Sweet Revenge

4. Amour

"Bolo,now I even have to make tea for myself!" Baa cursed, swinging on her seat.

"Anupama not only has started to fly herself, but she is also imparting her attitude to Kinjal! Both the maharani went on a vacation and I have to work!" She huffed then, taking a sip of her tea.

Nandini and Samar had gone for some performance in Jaipur, and her husband and bhailo had tagged along with that GK to some place in Rishikesh. It was all due to that Anuj!

"Atleast, he could not tell Anupama what he wanted to!" Baa shook her head then, and raised her eyes to look at the main door, only to see Toshu step in with his bags in tow.

Seeing her grandson's crestfallen face, Leela roused from her swing and met him halfway.

"What happened?" She asked patting his shoulder, and he grimaced.

"Kinjal's mom sacked mefrom the job, citing that my work was not up to the standards of dave excellency!"

Before Leela could react,it was vanraj who exploded as he overheard his son.

"How dare she do this to my son!" He roared, but ignoring him, all Toshu did was dash towards his room. It's been 3 days since he was dismissed and none of the companies he had went to interview for, took him.

These were the lot of em,he had shunned drunk on his mother-in-law's power and now they wanted none of him.

~*~*~*~*~*~

That evening, while Anuj was chatting with a random friend, Kinjal's message popped up and curious, he opened it to see that she had sent him pictures. His eyes widened before softening, as an equally soft smile stretched on his lips. There she was, posing in front of statue of liberty; shaking a leg with some dancer on the street and in the next one, Anuj laughed then- she and Kinjal were eating ice cream, and her nose was smeared with cream.

"So adorable!" Anuj continued to chuckle as he went on to look at another picture. She was in the meeting room then, in conversation with others. Kinjal had clicked this one from outside, he was sure.

Anuj smiled. He had been feeling absolutely sluggish today but seeing her, had lifted his mood altogether.

"If only I could hear her too!" Anuj mused and then shook his head to shrug the thought away. However he suddenly paused. He could hear her. She was his friend, business partner, his soon-to-be-w—

"Just hold on!" Anuj shouted abruptly screech halting his thoughts, "Jyada bold banne ke chakkar main kahin knockout na ho jaun".

Friend. Business partner. I can call. No issues

"I can call!" Grinning, he dialed her number but when it was time to press the icon, he hesitated. What should he say? What if she is busy? What if he makes it awkward? They had barely patched up. Just because she had forgiven him, didn't necessarily mean his 15 days of terrible behavior was water under the bridge.

"Oh God!!" Anuj groaned frustrated and super confused. Conviction or consequence?

While he was reeling between his heart and his head, his phone came alive and without taking note of the caller id, he picked the call.

"Hello?"

"Anuj?"

"A-Anu?!" Anuj stammered ashe heard the familiar voice, his face bright as a beam.

"Haan main! Why are so surprised? Are you busy? Main baad main—

"No!" Anuj shouted suddenly, shaking his head in negative, and then realized that he had overreacted in his excitement."I mean, I am free.As a fact, I took an off today so...we can talk if you want to".