Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess

The whole place was bustling with people all around. They were surrounded by dads trying to hold hands of children running around while mothers were curry flavoring kids to take their food. On one corner a little girl was throwing tantrum into making her parents buy her the balloons. Akira stopped there and looked at them for an extended minute with envy on her eyes before moving on. As soon as she turned away from them, she was met with a huge bunch of balloons in front of her.

Akira's eyes instantly gleamed in excitement as she stumbled towards them. Once Akira was right in front of her, Shreya, at last, lifted her hands and revealed her face with a big goofy smile.

"Who wants some balloons??" Shreya asked ginning.

"Meeee…." An excited reply came from Akira immediately.

"How many??" Shreya asked playing around with her.

"All of them," Akira replied reaching for them with both her hands. There were at least 2 dozen balloons there. The strings did not even fit in her small hands. But with some effort, she successfully took all the balloons out of Shreya's hands. But before going off the play with them, she gestured Shreya to hunch down. And when Shreya leaned down, Akira gave her a smacking kiss on her cheeks.

"Thank you, Shreya…" Akira said sincerely before going off to play in the park now armed with the balloons. Akira gave away most of them to the kids around. She even gave some to the kid she was watching before. After which both of them went away and played together.

The whole park was filled with laughter thereon. Some parents there even gave a smile to Shreya. Shreya took out her phone and clicked a string of pictures of Akira. Her face was glowing with so much happiness that it became contagious. Shreya was almost giddy with joy as she sent the pictures to Charan.

They were at the zoo. Sadly Charan couldn't make it. He had work. Hopefully, he could make it at least tomorrow. Shreya still couldn't help but smile remembering how Akira asked her out.

Akira had 4 days' leave this week due to some issues at school. And she had made a detailed plan before hands. On the last day of school, once she came home, she took it excited to Shreya. Shreya was actually checking out some company stuff in her study when she heard soft tapping of her small legs. Akira carefully cracked open the door slightly and peeked in first. But she did not go in. She stood there hesitating seeing as Shreya was working.

But Shreya had heard her come long before Akira even opened her study.

"Akira…" Shreya called out to come inside. Akira took careful steps in and stood a few feet away from the table.

"I will come back when you are don't have work. Just look at this for me when you are not busy." She said meekly and placed a piece of paper on the table. Akira was almost to the doors already when Shreya got to actually see what was written on the paper.

"Akira…" Shreya called out before she could run out completely.

Akira stopped on her track and looked behind.

"Come here for a second baby…" Shreya said gesturing Akira to come to her.

Akira took small steps and at last, came to a standstill beside her chair. Shreya scooped her up and sat Akira on her l.a.p.s.

"What is this baby??" Shreya asked gently. There were names of a bunch of places written in the note Akira just delivered. That was all.

"I just… I have a few days of holiday. SO I just… I just thought maybe we can go somewhere… That is if you are free…" Her voice was so small when she finished that it was barely a whisper.

"And these are places you want to go??" Shreya asked showing her the piece of paper.

"No no… We can go anywhere you want to go… I just… I just thought of some places…" Akira hurriedly explained but still failed to mask her wishes.

Shreya understood her just fine without the words.

"We can go to ALL of these places. Even I don't have work till Monday." Shreya said ruffling her small head.

"Really??" Akira asked instantly in disbelief. Her eyes showed all her insecurities and vulnerabilities. A little girl this small shouldn't be making that kinda faces. A little girl should be able to demand all the plush toys in the world and throw tantrums to be taken to the park. They shouldn't have to be mindful of office hours and hold back on what they want. But then Shreya couldn't really do anything about it now.

"Yes… Really." Shreya said smiling at her.

"Yes… I going to go tell dad about this." She said excitedly giving Shreya a quick hug before hopping down from her l.a.p.s.

Shreya's daydreaming was interrupted when she heard Akira call out for her to push her on the swing for which Shreya obliged readily.

After an hour of playing around Akira, at last, got tired. They were now sitting in an eatery trying to catch a breath.

Akira ordered a milkshake. When they were waiting for the orders to be served, Shreya took Akira's small hands in hers and held on to it gently under Akira's curious glance.

"You missed your mom today, right??" Shreya asked gently.

Akira's eyes widened hearing to Shreya but she hung her head low the next second trying to hide her emotions.

Shreya once again scooped her on her l.a.p.s and softly spoke to Akira. "Baby, it's okay to miss your mum. Just don't be too sad when you do okay??"

Akira did not say anything for a while but then said in a small voice, "I know. She always told me that whenever I miss her, I should give her a big smile. It's just so hard. Sometimes I just want to see her so bad that I end up being sad…"

Shreya embraced the little bundle onto her arms and gave her a hug. After all, what are words worth when you can't make the pain go away.

"She… Before she… I mean one of the last places we went together was the zoo. So… I just…" Akira mumbled without really completing any of her sentences.

"Where else did you guys go?? Did you have fun??" Shreya asked.

And that was all Akira needed. She started talking about her mum with a joyous expression. She told Shreya about all their adventures and outings forgetting all the sadness.

Something warmed Shreya's heart when she heard Akira talk. She just kept smiling and listened to her clumsy words as she tried to recollect everything she ever remembered about her mum.