Rich Brat: Sweet Revenge Of A Lazy Princess - Chapter 338

“Why is there nothing between you and Srinivas? I thought you guys broke the ice and hit it off?” Shreya questioned after finishing her food seeing as Zeenath was not going to say anything on her own.

“We are fine… We go out… talk and stuff.” Zeenath explained.

“But?” Shreya asked.

“But I don’t know…” Zeenath confessed. This was in itself a stretch for a person who is used to eating on her own all her life.

Even when she had known Shreya all her life, they had rarely shared a conversation over a meal. So, Zeenath was clueless as to how to go about this.

And since Zeenath told Srinivas about her life experience, he stopped advancing towards her. He gave her complete freedom between them. He let her guide the pace of their relationship.

Even when she knew that he did this because he did not want to burden her, he ended up doing exactly the same since she was clueless as always.

Zeenath was someone who was clear on what she did not want from people around her. But she never got around to the part where she comes to know what she did want…

But those things were not true when it came to Srinivas. He was not the same as Shreya… At times, she would catch him looking at her with a sense of longing in them. She wanted to reciprocate it but she did not know how to do that. All she could do was pretend she never saw him.

“What do you mean you don’t know? You either like him or you don’t? There are only two ways things can go! And you just have to choose which way you want to be!” Shreya said dubiously.

For someone like Shreya, relationsh.i.p.s were pretty simple and straightforward. She does not like making them complicated.

She either loves a person or she doesn’t. She treats the people she loves with utmost care and attention. And the people who she doesn’t love, she cannot be bothered. At best, she can be polite if she thinks the other person is decent.

That’s about it.

She is not someone who goes around thinking about what she should do next or what will happen in the future kind of a person. She never learned to hold herself back when it comes to people. She never learned to be shy to express herself either.

“It’s not that simple, Shreya…” Zeenath rolled her eyes.

She was scared.

“What is complicated in this? You like him and you are going to go and say you like him… that is all. Anyways, you already know that he likes you. So, you do not even have to have the anxiety of being rejected.” Shreya asked in a baffled voice.

“Liking a person does not end with saying so, Shreya. It comes with responsibilities. Saying it out loud is just the starting point. It’s a promise of sorts. I do not have the confidence to keep that promise…” Zeenath said looking down.

“I do know that… But that responsibility is not as complicated or as hard as you make it seem. You just have to be able to do two things properly. You should be around that person to point of annoying them. And secondly, you should be able to share everything and anything about yourself with them… your emotions, your doubts, and your thoughts and you should be absolutely honest about them. You just need to give them attention and share…” Shreya explained.

That was the motto she led her life on.

That is all she ever does with Charan too… she never did anything else. She never even given him a gift in all the time she had known him. They never went on any fancy dates either. Neither did Charan do anything especially for her.

Because when it came down to it, those things were superfluous.

As far as Shreya was concerned. Showing off only becomes relevant when you are not giving enough attention and care to the relationship as it is.

If we can do these two things properly, the rest of it will just fall into place.

Of course, the premise is that both have mutual feelings for each other. Without that feeling, there will be nothing to hold on to when the boats going to rock.

“You know me… I am a nomad, Shreya. I cannot let him into my house without being nervous about it… how am I going to let him into my life and my head??” Zeenath asked looking defeated.

“Then leave him… simple as that. Just go home and be with yourself. You want a beer, I will accompany you…” Shreya shrugged.

Zeenath couldn’t help but gap at her friend.

“What do you mean leave him?” After all, Shreya was the one who played the cupid between the two.

“Leave him as in leaving him…” Shreya answered with a straight face.

“I thought you wanted us to be together?” Zeenath asked looking dubious.

“NO… I do not want you two to be together. I want you guys to be happy… and you won’t be happy being together if you are going to keep defending your heart as if it is some kind of a fortress. It is not… you are going to have to take chances with your heart and share it with him. If you are not determined to do that, leave him. Because I can guarantee… it won’t work. Both will not be happy… at least, if you leave him now, I can set him up with someone else!” Shreya looked excited when she said the last part.

Zeenath just stared at her speechlessly. Shreya really can be cruel with how straightforward she was sometimes.

“Why do you look like you already have a candidate in your mind for him?” Zeenath asked looking suspiciously at Shreya.

“Why? You are not going to go for it?” Shreya asked looking hopeful.

“You can seriously be a bitch sometimes, you know that?” Zeenath couldn’t help curse.

“I know… but then I need to be because I am surrounded by some serious normal-looking idiots. And I need superpowers to drill some sense into them!!” Shreya smirked.