Chapter 106 - 105

"Akira, baby. Come on, get up. You are going to be late for school" Charan called out opening Akira's doors but then stopped on track seeing the scene inside. He let out a chuckled at Akira's expense.

Akira was awake actually but she couldn't move even an inch because Shreya was wrapped around her like an octopus and Akira was struggling with her small hands and legs to get out without waking her up. And when she noticed Charan smiling away at the door, she sent her dad a piercing glare from her big brown eyes which only made Charan laugh a little more.

Akira probably would have scolded her father if she was not afraid of waking Shreya up. She huffed and puffed as she worked on untangling Shreya's arms from around her. After a lot of struggle, she was partially out. But before she could celebrate her victory, Shreya stirred in her sleep and Akira froze in her place. Shreya shifted away on her sleep but before Akira could even let out a sigh of relief, Shreya shifted back and wrapped her arms around Akira more firmly.

Charan couldn't take it anymore and laugh out loud to Akira's utter annoyance. She kept giving her dad death glares while Charan completely ignored them and just watched her with amus.e.m.e.nt.

Between the silent bantering and the glaring match of the father-daughter duo, they completely forgot about Shreya for a second and she actually woke up at the sound of Charan's laughter and was able to witness their silliness.

"What are you guys doing??" Shreya asked confused and groggily. She had just woke up and she was seeing Akira trying to send laser beams with her eyes directed towards Charan. She could not figure out why.

"Hey, good morning sleepy head." Charan greeted Shreya ignoring Akira and went to sit on her bedside. And Akira, on the other hand, stopped struggling entirely and instead snuggled into Shreya more comfortably and stuck a tongue out to her dad. Shreya wrapped her hands over her head and pecked on her hair.

"Morning…" Shreya mumbled back.

"Now, both of you. Get up. You will be late. Ramani has already prepared breakfast." Charan said trying to make them move. But instead, both of them wrapped themselves around each other more firmly.

"I don't want to go to the office today. I will just stay here like this. This feels sooo good." Shreya whined immediately to Charan's utter dismay. She had the face of a child throwing tantrums to buy balloons.

"Yup… absolutely amazing." Akira pitched in and wrapped her arms around Shreya's torsos.

Charan let out a sigh. When these two got together, he had a feeling of raising two kids rather than one.

"Okay fine. If you guys are having a good time, even I will join." Charan said wiggling to lay down beside Shreya crowding the already filled bed.

Just as Shreya was about to move away to give him space Akira pitched in and crashed the party.

"NOOO… Dada is not allowed in my bed. He was bullying me just now. He was laughing at me…" She complained at the top of her voice.

Now, Charan had, not one but two pairs of big brown eyes glaring at him with all their might. And before he could even try to defend himself, he fell off the bed with the loudest thud, butt first. Thanks to Shreya's infamous kick. When he looked up once out of shock, both the brats were busy laughing their asses off at his expense to point were Akira was actually having tears run down her cheeks.

"You are soo getting for that…" Charan said with fake anger and charged towards his daughter first. He lifted her off of the bed dangled her over his shoulders. But Akira was not discouraged one bit. She still giggled away at the top of her voice.

By the time they were actually done and exited the house, Akira was late to school. So Charan had to go meet with her class teacher to give her leeway. All the while Akira gave Charan a sheepish grin with sparkling happy eyes. No father is ever going to be able to be anger at such a sight and Charan was no exception. He just bid her goodbye with a kiss and turned back.

When he entered his office later than usual, he saw that it was not empty. Bot Ajay and Kabir were present.

"What are you guys doing here??" Charan asked sitting down on his own chair.

"We are going to need more people around here…" Kabir started and thus started a long strenuous discussion on business. Just as they were wrapping up, Charan suddenly said, "I think we should buy an office for ourselves…"

Ajay and Kabir looked at his bewildered.

"Where did that come from??" Ajay asked confused.

"I have been thinking about it for a while actually. Since we got the payment from Sri corp. that is. We are sitting on that cash for a while now and these offers just made the idea more feasible. Anyways that money is just rotting away in the bank. So why not get ourselves a nice office with it. How long are we going to be in these rentals and keep moving from one place to another every time our contract lapses??" Charan reasoned calmly.

Ajay and Kabir went into deep thought. It is not that they are opposed to the idea. It is just they had not thought about it.

When Charan saw that they were still in trance, he told them away.

"Okay, guys. Go to your own cabins and think it through. I have work to do."

Ajay and Kabir obliged readily while their own brains already started listing the pros and cons of Charan's idea.

They all had families. So they always played it safe so far and will continue to do so in the future. But this time around they are pushed to a corner they are not exactly comfortable with. Its more to do with the fact that the whole thing is so sudden than to do with their incapability. But then they had sailed troubled seas before and they were confident they can do it again.