|03 Mischievous|

... "Inside all of us there is a flower waiting for the right time."...

^^^-Madalina Coman^^^

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 After spending some time with the old man, Aratrika decided to go to her Home. But suddenly her phone pinged with a notification sound and before even taking a glance, she already knew from whom the message it could be.

 [Aru, where are you? Send me the location, I will send the driver to fetch you.]

She quickly replied to the message while attaching her live location in the text message, and just under 10 minutes she heard the sound of a car honk. She bid farewell to the old man, and also gave a small nod to Reyansh who was paying for the bouquet, out of courtesy.

She quickly ran outside the shop and quickly smashed her palm on her forehead, seeing a BMW i7 waiting for her.

Suddenly, she heard someone calling her name, and she stopped in the middle of opening the car's door.

“Miss Aratrika, wait, you forgot your Bouquet of Lavender.”

She heard Reyansh's loud voice, and saw that people around there were all looking at them. All thanks to the BMW and Reyansh's loud shouts.

She quickly took the bouquet from Reyansh's hand and opened the door to hide herself inside the car.

Reyansh keep standing on his place. His all focus was on his hand. He was still lost at the moment where his hand slightly brushed against Aratrika's hand when she took the bouquet from his hand.

A small smile spread on his face while watching the disappearing BMW from his sight.

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Inside the car, Aratrika was silently watching the view. No doubt, the street of Udaipur are really splendid. The roads were surrounded by beautiful Jheel from one side and from another side there were big beautiful buildings, restaurants, and so on.

Soon the car was stopped outside the big entrance gate. From there, she saw her home, the home which was not her from blood, but the people living there were more important than a blood relation, the Rathore Haveli.

The Haveli was surrounded by a vast garden. There were a lot of flowers blooming in the garden, and all were Aratrika's favorite.

The workers working in the garden and walking around the Haveli, all greeted Aratrika when they saw her walking inside the Haveli.

“Khamma Ghani Sa” said one of the servant, Ramu Kaka.

“Ghani Ghani Khamma Sa”  Aratrika stared Ramu Kaka, and after staying in the Haveli all this time with Aratrika, he almost understands all her sign language.

“Madam and others are inside the main hall.”

Aratrika just simply nodded her head before walking towards the main hall area, and there she saw everyone were sitting and drinking tea while discussing something serious.

Suddenly, someone jumped in front of her from behind while blasting the party popper and shouting -

“Congratulations on your dazzling performance, Aru Baby!”

The person was none other than Vagmi Rathore, the Head of Rathore family and mother like figure for Aratrika.

“You almost scared her, mother” said Eklavya Rathore, the youngest son of Vagmi Rathore.

“She was waiting eagerly just to scare her dear princess like this.” said Rishabh Rathore, second-youngest son Vagmi Rathore.

“So Aru did you like your new Car?” and the moment Aratrika heard Saraansh Rathore, the eldest among all the sons of vagmi Rathore, her nostrils flared up in anger.

She quickly moved towards Saraansh and angrily kept her hands on the both side of her hips.

“I told you not to buy me any expensive car!”

“But you are our only princess, and you deserve the best.” he stated nonchalantly.

“But it's a waste of money.”

“I earn enough to spend blindly.”

“You do, but I don't.”

Hearing this from Aratrika's sign language, Saraansh pouts slightly.

“What a cruel little sister I have. She doesn't even let me spoil her happily.” He mumbled grumpily and hearing her brother's complaining tone, she gave up and accepted his gift.

Everyone laughs at the outcome. It always comes out this way whenever Saraansh or any other Rathore siblings gives her expensive gifts, even after Aratrika warns them to not gift her anything expensive.

Everyone loves to spoil the little princess, it's just the little princess never cooperates with them in spoiling herself.

“Aru, first go and freshen up. There is something I would like to discuss with you.” Vagmi said with her little serious voice.

Aratrika nodded her head and quickly went towards her room.

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Reyansh drove his car inside the parking area and after parking the car among all of his car collection, he moved towards the Rajvansh Haveli.

His all the family members were still in the function. So he decided to have some rest, because once everyone comes back from the function, he knew that there will be a list of marriage proposals for him.  After all, so many elders saw his dashing handsome face and success today in the function. So how can he escape from all those hungry wolf's eyes.

He walked inside his room and quickly played some musics.

Others might only know about his professional personality, but those in his family are all aware how mischievous he tends to be with his family members and friends whenever he is in his sunshine goofy mood.

He started to swayed his body with the rhythm of music and also started humming the song while taking his shirt off.

When he opened his wardrobe, his eyes went towards the hidden shelf. It has been so long that he have touched that shelf.

A small smile formed on his face when he saw the photoframe stored in the hidden shelf. It was the last day photograph of their Senior High school day.

“Those Golden happy moments of the life.” he mumbled slowly while watching the photograph. His eyes were stuck on one figure.

Be it the Reyansh in the photograph or the Reyansh who was looking at the photograph, both of their eyes were stuck on only one figure, and it was none other than Aratrika.

In the photograph, he was standing behind her with his eyes all set on her from behind, and she was standing with a small smile on her face.

Suddenly, he remembered how much she has changed over these past 10 years. It would be a lie if he wasn't disturbed with their today's encounter. It was both unexpected and shocking to see her situation. He wonders what has happened to her over these past 10 years. She disappeared after their High school day and never in his dream he ever thought that she would b teaching in his school.

He was still in his deep thoughts when he heard noises coming from downstairs, and he knew everyone is back.

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“aao Janab sahab apka hi intezaar tha.” [Com'on son, we all were waiting for you only.] His mother's voice resonated in the whole area.

“Nahi ye janab sahab vapis bhaag raha hai apne kaksh me.” [No, this son is running back to his room.] Reyansh said in frustration.

But his other cousins and sibling run towards him and quickly dragged him like a raged doll on the couch.

“toh bata tujhe koi ladki pasand ayi aaj” [Did you liked any girl in the function?]

“Maaaa...” Reyansh closed his eyes in frustration and slumped back on the couch.

"acha acha thik hai. Nahi karenge pareshaan pheley hi bohot bhudho ka tera sasur ban ne ka offer aa liya hoga tujhe pehley hi" [Already many old men must have offered themselves to be your father-in-law]

Everyone present there laughed after hearing Vishakha.

"But beta, although we are not trying to push you directly on the mandap still, you are not getting younger anymore." his mother said softly.

Reyansh nodded his head in understanding. Although, he is lucky enough that his family is not forcing him like a mad dog for tieing knots with any woman of their likes. Still, he himself is aware about their growing worries regarding his marriage and appreciate their concerns which they always try to conceal in front of him. There is always a perfect age for everything. If it's not done in the correct time period, then any type of situation can be troublesome.

But his heart was not ready for it.

"Oh, Grandma, I almost forgot about your flowers." He quickly ran to bring the bouquet for his lovely Grandma.

Seeing the bouquet of flowers, his Grandma smiled happily.

She signaled Reyansh to sit beside her and started to ask in her hand sign, "Who helped you in selecting the flowers?"

"Wow! How did you guess that it's not me who has put the efforts in selecting the flowers?" He said with a fake offending look.

"I know my grandson better than anyone. You clearly have no knowledge regarding flowers, but this bouquet is full of unique and beautiful meaning." 

Reyansh chuckled and also started to talk to his Grandma in sign language. "Indeed, someone as beautiful as you helped me."

His all family members eyes pricked up seeing this, and they also joined the conversation, trying to pry as much information they could from him.

Reyansh smirked mischievously and said in sign language "I'm not letting any tea slip away from my hands." 

Everyone's eyes widen, and they started to shout on their Eldest son, who turns out to be a mischievous son too.

His Grandma chuckled and shake her head helplessly. Her eyes fall on the Lavender flowers and some other one, but what caught her eyes were the notes sticking on them, explaining the message flower bouquet was conveying together.

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