Shoes & Islands
Smrita decided she had to talke this differently, doing anything upfront or direct was not going to work
Lekha and her and Rumi Tandon were headed to Europe for a week, she was going to sit down with Nupur and figure out how to tolerate this girl
If Raanav moved out it was going to be a big deal
Satyen was going to chew her out
She had to play it very carefully
Satyen had no inkling of what Raanav had said to her
With him still using a walking stick and scheduled for multiple follow up surgeries to correct his leg and hip muscles, announcing Raanav’s departure from home was going to get her butchered
She went down the stairs in dressed like a bomb, in a lovely silk skirt and a sleeveless blouse to fight the March Delhi heat, She had to do Holi planning
Lekha and her were meeting for lunch
“Aap jaaogey pehle?” Satyen stood in the hallway and asked her as she went down
“AAAP bhi chalo Satya” she growled
Ran right into a exiting Viveka Mathur
I AM SO SORRY” mumbled viveka steadying her MIL
“I am sorry beta” Smrita knew she was being watched
She just hugged Viveka for an extra second much to Viveka’s shock
She looked up and found Satyen
“Morning beta, kidhar the raat ko?”
“I was at a book read”
“Smri, I am coming down”
Viveka did two steps at a time to help him down
A help always stood on guard
He just followed with the stick
“Meri permission to lee nahi aapne, I had nobody to bring me up the stairs I slept in the atrium”
“That’s cute” she blushed
“I made u blush” he laughed patting her cheek
Raanav cleared his throat down below
“Men have one track minds”
Viveka laughed
“I shud say HUSBANDS” he panted holding Viveka’s hand
“Yeah like he is the only one that can make be blush” Viveka scoffed
“Go to my office”
“Nahi sir… Dad I have to go buy two laptops and go to my office”
“Smrita, if u are going to be on the way, why don’t you let Mr Chauhan know? He does procurement for Power Engineers” “there is a whole department of course but Mr Chauhan is our go to guy for getting advice on technology”
“What about Mr Syal?”
“He is my 3rd son” Satyen was proud
“satya I want to have the wedding reception with the Holi”
“Yaar shaadi ho chuki forget it… Lohri bhi kar li aapne, Its almost 4 months”
“Umm.. uhh.. umm” Smrita gasped in horror
“I am serious” Satyen insisted sitting down on the couch
“The boys want it”
“No I don’t” Raanav chuckled
“LEKHA wants it”
“Aur aap beta?”
I don’t know” Viveka shrugged
“Most of my friends usually gift luxury spa treatments, shoes or or purses or jewelry” Smrita smiled sweetly tempting Viveka
Or so she thought
“Aur cheezon se Viveka is not impressed” satyen laughed out loud
“I was hoping for an island” Viveka muttered with mock sadness
Satyen laughed even louder
Raanav fell in love again…