Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess

Because of all the playing around, Akira fell asleep as soon as her head touched the bed. Just as Shreya was getting out of Akira's room, she heard someone opening the front door. When she walked to the living room, she found Charan sitting taking off his tie with his head rested behind. Shreya came and sat beside him.

"How was your day?" Shreya asked looking at his tired face.

"Fine," Charan said looking at her with a smile. Then after a while, he leaned sideways and laid down resting his head over her l.a.p.s. Charan snuggled in comfortably while Shreya just ran her hands through his hairs softly.

There was something extremely just right about this picture. Shreya played with his hair with a slight smile. Her smile was content and happy.

For a long time now, from the time she had lost her parents; this was all she ever wanted in her life. A sense of normalcy… an ordinary day. But it had been hard to get.

"What about you guys? Did you guys have fun?" Charan asked closing his eyes relishing in her soothing touch.

That's when Shreya came out of her head and told him all about her day with Akira. She described it with such vivid details that Charan could almost picture the both of them right in front of his eyes as if he was actually there watching them.

Once she was done with all the fun parts, she paused. Shreya slightly hesitated before continuing, "She… she missed Samantha today. She talked about her a lot." She said and looked at Charan for his reaction.

Charan paused listening to her and his eyes flew open in surprise. He just looked at her slightly confused to make sure he heard her right.

"What is it??" Shreya asked confused seeing the expression on his face.

"You are telling me Akira talked about Samantha??" He asked surprised.

"Yes… why?" Shreya asked once again.

"Nothing. It's just… for some reason, she wouldn't talk about Samantha anymore. It was almost like she was trying to forget about her entirely all of a sudden. I never even noticed it. All I know was one second she couldn't shut up about Sam and the next second, let alone talk about Sam, she will become extremely quiet when anyone else even mentioned Sam in front of her. SO even I slowly curtailed talking about Sam in front of her… We always only mentioned her in some abstract form. I thought I could maybe talk to her when she was a little bit older and explain things better." Charan encountered. His emotions were complicated at that moment. He couldn't understand why Akira would talk to Shreya but not him. But he was still happy that Akira had confined at least to Shreya.

"She said she went to the zoo with Sam. But she did not remember all the details. Just vague things like how she rode on her shoulders once to see a lion or how they shared an ice cream. At first, she did not talk at all. But when I asked her about it, she opened up slowly." Shreya explained.

"Yea… When Sam first got diagnosed, she begged the doctors to let her have a week before she got admitted. And that one week, Sam spent every waking minute with Akira. She went crazy and took her to all the places she could possibly think of. It was almost like she was trying to imprint some happy memories of her for Akira's sake." Charan replied remembering. But then he became absolutely silent contemplating on something.

"You know… it's probably because you become sad every time you talk about Sam that Akira had stopped talking about her…" Shreya said breaking him away from his thoughts.

Charan did not reply but then blinked at Shreya for a while when a sudden burst of memory came to him.

"What is it??" Akira asked seeing as his brain was working overtime.

"There was that one day… I was not really in a very good place in my head that day. Akira came home excited about some project work she did at school. She drew the whole family with our old house on the background. I just lost it that day. I don't even know what happened after that very clearly. I just remember waking up the next day with red eyes and Akira sleeping curled up beside me in my bed. She was hugging me so tightly as if she was afraid to lose me too." Charan said with a distant look on his eyes. Since Akira did not say anything about that day, he always thought everything was alright. Maybe he said something to her that he shouldn't have.

"Just talk to her. She is a big girl. She will understand." Shreya said. She was not just saying this. She knew for a fact that Akira is m.a.t.u.r.e enough to understand if Charan talked to her properly.

"I just… she was so little back then you know. I just did not think she will remember is all." Charan said closing his eyes all over again.

"She was probably desperately trying to protect you in her own way," Shreya said softly.

"I just wish I hadn't put her through anything worse right after she lost her mom," Charan whispered guiltily.

"You don't have to be guilty about it. She is your daughter and a family. I know you think she is too small that you have to protect her from everything. But trust me when I say this, she will be better if you actually let her help you. She loves you as much as you love her so she will want to do her part to help you. Let her do it for you Charan. She will feel better." Shreya said still running her hands over his hair.

"She grew up a little too soon didn't she??" Charan asked with a sad smile.

"Inevitably so. It had nothing to do with how you raised her. The minute she lost her mom… she had to grow up. Both of you never really had any choice. When you lose someone so integral to your life, it changes you." Shreya replied with a slightly sad smile.

But Charan knew she was probably talking from experience. Given she was way bigger than Akira when she lost her mom but when she did, she lost both her parents.

Charan circled his arms around her torso and hugged her tightly, giving and taking comfort simultaneously.