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Pragya was getting ready to go for her work, for once she was happy that she was not running late and can have her breakfast. "PRAGYA!!" she heard her father screaming for her. "Coming." she replied back picking her things and walking out of her room.
"Good morning, Papa." Pragya cheerfully wished her father as she kissed him. "Good morning, beta." Malik wishes her back. "Pragya, this is Abhishek Prem Mehra's photo. Purab mailed today, if you like him then we can proceed further." Malik told her turning the monitor towards her. Pragya started feeling nervous, last week she had told her parents that she was ready for marriage and Abhishek Prem Mehra, her brother's boss and best friend, was the first proposal for her. Her brother had arranged it. She averted her gaze to the monitor and her breath caught in her throat. The man on the photo was handsome to say the least, but it was not his handsome looks or well toned body that attracted her to him but his innocent eyes and the devilish grin on his face, which promised that life with him would be a roller coaster ride that you will never grow tired of, he was a man to be reckoned with, she really didn't understand what that praise meant, long back she had read a line in a book where the hero said something like that about the heroine "a woman to be reckoned with." she never understood what he had meant by that but she definitely understood that she could say the same for Abhishek Prem Mehra. "So what do you think?" she heard her father, turning to look at her father she noticed that her mother had also joined them, and they were looking at her expectantly. She wanted to say that she liked him but was too shy "I don't know, you both decide. I am running late. Bye." Pragya quickly replied and ran out without having her breakfast.
Pragya reached the venue fifteen minutes earlier. She worked in an event management company, and she was in charge of Mr. Kapoor's daughter's reception. It was one of the biggest events she had coordinated and she had slogged for it over the last four months. Now today the never ending functions at Mr. Kapoor's was coming to an end, and thankfully since the bride and the groom have to attend another function on the same day, the reception was held in the afternoon instead of night. Pragya put her full energy into the job at hand so everything went on perfectly till the end. "Hey Pragya." Disha called out cheerfully. "Hey Disha! Stage all set?" Pragya asks her "Yes, but why don't you just have a last look?" "Sure." Pragya replies and was about to walk off when Disha stops her "After today's function we all have been planning on going for a movie. We surely need the break. You interested?" "Great! Count me in." Pragya replies with a smile, and walks towards the stage to see the arrangement.
Much later, Pragya was receiving the guests also cross checking it with the guest list provided to them, when she heard a manly voice say "Abhishek Prem Mehra." Shocked Pragya looks up and sees the man whose photo she had seen the very morning, and the only thought that was going through her mind was this man is not photogenic, that photo didn't do even half justice to him just looking at him made her feel that she was in heaven and there really are angels. As she gaped at him he gives her a curious look and looks down at the list she was holding and asks "Is there a problem?" Pragya looks at him, and sees his gaze returning to her from her list and lingers there, "Well?" he asks. She realizes that he didn't recognize her, maybe Purab has still not showed him her photo, aah interesting, now she can know very well what type of a man he is, as he needn't be on his best behavior in front of her as she was just a worker here. Very interesting. "Do you want me to check the list for you?" he asks with a devilish grin. Recovering quickly she looks down at the list and finds his name right on the first page. "No problem. Welcome sir." Pragya says graciously and bends down to tick his name "Thanx sweetheart." Abhi says with the same devilish grin and saunters in while Pragya fumed at his back. She was not going to marry him she will never marry a man who goes calling unknown girls sweetheart.
Even though Pragya decided not to marry Mr. Abhisek-the-flirty-Mehra, she couldn't help spying on him. He had style and attitude, he rarely talked to anyone just silently listened to people talk to him, nodding in between just to show that he is not sleeping because no one could tell whether he was sleeping or not with him wearing his sunglasses all the time. She remembers her brother saying that Abhi didn't talk much, and now she could see that. "Hi babes! Nice arrangements." one man told her with a flirty smile. Pragya loved her job a lot but this is one thing she hated the most in her work, men trying to flirt with her, and she could never be rude to them because of her job and always had to charmingly talk back towards them. "Thank you." Pragya replies back with a polite smile. "I'm Nikhil." "I'm Pragya Arora." She replies as she shook his hand, and tried her best to extricate her hand from his clutch. "How about dinner tonight?" he asks her squeezing her hand. "Sorry, some other time maybe? I have a movie date with my girlfriend." Pragya replies. "Girlfriend?" he asks shocked. "Yeah. She is over there" Pragya replies and then turns to act as if she is looking for someone when she bumped into someone. "Sorry." Pragya quickly says and looks up to see Abhishek Prem Mehra standing there with a grin on his face. "It's okay, I just came over to talk to Nikhil but he seems to be in a hurry." Abhi says pointing towards Nikhil who was running in the opposite direction. Pragya's heart started slamming against her chest wondering whether Abhi heard her talk with Nikhil, she didn't want to marry this man but she didn't want him to think that she was interested in girls. "I am not a lesbian." Pragya says quickly. Abhi was about to turn away when her voice hit him and he turns back to look at her with that devilish grin back on his face, "I already guessed that, sweety." Pragya starts fuming again, how dare he go call girls sweety?
Pragya and Disha were walking together as they went through catering bill as they turned the corner they bumped into someone, Pragya looks up and was shocked to find Abhishek Prem Mehra right in front of her. "Sorry." Abhi says with a smile "Looks like we keep bumping into each other, if I didn't know better I would think you are following me." Pragya glares at him, then remembering that she should be treating him nicely, fakes a laugh. "What are you doing here?" Disha asks him with a polite smile. Turning towards Disha, Abhi starts smiling "I seem to be lost, maybe you could help me." "Sure. Third door is the hall." Disha tells him. "Thanx." Abhi says and walks off. While Disha started going through her bill Pragya turns back to look at Abhi who was standing a little away from them, Pragya starts fuming, for once he had taken off his sunglasses and he was checking out Disha from top to bottom then bottom to top and then top to bottom then his eyes were on her, and as she tried to hide her glare he cheekily grinned at her and walked off.
Pragya had made up her mind that how much ever attractive she finds Abhishek Prem Mehra she will never marry him, that girl ogling Abhishek Prem Mehra. As she furiously shifted the gifts on the table and stopped in shock No this can't be. She hesitantly felt her back and cursed in her mind, first her stupid shoe was killing her feet now her stupid bra. She started walking towards the restroom praying to God that the hook got unhooked and not break. As she hurried as fast as her evil shoe could make her walk towards the restroom when suddenly Mr. Kapoor came right in front of her stopping her, "Ms. Arora, I have been looking for you, I need you to.." Pragya's face went pale as she realized that he had some work for her and he would expect her to do it right away, and then how was she going to adjust her bra? Before he could say anything further Abhishek Prem Mehra appeared there out of the blue "Mr. Kapoor, I'm just floored with all these arrangements." "Thank you, Mr. Mehra." Mr. Kapoor turns to Abhi with a huge smile at the compliment from the great Abhishek Prem Mehra, the man of few words. Abhi turns to look at Pragya and smiles "Sweetheart if you don't mind, will you please excuse us?" For the first time, Pragya didn't mind him calling her sweetheart, he had saved her. "Sure sir." saying that she hurried away before Mr. Kapoor could stop her.
Pragya walked back in after hooking her bra back, and stood in one corner observing everything. People had slowly started leaving, and she wanted to scream at them to hurry up so once they leave she could take off her damn shoes, since they had the dress code she couldn't walk bare foot and get in trouble. Pragya slowly leaned on the wall and subtly removed her shoe but kept standing on her shoe so she can very quickly slip her foot back in the shoe. "Pragya!" Turning back to Disha, Pragya hisses at her angrily "Do you hate me or something?" "What happened?" Disha asks amused. "These shoes are killing me!" Pragya says angrily. "Sorry hun. I thought those were beautiful sandals." "They are, but they are killing me." "Everyone are leaving so you can take it off in a bit. I have my sneakers with me, you can wear it then." Disha says. Pragya nods her head. "Okay, looks like everyone left and only close family are here, Mr. Kapoor asked us to have our lunch and then pack up the remaining food so they can send it to some orphanage." "Okay." Pragya replies and then slipping on the shoes again she walks with Disha to inform their team to have the lunch. Once they had their lunch they decided to help the crew pack up the food quickly so they can leave quickly since Mr. Kapoor said that he will settle the bill the next day and also the movie was about to start in an hour. Pragya was packing up the ice cream when she heard a voice from behind "Hi" turning back she saw Abhishek Prem Mehra standing there with a smile "Hi." She had thought he had left as he was not family, he was business acquaintance."Can I have ice-cream?" "Sure." Pragya replies and quickly starts filling a bowl with vanilla ice cream. As she turned to give him the bowl she found him checking her out. She didn't know whether it was her shoes or him checking out girls that she lost her patience and asked angrily "Is it necessary to check out every single girl?" Abhi starts grinning at her "What makes you think that I check out every girl?" "Because I saw you doing that." Pragya replies defiantly. "You saw me? How come?" Abhi wonders out loudly then with a devilish grin continues "Unless you were watching me all the time." Pragya turns red and then arrogantly lies "Of course not. Here is your ice cream." Abhi chuckling takes it from her and eats a spoon and makes a puking face "God, Pragya why couldn't you stand near the kheer stall?" "Huh?" Pragya asks confused. "I like kheer and hate ice-cream" Abhi explains. "Then why are you eating it?" Pragya asks confused. Abhi simply grins at her. "Wait a minute, how do you know my name?" Abhi starts grinning even more "You know me!" Pragya says shocked "You are so fast." Abhi teases her. Oh god! His eyes were filled with mischief. "What made you think that I wouldn't know my best friend's sister? The one, to whom a proposal for marriage has been sent and that too from my side." Abhi asks her as he took a step closer to her still grinning. "Then why didn't you say anything?" Pragya asks shocked. "Why didn't you?" Abhi asks her back. Pragya shrugs and Abhi shrugs imitating her. "You didn't even recognize me and you were not even shocked to see me here." Pragya says defending herself for believing that he didn't know her. "Maybe because I was expecting you here." "You knew I was going to be here?" Pragya asks shocked with her eyes wide open. Abhi smiles at her lovingly "You are still so childlike." "What?" Pragya asks confused. "I never attend weddings, or any functions unless it is close relation." Abhi explains. "Then why did you come here?" Pragya asks confused Abhishek Prem Mehra sure talked in riddles. Hearing that Abhi raises one eye brows at her, "Oh my God! You came here to meet me?" Pragya exclaims shocked. Abhi just winks at her in reply. "But how did you know that I was going to be here?" Pragya asks after she recovers from her shock and jittery feeling due to the sexy wink he gave her. "Did you forget that your brother is my best friend?" he asks her cheekily. "Why did you come here?" Pragya asks curiously. "Because I wanted to see you." Abhi says with a face that said it should have been obvious to her. "That is what, why do you want to meet me?" "I have no idea." Abhi says shaking his head chuckling. Pragya couldn't help smiling hearing that. Suddenly she remembered him checking out Disha and that too in front of her! "Then why were you ogling at Disha?" Pragya asks with a frown. Abhi starts laughing and replies "I had a blast pissing you off, sweetheart." Pragya turns pink realizing that he knew she didn't like him calling sweetheart and also that he was not really looking at Disha, why did that make her feel nice? "You sure are possessive." Abhi says with a grin. Pragya starts blushing hearing that, "Nothing like that. I don't even know you. I just met you. I don't think I even like you." Pragya stammers defensively. "Of all the ogling I have been subjected to by you, I beg to differ." Abhi says cheekily. Pragya gasps and before she could think she was asking him "How did you know? You were not looking at me." and then she wanted to dig up a hole and bury herself in it. "Advantages of sunglasses sweetheart!" there it is again that sweetheart and that wink. But why is she getting a warm feeling in a corner of her heart? And is she blushing? Oh God! Pragya was trying to understand suddenly what was happening with her, and between Abhi and her. Abhi is talking as if he knows her and has always known her. "You have a very expressive face." Abhi's voice gently hit her, Pragya looks at him confused. "I'll never have to wonder what you are thinking." Abhi replies smiling. Suddenly, his mobile rings and Abhi picks it up "Hello Dad... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... no Dad, I don't want to meet Pragya." Hearing her name Pragya looks up at him and sees him watching her. "hmmm... hmmm.. I don't think there is any need for me to meet her." okay that stung. "hmmm...hmmm... it's a yes from my side." Hearing that Pragya looks up at him in shock did he just say that he wants to marry her? No... That can't be... he might have been talking about something else. He didn't know her at all, how can he say that he wants to marry her? "hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... okay." and he hung up the phone and looks at her and says as if he was reading her thoughts "I was talking about my marriage to you only and I do know you." "What? How?" Pragya asks shocked. "For starters, you are 24 yrs old. Birthday 28th of August, Virgo." "Everyone knows these. Any tom, dick and harry would know all this." Pragya says rolling her eyes. "And where have you kept your Oscar?" Abhi asks her. "Huh? What Oscar?" Pragya asks confused. "No, the way you were talking I thought you were some famous movie star." Abhi replies and Pragya was embarrassed beyond belief. "Okay, you hate people calling you Prayooo because you feel that it sounds like BOO. You love the belt which your best friend Disha gifted you on your last birthday, it is red and I am assuming that you are still wearing it." Pragya gasps hearing that. She was wearing that belt. "How do you know that?" "I have my sources. And just for the record, you wearing the belt were just a pure guess on my part." Abhi says. "My brother told you all that." Pragya says. "First crush, Neev Shergill in high school which lasted for two days till you realized that he was more interested in your best friend." "Purab doesn't know that." Pragya says shocked. "You hate it when I call other girls by endearments." Abhi says chuckling while she blushes then continues without letting her contradict him "Hates wearing heels. Aaah that shoe is killing you." Abhi says pointing at her shoes. "How do you know that?" "I saw you fidgeting with it." Abhi explains. Then with a wicked grin he leans towards her and whispers in her ears "You bra came off." Pragya gapes at him and then in an angry whisper asks him "How did you know THAT? Were you..." "Do you see this?" Abhi asks as he started feeling his back with a frown and then with a gasps stands more erect. Pragya starts blushing and not able to look at Abhi, she turns to pack the remaining ice-cream. "Is that why, you came to talk to Mr. Kapoor?" "Yes. Otherwise I hate talking." Abhi says, Pragya turns to him and raises one eye brow like he did before, Abhi starts grinning "With you I can't seem to stop talking." Pragya starts' blushing more he was making her feel very special, and then asks remembering Nikhil "Nikhil?" "Hate him. I was coming to save my damsel in distress but then she was not in any distress." Pragya shyly smiles at my damsel. "And yes I was never lost." Abhi answers guessing her next question. Pragya nods her head as she wondered why he didn't try to talk to her the whole function "I didn't want to disturb you at work hence I stayed away." Abhi replies guessing her question yet again. Pragya was starting to believe that he knew her well. "Is that enough or do you need more?" Abhi asks. "This is the fifth time we are meeting." Abhi says while Pragya looks at him in shock how is that possible? She has never met him. "And the next one is a shocker." Abhi says smiling ear to ear, "What is more shocking than this?" "That you had your very first dance with me." Abhi replies. "WHAT?" Pragya looks at him shocked. When was her very first dance? Yeah! Annual day at Purab's company, and it was a masquerade party, and she had danced with... Abhi? "Yeah, that was me! Did you really expect me to stand back and watch you dance with someone else?" Abhi asks her grinning. Both the years after that? "Me only." Abhi says as if he heard her question. It was him? Her mystery dance partner? The one who had kept asking her questions about her? And she had told him about Neev and Disha that day, and he still remembers that? "I saw you for the very first time, you didn't see me as I was busy with a call. You had come to see Purab's cabin, I was standing outside Purab's cabin. You were 18 then, and it was my 23rd birthday. You were excitedly sitting on his chair and playing like a kid as you kept going on and on about how cool his cabin was and that is the day I fell in..." and he stops shaking his head. "You what?" Pragya asks breathlessly realizing what he was going to say. Abhi smiles at her "If you hear everything now what will we talk during dinner tonight?" "We are going for dinner?" Pragya asks confused. "If you insist on getting to know me better before marrying me, then yes." Abhi replies. Pragya didn't know what to say to it, she didn't love him; she was attracted to him true, but then marriage? But then she had always wanted an arranged marriage, and in most arranged marriage love happens after marriage, and plus a life with Abhishek Prem Mehra looks like something to reckon with? She really needs to look up the meaning of that. "So?" she hears Abhi, she was about to reply to him when his mobile went off yet again. "It's your brother." Abhi says as he picked up the phone. "Yeah Purab...hmmm...hmmm... out with it Purab... hmmm... yeah!... you what? You idiotic moron!... you better sort it out... okay!" and he hangs up and sees Pragya looking at him angrily, and he knew it was because he had screamed at her brother. "Your brother told my sister that I was here to see you." Hearing that Pragya sighs, for a minute she had thought that Abhi was blasting up her brother for some work related stuff, and she was going to tell him to get lost, but looks like he was not screaming at his employee but his best friend. "Now she is going to blackmail me for the rest of my life, you have no idea how I had made my parents belief that the whole proposal was their idea and not mine." Abhi explains to her. Pragya smiles thinking how he indirectly mentioned that the proposal was his idea and he wanted to marry her.
Abhi starts chuckling and seeing her curious expression he explains "Purab is shit scared of my sister." "What?" "She is behind him for like two years, but he keeps running away from her." "Really?" Pragya asks shocked. "Yeah! He likes her too, but will never admit it as he is worried about the fact that we are richer than him." Abhi explains with a shrug. "And you have no issues with that?" suddenly Pragya realized that his answer to that question will decide whether she will marry him or not. "Money is important to live, but it is secondary in a relation. As long as there is love, respect, trust, loyalty, understanding in a relation, money is never an issue." Abhi replies as he looked through his mobile "Purab has all these qualities, and I would be too proud if he marries my sister." And that was the moment Pragya decided that if she ever marries anyone then it will only be Abhishek Prem Mehra, a man who valued relations more than money. "Looks like we Mehra-s are behind you Arora-s." Abhi says chuckling. "This is my sister, Bulbul." Abhi says showing her Bulbul's photo on his mobile. "She is pretty." Pragya says with a big smile. Abhi smiles and taking his mobile back and Pragya fleetingly saw his wallpaper and it was her photo. She smiles seeing that. "I keep telling Purab to stop running away from my sister, there is no use as he will end up marrying her." "How can you be so sure?" "We Mehra-s if we want something then we will get it." "So if I say no then what will you do?" "Sweetheart, if we do anything to get what we want, you can imagine what extend we will go to get what we need." Oh my God! He didn't just say that he needed her rather than wanted her. "Threatening me?" she asks unfortunately it didn't have the teasing tone she intended rather it was more breathless. "I would never hurt you in anyway or will let anyone. I meant the romantic way." Abhi tells her cheekily. "So I'll pick you up from your house at say 8?" Abhi asks her. "No." Pragya replies. "My parents are a little strict, so I won't be able to go for date or anything if I'm back at home." "Then?" Abhi asks confused. "I'll have to stay out till dinner time, and my friends were planning to go for a movie, and I no longer feel interested in going." Pragya says blushing as she couldn't believe she was hinting him that she wanted to spend more time with him. "Aahaan" Abhi muses "How about if I take you for coffee now, then maybe a long drive and then dinner?" he asks smiling at her. "I would love it." Pragya replies as she shyly smiled at him. "When will you finish work?" "Half an hour." "I'll wait here for you." Abhi replies. "But then, I need to... you know... freshen up." Pragya says. Abhi rolls his eyes hearing that "I think you look just perfect." "Give me an hour and I'll meet you at the parking lot?" "Okay. And do change your shoes. You have an extra pair?" Abhi asks concerned. "Disha has one." Pragya replies smiling at his concern. "Good. Okay I'll wait for you at the parking." Abhi says and was about to walk off when he suddenly remembered and asks her "What do I do with this?" Laughing Pragya takes the ice-cream bowl from him. "See you." Abhi says and walks away as she watched him walk off with a smile. Suddenly she had an urge to eat his ice-cream and she did just that. As she put the spoon in her mouth she turned to look at Abhi walking away, but saw him watching her eat his left over ice-cream, as she blushed a beetroot red he blew her a kiss and walked off.
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