<<Sometimes the person you fall for isn't ready to catch you.>>

Ragini

"Ah! That his lovely younger brother was having fun with the daughter of their man, outside the house!" I said wiggling my eyebrows.

"I was not!" he lied.

"I have seen you with my own eyes! You were kissing that girl. Great! So you're doing all this behind your brother's back. Hmmm..." I said crossing my arms around my chest.

He stared me for a few seconds and then smirked making me confused.

"Go and tell him! And if you're feeling scared or anything then I'll also come with you to cheer you up." he said boringly as he leaned back on the counter.

What?

"You're not scared of him? He may punish you for hiding this from him." I asked with wide eyes.

"Why would he when he knows every single thing?" he asked chuckling and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

"Means?" I asked.

"Means, the mafia leader who knows everything about everyone around him will not be knowing everything about his own younger brothers? You seriously think so? He knows everything about us. From what we do the whole day to whom we're seeing. He knows everything about the girls we're dating or have dated in past." he said making me shocked.

Is the boss a man or another version of Google?

"And..." he said as he moved closer to me and stood right in front of me.

I took a small step back, getting conscious.

"You shouldn't tease someone when you have a thing to get teased back." he said as he pointed at my neck.

I raised my eyebrows, being clueless and looked where he was pointing. I hit him away as I immediately hid the mark with my hair. How did I forget to hide it?

He started laughing at that.

I was wrong! None of these brothers is better!

"These aren't the same things." I said glaring him.

"Ya... This is something further than what you saw us doing." he said laughing more hard.

"Shut up! It's not!" I said annoyed.

Why am I even explaining him? Maybe because I don't want him to make a wrong picture of me and his brother in his head. Eww...

"Yeah yeah! I believe you." he said mockingly.

"What's going on here?" asked Arjun as he entered inside the kitchen.

"Nothing much! We were just talking about each other's non kept secrets." said Yuvraaj, still laughing like a maniac.

"Huh?"

"Leave that! Well Ragini, you saw my girlfriend today. Let me show you Aru's girlfriend too." Yuvraaj said as he took out his phone.

He showed the photo of a girl to me.

"Why are you having her photo in your phone?" asked Arjun as he glared Yuvraaj.

"When bhai got to know about her, he told me to bring all the details about her, including her photo." Yuvraaj answered with a shrug.

I took the phone from Yuvraaj and looked closely at the girl.

She looked like a teenager. She was beautiful and very innocent looking. In the picture, she was wearing school uniform, red and cream check skirt and plain white shirt. Her hair were tied in a pony.

Why this innocent girl must be dating a mafia?

"Well, Aru met her two and half weeks ago only." Yuvraaj told me.

Means, after I've been brought here!

"What's her name?" I asked looking at the two.

"Naina!" Yuvraaj replied.

I looked on as Arjun pulled the phone out of my hands and then deleted the picture from Yuvraaj's phone while the latter just rolled his eyes.

"Oh man! Just calm down. What the f*ck is wrong with you?" Yuvraaj asked to his brother.

"Like you don't know!" said Arjun in a pissed off tone.

What must be the reason?

"And secondly, do I have a picture of Twinkle in my phone?" asked Arjun.

"What'll you do of her picture?" Yuvraaj asked frowning.

"Same goes to you." Arjun replied and Yuvraaj shook his head.

Bloody possessive boyfriends!

"So your girlfriend's name is Twinkle?" I asked to Yuvraaj.

"Yes!"

"What does she do?" I asked.

"Why are you so interested?" he asked making his eyes small.

"Just like that. I don't have anything else to talk about. I'm just curious." I replied honestly.

And to be more honest, now I'm very much curious about knowing everything about these brothers and their girlfriends. Everything about their respective stories.

"She has graduated already and now she do nothing. She just stay at home." he told me.

'Or you don't let her do anything?' I wanted to ask but I didn't.

"Now if your investigation has got over then can you please make me a cup of coffee?" Yuvraaj said more as begging.

"For me also!" Arjun said as he started munching the potato chips he took out from a shelf.

I nodded and started making the coffee after they told me where the needed things were kept.

I gave them their respective coffees and walked out of the kitchen, followed by the two.

"Uhm... Can I just walk around, out of the house? I feel so suffocated being in the room." I asked looking at the two.

They both stared me for a while and then looked at each other.

"Fine!" Yuvraaj said.

"Do you know how to play badminton?" asked Arjun.

"Yeah..."

"Then let's play badminton outside." he said as he kept the empty coffee mug on the table and walked to a room.

He came back after a while with two badminton rackets in his hands along with a cork and both of us walked out of the house to the garden area. We started playing. It was good to be out and do a physical activity after so many days otherwise I was feeling like I have become motionless these days.

It has not been more than half an hour later when a black car came driving through the main door to the road besides the garden and stopped there. A few seconds later, the door got open and the boss got out of the car with a few folders in his hands.

"Park the car in the garage." Laksh said to Arjun as he tossed the keys towards him.

Arjun caught the keys and walked over to the car while Laksh signed me to follow him to the house. I immediately picked up Arjun's racket along with mine and followed him.

"You didn't get anything else to wear and then play out in the open?" he asked glaring me.

I looked at my clothes and then at him.

"Sorry..."

"Don't repeat it again. I'll not be so calm next time." he warned.

I nodded immediately.

"I'll be in the study room. Get me something to eat." he said without looking at me and walked away.

I'm not his maid!

I sighed as I put the rackets on the table in the living area and made my way to the kitchen. I looked around the kitchen and in the refrigerator but there wasn't anything already cooked.

"There's nothing I can give him. What should I do? The cook also left already. Should I cook?"

After thinking for a while, I decided to cook something quickly. And the first thing that came on my mind was khichdi as he's shot and needs to eat light and less spicy food.

I made it as fast as I could and then walked out of the kitchen after putting it in a bowl.

"Now where the hell is this study room?"

He's going to get mad at me for being so late.

Thankfully, Ryan walked down the stairs at the same time.

"Ryan, where's the study room?" I asked him.

"There are three study rooms in the house. Which one are you asking about?" he asked with lifted eyebrows.

Three study rooms!

"Uhm... The one in which the chances of me finding Laksh are more?" I asked.

He chuckled at that.

"There, the second last door." he said pointing in a direction on the same floor.

I nodded and started walking in the same direction. I knocked on the door.

"Who's this?" I heard him asking from inside.

"It's me, Ragini."

"Get in!"

I opened the door and got inside. I found him sitting on a couch with some papers spread on the table at the front. The room was very large as a study room. It has two shelves on opposite sides with so many files embedded in them. There was a table in the centre with a chair at it's other side and the couch on which Laksh was seated was at it's left.

"What the hell were you doing? What took you so long?" he asked as soon as I closed the door behind me.

"There wasn't anything already made so I cooked... That's why..." I replied scared.

"And what are you waiting for now? Just get in here." he said clearly irritated.

I quickly walked to him and kept the bowl on the table. He took it and had a spoonful of the khichdi.

I gulped looking at the not so pleasant expression he gave after eating it.

"What the f*ck is this?" he asked angrily as he put the bowl back on the table with a loud sound.

"Khichdi..."

"Who told you to make this tasteless thing for me?" he asked with gritted teeth.

"No... no one... I thought that you're sho... shot..."

"Oh man! Here I'm trying so hard to not let my anger out on you but you're f*cking testing my patience continuously today."

"Just take this away. I don't want to eat anything, anymore. And send Yuvraaj here." he said as he got engrossed in the files again.

I timidly picked up the bowl and walked out of the study.

What is wrong with this man? Who dared to lit fire in his head today?

I found Yuvraaj seated with Ryan in the living area.

"Yuvraaj! Your brother is calling you."

"Did you tell him something about me?" he asked teasingly.

"Just go!" I said annoyed as I walked to the kitchen to put the bowl there.

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I don't even know actually how many weeks or days has passed from the time he has brought me here. He remains irritated most of the time from that day. I don't know why.

It's not like he was any better before but it seems different now. Even when he stays at the house, he has rarely come to my room after that night when he slept in my room, unlike before.

I'm feeling very sick today. First of all I'm locked up in this house from like ages and secondly, I'm on periods. Oh God! I hate these days. The pain, mood swings and all. I'm feeling so frustrated for no reason. I just want to go to the terrace and throw someone down. It'll be the best if the person will be the boss. So many of my problems will be solved. Infact, all of them. Huh!

I pulled my legs to my stomach as I kept laying on the bed, covered with the comforter in the dark room. The pain was too much to bear. I was even crying. Aargh! I hate it so damn much!

It was late morning but I was in no mood to get up and go downstairs to eat.

I just want to do nothing.

I got attentive as the door of my room opened and I knew who it was because there's only one person who never knocks when the door is not locked.

I put the comforter on my eyes as he turned on the lights of the room.

"At what time your morning starts?" I heard him asking from besides the table lamp.

"I don't want to get up." I replied keeping my tone down and not making him angry by speaking in an annoyed way.

"Why?" he asked and I heard his footsteps approaching me.

"I'm not feeling well." I replied with my face still hidden in the comforter.

He pulled the comforter away from me and threw it at the other side of the bed.

This bastard!

"You seem perfectly fit to me. What happened to you?" he asked to my curled self.

I turned my face to look at him.

"You were crying?" he asked with knitted eyebrows.

"No!"

"Lying again!"

"Yes!"

"Why?"

Huh... Really? He's asking why!

"I'm missing my brother!" I said.

"Just cut the crap and get up!" he said as he held my hand and tried pulling me out of the bed but I didn't cooperate so I fell back on the bed.

"Are you challenging my self control by acting like this?" he asked dangerously.

"I'm giving you three seconds to get up!" he said in a serious voice.

I shivered at his tone and immediately got up on my feet, not caring about the unbearable pain I was feeling in my abdomen.

"Just come with me." he said as he started walking out of the room.

I followed him downstairs and then to the dining table where his brothers were already seated for the lunch.

I don't want to eat. I just want to lie down.

It's so difficult to be with only boys. I wish there was any girl here who can understand my situation and pain.

I hate this bloody boss. He should get an award for being the biggest stupid in the world.

Don't he know about girls' problems? I'm sure he must have been with many women in the past and who knows, he's with someone at present also! I've heard that these people likes to play with women, their bodies and their emotions! Many at the same time.

Damn! Why do I even care about his relationship with any women? It has nothing to do with me. Let him do what he want. I don't care!

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