Family is Everything [COMPLETED]

Chapter 6

...Once dinner was over the youngsters were all settled on the floor in the courtyard which was set out nicely with soft padded mats and lots of cushions; Riddhima and Muskaan sat either side of Anji with Gappu, Jiggy, Suvarna, Aman and Nikita while opposite them sat Atul and Armaan with Tamana, Naina, Khush and Ronit, and there was a lot of noise.

"NO WAY...that was not part of my planning...I'm just not having it..." Anji yelled.

Atul shrugged; "I'm sorry you have no choice..."

Riddhima dropped her face into her hands letting out a loud groan as she was completely fed up of this; it had been going on for over an hour and no one seemed to be coming to a conclusion. She suddenly jumped up...

"AAARRRGGHHHH!" she screamed at the top of her lungs; "...ENOUGH!!!"

There was complete silence apart from Riddhima's voice echoing around the high ceiling and suddenly Sid came rushing into the hall with a worried expression.

"What happened??" he asked full of concern.

"Nothing jaan..." Tamana said going over to him; "...don't worry..."

"What's all the noise about?" he asked looking at Riddhima.

"Bhai...Anji had everything sorted and it was all perfect and now with this new planner everything has been ruined..." Riddhima told him angrily.

"But Ridzi Atul's ideas are quite good as well..." Naina said.

"But that's just the problem...now we can't decide what to do...they are all good ideas but we can't use all of them..." Jiggy explained.

Suvarna nodded in agreement; "Yeah it just makes everything complicated..."

Riddhima turned back to Sid; "Please bhai do something...one planner is enough..."

"Ridzi..." he placed his hand on her shoulder; "...Abhi has sent him...there's nothing much I can do..."

Armaan looked over at Riddhima; seeing her sulking and very close to tears his heart sunk and he felt terrible for her. He stood up and was about to say something but he was disturbed as Sid moved Riddhima away from the crowd for a moment with a hand over her shoulder; within several moments they joined the crowd.

"Okay listen up everyone...we've come to a conclusion...I'm going to go through both lists and we'll take a vote on each idea...majority wins...and if it's a tie...Riddhima takes the last call...sounds okay?" he asked.

"That's perfect..." Aman said looking over at Armaan and Atul; "...what do you guys say?"

Atul nodded; "I can live with that..."

"That's fine with me..." Anji said.

"Okay then...let me see the planning..." Sid said.

Sid skimmed through the paper work and Riddhima chose all the decoration ideas between both planning's and then he ran through the entertainment planning which everyone voted for. It was quite late when they had finally come to a conclusion, Atul and Anji heaved a sigh of relief, they said goodnight to everyone before heading to bed; leaving the hall together they both agreed on waking early the next morning to begin their work.

The rest of the gang continued chatting late into the night about having fun for the next couple of days; Armaan soon made a quick escape as he hated the fact of being ignored by Riddhima; he needed to talk to her soon...

...Once again Nikita found it impossible to sleep; she tossed and turned in her bed as her mind continued to work over time until she finally sat up in bed.