Girlfriend

"kunwar sa, welcome," the attendee said to kush as he stopped his scar in front of the palace.

"Thank you, please park the car," he said as he walked inside the palace only to find his mother talking to veerendra.

"Kush," Her eyes fell on him as he walked towards her and touched her feet.

"Aayushmaan bhava," she blessed him as he looked at her and then at Veerendra.

He did not know how to behave in front of him now that he caught veerendra's daughter stealing information from his company.

"Maa-sa," he said as she nodded at him and walked away.

"We shall meet at the court, Raani sa," veerendra said and walked away.

Kush's mother went to his old room and found kush sitting on the rocking chair, she remembered how he got that one for himself after asking so much.

She was sceptical that he would jump on the rocking chair and hurt himself somehow.

"I heard your girlfriend helped you with all this," she said as kush sighed.

"Yeah," he did not explain much.

"You would need her at the royal court proceedings," she reminded him as he nodded.

"I'll have her voice note, that would be enough," he said as his mother frowned.

"She is not going to be here today?" She asked.

"I don't know," he replied.

"You guys fought?" She asked keeping her hand on his shoulder.

Kush remembered her words from earlier as he shook his head.

"Happens," she replied. Her phone pinged with a message as kush looked at her.

"I want you and her in the royal court when you guys are called for," she said in her authoritative voice before she walked out.

"She would not come, maa-sa ," kush whispered to himself as he looked at his phone. Her contact was displaying on the screen. He could hit the call icon and it would connect to her but somehow he did not have the courage to call her when she denied coming here with him.

** "Fuck," she cursed looking at him as he pulled his hair for a second.

"How can you be this stupid, kush," she asked as she sat opposite him.

"I was drunk in betrayal, sorry if I uttered one wrong word," he said clearly pissed at this whole situation.

"What now?" She asked after a moment of silence.

"Can you, umm... Can you pretend to be my girlfriend in front of my family?" He asked as she stared at him for a second.

"No," she said clearly as the hope in his eyes fell.

"Nayera, I would need your statement at the royal court proceedings," he reasoned as she nodded.

"You may call me at that time or have my voice note but I won't pretend to be your girlfriend there, in front of your family," she said turning her face away from him.

He knew those were her last desicion, she would not change it.

Sighing he got up picking his suit jacket and phone from the couch.

"It's not even 5 in the morning, where are you off to?" She asked standing up.

"I need to reach my place and then the palace, i should leave, thank you," he said and walked out of her room not letting her say anything else to him. **

"Kush? Kush?" Ranaji aka kush's father called him in the court him as he nodded and hurriedly walked to his so called place in the royal court.

"Present your witness, kunwar sa," ranaji said as kush turned silent.

"I have her voice not—"

Before he could compete his words, the sound of jhunghru filled the court room as someone came running towards the court room.

"I am sorry I am late," she said to the whole court room as ranaji's eyes fell on her.

Kush could not belive the girl who was standing in front of him.

Wearing a red chickenkari anakarkali suit with slits on the side giving it the look of a long kurti, kush stared at her in astonishment.

The usually crimped and perfectly styled ahir were now starighen to perfection. A few strangers falling on her face as she moved towards him with payal I'm her legs that made sounds with her heels on the go.

Wearing oxidised jhumka and a red dupatta, lite makeup on her face and wait what, she was wearing eyeliner?

The Nayera Garg he knows, never wore eyeliner, her eyes always had smoky makeup on them or a wild look.

But this girl in front of him was nothing wild, she looked so fragile as if one taint on her and she would break into a thousand peices.

The sudden urge to protect her from the world rose in his heart as she stood beside him.

He took a second to place her duppata on her head as she looked at him with a small smile.

Her light red lipstick suited her so perfectly.

She looked that girl, the innocent sweet girl you read about in books, this was the first time kush was seeing this side of hers and man, if he was not surprised!

"Thanks, " she whispered as he nodded, it was a rule to cover your head in the royal court room. He did not want his family to give it the idea that she was disrespecting them or the royals.

"I am sorry, I am late sir," she said in a clear but slightly low voice.

"It's okay and you may address me as ranaji in this court room," he said as she nodded.

Telling he whole court room that she respected him for the position he held.

Kush held her hand sending them the message that she was his.

Fake even but she was his for the moment

so ms. nayera tell the corit what happened with mr veerendra's daughter and hownyoubtwo caught her selling the information.

with all due respect i assure you we did caught her selling information to the guy in your hold rana ji