Chapter 119 - 118

"Can you leave me alone for just one second??" Zeenath growled but Sreenivas did not budge. He just gave her the polite business smile that he always gave.

Zeenath frustratedly kicked the furniture near her and stomped away. Of course, Sreenivas followed her as always.

She went straight to Shreya's office to complain. After all, if this continued… she was going to end up strangling Sreenivas one or another day. She did not bother knocking. She straight away opened the doors and walked in.

Shreya was sitting there going over some files. When she saw who it was. "Well, you can come in by all means!! Thanks for knocking…" She said sarcastically without taking her eyes off of the files in front of her.

Zeenath did not acknowledge or appreciate Shreya's sarcasm. She just came and sat down on the chair puffing her cheeks dramatically.

"Why didn't you come to the new year's party??" Shreya asked remembering.

"Well, somebody gave me a surveillance assignment for punishment and conveniently forgot about it!!" Zeenath seethed sarcastically. She spent the whole new year's night watching over everyone dance and party from the back of a god damn truck.

"So we are here to complain about my choice of assignment now are we??" Shreya asked teasingly.

"Nope… not exactly…" Zeenath said and started to list her grievances but was interrupted by someone knocking on the door. And a few seconds later Sreenivas walked into the office and stood there by the door like a door guard.

"You… You do something about him will you!!" Zeenath complained in an accusatory tone and her fingers pointed at Sreenivas as soon as her eyes landed on him. You can tell from just her tone of voice how irritated and frustrated she was with him.

Shreya acknowledged Sreenivas with a nod and asked Zeenath, "What did he do??"

"He keeps following me like a damn stalker… He won't leave me alone even for a minute…" Zeenath complained annoyed.

"Well, he is supposed to be doing that. I pay him for that…" Shreya replied indifferently annoying Zeenath more than she already was.

"If this goes on… one of these days I am going to strangle him or maybe smother him when he is asleep!!" Zeenath said frustrated.

"Well, he is a big boy. He can handle himself. Right, Sreenivas??" Shreya said signing on some doc.u.ments and eyeing Sreenivas at the same time.

And before Zeenath could elaborate on her complaint, Sreenivas's affirming voice rang through the office.

"Yes, ma'am." He replied very obediently.

"Well, now he is answering questions like an obedient boy…" Zeenath said sarcastically. Because for the past few days, no matter what she asked him… he never answered even once. And even when he did answer, it was never with a 'yes, ma'am' like that anyways.

"I pay him, Zee. SO of course, he listens to me��" Shreya reasoned.

"But he won't listen to me even when I offered him money… he won't even accept them. I tried… Trust me… I tried even that!!" Zee said exasperated.

"Well, I would be worried if he did accept. You were trying to bribe him… But I, on the other hand, pays him a salary… There is a difference." Shreya said in a 'duh' tone and twitched lips. It was amusing to watch Zee like this. She looked like a cornered kitty blaring its teeth in the hope of getting out of a hopeless situation.

"Okay, enough of this punishment Shreya. I learned my lesson okay?? I won't go anywhere without telling you hereafter. I promise. I will even give you live commentary if you want. But please… please ease up a little bit. It's driving me crazy…" Zee, at last, admitted defeat and resorted to begging. She used all the cute sides she ever possessed and gave her a puppy dog eyes.

Shreya let her beg for a while. But after a while, she took pity on her and at last, looked up from her files and looked at Zee's face. Shreya's face softened seeing her put up a pitiful expression.

Shreya did not say anything. But she gave Sreenivas a look and he nodded back understanding. When Zee saw this exchange, she knew Shreya cracked.

Just as Sreenivas noded Zeenath flew from her seat and gave Shreya an overbearing hug and a smacking kiss and said, "Thank you so much. I won't let you down. You are my best friend after all."

"One more mistake like that… you will be stuck to surveillance assignment for the rest of your life…" Shreya warned her before dismissing them both.

Zeenath turned and bounced out of the office satisfied. But then suddenly she thought of something and turned towards Sreenivas and she stuck her tongue out and made a funny face booing him like a kid and said, "See… I won. Now you can't bully me with that sticking smile of yours…" Her cheeks were puffed up with pride.

Sreenivas's lips twitched at her antics ever so slightly and his eyes gleamed but he did not say anything back. He just went ahead and pressed the elevator button.

Zeenath stopped in her tracks and looked at him fascinated and asked, "Did you just smile?? An actual smile!!!"

Sreenivas composed himself very quickly and cleared his throat and said, "I did not…" in a stern voice.

"Of course you did. I saw it with my own eyes. Don't deny it. And it was not that sickening business smile either… It was genuine. I know what I saw…" Zeenath argued back.

"I did not smile!!" Sreenivas defended himself with the same old expressionless face.

"Did too… But I am happy. At least now I know you are not some super robot Shreya dumped on me… I now know you are human!!" Zeenath said as if she made a wonderful discovery.

"Hey, you don't have to sound so surprised. I have always been human!!" Sreenivas replied sarcastically rolling his eyes.

"Maybe so. But I had my doubts… What kinda human would stay so stuffed up in a night club. You ruined all my fun just by standing there like a god damn brick wall!!" Zeenath reasoned.

Sreenivas was passive throughout the conversation as always but Zee was used to this. More than that, with Shreya's permission it seemed even Sreenivas himself had forgiven her maybe a little. All this week, she could physically feel him distancing himself from her even when he was stuck to her like glue. She did not feel it now. Which made her very happy. Thus she happily went back to work with Sreenivas hot on her trails.