143 Stealing his thunder (1/2)

Aarvi promptly nodded as a response to his question of 'Tired?', she wasn't physically tired but emotionally from burying all past memories that flooded after seeing her mother.

”Let me drop you home.”

Aarvi wanted to turn down, before that they heard a loud voice dragged long, ”Waaaaaaaait.” Shawn quickly reached the duo panting heavily, bent, pressing his palms on his knees trying to catch the breath.

Dax and Aarvi knew the over smart Shadow team informed Shawn without knowing Dax would go to her. The duo shook their head in resignation seeing him exhausted running through the mall to quickly reach them.

Aarvi took the water bottle and extended it at him but ”Little heart, why are you giving me water, I need a hug.” He demanded pushing her hand away.

Aarvi smiled helplessly before complying with his demand and gave him a friendly quick hug and heard another child complaining, ”What about me?”

Aarvi: ”...”

She gave a thought and gave a side hug sitting back on the chair to silent the duo but the two fussed again to trouble her

Dax: ”Do you call that a hug? Didn't your boyfriend teach you anything?”

Shawn in guesstimation: ”Little Heart, you must have given him a greeting hug so it's second, where is my...”

Aarvi stood up, covered her ears, and walked away saying, ”You guys are crazy.” She didn't realize she was smiling even though she displayed irritation.

”Dum Dum...”

”Little Heart...”

Then they said in unison following her. ”It's not fair ”

Aarvi heard their footstep quicken and both men chuckled seeing her run as she screamed, ”Ahhhh...”

The duo knew it was just temporary fun and happiness but they tried their best to pull her out of sorrow and pain by going on a big shopping spree of three.

It was eight in the evening when they stood next to each other looking at their car trunks of three cars filled with bags and their hands which had more bags.

Aarvi looked right at Shawn who had a charming smirk, then turned left at Dax who had a delighted expression and three cheered in unison as Aarvi jumped on her toes, ”Heyyy…”

”Holy Moly, I always wanted to do this.” Aarvi continued without bothering about how many they had frightened in the parking area by their sudden yell out..

They had spent millions buying every random thing from shoes, clothes, expensive accessories without bothering about prices and no space in the car to fill.

There was a time, Shawn had money but not his own hard-earned money. Aarvi had money from her earnings too but she needed to save for her own business, Dax didn't have that much money.

The security guards who were panicked reached the three asking, ”Excuse me, what happened? Did you see something? Back off, tell us where you saw.”

The three looked at each other and burst into laughter seeing them search for something even they didn't know. Dax spoke looking at their bewilderment, ”Actually, we don't know where to keep these shopping bags.”

Then the security noticed three car trunks open and filled and their hands carrying at least eight each. 'Filthy rich spoiled brats.' They cussed them in their minds and left from there hearing them laugh again.

Dax and Shawn were famous but they weren't celebrities after all so not everyone could identify them easily. Even if guessed, many would think they must be somebody else so it was easier for them to go around without a bother.

However, there was somebody to ruin the mood. They heard a voice at the elevator behind them, ”Anything for you Baby.”

A coquettish voice followed by it, ”Ahh you are my boyfriend, how could I spend your money?”

Aarvi's brows knitted and her face slowly fell. Dax and Shawn heard the first voice and didn't care until they noticed Aarvi clutching the bag handles tight to the extent they felt like she was going to tear off the bags.

Her unfathomable serenity was too calm but frosty that made even the duo think before speaking anything. Hence they glanced at the reflecting surfaces and identified the man and didn't care about the girl.

They stood silently in their own thoughts, Dax and Shawn cursed the man nonstop for ruining their such a good mood.