Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess

When Shreya woke up the next day, it was already well into the day. She was still very reluctant to open her eyes. So she just nuzzled in and was just about to fall back asleep when she felt something was wrong. When she felt around, her hands met with something hard and pounding against her ears instead of her soft pillows. Her eyes flew open and looked around herself carefully.

That is when she realized she was actually sleeping with Charan. Now that was not anything to be shocked about but what was new was how she was actually sleeping on him instead of with him.

He was still in the sitting position on her couch and was serving as her couch, bed, pillow and teddy bear all in on. She was practically sprawled all over him and his shirt had a night's worth of drool stains on it. She tried to move away embarrassed but then she realized Charan's had his arms around her holding her in place in an iron grip. Nothing she ever tried made him lose his grip and she did not have the heart to wake him up.

SO she just sat there and stared at his sleeping face. She could see the dark circles around his eyes even though she did not know why he had them in the first place. She was just about to snuggle in and go back to sleep as per her original plan. But just as she was closing her eyes, a sudden memory came crashing in and she heard herself say,

'I love you Charan…"

Shreya's eyes flew open all over again. That's when last night's memories came to her one after the other. Last night, she must have been really really muddled if she did not even realize something so painfully obvious. She nicely chided herself in her head.

"What kind of an idiot actually confesses and not even realize it??" She muttered to herself and an involuntary groan escaped her lips at her own stupidity but her attempt to bang some sense into her head was actually met with a hard c.h.e.s.t of Charan instead of a wall.

Instantly, Charan g.r.o.a.n.e.d in pain shifted his arms from around her to his c.h.e.s.t but he was still having a hard time opening his eyes. After all, by the time he very reluctantly closed his eyes and went to sleep, it was almost already dawn.

"I'm sorry… I am sorry… I did not mean to hurt... I was just…" Shreya apologized panicking and rubbed where she had just hit him but then her voice stopped when she noticed that he was going back to sleep.

She just rolled her eyes but midway they brightened with a mischievous glint sparkling in her eyes. She carefully shifted closer to his ears. Just inches away from ears she whispered, "I love you… isn't that what you were dying to hear yesterday night??"

Charan's eyes flew open instantly as if someone was burning him. When he processed what he just heard and searched for the source of it, Shreya had already broken free from his clutches and was running away giggling exuberantly.

Charan immediately followed suit and said hot on her trail, "You are not getting away from me this time…" Shreya's puny legs were no match for Charan long ones. He quickly caught up to her and the next she knew she was being lifted up in the air by a strong pair of arms and spun around.

Shreya let out a delighted squeal giggling. Her laughter filled the house and echoed through the walls. Charan's face softened. He carefully sat her on the table nearby and stood in front of her. His face was just inches away from hers while his eyes darted all over her. And to his eyes, she looked like a sinful she-devil disguised as an innocent gullible little girl… or it may be the other way round. But one thing he knew for sure is that he absolutely adored both sides of her. She had him wrapped in her pinkie fingers and he was not even complaining.

On the other hand, Shreya still couldn't stop giggling. Her mind kept playing the way he woke up just minutes ago. She found it hilarious how he shot up from his sleep all because of three words from her. His expression was priceless. He literally looked like a deer caught in front of a truck.

But in some small part of her heart, it also flattered her to no end that she had that kinda control over him and that she could evoke that kinda reaction from him.

Shreya eventually stopped her laughing fit when she saw Charan making googly eyes at her.

"Why are you looking at me as if I am some 8th wonder of the world or something??" Shreya asked frowning since Charan just kept gapping at her without really saying anything.

Charan came out of his trance and let out a chuckle at her reference.

"That you are sweetheart… that you are…" he agreed to her readily making her frown.

"What's with the 'sweetheart' anyways?? You never called me any endearment before!! And what am I exactly??" She asked once again.

"Why?? You don't like it??" Charan asked completely ignoring the second part of her question.

"I just… I don't know. It's just so cliché…" Shreya said shrugging her shoulders.

"Shouldn't you be having butterflies dance in your stomach hearing such endearments??" Charan asked now completely bemused.

"Well, butterflies happen because it's you who is calling me… someone dear to me… and not because you are calling in a certain way. If I am going to have butterflies only when you call me sweetheart or honey or something, then don't you think its more because of the word themselves and the disillusion surrounding it rather than the person calling it?? That kinda defeats the whole purpose doesn't it??" Shreya seriously answered making Charan just gap at her with his mouth open. She was a mystery he was never going to understand.

"But wait, you call Akira 'baby' and sometimes 'sweetheart'?? so how do you explain that??" Charan asked suddenly remembering.

"Well… it was not really endearment… I meant them literally… She is a baby and a sweetheart. So." Shreya replied in a 'duh' voice as if he was asking her all sorts of stupid questions.

"And you thought I did not mean it when I called you sweetheart??" CHaran asked at last somewhat understanding what she was trying to say.

"You and me both know I am no 'sweetheart'. More like a 'devil's heart' if there is such a term…" Shreya said rolling her eyes.

And that right there was the problem. But Charan knows how stubborn she could be so he did not really try to convince her otherwise. SO instead he made a thoughtful expression for a while and then said brightly, "Then I will just call you 'Apple' since sweetheart is out of option."

"It's a fruit Charan!!" Shreya stated the obvious.

"But it is not an 'endearment'. So it is not a cliché…" Charan said somehow forcing logic into his stupidity.

Shreya just blinked at him to see if he was serious. When she found that he was, she just let out an exasperated sigh and said, "You are weird!!"

"You still love me!!" Charan said c.o.c.kily.

That she does… SO she did not really say anything in reply but just gave him a big goofy grin.

That grin said it all to Charan. He scooped her off of the table and circled around excitedly. His own face had an equally sparkling grin.