chapter 21

Akshay leaves for his office along with Abhi....After they are gone Shree decides to explore the bunglow as because she have never seen such a big house and yesterday it was too late for her to explore her new home....So After finishing all the household works Shree begins to roam around the house and explore each of the rooms present their....At first she visits Abhi's room and notices the photograph kept in his bed table.....She goes near the table and picks up the photo frame in her hand...It was a photo of Abhi and Akshay where Abhi was back hugging Akshay who was in a sitting posture and was smiling too....Seeing Akshay's smiling face Shree said herself Shree- This khadoos and expressionless human being smiles also....i never knew that and moreover how will I know also as i don't know him properly...She keeps the frame back at its position...After that she comes out of Abhi's room and starts exploring the guest room, Akshay's private gym....the garden at the front side of the house....the swimming pool area on the back side etc...After sometime she comes across a room which looked like a library room...At first she thinks that maybe its a library of Akshay so she decides to ignore it but there is a proverb na "curiosity kills a cat" so that's what exactly happened to her she enters the room to check that what is there so special in his library...As soon as she enters Akshay's study room she sees a big picture of Akshay with a man and a women which was hanged in the wall beside the chair and table of Akshay....In the picture Akshay looked quite younger maybe he was 19 at that time and along with him stood a handsome gentleman and a beautiful lady who was just the replica of Akshay....By looking at the lady's pic Shree got to understood that surely she is Akshay's mom and the man is his father....Akshay looked quite skinny in the pic so seeing his condition Shree chuckels and then she begins to notice his parent's face.....Shree- (they looked so happy together especially Mr Dahiya....I wonder now where are they? I have never heard about his parents nor did he mentioned anything about them to me yesterday....Where could they be? Are they still alive?)She was thinking about his parents only when suddenly she heards the doorbell ringing sound so out of nervousness she rushes from the room and due to her hurridness one of her anklet falls there...As soon as Shree opens the main door...she gets happy seeing her younger sister Baishali standing there with a shopping bag in her hand...Seeing Baishali infront of her...Shree just couldn't stop herself from hugging her sister...Shree- Omg Baishu you here.... What a pleasent suprise....i missed your so much...Baishali (reciprocating the hug )- I missed you too di... Living without you for one day is not at all good....Saying that Baishali makes a cute puppy face Shree chuckles at her and then welcomes her inside the house....Baishali gets amazed seeing the interior as well as the size of the house her jaws just drops looking at everything arranged in a neat and perfect manner Baishali- Wow di.....such a beautiful house...i have never seen such a house before....i must say you are quite lucky hah...Shree- What lucky...you know my situation still your saying that I'm luckyBaishali- Di...i can nicely understand your feelings but what can I do hah? I can't do anything now and who knew that you'll have to face such a bad day yesterday if i would get a hint about it then i wouldn't have let you go out of the house....Shree- Baishu....see na how my life changed in one go...yesterday i was Shree Gupta and today i became Shree Dahiya...seriously life is so unpredictable.....and moreover i really don't know about my husband anything wether it's about his family or anyone....being a husband wife also we seem to be a total stranger to each other....Baishali- I can understand di... What is going inside you but you can just share it with me other than that we cannot do anything about this....Shree- You know just because of Abhi I'm here in this house otherwise i would have never come here to stay with that arrogant man because i don't consider him as my husband..Baishali- Abhi?? Who is that now?Shree- Akshay's younger brother who is just 7 years old now... He is a pure soul i have ever met...actually i got to know that he wanted me to be his Bhabhi maa so to fullfill that wish Mr Dahiya decided to marry me only....but see the fate in what situation we got married....Baishali- Then I'm sure God has some plans for you both otherwise he wouldn't have done that with you both.... I think di you should start a new life with him...Shree- Are you mad?? New life and that also with that man....he doesn't even talk to me properly then how can you expect that i can start a new life with him....and moreover you know right i don't want to marry now i want to study more...Shree had just said the half truth to Baishali about the marriage she did not told her about what Akshay told her about his prospective about this marriage...Meanwhile Abhi cheerful enters the house from school and was about to say shout and call for Shree when he notices Baishali and Shree together....Seeing Baishali he gets silent and checks her from head to toe....then he smiles at her and says Abhi- You must be Baishali didi Right??Baishali smiles back at him and then goes near him and sits in her knee to match the height of Abhi then she replies in a sweet wayBaishali- Yes my dear little one.....I'm Baishali your bhabhi maa's sister...Abhi- You know didi i wanted to meet you at that moment when i heard about you from Yash Bhaiya...Baishali- What Yash bhaiya? He told you about me?Abhi- yes indeed....Baishali-( what does this boy know about me that he is talking about me...)