Bab 21: Chapter 20
Shreya looked up but Charan did not reply. He wore a very complicated expression. She thought it was probably because he became sad remembering Samantha. She felt as if she had overstepped. So she promptly apologized.
"I'm sorry… I shouldn't have asked. I was not trying to make you sad. I was just…" her voice trailed as she did not know how to continue. She was not being curious or carelessly poking at his sore spot. She just wanted to know the person who had once loved him.
When he came out of this trance, Charan saw that she had completely misunderstood his expression. But he did not explain either since he knew she would never really see how mind-blowingly amazing she was even if he said to her a million times. So he simply gave her a kiss on the corner of her forehead and crashed her back into his embrace and started talking.
"Samantha… she is actually straight opposite to you. She was quiet and reserved actually. Ours was an arranged marriage. There was really not much drama between us. It was very comfortable and pleasant. She was a primary school teacher." He said and paused.
"She must have been good with kids. No wonder Akira is such a good kid." Shreya said in between with a pleasing smile.
"She was. She would have liked you a lot." Charan said with a smile.
"How did she…??" Shreya asked without being able to finish the question.
But Charan understood what she was asking. "Cancer.." He simply said.
"Was it bad?? Did she suffer a lot??" She asked in a low voice.
"Not much. When we first diagnosed it was already too late."
Shreya did not reply. She just shifted and hugged him tightly. She knew nothing she ever says is ever going to make it better. Since she knew that she did not want to say a few callous words of comfort and make him pretend that her words have helped. Because she knew they wouldn't. Not in a million years.
Charan understood her intentions. So he said, "I am okay now. It took a while. But having Akira helped. She pulled me out without really knowing what she was doing."
And Shreya knew that better than anyone else, because Akira pulled her out too without knowing what she was doing. With these heavy thoughts running through her head, the exhaustion finally got to her. Her eyes dropped without her control. She did not have the energy to fight it.
She unconsciously snuggled more comfortably into him and drifted off the sleep.
Charan stared at her sleeping figure for quite a while. He did not know how she managed to wrap him around her tiny finger in such a short time but he was not complaining either.
"I am head over heels in love with you Shreya." He whispered against her ears very softly and lifted her into his arms.
She slightly stirred on her sleep but did not wake up. He carried her to her room and gently placed her on the bed. He made sure she was comfortable before walking out. Then he went to the couch and drifted off to sleep.
Next day, Charan woke up when he heard the doorbell. He opened his eyes groggily and made sense of his surroundings by then the bell rang again.
But before Charan could get up and make a move, Shreya stumbled out of her room. Her eyes were tightly shut as she reached the door. She opened the door and at last opened her eyes slightly to see who it was.
"Hiiiii…" a bubbly male voice screeched through. A small boy stood there with a parcel. Shreya reached out took the parcel, mumbled 'thanks' and shut the door on his face quite rudely.
The boy had long got used to this. He just chuckled and went on with his work. He knew the person here was not a morning person. So whenever she was already awake, he gets treated to a breakfast. But if he ended up waking her up like today, he gets the doors shut on his face. It was almost like she had a split personality or something.
At first he was so confused until he started noticing the pattern. They did not even know each other's name. He called her 'elder sis.' While she called him 'Bunny' since he had a bunny hoodie the first time they had breakfast together. They were not close but they still had a vague understanding of each other.
"Who was it??" Charan asked confused sitting up on the couch.
Shreya went to fridge and dumped to content in there and said, "Milk delivery."
She then walked towards him. She looked around and finally settled down on the couch. She laid beside Charan just leaving him enough place to sit. The couch was small so she had to curl herself to fit in. Charan saw this and was about to get up and give space but Shreya shifted and laid her head on his lap.
"Morning…" he said caressing over her head.
"Morning." She mumbled back opening her eyes.
"Sorry I slept half way yesterday."
"It's okay. You want to sleep some more now??" He asked seeing her struggling to keep her eyes open.
But he did not get any reply and when he looked down; he saw that she had already fallen asleep. Charan let her be and reached for him phone. He texted Akira.
Charan: GM Baby girl. How is my princess??
Akira saw the message but did not reply. Akira usually wakes up early for school and invariably it became a habit. So he knew she was sulking at him for sending her away this weekend. So he took a picture of Shreya and sent her.
Akira: "extremely angry emoji"
Akira: Don't gloat. I will have my turn and you are not going to like it.
Charan let out an amused chuckle seeing his daughter's revenge declaration.
But before he could reply, he heard the front door open and a young man walked in.
Charan was about to wake Shreya up but the person panicked and furiously shook his head and said in an urgent whisper, "No… no… no. Don't wake her up. She becomes a She-devil if someone wakes her up."
Charan frowned not understanding what was happening but still froze his hands midair.
"Hi I am Pritham. When she wakes up just ask her to call Rajesh ASAP. She will understand." Then he left quietly.
Once closing the door, he turned back and looked back with an odd expression.
As far as he knew, Shreya has a hard time falling asleep when there is someone else present in the house. But here she was sleeping on a person's lap. But he brushed it off and walked away making a mental note to ask Shreya about it later.
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