Choti Si Duniya - ArShi FF

119. A bond of love

This one is for sowjanya1309 on her demand for a chapter on Payal-khushi and arnav-aakash. Hope you like it ♥

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"Papa, look, I want to buy this one, it is so beautiful!" Piya excitedly pointed out to one of the colorful rakhis for the upcoming Raksha bandhan festival.

"Sure, baby. Buy whichever you like. Ok? And then we will go and buy a gift of your choice for you from your little brother." Aakash told his elder child while balancing 2.5-year-old palash in his arm. They didn't want to keep it a surprise given palash's young age.

Piya gleefully nodded and went onto select a couple more rakhis also for her cousin brothers Chiku and Pratham (Anjali's son).

Payal who was standing by her side was not really paying much attention as they stood in front of one of nicest rakhi shops in their neighborhood.

"Mamma, can we also buy a few rakhis for Aru and pari too? They will also need it na?" Piya asked her mother.

On any other day, Payal would have happily said yes, in fact, she herself would have suggested this before her daughter did. But today was different. So, she hesitantly replied, "I don't know piyu, they will want to buy of their choices, right?"

"But chiku was saying khushi maasi and Arnav chachu are busy and haven't been able to take them out for rakhi shopping yet." Piya provided her reasoning.

Payal looked at Akash for help. She did not wish to, rather would not buy any rakhis on Khushi's behalf today.

"Piyu, baby, your Arnav chachu will surely make some time for this shopping, ok? Let's get what you need and leave. We have to go to another shop too, right?" Aakash coaxed his princess mirroring payal's stance. Although they both had not spoken of this with each other yet, Aakash himself had a reason to agree with payal.

Piya frowned but she soon got involved in the colorful world of rakhis lying in front of her and forgot about why her parents behaved strangely today.

Of course, her parents wouldn't have told her that the reason for their abnormal behavior today was that both of them had some unresolved tension brewing between their own siblings for the past few days and were miffed at Khushi and Arnav for different reasons...

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Arnav was not happy with any of the work that was shown to him today and his immediate staff faced his wrath throughout the day for any small, nonexistent, microscopic errors too! ASR's temper was not really new to them but today seemed a little bit of an extreme. And hence, when they saw him shut his laptop's lid with force, pick up his shoulder bag, and leave for home, they all heaved a sigh of relief. Everyone knew, when ASR went home to his family, especially to Mrs. ASR, his anger would be dampened.

Sadly, unknown to them, ASR's lady love herself was in a bad mood today.

It so happened that for a few days Khushi had observed her jiji being unusually quiet around her. And after khushi asked many times, what her jiji told her had shocked her. Her jiji had accused her of taking all the decisions of their house by herself as if Payal was not important to consult!

Khushi who was absolutely shocked and upset hearing that, tried to clear her jiji's misunderstanding but when she didn't show any signs to listen to khushi, she too stopped trying.

And hence, both the former-Gupta sisters were not seeing eye to eye for last 3-4 days.

On the other hand, Arnav's bespectacled younger brother who wouldn't otherwise tire by calling him 'bhai' had not said a word to him since past week. And his silent treatment was getting on Arnav's nerves. He of course knew the reason for akash's such behavior as well.