Fates

Part 59- Of Nicknames And Planners

When Abhi left the room Prachi noticed how Riya's eyes seemed to follow him. Riya had zoned out and as Prachi was about to snap Riya out of her thoughts, Abhi's phone which was on the bed stand rang, and broke Riya out of her thoughts. Prachi picked up the phone only to see that her mom was calling, and answered the phone.

"Hello Pari, is Riya awake now? How is she? Can I talk to her?" Pragya said worriedly. Even though Prachi had told her that she would call her later on, Pragya couldn't resist the urge to know how Riya was now.

"Yes Mumma, Riya is awake now." Prachi said reassuringly, looking at Riya as she spoke causing Riya to look at her questionably. "And yes she is fine, here talk to her." Prachi said handing the phone to Riya.

"Hello, Auntie." Riya said smiling over the phone, causing Pragya to breathe a sigh of relief as she heard Riya's voice.

"How are you?" Pragya said her voice heavy with emotion.

"I'm perfectly fine." Riya said happily to put Pragya at ease.

"That- That's--good." Pragya said with a shaky voice with a teary smile as a few tears of relief fell from her eyes, and she couldn't understand why she was having such a reaction.

"Auntie please don't cry, I'm fine, plus I think Prachi has done enough crying for all of us." Riya said jokingly to lighten the mood, not knowing why she could tell that 'Anuradha auntie' was crying just by the tone of her voice.

"Mumma don't listen to her, I was never crying." Prachi said defending herself, leaning towards Riya's ear so that her mom could hear her talk.

"Oh my God, Auntie. Your daughter is a liar. She was so crying. I even have a wet patch on my shirt to prove it." Riya said jokingly, trying to move the phone away from Prachi as she tried to take it away from her.

"Mumma, there is no wet patch, Riya is the liar here, you can come see it for yourself if you don't believe me." Prachi said successfully getting the phone from Riya and putting it to her ear.

"Both of you are liars. I don't trust anyone of you." Pragya said jokingly, laughing out loud at their antics, both of them were acting like children.

Both Prachi and Riya laughed out loud too while smiling happily at hearing Pragya laugh.

"Okay, now, enough of fighting, Riya beta, you should rest now, and Pari you should come home now, it's too late to go to your job, plus you have to study for your test tomorrow." Pragya said smiling but still concerned because she didn't want Riya to tire herself out.

"Okay, I will be there in there in a bit, Mumma." Prachi said smiling.

"Okay, I will, Auntie." Riya said smiling.

"Good. Feel better Riya. Take care of yourself." Pragya said more at ease now that she had talked to Riya. And then the call was cut.

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"I didn't know that 'Pari' was your nickname." Riya said to Prachi after the call ended, with a teasing smile.

"Oh, hello don't make fun of my nickname. Or have you forgotten that your dad always calls you Princess." Prachi said raising an eyebrow, telling Riya to not start something that she couldn't win.

"No, I'm just saying that it's a good nickname." Riya said stopping her teasing, realizing that Prachi had much more teasing material than she did.

"Ooh, can I think of a nickname for you?" Riya asked like a child, eyes shining bright, and Prachi didn't have the heart to refuse. "How about... Pikachu!" Riya said smiling brightly, thinking for a bit.

"Eww chi, like the cartoon character? That's horrible." Prachi said making a disgusted face.

"No, no, you don't understand it's a good nickname for you because you're just like Pikachu, cute, lovable, short." Riya said causing Prachi to make a disapproving face at the short part.

"But you can also destroy anyone who messes with you in a matter of minutes. So you're cute but dangerous, and that's why you're Pikachu." Riya said smiling at her clever explanation.

"I still don't like it." Prachi said not on board with the nickname but gave a smile because she liked Riya's explanation. "Okay, I'm going to go now before you give me another weird nickname." Prachi said when saw that Riya was going to protest again.

"But it's-" Riya said only to be interrupted by Prachi.

"But nothing, I'm going to go now. And you go back to sleep so you can rest. Take care Riu." Prachi said hugging Riya and planting a kiss on her temple, before getting up from the chair. "And that's what you call a good nickname." Prachi said as she stood by Riya's bedroom door, exiting the room before Riya could say anything else, getting the last word.

"It will grow on you one day, Pikachu!" Riya yelled out to Prachi so that she could hear her, smiling brightly.

Prachi who was in the hallway, walking towards the stairs did hear Riya and gave a small smile, shaking her head at Riya's antics.

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Aryan was driving home after dropping off Shahana at work and was smiling brightly. He had seen Shahana walking to work alone and had offered to drop her off.

His and Shahana's date was tomorrow afternoon and he couldn't wait! During the car ride, Shahana had told him to just pick her up for the date at the college's entrance. He was curious to know why Shahana had asked him to do that but he didn't question her, knowing that she probably had a reason.

The reason that Aryan did not know was that Shahana didn't want any random people in the neighborhood to spot her and Aryan together and spread rumors about them. Like always Shahana wanted to know where this relationship was going before she announced it to the world.

After Aryan had dropped Shahana off at work, he had been lost in thought, sitting in his car, daydreaming about his and Shahana's date, not realizing how much time had passed.

When he finally snapped out of his thoughts he quickly made his way home, a smile ever present on his face.

But as Aryan parked his car in the driveway of the Mehra mansion and went inside what he didn't realize was that another car had followed behind. That car was none other than Priyanka's.

'So there is something definitely going on in between Aryan and that girl. Aryan wouldn't offer a car ride just to anyone. I just have to figure out what their relationship is. And then I will tell Rishi how that girl is two-timing him and then Rishi will leave her and be with me.' Priyanka thought to herself happily, sitting in her car and waiting a little while before going inside, to not look suspicious.

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