"What the freaking shit has got into your head?" Katyusha was shouting on the top of her lungs at Sejal while the latter simply shrugged off her words concentrating on the more important task of the moment; making an edible breakfast for three people at the moment.

Sejal has got the habit of adding a pinch of both black pepper and black salt in omelets after the arguing incident regarding it with Aryan when Raghav had kidnapped him very gracefully without any reasons although it was a master plan of Katyusha because dumb Raghav couldn't do that without being lead by somebody stupid.

"I am talking to you. You didn't even congratulate me!"

Katyusha screamed again making Raghav show her the finger in annoyance, can a lady be anymore manner less like?

The very next moment Katyusha proved these thoughts right by flapping the flat pan upside down leading to the fiasco of mess as the egg half which was semi cooked was now on the white tiles and some fluid still dripping from the now cooling down pan, which also fell down with a thud making Sejal jump a step back like a scared and pissed bunny.

"What the hell is wrong with you Katu?" Raghav asked rushing into the scene with a mop and enough cleaning stuff to clear the just self created mess by Katyusha, and Sejal still continued giving the silent treatment to her lady best friend simply checking the milk which she was making it ready to make some coffee.

"Katu, cool down. I just cleaned this don't you dare put on something else."

It was surprising for both Katyusha and Sejal to watch Raghav turning into a cleanliness psycho, because he was a man who wouldn't even care about his unmade bed for weeks or could simply roam in two different colored socks on the name of hygiene saying only these were his washed pair; but both were too busy with shouting and giving silent treatments respectively that they could care any less about Raghav right now.

"Stop giving me this silent treatment or else I will throw this milk on . . . On his head and his next seven generations are going to be born bald!"

This baffled Raghav that he immediately checked his hair first and the distance he was from Katyusha, well she was known for her threats but in this case it was some serious shit for him but according to Sejal it was the worse threat she had ever come along with, immediately breaking into sprints of laughter.

"Oh! Thank God. You are finally talking." Katyusha sighed in relief drinking the Orange juice directly from the cartoon making Sejal cringe badly as she ended up saying there are reasons we have glasses!

"Hey, do you guys want me to record your fight?" Raghav asked genuinely pulling out his phone from his pocket as if there is going to be a scene shooting between two bitches ready to claw each other's faces.

"Who are fighting?" Both Sejal and Katyusha asked in unison making him mutter girls are the worst human beings of this worlds which earned him a hit on his head from both his best friends and it was still a mystery to everybody of how did they end up becoming so close.

"Katu, I am upset that you decided to get married and I wasn't informed about it and moreover Sarah became so important that Nic had to take her approval for the marriage. Not mine?"

First shock registered her face then a few gasps and finally a smile leading to a full blown laughter party till her stomach hurt as Sejal stood confused of the fact that what might be so amusing that Katyusha is laughing like a comic star on action.

"You are jealous? I like this drama. Awe two girls are fighting for me. I can't believe this is happening to me. Ah I am frigging happy, swimming on cloud nine."

Both Raghav and Sejal stared at each other in complete astonishment that how someone can understand only the part of the conveyed message which was actually supposed to be ignored in the first place. God must surely show some mercy on Nikhil.

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It was the second day Sejal went off duty and her mind lingered to the thought of Aryan hoping that his temperature is down and whatever Tiger had to talk about was cleanly solved although the reminder bought a pink tint on her cheek remembering about their hot make out session which was like fire and the burning embarrassment when Tiger had entered the room unannounced.

".. Thinking about?"

It was Dr Sarah who spoke to her as they were in some designer shop also giving her the memories of how Aryan ad carried her bridal style without her slippers and took her clothes shopping to Cantabil on her birthday which immediately made her trace the infinity locket as some emotional voluntary reflex.

"Hmm, Thinking about Dr Shetty?" Sarah teased her, Sejal couldn't help but simply blush and after spending the half of day with her she realized Sarah was actually a great company making her also think that soon Katyusha will be gone and she can't waltz into her married life every time with a problem; in short Sejal needs more girl friends.

In the past hour Sarah had made Sejal think deep about why were Katyusha and Nikhil getting married in such a rush, maybe Katyusha was pregnant and they didn't want the baby to be named an illegimate child but as soon as she had thought about it she had to discard it because Katyusha denied being pregnant saying they just wanted to get married because it was high time to take the next big step in their relationship; which was getting married.

"Hey woman, what do you say about this one?"

Katyusha shouted from the back all decked up in lavender colored lehenga, which was designed elegantly with deep silver embroidery and it was so odd that Katyusha herself being a fashion designer was asking two doctors opinion for her wedding and reception dresses.

"You look gorgeous darling!" Dr Sarah said with a bright smile walff king nearer to Katyusha to have a better look at the piece of work which was looking so beautiful on Katyusha.

Sejal was also agreeing along with Sarah but she thought that opinion of the would be groom should also be considered so she made a video call to Nikhil which he picked up in the twelfth ring as smoke appeared on the screen clearing up to show a handsome Nic taking another drag from his cigarette making Sejal groan in pathetic anger as if the smoke was teleport able.

"Nic for your next drag you are paying a fine of five chocolate shakes."

Nikhil took no heed to whatever warning Sejal was talking about as he continued with his tobacco addiction very effectively, and after a point the chocolate shakes number reached to five hundred that Katyusha pulled the phone from Sejal being the impatient lovely lady she was.

In mean time Sejal continued bragging about Nikhil being so inconsiderate about his health and even started surfing any beautiful dress; after all a beautiful art of piece is always the way to the heart of a woman.

Sejal was staring at a one piece long length frock which was in beige color having a beautiful decoration of black studs on the neck line; the pretty clothing bought a smile on her face as she saw Nikhil looking dapper in his blue suit entering into the store then watching Katyusha still on the video call with her soon to be husband Sejal realized it was Darshan who has actually come.

"Dr Vyas." Sejal said with a bright smile genuinely happy to see him, Darshan replied nodding along with a little tag of frown.

"For what is that frown, Dr Vyas?"

Sejal asked curious of what was said wrong that it bought a scrunching face replacing a handsome one from his face, as she watched Darshan twitching his eyes again.

"I don't pay you. So at least you can call me Darshan after duty hours."

Sejal watched Darshan making an O of her mouth because this unusual thought didn't occur in her head before that somebody could get worried about their designation also.

"But Dr Vyas suits you perfectly!"

Darshan wanted to say it surely does suits but calling him by his first name makes him feel like at least they are on closer terms, instead he gave one of his indiscriminate smiles and went ahead to say hello to Sarah and his would be sister in law; Katyusha Reddy soon turning to be a Vyas.

"Woman, look at this; it is going to look bloody killer on you. Go and try it now."

Sejal couldn't even say the word bee before she was trashed into one of the changing rooms by both Katyusha and Sarah; it seems that if Sejal would refuse Katyusha is going to make a fuss saying nobody cares of the emotions of a bride soon to be tripped to unknown territories.

It was a maroon frock with a straight slit in the calf region exposing some of her soft milky skin of the legs; its bodice had a V shape neck line giving a nice view of her beauty bones in addition with a bit of cleavage show and the velvet cloth hugged her curves so perfectly that she almost looked like a temptress but again Katyusha would call this as an elegant high class dress in her judgment book because according to her showcasing a body and it's beauty draped in a piece of ten inches cloth would also be a redemption of art.

Watching herself in the mirror made Sejal realize how different she looked and she was so thankful that her father gave her custody to Bhairav Uncle because she couldn't stand even for a freaking second as a rich girl around some other boring rich brats and lousy pretty girls filled in a room for any celebration; she was so bloody thankful that she is allowed to be in her comfortable normal dressings like jeans, shirts, kurti and pretty PJ's.

She didn't wanted to come out and be labeled as a slut and become more uncomfortable so she simply took a photo of the attire just for memory purpose and for some reasons her open brown hair were complimenting the look more sexily; after changing back to her normal clothes she walked out of the room to find baffled and shocked faces of people.

Were they expecting her to come out like a model ready to pose?

"Sorry guys, that didn't fit my size." Sejal shrugged lightly setting the frock on one of the handlers, but it seems that the problem was something else as Sarah continued staring her in shock and Katyusha watching through her lashes in a confused look; while Darshan was a complete different case as he simply watched her with his Adam of apple bobbing once in a while and lightly scratching the little hair on his beard which by the way was giving him a husky look.

"You said your father was dead?" Katyusha asked coming out from her reverie of wherever she was lost all these times which took Sejal by shock almost making her off guard, like her cover was being blown or something. First Shravan the police officer recogonised her then he spoke to Raghav about that case and now Katyusha asking about her father, whatever the hell was happening she couldn't connect the dots.

"You never said Dr Shravan Bhattacharya Sir was your father." Sarah asked even before Sejal could give an answer to Katyusha; yes, whoever asked her about the non existing father in her life she said he was dead because technically he was never there in her life after the death of her mother and when Katyusha had asked she simply said dead because Sejal didn't had any ounce of idea that Shravan Bhattacharya will come back in her life ever. He was a dead end in her life.

"A ditsy bit of correction Dr Sarah, he is still her father."

Darshan received a dirty look from Sejal sending the message that now is not the time to discuss grammar because her bestfriend were asking about the punctuation mistake of her life; that is putting a full stop in the information about her father.

"So, you are a celebrity now?" Katyusha asked with a cheeky smile as if she found a new toy to configure things with; that look completely was coming from a fashionista which was a bad sign because that meant Katyusha is going to barge into her wardrobe for new reasons now.

But, the question was how did they know about it? She was now damn sure that it was Darshan who has passed this vital information because only he knew about it, thankful that her friends weren't from the media because it would have become a useless massacre of unavoidable scandal for RCSM.

"Yeah I am his daughter and nothing changes between all of us because I am not a rich spoilt brat bought up with a silver spoon."

Sejal said with a smile leaving Katyusha to fend for a smile and Sarah seemed to be still processing the information which made Sejal give a murderous look to Darshan of why the hell did he even tell them in the first place?

"What?" Darshan finally asked receiving death threats from Sejal which was turning out to be annoying and creepy after a point.

"Why did you have to tell them Dr Vyas?"

"Gosh call me Da- wait, what? I didn't tell them anything!" Darshan spoke up in defense not understanding how even Sejal comprehended that he would do such a thing to her, and by the face his beautiful was making he knew very well that she didn't believe his words.

"You are saying nothing changes? Everything change, you are the daughter of the person who is paying us!" Sarah said in utter astonishment still not getting to absorb the fact that how did Sejal manage to be hidden all these time.

"How did you guys find out?" Sejal asked completely dismissing Sarah and also doubting her earlier thoughts today about liking her because now she was making a fuss out of nothing. What if Sejal is the daughter of some great person? That shouldn't change the dynamics of her life; it had a very tiny effect on Katyusha maybe because she didn't know much about Shravan Bhattacharya.

"We found a trending video just now when I was checking the latest post of Rags."

Katyusha explained unlocking her I phone to show the post of Raghav which Sejal wasn't interested in at all but her best friend was a stubborn bitch so she patiently waited for the photo appear on the screen as her heart hammered in her chest like a cannon just being fired; the picture took her by surprise because it was a selfie of Raghav and the last man she could expect with him; her Aryan, who was staring at the camera with a bored look but still she found him sexy because his black tie was wrung loosely around his neck complimenting the white shirt which had its top two buttons opened and the sleeves were rolled up. The exhaustion was clearly visible on his face even being in some pixels of a picture, all she wanted to do is hug him till his face shines and kiss him until the sand in a hourglass stops flowing.

But, nonetheless she had some important issues to deal with; one of them being how she was so laid back in herself that she couldn't keep up with the people around. She never knew Raghav and Aryan were friends, she knew very lately about how Katyusha and Sarah have evolved out as best buddies.

All these weren't good signs according to her stars and planets.

Then Katyusha showed the supposed viral video which has actually become viral and that is when she realized her father was a man of his words; he fucking announced to the world about their relationship.

All the business channels played this news in considerate loops because now suddenly a daughter to their messiah was born; it was shocking news to everybody including Sejal herself and Darshan spoke something so venomous that at one point it even felt alien because media is a thing she has been avoiding all her life.

"Beautiful, there is media outside."

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Hello,

How are you guys doing?

Just thought of popping in and inform that we are almost at the end of the story now. Okay, not that sad we still have six to seven more chapters!

Stay safe dear readers and be strong :)

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Sana Afreen.