His Pretended Fiancee`(spin off of Marriage For Convenience)

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

"So you went to get catheter for him?" Sia asked as she leapt towards grand pa excited "Hiiii! handsome, I am Sia" she extended her hand for a shake.

Over excited granpa too extended his hand but wobbled since he was on a treadmill.

"Ooh, oop! Aah!' two of them shouted and quickly did Sia pushed the emergency stop button acting normally as last few seconds of panic didn't happen at all.

To say I was impressed would be an understatement of the century.

"Hey I like your swag. Its so cool" Sia complimented. 

If she was mocking at gran pa's still16 at 40 avatars, it did not show.

Rather she gave her input "this black strap of your iwatch just doesn't go with your happening outfit. Wait let me shop for you."

Without wasting any time she quickly scrolled through the shopping apps for straps of gran pa's watch 

"Rose gold?' she asked and then denied "too sober"

"White?" she denied again "nuh!, doesn't match your age.

"I thought of buying red but then" gran pa trailed off looking for words

I wanted to fill in 'boodhi ghodi laal lagaam*red color is too bright for me' kind of answer but when he said "Red is a nice color, it portrays strength, power and hotness but what I fear is having it on my wrists, if I lose temper at my grand son for not introducing me to a beauty with brains like you earlier, I don't think he'll survive" his fists already coiled to form a punch made me speechless

What am I saying? I am already speechless.

They too were so busy that they have forgotten that they have company aka me or I was the one who brought a companion with whom grandpa is getting too warm with.

"You are right" Sia supported gran pa's opinion about red "red signifies hot and temper and on your wrist, someone like Sandy" she signalled her thumb at me and continued "would surely knock dead out"

oh! So they do remember I am here.

"I actually like you. You are so cool and have already gifted me such lovely strap so I forgive you for not meeting me earlier in the morning." Gran pa said as he sent a hi-five towards Sia who responded equally enthusiastically.

"Thanks gran pa" I said barging in "but isn't it mean to forgive someone with a bribe?"

"Who said I have forgiven you?" he said mocking anger "and I like this girl not because she has gifted me that lovely multicolored nylon woven strap but because she is a lively girl and accepts people as they are without intending to force her views on them."

I knew he was indicating Genelia and her snobbish ways of how she'd always offer her do's and don't's list to him

"Actually we have to be formally introduced" Sia chimed in just like wind shrime "I am Sia Malhotra, his fiancée and your buddy now if you don't mind."

"Of course I do mind" Gran pa said a little curtly, an annoyed edge in his voice making Sia lose her color for fraction of a second till gran pa laughed heartily "My gran son has a fiancée. Hell! He broke up with that b***h of his girlfriend and this good news was never delivered to me.

"You did not know about his break up?" Sia asked shocked "almost entire India and the entire social media came to know about it."

"Nay" gran pa waved off his hands "I am not a social website fan, his dad" he made a grudging face "is a little overboard and maniac about it." He raised his hands dusting off as if the social websites are termites trying to crawl over him "one addict is enough in the family."

"Very true handsome" Sia wrapped her arms around the plump shoulders of grand pa "good so you did not come to know when the queen bee of social website posted on her effbee page "single... Broke up with the jerk probably gay"

"Gay?" gran pa yelled "she called him gay? That b***h. Let me go and show her difference between gay and man" he was ready to barge out of the house, his eyes seeing red.

"Don't worry buddy, I replied her by posting" Sia opened her effbee page and displayed her tagging "did you mean you are a gay/lesbian. Because he is now my fiancée and extremely HOT in capital in bed"

My heart swelled at that revelation.

"You did that for me?" I asked, an awed expression on my face.

"No" she denied immediately "she was sending threatening messages to me privately about leaving you" Sia casually scrapped the remnants of already removed nail paint and said shrugging "I replied her openly."

"That's my girl" gran pa hugged her "she is a keeper son"

He told me.

'I know' I mouthed back earning a sly shy smile from Sia who did her best not to display it full on.

"I forgot to tell you I am not getting dialysis done today." Gran pa announced turning to Sia "can you recommend some latest English hits?"

"But why?" I reasoned, "Today is the scheduled day"

"Not today" he clicked his tongue like a little schoolboy denying having milk before going to school. "I am expecting someone" red crept on his face as he mentioned the special someone.

"Its Wednesday today, Mrs. Grace is not coming today."

"No" he made a whistle face "she is." He picked a brush to comb his white hair.

Sia too excited was now jumping while holding gran pa's arms "who is Mrs. Grace" she wriggled her eyebrow "someone special" she rotated her neck in a way I can never do in my life time like a classical dancer "someone has a crush" she bumped into his shoulder teasing him.

"M/s Grace is gran pa's physio." Gran pa didn't let me finish as he hit me softly saying "she is my semi-girlfriend."

"Semi girlfriend?' Sia was curios enough to kill the massive cat by now "This is new. Tell me" she now folded her legs sitting Indian style on gram pa's carpeted floor "Now I am going to meet this special Grace and then leave."

"Between" she pulled grandpa from his wrists to make him sit down besides "Tell me what is semi girlfriend?"

Blushing gran pa twisted his tongue around his lips and shyly accepted "I like her and she likes me, I take her as my girlfriend, she doesn't take me as my boyfriend" he pouted like a baby "so she is my semi-girlfriend. " then just like explaining a mathematic theorem he explained "semi circle you see is half circle and therefore from my side half proposal and half acceptance of her being my girlfriend is final.

"Oh!" she said her mouth opened to a dramatic O "Now I understand" she smiled at her victory of understanding such a complicated theory.

"But what I failed to understand is Why would someone ever say no to such a hawt " she eyed him top to bottom " and handsome dude like you. Either your girl is blind or she needs to get her brain checked." She then twisted her head around her shoulders "I have would have said yes in first proposal only"

Is she insane?

Having me as her pretended fiancée even though we are age difference of 6 years is bothering me, she wants to go with gran pa..

And their age gap would be what 40..ishhh.

"Nah! " gran pa raised his hands "I am good. Though it is appealing to have you as my girlfriend but when I get to see my gran son" he looked at me sympathetically "I doubt if he'd ever get a better girl for himself other than you. He's that naïve'

Was it that important to add the last line? 

But when it comes to me all my family members intend to pick on the first chance to humiliate me.

Including my pretended fiancée*please insert a crying emoji here for extra dramatics*

But it is true

"Actually Mrs. Grace is the only guardian to her grandson son" I filled in to take away the attention from me "she wants to finish off her responsibilities before she commits to another man. She probably doesn't love him either"

"She loves me" gran pa dismissed my verdict with wave of his hand "she is only too shy and afraid of what society has to say"

"You know what" Sia said enthusiastically "I do understand her. I can actually feel her. But I have to admit one thing yours is the coolest love story I have ever heard. Yay! Come on handsome give me five" she raised her hand for a clap and guess what gran pa did?

No freebies to have guessed that he hi-fived her back!

Long lost friends!! This is what I named them 

With an * of being from another reincarnations.

Now how many of you have heard of the latest mobile camera feature of blurring the background as we take a picture; the orphanage commercial?

Yes I feel like the name of the orphanage who has been blurred as the two I mean my gran pa, MY very own gran pa and my pretended fiancée who'd gelled up like gluestick and the glue gun as they two were lost in their own world first trying to find out whose tongue is the longest and reaches the nose?

The grossest being gran pa actually inserted his tongue into his nostrils to prove his point or to prove that his tongue was actually abnormally bigger

Now wonder he lost handsdown

Then they had another competition rolling of who looks funniest and ugliest in the Face filter feature of napschat, then they started having bull fight with each other as they used their hands as theirs horns for the effect and started attacking each other.

Though I was a distant memory but I was actually contended that a relationship of mine could actually make gran pa feel like himself and share a laugh like he was a kid again.

I was starting to like the girl much more than I had intended.

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"I thought you were a good influence

I thought you'd bring change

I thought you were the responsible one, the caring one, one I could rely inspire of your discrepancies but I should have better known. You could never come up from your title of a moron" if you guys haven't realized the blabbering was from none other than my personal angel of death Raj.

Only factor being he is powerless.

I rubbed the tragus of my ear; one more word from Raj and my ears would bleed.

I think he's planning to murder me for dating his sister by his harmless threats and curses.

Wait Raj is blabbering that means he is panicking.

Something got to be wrong

Thankfully Angie snatched the phone from him "Sandy Is Sia with you?" she asked politely but I could hear the stress in her voice.

"No Angie. She was here yesterday and had a great time with grand pa but I haven't talked to her since morning. Is everything alright?" I asked trying to mask my worry.

If Angie is stressed about Sia this was supposed to be big.

"F### everythig is alright:" Raj cursed from behind her but Angie dominated over him because next I heard was her explaining "she had a session with her therapist today. You do know that she is under treatment and visits a therapist.

"Yes I do" I affirmed avoiding the part that I too visit the same therapist.

"She did something out there. She is.." Angie tried to explain but I cut her down.

"Listen Angie please I would prefer hearing it from Sia herself. Tell me where is she?" I asked worried shitless.

"We don't know" this was Raj on the line. "She left the doctor and is missing since then, she tried.. she tried to kill."

"Sandy please tell us if she is with you" this was Angie on the line now. "I thought, we thought she'd come to you. Where is she Sandy? Mom is losing it"

"Angie relax. I will get her home by evening" I promised confidently shocked at my own confidence.

Next was to follow the actions of my words.

I had least of the ideas where Sia was.

I did get a hunch that whatever she did at the therapist was beyond her own imagination.

She cannot hurt anyone..

But the other night she had fallen into a brawl

Could she really do it?

My first instinct answer was no

And my instincts were as strong as the one that promised Angie that I'd get her home by evening.

Clueless I started with the first obvious thing and that was to call her and as expected she did not reply.

I repeated calling but in vain.

Finally I texted her 

I knew texting her and asking to pick up her phone or simply reply would be useless.

So I texted her "Stop playing Candycrush and pick up your phone"

"I am not playing candycrush" was her instant reply.

"Ha! I know you have signed in a ceeya with an owl face as your profile name and currently you just broke the highscore of level 788

"Nice hunch but you are sadly mistaken. Tell raj and Angie I am okay and don't send their mutts to look after me."

"Woo hoo! so you know I play as mutt you are playing candy crush and I also know you are travelling in a metro."

'You are bluffing ' she texted back immediately.

"So you are in a metro?"

I waited long for her reply and when I was about to give up she texted back

"Was this a wild guess?"

So she indeed was in a metro " If I have won the guessing game. Can I get my reward now?" I asked through another message

"Ha ha! wishful thinking" she replied

"Haha! Back, now that you are laughing, you have cooled down and world is safe so you can come home." I added 'please' with a puppy dog face emoji.

"I do not want to go home." She texted back with a sad face and also added next 'for now'

"How about Belgium waffles?" I offered.

She'd mention once they were her favorite.

"The chandni chowk branch? c u in 10"

I threw my fists in the air

That was some progress

I quickly put on my trousers and tee 

Yes I was in my boxers

What do you expect?

It was my day off

Cut me some slack

"So how did you get to know where was I?" Sia asked as she bit into her waffle licking the chocolate dripping on the side of her lips with her tongue

If the sight was alluring I tried not to comment.

"It was a guess right or you had one of your friends happening to pass by" Sia asked

"I had been a candy crush addict." I stated.

"Had been?" Sia asked back.

"How many answers do you want?" I said irritated 

But when she continued her stink eye on me I confessed 'I still am but I have deleted it from my mobile phone"

"Whoa impressive Bravo!" she complimented as she patted me on my shoulders "you have done a great job for your country."

She hyped me and then widened her eyes and turned into a serious face "Now tell me where do you play that game."

I scratched my hair and then admitted sheepishly "I play it on my tablet" then biting the inner of my cheek I added "sometimes"

"I resort to the game whenever I am upset. I guess even you were playing the game. Icebreaker I guess" I explained 

"And the metro thing?"

"You were upset and wanted to be lonely and when you were typing your texts the words were jumbled up so it was clear that you were traveling. So to be precise you were in the Metro to airport so that you could sit seclude and no one bothers you while you play candycrush and clear your mind off."

She puckered her lips and she complimented again "Smart huh!"

Today should be declared a holiday in the calendar of world.

Twice in a day Sia complimented me instead of humiliating me.

It's a special day for me!

"But tell me how did you get so much scores in the levels. Do you cheat?' she commanded, "tell me the truth."

I broadened my shoulders already elevated at the few compliments that Sia had thrown my way "What do I say other than you are engaged" dramatically I hugged her a bit too intimately "to the best!" I self boasted myself earning laughter from Sia.

"Stop flattering yourself" she distanced herself from me saying curtly "I am not engaged. We are pretending remember"

Reality hit me like an ice bucket water challenge 

I finally uttered the truth "even I had bad days when my only outlet was the piece of phone and only colors that were visible were the colors of candy. I wasted hours together swiping those candies, doing nothing."

"If you liked the game so much. Why did you delete it from your mobile?" Sia asked the most dreadful question that I wished to avoid till the rest of my life.

"Uh huh! You do not want me to answer" I said trying to change the topic "Bluberry waffle?" I offered which I had denied her rather we had small brawl when she wanted to try the flavor and I told her not for blueberry always reminds me of yucky syrups that I had to pour down my throats whenever I was young.

"Don't change the topic and tell me what made you delete the game from your mobile?" she insisted 

and like a sweet charmer that I am I caved in

"Actually we were on one of our visits of medical camp to a very remote village.

There this guy thought that he had a cyst in his pen..is" I said still uncomfortable narrating the incident.

I told him I'd check him up when the notification of full lives popped up on my mobile screen

I had been working for five hours straight. I thought playing one game would mean no harm and help me freshen up.

So I asked him to wait and started playing.

But a loud shriek by one of the nurses made me throw my phone in panic.

The nurse was working in a small hospital nearby village 

And when she entered my tent where I was examing the patient she saw that the guy was rotating his p***s in front of me and since I was busily occupied with the game, she thought I was taking pictures of the special organ of the innocent villager.

She started cursing at me I was a pervert, bisexual, tharki.. and on and on she went on going till Angie tried to convince her I was a responsible doctor.

She showed my entire gallery to the nurse to make sure that I hadn't clicked any of the pictures.

Thank fully there weren't any 

Although the nurse still hates me for the umm.. pictures; the obscene ones that every guy has in his library." I bit my tongue as I detailed her.

That night Angie was so angry at my antics when she came to know the entire story of how I was playing a game on my mobile while on duty and how the poor villager was ignored while was busy entertaining myself.

So she made me delete the game" I ended not before add a "ruthless" for Angie.

A laughing Sia was rolling on the floor at the story "I wonder what would have the nurse thought about you and how still she'd be scared of being in same room as you. Sandy the charmer" she kept on laughing.

"I am glad' I took a British bow "I could make you laugh at my humiliation." Then I added slowly as I wanted to tell her since morning "This world is really not worth crying for."

"Hmm...mmm" she replied turning down serious all of a sudden "do you know what happened at the clinic today?" she asked 

"At the therapist?' I confirmed if I was in same line of thoughts as her "Angie tried to tell but I denied hearing. I thought it was your choice whether to share it with me or not."

"I attacked my therapist. I was about to kill her." she admitted, her eyes lowering to her heeled sandals as she felt guilty and was avoiding eye contact with.

I pressed her palms softly "Don't worry it was only a spur of the moment thing, a reaction." I tried to assure her "you wont ever hurt soul."

She gave a small sarcastic laugh "you can never be more wrong. You don't know this important thing about me." Then she closed her eyes and then opened them as they were red shot like they had been sprayed with blood as she stated a shocking revelation "I have already murdered someone in my life"

The floor beneath my feet disappeared...