FF - The Promise - updated CH 102 on 23rd May - Page 10

Chapter 73

Adam and Abby tip toed into Madhu's room to find her silently crying into her sheets looking at the picture of Rishab and her at the summit. They looked at each other... "This looks worse than it actually is... but the girl needs to get her head straight." Abby whispered in hush tones to Adam. Adam nodded his head and turned towards the switch board to turn it on. As the light flooded the room, Adam and Abby excitedly screamed out "Congratulations!!!!!" and hurried to the bed jumping into it to give her a sandwich squeeze.

"Whaa...?" Before she could even finish, she found herself sandwiched between her two best friends, Adam and Abby. In all this mess, she had kinda forgotten that they were returning that evening, the same evening she was engaged to Sikan... She couldn't even say it, because saying it would mean that it would become real and she would have to believe that she actually did what she had. But why were her friends Congratulating her?

As soon as she was let go, she looked towards them confused, "Congratulations?? For what?" "Your engagement, silly." Abby said and grabbed her hand to take a look at the ring. "Gosh, I can't wait to look at the ring. He must have given you a gigantic ring, the size of a small island, costing a decade of food to a whole third world country." Adam exclaimed excitedly.

"Huh??" Madhu still looked confused. "Sikander silly, your fianc." Adam said flicking her on the head.

"How can you say that? You know how much I love..."

"Rishab??" Adam ended. The smiles that adorned both Adam and Abby's faces so far vanished and a serious look took its place. Madhu looked down because she could no longer look them in the eye.

"How could you do this to Rishab and yourself? How could you do this to your father and Maya?" Abby asked. At the mention of her father she looked up, "Daddy? I did it all for Daddy."

"How could you even think I could be happy when you are sad and unhappy sweetheart." Mr. Malik said as he stood by the doorway with Maya. "It makes me very unhappy to even think that you would choose to live in misery just because you think something like this would make me happy."

"Daddy..." Madhu cried and ran towards Mr. Malik, who in turn engulfed her in the depths of his arms. "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry." She kept repeating through muffled cries. Mr. Malik kissed the top of her head. "Madhu please promise me that you will never choose my happiness over yours again, because nothing could make me more happy than to see you happy."

"I (hic) promise (hic)." Madhu promised through the hiccups that took her over as her cries started to recede." Everyone laughed now that things were taking shape for the better.

Adam and Abby walked over wiping away the tears that had sneaked in somewhere in between to give their best friend a hug. "Girl... I think you gotta be somewhere else now. You know apologising your ass off and hoping for forgiveness." Abby said leaning into Madhu. "And if you want any chance for forgiveness then I suggest you wear that slinky and very sexy sheer dress we got you, which I believe still holds the tags and hangs right at the back of your closet." Adam added waggling his eyebrows. "Yup if worse comes to worse, Adam has some sexy seductive moves he can teach you."

Adam swung his arm around Madhu's shoulder walking her back into the room explaining some move or the other. Mr. Malik and Maya took that as their cue to leave and fast before they hear any more of Adam's seductress routines, after all Madhu was still his daughter and he didn't really need visuals of his daughter bending like a pretzel.