TAMING OF THE SHREW-(RTMC)FF NEW PART PG 34 - Page 9

Priya turned the knob of the door and entered the room, closing the door behind her. Her eyes fell on ASH hair were flowing from the edge of the couch. She thought her hair might need a brush before she headed downstairs ;with 15-20 minutes in hand Priya easily cud have managed the last minute prepping touch to the bride. Poor soul had no clue how much "last minute prepping" was gonna be required; to make aisha worth being 'presentable bride'.Certainly presentable in Aisha's "level of normalcy".

She strode forward ,glanced aisha who seemed to be sleeping but actually she was listening music ; Priya was oblivious to the fact coz miniature nature of her music device and the "a small marble sized" headphones which cud be easily fitted in ear without anyone noticing that the person is actually listening to music.

Priya moved to the dressing table to grab a brush and plugged in the straighter incase if needed, doing so at the same time ;she informed ash,"ASH get up ring ceremony in 20. so come here ,let me brush ur hair..".as Priya didn't get any reply for minute or two ;she turned back, Aish hadn't budged a inch. Priya sighed responding to height of aisha 's laziness , "auh ! com'on lazybones get up. U don't have to do any thing just come here and sit in front of the mirror I will do the rest"

Priya moved towards the couch in quick strides , and tapped aish's arm ,"ash get up"

Sensing the touch Aisha opened her eyes and saw priya ,she got her self in a sitting position and and casually moved her fingers through her hair. Preventing aisha from ruining her hair ,Priya leant forward and held wrist"don't do it u will spoil... ". as she was very close to ash's mouth ;she sensed something weird. In horror she was taken aback " u r drunk".Seeing the change of expression on Priya's face Aisha took out the head phones from her ear and pressed the button of the ipod ;which she had clipped in her bangles; to turn it off. Aisha said "what's wrong"with absolutely neutral expression on her face.

"wats wrong" "wats wrong" "wats wrong".Aisha spelt out these word with such calm as if nothing had happened.

Priya's face flushed at Ash's answer . Generally having cool demeanor she was fuming with anger. Priya really hoped that worst is over, she might have done a good job and Aisha will be 'normal' for the rest of the event. For just few minutes she left Aisha VOILA! Ash doesn't fail to prove Priya wrong .Ummm... wrong...not wrong but actually right. Did Priya seriously thought the Ash was gonna behave?Given Aisha's past record the answer was absolute NO!

Priya eyes were wide open .Her condition was ..was... guess just like a pressure cooker .Imagine when the pressure in the pressure cooker reaches its threshold. The cooker would be desparate to vent out the steam . But if out of luck; passage to let out steam below the whistle is blocked. The results may be fatal ! but good heavens Priya was properly working state 'pressure cooker' .She just needed to blow the whistle to vent to the steam. Her hands clenched but she managed to blow off a huge proportion of air from her mouth to let the tension out without uttering a single word of despair. Her hands uncurled ; she just gestured a casual questionable hand towards ASH and coolly asked

"so how much u had"

"ahhh... not much. Just few shots"

"Few shots" Priya repeated wandering infront of the couch back n forth slowly , she was at the same time speaking , "few shots... now pls drop the ear phones and sit infront of the mirror "

Aisha got up n was walking...walking... no no no...was swaying towards the mirror. Priya was facing aback to her ;Priya's attention was caught by something shiny behind the couch, she bend down to inspect it, it was bottle that Aisha had hidden; which was undoubtedly 70% empty.

"Just few shots" "Just few shots" "Just few shots".

Aisha's words rang in Priya's mind when the bottle was telling a totally different story.

Priya sighed and swore something below her breathe , poor gal can't always maintain cool demeanor, but she kept the bottle aside and turned towards Ash who was abt to fall , in few quick strides Priya moved toward her and supported her and placed her on the chair before the mirror. Priya leant towards Aisha's ear and spoke calmly

"Just few shots dear"

Aisha looked at her ;moving her face towards her n said "ya few shots...which were large in nature so... ..just few large shots"

GOD! She was never gonna be serious. But Priya so wasn't gonna waste time to revaluate the situation again.Time was for some action . In which Priya was well versed in.Handling drunk Aisha was piece of cake for her ;as said experience and practice makes a person perfect in the task . Priya had mastered the technique. She was so
proficient in the art that she might have done that with one hand . But given the past situation current scenario was different. Unlike past; today Aisha was gonna be the centre of attention of the event so to stage a last minute short appearance like she had done number of times in former business parties held in the mansion was hardly a
feasible option. And not to mention the 20 minutes time limit of which 5 had already passed ; PRIYA might give thought of using two hands!

So lets start the disaster aversion. Priya moved as in a soldier goes to arm up before war.She got few things. Aisha unbeknownst to the surrounding had place her head back on the chair and her eyes were close.

She opened her eyes as someone jerked her shoulder to make her sit upright.

Aisha in under the influence of the drink ; moved her head to check who was it .And spotted Priya N Ash blurted out "hhh huh...wat..."

Priya didn't answer she had lot to do, she moved her hand through Aisha's silky hair and gathered then together and latched then behind her head with the clip ,and then she began covering it with some plastic cover. Aisha eyes caught that in the mirror,she said touching it "wat the hell is ...shower cap"

Priya just was not in a mood to be interrupted in prerituals of the process called " sobering Aisha"

Priya instructed her "get up". Aisha followed her instruction

Priya slid flower pattern robe through her hands and tied the knot across her waist . So now Aisha's was clad in the shower cap hiding her hair and her body was covered in the flowery robe masking her entire body. Priya came forward and picked the glass of water; upheld it and and then took the salt sprinkler which was half full , instead of sprinkling,she discarded the lid and dumped the entire content into the glass and mixing it with the spoon offered it to Aisha .

"here... drink"

"eew "

"now don't make babby faces . you know the drill . we have to get the alchohol off ur system and just glup it. Stop acting as if I m making u do this for the first time"

Aisha reluctantly emptied the glass by transferring the contents into her tummy . There was a jolt at the heart of her stomach , she moved towards the bathroom, Priya accompanied her. Aisha bent her head towards the sink and her body began the process of "disposing the alcohol from her system". Priya held her head to make sure the discarded contents go downright to the drainage system rather on herself or on "well wrapped Aisha"

Finally the main stage of "sobering up Aisha" was done. She made Aisha rinse her mouth with water and mouthwash. Priya applied paste on the brush and held Aisha chin and told her to open the mouth. Aisha protested "but I rinsed wid the mouth wash"

Priya gave a look and said "I know u r well-being better than u, I have 21 yrs of experience of raising u"

Aishs "hey hello don't give u your self extra credit not 21 just 18 . u came here when I was 3 yrs old"

Priya "ya 7 happy ,chaos free years of my life . now just open ur mouth"

(NOTE -aish is 21 n she was 3 wen her mom died n Priya was seven wen she became Aisha's friend as prior to that Priya was staying in boarding school)

PRIYA clensed her mouth as a toddler's mom wud do. She patted her face wid towel and made her sit infront of miror. Now she thanked the fact that Aisha was wearing minimal makeup ,so there was absolutely no chance of smearing. As only lipbalm and gloss was applied there was no chance of lipstick smudging.So Priya unwrapped Aisha from the robe and shower cap and fixed her hair with straighter and brushed them. And did her lips and slight touch up. Now she was good as new. Mission accomplished. Not the entire mission but this stage was completed.

Prithvi was talking to various guests and being introduced to new one. But his immediate family was absent . As his elder sister was not informed abt it coz her treatment was going on in London. If she knew that her younger brother was getting married she might have left everything and flew in and wud have cheerfully participated in every event and would have made sure every "ritual" wud have been performed traditionally.

His grandfather couldn't leave their province due to some reasons .Prithvi loved both of them more than his life. That's why when his grandfather asked prithvi to get married ; he didn't even felt it necessary to ask the bride's name. He knew that his grandfather needed this relation to be established between the families.So he obliged his request. After prithvi's parents passed away in jet crash. He looked upto his grandfather The Royal Majesty Of Jaigad" Someshwar chauhan. His word was a command to his grandson Yuvraj prithviraj chauhan.

His manager came and informed him that the video conferencing setup has being made in the study and his grandfather wanted to talk to him.

He moved upstairs.

Finally Aisha was good as new in her out of the world wedding attire. Priya escorted her outside the room .

Priya said "com'on lets go , ring ceremony will start soon" as they reached half the way towards the staircase ,away from her room. "hows the ring"

Ash "no clue"

Priya glanced at Ash's empty hand "omg where's the ring ."

Ash recollected "I threw it on the bed"

Priya "Ash...stay here I 'll get it"

Aisha stood leaning to the pillar ,watched Priya moving towards her room.

Prithvi ascended upstairs ,he looked sideways to find 'the study'. His gaze fell on a figure draped in white, with the waterfall of jet black hair was flowing through her shoulder to just above her waist. He moved and asked politely

"Excuse me ; cud u pls direct me to 'the study'?"

Aisha didn't moved from her position and was facing her back towards him and spoke

"Am I holding a banner stating that I give a damn?"

Prithvi was surprised by the response as he was simply expecting directions to the study in reply.

But he replied her question "No"

ASH " Coz I don't. Find someone else who wud be interested in being ur guide"

Prithvi was appalled by the her vague answer, he was gonna reply but his employee called him out from the door of the study which was in the opposite direction.So he chose not to continue the talk and moved towards the opposite direction.

Priya quickly came out holding ring box in her hand and held Ash's arm and told her to get going.But Ash didn't budge .

Priya "Ash pls lets go now"

Ash asked Priya "how long this ring exchange will go on"

Priya replied "25-30 minutes"

Ash "so much time to do such a simple task"

Priya "sweety few pre rituals wud b there and u wud address few guest and other things..."

Ash with expression as ' she was told to work in field' , "that's lot to do.but then I can rest in the room for some time right ?"

Pri "abt that...actually the wedding 'muhurat' is immediately after that so u can rest after the marriage ceremony. Now lets go..." she kind of pulled her to make her stand upright.

Ash knew that pri was getting super eager to courier her downstairs

Ash "wait . wait. I forgot to ask how long this wedding thing goes on"

Priya dramatically "til death and in next 7 birth"

Ash rolled her eyes "I m talking abt the duration of ceromony"

Priya "ah..." ,she informed her softly "1.30 to 2 hours"

Ash "wat ! that long.." she ascended towards her room quickly

Priya followed her.

Prithvi came from the study his eyes searched for his "not so keen to his guide" girl.

But he quickly moved downstairs as karan came to collect him

In Ash 's room, Priya entered

P - Ash no more drama pls!

A -I m not doing any drama; just making arrangements to save myself from the 2 hr long drama.

She picked her miniature earphone and plunged them in her ears which were easily camouflaged by her loose hair and she clipped the mini ipod resembling a small pen drive in her bangle

Aisha - I got more than 2000 songs to entertain me through the boring chanting by the bald dude. Stay close to me; to give me pointers abt how to act as I won't be hearing anything

Ash moved out the room ,Priya stood still coz of Ash's action.

Ash- u coming or not.

Priya came to reality reasoned herself that there was no point in arguing wid the bridey . so she accompanied her outside.

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PROMO

Aisha got up from the leather couch and took few steps away from it and turned to face prithvi who was still besited on the couch , she spoke "tour... .maybe...some other time, guess I m gonna live in here I can explore the castle later"

She turned aback to prithvi and uttered " may be we should sleep"

Prithvi gaze swayed towards her wet hair flowing through her shoulder along her back ,there were still droplets of water on the curve of her waist. Heaven sake! drenched white on her magnificient figure cud kill someone!

PRITHVI said out without giving a thought ; subconsciously ;coz the way she made the suggestion. (it meant he was lost and so just spoke out)

"You will sleep with me?

AISHA turned "u said something? Sorry didn't hear"

Glad she didn't. Dude she just meant sleep sleep not "sleep" "sleep".

PRITHVI tranced back to reality and resolved her query

"u go upstairs and then left ,my room ..I mean our room is there"

Aisha flinched and repeated "our room!"

Part-4

Promo 2

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