Chapter seven
"That Mohini idea is perfect," Raj praised Manu as he accepted a flower chain from him, "but I think we should concentrate on Pammi." He began to wind the chain around the pillar he was standing in front of, looking down at his friend as he said, "let's do to her what she did to Gunjan."
"No, Yaara," Manu replied immediately, shaking his head from where he was stood next to the stool Raj was standing on. "We're different to them. It's against my ethics to play with a girl's reputation like that. Besides, Pammi has no brain of her own. Mohini's the mastermind of this whole thing. Here, take this." He passed him a flower chain.
"That's enough, I don't feel like doing any work right now. You're a number one cheater!" Raj whined, throwing the chain at Manu. Manu raised an eyebrow, a questioning look on his face. "You said you'd make me meet my Soniyo but you still haven't! No, I refuse to work right now!" Raj turned his head away, crossing his arms like a petulant child.
Manu looked around before hitting Raj's leg. Raj looked down at him. "Arre, Yaara, we're standing in enemy territory and you're thinking about romance?"
"Look, I'll work right now because you're insisting but I won't start another task until you make me meet her! Understood?"
Manu smirked and handed the discarded chain back to Raj. "There you go. Get to work!" he ordered, smugly crossing his arms and turning away from Raj.
As Raj got back to decorating the pillar, Manu observed his surroundings. He did a double take when his eyes fell upon the lithe figure of Tanuja Bajwa standing a few feet away from him, looking straight back at him with her dark, dull eyes. She tugged her veil tighter around herself, tilting her head to ever so slightly to the side before slowly turning away.
As she walked off, away from the Bajwa haveli, Manu sprung into action. "Raj, you stay here okay? I'll be right back!"
Before Raj even had the chance to reply, Manu ran off in the very direction Tanu went mere seconds ago.
"Who's this now?" Mohini asked sceptically, narrowing her eyes at Preet but clearly directing the question at Raj.
"She's with me!" Raj answered.
"But that sardar ji was with you."
Raj didn't miss a beat and instantly said, "Well, there was a lot of work so I called... her..."
"Oh yeah?" Mohini asked, a calculating look on her face. "And what's her name?"
Raj slowly turned to Preet, smiling smugly at her. "Go on," he prodded, "tell her your name. Why are you being all shy?"
'He thinks I'll tell him my name,' Preet thought to herself as she threw Raj a distasteful look. 'As if!'
After a few seconds of silence, Mohini questioned, "Is she mute?"
"No, she's shy," Raj supplied, starting to look a little worried. "She doesn't talk much."
Preet turned away from Mohini and hid a smile behind her hand. 'He got that right...'
"Her name is..."-Raj looked at the calendar behind Preet-"her name is Preeti... Preeti..." Preet looked back at the calendar in evident surprise.
"Your associates are strange..." Mohini commented amusedly. "One talks a lot and the other doesn't say anything at all." Raj just smiled awkwardly whereas Preet kept a straight face. "Anyway, watch out. I won't tolerate workers engaging in any kind of romance under my roof." Preet's eyes widened. "Just focus on work."
"Okay," Raj complied cheerily.
"Go!"
As Raj and Preet exited the room, Mohini made her way back to her own. Preet didn't even look Raj's way as she went to stand on the balcony that overlooked the ground floor of the mansion. Raj joined her.
"Manu didn't tell me that he was sending you!"
"Why did you have to smile back there?" she asked, her voice marred with ire. "That auntie thinks we're having an affair!"
Raj turned to face her, grinning so hard it looked like his face was going to split into two. "Really? I didn't know." He inched closer to her, eventually backing her into the column next to the balcony rails. "She's not wrong, though, is she?" Preet glared at him. "Not really."
Without warning, she placed her hands on his chest and pushed him, sending him careening into the wall opposite her. "You are such a sleaze!" she exclaimed, the smirk on her face saying that she was more amused than offended.
"You will take my life one day," he said, still grinning.
She opened her mouth to deliver a no doubt cutting reply when she was interrupted by the ringtone of a mobile phone...
Noticed an odd blooper in the serial here. When Preet went to tend to Raj's injuries after Jagan and co. beat him up, she took her phone with her. In fact, Sukhi called her that night and she picked her phone up in front of Raj. He even asked her if it was Manu calling. As in, he clearly saw that she had her own mobile phone!
Then, Raj told Manu to get him Preet's number but Manu said it wasn't necessary that everyone had a mobile phone. He never said that she didn't have one but Raj took his comment to mean that, even when he saw Preet's phone with his own two eyes!
Anyway, when Raj met Preet again, at BH, and saw her with a phone he was shocked! He said that Manu told him that she (Preet) didn't have a phone. Quite bizarrely, Preet replied as if she didn't have a phone. I know she had to lie because it was obvious that her phone was Manu's but it just doesn't make sense. What a blooper.
The whole point of this mini-rant was that I've decided to erase that blooper in my FF. Here, Preet has a phone and Raj knows it. However, the fact that she has Manu's phone is explained away in the same manner as it was in the serial. Thanks for reading!
Edited by QueenKordeilia - 6 years ago
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