Adi and Pinky rushed into the building, looking around sneakily hoping to see Geet in the reception area instead of having to actually go to the receptionist and ask for Geet. Pinky was nervously eating a bag of her favourite crisps because she was worried about the plan Adi had to bring back Geet into Maan's life. It had been two weeks since that fight in the office and then the interview with the media outside the company building. Pinky cringed remembering when Maan sir came back with that cold, stern I'm-the-boss-and-you-will-follow-my-orders-right-now expression on his face and ate another crisp quickly, remembering Adi's failed attempt to talk to Maan calmly but got shut out with a door in front of his face and a new atmosphere had entered the office then; an atmosphere much worse than before. Now it was so tense that if someone mentioned a word beginning with "G" they would be fired right there and then!
Pinky looked at the nervous Adi and sighed heavily, before turning to face him and said, "What do you think this is going to do Adi sir? I mean Geet is staying in Yash's house because of the children and Maan is clearly not acknowledging the fact, that despite the takeover of Yash's company, Geet is Yash's secretary who improved the company's financials and gain more clients. Also the fact he won't look at her! Never mind speak to her!" Adi looked at her sternly and said "I'm doing this because Geet is my friend and she needs sir in her life, and sir needs Geet in his life. They may not be talking but if this plan works...then maybe...just maybe Geet will have someone by her side again," his eyes glazing slightly, remembering the snatched moments he witnessed of Maan's and Geet's growing relationship they had before their ego's got in the way and ruined everything.
He shook his head and then his eyes widened staring over Pinky's head before slapping his hand against his forehead and then wincing when he got a receiving sting. Pinky stared at him as if he had grown another head, and then Adi raised his head, glanced at Pinky and rolled his eyes. "Finish your crisps and be quiet. Yash is heading this way," he muttered as Yash stopped in front of them, just as Adi had finished talking. Pinky swallowed the last crisp, scrunched up the packet noisily and turned round with this bright fake smile on her that made Yash stare AT her, as if SHE had another head growing as well. "Uhm...where's the bin?" Pinky questioned and both Yash and Adi raised their eyebrows at her before pointedly staring towards the reception desk where there was a small black bin that could be clearly seen. Pinky nervously laughed before shuffling off towards the bin.
Adi and Yash stared at each other blankly, but their bodies were tensed, as if they were ready for a fight. Then all of a sudden, Yash smiled, came forward and hugged Adi so tightly, patting on his back quite...hard and said in a loud voice "Welcome Adi! How are you? And what brings you into my humble company?" Adi sorted of waved his arms around quite hilariously like he was swimming or something and choked for air, and Pinky, who stared at the scene with eyes wide open, went rushing over and said to Yash, "Yash sir. I think...maybe....maybe you should...erm...release Adi sir?" Yash turned his head to look at Pinky who stood at their side and smiled at her, "PINKY! You came as well?!" before releasing Adi, who stumbled slightly and grabbed his throat as if air wasn't coming quick enough to him, while Yash went to grab Pinky, who had an expression of a deer-caught-in-the-headlights and sidestepped, only to bump into Adi.
Yash pouted before shaking his head and smiled at them, "So I'm guessing you here to see Geet right? Well she's just gone to pick up the children (he said through gritted teeth) and bring them here!" his smile turned slightly meaner before whispering under his breath "God help us all!" Pinky's and Adi's eyes widened. They knew about Yash's neice and nephew and how much they misbehaved from their own experience looking after them the other day when Geet was too busy in the office sorting some meetings out that she asked them for a favour to look after the children. She didn't warn them about how mischievous they could be! They look behind them towards the entrance, freedom beckoning them like sweet chocolate and sighed wistfully when the doors shut after someone left with a soft swish. Yash looked at them wondering why they staring at the entrance as if it were their life saver before gaining their attention again.
"Sooo, you want to talk to Geet or talk to me instead?" Adi and Pinky slowly turned to face each other with puppy eyed, sad looks and then turned to face Yash both determined to stand by what they think...well Adi was determined what to say on his mind, while Pinky stood there for support and maybe to keep a lookout for the children entering the building. She stared wistfully at the other people who had heard that the children were coming and suddenly were rushing back to the lifts to gather their stuff and go home! Adi said to Yash quite calmly, "Yash I think its best that you let Geet go. Our boss, can't handle his work properly and Tasha is messing it up horribly, and making Sir's mood even worse. Please can we have Geet back?" Yash stared at him and then smiled brightly saying "No!" in a sing song voice.
Pinky whipped her head round and stared at Yash. "Adi just mentioned how badly we need Geet! If we don't have her back like right now, the company could lose money because of dhak dhak (Yash raised an eyebrow here and smirked)- I mean sir couldn't control his emotions!" Yash frowned slightly before saying, "Nope sorry. Geet is an excellent secretary for me and a brilliant nanny towards the children and I ain't losing her!" Once smiling genuinely happily, his mind going over how well Geet was handling the children. Adi and Pinky sighed in frustration before arguing once more about how much they wanted Geet back and Yash wouldn't change his mind. They argued for about 10 minutes not noticing that Geet, Meera and the children had entered the building or was watching them various expressions. However, as soon as the children saw Adi and Pinky, they smirked and winked at each other, before rubbing their hands together like the evil little bra-...I mean to say like the naughty children they were!
Geet looked at Adi and Pinky confused. Why were they here when they were supposed to be working? And why was Pinky hitting Yash with her...was that her sandwich? Yep. Pinky was hitting Yash with her sandwich on his head, before stopping and then started whining that she had ruined her snack and was blaming Yash for her limp sandwich. Geet shook her head, totally boggled at how Pinky could be distracted by food that easily. Meera smirked when she saw Pinky hitting Yash with her sandwich, after all those times he flirted with her...okay she was slightly flattered and all, but still Yash was a boy stuck in a man's body. Her smile was wiped off her face in an instant when Yash, who had rubbed his sore head, looked in their direction, noticed her and she took a step back towards her freedom (the entrance behind her) because Yash had this crazy I-got-you-now grin on his face and said in a very animated voice, "MEERA, MY DARLING! YOU CAME FOR ME!" and hugged her so tightly she started choking on air and wondered why God put this man on this earth.
Geet, Adi and Pinky all giggled slightly, not noticing that the children had gone off to plan their next prank on the whole lot of them, which involved water....plenty of FREEZING water at that! Meera managed to push Yash off her, and straightened her hair and clothes out. Ignoring Geet's teasing words "He likes youuuu, he wants to take you ouuuut, he wants to marry youuu," Meera dug an elbow very deep into Geet's side, who winced, frowned and then pouted so heavily, she looked like a 5 year old girl who just got her hand caught in the cookie jar. Adi and Pinky giggled harder while Yash smiled at them all, happy that were having fun and then frowned slightly before saying heavily, "I'm sorry to mention this but Geet..." and Geet looked at him attentively, "Adi and Pinky are trying to take you back into Maan's company as his secretary and-"
And he was cut off because Geet started telling Adi and Pinky about living her life the way she wanted, and that Maan was an arrogant egoistic idiot who didn't think of anyone but himself and his family honour and that she was happy being here as Yash's secretary/nanny and then Meera jumped in, defending Geet asking if Adi and Pinky were doing this because of Maan and then Pinky turned on Yash talking about why he couldn't keep his mouth shut and soon everyone was arguing or shouting or whatever they were saying, it depends how you want to look at it. I mean 5 people all talking at once? Anyway if you could imagine this for about 10 minutes, you would understand why the talk of the "conversation" was standing there, his eyes wide and his mouth open wondering what the hell was going on!
He looked at Geet, all strong and passionate about what she was saying, believing that what she was saying was right and he thought to himself, "Well this will be fun when I win her back!" a small sexy smirk pulled at his mouth, which vanished when he saw Meera, and Pinky hitting Yash with a magazine...and was Pinky hitting Yash with a bottle? A bottle full of drink by what he can see and winced in sympathy when he heard the smacking sounds and shook his head. He sighed, pinched the bridge of his nose and wondered if he had to deal with this sort of thing again in the future. He glanced at the scene once more and nodded his head "Yep, will happen again soon" his face slightly worried he said "not too soon, I hope!" before standing up straight, crossed his arms and changed his expression from a mixture of annoyed and amused to the stern, cold business man.
He took a deep breath and said "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" Everyone froze. It seemed it had gone from an argument to a near physical fight because Pinky had swapped her bottle for her sandwich again and as it was flopping limply in her hand, over Yash's head. Adi was sort of crouched down as Geet got right near him, and grabbed his right ear tightly as if he was a boy who had been caught stealing money and Meera had bent down slightly, swapping the magazine for her high heeled shoe, which she had in her hand. Maan winced "Thank goodness I spoke when I did," he muttered underneath his breath, glancing warily as Meera put her shoe back on and straightened up, smiling brightly. Actually they all straightened up, sorted themselves out, lined up as if they were in the army and smiled a clearly fake, bright smile and Pinky was about to raise her hand in salute before Adi grabbed her hand and pushed it down again.
"What the...? This ain't the frigging army!" he thought to himself, frowning at them, wondering if it was possible that they lost their minds and then looking at Yash's genuine bright smile, answered his thought. "Yeah, no need to answer that Maan" he muttered to himself quietly. He avoided looking at Geet and asked Adi, "What's going on here Adi? And why are you and Pinky doing here?" he frowned in confusion wondering if he had sent them for a job or something. Adi stammered and Pinky started to fidget nervously before they suddenly vanished into thin air! With a small popping sound. Okay they didn't have magic like Harry Potter, they just mumbled some excuse about work and going home before practically running out of the reception area, towards freedom with arms nearly outstretched in front of them, taking a deep breath when they were outside and smiled at each other slightly before going back to the office.
They all stared after Pinky and Adi, in bewilderment before turning to look at each other again and then Meera vanished as well! Okay so she didn't have magic either and just popped out like they do in Harry Potter, but mentioned something about designs to finish (when she was free actually and forgot to remember that she told everyone she didn't have work to do at the minute) and very quickly walked out of the building, towards her freedom as well aka her destination was her flat where she was safe from Yash! Geet, Maan and Yash stared after her, wondering how she could have walked that quickly in the high heels she wore. While this was happening, Geet had sort of started inching towards the other side where the lifts where because she knew the children were planning something once again! But she froze when Yash said, "I got to look for the children! Geet will tell you!" before practically running to the lifts to get into one and conveniently enough the doors opened and shut so quickly for him that Geet only had to blink, that one minute he was there and the next....he wasn't!
Geet frowned angrily, and muttered curses underneath her breath about her new boss, the coward who had run away before closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. She had turned away from Maan, facing the lifts, but her whole being was persuading her to turn back and look at him. See how he was and if he was well and everything but her mind fought for control and won. She took another breathe to calm herself before saying in a cool, professional voice "Mr Khurana, if you'll excuse me....I have some....work to finish off and children to find!" giving a small, professional smile over her shoulder at him, well sort of at him. It was more directed to the invisible person next to Maan. She just took two steps towards her freedom (don't know why, considering it was the children she was going to find) when Maan grabbed her right wrist, and pulled her so that she stumbled into his chest. He twisted her arm behind her back, between the small distance from his chest and her back, while his left arm sneaked around her waist and pulled her closer.
Geet sort of froze, her breathing had gotten heavy all of a sudden and she didn't know whether because it was her hormones or because she was angry Maan was handling her like a...like a "Nethanderal!" she muttered quite loudly. Maan moved his head closer and said quite close to her right ear, "What did you say Geet?" and Geet shuddered so roughly she couldn't have hid it, if she tried and Maan smirked in triumph. He nuzzled slightly closer and Geet whispered, "Maan. Please don't. Not here, not anywhere!" and started struggling to get free but Maan pulled her tightly and whispered directly into her ear and said, "Do you really want me to stop, sweetheart? To stop what i am set out to do?" and his right hand slowly realised Geet's hand behind her back and slowly caressed her arm upwards, before resting on her shoulder.
Geet froze, her emotions were getting the better of her and her breathing got shallower even more and she closed her eyes, before melting back into Maan's chest. They stood like that in the centre of the reception area. Maan's left arm around her waist and Geet's both hands holding it there, while this other hand was slowly stroking the bare skin he could feel at her shoulder and neck, his eyes intent on the side of Geet's face, willing her to face him. As he went for a small kiss at the base of her neck, Geet just lay against him, eyes closed and just living the moment. Feelings the emotions going through her and wishing that they were in a private place instead of somewhere public! Then all of a sudden they were completely drenched in freezing water and both opened their eyes to see a girl and a younger boy laughing their heads off in front of them, holding a large empty bucket each. Geet moved away angrily towards them to tell them both off, but Maan stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.
Geet turned around and seeing the expression on his face, bowed her head slightly in agreement, before crossing her arms across her chest and waited to see how Maan would deal with these....mischievous children himself!
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