chapter 14

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" What happened? Why are you so sad? Advaita asks Aarav whose face clearly shows sadness

Amidst the guests present in the house, Advaita notices Aarav and gets confused seeing him sad because the one because of whom there is this happiness today and the one because of whom there is a smile on her face, why is he sad after all

" There is nothing like that, I am fine." Aarav replies to Advaita

"Are you lying?" Advaita asks him to which he doesn't say anything

" Tell me what happened... why are you sad... does everyone at home scold you because of me?" Aarav smiles slightly at this question of Advaita...Well, such a situation did not arise because his mamu saved him from his father's scolding in his own way, but

" No, nobody scolds me." Aarav replies to her

"So what happened then? Why is there this sadness on your face... did Ansh say anything?"

" This is the problem that he is not saying anything....If he had scolded me then I would have felt relieved but he is not talking to me...and..... Aarav is unable to complete his sentence when Advaita says

" I'm sorry " Advaita says

"Why are you saying sorry?"

" All this has happened because of me, Ansh is angry with you because of me..." Advaita says and she really feels bad knowing that the communication between the two brothers has stopped because of her.

" Don't think like this, nothing has happened because of you and don't worry either, yes right now, he is angry with me but I know my bhai, he will not be able to stay angry with me for long...But still today is his engagement and he is angry with me so I feel a bit bad...but I am fine, don't worry..." Aarav speaks with a smile so that Advaita feels that he is really fine.

And Advaita also understands somewhere that he is showing a fake smile to her but without dragging the topic much, she also gives a light smile to Aarav on her words, on which Aarav smiles.

After talking to Aarav, Advaita is looking for a chance to talk to Ansh so that she can tell him not to punish Aarav for her mistake and she gets that chance when she sees Ansh climbing the stairs and going upstairs.

After checking the family and guests once to make sure no one is watching her, she goes after Ansh and before Ansh walks through the corridor and reaches his room, his steps stop when he hears Advaita's voice from behind.

" wait." Advaita calls him from behind upon which Ansh's steps stop but Ansh immediately moves forward because he does not want to talk to her.

And seeing him not stopping even at her call, Advaita speeds up her steps and before Ansh can reach his room, Advaita comes and stands in front of him blocking his way and Ansh looks at her

" I said wait." Advaita says standing in front of him to which Ansh sighs, Why is she not letting him live....he is going to his room to take a breath of relief for 2 minutes and escape from all the drama downstairs but she came here as well

Advaita sees him who is silent and thinks that she should not beat around the bush and should directly say what she has come to say.

" Why are you not talking to Aarav?" Advaita says to Ansh to which Ansh gives her a look, who is she to ask this question

" And who are you to ask me this question?" Ansh finally opens his mouth to tell her this to which Advaita smiles slightly

" Maybe you have forgotten, now I am your soon-to-be wife...see, whatever lie I told in the hospital, I made it true." Advaita shows him her left hand finger where the ring given to her by Ansh is present and Ansh gets irritated seeing that

" By forcing a relationship, you don't get any rights over someone." Ansh says this to her making her know that she has no right over him to which she smiles.

" so who wants the right ? I just wanted you and I got that..." Advaita says to which he looks at her angrily

" Maine aaj tak tum Jaisi batmiz ladki nahi dekhi..." He recalls all her past exploits and the way she is talking to him now, so he tells her this.

And there, Advaita smiles even at this word of his.

" Aur aaj ke baad kisi ladki ko dekhoge bhi nahi.....Remember, from now on, you are only mine." She warns him, which makes him angrier, but he leaves without saying anything but Advaita blocks his way again when the matter for which she had come remains unfulfilled.

" Yes, so I asked, why are you not talking to Aarav... Look, don't punish him for my mistake..." Advaita tells him

" You don't teach me what to do and what not to do with my brother and it would be better for you not to come between me and my brother." Ansh says angrily and before Advaita could say anything further, this time Ansh actually passes her and goes ahead and Advaita keeps looking at him.

Later the guests start leaving and after dropping one of the guests outside, Aarav is coming inside the house but before he enters the house, Aadhriti, who was coming out of the house, all of sudden her heels slip due to which she stumble and is about to fall but before she falls, Aarav catches her in his arms in time

After Aadhriti is saved, she takes a deep breath and looks at Aarav who saved her

Once again, Aarav who was earlier lost in her smile, gets lost in her eyes this time, holding her in his arms he just keeps staring at her but Aadhriti feels weird because she has never been in such a situation before where someone stare at her like this and saved her like this.

She tries to get up from his arms ignoring his gaze on her and seeing her movement Aarav comes to his senses and he makes her stand straight but also curses himself that why did he stare at her like that, it is not right to stare at a girl.

" Are you okay?" Aarav asks her.

" hmm, Thank you bhaiya." She thanks him but Aarav gets shocked when he hears her calling him Bhaiya.

And there Aadhriti is about to leave from there after thanking him but Aarav stops her.

" Oh hello, bhaiya kise keh rahi ho ?" On hearing Aarav's words, Adhirithi turns her head back and looks at him.

" Aapko, Thank you, aapne meri madad ki, warna main gir jaati, isiliye, Thank you Bhaiya." Aadhriti says again which irritates him

" Bhaiya hoga tumhara bhai....So keep your thanks and the word Bhaiya to yourself." saying this Aarav annoyingly passes her and goes inside the house but not without mumbling these words to himself : " huh, Hadd hai, itne handsome ladke ko koi bhaiya bnaata hai."

Meanwhile Aadhriti sees him going like this and thinks what is there to get so angry about, he helped her, so she just said thank you.

Now what was her fault in this that she calls all the boys elder than her as bhaiya, and he was her jiju's brother so she thought that he would be elder than her so she called him bhaiya.

" Aaj-kal logo ko bhaiya sabd se itni mirchi kyon lag jaati hai, huh, izat raas nahi aati." She mumbles and then goes into the garden as she had come out here to talk to someone on the phone but before that, she collided with him.

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" Ansh, you drop Advaita to her home..." Simran tells Ansh when after all the guests leave, only family members are left and when the Maheshwari family is also ready to say bid bye to them.

On hearing these words from his mother, Ansh grinds his teeth but suddenly a thought comes to his mind and thinking about it he smiles slightly.

" Ok mom." Ansh says with a light smile which is really a surprise not only for Simran but also for Advaita and the rest of the family

" Aaira, you also come with us." Ansh says looking at Aaira on which Aaira gets a little shocked that what will she do by going with them both because obviously everyone is sending them both alone, meaning everyone wants them both to spend time alone, in such a situation how can she go with them.

" Bhai but why me?" Aaira asks

" What does 'why me' mean? I will be alone when I come back from there... it is getting late, someone should be with me." Ansh says and Simran clearly understands from her son's words why he had agreed so quickly that he would go to drop Advaita home, she shook her head in disbelief on her son's antics.

And before this Aaira again refused Ansh or Simran refused Ansh saying that he should go only with Advaita....Raj says

" Ansh is right baccha, go with him." Understanding Ansh's feelings very well and not letting Simran force him any more, Raj speaks up as he understands the reason behind taking Aaira along

And after Raj's words, Aaira looks at her parents and asks them with gestures if she should go? To which Avni and Neil nod in agreement because somewhere they also understand Ansh.

They knows that right now in this situation, it is not easy for Ansh to accept all this easily.

Ansh, Advaita and Aaira all three come out of the house together and Ansh opens the front seat door of the car and as Advaita was walking ahead of Aaira, Advaita thinks that maybe he did this for her but before she can sits, she stops hearing Ansh's next words.

" My dear Fiancée, if you don't mind, can you sit in the back seat ? The thing is, this front seat belongs to my sister and I don't want to give it to anyone else..." Aaira gets shocked hearing Ansh's words, how can he do this to Advaita.

Ok, She always sits in the front seat with him but now he has his fiancée and soon to be wife to share that seat with him.

And Ansh says all this with a evil smile as only he knows why he has agreed to drop her home and if not much, he can at least insult her a little in the same way she has been doing with him till now.

And there, Advaita feels a bit bad about Ansh's words but at the same time she somehow understands his motive behind doing this.

" Why not, sorry I did not know this, I will sit in the back seat." Advaita says with smile and then opens the back door herself and sits inside the car

Whereas, after Advaita sits in the car, Aaira gives a look to Ansh asking why he did this to which Ansh gives her a look to sit quietly in the car on which Aaira again gives him a look that he did not do the right thing to which Ansh glares at her indicating her to sit now.

And with no other option, Aaira quietly sits in the car and then Ansh sits in the driving seat.....their journey remains silent for few minutes.

Well, Aaira doesn't understand whom she should talk to and whom she shouldn't, She does not know Advaita well yet, but she is also afraid that if she talks to Advaita, her brother might get angry.

On the other hand, Advaita also has the same thoughts because she knows that if she talks to Ansh, then obviously Ansh will not give her any reply so it is better that she does not get insulted in front of Aaira and as far as talking to Aaira is concerned so Aaira is new for her too, so she doesn't understand how to start a conversation with Aaira

But after much thinking, Advaita tries to take the initiative

" Aaira, what are you doing now? I mean are you in college?" Advaita thinks of this topic to talk to Aaira

And before Aaira can turn back and give any reply to Advaita, Ansh interrupts her

" Princess, you know, a new movie has just released, we will go to watch it tomorrow..." Ansh tells Aaira to which Aaira nods in okay and then opens her mouth again to answer Advaita's question

But Ansh again keeps Aaira busy in his conversation and this way Ansh talks to Aaira all the way and does not give Aaira a chance to talk to Advaita and Advaita is listening to both of them calmly and also observing Ansh's actions and she smiles knowing very well what he's trying to do.

After a journey of about 40 to 45 minutes, they reach Advaita's house where Ansh stops the car but shockingly Ansh does not get out of the to drop her, Aaira sees his actions and somewhere she feels very bad that how can he behave like this with her, It would have been better if he had refused to come to drop her off.

Advaita gets out of the car and Aaira also comes out to say bye to her.

" Bye Bhabhi and sorry but please don't get upset with bhai's actions, everything will be fine." Aaira tells Advaita to which Advaita smiles.

" I am not upset and yes we will meet again, we couldn't talk today but we will meet someday and get to know each other more...okay?" Advaita says to which Aaira nods and with this they both share a hug

" Well, just wait a minute... says Advaita and goes to the other side of the car and directly opens the door of Ansh's side, On this Ansh looks at her with a little shock and Advaita smiles and leans a little to talk to him

" Bye my love, And don't worry, I don't feel bad at all about what you did to me....if possible treat me even worse than today, but remember one thing, my love for you will not decrease because of any of your actions." She says this while making him realize that she was understanding all his actions but still it did not make any difference to her.

And Ansh just gives her a look at her words but doesn't say anything and then Advaita closes the door of his car and on the other side Aaira sits in the car and without wasting time Ansh leaves from there

Advaita watches him go until his car disappears from her sight and a tear escape from her eyes, which she had been holding for who knows how long.

" Bhai, You did not do the right thing, it would have been better if you had not come to drop her off." While returning home, Aira tells this to Ansh to which Ansh does not say anything.

" I am talking to you and why did you do this, she is not showing it but she must have been really upset with your action." Aaira says.

" And I am very happy with what she is doing with me....no ?" Ansh asks her

" I agree she did wrong but you are also not doing the right thing and you are not that kind of a person...you were never so rude then why are you with her...? And why are you changing yourself, your behavior for her.... You need time, take it, but don't hurt her like this." Aaira says and somewhere he understands her words to a great extent but does not say anything further.

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Next morning, in Mehra house

Everyone is sitting for breakfast and waiting for Ansh to come... Ansh gets ready for his day and comes downstairs among everyone but before he sits with everyone, he silently gives a paper he had brought with him to his father and Raj is shocked to see those papers.

" What is this Ansh, are you going to UK ?" The family gets a little shocked by this and Ansh looks at everyone's faces.

He is going to UK for 2 years to pursue his further medical studies.

" What is there to be so shocked about in this, my going was already decided...My classes are going to start in 3 days so I am going tomorrow." Ansh says and then sits with everyone at the breakfast table and then looks at his mother

" And I have a request to all of you, if possible, please give me some peace before leaving, she should not know about my departure." Ansh looks at Simran and says this, making it clear that he is making this request specifically to her.

And Simran doesn't say anything on hearing the news of her son's sudden departure but she gets up and leaves from there and Raj gets worried seeing the thing between mother and son.

" Ansh you can go after a few days...and if you had to go now then why didn't you tell us earlier....At least your mother would have been prepared for this." Raj says

" Papa you are talking as if you all did not know this, my going there was already decided but there was so much drama in between that I did not get time to tell you all when I have to leave, but now I'm leaving." Ansh says and Raj sighs.

Yes, his going was certain, but him going like this the very next day of the engagement doesn't seem right to Raj, especially when he wants Advaita not to know anything.

After breakfast, Ansh comes to Aarav's room and Aarav gets suprised seeing him finally in his room

" Bhai.... Aarav says and Ansh enters his room and comes close to him on the couch

" Dekho tumne jo kiya wo kiya....par main tumse naraz hokar nahi jaana chahta." Ansh says making Aarav smile

"I'm sorry bhai...from now on I will not hurt you again..." says Aarav

" If that is the case then promise me that you will not tell anyone where I am going." Ansh tells Aarav because he doesn't trust him anymore, the way he has behaved in the past few days, choosing someone else over him, he knows that he will surely tell everything to Advaita

" Promise me..." Ansh says showing his hand towards him, on which Aarav gets a little shocked

" But bhai, don't you think bhabhi has the right to know this...you should meet her once before leaving." Aarav says on which Ansh sighs.

"Okay no problem, when she is more important to you...then I came here to talk to you in vain...I thought in vain that I am more important to you than anyone else." Seeing him still supporting Advaita, Ansh says this and is about to get up and leave but Aarav stops him.

" Okay, I won't tell her anything but please don't get angry with me again..." says Aarav to which Ansh looks at him

And Aarav does not do anything further but hugs his brother tightly

" I will miss you a lot bhai." Aarav says in his choked voice on which Ansh's eyes also become moist.

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On the other side in xyz's college

"Ma'am, may I come in?" Aaira is shocked to see Reyansh in her class and wonders why he is here

The professor sees Reyansh at the classroom door and allows him to come in, Reyansh comes in and stands next to her

" So class, all of you welcome your new classmate...Reyansh Singhania..." Aaira's eyes widen on hearing this...she can't believe she heard it right.

he's here ? In her class ? Did he really choose to study fashion: but why? It wasn't his subject.

Meanwhile Reyansh looks at Aaira and mentally smirks seeing her shocked face.

Well, they both had decided that they won't talk but he has his own way of staying close to her.

To be continued........