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He looked up from his ice cream giving me a lopsided smile, "You think Viaan bro was doing a simple task?" His snorting led me further into bafflement.
"He was target practicing on horseback." Informing casually, Aaryan went back to eating his ice cream.
"Target practicing? He didn't have any bow on him."
"He doesn't use bows. He likes his guns, with a silencer on." Aaryan bit into the wafer cone. My mouth dropped open at his answer. Viaan was practicing with guns and I had been sitting before him, pressed up against him, totally oblivious?The heights of naivety!
More than my naivety, it must be the other things that swallowed the gun’s sound around us, like the horses galloping, the sound of fencing and of course my extreme excitement to be riding a horse that nothing else mattered.
"By the way, our big mother's birthday is next month. How are your dancing skills?" Aaryan threw a curious look at me.
"You don't put dance and me in the same sentence. We are the opposite poles of the earth," I snorted. Pun intended.
"You better start practicing. We usually have a dancing ritual at the party. All the members of Raivardhan family should be flaunting out their dancing skills there. It's a compulsion, like a tradition."
Huh, tradition? I so badly wanted to laugh right now. But I resorted to maintaining a neutral face.
"And who's gonna teach me how to dance?" I raised my eyebrow tauntingly.
Aaryan exhaled loudly as a wicked glint sparkled in his eyes, though he had a defeated expression on, "Who else? The one and only..."
I waited for him to complete it though I had a hunch that he would say his own name like a narcissist he was. I casually licked the creamy part of the ice cream only to choke on it when he completed the sentence and said the name I had never expected. Coughing vigorously, I kept hitting my chest to ward it off.
Aaryan watched me like an innocent little bystander while his eyes shone with amusement.
*Cough*, "What did you," *another cough*, "Say? Who," *another cough*, "Will teach me?" then I resumed my vigorous coughing.
"Why so surprised? Who else but," Aaryan paused to let out an unintentional smirk before completing, "Vikrant?"
Please, someone, stab me with a spoon. Now!
28. ATHAIS
"No."
We had only entered the living room and that was the first word that came out of my mouth when Aaryan had again opened his mouth to say something. And that something was something that I didn't want to hear. You get what I mean, right? Right? Just forget it...
He closed his mouth and raised his eyebrow in amusement. His arms crossed across his chest, waiting for my explanation as if he was getting one.
I turned around to find Neel who had paused to watch our little show unfold instead of reading whatever interesting file he was holding. Yeah, the black and white papers would be much more interesting than the little circus that Aaryan had trying to pull off.
"Will you at least—" I cut Aaryan off in the middle saying, "What part of ‘N’ and ‘O’ put together did you not understand?"
"Fine. Do as you wish," Aaryan whined as he tiredly sat down on the sofa, sighing in resignation. Thank goodness, he had finally decided to give up!
He had been bugging me for the past two hours about the same thing. Dancing.
And my reply had been adamant. NO!
I turned around to walk towards my room when I heard Aaryan grumble, "Let me see what she will do when all the other girls buzz around Viaan for a dance at the party. And then I will taunt her with 'I told you so'."
I didn't know where my temper had been to fill my veins instantaneously. Maybe the vivid imagination of girls flocking around my husband making him pick one of them while pushing me out of their way did the trick. I whipped around to face my annoying brother-in-law, exclaiming, "Like in hell I would allow that!"
I didn't know if I indeed saw it or not, but I think I saw something like a wicked glint pass through his eyes before he looked annoyed.
"Yeah, like you would, in hell," he replied tauntingly.
"No one gets their claws on that jerk, except for me. Only I have the right to stamp on his toes for the path of the fire," I said, raising my chin causing both the brothers to raise their eyebrows.
