Amaya

"Amaya! we are here." Sanjay waved his hand in front of me pulling me out of a daze.

I was lost thinking about Meera's husband. Jameson called me and asked me to come to the hospital immediately, I hope he is alright.

I went out with Sanjay again because his parents were forcing him to marry me. We decided that we have to keep this charade going on for another month. Because Sanjay's girlfriend is out of country for work and he wanted to keep this going on till she comes back.

I told him that I'm going to tell the family because I don't wanna bring their hopes up about us and he agreed.

"Thank you for the ride." I told him and gave him a smile and opened the car door preparing myself to hear the worst.

Hospitals make me sad and panicky, the last time we rushed to the hospital was for my parents and it changed my life. I hate hospitals, it's a place filled with bad news, pain and agonies.

"Stop frowning, Don't worry, I will try to tell my parents ASAP." Sanjay told me and gave me a hug.

"And I'll make a good fake future fiance for a month" saying that he winked at me. To which I hit him playfully and we bid each other goodbye.

I started walking towards the ER reception and there was a lady in her 40's at the reception with a beautiful smile.

"I'm here to meet Mr. Jameson Browne. Can you tell m.." before I could complete my sentence someone pulled me back and hugged me?

Who the heck has the audacity to pull and hug me?

The one and only Jameson Browne

I knew it was him because of his perfume and the way he holds me.

"What are you doing Jameson?" I said in muffled voice and this jerk face made the hug tighter.

And I called him Jerkface again.

"Don't make me punch you in your hospital." I said looking at his face raising my head up from his tight hold.

He slowly released me and kissed me on my forehead. He kissed me thrice now, he has to know that it's not okay to barge into my personal space and kiss me.

"Do you know that there is thing called personal space right?" I asked him wondering if he does this everyone he knows.

The answer to my question was zilch, instead he took my hand and started dragging me with him towards the private elevator. I had to run to catch up with him, I am sorry I am petite and I have little legs.

On the way up, he told me that they found Meera's husband and is going through a surgery right now.

The one sentence made me so happy that I wanted to hug someone in happiness.

We reached the OR(Operation Room), and I could see Meera and Lindsay waiting in the Lobby.

Please be good news, please help her. I don't want the little kids to end up without a father figure. Thank God, Meera sent Rohan to India and his parents are here to support her.

"The surgery should be done by now" Meera said with a worried look on her face looking at me and Jameson.

"Let me go in and see what's going on." Jameson told us and went towards the ICU.

"Don't worry Meera, everything is going to be fine. You are worrying the baby too." Lindsay said rubbing her belly.

I sat beside Meera and held her hand to give her support. Seeing her sad the past few weeks made me feel worthless that I couldn't help her. That's the reason I was pestering Jameson to help me the whole time.

Thank God! He came to me at the middle of the night the other day, I don't know what would happen to me otherwise.

A beautiful girl came out in her blue scrubs of the ICU with a neutral expression on her face.

What's with doctors and blank faces anyway?

But, she looks so pretty and is like a porcelain doll. The only difference was she was wearing blue scrubs instead of a fancy dress.

"The surgery went great Mrs. Khanna. You can meet him in after some time." she said and turned away from us.

I looked at Meera and she has happy tears in her eyes and the biggest smile on her face. We were jumping and squealing with joy like little girls.

I saw Jameson coming towards us with a big smile on his face. When he reached us Meera and Lindsay thanked him.

He hugged Meera and said that everything will be good. I don't know what came over me but when he looked at me I couldn't stop myself from hugging him.

"Thank you so much for helping us." I told him.

This is the first time I will be returning from a hospital with happiness. I'm so glad he helped us who would have thought the Jerk Face has a heart.

"Do you know that there is a thing called personal space?" He asked with a smirk on his face repeating what I said earlier.

What a jerko? I was just thinking nice things about him and he is acting cocky again.

I was embarrassed, so I took my hands off him and started to run away from him. Instead He held my hand and pulled me closer to him.

"I was kidding, you can do whatever you want with me." and winked at me.

Is this Jameson Browne the one who talks like there is a stick up at his ass every time, He is making fun of me and smiling at me?

The one I know either yells or orders for things to be done. This is Definitely a dream, good news at a hospital and a fun Jameson. Two surreal things are always too good to be true. Let me check?

"OUCCHHH, what are you doing crazy lady!!" He yelped in pain, and started rubbing his arm where I pinched him.

"I can do whatever I want right." I told him with a sheepish smile covering up the stupid thing I did.

"What are your plans after this?" he asked me.

"I have to pick up the twins from Rick's house, I'm babysitting them this weekend." I told him. Rick and May are going away for the weekend. I volunteered to baby sit them till they come back.

"Come out for...." before he could complete we heard

"JAMIE!! What are you doing here?" the pretty doctor asked coming to us, in a cheery tone and hugged him.

She calls him Jamie? Why?

"Hi Sophie, I'm here for Meera. How are you doing?" He said returning the hug.

"I am doing good. They said the board brought him in, I didn't know it was you." she said touching his shoulder.

Why is touching him?

They look so good together she is a pretty doctor, he is a rich CEO, great combination right.

What do you do when a new person comes in and talks to the person with you and totally ignores your presence?

Leave right, but I didn't want him to leave with this girl. Somewhere deep in my heart there was a stabbing pain seeing them together, it made me realize that I will never have a chance with him.

I am neither a doctor nor a beauty like her. I am a normal looking girl and I didn't like how she made me degrade myself in the last 2 minutes.

I started to leave them releasing my hand from his grip which just made him hold my hand tight.

"It was nice seeing you Sophie, I have to leave." he said, and she gave him another hug and whispered something in his ear and left.

"Come out for dinner with me." he said to me, he didn't even ask me.

"Did you not hear what I said, I have 2 girls to baby sit." I replied still can't get rid of the pain in my chest.

"Let's take them with us. I'm sure kids would love to eat outside." He said with a pleading look on his face.

I'm so conflicted now do I go with him or not. My heart says yes because he helped me in finding Meera's husband and we can spend more time with him. My brain says no because if I go with him I may get my heart broken in future.

"Please, I promise I won't say anything that will make you punch me." He requested me again.

What happened to Jerkface today? He is being nice and making it difficult for me to hate and avoid him.

"Fine, but we have to pick up the kids from their  ballet class." I said and he gave me a big smile which made my heart flutter.

Soon we said bye to Meera and Lindsay and drove towards the ballet class. 

Ari and Ani were so excited when they saw Jameson with me. They were jumping with joy when he said we would be going out for dinner. He looks so care free while talking to them. Ani babbled about her ballet class and school stuff the whole ride.

"Do we have to go to a fancy place for dinner?" I asked him as soon as I saw the restaurant we were parked.

"Stop whining like a baby and move Ani said that she is hungry." he replied to which Ani nodded in agreement.

Thank god I'm wearing a dress. Otherwise I would definitely look like a homeless person in this restaurant.

"Welcome Sir, Let me take you to your table." said the host at the restaurant. 

Ani was going with him but it takes long time for Arabella to connect with people, hence she is coming with me. Ari is the quiet one to the outside world but once you know her she is the brat.

Once we reached their table, There was a white brunette haired woman, and a guy who looked like her son, he has so many similarities with Jameson. There was also a small girl around Ari's age were already sitting at the table.

I immediately looked at Jameson who was standing beside me. He is not surprised to see these people here.

Did the hostess get us to a wrong table?

"Uncle Jamie.."The little girl jumped towards him.

"Hi Mom, Dax.." Jameson said to the other people and I stood there like a deer struck with the head lights.

This is his family dinner and I crashed it with 2 other people.

"You should have told me this was your family dinner." I hissed at him smiling at others.

"I know you wouldn't come if I said this was a family dinner so I lied." he whispered near my ear.

Stupid Dingus! How can he do this to me?

What does he think he is? Why in the world would I want to join his family dinner when I don't even know him properly. I thought we would go to some fast food restaurant and eat in the car like the last time. I hate formal dinners.

I'm going to kill him and I'm sorry brain next time I will listen to you for sure.

Run Amy, Run before they recognize your presence here.

But what about the twins?

Jameson will take care of them.

My feet turned around and were about move when I heard.

"Jamie won't you introduce us to your guests?" his mother asked. She looks so  beautiful and elegant, Jameson's brother looks at lot like his mother.

This Jerk face is so busy with his niece and the twins he ignored his mothers question. So I had to step up.

"Hi, I'm Amaya I work for Jameson...Sorry I mean..Mr.Browne not like in his office. I work for United Tech, Jameson hired them to do an application for him and I work for that project. So, technically I work for him. These are my colleague Rick and May's kids Arabella and Anabella. Rick's mom was sick and they had to leave immediately so I'm babysitting them this weekend. I'm sorry for ruining your family dinner. I didn't know this was one otherwise I would never come here." I blabbered the whole thing.

Everyone was smiling by the time I was done except for Ari and Ani they were looking at me like I was crazy.

"I'm Analise Browne, Jameson's mother, You are more than welcome to join us honey, It's nice to meet you. Jameson already informed me that he was bringing someone. " she said and gave a thousand dollar smile. I pulled my chair out and was about to sit that's when I saw Shaurya coming towards our table.

"SHAURYA!!  Thank god I found you. I've looked around for you at the office and I couldn't find you there. How are you? Did Mr.Browne fire you? That man has no brains sometimes, wait he is here with me, maybe we can ask him to give you your job back" I said giving him a hug.

I am glad that I found him, after that day I asked everyone if they knew some one names Shaurya. But no one knew about him and I was really disappointed.

"Hey Amaya, I'm good. And no one fires me and especially him. How are you anyway? How is your hand?" he asked me returning the hug and patted my back.

"Yeah, it's good now " I said to him and broke the hug to show him my elbow.

"Mom, looks like you got a competition, Dad went and hugged her instead of you." Jameson's brother told his my mom.

Wait... What did he say?

Dad, Is their father here and who is he hugging? Now I have to talk to another person. This is my chance to introduce myself properly, unlike I did with his mother.

"Shut up Dax. Dad, How do you know Amaya? " Jameson asked scowling at his brother, I am confused now.

Why is Jameson asking his dad if he knows me and where is that man I thought looking around.

"I met her at your office" Shaurya replied smiling.

Is this give a heart attack to Amy's day?

This is not true Shaurya can't be their father.

But he is.

How did I not see this? No one in the office knew about Shaurya. Jameson has black hair and eyes, the most dominating Indian gene. And the worst thing is I badmouthed about Jameson to his father.

Awesome job! Amy, way to embarrass your self. Flabbergasted is an understatement about my feeling right now.

"Shaurya, Please don't say that I said bad things about him, I take back everything I said and he is a good person ." I said to him with pleading eyes in Telugu so no one at the table would understand.

Shaurya laughed at my request and hugged me again.

What does this mean? Is he going to accept my request or not?

Shaurya went to his wife, kissed her and whispered something in her ear. While Analise looked at me with an amused look on her face.

"You know Dad's language?" Jameson's brother asked me.

"Yeah, I was born and bought up in India and that's my mother tongue too. I moved here 3 years back." I said to him settling between Jameson and Ari.

"Cool, My name is Daxton this Idiot's brother. My wife Piper, went out to meet her friends and that's my daughter Layla." Daxton and Jameson don't look alike. Daxton has gold hair and blue eyes, they have the same nose.

The twins and Layla were talking with each other like they know each other from a long time. The waiter came in and gave us the many, this has to be the most awkward dinner ever.

"What did you say to my dad?" Jameson whispered in my ear as I was reading menu covering my face.

"And why would I tell you that" I replied.

I am really mad at him, for putting me in this situation.

"Cuz, I'm your friend " he said in a duh tone.

"Not good enough and i'm not gonna tell you because you made me come to your family dinner." I stuck my tongue at him.

"Fine, I will kiss you in front of everyone if you don't then." He said leaning  towards me with a smirk on his face.

"Try that and I'm gonna beat you to pulp" I said to him with a smile on my face.

I'm not naive to get scared of his stupid threats.

"Son, she is not gonna tell you and I will help her hit you." Shaurya said to Jameson which made him go pale and I gave a high five to Shaurya.

That eased me up, we all started talking and I got comfortable with them, Soon waiter came in and bought our orders  and we started eating.

Jameson has a great family, Shaurya and Ana yup that's what she asked me to call her, they look so much in love. When we talked about India and the Indian food, Shaurya had a gloomy look on his face.

Daxton is the fun among them. He said that I should call him if Jameson yells at me which he does a lot. Daxton's wife is a microbiologist. she was his high school sweetheart and they have been together ever since. The twins and Layla were in their own world.

Looking at Jameson's family makes me jealous. He has a loving family I wish my parents were here.

I know that my grandparents treated me like their own but I never had the chance to call anyone Mom or Dad. My heart aches when I see how others have the joy of getting pampered and yelled by their parents.

This is the longest chapter so far. Sorry for the delay in updating, started watching a new show called Mentalist and all my thoughts were filled with Patrick Jane. If you are into Crime Drama I would definitely recommend watching it. I love crime drama. You name the show I might have watched it already. Here are my top 5 suggestions to all the crime drama fans

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1. Criminal Minds--Netflix

2. The Mentalist--Prime

3.Brooklyn Nine-Nine --Hulu

4.Peron of Interest --Netflix

5.Numbers —Hulu

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Sneha