Rikara One Shot Story Collections I

Someone To Watch Over Me

"No!"

Gauri starts to step on the branch and she hears the crack and her foot losing its base. Before she could even yelp in fear, Omkara had wrapped his hand around her waist and lifts her up.

Pinky who had screamed in fear and had closed her eyes seeing the branch break, looks up fearfully knowing full well that Om would have saved Gauri like usual. She sees Om carefully holding Gauri and making her sit on a strong branch.

"I told you not to step on that. then why did you do it?" Omkara asks her furiously as he hung on to a branch and balanced himself.

"I wanted to jump to that tree." Gauri meekly tells him as she pointed to the nearby tree.

"The branches aren't strong there."

"All those boys jump from one tree to other like monkeys." Gauri argues.

"Are you a monkey?"

"You are screaming at me." Gauri tells him sadly.

"It is time that I should start whacking you instead."

"Om, bring her down." Pinky calls out from down.

Omkara nods at her, and tells Gauri, "Let's go down."

Omkara starts climbing down and Gauri follows him down.

"Mama will scream at me." Gauri whispers to him.

"Good." Omkara replies.

"She looks very angry."

"She should be."

"I'll not talk to you." Gauri tells him.

"Thank you." Omkara replies.

Gauri turns to glare at him and then she kicks him on his shoulder lightly.

Omkara irately looks at her knowing that she had no intentions to hurt him.

"GAURI!" Pinky furiously screams seeing her kick him.

Gauri quickly looks away as she climbed down noticing Omkara had reached down. She jumps down the tree and notices her mother pick up the fallen branch and break off a small stick from it. Gauri hurries to hide behind Omkara.

"Come here!" Pinky says furiously as she walked to Gauri.

Omkara quickly stands in front of Gauri, and tells Pinky, "I scolded her already."

"You are the one who is spoiling her, Om!" Pinky furiously tells him.

"Don't scream at him." Gauri furiously tells her mother, peeking from behind Omkara.

"Keep quiet, Gauri." Omkara tells her.

"She is shouting at you."

Omkara turns to her and tells her in a stern tone, "I have told you a thousand times not to raise your voice at your mother."

"But she is shouting at you!" Gauri furiously replies.

"Because of you!" Pinky tells her angrily.

"Mama, please... I am talking to her, right?" Omkara asks her in a calming tone.

"You're spoiling her, Om." Pinky tells him in a fed up tone and walks off.

"What kind of behavior is this, Gauri?" Omkara turns to Gauri after Pinky had left.

"She was screaming at you and I was trying to protect you then also you are scolding me!" Gauri tells him frowning.

"You don't have to protect me, especially from Mama." Omkara tells her.