Shades of Life

His first move

Next day I woke up and did yoga. As always I don’t have a hangover, just a bit of body ache and that yoga helped with it. I went to kitchen to make myself some orange juice. I don’t drink tea or coffee, I do like coffee but I just don’t drink it much often.

I thought of waking up Richa but we don’t have work and if she had any personal work, she would have told me yesterday. I made a glass for her too. I don’t know if it will help with her hangover or not but just in case. I sat on sofa, switching on TV to watch some series preferably Big Bang Theory.

“Ouch” I heard a groan and turned to see a disheveled Richa coming out of the guest room with her fingers lost in her nest of hairs. She looked so tired and horribly.

I giggled looking at her state.

 “You look horrible” I commented giggling. She came and hopped on the sofa beside me.

“Thank you for your kind words but can you keep your voice down” she whispered closing her eyes.

“There is a new tooth brush in the guest room washroom, go brush. I made some orange juice” I told her.

She hummed and placed her head on my lap and dosed off.

I looked at her and chuckled to myself. Yesterday did strengthen our friendship. I ran my fingers through her hairs, she sighed in peace. She can’t handle her drinks I guess, even Mona can’t. I had to take care of her just like this.

After an hour she woke up feeling much better. I gave her a tablet for headache and orange juice. I prepared some light breakfast. After having breakfast, she left for her place. She said that she had to go out with her parents.

After she left I spent the rest of the afternoon launched on my sofa watching a movie ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. By the end of that movie, I was crying thinking that I would never find a guy who would love me like the hero does in the movie. Sighing at my pathetic self, I called mom and Mona. After talking to both of them for an hour each, I started cleaning my closet. It was a dump.

I heard the door bell and went to open it.

As soon as I did, Varun’s face came into my view. He stood there wearing casual blue shirt and black jeans.

“Hi” He said looking at me casually.

I clenched my eyebrows together looking at him with a big question mark on my face.

What is he doing here?

“Why are you here?” I asked him as my inner self told me to greet him as he is still my boss but my self-respect butted in and stopped me.

“Ah, you said you would tag along to get dog stuffs for Archie” He said meekly rubbing his nape. I still can’t believe THE Mr. Arrogant Mehta is embarrassed in front of me. I have heard him shaming some great business for their proposals and also so many businessmen are scared to talk to him as he is so intelligent in this business world. He knows everything there is to know, he had a great education and has his father for wise advices.

“Oh, I don’t want to be tagged as gold-digger or a slut you know. You should take Aakash or Aarav, at least they won’t try to come on to you for your looks and money” my words dripped with sarcasm.

He gulped and looked ashamed.

“I know you are hurt by my words but my intensions were never to hurt you. I was confused and frustrated and I took it out on you. I’m really sorry” He said sincerely holding my eye contact. I felt so intimidated by his stare that I lower my eyes.

“Come in, I’ll change and for the record, I’m doing this for Archie and not you” I said pointing my index finger at him.

He nodded quickly and opened the door wider for him to enter.

“You can take a seat and I’ll be back in few minutes” I said pointing towards the sofa. Without waiting for his reply, I walked to my room to get ready. I heard a faint ‘Okay’.

I wore my blue jeans and pink top, which was simple yet cute. I came out of my room to see him in the balcony looking at the view with his arms crossed.

His back pose looked hot, even though I’m mad at him I still could admire his physique.

I cleared my throat to gain his attention but he didn’t move an inch. He looked like he was in deep thoughts. I walked behind him and called his name. If it was Aarav or anyone from the team, I would have stood beside them and asked what they were thinking or made some kind of small talk. Since, it is him I didn’t want to. I just want to get this over with. I actually wanted to play with Archie but I don’t want to ask him.

Even though he apologized to me, I still am not happy with him. I don’t know why.

“Varun” I called him.

He got startled and turned around. He looked at me.

“Let’s go” I said pointing towards the door.

He nodded and followed me.

We got into the elevator silently. I was okay with the silence but I could see him fidget.

We got out of the elevator in the parking lot.

“Stay here, I’ll get my car” He said walking towards his car. I nodded.

Isn’t he a billionaire? Doesn’t he have a driver?

After few minutes, he came with his black BMW car. Doesn’t he have an Audi?

I’m a sucker for expensive cars and especially black ones.

I gapped at the car looking at it like a fool. I guess he saw my expression because he had that amused smile on his face. I got inside the passenger seat. He drove towards the nearest pet store. During the car ride I kept making notes of what all we have to buy. Then in the pet store I will cross check with him, I don’t know what all he had at home right now.

We went to that pet store, it was nice and fancy. We got in and I showed him the list. He told me what all he had and we brought other things. I helped him select, for a while I forgot that I was mad at him. We just were so involved in buying what’s best for Archie that we didn’t think about our feud.

Once we came out of the store, we got inside his car. I thought we would go back home but his next words shocked me.

“Do you want to get some coffee?”