Abhira FF : Worth the trouble : Chapter 8 Page 41 - Page 22

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He is doing because of Akshra and she is getting jealous

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Originally posted by: Carpe_diem

Chapter 6

“Abhi? How was the surgery?”

Abhimanyu had just sat down to rest and his phone had rung. It was his mother, so he answered immediately.

“It was fine maa. I’m going to wait for some time here and check on the patient again.”

“Did you have your dinner?”

“Yes, I ate before the surgery.”

“Did you like it?”, Manjari asked.

“Maa?!”, Abhimanyu said and rolled his eyes. “It was fine. But why did you teach her to cook? I don’t think I have ever seen her show any interest in cooking.”

Manjari smiled and said, “You seem to know a lot about her.”

“Maa, please!”

“What? I didn’t say anything wrong. And you don’t have to worry about my approval. I fully approve. I liked her a lot.”

“Maa, listen. I need to go now. I’m going to be late so please don’t wait up.”

“Acha theek hai. Dhyaan rakhna apna.”

**

“Harsh ji, Akshara was here today. Abhi brought her home”,Manjari informed Harsh when he sat down to take his shoes off.

“He brought her home?”

“Yes. I was surprised too. Akshara told me that they were working together for an exclusive interview.”

Harsh took the change of clothes that Manjari handed him. “Really? Did Abhimanyu agree to that?”, Harsh asked.

“Yes. They worked together for some time in Abhi’s office and then he dropped her home.”

“Hmm.”

“What hmm? Harsh ji he brought her on his bike and agreed for an interview. This is big.”

Harsh got up and left to change. When he came back, he found Manjari still lost in her thoughts.

“Manjari, Akshara works with me. I’ve seen them argue multiple times. Please don’t get your hopes up. Abhimanyu hates me and my work and I don’t see any way for both of them to come together.”

Manjari frowned at Harsh. “I saw them together today and I know my Abhi. I’m sure he feels something for Akshara and I really liked Akshara. She’s perfect for Abhi.”

Harsh shrugged and said, “Then let’s just wait and watch. They’re old enough to figure it out themselves.”

“I was thinking of talking to Akshara’s grandparents.”

Harsh shook his head at that. “No. Abhimanyu won’t like that. Let him come to us and discuss this. Then we can take this forward.”

Manjari smiled at Harsh. “Okay, if you think we should wait for Abhi to talk to us then we’ll wait. But I’m sure something good is about to happen. Mujhe lagta hai sab theek ho jaayega Harsh ji. Akshara ke aane se aapke aur Abhi ke beech sab theek ho jaayega.”

Harsh saw his wife close her eyes with folded hands and didn’t have the heart to tell her that he didn’t feel that way. He didn’t feel that anything would ever be fine between him and his son.

**

“You did what?!”, Aarohi exclaimed loudly.

“I told Abhimanyu that I’m going to marry Arun”, Akshara said as they drove to the hospital the next day.

“Why would you say that to him?”

“I don’t know! He was annoying me so I just told him that I’m going to marry that stupid Arun with antiquated mindset. Too ambitious! What does that even mean? He would have made me quit my job and made me sit at home to become family oriented”, Akshara shuddered at the thought.

“Akshu! Focus! Forget about that guy. It doesn’t matter. He was not right for you anyway. What are you going to tell Abhimanyu Sir now?”

Akshara sighed. “I have no idea. I’ll just change the topic or avoid talking to him. I just don’t want him to know. Aaru, tum chup rahogi!”

Aarohi agreed. “I won’t say anything. I promise. What happened at his home last night? You didn’t tell me anything!”

“We worked and then he dropped me home. Oh I met his mom and she’s super sweet.”

“Yeah she is. Akshu, is she going to be our mother-in-law?”,Aarohi gushed.

“Not our mother-in-law, your mother-in-law. There’s nothing going on between me and Abhimanyu. He barely tolerates me and I don’t like him either”, Akshara explained.

“Uh-huh. Keep telling yourself that. How was the bike ride? I don’t think I have ever seen him ride with a girl before.”

Akshara drove through the main gate of the hospital and parked the car. “Stop distracting me Aaru. We have a big interview today. I just hope your Abhimanyu Sir doesn’t mess it up.”

They got out of the car and started walking towards the lobby. “Oh yeah, is that interview today?”

“Yes. I have to set everything up. Channel 9 guys must be on their way here. Aranya Diwan is going to interview him.”

“Oooh she’s hot. I’m sure a lot of people are going to watch it just to see them together”, Aarohi exclaimed.

“It’s a serious interview. Aranya is the perfect choice for this. She’s not going to ask him frivolous questions and he’ll be more comfortable with a smart conversation.”

Aarohi curled her hand around Akshara’s shoulder. “Aww you know him so well. You two are so adorable!”

Akshara was just about to respond when Neil walked in. “Thank God Neil is here. He’s going to be the voice of reason because you are acting completely crazy right now.”

“Good morning children! What’s going on?”, Neil asked cheerfully.

“Akshu is being difficult as usual”, Aarohi muttered.

Akshara grabbed Neil’s hand and said, “Good morning, Neil! We have tons to do today. Let’s go! Bye Aaru, see you later.”

“Did you call those Channel 9 guys?”, Akshara asked.

“Yeah they’ll be here in 30 minutes. We’ll be using bhai’s cabin right?”

“That’s the plan. Unless, the channel has some other ideas.”

“How much time have you allocated for this interview?”

They reached Abhimanyu’s office and Akshara knocked on his door. “An hour. I don’t think your bhai can afford to waste more than an hour.”

“Come in”, Abhimanyu said and Neil and Akshara walked in.

Akshara noticed that he was dressed as usual and she thought that was for the best as people would get a real insight into his world.

“Did you go through the questions that I gave you?”, Akshara asked.

“Yes”, Abhimanyu replied without looking up.

“Who’s going to interview bhai?”

“Aranya Diwan”

Neil made an excited sound and said, “Really? Bhai she’s super hot!”

Abhimanyu made no comment and Akshara looked annoyed at Neil. “She’s a great news presenter and a great interviewer. But all you and Aaru can see is her hotness.”

“Is there a purpose for this meeting or are you both here just to annoy me?”, Abhimanyu asked.

“Aranya will be here soon and we’ll finish the interview in an hour. I’ve scheduled your surgeries post lunch”, Akshara said and handed him his schedule.

Abhimanyu checked the schedule that she had prepared and nodded. “Fine. Anything else?”

Akshara hesitated and Abhimanyu looked up to see what was bothering her. “What happened?”

“Do you want me here during the interview? I’m sure you can handle it by yourself so if you don’t need me I can go and work on something else.”

Abhimanyu frowned at that. “I need you both here. I haven’t done this before. I don’t want them to trick me into saying something that I don’t want to or twist my words.”

“Don’t worry bhai. We’ll be here.”

Akshara also agreed. “Yeah, we’ll be here.”

There’s a knock on the door and Neil opened the door to let the camera crew in.

“You can start setting up here”, he instructed.

Akshara’s phone pinged and Abhimanyu noticed her wallpaper. “Why did you change it?”, he asked.

Akshara grabbed her phone and put it in her pocket. “Why do you care?”

“I was just concerned because you were supposedly going to marry him and all.”

“Concerned?”, she scoffed.

“What happened?”, Abhimanyu asked and Akshara looked away.

“He said I’m too ambitious and I’m not family oriented so he rejected me”, she whispered.

Abhimanyu was furious to hear that. “Why did you go and meet him? Why couldn’t you speak to him over the phone first? There are such idiots in this world who don’t want women to be as ambitious as them.”

“I did speak to him over the phone. He seemed nice.”

“Nice?! Look how that turned out.”

“Why are you getting so angry? As if you’re any different. You also make fun of my profession”, Akshara muttered indignantly.

“Don’t compare me with that a****le!”

“Okay calm down. Aranya will be here any minute. You need to focus on your interview.”

“You deserve someone who will treat you like an equal partner”, he said and Akshara smiled. That was exactly what she needed.

Aranya walked in and Akshara got up to shake hands with her. “Hello, I’m Akshara Goenka. We had spoken over the phone.”

“Hello Akshara. I’m Aranya. Nice to meet you!”

“This is Neil. He’s working with me.”

Aranya shook hands with Neil who smiled broadly. “I’m a big fan Aranya. I watch your show every day.”

“Thank you, Neil.”

Then Akshara introduced her to Abhimanyu. “This is Dr. Abhimanyu Birla.”

Aranya shook his hand and took a seat opposite him. “Hello Dr. Abhimanyu Birla.”

“Hello Ms. Aranya”, Abhimanyu replied politely.

Neil pulled Akshara aside and whispered. “Look at her! She’s even prettier in person. I’m sure bhai is also thinking about how hot she is.”

Akshara laughed at that. “Abhimanyu must be thinking about how soon he can get this over with and how soon he can kick them out.”

“Akshara?”, Aranya called her and Akshara went back into the room.

“I was asking Dr. Birla if we can do a day in my life kind of an interview instead of a standard 30 minute one.”

Akshara knew that Abhimanyu would hate that and she was just about to decline when Aranya continued, “I’m so happy that Dr. Birla has agreed to it.”

“What?!”, Akshara gasped.

“Yes, I can do it. I have two surgeries scheduled post lunch but apart from that I can allocate my time to this. But if there’s an emergency then we’ll have to cut this short”, Abhimanyu said.

‘Of course, Dr. Birla. I can understand. Thank you so much for doing this. I don’t think anyone has managed to get a comment from you let alone an entire segment and I’m very excited for this.”

They continued to talk and when Akshara glanced at Neil he raised his eyebrows.

Harsh looked into the room and Akshara walked out to meet him. “How’s it going?”, he asked.

“Dr. Abhimanyu has agreed to a day in my life segment for the channel.”

Harsh smiled incredulously. “That’s great. I never thought he would do that but thanks to you he’s willing to spend so much time on this.”

“No Sir. I didn’t say anything to him. Aranya convinced him”, Akshara said but Harsh did not look like believed that.

“Okay, whatever is the reason it’s great that he’s doing this. I’ve asked Neil to help us with this today. Are you prepared with the budget proposal with the Board members?”

“Yes, Sir. I’m prepared for it.”

“Good. Let me know if you need anything or if you have any other issues”, Harsh said and left.

Akshara went back inside and was annoyed to see Abhimanyu talking to Aranya.

“Why isn’t he yelling at us to hurry up? They’re still setting up their equipment”, Akshara whispered.

“He has already agreed to do this all day so what’s the point of yelling?”, Neil replied and it made sense to Akshara but she couldn’t believe that Abhimanyu was making conversation with a stranger when he couldn't make the effort to say more than a few words to anyone at the hospital.

The set up was done and they were ready to roll. Abhimanyu looked at Akshara and she nodded her head encouragingly. Neil and Akshara stood to a side and watched Aranya get into her interviewer mode. Akshara listened carefully and watched Abhimanyu for any sign of unease or displeasure but he sailed through and the first part of the interview went well.

“That went well. She’s good at putting people at ease but the next part might not be that simple. She might dwell on uncomfortable issues. We’ll have to be careful”, Akshara said and watched Abhimanyu get up and walk towards them.

“So?”, he asked.

“It was good”, Akshara answered.

“We can do a walk the talk kind of a thing where you’re checking up on your patients and we can talk in between”, Aranya suggested as she joined the group.

That was a brilliant strategy to see Abhimanyu in his doctor mode but Akshara waited for Abhimanyu to make the decision.

“I don’t want to disturb the patients.”

“We’ll not take the whole crew. Just the camera guy and me. We’ll stay outside and the patients will not be filmed”, Aranya assured him.

Abhimanyu thought for a moment before agreeing. “Okay. I have to go on my rounds in a few minutes. Can you set everything up so soon?”

“Sure Dr. Birla. We’ll be ready in five.”

Abhimanyu looked at Akshara and said, “I don’t think we should have a lot of people outside the General Ward or the ICU. So, I’ll finish the questions there quickly and we’ll come back here in some time. Okay?”

He didn’t want her there? Wasn’t he the one who asked her to stay when she had specifically asked if could handle it by himself?

“Sure”, she murmured and watched Abhimanyu leave with Aranya.

“Chalo Akshu. Let’s go to the cafeteria”, Neil suggested.

Akshara looked at her watch. “I have a meeting with the Board in some time. I need to prepare for that. I’ll see you after that.”

She went to her office and took her laptop with her to the conference room where the meeting was scheduled. She tried to focus on her presentation but her mind kept drifting back to the interview.

**

“Where’s Akshara?”, Abhimanyu asked Neil when he came back from his rounds. He was tired of the questions and he wanted to get done with it but he knew that there was still some filming left.

“She’s in a meeting with the board”, Neil replied.

Aranya said something and Abhimanyu nodded at her absently. He didn’t know what she was saying but according to what Akshara had drilled into his head, he had to be polite and nice to the crew.

“We can take a break now. Do you want to go out for lunch?”,Aranya asked Abhimanyu.

Abhimanyu hesitated and looked at Neil who grinned at him. “Yeah we can all go for lunch. Let’s just wait for Akshara.”

“No bhai, I can’t go. I’m going to have lunch with Aarohi”,he widened his eyes and tried to tell Abhimanyu that he needs to go alone with Aranya.

“I’m going to go and check for Akshara”, Abhimanyu said ignoring Neil’s gestures.

Aranya followed him and it irritated him but he kept his cool. He wanted to talk to Akshara in private but he couldn’t get rid of Aranya.

They reached the conference room and Abhimanyu greeted the Board members who were stepping out of the room. Akshara walked out and was surprised to see Abhimanyu and Aranya standing outside.

“Hey, how did it go?”, she asked Abhimanyu.

“It went really well. We got a lot of footage and Abhimanyu was great”, Aranya raved.

Abhimanyu? Did she really call him Abhimanyu? Were they friends now? Why didn’t he insist her on calling him Dr. Abhimanyu Birla?

Akshara smiled awkwardly. “That’s nice.”

Abhimanyu rubbed his forehead and breathed deeply to avoid making a scene. He didn’t know why Aranya was acting so friendly and he didn’t like the casual way she addressed him.

“We are going out for lunch. Do you want to join us?”,Aranya asked.

He was going out for lunch with her?

Something unpleasant flipped her stomach over. There was a tightness in her chest and she struggled to control her emotions.

“Akshara can we discuss the sample now?”, Harsh asked from inside the conference room.

Akshara avoided Abhimanyu’s gaze and looked at Aranya. “I still have some work. Why don’t you both go ahead? I’m sure you have a lot to talk about regarding the interview.”

“Yeah we do”, Aranya said.

“We’ll wait for you to finish your work”, Abhimanyu insisted.

Akshara glanced at him and was surprised to see him shooting daggers at her. What was his problem?

“No, my work will take a while. You still have a lot of filming left so I don’t want to waste your time.”

“Abhimanyu, you also have two surgeries scheduled. So, if we want to wrap everything up today then we’ll have to hurry”, Aranya added.

“Have a good lunch”, Akshara murmured and went inside before Abhimanyu could stop her.

**

Akshara focused on what Harsh was saying but she was seething. He could have lunch with Aranya and go on a date too. She didn’t care. This was supposed to be an interview but maybe Abhimanyu had something else in mind. How did it matter? He could do whatever he wanted to do.

“Akshara, are you listening?”, Harsh asked.

“Yes Sir. I’ll send it by today.”

“Okay. Please send me a copy of the budget proposal that we discussed today.”

“Sure, Sir.”

“Are you alright, Akshara?”, Harsh asked worriedly.

Akshara forced a smile and said, “I’m fine Sir. Nothing to worry about.”

“Okay. I’ll be in my office if you need anything.”

Abhimanyu didn’t even like the media, but he was out for lunch with the biggest media personality ever. The irony of it made Akshara laugh bitterly.

“I’m too busy to think about what he’s doing with her”, she chided herself and got to work.

**

“Aaru, she’s awesome”, Neil said dreamily.

Aarohi laughed and looked at Akshara expecting her to laugh but she was surprised to see her upset. She nudged her and raised an eyebrow but Akshara shook her head and sipped her chai.

“Bhai was being so nice to her. Akshu was worried that he would be rude and mean but bhai was so polite and sweet. He even took her out for lunch”, Neil continued.

“Abhimanyu Sir must have been nice to her because Harsh Sir and Akshu wanted this to go smoothly”, Aarohi said looking at Akshara.

“He even took her along when he went to check on his patients”, Neil gushed and Aarohi kicked him under the chair.

“Ow”

Aarohi shushed him and bent her head to whisper to Akshara. “He was doing it for you Akshu.”

Akshara did not want to discuss this anymore. She was done breaking her head over it. She looked up to respond and saw Aranya and Abhimanyu walking towards them. She groaned loudly and cursed her day. She was done with her quota of fake smiling but she still tried when Aranya smiled at her.

“We got more than we hoped for Akshara. I’m so glad that you reached out to us.”

Akshara wondered if she was thanking her for introducing her to Abhimanyu.

“When will the interview be aired?”, Akshara asked politely.

“Mostly by tomorrow. I’ll try to rush it. I’m really excited and I can’t wait for the feedback.”

Akshara introduced Aarohi to Aranya and they all made small talk. Akshara could feel Abhimanyu glaring at her but she couldn’t think of any reason for his anger. She refused to look at him because she was tired of the games that he was playing. Yesterday, he had taken her home and introduced her to his mother. He had dropped her home and had behaved so nicely. Today, he was a different person and she couldn’t understand what had changed.

“I can send you the footage if you want to look at it before we air it”, Aranya said.

“You can send it to Dr. Abhimanyu. He can check it and get back to you if he wants you to make any changes”, Akshara said icily.

“I can mail it to you or you can give me your phone number and I’ll send the video on Whatsapp”, Aranya told Abhimanyu.

Of course, they would exchange phone numbers and start texting each other. Tomorrow, they will meet for coffee and then they’ll get engaged. A few days later they’ll get married and have lovely babies.

“Akshu?”, Aarohi tapped her on her shoulder.

“Why are you so lost? What’s wrong with you?”

“Where are they?”, Akshara asked when she noticed that Abhimanyu, Aranya and Neil were missing.

“Aranya was leaving so Abhimanyu Sir and Neil went to see her off.”

Akshara finished her chai and got up. “I’m going back to work.”

“Akshu? Kya hua?”

“I’m fine”, Akshara said and left.

**

Akshara’s office door banged shut and she snapped out of her thoughts to see Abhimanyu standing inside her cabin.

His eyes were blazing and it made her lose her temper. “What are you so angry about?”, she asked.

He studied her silently and she squirmed under his gaze. He took a seat and quietly looked at her.

“Did you have a good lunch?”, she asked.

When he continued to stare at her, she snapped. “What?!”

“I’m waiting for you to get it all out of your system”, he said calmly.

“You seemed to have had a good day today. I was so worried that you would get upset or you would leave if you didn’t like the questions or if the crew took too long but I shouldn’t have bothered. You not only liked you actually enjoyed it!”

The twitch in his jaw was the only indication that he was listening to her.

Abhimanyu’s phone rang and he cut the call without looking at it.

“Why did you do that? It could be Aranya. After all, you’re on first name basis now. She must be calling for something important.”

He didn’t say a word.

Akshara got up and pushed her chair away. “I’ll leave. Then you can call her back.”

She moved around her desk and was pulled back against Abhimanyu’s chest. She struggled to pull out of his grip.

“Let me go!”, she yelled.

He turned her around and wrapped his arm around her waist. “Why do you think I did the interview?”, he asked calmly.

Akshara pushed against him and muttered, “How would I know? Let me go!”

“Why did I agree to do the interview when I’ve never spoken to the press in all these years?”

“Why did I go out of my way to prepare for it?”

“I don’t know”, she whispered and looked at his chest unable to look at him.

“Why did I agree to spend the whole day with the crew instead of just doing an interview?”

She looked up and felt smoldered by his eyes. “Why did you agree?”, she whispered.

“I thought that is what you’d want. I wanted to make you happy!”, he snapped and pulled her closer. “But you are so unobservant and so stupid at times!”

“Don’t call me stupid”, she mumbled.

“Why did you go out for lunch with her?”, she asked.

“Did I want to go with her?”, he retaliated.

“I don’t know! I didn’t want to be the third wheel. I thought you wanted to go with her.”

“Of course! That’s what you’d think. Then why was I insisting on taking you with us like an idiot?”

“I answered all their questions, I let them shoot in multiple hospital premises, I gave them precious time that I don’t have and what do I get for that? You avoided me, refused to talk or look at me and were mad at me all day!”

“I’m sorry”, Akshara whispered and Abhimanyu bent his head to rub his nose against hers.

His phone rang again and he said, “Maybe it’s Aranya. You’re right. I should talk to her and ask her out.”

Akshara hit his chest and he chuckled.

“Trouble, that’s what you are”, Abhimanyu whispered and Akshara tried to move out of his embrace but he tightened his hold.

He brushed her hair aside and cupped her face. He could feel her heart thundering and he laughed softly.

“Every time I come close if your heart rate is going to go up we have a big problem”, he joked.

His phone beeped indicating an emergency signal and Akshara pulled away. Abhimanyu checked the message and frowned.

“There’s an emergency. I need to go.”

He brushed his fingers against her cheek and left.

Please update soon......I want to know what is Abhimanyu's condition which he is going to place before Akshara !!! Love it

Beautiful as always 😍💕

Please update soon dear................

Great story cannot wait for next part 😍

This FF is so good. I read the all the chapter in one go . The last chapter

Cant wait for the next chapter. Wish we could watch this story on tv instead . Nevertheless, thanks for writing this FF . 🤗

I just love this version of Abhira. ❤️

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This FF is so good. I read the all the chapter in one go . The last chapter

Cant wait for the next chapter. Wish we could watch this story on tv instead . Nevertheless, thanks for writing this FF . 🤗

I just love this version of Abhira. ❤️

Demand an early update this time!

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