Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess

Charan sat there on the sand while wind and waves deafened his hearing. His eyes were trailed keenly on Akil, Akira and Preethi playing in the water. It was nice to see Preethi having fun. Usually, because of the long hours, she is almost always not home. Akil, being the m.a.t.u.r.e kid he was always had been understanding and never asked for his mum. He knew his mom was out there earning for him and saving lives. But seeing them both having fun today was such a blissful change to watch.

After an hour or so, Preethi at last came and sat next to his brother exhausted while the kids settled down to building something with the sand.

"Sit far away Preethi… I don't want to get wet!!" Charan said making a stinky face.

He did not like getting wet. He was not a fan of water in general least of all saltwater. So he scurried away from her a bit by himself when he saw that his sister was not making any attempt to move.

Preethi just looked at his brother as if he was an idiot. He knew Charan was slightly a neat freak and that is why he wouldn't play in the water but then she did not bother changing him. She is a doctor and had no problem, so why was he having a problem?? She never understood it.

Their parents were actually back home. They had accompanied them all morning as they visited all sorts of temples. But since they couldn't really do anything on the beach and also tired they let the youngsters go to the beach. Bharath would have accompanied them too but then he got called out by his friends at the last minute.

Preethi just sat there enjoying the moment. It was such a rare thing to get free time like this for her. But that doesn't mean she did not like her job. She actually did but it was just slightly exhausting. And every time she got the slightest chance, she spent it sleeping. So this was good for a change.

She just gazed at the sun mesmerized. God knows how long it had been since she last saw a sunset.

The sun was coming down slowly making breathtaking scenery. It was orange and red making the waves look as if the ocean was actually bleeding or something. Preethi's breathing almost hitched when she saw the scene unfold in front of her.

Right then Akira shrilled, "Dadddyyyy…"

Charan quietly got up from his place and approached his daughter.

"Yes, baby…" He asked as he came close to her.

When he went near, he saw the clumsy-looking castle that both little ones had managed to make. It was small and falling down. But it did look like a castle which was the point right.

"You did great kiddos. It looks fabulous!!" Charan praised the kids generously.

Both Akira and Akil bloomed like flowers instantly and gave him a big smile. By then Preethi also joined them. Akil looked expectantly at his mother.

Preethi's brows frowned looking the lump of sand awkwardly shaped into somewhat cylinders. Guess, like beauty, art also depends on the eyes of the beholder. What looked like a castle to Charan looked like a lump of sand to Preethi.

"What is…. Ouch!!!" Preethi started asking what it was in confusion but failed and wailed in pain when Charan suddenly stomped her on her foot giving her a glare.

Thankfully the kids were not paying attention to Preethi when she started asking the question. All they noticed was her shouting in pain all of a sudden. Akil instantly got up from his place and stumbled towards his mom with his small legs.

"Mumma… Are you okay?? What happened??" He asked concerned. Preethi internally cooed at her son's care.

But then she did not want to rat out his own brother, so she just rubbed slightly on her foot that just got stomped by her stupid brother and looked at her son with a slight smile and said, "Nothing bud. Just mosquitoes." While simultaneously giving her brother a stinky glare discretely.

"Oh, weren't you going to say how excellent the CASTLE they have made is??" Charan said in between her glare with slight ice and special emphasis on the word castle. Charan was long before aware of Preethi's inability to please children. She knew how to take care of them and treat them. Sure… but when it came to pleasing them or charming them, she had zero talent. But since Akil was a really smart kid, he overcompensated for his mum and let things slide. But Charan did not have the heart to make him go through it today… not when he could help it.

That is why he was helping his own idiot doctor sister today.

Preethi, thankfully caught what he meant and said with an exciting smile, "Yes guys. You guys did a great job. It looks fantastic… Just like a castle."

The children gave an excited smile that almost felt like it's going to hurt their jaws.

"Dada… take a picture and send it to Shreya please…" Akira said and posed in front of the castle with a proud big smile making a 'v' with her fingers.

"Okay bud, you stand here and Akira will stand there. Now, look at me with your best smiles…" Charan instructed the kids and took numerous pictures with his phone.

Once he was done sending them, Shreya instantly replied with a humongous amount of kissing with a heart emojis.

When Akira saw this, she beamed all over again and sent kisses back to Shreya. Preethi could clearly see his phone as Akira typed the reply. Her eyes zeroed in on the media before the photos that Charan had just sent. It was photos of Shreya that his own dear daughter had sent to him to torture him from Shreya's phone.

Her brows frowned on the familiarity.

"Is that Shreya??" She asked Akira pointing at the photo.

Akira nodded absentmindedly and continued to text with Shreya.

For Preethi, it was hard to place faces since she ran into hundreds of people literally every single day. After a while, all the names and faces just blur into one… A patient. And a patient is remembered by his or her chart and not by name or face.

So the familiarity kinda confused her.

"I know her. I have seen her…" She said out loud to no one in particular.

Even though Charan and Akira talked a lot about Shreya, they never showed them any photos of her. SO no one knew how she looked until they actually met. But since Preethi never made it that day, Charan frowned in confusion to what she was saying just now.

"Where?? A couple of years back, her photo was actually published in newspapers. So you might remember from them" Charan said seeing as she did not know where exactly she had seen Shreya.

"No… not like that. I saw her somewhere like in person. And it happened recently too. I am sure. But I am just not sure where…" Preethi explained vaguely while trying to remember where she had seen that face.

That day when she first examined Adam, she was focused on her work and he was just another patient so, she never gave any attention to her surroundings. That is why she only remembered things vaguely even though it had happened only a couple of days ago.

After wracking her brain for a good 5 minutes, she still couldn't place the face. So she just let it go and went and helped her son who was doing something with the sand beside the castle.

"Hey bud, what are you doing here??" She asked sitting down beside him.

"A castle… A castle that you can recognize." He said with determined eyes.

Preethi's cheeks heated up instantly. She blushed and looked at her son with a sheepish smile.

"I know you had no idea what that is!!" Akil once again said but then also smiles at her mum and said, "And I am making one now which you will actually recognize."

"You know what?? Even I will help you!!" She said and joined him in his venture that had originally started because of her own stupidity somehow.