Varsha and Ira are walking in the mall each carrying their purse and luggage are being carried by Akshay who is tailing them. Each girl has bought two dresses of their choice and it made the luggage of one carry bag containing four dresses. They searched whole first floor but could not find shoes which felt matching so they walked toward escalator to go to the second floor of the mall."Well, isn"t it my lucky day? I am meeting a lot of people from the Patel family on the same day?" A surprised voice of some youth came from their back and they stopped to look.
Akshay was trailing behind the girl. So, when they turned back, Akshay is in front and both girls stood behind him facing the youth who just talked to them.
Akshay looked toward the youth while his eyes were observing the girls behind him. Mahat Pawar saw some cute looking girls when he and his father left from their meeting and he made an excuse to buy few things and separated from him. He could not believe that he will see the girl he got interested in so soon. Varsha is so cute and innocent and gives an aura of a natural beauty who needs to be loved and protected. Another girl beside her is also beautiful in her own way like a pampered, feisty princess from the way she is gazing at him.
Mahat Pawar smiled and said "Who is this lady who has a fire burning in her eyes? I have never heard of such a person in Patel family?"
Ira looked toward this idiot who is smiling while trying to be friendly and his gaze is making her disgusted. She looked arrogantly toward him and said: "Is your name too costly to tell that you are asking other people their name without introducing yourself?"
Mahat Pawar laughed hearing Ira and he started liking her fiery temper. Taming the hot-tempered girls is the thing which benefits his arrogance the most. He could not stop the thrill rising in his heart and he said arrogantly "I am Mahat Pawar. I am the only heir of Bappa Hotels."
"Oh, so you are the son of Mr. Pawar from Bappa Hotels. I have heard about you from my elder brother Arpit. Your sister is his girlfriend." Akshay sneered from the front.
Mahat suddenly felt exposed by this boy in front and for the first time he observed this boy and said while trying to calm himself "Oh, I have met with Mr. Praveen Patel. So, you are his second son. Why have you become a security guard for girls?"
Akshay looked at Mahat Pawar and sneered "I really can"t understand the purpose of a person of such great reputation as yourself to suddenly get involved with people like us. And why does it matter to you if I have become a security guard for the ladies of my family?"
"Young Prince of Bappa Hotel has an exceedingly high reputation in some particular areas. He does not like people who protect girls." Ira laughed and said from behind.
Mahat Pawar looked toward the fiery expression of Ira and is feeling amused. Many people saw the group talking not so quietly and some people even stopped observing them after listening about the parties involved. Varsha is looking toward this conceited person who is called the prince of Bappa Hotels and did not like him a bit. She also felt uncomfortable seeing the curious gazes around them.
Mahat Pawar looked toward Varsha and said while smiling "This lady must be the wife of Akash Patel. You are much more enchanting than I have seen in the photo. You might be able to know me well in the future as your beloved husband might be having me as a compet.i.tor."
The gaze and the words of Mahat Pawar, both made Varsha uncomfortable. His words contain a double meaning. Knowing him well in the future and his husband"s compet.i.tor both phrases denote his intention toward either business or herself. But the thing which made her anger rise is that this worst person dared to taunt her by using a phrase beloved husband. She has understood as this person is acquainted with the eldest uncle, he might have found out how the relationship of her and Akash is. Some people started scheming against them, this thought made her angry. She could be humble, loving and obedient toward her family members but this person in front is nothing to her.
Varsha looked toward Ira who is going to argue back and stopped her from her look and then looked toward Mahat Pawar calmly and said "Whoever you are has nothing to do with me. I don"t think we need to know each other. We are here to do the shopping, not to make acquaintances to some highly reputed person like you."
Mahat smiled thinking that he finally he made this cute girl talk and he moved a bit forward and said with a slight laugh "But it does not do any harm in making friends in the business world. I simply said "h.e.l.lo" out of goodwill as I already know a few Patel family members. Having friends like me will also help your husband. Although your family is growing in the restaurant business, I am also called the prince of the hotel business."
Varsha looked toward this smiling stupid who thinks he has trapped her in his words. He must be thinking that if she replied negatively to such a generous person, she might be called bad names by surrounding people who are watching them from a distance. He might think that she will play by his script, what an idiot?
Varsha sneered internally and shouted "You might be a prince or clown of so-called hotel business but I don"t care. Why don"t you leave us alone? We don"t want to be friends with high profile people like you. If you did not stop coming near us, I will call the police." And she pulled her phone from her bag.
Mahat Pawar got surprised and said in a hushed voice "Please stop overreacting. Okay, I will leave now. Do not need to make such a noise, we are in a public place." Suddenly his playful expression turned serious and he looked around at the people watching and finding himself in center of attention he raised his hand and said "Okay, calm down. If you do not like talking to me, I will go now."
Then Mahat Pawar turned around and walked toward the exit of the mall. He felt anger rising in his heart due to the unexpected public rebuke from a girl. He made a promise to himself that he will definitely retaliate for today"s insult which was done to him in public.
Ira looked at speechlessly at Varsha and then she shook her head and laughed. Akshay is also surprised seeing this side of his humble sister-in-law but he liked it. After this, the group wandered on the second floor and after one hour they are sitting and eating in a restaurant on the second floor of the shopping mall.
Ira said while eating a piece of spiced cottage cheese from one of the appetizers "Sister-in-law was too fierce. You just made that person run away so soon. We might have gotten a clown to entertain us for some time. He might be blabbering and trying to impress us. He will pay our bills and feel like he has attracted us. He will make a fool of himself and we can laugh about it."
Varsha looked speechlessly at this stupid girl and said seriously "No Ira, if we lead them on such type of people, they might turn into some maniac or psychopath later. I really am afraid of doing this especially these people with power because their arrogance has no bounds. If you talk to them they will think you are attracted to them. If you try to ignore them they think you are turning away because you are shy. If you try to fend them off, they think of you as an interesting challenge."
"Sister-in-law! But he ran away just after a single outburst from you. How can he run away so easily? How can such type of person accept defeat so easily?" Akshay asked curiously and then he broke a piece of bread and dipped in the mixed veg curry and put in his mouth and chewed while waiting for a response from Varsha.
Varsha smiled and said "These type of people are self-delusional people of low morality and keeping them as far as possible is the only solution. They can only be controlled by fear. They are not afraid of losing money. Losing the pride and so-called reputation which they have maintained by whatever deceitful and ruthless means. That is their greatest fear."
"Oh, that is why sister-in-law shouted those words so that many people may hear that and he could not afford to stay after such clear rejection because it will lower his pride if he tried to pester after this." Ira chirped understanding the point from the statement of Varsha.
Varsha also laughed and continued eating. Ira and Akshay also continued eating. After a few minutes, Ira looked curiously toward her sister-in-law and asked "Sister-in-law! I did not know you could be so understanding of nature of people. Where did you learn this?"
"I have been watching "Crime Patrol" from many years. This drama shows real-life cases of crime and how they were solved by people or police in each episode. Even now I watch it in my room. Even your brother does not get to watch anything else when I am watching it. Ha ha ha." Varsha laughed and said.
Varsha laughed thinking about how she proposed to Akash to let her watch the drama "Crime Patrol". He did not agree to let her watch first due to its genre. She had to act pitiful for many days when Akash worked in the room or watched TV. Varsha simply sat on one side and watched whatever he watched and maintained a bored and sometimes even sad expression. Even if she watched something interesting, she did not react. Finally, Akash allowed her one hour of time to watch "Crime Patrol" in the night and he also watches sometimes with her. After her significant progress of sleeping on the same bed, this was her other progress with Akash. Her laugh contained both mirths from current event and reminiscence from how she convinced Akash.
Akshay looked at Varsha who is laughing and then the speechless Ira and could not help saying "Sister-in-law is great." Ira also laughed thinking that sister-in-law has made another fan in the family.