chapter 25

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Well the kind of hate and demotivation I got after updating my story there, I never thought anyone would read my story there because obviously I never thought that my writing was really such that someone would buy it and read it.

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Chapter start

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" Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for coming here." Maheshwari family welcomes the Mehra family and this word is of Siddhart for them.

" What a wonderful surprise Ansh beta, I did not expect you but I am very happy that you came." Siddhart says while keeping his hand on Ansh's shoulder when Ansh comes close to him to touch his feet

" Wapas kab aaye ?" Shidhart asks him

" Ji kal." Ansh answers but inside the house, Ansh's eyes are only looking for Advaita and his wait ends when he sees Advaita coming down the stairs

She is in a peach colored saree, well she knew that her in-laws are coming so Advaita chooses to wear a saree today because no matter how modern she is, she knows what kind of clothes look good at which place and in front of whom and her aim has always been to impress her in-laws, so thinking about this, she chose to wear a saree.

And seeing the Mehra family, she moves towards them to meet them but her steps stop when her eyes fall on Ansh.

She cannot believe her eyes that he is standing in front of her.

It had been almost a week since they had stopped talking, he was not answering any of her calls or messages and today he was in front of her like this.

No this can't be true, she must be dreaming with her eyes open, she thinks this while looking at ansh who is already watching her with a smile.

" Advaita beta yehaan aao." Advaita comes out of her thoughts when Siddhart calls out to her.

And even now seeing Ansh standing next to his father she starts realizing somewhere that she is not dreaming, but still she is angry with him for what he did to her, he ignored her for a week and this is not a small thing for her.

Everything was going well between them but then what mistake did she do due to which he did not talk to her for the last one week...But no, this time she will not take the initiative, she will not ask him anything.

She will also not go to talk to him now,

Earlier she did not have the right to show her anger but this time she is angry and she will show him this, he will have to say sorry for his actions.

But then there with a smile, Advaita takes her eyes off Ansh and goes towards her father where the Mehra family is present

Advaita bends down and is about to touch the feet of Simran and Raj to take their blessings but Raj and Simran stop her.

" Daughters do not touch feet, I have forbidden you earlier too." Raj says this while keeping his hand on her head, to which Advaita smiles.

And then after Raj, Advaita sees Simran who hugs her and after that Advaita meets Ashish Neela and then Aarav too.

And after meeting everyone, she just stands there quietly, whereupon Ansh looks at her and sees that she is looking at everyone, looking everywhere except him.

And somewhere Ansh also knows the reason for her anger but what does he do, he wanted to surprise her by coming suddenly but maybe he shouldn't have done what he did. He thinks.

And before that Siddhart asks them to meet seeing the silence between them, His words remain in his mouth when Advaita speaks

" bua." Advaita says while looking towards the door where Priyal Vishal and Reyansh are coming inside the house.

Advaita gets an excuse to go away from Ansh and Simran notices how Advaita met everyone but did not even look at Ansh. Advaita had said that everything was fine between them, then why is there this silence and hesitation between them?

But then she doesn't think much about it because she also knows how her son is, her son is dumb, if he says something then only Advaita will say something to him na.

She shook her head in disbelief seeing her son silence.

And there Siddhart and Shalini welcome the son-in-law and daughter of this house, and then Siddhart hugs Reyansh welcoming him too

" Thank you for coming here." Siddhart speaks embarrassing his nephew as he hardly takes part in any family activities especially when there is a crowd

And it is okay, the family is aware of the behaviour of this child in their house and keeping his comfort in mind, they understand this thing about him.

But Reyansh, who hardly goes to crowded places, the reason for his coming here today is only Aaira because he knows that Aaira is also coming here today.

But when Reyansh sees Ansh, he is shocked that when did he come back and now there is no chance of him being able to talk to Aaira today. He feels disappointed.

And there, while they were welcoming priyal Vishal Reyansh....Neil, Avni and Aaira also reached there behind them and Siddhart welcomes them too.

Reyansh looks at Aaira and Aaira looks at Reyansh, their eyes meet and Reyansh gives a smile to Aaira which Aaira reciprocates with a light smile.

Well, there is still no open and special conversation between them, especially from Aaira's side, but Reyansh always tries to keep both of them normal together.

And Aaira too does not ignore this thing of his and whenever he talks to her, she talks to him normally and doesn't fight with him anymore in anyway but at the same time she never takes the initiative from her side to talk to him after thinking something.

And then Siddhart and Shalini welcome some more of their guests and the party continues.

Whereas Ansh, Aarav, Aadhriti, Arjun, Aaira and Reyansh are sitting together and obviously here Ansh makes sure that his sister sits next to him and she should stay away from Reyansh.

well he cannot say anything to Reyansh here because this is his house but yes he can surely make a distance between them.

And Advaita doesn't sit with them and ignoring Ansh she gets busy with some other guest in the party but Ansh's gaze goes only to the places where Advaita is going.

He is not able to take his eyes off her.

On the other side, all the elders Siddhart-Shalini, Raj-Simran, Neil-Avni, and Priyal-Vishal gather together, They are talking to each other when suddenly Priyal elbows her brother Siddhart and signals him something, to which Siddhart nods.

" Well Avni, special thanks to you for coming here." Avni who was standing with Neil gets confused by Siddhart's words and so does Neil.

Well that is a different matter, Neil notices that this Siddhant often praises Avni in front of him which he does not like at all

" Your presence has made this party even more beautiful." Avni gets a little shocked by Siddhart's words

And there Priyal and Shalini suppress their smile on hearing Siddhart's words, Well, Shalini knows that her husband is talking to Avni like this just to tease Neil on the instructions of his sister priyal, And that's okay, such jokes are common among relatives.

Now their relationship is all about joking with each other like this because of their children.

But there, Neil gets really irritated but as Siddhart is Ansh's father in law, he doesn't say anything and Avni just smiles a little at Siddhart's words in awkwardness and looks at Neil who looks irritated.

And there Raj and Simran also understand this thing of Siddhart and seeing Neil getting irritated both of them suppress their laughter.

" Ohoo kya baat hai bhaiya, I didn't know Avni's presence was so special." While teasing Neil, Priyal adds fuel to the fire by saying this to which everyone present smiles as they understand the joke again.

And there Avni glares at Priyal for saying this.

" You must know from your college days how special her presence is in our house, she was our maa's favourite for her calm and sweet nature." Siddhart says further on which Avni is still in awkward situation because she knows that Neil would not like this thing at all, even if someone says all this in jest.

" I will go and see Aaira, don't know where she is." To escape from this situation, Avni leaves the place by making this excuse but everyone gets surprised when Neil also follows her.

" Sorry sorry, I just said all this to tease Neil." After Neil leaves, Siddhart apologizes to Raj to which Raj smiles.

" It's ok, I also enjoy seeing my friend getting teased but I am shocked how he let you go without giving any reply." Raj says to which Simran glares at him.

Don't know how much time has passed but this thing between them is still intact.

Even today Neil gets easily irritated when someone says anything about his wife.

" Huh, Even at this age, his flirting hasn't stopped." an irritated Neil tells Avni when he is alone with her

" It's okay Neil, he was just teasing you...there is nothing like that." Avni explains him

"Hmm, he is just Ansh's father-in-law that's why I was quiet otherwise....

" Otherwise what would you have done?" She asks

" Otherwise I don't like anyone talking to my wife like that...I would have fought even if he was a commissioner, And now he has retired, even if I fight he will not be able to do anything." Avni smiles at his words and at this moment he looks so cute in his jealous form that if they were at home she would definitely have pulled his cheek, but she controls this desire because they are in a crowd.

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" Bhabhi..." Aaira taps Advaita on the shoulder from behind and calls out to her, upon which Advaita turns towards her

" Haan Aaira bolo." Advaita says

" you're so busy, You are not even spending time with us..." complains Aaira

" It is not like that Aaira, tell me what you want to talk about...by the way can you have something ?" Advaita asks her And about to call a waiter but Aaira stops her

" Yes, I will take some of your time, will I get it ?" says Aaira to which Advaita smiles but before Advaita can say anything, Aaira continues

" Come with me to the garden for a little while; I need to talk to you about something important." Saying this, Aaira does not give Advaita a chance to say anything when she holds her hand and starts taking her out

And soon both of them come out in the garden and before this Advaita asks Aaira what she wants to talk about, Advaita gets shocked seeing Ansh in front of her

And here it won't be wrong to say that Aaira brings Advaita here on Ansh's words, because Ansh is not able to talk to Advaita in the crowd inside and well they don't even get a chance to talk properly inside that's why Ansh asks Aaira to bring Advaita outside in the garden where no one is there as everyone is busy inside.

Meanwhile, Aaira leaves Advaita's hand and gives a smile to Ansh to which Ansh gives her a thankful smile.

" Now you both talk, I am going inside." Aaira says this and then goes back inside, on which Advaita looks at her.

But before Advaita goes after Aaira, Ansh quickly holds her wrist and stops her and Advaita's heart starts pounding.

Meanwhile, seeing her still not turning towards him, Ansh holding her wrist and pulls her closer to himself in such force that she falls straight into his arms

and Ansh immediately takes his one hand behind her waist and captures her in his arms, but even then Advaita does not look up at him, at which Ansh sighs.

" Jab dur tha toh paresaan karne ka ek mauka nahi chhoda aur aaj karib hu to nazar uthakar dekh bhi nahi rahi..." He says, only making her eyes moist.

Well, she is happy with his arrival, but she is hurt by the action he did before he came. Only she knows in what guilt she has spent the last one week.

She thought that she has made some mistake again due to which he has become angry with her.

Him being angry with her increases the pain in her chest, and not being able to talk to him makes it hard for her to breathe.

But no, it does not matter to him, he ignores her whenever he feels like it.

But maybe it is not like that, ever since things got okay between them, this is the first time that he has not talked to her for such a long time, but why did he do this?

" Forgive me, I just wanted to surprise you and that's why I bothered you a bit and that's why I didn't pick up your calls." Placing his finger under her chin he makes her look at him and responds to her unspoken complaint to which her eyes become more moist.

Their eyes meet and Ansh wipes her tears

" Forgive me." he requests her to which she shakes her head in denial to which he smiles

Well he did not talk to her in the beginning for 6 months and she did not make any complaint but now this is the condition in 7 days.

" Well, I hurt you so much in the past, you didn't complain then? And today you don't want to forgive me for such a small mistake?" He asks, at which she looks at him

" I had no right then, but today I have the right to be angry and complain too...You have done wrong and I will not forgive you.

And I did not like this surprise of yours at all...I do not want to talk to you." Saying this, she pushes him on his chest and came out from his arms

And Ansh looks at her in disbelief. She was calling and messaging him till yesterday and today she doesn't want to talk.

But before he could say anything, Advaita goes away from there upon which Ansh sighs.

He doesn't even know how to pacify girls, what should he do now? Maybe she has become even more angry.

And then inside, after spending a good time with the guests, Siddhart cuts his retirement cake and everyone has dinner.

Well, their party started early in the evening as it was not the kind of party that goes on till late night and it was only 9 pm when the party ended.

The guests have left but the three families are sitting together, spending some more time together.

And there Aaira who was sitting with Ansh, Ansh says something in her ear on which Aaira smiles

Well, Aaira is surprised to see this new side of her elder brother which is not romantic at all but today he is repeatedly making one or the other excuse just to spend time with Advaita and now Ansh said that she should ask Advaita's family to allow Advaita to go out for a movie at this time because somewhere he doesn't have the courage to ask her family directly to take Advaita out.

And Ansh is thankful to Aaira that if his sister was not in his life, what would have happened to him? Who would have helped him?

Well, he could have taken some help from Aarav but Aarav is so loud that he will not help him without teasing him and at the same time, Aarav will not miss any opportunity to tease him in front of everyone which he does not want but his sister is helping him without teasing him, without asking any questions and this is the only difference between his brother and sister and he is grateful to his sister.

" Mamu, can I say something..." Aaira stands up and says in front of everyone, upon which everyone looks at her

" Haan bachha bolo." Raj says this to her

" We celebrated uncle's retirement but it has been a day since bhai returned but we did not celebrate that." Everybody smiles at her words except Advaita.

" So what I was thinking, the party is over here, so we had planned to go to a movie tonight, so uncle should we take Bhabhi with us." Aaira asks Siddhart and Ansh in his mind praises his sister for making such good excuses.

" And why only Bhabhi, Aadhriti also, I mean just like we siblings are going, similarly Bhabhi and her siblings..." Well, while helping her elder brother, Aaira does not forget Aarav and while thinking about him, she takes Aadhriti's name so that he can also spend time with her on which Aarav also becomes happy, well he had not expected this from Aaira somewhere that she will mention Aadhriti name specifically.

" Theek hai bachha, tum bachhe jao." Siddhart tells her and Aaira turns to her parents with a smile to take their permission now

" Papa jaaun ?" Well, wherever Ansh is, Neil has no problem in sending Aaira even late at night, so Neil replies yes to her nodding making her happy.

" Advaita, jao." Sidhart says this to her

" Par papa... Advaita thinks of refusing but before she can say anything, Aaira understands this and cuts her off.

" Bhabhi please mnaa mat kariye...please...." Aaira says making her baby face to which Advaita sees her.

Well, she doesn't want to go, but her stubbornness is not so great that if someone asks her with such a request, she would refuse.

So there is nothing further, but all the youngsters get ready to go out except Reyansh, who is still sitting with his parents.

" Reyansh tum bhi chalo." Advaita says seeing him sitting to which Reyansh looks at her

" But why me?" asks Reyansh because obviously, Aira didn't take his name nor once she asked him to come along anyway, why would he go? This is the plan of these siblings, so why would he go?

" What do you mean by " why me ?", aren't you my brother? We all are going so why won't you come?" Advaita tells him to which Reyansh has no answer.

Yes he is her brother but Ansh might not like him going with them

" No di, you all go, I will not go." Reyansh says

" Arre yaar chal na, itne nakhre kyon dikhaata hai humesha." Aarav says while lifting him from the couch

And further Siddhart also tells him to go with them and then Advaita asks him once again, upon which he is unable to refuse and agrees to go with them.

And seeing all this, yes, somewhere Ansh does not like Reyansh going with them but he also knows that he cannot do anything now.

Coincidentally, Reyansh turns out to be Advaita's brother and now he will have to control himself a little with him.

He probably can't treat him like he did before where he scold him anytime without thinking anything.

But Aaira gets happy that he is also going with them, however, they did not talk to each other today because she was with Ansh all the time and for some reason, not just with Ansh, she doesn't want to share with anyone or show that the conversation between her and Reyansh has started again.

That is why she does not talk to him anyway and this was also the reason why she did not look at him even once while asking everyone for the movie.

But now she is happy that he is also going with them.

To be continued.......

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