Beyond the Beats

Chapter 109. Our Empress

⚠️ Very long chapter ahead ⚠️

"Axel, don't you value your life?" I threatened.

He ignored me and kept clicking modelling poses with the trophies.

"You said you were here to cheer for me, but you didn't even come to see my face-off with Tera," I accused and threw a shoe at him.

He dodged it and sat on a suitcase. "Small Bean, I will take one trophy with me. You owe it to me."

I widened my eyes. "Don't you even dare. Yes, your advice helped me a lot, but I am still mad at you. You were clubbing instead of being there for me."

He rolled his eyes. "I already knew you were going to win, so I was celebrating beforehand. It is your fault that you took so long to finish your battles."

"Axel bhaiyya, you are sitting on my luggage," Ina said, wincing at the dent his butt had made on her suitcase.

He made a horrified face. "Sorry, kid, I thought it was Small Bean's bag."

He spotted my suitcase and sat down on it. I told him to leave and be with the guys; he was just disturbing all of us, jumping from one corner to another, criticising everything in our bags.

"Are you girls done?" Varun asked us after knocking on our door.

"Foreigner bhaiyya is being a pain in the ass," Richa mumbled, earning a glare from the Titan.

Ovi was the only one who wasn't affected by his presence as she was experienced with having two youngers brothers of same personality like Axel's.

"Ovi is my favourite," Axel announced. "She is the only one who hasn't scolded me. I will give her a big treat for her kindness towards me."

Ovi smiled at him. "No need, bhaiyya. I am used to it."

Axel wiped his invisible tears, and suddenly, we heard a loud crack. Axel's body moved downwards by a few inches, and he quickly jumped up and hid behind Varun.

"Axel, you jerk! You broke my suitcase!" I yelled at him.

He shot me an apologetic look. "I will buy you a new one," he said.

"This was a new one!" I glared at him. "Get out this instant, or I will break you in the same way."

Varun adviced Axel to leave, and Axel also ran off when he saw me turning red with rage. The girls looked at me worriedly because my suitcase's top was damaged for good.

"Di, why don't we buy a new bag asap? We got our flight to catch," Richa said.

"We will need two bags," I said.

"No, Di, your stuff isn't that much. Only one bag will be enough."

I shook my head. "No, I need two bags because I am going to stuff Axel's body in one of them."

The girls burst out laughing. They started discussing how many times Axel would need to be folded because of his height. While I was trying to judge if I could stuff my things in the remaining bags to save money, we heard a knock on the door.

"TJ bhaiyya is here," Ina announced.

Behind him, Akshay and Shlok also arrived. They checked my luggage and started laughing.

"Bhoomi, this a sign from the universe," Shlok said dreamily.

"Sign of what?" I asked him.

"For you to stay here only," he replied. "Don't come back with us. It will be really peaceful without you."