Abhigya Short Stories

Mistress of His Heart : Part Twenty-Two

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"She is dragging sack full of mud through the house." Abhishek complains to Pragya.

Pragya looks up at him with a sigh and asks him with a smile, "Aren't you behaving like a naughty brother snitching on his sister?"

"She is bringing mud into the house." Abhishek softly complaints like a stubborn kid.

"She asked me, Abhishek. she loves pottery. It is for that." Pragya tells him.

Abhishek looks away, not liking it.

"It reminded me of you." Pragya tells him as she stood up and took his hand in hers.

"Me?" Abhishek asks confused.

"Disha wanted to do pottery professionally but her parents didn't allow. Just like how you wanted to be an engineer." Pragya gently tells him.

Abhishek nods with a sigh, feeling sorry for Disha.

"She will do it in the balcony. She will set her pottery wheel there. She won't dirty the house."

"It is okay." Abhishek replies. "Anyway the maid comes to clean the house." Abhishek tells her with a shrug.

Pragya smiles and hugs him. "You're a darling, Abhishek."

Abhishek shrugs feeling awkward.

"Disha wants to make some cute vessels for us to thank us for letting her stay here."

"Okay."

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"The TV is too loud." Abhishek irately tells Pragya.

Pragya keeps her hand on her forehead tired.

"How are you studying in that loud noise?" Abhishek asks her.

"It is not loud, Abhishek." Pragya tells him sighing.

"I can't read a word."

"Are you reading with your ears?" Pragya asks him.

Abhishek glares at her. "I can't concentrate." Abhishek tells her in a clipped tone.

"Then tell Disha to reduce the volume." Pragya tells him.

"Why can't you tell her?" Abhishek asks her frowning.

"Because I don't think the TV is loud."

Abhishek glares at her, pissed and fed up, Abhishek turns around to leave the room.

"We're having only one child, Abhishek." Pragya declares.

"What?" Abhishek turns to her in shock. "Why?"

"Because I can't deal with another pair of siblings." Pragya tells him cheekily.

"She is not my sister." Abhishek mutters irately realizing that she is teasing him.

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They were having dinner.

Abhishek was about to take the roti when Disha, not realizing that, took the roti.

Abhishek turns to glare at Pragya. Pragya tears her roti in half and gives it to him.

"Did you want that?" Disha asks seeing that.

"No." Abhishek replies as he glared down at his plate and ate.

Disha looks at Pragya and Pragya winks at her as she smiled.

Pragya sighs as she made a mental note to tell their cook to make more rotis from now on. Both of them had well for stomach.

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