Chapter-14
"apna boyfriend ka saat bagka honeymoon pa ayehu…" Indira stands still when she hears a voice saying "oh really!!!" Indira who is standing facing the wall slowly turns towards the door. Rishi "Indira who is that, did I hear any man's voice. Indira please answer" Indira cuts the call saying "I-I will call you back, nothing to worry I am in safe hands" – 'till now' says to herself. Indira to cover her embarrassment, showing her fake angry says "wonot you learn that you need to knock before coming into a girl's room" Sameer "no, as I always stay alone in my house. I never felt need to knock the door." Indira a ping of hurt in her heart as she saw sadness in his eyes when he said 'alone' but her hurt turned into angry hearing to sameer's next words. Sameer continued "even I am used to enter without knocking into Natasha's room" Indira "she is your fiance and -" with difficulty says "you-you have right to go into her room without knocking but this is my room and-" Sameer "but I heard you telling that you came to honeymoon with your boyfriend right. So as I know I am the only man here in this whole farm house" keeping a finger on his lips as if he is thinking something says "except, the housekeeper who is 50 years old man". Indira gets angry hearing his mocking, but ignoring her glaring sameer continues "so, I am the only young and charming most eligible bachelor here" raising his collar "I can expect you are talking about me" Indira folds her hands to her chest saying "donot fly too much high, you may fall flat on your face." Sameer starts laughing at her gesture says trying to control his laugh "ok relax, I am kidding. Freshenup and come for tea, we can go for a walk it will relax your tiredness due to journey" saying so sameer goes out of her room and hears a hard sound of closing the door and laughs loudly till he reaches the dining room.
Sameer reaches the dining room imagining the fuming face of Indira. On otherside Indira bangs her fist on the door hearing sameer's laugh, she still can imagine the mocking look of sameer which makes her fume inside with angry. Indira tells to herself "relax Indira, first handle Rishi and your family then you can handle that mocking pig. Arggghhheee." Indira takes the cell once again and dials Rishi, this time Rishi picks the phone for the first ring, Indira smiles thinking how much Rishi might be worried about her. Rishi "tell me Indira where are you, please donot hide. Is it a man whose voice I heard and-" Indira gets an idea says "oh Rishi actually I am in Nainital" Indira thinking atleast something is true,continues "I have a bet of truth and dare with my collage friends. And they gave me dare to go to Nainital and stay for 3 days alone. So I came here, and the voice is the caretaker of this resort where I am staying, he got my lagguage, that's all I am perfectly fine and enjoying the weather" looking outside the window seeing the pleasant view of garden and pool, continues "if my family calls please tell them that I am with you. I will call vidith bhaya and tell him the same. As all others are not at home Vidith bhaya can handle them. Rishi will you do me this favor. " Rishi always believes Indira, so as usual he believes the story of Indira as he knows how impulsive are Indira's decisions and her carefree nature "ok fine. I will manage but call me if you need anything" Indira gives a smile and says "I know Rishi, you are the one on whom I can depend at any time." Rishi smiles "take care and bye." Indira "bye Rishi and take care". Indira cuts the call and rings to Vidith, she expected it will easy to convince vidith easily but it is the hard task for Indira then expected. Vidith asked her 101 questions before believing Indira. She told all lies cursing sameer to nth time for making her lie to her own brother like that. At the end Vidith accepts Indira's stories after confirming with Rishi and demanding Rishi to bring Indira to talk on Rishi's phone to confirm, as vidith knows very well about Indira and her mischiefs. Rishi keeps a conversation call between Indira, Vidith and makes Vidith believe that Indira is with him. As vidith is not that much open to these technologies, he believed that Indira is really with Rishi and tells Indira that he will take care of her parents not to worry and have a nice trip. Indira thanks Rishi for his help and cruses Sameer once again decides to get freshen up and go down for evening snacks and walk.
Indira finds sameer sitting in the garden and having his evening coffee reading some evening newspaper. Indira comes and sits with a bang on opposite chair to get attention of sameer. He is watching her with his corner of eyes but did not reacted to any of her behavior. Indira clears her throat "I want to know what is there in that CD that you bought me here." Sameer gives her a-donot-you-know look, Indira "ok ok, I read that they are some calculations of share market and shares which you are going to buy to take over some company and all. But why they are that much secret that it left you no choice but to kidnap me." She asks as if she is demanding the strong reason for her kidnap. Sameer cools rises from his chair "I donot think there is need for me to give you an explanation. There is nothing you can do now. So finish your snacks and come we can go for walk or you can go back to you room and take rest." Indira keeps quiet because as soon as the coffee and snacks smell filled her nostrils, she has no more energy to argue with sameer. she realizes how much hungry she is, she did not have a drop of water from morning to till now. Indira completes her coffee and snacks with concentration, as soon as she completes her little snack she searches for sameer and finds him in the garden looking at sky which covered with dark clouds, still it is evening 5 PM but looks like 9 PM in the night. She goes near him and to gain his attention she clears his throat. Sameer looks back at her and says "let's go." Indira nods her head as yes. Both starts there walk in silence enjoying the nature around them. They slowly reached some evening bazaar happening near by the farm house. Indira sees a bangles shop and asks sameer "let's go there, I can see a lot of variety of bangles. I want to buy." Sameer "did you bought money, who will pay for you. These villages are not going to give you for free and" as mocking "you are not accompanied with your boyish boyfriend." Indira gives him a sharp look "the same person who bought me the lehnga will pay for these bangles as well" and goes from there leaving a shocked Sameer. "How she knows that I paid for her lehnga. God!!!" Sameer follows Indira. She goes and starts selecting different colors of bangles and keeps them on the table saying the shopping keeper to pack them for her. Sameer decides to know how she knows about the lenhga, so without wasting time directly comes to the point "how do you know about that?" Indira understand what sameer is saying but says coolly "about bangles, I know a lot about them. I really like to wear different designs and different colors of bangles you know…" showing sameer some bangles on the hanging, irritating sameer more and makes him more determined to know how she knows the lehnga matter, he donot want her to misunderstand his intentions as he still donot know what made him to buy that lehnga for her and he still remembers there little romance, if it is called, happened in the changing room which gave him sleepless nights for one whole week. Sameer "donot act smart with me I am asking about lehnga matter, how you know that I paid for it." Indira decides to ignore him and turns her face to other side as if she did not hear what sameer said and looking at the bangles. Sameer gets frustrated for Indira not paying attention to him, till now no one ignored his questions like that, he caught her hand and jerks her to face him making her lose her balance and fall on his chest. He catches her safely in his arms, keeps his finger under her chin raises her face to his level and asks the question again looking directly into her eyes "I donot like people ignoring me, understand" rising his eye brow he continues "I asked how do you know that I paid for the lehnga." Indira slowly licks her lips, which caught attention of Sameer, he puts his 32 years of experience to control himself without placing his lips on her lips and with hard determination diverted his eyes from her lips to her eyes. When Indira find sameer is looking at her lips it did different weird things in her stomach making her more nervous and hold sameer's shirt with a fear of falling, her legs became jally and if sameer's hands are not around her, she might have fallen down by now. Sameer looks into her eyes and repeats his question "how do you know?" Indira "oh oh, Rishi saw you paying the cashier, so I enquired about it." Sameer left Indira with a jerk when he heard Rishi's name from her lips. Keeps his hand on his head as if controlling his angry says "I thought you liked that lehnga very much and as you are my employee it is my duty to see that all my employees are happy" he gave a very lame excuse. Indira catches the bangles stand to make herself straight and not to fall flat on her back as sameer left her with force. She is still shocked to see sameer's reaction and not sure what made him to react in such a way but felt insulted or hurt. Indira gets angry says "donot act smart, employee satisfaction my foot, you are so money minded that you can never think about the welfare of the employees" though she knows it is wrong, sameer always backs his employees and looks after their small to small needs but her angry and insult or hurt is making her say those harsh words "if you are really cares for your employee then you would not have used Rishi job to blackmail me and about lehnga I did not even wear it when I came to know it is you who bought it for me. I will wonot wear it till the wonot return back you the whole money of the lehnga" saying so she leaves the shop fuming leaving Sameer staring at her.