chapter 27

" Bhai, movie dekhni thi, bnaani nahi thi raaste me..." When Ansh reaches there with Advaita half an hour after the movie starts, Aarav teases Ansh for coming late by saying this to which Ansh glares at him.

But there...the red color of that moment is still visible on Advaita's face, which was no less than a surprise for her, She is still engrossed in that moment unable to believe that this actually happened between them, and it was Ansh who took the initiative.

And thinking all this again and again her shyness is increasing and this red color spread on her face is enhancing the glow of her face, showing her happiness and shyness together.

" Where were you both? You both left before us to come here ?" Aarav asks further to which Ansh looks at Advaita who is looking everywhere except him.

" We were stuck in traffic." he says, but he knows he made a terrible excuse

" Bhai, We also came from the same route, we did not find any traffic ?" Aarav says to which Ansh glares at him over his investigation.

" Ab aa gye na, andar chalo ab." Ansh ignores Aarav's question and says, but just as everyone was about to go inside, Ansh notices Aaira who looks a little sad.

" Are you okay ?" Ansh asks Aaira, coming close to her from behind and walking with her as he notice she was alone

The reason for her being alone is only that Reyansh cannot stay with her despite wanting to, so on the other side Aadhriti Advaita are going inside talking to each other and Aarav Arjun and Reyansh too.

" Yes bhai, I am fine." Aaira says with smile but maybe she also knows that she is lying, She is not fine and she doesn't understand the reason...today suddenly she is feeling lonely among her loved ones.

Well, she is not used to being alone like this, she has never felt lonely because everyone gives her not just attention but over attention and maybe because of this, if no one else, even her brothers are not talking to her and busy with their girls, it is making her feel a little bad.

Well she can understand Ansh that he is meeting Advaita after a long time so he is busy with her but Aarav, he meets Aadhriti everyday but even when, right now when everyone together, Aarav behaves as if no one else exists except Aadhriti when he's with her.

And it's okay, she doesn't have any problem if Aarav too stays busy with his girlfriend but here the problem is that she is not used to living like this, she needs someone with her who talk to her but today no one is talking to her and the one person who is ready to talk to her cannot even talk to her because of the fear of her brother.

But again there, Seeing Aaira so sad and lost, Ansh thinks something else

" Is Reyansh's presence bothering you?" Ansh asks her further to which Aaira looks at Reyansh who is walking ahead of her with everyone else

" Today only his presence is giving me comfort." Aaira thinks looking at Reyansh's back because he is the only one who is taking care of her comfort in every way today when her brother is busy taking care of his girlfriend.

And seeing Reyansh she herself doesn't know what is happening to her but she also knows that whatever is happening, she has to control herself this time; she cannot get her heart broken again.

" There is nothing like that bhai, I am not affected by his presence at all now." Aaira lies to which Ansh smiles.

" That's my strong Aaira, by the way now let's go quickly otherwise we will miss the rest of the movie." Ansh says and they all enter the hall where it is already dark as the movie starts.

Everyone takes their seats and their seating arrangement is such that from the right, first is Ansh, then next to him is Advaita, Next to Advaita is Aaira, next to Aaira is Aadhriti, next to Aadhriti is Aarav, next to Aarav is Reyansh and next to Reyansh is Arjun.

An hour passes and everyone is engrossed in watching the movie but now Aaira is regretting why her seat is here and she is regretting more because she cannot even exchange her seat with anyone.

Because on her right side, Ansh and Advaita are watching the movie and discussing about it, Meanwhile, on her left, Aarav and Aadhriti are talking and she can no longer tolerate her own silence because she herself is not used to seeing something so silently, she needs someone to talk.

Whenever she used to come for a movie with her brothers before this, she used to discuss the movie with them while watching it but today she feels strange sitting quietly among them like this and she finds it even more strange when they seems totally unaware of her presence, somewhere she is regretting coming here now.

It would have been better if she had helped her brother and stayed at home and her brother had come here alone with Advaita.

And suddenly seeing them busy with their respective girls, all of sudden a thought comes to her mind whether she was just an option for them because when there was no one in their life, they talk to her in these type of situation but today both of them are so busy talking to their girls that perhaps they are not even aware of her presence in this hall.

And there she knows that maybe she shouldn't think like this, but at this moment, seeing them like this, she is unable to stop these thoughts coming into her mind.

But then somehow her time passed and the movie ended and when the movie ended it was 12:30.

Everyone comes out of the hall and by now Aaira's mood is completely off which Reyansh senses seeing her because in the movie hall his attention was on her and not on the movie and he was seeing how she skipped the entire movie by sometimes looking here and there and sometimes closing her eyes.

Her behavior was not normal and he feels bad for her because it is not difficult for him to understand her behavior after seeing how both her brothers are busy with their girls.

She was so happy at home before coming here, but now her mood seems to be completely opposite.

" Dii, before we go home can we all go for ice-cream." Reyansh suggests to Advaita before leaving the mall to which Aaira looks at him

And it would not be wrong to say that if Reyansh who likes to remain quiet says something in front of everyone then why would he say that? Obviously, ice-cream improves Aaira's mood so he suggests this to everyone so that her bad mood gets better before going home.

" You said what I was thinking...I also wants to eat ice-cream, Let's go." Advaita tells Reyansh but Ansh looks at her on hearing this.

" Why didn't you tell me this earlier when you wanted to?" Ansh asks her in a whisper

" I was with the doctor, that's why I was afraid to make this request at night." Teasing him she says this to which Ansh rolls his eyes.

But then they all go to an ice-cream shop in the same mall and as the movie had ended, the shop was a little crowded.

" By the way you couples take another table, you have no work among us single people." Aarav tells Ansh and Advaita when everyone is about to sit together

And Ansh also feels like sitting separately with Advaita because he also knows that he will not be able to talk to Advaita openly in front of everyone else.

" As you say Aarav sir." Without shying away and without showing much tantrums, Ansh accepts it at once and says this.

And then he holds Advaita's hand and goes to another table, on which Advaita again gets shocked by his action.

But there everyone smiles seeing Ansh like this with Advaita, because they also know how Ansh was in the initial days but now everyone smiles seeing him happy with Advaita.

" Haven't you become too courageous?" Advaita tells him this after sitting at another table with Ansh

" Why don't you like this side of me?" Ansh asks her

" It is not like that, I like this side of you very much, but still I am not able to believe it...I feel like the Ansh I knew has been kidnapped and in his place is an impersonator sitting in front of me." She says this teasing him to which Ansh smiles

" So should I kiss you again to prove that I am the same Ansh you knew." He says making her eyes widen and her cheeks turn red with shyness

"No." she replies shyly.

" Why? You didn't like me doing that?" He asks her teasingly to which she is in no condition to reply, She has already replied to him by telling him how much she liked and felt bliss by his doing this but this man is troubling her like this now.

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On the other hand, Aarav, Aadhriti, Arjun, Aaira and Reyansh are sitting together at a round table and here Reyansh is sitting next to Aaira and on the other side of Aaira is Aadhriti and there Arjun is busy playing games on his phone.

" Here is our ice-cream." Aarav brings everyone's ice-cream on a tray and finally a smile appears on Aaira's face when she sees her favorite blueberry ice-cream. Well, whatever it is she is happy to see that her brother has not forgotten her favorite

" Thank you bhai, for bringing my favourite ice-cream without me even asking." Saying this she is about to take the ice-cream but her hands stop on hearing Aarav's words.

" Aaira this is not for you but for Aadhriti, she had ordered this." Aaira's smile fades after hearing this and Reyansh is now really angry with Aarav

" I know you like it too but there was only one blueberry ice-cream left in the whole shop so I thought you would eat some other ice cream." Aarav says and there Aadhriti looks at Aaira, well she didn't know that Aaira also likes this

" It's alright, Aaira you eat this, I'll take another one." Saying this Aadhriti is about to take another ice-cream but Aarav stops her

" Well if that is the case then even Aaira can do this thing...If you can sacrifice for her then even Aaira is not that selfish that she can't eat another ice-cream for a day." Aarav says to which Aaira looks at him

" Bhai is right Aadhriti, if you can give up your choice for me then why can't I? And anyway, you had ordered this especially....I didn't even tell my preference, so you eat this." Aaira says this while smiling and then she gives the blueberry ice-cream to Aadhriti and herself picks up one of the remaining ice-creams without looking.

But as soon as she removes cover of the ice-cream to eat it, Reyansh notices her ice-cream and immediately snatches it from her hand

" You can't eat this." he says to which everyone's including Aaira, looks at him

" Why what happened?" Aarav asks him to which Reyansh looks at him angrily.

" Nothing much, just this ice-cream has cashews which Aaira is allergic to. I hope you know this about your sister." Reyansh angrily speaks to Aarav in a taunting tone while showing some pieces of cashew nuts on top of the ice-cream, to which Aarav looks at him

And there Aaira looks at Reyansh after hearing this, and wonders when and how he came to know this thing about her.

" I'm sorry Aaira, You wait I will bring something else for you," says Aarav but before he can get up from his chair Aaira stops him

" No bhai, You sit, I will go and look for something for myself." says Aaira and gets up from there and goes to the counter, where Reyansh looks at her.

Aaira goes to the counter but before ordering anything she turns back once to see them where on one side there are Ansh and Advaita and on the other side are Aarav and Aadhriti.

She smiles sadly after thinking about something and now her mind has become so sad that she knows that she will not be able to tolerate anything more today.

But at the same time she doesn't want to spoil her brothers' time with their girls because of her, but she also doesn't feel like staying here but she knows that in the mood she is in right now, she can spoil the mood of others and thinking all this, Aaira does not stop there and goes straight out of the shop because right now she doesn't want to stay with anyone, she wants her parents, she wants to go home.

But Reyansh gets shocked seeing her leaving the shop and immediately gets up from his chair and starts leaving from there.

" Where are you going?" Aarav asks him

"Nowhere, I am just coming." Saying this Reyansh goes straight behind Aaira

Meanwhile, Aaira comes out of the mall and while thinking something, she sits on the stairs outside for some peace but she does not get that peace when Reyansh comes and sits next to her and she looks at him

" You here?" Aaira asks him.

" Why did you come here?" he asks even though he knows the reason somewhere and Aaira smiles a little at his question.

" I just didn't feel good inside, that's why." She says

" Are you okay?" he says to which she nods but doesn't say anything further and he doesn't say anything either but he silently stares at her which she feels but still she does not say anything.

And there after a few minutes of silence, Reyansh breaks the silence between them

" Are you feeling bad about their changed behavior?" Aaira is initially shocked at this question that how does this guy understand her so well but then she takes a deep breath, turns to him and chooses to tell the truth

"Just a little." she says pointing an inch with her finger to which he looks at her and then after a pause she says again

" Am I a bit of an attention seeker, no ? He smiles at her question.

" No, there is nothing like that. They both have made you the way you are and today whatever you are feeling because of their indifference it's not your fault, it's inevitable." He says, to which she looks at him.

And what he says is true. Really it is the fault of both of them: they gave her so much love, so much attention, pampered her so much but today they could not even notice her absence.

They got so engrossed in spending time with their girls that they forgot about her, so it is not wrong to feel this way.

" Well, that's okay. When new people come into our lives, priorities change, there is nothing wrong in this: we just have to prepare ourselves for that change. It will take you time but maybe then you will start to feel it all normal." Understanding the condition of her heart at this time, he speaks to her while consoling her.

" Yes that is true, just like your priorities changed for me when you joined school and new people came into your life." Aaira lost in her sadness blurts out these words to which Reyansh looks at her and Aaira looks at him with sadness

" You know I still remember some of our vague childhood memories and I also have some of our childhood photos where we were happy, You were with me, we used to play together but then everything ended, You joined school, you found new friends and then you started finding me annoying which you didn't find before and then you broke your friendship with me." While saying all this, Aaira's eyes become moist and her heart becomes heavy.

Because no matter how much she hides it, she still misses him.

She still often cries at night, hiding her tears from her parents, remembering the day when her heart was broken, even though it was a misunderstanding but her heart hurts remembering that day.

Even today, the vague memory which Ansh never let her forget by always reminding her how Reyansh broke off his friendship with her in front of someone else, makes her heart hurt thinking all that.

So there, Reyansh's heart also feels heavy after hearing her words and seeing her moist eyes.

" Trust me, breaking friendship with you is the biggest mistake of my life, which I regret even today and no matter how much I apologize to you for that, it will be less, but believe me, your importance in my life has never decreased because of anyone else's arrival. Even though we didn't talk, I miss you every day, every moment, I miss your friendship which was no less than a blessing for me but I lost everything because of my mistake."

He says this to which Aaira looks at him and their eyes meet.

And somewhere it is Aaira's sadness which made her say all this to him, otherwise if she was in her right state of mind then she probably would have never said all this to him because now she has decided that she will never open her heart to him, but at this moment, her sad mind is making her say all this which he is listening to and without controlling himself, he is also able to clearly say what is in his heart.

But their moment is suddenly interrupted by Reyansh's phone ringing and Aaira suddenly regains consciousness and looks in the other direction.

But Reyansh composes himself and picks up his phone because he knows whose call it will be.

" Ji, main baahar hi hu." Reyansh says this and suddenly a delivery boy appears in front of him whom Reyansh meets and Aaira looks at him

And after taking the thing brought by the man, Reyansh comes back and sits next to Aaira, upon which she looks at him

" Here is your blueberry ice-cream." Aaira is shocked at his words, he ordered ice-cream for her but why ?

Well, here before following Aaira, Reyansh orders her favourite ice-cream for her because even though this shop doesn't have her favorite ice-cream, it must not have run out in the entire city and with this thought in mind he places an order for it.

And coincidentally his order arrived right where they were sitting

" Lo..." Reyansh says this to which Aaira looks at him but then after thinking something she takes the packet from his hand and she sees that there are not just one but 5 ice-creams in it: 4 of which are blueberry ice-cream and one is of another flavor, a smile comes on her face

" Why so much?" she asks to which he sighs

"Wait, don't think this is all for you." he says to which she pouts

" Look, I am not that good, I have ordered for myself too, I will eat it too." He says this to which she smiles and immediately gives him a box of a different flavour.

" And I am also not that nice to share my favourite ice-cream, I will give you just one pack and the rest is mine." she says to which he makes a sad face

" As you say, madam." He says, bowing his head in front of her, to which she smiles: but then suddenly she remembers that she had come here to go home and looking at him she thinks something

" Tum mujhe ghar chhod doge ?" She says looking at him expectantly to which he looks at her and of course even though she came here alone she knows she can't go home alone at this time because her parents would be worried seeing her returning home alone.

" Sabke saath wapas chalenge na.." Reyansh tells her, on which she thinks something

" No, actually I am not feeling good here, please drop me home, please..." she requests

" But Ansh Bhaiya won't like it." Reyansh tells her

" You don't need to worry about him. anyway my presence here doesn't matter to anyone, so it doesn't matter whether I am here or not...So, let's go." Saying this she holds his hand and starts walking away with him

"But wait, let me book a cab." says Reyansh

" No, we'll just take a walk and once our ice-cream gets over then we'll book a cab, okay?" Aaira says and now seeing her happy, he thinks that he should not say anything that will make her sad again and hence he agrees to drop her home.

" Ok as you say." Reyansh says making her happy and then both of them walk from there towards home enjoying their ice-cream

Well, since it is late night, the road is amlost empty, both of them are walking on the side of the road eating their ice-cream and talking something randomly but at the same time, both of them notice a couple where both are standing next to their car and the girl is feeding something to her man with her hands seeing that Aaira smiles but Reyansh feels cringe

" Ewww, don't know how people can do such cringe things in the open." Saying this, he looks at Aaira but is shocked when Aira lowers her hand which she had probably extended to feed him ice-cream.

" Sorry, I know you don't like all this things in public place but I thought I'd let you taste my ice-cream." She says to which he curses himself for speaking nonsense at the wrong time.

" Who said I don't like it, please feed me your ice-cream." he says to which she looks at him

" Really?" she asks to which he nods to which she smiles and he opens his mouth to which she feeds him a spoonful of her ice-cream

" Hmm, Your choice is really delicious." He says as he feels the taste of her ice-cream melting in his mouth to which she smiles.

But suddenly she thinks of something.

"Can I ask you something?" she says, to which he nods.

" How did you know I'm allergic to cashews?" she asks him to which he sees her

And then he replies that 5 years ago when they came to his house for dinner, his mother made Gajar Ka Halwa in sweets but by mistake his mother put cashews in it and when her father Neil and she ate it, the condition of both of them suddenly started deteriorating, and when Avni sees both of them getting sick at Same time at the dinner table, her first suspicion falls on the food and when she asks Priyal if there were cashews in any of the food so Priyal replies that it was only in the halwa and that very day he came to know that she is allergic to cashews like her father Neil.

Aaira hears his answer and looks at him in shock

"You have a very sharp mind, you remember everything?" she says

" That's why I am a topper." he says to which she rolls her eyes

" Huh, But now you won't, I will be the topper in our department in college, Just wait for our final year to come." She says proudly to which he smiles.

On the other side

After spending almost an hour in the mall, Advaita notices time

" I think we should go home now..." On hearing this from Advaita, Ansh looks at his watch where it is 1:30, Well he also did not realise the time while talking to her and if Advaita had not asked him to leave now, he would not have paid attention to the time and it is obvious that when you are with your loved ones, that too after such a long time, then who sees the time.

" Yes, anyway Mamu must be worried about Aaira, it is already quite late." Ansh says getting up from the chair and then goes to the table where Aarav and everyone else are

But there Ansh gets shocked when he doesn't see Aaira

" Where is Aaira?" On hearing Ansh's words, Aarav who was talking to Aadhriti and Arjun who was playing a game on his phone all look at Ansh and Advaita.

" Aarav where is Aaira?" Ansh asks Aarav again and now Aarav notices that Aaira is not sitting with them but he gets more shocked when Reyansh also disappears and he remembers that he had gone saying that he is coming but where did both of them go?

" Aarav I am asking you something...where is Aaira?"

" bhai wo yahi kahin hogi...." Aarav says while looking around the shop but somewhere he starts realizing his mistake that maybe he made a mistake, he was not able to take care of Aaira because he does not know where she is.

" Kya mtalab yahi kahin hogi...You don't know where she is. She was with you guys, right? Where did she go?" Ansh suddenly gets angry

" Where did you pay attention that you don't know where she has gone?" Ansh says looking at the three people who were present there

" Jiju I'm sorry But I was busy playing my games so I didn't notice..." Arjun replies honestly

" Wait, I will call her." Saying this, Aarav takes out his phone but he sees that he has received a message from Reyansh and when he reads it he gets shocked.

" What happened? Call her." Seeing him shocked, Ansh tells him.

" Bhai, She has gone home with Reyansh...Reyansh has messaged us not to worry, he will drop her home safely." Aarav says but he knows how angry Ansh will get with this thing

And that is what happens, Ansh's face turns red with anger, he can't believe what he heard, how can she go with him, no his sister Aaira can't go with him no matter what the situation is.

" How did she go with him, where were you paying attention...how could you be so careless." Ansh asks in a loud voice on which Advaita gets scared seeing his anger.

After a long time she is seeing him in such an angry mood but what was there to be so angry about that she went away with Reyansh.

" Ansh relax, Reyansh has messaged that he has gone to drop her home, what is there to get so angry about..." Advaita tells him because obviously Advaita doesn't know what kind of relationship Ansh and Reyansh have

" Bhabhi, Bhai doesn't like Reyansh being with Aaira." Aarav tells Advaita the reason for Ansh's anger to which Ansh just looks angrily at Aarav

But Ansh does not do anything further but quietly goes out of that shop leaving everyone behind and takes out his phone where he first calls Aaira.

On the other side

At Khanna house.

Neil is sitting in the garden where Avni is with him

" Neil, you sleep now, Ansh is with her, why are you worried." Avni tells him

" I know Ansh is with her but you know I won't be able to sleep until she comes home and maybe her phone's battery is dead, her phone is switched off due to which I am not able to see her location."

He says to which Avni looks at him and she knows that whatever she says is useless, it is true that he will not sleep until Aaira comes back.

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" By the way, I am your ex....Who does so much for their ex ?" Aaira asks him.

Right now both are in a cab and in a few minutes both will reach Khanna house

but before that, seeing him doing so much for her, Aaira atlast asks him this question while teasing him and reminding him of their past.

" We have made a record of making and breaking a relationship within 1 hour." She further says slightly laughing on her owns words and situation

And there Reyansh shook his head in disbelief seeing her antics.

" Shut up, you are neither my ex nor will there be any next.

You are always mine because you were born to be mine and you will remain mine till my last breath, take as much time as you need to forget my mistakes, in the end you will be mine." He says this, surprising her. They both did not know what topic they came to while talking about the rest of their conversation.

" Since when did you become so expressive?" Seeing him saying all this without hesitation, she asks in her serious tone thinking something.

" from the moment you stopped expressing yourself." He says because he also knows what she feels for him, but now she doesn't express it clearly.

She opened her heart to him only one day and on the same day her heart was broken by a misunderstanding but today unknowingly she said some things again and he could not stop himself from saying what she meant to him.

But then, before they can talk anything further, their cab stops, making them realise that they have reached home.

Both of them get out of the cab and Reyansh makes sure that she goes inside the house safely so he accompanies her till the gate but before he can say bye to her and turn back, his steps stop when Neil calls out his name.

Well when the guard opens the gate for Aaira, at the same time Neil Avni sitting in the garden goes towards the gate and seeing Aaira and Reyansh together, he is shocked at first but then after thinking something, he stops Reyansh.

" You with him? Where is Ansh? Why didn't he come to drop you home?"

After Aaira and Reyansh come inside the gate, Neil asks this question to Aaira, on which Aaira and Reyansh look at each other.

" Papa, Ansh Bhai had to drop Bhabhi home as well and our house is on one side so I told bhai that I will go home with Reyansh, so I came with him." Aaira says but Avni and Neil don't believe her answer somewhere but they don't question her too much because she is safe

" Achha! By the way Reyansh it is quite late, you stay here today, I will tell your parents." Neil tells Reyansh because even though he is an adult, Neil still doesn't think it is right for him to go out alone at such a late hour.

" No uncle, I have called the driver uncle, he must be coming to pick me up, so you all don't worry and go and take rest." Reyansh says and then they hear the sound of a car

" Looks like he has arrived too." Reyansh says while going out of the gate of Khanna house along with Neil Avni and Aaira.

" Achha uncle main chalta hu, good night, good night aunty." Reyansh wish them before going.

" Good night bachha." Avni says.

" Thank you Reyansh for dropping off mannat." Neil tells him to which he just smiles and then Neil hugs him and then separates from him and then Reyansh sits in his car and leaves from there.

But there, Ansh watches all this from a distance in his car and his anger only keeps increasing.

Well, he comes straight to Khanna house from the mall because Aaira's phone is switched off and on top of that she is with Reyansh, so he comes here to see whether she reached home safely or not but he stops his car at a distance when he sees his mamu and Reyansh hugging each other outside the Khanna house and Aaira standing behind them.

Well, seeing Aaira safe, Ansh heaves a sigh of relief but he is still angry about why she came with Reyansh?

" Bhai, why did you stop, let's go. Meet your dear sister who after worrying everyone, reached home comfortably." Aarav, who is sitting with him in the car, tells him this to which Ansh looks at him in disbelief, why is he talking like this about Aaira.

" Have you lost your mind, why are you talking about her like that?"

" So what else should I say, she gave tension to everyone without any reason, ruined everyone's mood, ruined your and Bhabhi's time, You both met after such a long time but she spoiled everything by suddenly disappearing and that too with someone with whom she does not get along and here we all were tensed for her." Aarav says.

" Well Aaira did what she did, what did you do to her? She was not in front of you and you did not notice, where was your attention?" Ansh asks him

" Bhai please don't think of me like you, I have a lot of work to do in my life other than keeping an eye on her 24 hours a day." Aarav says

" And may I know what that work is?" Ansh says upon which Aarav becomes silent.

" I will tell you what that work is, that work is Aadhriti...isn't it?" Ansh says to which Aarav gets shocked

" What did you think, I was not paying attention to how you were with her and in spending time with her you forgot Aaira and the same applies to her as well, she too did not notice Aaira's absence while spending time with you." Ansh says to which Aarav looks at him

" Well, it is my mistake too, I should not have left Aaira with you, that too when I had seen yesterday itself how rude you were behaving with her, I don't know what happened to me today that I left her with you." Ansh tells Aarav but Aarav does not say anything further because somewhere he does not like the fact that Ansh is giving him so much lecture on Aaira's mistake.

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" I didn't expect this from Ansh..." Neil tells Avni when they all come inside the house and Aaira goes to her room to rest

But Neil is still unable to understand how Ansh left Aaira alone.

" Neil why are you thinking so much, Aaira told us that Ansh had to drop Advaita at home and it was more important for Ansh to stay with Advaita today, both of them were meeting after a long time and anyway Ansh's priorities will change, we cannot expect him to pay attention to Aaira all the time...that would be wrong." Avni says.

" Well you also know that I am enough for my daughter but if she has gone somewhere with her brothers then obviously I would expect them to pay attention to Mannat..." he says on which Avni sees him.

" And do old priorities change when new people come into our life?" Neil asks her this question to which Avni sees him

" Ansh never left Mannat alone like this in his presence that too late at night so that's the only thing that is bothering me, I have no other complaints against him...I also know that it was more important for him to be with Advaita." says Neil

" But you will not complain about this to Ansh, you will not say anything to him about why he sent Aaira with Reyansh...Aaira is home, safe, the matter ends here." Avni says this to which Neil looks at her but further agrees with her that okay he will not say anything to Ansh.

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" Ab tum theek ho ?" Advaita asks Ansh on the phone when Ansh freshens himself and calls her to say sorry to her because he didn't drop her home due to concern for Aaira.

" Yes I am fine but please forgive me, I couldn't drop you home and left in a hurry." Ansh says to which she smiles

" You don't need to say sorry, I can understand your concern for Aaira, Well, if I were in your place, I would have probably reacted the same way seeing my loved ones missing." Advaita says which Ansh listens to quietly.

" And then as far as dropping me at home is concerned, I am not a kid, And you know, I know how to drive and I have a license too, so I could have come home myself, there is no need to do so many formalities with me." She says all this in her joking manner to which Ansh smiles slightly.

" You are really a very good person." Seeing her understanding his situation and not getting angry, he cannot stop himself from praising her.

" At least you got to know my value, at least you got to know that I am good person." On receiving praise from him, she says these words jokingly to brighten his mood to which Ansh smiles.

And then like this both of them continue talking about some more things.

To be continued.........

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