Abhigya Short Stories

Mistress of His Heart : Part Twenty-One

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Noticing, Pragya looking at them, Abhishek extricates himself from the girl.

"Hi." The girl says with a smile as she walked to Pragya.

"Hi." Pragya replies a little confused as she looked at Abhishek.

"This is Disha, she is the daughter of a friend of my father." Abhishek introduces awkwardly.

"Oh. Hello." Pragya politely smiles though she couldn't make out why the hell Abhishek was awkward.

"I am sorry, I didn't get your name." Disha tells Pragya politely.

"Pragya Arora." Pragya politely tells her.

"Nice to meet you, Pragya." Disha tells her smiling.

"Pragya Abhishek Prem Mehra." Abhishek corrects frowning possessively at Pragya.

Pragya and Disha turns to look at Abhishek. embarrassed, Pragya tells Disha. "Just getting used to the new name."

"I understand. So used to one name for decades, will take time to get familiar with the new name. I would never change my name after marriage." Disha tells her.

Pragya politely nods.

"How come you are here, Disha?" Abhishek politely asks her.

"Just to see you guys." Disha says shrugging.

"Oh, I actually have some meetings. I need to leave in a bit." Abhishek tells her.

Pragya frowns in confusion, she didn't know he was supposed to go out.

"That's okay. you carry on. I'll spend time with Pragya." Disha tells him smiling.

Abhishek's eyes widen in shock while Pragya looked at Disha and Abhishek in confusion.

"Erm... you guys don't know each other." Abhishek points out uncomfortably.

"I'll get to know her. you go, Abhishek. I'll be fine." Disha tells him smiling brightly at him.

Abhishek looks at Pragya for help but Pragya who had no clue what was happening, looked at him confused. In the end, Abhishek just goes to their bedroom.

Pragya and Disha watched as Abhishek walked to the bedroom. Once the door closed, they both turned to look at each other.

"Erm... please sit." Pragya politely says, having no idea how she was going to entertain this guest.

Disha sits down and says awkwardly. "He is so uncomfortable."

Pragya was surprised that Disha noticed Abhishek's discomfort. Didn't she notice hers?

"Are you also uncomfortable?" Disha asks her hesitantly. "I hope you don't feel awkward with me."

"Why should I feel awkward with you?" Pragya asks her confused.

"You don't know." Disha whispers in shock.

"Know what?" Pragya asks confused.

"Erm... our parents had plans to get us married." Disha hesitantly tells her.

"Oh." Pragya whispers finally understanding why Abhishek was awkward. Why didn't he ever mention Disha to her?

"It was what they wanted." Disha quickly tells her.

"You didn't want?" Pragya asks her softly.

"Who in their right mind would want to marry an emotionally dead man?" Disha asks her in shock. Then realize just exactly who she had asked that, she turns pale and says, "Sorry... sorry... I didn't mean it like that... you know, how he is."