan says that she's not Ajab's family. Ouch. Why so bitchy, favored daughter?

Arriving at her mother's house, Ajab looks around and confirms that no shifty types are around. Pratap Singh takes this opportunity to warn Ajab against the dangers of riding in the cars of men like her professor, not that he cares, of course, or is jealous or anything. (I love how transparent Pratap Singh is.)

To which Mom pops up to say that the same goes for him. She's intensely curious about this strange man with her daughter, and Ajab asks if Mom has seen the news lately. Hilariously, Pratap Singh puffs up a bit, expecting some fawning coming his way. But Mom reminds her that she always shuts off the TV after her daily drama, and he deflates in disappointment. HAHA. Inadvertent ego set down.

Ajab tries to lie about not knowing Pratap Singh, but Mom isn't having it and guesses they've just been on a date. Pratap Singh trades exasperated looks with Ajab as Mom continues her interrogation.

Mom gets half the truth and fills in the rest with her own imagination, assuming that Pratap Singh had fallen for Ajab after staying as a guest at this house.

He tries to answer her questions honestly (but vaguely), but Mom jumps to all the wrong conclusions, saying a few things that make Ajab grimace (like how he must have a hard time working for Sisodias, which he defends by saying the company isn't that bad).

Mom also asks intrusive questions about his family, financial status, and assets in that way that moms do " thinking she's being all smooth and subtle while her kid cringes in shame. Yeah, subtle like a bulldozer.

She shoves the two kiddos into Ajab's room to relax until dinner, where Pratap Singh immediately locates her photo album. Ajab tries to wrest it from his grasp, thinking he's going to mock her, and ends up landing on top of him " just as Mom comes back in.

All flustered, the kids jump up and try to look calm while hilariously failing, and Ajab covers up her embarrassment by yelling at both of them.

But it turns out he took her album to add a snapshot to it " the sole existing photograph of her father. Now that he's fulfilled Ajab's condition for agreeing to his plan, she asks when she ought to plan on leaving the country. He answers that sooner is better.

In the ensuing days, Ajab prepares for her departure, though she doesn't tell anybody of her plans. It's easier to leave first without all the questioning, so she packs and writes her mother a farewell letter, explaining that she's heading to Egypt for a three-year trip, financially enabled by a lottery win.

On departure day, Pratap Singh finds her waiting for her flight, writing a list of things to buy her mother and sister. He offers to take care of the list for her then walks her toward her boarding gate.

She's still a little uncertain about this trip, but Pratap Singh gives her the nod to encourage her onward, and she presents her boarding ticket.

Yet to their surprise, upon checking her passport, the gate agent asks her to step aside, as she has been barred from leaving the country.

Originally posted by: aashna_siddy

Aww I love it yaar ❤️

Sorry for not reading earlier😛

Thank u so much for the PM🤗

And do update soon 😳

Originally posted by: RiniRocks

It was awesome!! Please continue. Thanks for the PM.

Originally posted by: jyotic74

Wow really nice. ..loved it