ARNAV

I had met thousands of girls, I had worked with over twenty managers who were girls but none of them had the audacity to talk to me like Khushi did, no one ever dared to even raise their voice while talking to me and Khushi did all that, and the funny thing about it was that I dint feel angry about the way she talked to me, in fact I liked it.

I liked that there was a girl who dint try to flirt with me or just agree with whatever I said because she was my fan or scared that' she'd lose the job, I liked how confident and self-respective she was.

I wasn't the one to get angry every now and then but when it came to work, I couldn't tolerate anything wrong not even something small and I guess it was because of all those previous managers we had because of Rahat.

They never did their work because they were busy doing other things and I had to do it instead while Rahat wouldn't let me fire them either, so I had just become kind of irritated and I couldn't tolerate anything wrong about work.

With Khushi I thought she was different when she came for the interview, the way she talked confidently and dint mind telling Rahat off was something I hadn't seen before so I thought unlike the rest of the girls she would do her work, but when I needed her for work and she wasn't around, I just thought she wasn't serious about it and was pretending just to get the job like Rahat said and I got angry and maybe said things I shouldn't have but if I dint say them, I wouldn't find out how confident she was and that she dint really give a damn about losing this job when it came to her self-respect.

Such kind of girls were rare to see, not that they dint exist out there, they just dint exist in my world, all the girls I met so far always agreed to what I said even though I was wrong so it was actually good to see something different for once.

I found Tina and Rahat standing outside so I walked towards them and greeted Tina, I was seeing her after a while, Tina's family and my family knew each other since ages so the three of us had been friends since we were kids and we kind of grew up together so the three of us shared a good friendship, in fact Rahat and I both used to sing songs to her just for fun and she's the one that convinced us to make it our career.

Mom and dad obviously wanted us to take their legacy ahead but we needed the talent too and let's say God had blessed us with it and Tina was the first one to discover it.

"Look, here comes my favorite Raizada boy." She looked at me with a huge smile on her face and then rushed to hug me, I hugged her back, she was such a great friend and I had actually missed seeing her.

Whenever she was around, she always talked nonstop and she was kind of entertaining so it was natural to miss her when she wasn't around.

"I don't get it, why do you like him more than me, I am the bad boy, girls want guys like me." Rahat questioned, I broke the hug as Tina and I walked back towards him, seriously attention had got so much into his head, he wanted all girls to be crazy about him only.

"Oh please, those girls are dumb if they're going to go for you instead of Arnav, I mean look at him, he's the perfect husband material." Tina laughed as she looked at me, staring at me like I was something so beautiful.

Well it was kind of awkward.

"Well good for him, I can't be the husband material because I don't want to get married ever, I mean why stay with one girl for the rest of your life when you can have a different one every day." Rahat smirked.

"You're so gross." Tina slapped him playfully.

Somedays I just looked at Rahat and worried about his lifestyle so much, I really hoped he would stop doing this and live a normal settled life, I don't know if it was ever going to happen but I hoped that someday he was going to meet a girl he would fall in love with and maybe she'd manage to settle him and make him a bit responsible.

"Where's our manager by the way? I have some work for her." Rahat smirked, I knew he had some mischievous plans in his mind thinking he would be able to make Khushi quit this job, but now that I had seen how confident she was, I don't think she was going to leave, it was a great challenge for Rahat.

"She's in my room doing some work." I said.

"Oh she just joined and she's already in your room, you're faster than me bro." Rahat wiggled his eyebrows, seriously, what was I going to do about this boy and his mind full of dirty thoughts?

"For your kind information Mr. Rahat Raizada, everything work related is in my room you idiot, so she's there just doing her work plus I am here in case you can't see me, so stop thinking dirty for once." I rolled my eyes at him.

"Great, I'll add some more work to her so she can show less attitude, Tina, see you later babes." Rahat winked at her as he walked away.

"Call someone else babes you idiot." Tina shouted from behind, Rahat just laughed at her as he walked away and then she turned to look at me and pouted cutely.

"Still not falling for me Mr. Raizada?" She asked as she blinked her eyes severally, she looked really cute when she did that.

"Tina." I shrugged as I tried to walk away from her but she grabbed my hand and pulled me back, she pushed me towards the tree and blocked my way by placing her hand on both sides.

"What do you want Tina, if someone sees us like this, it's going to be breaking news." I sighed.

"I want you to fall in love with me Arnav. You know I've been in love with you since forever and you always act like you don't care about me at all." She pouted.

"I do care about you Tina, you're my friend and as a friend I'll always love you but nothing more than that, please understand that I am not in love with you the way you are."

"Why? Am I not beautiful enough? Or wait, is there another girl?" she opened her eyes wide, honestly I dint need beauty to fall for, I just needed a person dint matter what they looked like. Apart from that, Tina was really gorgeous, I mean I don't know how but she was kind of perfect, she had the perfect figure, the perfect face, everything about her was so perfect it was unreal.

Although she wasn't a celebrity like us, but I had seen so many guys trying their luck with her, she always left each and every guy with their eyes wide open whenever she passed by, that's how gorgeous she was.

"No, you know there's no girl. I just haven't felt that kind of a feeling for anyone, and you my dear should find someone else to love, you'd get a better guy than me, try Rahat maybe." I laughed.

"Oh please, Rahat, better than you? Never! He might be what every girl wants but Arnav, you are what I want."

"I'm sorry Tina, I just can't, now please let me go." I said as I pushed her behind slowly and walked away while she shouted at me from behind.

"Walk away from me now Arnav but I promise there will come a day when you'll fall for me and come beg me for love like I am doing right now and maybe that day I'll no more be in love with you."

"I'll wait for that day Tina." I laughed as I walked away, seriously, at times she could be so dramatic.

Two years ago, I was just seated in my room making music when she walked in, she sat with me and we talked about random stuff and out of nowhere she tried to kiss me, that was when she first told me about what she felt towards me.

I dint know what to do then, I mean not that I dint want a girl to be in love with me or anything, millions of girls were in love with me out there, not maybe the way Tina was, and anyway she was such a good friend of mine I never wanted to hurt her.

But I was a honest person and I had to be honest with her, I clearly told her I felt nothing of such sort towards her, she also suggested we could have a casual relationship with no strings attached, in simple terms the sleeping around thing but that wasn't my category, Rahat was the one to do those things, I liked girls, I liked having fans crazy about me but I dint want to sleep around for fun or anything.

I was the old fashioned kind of a guy, I wanted all this to happen with a girl I loved not someone I just dated for the sake, although I dint even know if I was ever going to fall in love with someone or not.

Tina was a great girl, she was good but I just dint feel that way about her and I had no explanation for it, plus she was my friend too so I dint want to do anything wrong with her.

I got inside the car as the driver drove off, suddenly I remembered I hadn't informed Khushi about our travel plans, I hope she hadn't booked a hotel for us to stay or something, of course she had no idea that we had a house in Mauritius. She did leave her phone number but I hadn't saved it either so the only way to inform her was Rahat because he was at home so I called him.

"Yes bro, missed me already." Rahat said as he received the call.

"Shut up Rahat, what are you doing?"

"Nothing much, just trying to figure out ways to make our new manager quit." He laughed. Seriously this guy really was up to making Khushi quit the job, I don't know why he disliked her so much, she was a nice girl.

"All the best for that, now go find her and tell her not to book a hotel for us to stay, she doesn't know we have a house there." I remember Mauritius was mom and dad's favorite place, they often visited it so much until they decided to get a house there.

It was a beautiful place no denying that, I loved going there too, it was home away from home.

"Okay, I'll do that." He said as he disconnected the call, seriously I had no idea what Rahat was up to, I just wished he dint make Khushi angry because then they'll both end up fighting seeing that Khushi spoke whatever was in her mind I just hoped they both dint end up kicking and punching each other.

My destination was a bit far so I decided to call mom and dad and talk to them for a while, they both had travelled to Austria for a holiday just a week ago and they seemed to be having fun there seeing the pictures they kept on sending us.

Mom received the call and immediately started telling me how much fun she was having there, I was happy for her and dad, they had spent half their life earning all this and now it was time for them to have fun while we worked.

I informed her about the new manager we had got and she dint sound happy with it, of course because of all the previous incidents, she was so angry with Rahat but that guy never paid heed to mom.

But I kind of managed to convince her that the new one wasn't like the previous ones and she said she would decide that when she comes back and meet hers.

I tell you, moms being like this was funny and cute at the same time.