CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
'I do not want to repeat myself... Who of you is that nanny...'' Said Santosh
Raman, Simmi and Romi just stood there looking at her and none of them was able to say a word. She knew when she saw them that whatever they case maybe, she was losing this. She turned to Santosh walking ahead of Mihika as she said
'I am...''
Before she could even begin talking about what happened, Santosh raised her hand and
'Smack...'' Off went the slap on Ishita's face that she fell back Mihir chasing her
Aditya and Ruhi held onto their uncle given how startled they were and Raman and Simmi just stood there damn founded. Rinky looked at Ishita with a smile on her face elated at the humiliating that was befalling Ishita. And Raman just found himself getting angry that this was happening to her, it was almost he could feel her pain
Ishita turned back holding her cheek looking at Santosh as she got to her feet wanting to charge towards Santosh but Mihika held her hand stopping her. She removed her hand looking at the blood before he held her cheek again realizing that the bangles Santosh was wearing caused a small wound on her face
'Who the hell gave you the right to do that to my daughter?'' Said Santosh and Ishita who was boiling with rage just stayed there staring at Santosh being restrained by Mihika who wasn't letting go because she knew, Ishita was crazy and self entitled so this wasn't going to fly
'Maybe working in such a place has gotten to your head that you believe you and us are equal...'' Said Santosh and Ishita just stayed staring at her. Santosh moved in front of Ishita staring ather as she said
'You are not even worth the gum on my shoe... That is how worthless you are and worthless people, they do not dare mingle with the elite... Every lay a hand on my daughter again, I will make your entire generation so sorry you were even born, now pack your stuff and get the hell out of this house...'' Said Santosh
'No...'' Said Ruhi as she ran to Ishita
'Dad, please...'' Said Aditya who was getting teary looking at his father
'Mom just calm down... Ishita what happened...'' Said Raman but Ishita who was filled with rage began tearing up.
'Well... Sir... Madam ...'' Neelu began when someone interrupted saying
'Uhhh excuse me...'' Causing all of them to turn and look behind
'The door was open, I called no one came so I just let myself in. Am not sure if I am in the right place...'' He said
'Can't you see we are in the middle of...'' Santosh began to Ramanstopped her
'It is okay, Can I help you...'' Said Raman
'Yeah, Sorry would have come back but I do not have time and I am in Mumbai for a couple of hours before I leave for Dubai...'' He said
'Ohh you're the representative...'' Said Romi
'Yeah, Suraj Mohlotra...IYER Technologies...'' He said looking around at everyone who was in the living room
'Oh yes... Sorry... Can we talk outside...'' Said Romi but his attention was taken by some thing
'Oh My God ...'' He said causing Ishita to look up at him with tears in her eyes
'What the hell happened to your face'' He said but she just kept on looking at him and knowing her, he dropped it because he knew her well enough to know if he opened a can of worms now, there was no way she would listen to him
'Mom, we can finish this later, I need to handle some business, can everyone excuse us...'' Said Simmi and everyone including Mihika walked away
Mihir went outside, Neelu walked back to the kitchen and Ishita walked to her room with Mihika not so far behind. Ruhi and Aditya not knowing what to do just went to their room while Rinky and her mom went outside to the pool
'I can clearly see that this is a bad time, so we will reschedule...'' Said Suraj
'No... It is fine... Small family quarrel...''Said Romi
'You have a woman with a bleeding face in the middle of your living room? It was more than that...'' Said Suraj
'Like I said, small misunderstanding...'' Said Romi
'Who is she in this house?'' Said Suraj
'Who...'' Said Simmi
'The girl with the bruised cheek in tears... I mean, what she does here is what exactly...'' He asked again
'Oh she is not important...'' Said Romi
'It is important that I know...'' Said Suraj authoritatively
'She is my kids' nanny...'' Said Raman not because of obligation but curiosity
'She... Is a nanny? Her...''Said Suraj
'Yes... It was just a small accident and misunderstanding... We will sort it out...'' Said Simmi
Suraj looked at them for a few seconds before he looked at the direction Ishita took and said
'We will do this some other time. In a mean time, if you want us to partner on this, if you want to be a part of our online community, she comes with your proposal...'' Said Suraj
'Am sorry what...'' Said Simmi shocked
'Your nanny... She comes in some capacity with your proposal or there will be no next meeting and definitely no deal...'' Said Suraj as he stood up
'I will talk to you Monday, tell me what you decide...'' Said Suraj and he walked out
Raman stood their dumbfounded and shocked about how that escalated quickly. He couldn't believe what was happening. Something was off and now he was certain, maybe Pratik was onto something when he said to be weary
Back in Ishita's room, she was raging mad and just wanted to punch someone just to feel less angry. She had the audacity to lay a hand on her. Who did that? And now she had new problems to worry about. Suraj Mohlotra... She began screaming as she arched back punching throw the wall that she hurt her had
'Ishu, calm down...'' Said Mihika
'How dare she lay a hand on me? Me... Mimi she dare lay a hand on me... I will show her what misery I can bring, old hag...'' Said Ishita
'Just calm down... Give me your hand...'' Said Mihika who had grabbed a first aid kit
She cleaned her small cut on the face and also cleaned her hand bandaging it
'I just want...'' Ishita said through her teeth
'Ishita, I know you want to punch some walls but breaking your hand won't help anyone... Just calm down...'' Said Mihika
'I helped that spoilt bitch, if it wasn't for me, she would be God knows where with that low life Arav...'' Said Ishita
'Whoa... Hold on... Priya Arav... That Arav...'' Said Mihika
'Yeah... But somehow because I am the nanny, I am bad for doing what I did...'' Said Ishita
You shouldn't have hit her, you know that...'' Said Mihika
'I didn't touch her, if I wanted to hit her trust me Mimi I would have... She would be lucky to be sitting down by now...'' Said Ishita
'Okay just calm down... We have more important things to worry about than that... Suraj saw you...'' Said Mihika
'Doesn't matter... He can't do anything...'' Said Ishita
Why...'' Said Mihika
'I am so angry right now to talk about this...'' Said Ishita as she stood up pacing up and down
She looked at her bags that the kids always glued to the wall and couldn't think of anything else other than filling them and walking the hell out of that place and so she began throwing her clothes in
'Ishu... Ishu what are you doing...'' Said Mihika
'Lady Lucifer fired me, I am taking her up on that offer...'' Said Ishita and Mihika knowing arguing was not an option began helping. Also there was the Suraj issue, Ishita staying here was not an option
'Ishita... Come here...'' Raman yelled grabbing their attention
'Ishita... Come back in here...'' He yelled again
Ishita grabbed her back pack that she had thrown in some of her things and Mihika carried the other and they both walked out to the living room. The kids were coming back from up stairs and Rinky and her mother walked back into the house as well
'What are you doing...'' Said Raman looking at her bags
'I just got fired, usually means I have to leave...'' Said Ishita angrily
'You can't talk like that... Look at this ill mannered girl...'' Said Santosh but Ishita ignored her
'No one is going anywhere... Just...''Said Raman
'You are still allowing her to stay here... Raman...'' Said Santosh
'Papa, please, Nanny can't go...'' Said Aditya teary eyed
'Why did you do this to her Ishita? You had no right to do that...'' Said Romi but Ishita just looked up at him and didn't answer
'Are you even remorseful for what you did'' Said Simmi
'Remorse is for people who...'' She began but Mihika interrupted saying
'Ishu... Sieve...'' And Ishita scoffed holding her tongue
'Seriously... Look at this girl...'' Said Santosh
'Well, some woman is out there proud that she gave birth to a thing like you...Pitiful'' Said Rinky
'OYI...'' Yelled Ishita stepping in front of Santosh who was shielding Rinky as she said
'Talk about my mother on more time and I swear the restraint I have will cease to exist then you will understand what smacking really means...'' Said Ishita and Rinky stepped behind her mother in fear
'Ishita do not talk...'' Raman began
'Don't bother, I am leaving anyway...'' She said and turned to her heels walking out
'Ishu... Ishita... Ishita wait... Dad...'' Yelled Ruhi in tears much to the shock of everyone in that living room except the help, Neelu and Mihir who were peeping through the kitchen door
Aditya had snuck away going to the kitchen so when he came back with a jar of water, no one saw it coming when he walked in front of Rinky.
He arched back with every might he had in his hand and poured every drop of water in that jar on Rinky's face causing her to stand up caching her breath as water dripped down her whole face and body
'What the...'' Said Ishita turning
'Adi...'' Yelled Raman pulling him back
'Wait... Wait...'' Said Aditya as he looked at Rinky who was coughing as she kept on wiping the water from her face with her hand
'See...'' Said Aditya and everyone looked at Rinky
'She has no bruise because she just did make up...'' Said Aditya and Simmi turned her around just so she can see if Aditya was telling the truth
'It was a trick we used when we wanted nannies gone. She used to help us with it and because you people never checked, it always worked and I am sorry but I like Ishita. She is nice and takes care of us well. She helps with homework and school and spends time with us when dad isn't here... She is a good nanny and I like her so I did this because I didn't want you to fire her...'' Said Aditya
'Also she never hit Rinky at all and she only bit her friends on the bottom because they were being naughty... She always brings them when Papa isn't here in the middle of the night and makes a lot of noise while the drink Papa's juice...'' Said Ruhi teary as well
'Ru... Shut it...'' Said Rinky
'It is true...'' Said Aditya
'What juice...'' Said Romi
'That one... In the corner over there...'' Said Ruhi pointing at the mini bar in the house
'She was drunk, her noise woke us up and when she asked them to keep it down they abused her and refused to listen. So she grabbed a bat and chased her friends out and also asked her to shower and go to bed... She never touched Rinky...'' Said Aditya as he and his sister walked to where Ishita was standing
'You can't fire her...'' Said Ruhi
'And you can't slap her either or make fun of her mother... That was not nice...'' Said Aditya his voice breaking something that hit a nerve and Raman turned to Rinky
'They... They are lying... She coached them... You believe... Don't believe them, over me...'' Said Rinky pretending to cry
'You have exactly five minutes to justify what the hell happened here last night...'' Said Raman
'Raman... Seriously drop it...'' Said Simmi
'You are the reason she thinks she can get awaywithanything. So let me handle this... ' He said turning to Rinky as he said
'5 Minutes... If I walk over to my study and check that CCTV Footage and she is even telling a sliver of the truth... So help me God... ' And Rinky knew she was in more trouble than she anticipated
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