chapter 34

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Chapter start

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" So when are you saying thank you to Bhabhi?" These are Avni's words which she says to Ansh on which Ansh looks at her

At this moment, Ansh is sitting with Avni on the couch in the hall area of ​​Khanna house where the rest of the family is also present but while talking to her nephew Ansh who is sitting next to her, Avni asks him in her whisper.

Well today the Khanna house is decorated in all its beauty to celebrate the blessed occasion of KarvaChauth.

And like every other festival, Khanna and Mehra families have gathered at one place to celebrate this festival too but today two more families are going to join this family to celebrate this happy occasion and those two families are Maheshwari and Singhania families.

And this festival is just an excuse, under this pretext everyone decides to spend a good moment together and that is why the Khanna family organizes this dinner tonight.

And there is another special reason for calling the Maheshwari family and that is that Advaita never came to the Khanna house, but as Ansh is the son of this house, Advaita is the daughter-in-law of this house, so seeing this good day the Khanna family organized this night to welcome this daughter-in-law in their house.

" You did not answer?" Avni says to Ansh on his silence, to which Ansh looks at her

" Thank you for what bua ?" Ansh says knowing somewhere what his bua wants to say to him.

" Arre ye kya baat hui....Well, you should thank your mother for countless things but for now this thank you is for Advaita." Avni tells him upon which Ansh's face immediately changes color and turns slightly red hearing Advaita name.

" I told you on the day of engagement that the day you fall in love with Advaita, you will never get tired of thanking your mother for her decision, then why so much hesitation today? Go and say thank you just the way you got angry on her..." Avni tells him

" Bua I am not in love with anyone." Ansh says to which Avni raises her eyebrows

" Bachha, I am your bua, I know you better than you know yourself, but it is okay, pretend.....but at least say thank you to your mother." Avni tells him to which Ansh smiles.

" Bua, you know how mom is, she will tease me a lot..." he tells about his fear, to which Avni smiles.

" Ye kya khusur-phusur chal rahi hai bua-bhatize ki ?" Simran suddenly sees them talking in a whisper and speaks up, upon which Avni and Ansh look at her and the attention of the rest also goes to these two bua-bhatiza ( nephew).

" Bhabhi, Ansh aapko thank you bolna chahta hai." Avni says this to which Ansh gets shocked. When did his Bua join the team of teasers? He thinks.

" Thank you? For what ?" Simran asks him

" Say bachha..." Avni says this to which Ansh gives her a look indicating you did not do right to me bua, and seeing his face Avni smiles.

" Wo mom, Thank you for loving me so much." Ansh says this to which Avni mentally face palm herself and Simran gives a confused look to Ansh that why does he need to thank her for this thing.

" Does anyone say thank you for a mother's love?" says Simran to which Ansh smiles.

But before anyone can say anything further, Raj speaks up when he notices Aaira's absence...It has been half an hour since the Mehra family arrived here and everyone is sitting waiting for the other two families to arrive.

" By the way Avi where is my Jaan..." Raj asks Avni and before Avni could answer, Simran speaks

" Yes Avu, where is Aaira, it's strange that Ansh and Aarav is here but she hasn't come to them yet, where is she?" Simran also asks Avni

And Neil and Avni's eyes meet on this question of Raj and Simran, well Raj and Simran do not know what has happened between their children.

And on hearing this question from their parents, Ansh and Aarav also look at each other, Well, it is also true that if everything was fine between them, by now Aaira would have come to them chirping and would have started her non-stop conversation with both of them.

Ansh looks at Aarav on which Aarav lowers his eyes in regret because somewhere he is regretting his mistake.

" Avu.... Simran is about to say something about Aaira again but this time Aarav interrupts her

" wo nahi aayi to kya hua, hum hi uske paas chale jaate hai, is me kya hai..."

Aarav says while getting up from his place and before anyone can say anything, Aarav heads towards Aaira's room.

Anyway, he has to apologize to Aaira as well, that's why he goes.

Meanwhile, Neil and Avni look at him as he leaves like this and Avni smiles that Aarav at least went to talk to her, again, She will be happy.

On the other side.

Aaira is sitting in her room reading a book.

Well, she knows who all are coming to her house today but for some reason she chooses to stay in her room.

While she is sitting in her room, engrossed in her book, there is a knock on her room's door.

She gets down from her bed and goes to open the door but as soon as she opens the door she gets shocked seeing Aarav in front of her.

Why has he come here in her room now? This is the only thought that comes to her mind seeing him.

Well it has been a week or 5-6 days since they stopped talking and today suddenly seeing him in front of her, she suddenly starts remembering his words and behavior.

Meanwhile, Aarav sees her, well he came to apologize to her only for this thing: that he should not have called her his cousin, and not for anything else.

And yes it is true that they are cousins ​​but they never realized this thing between them before that day.

And then Aaira does not stand in front of him for long and without saying anything, she comes back and sits on her bed, which makes Aarav feel bad that she didn't say anything to him but then he takes a step forward and comes inside her room.

" Aaira, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have talked to you like that that day." Aarav says with some hesitation, to which Aaira sighs while looking at her book.

And Aarav feels bad seeing her silence on his words, he never saw her like this, earlier she used to fight over every small thing on whom he gets falsely angry, but after the fight she would be the one who would apologize to him and forcefully get forgiveness from him by making her baby face.

Suddenly he starts remembering their old days due to which he starts regretting his mistake even more.

" Aaira... Aarav tries to say something again but Aaira, who does not want to talk to him, gets up and goes straight out of there

But as soon as she comes out of the room, she sees Ansh and her steps stop...Well whatever it is, she will still talk to Ansh but never to Aarav

Ansh who followed Aarav to Aaira's room but before entering the room, he heard Aarav's apology and stopped at the door, thinking that maybe they both could talk.

" Aaira, forgive him." Ansh says to which Aaira looks at him, well Ansh is angry with Aarav for what he did to Aaira but at the same time, he loves both of them equally and he doesn't like seeing them like this and he wants both of them to forgive each other and start talking to each other again.

" Please bhai, I have told you earlier also that I have no complaint against you and I will talk to you also but I will never talk to him...So please don't ask me to do something I don't want to do." Aaira says and Ansh looks at Aarav who's standing behind Aaira with a regretful expression on his face.

And after saying this to Ansh, Aaira leaves from there, upon which both the brothers look at each other.

Well, Ansh knows that Aaira is not wrong in her place, Aarav hurt her, but he doesn't understand what he should do now so that things between the three of them become like before.

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" You are wholeheartedly welcomed in this house, bachha." Avni says while applying tika to Advaita, welcoming her in the house after performing her aarti.

Both Maheshwari and Singhania families reach here together, And while welcoming everyone, Avni specially welcomes Advaita by performing her Aarti and the rest of the family stands behind Avni and watches all this.

There is a smile on everyone's face.

Advaita is wearing a red colored saree because even though she is not married, but as her and Ansh's wedding is near, her mother suggested her to also keep the fast of Karva Chauth today and on this suggestion of her mother, Advaita has no objection in keeping this fast for Ansh so today she has also kept the fast for Ansh.

And Ansh also knows this because during their phone conversation, Advaita told him about this suggestion of her mother.

And the rest who fasted for their husbands, all of them were wearing some red coloured saree made with different designs and all the men are also in their traditional wears.

Aaira is also wearing a very beautiful navy blue Anarkali suit today and call it a coincidence or something else, Reyansh is also wearing a navy blue kurta and when Reyansh reaches here and sees Aaira, his heart becomes happy seeing the matching color of their clothes.

Everyone sits together, talking and now just waiting for the moon to appear in the sky.

The youngsters sit on the couch in another corner of the hall, away from the elders, and Advaita sits close to Ansh because she knows that her shy man will never come and sit close to her in front of everyone, he will just become shameless in front of her when they are alone.

Meanwhile, Ansh is really not able to say anything in front of everyone but there Advaita leans near his ear

" You didn't tell me how I look?" She asks him to which Ansh looks at her

" You are looking good." He says just this in a low voice

"Just good?" She says making a face at which Ansh smiles

" You look very beautiful." Ansh says further

"Just beautiful?" she says to which Ansh looks at her

" Huh, I wish I had married a poet instead of a doctor, so that he would have written a poem in my praise." Her words bring a smile to Ansh's face

" Oh, but it's a pity you liked the doctor and not the poet, so now tolerate that doctor and don't expect poetry." Ansh says

" Hmm, That's true, I don't have any other option now." She says while making faces to which he shakes his head in disbelief.

But then Advaita notices Aaira who is sitting with them but is not saying anything, She sees that Aarav, Reyansh, Arjun and Aadhriti are also talking to each other but Aaira is not joining in. She thinks something

" Aaira... Hearing Advaita's voice, Aaira, who was busy with her phone, looks up and looks at her.

Well for some reason Aaira doesn't want to sit here but she knows that if she stays in the room, amidst so many people, it won't look good, that's why she's here.

" Ji Bhabhi boliye.... Aaira says

" Won't you show me your room, how do you live?" Advaita asks her to which Aaira looks at her and Ansh who's also looks at her after this

And there hearing Advaita's this words Aaira thinks something.

" Why not I will surely show you my room but Bhabhi, before that, I will give a suggestion to Ansh bhai..." she says on which Ansh sees her

" Bhai, why don't you show our house to Bhabhi, anyway you both will not be able to talk here." Aaira says to which Ansh sighs because he somehow understands why she is saying so.

But there Advaita smiles at this because in reality this shy man is not talking to her openly like he does when they are alone so now both of them will be able to talk on this pretext.

" Well Aaira, I must say that you are well aware of your bhai's shy nature, that is why you help me like this." Advaita speaks in praise of her, on which Aaira smiles slightly thinking something.

" Bhabhi, I am glad to know that you think this way about me, otherwise everyone else thinks that I want to separate them, You know, that typical villain Nanad type." Aaira says jokingly to which Aarav and Aadhriti look at her but Advaita gets confused by her words.

" I told you earlier too, you are very sweet." says Advaita

" Maybe just for you." says Aaira to which Advaita smiles but before their conversation can continue, Ansh interrupts

" Aaira you also come with us." Ansh says to which Advaita looks at him and Aaira looks at both of them.

" Bhai, If I had to go with both of you, then wouldn't I have shown the entire house to Bhabhi alone?" Aaira says to which Advaita smiles, well Aaira has brains which is lacking in her would be husband right now, Advaita thinks.

" Aur waise bhi mujhe lagi hai bhukh, ab yehaan toh almost sabke vrat hai par main apni bhukh bardaast nahi kar sakti, isiliye aap jao Bhabhi ke saath...main jaati hu kitchen me." Aaira says and gets up from there and heads straight to the kitchen where Reyansh looks at her.

Now what should he do sitting here without her.

And here Ansh thinks of taking Advaita nowhere else but to the terrace so that both of them can talk there.

" By the way, you lied to me that there is nothing between you and Aaira..." Aarav tells Reyansh to which Reyansh looks at him confused

" I did not lie." Reyansh clarifies

" Well then how did the colour of your clothes match? You both must have decided this." Aarav says

" There is nothing like that, it is just a coincidence and nothing else." says Reyansh

" hmm, well, I have noticed that all these coincidences happen only with you two." He says this to which Reyansh gives him a disbelief look that now you talk more about this and tell everyone this. Idiot.

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On the other side

On reaching the rooftop, Advaita and Ansh stand together near the railing from where they are able to see outside as well as in the garden of the house.

But the difference in the way they both stand is that instead of standing side by side, Ansh is standing hugging her from behind and Advaita is doing nothing but slightly resting her hands on the railing in front of her.

" You wanted to know how you look today?" He whispers in her ear to which she smiles and nods.

" Well, I cannot praise you like a poet but I can praise you like Ansh, you are looking so beautiful that I can't take my eyes off you." He says to which she smiles but she immediately gets shocked and surprised when she hears his next words

" And you are looking so beautiful that not only my eyes but even my lips are yearning to touch you." Saying this against her ear, he touches her earlobe with his lips, kissing her there which makes her breath-hitched as she had not expected this.

And Ansh doesn't do anything further but slides his lips from her earlobe to her neck and kisses her there while moving her open hair aside due to which Advaita's grip on the railing tightens.

" You were calling me very shy down there, come let me tell you how shy I am." Saying this, he turns her towards himself and is about to kiss her in quick but before he can do anything, Advaita puts her hand on his mouth.

" What are you doing, I am fasting, this is not allowed."

" So you have kept the fast for me only, right? Come, let me break your fast in this beautiful way." He says making her blush

" No, the fast is broken after seeing the moon." She says shyly seeing his antics.

" So, I am your moon, look at me and break your fast with me like this." He says which makes him feel shy but at the same time she can't control her smile.

" You're crazy." Saying this, she pushes him away and runs to the other side of the rooftop, where he runs after her.

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On the other side

Aaira is sitting alone in the garden and eating her ice-cream because inside elders are busy with each other so she doesn't want to disturb them and there is no one else with whom she can talk...so she comes here and enjoys her ice-cream in peace.

Well, she is changing a bit, she has also started liking being alone.

But now there is such a clingy person in her life that she is not able to stay alone.

She closes her eyes tight when she feels Reyansh sitting next to her...well, she doesn't need to see him to know his presence around her.

" Now what are you doing here?" she asks, turning to him who is sitting next to her on the couch.

And he smiles at her question

"What do you mean by what am I doing here? I will stay wherever you stay...that's why I came." he says to which she looks at him but then continued to eating her ice-cream without saying anything

But a few minutes pass but he does not stop staring at her, he keeps looking at her silently which she also feel but when she can no longer tolerate his staring at her she says

" Mujhe ghoorna band karo." She says without looking at him.

" Nahi karunga." He speaks while staring at her, to which she turns towards him and sighs.

And he gives her a smile teasing her.

But then, thinking about something, she speaks

" Ice-cream? " Well she knows that he will not leave from here even if she tells him to, but now that he is with her, so it is impossible for her to eat anything alone without sharing, so she offers him her ice-cream

But on her offer, he sees her ice-cream in her hand but before he can give any answer, Aaira speaks further

" by the way You are lucky that I am sharing my ice-cream with you otherwise I would share anything but never my favorite ice-cream." She says on which he smiles.

" Yes I am very lucky because you will not only share this ice-cream with me but you will soon share your whole life, only with me." he says to which she makes a irritated face to which he chuckle seeing her expression.

" And no, right now you enjoy your ice-cream, I will not eat it, later I will become lucky by eating the ice-cream shared by you." He says to which she looks at him but then without forcing him further, goes back to eating her ice-cream

" By the way why? Have you also kept the fast of Karvachauth for your future wife?" When he refuses, the words come out of her mouth unknowingly in joking manner, upon which he looks at her.

And then he thinks of something, well he didn't want to tell her but this time, he decides to tell her so that she knows that she is his future.

" What if I say yes? My future wife." He says.

Well he has actually kept the fast and only his supportive mother knows about it because he came to know from his mother that by keeping this fast, you are bound to the person you love for seven births, so then nothing else but he kept this fast with the knowledge of his mother, yes but his father did not know.

But there, Aaira's spoon slips from her hand and falls into the ice-cream on hearing his words and she looks at him with a startled look, is he telling the truth?

Is he really fasting? If yes? Then is he crazy? She has been eating since morning and he is hungry?

For whom? For her ? No, no, he has really gone mad. She thinks looking at him.

But then she thinks of something but decides to leave from there without saying anything because she knows that nothing she says will affect him, she asks him to move on but he...?

But before she can get up, she sits back on the couch and lets out a yelp when she realizes her hair is stuck somewhere and she sees that her hair is stuck nowhere else but in the button of his kurta.

Well, this is also Reyansh's doing, when she was lost in his eyes just now, he knows that now she will get up and go away from here but he wants to stay with her for a few more moments, so he gently takes her hair and entangles it in his button.

But as Aaira had ice-cream in her hand, she was unable to untangle her hair with her left hand.

" Wait, I will do it..." says Reyansh seeing her struggle and then he tries to pull out her hair with his button but it is obvious that he only pretends to take it out because he is not that mad that he himself got her hair entangled to untangle it.

But seeing no results from his help, Aaira looks at him in irritation.

" Hold this..." she says handing him her ice-cream which he takes and then she herself starts untangled her hair from his button with her free hand

" I know you did all this, that's why you sat so close..." his mouth drops open at her words.

" Arre, What is this? Why would I do this?" he says with his innocence

" Only you know why you would do that...par haan, agar mere ek bhi baal tute to main tumhe ganja bnaa dungi." She says this while untangling her hair, but don't know how he has got it stuck in his button that her hair doesn't get untangled.

But right there where he was enjoying her struggle with a smile on his face, this moment between them breaks when suddenly Aaira feels another hand on Reyansh's button and before she could notice or say anything, she sees that Ansh breaks the button of Reyansh's kurta in which her hair was stuck.

Aaira screams in slight pain when her hair hurts but there Ansh throws the button somewhere in the garden which shocks Aaira.

Aaira Reyansh stands up from the couch and Ansh also stands straight in front of them angrily.

Well, while spending time with Advaita on the terrace, he suddenly looks into the garden where he sees Aaira and Reyansh sitting close together and to warn them, he comes straight down but by the time he comes down, something different is happening here and seeing this, his anger increases even more and he comes straight and breaks the button of Reyansh's kurta

" What have you done?" Aaira said angrily at his actions.

Well she was untangling her hair herself but what was the need to break the button of his kurta, now his kurta will look bad.

And on hearing Aaira's question, Ansh looks at her, well he was already angry due to the mall incident but today again seeing their closeness he got more angry

" I told you to stay away from him....and look, don't force me to go and tell Mamu everything about you two, It won't take him even 2 minutes to end all this." Ansh says to which Aaira looks at him...What will he tell her father? He will tell only when something happens.

But at the same time she chooses not to say anything further because she knows that at this moment he is angry due to her action and hence in that anger she might say something wrong to him which she does not want to.

And so she leaves from there without saying anything further on which Reyansh sighs, Well, Reyansh never got angry with Ansh but today somewhere his patience is also breaking. After all what is his problem with him ?

" What is your problem with me?" Reyansh finally musters up the courage to ask Ansh, to which Ansh looks at him

" You, you are my problem." he says to which he looks at him

"What have I done to you that you treat me like this?" he asks further

" Don't forget that you hurt my sister and for that I still haven't done anything to you." He says to which he sighs.

" So now she has forgiven me, why are you holding a grudge?" he says to which Ansh looks at him

" Stop all this nonsense and listen to me carefully...Stay away from my Aaira and don't you even dare to create distance between us."

He says because that day in the mall and now again she spoke rudely to him and the reason for that is this person.

She is staying away from him due to him, otherwise if he were there she would never have stayed with him ( Reyansh).

And there Reyansh give him a look after hearing this....He is not thinking of doing anything like he is thinking about it.

" Well it's your misunderstanding I am not trying to do anything like that...but yes now it will be better for you too that you stay in your place in her life and let me make my place now, You've already created enough distance between us.

So please don't come between us anymore, stay in your brother's place and let me make my place." Reyansh says this and Ansh gets shocked hearing it. Anyway, how did he get so much courage today that he is talking to him like this.

But there, Reyansh knows that Ansh is the main reason behind the distance between him and Aaira because those things of childhood which he himself does not remember, how he broke his friendship with Aaira and all, how would Aaira remember those things, she was also a year younger than him, that is impossible.

But Reyansh knows that it is Ansh who has not let Aaira forget the things that happened in school when she was 5 years old, till date and to top it all, Ansh later gets another reason when Aaira has a misunderstanding with him.

But no, it's enough now, Aaira has forgiven him....things are getting better between them so he won't let anyone create distance between them for any reason.

And then after saying this, Reyansh does not stop there but moves away from him and starts going inside, on which Ansh looks at him angrily.

" Breathe Reyansh, breathe....you have done the right thing and if needed you can fight further but you cannot lose Aaira this time." While going inside Reyansh says to himself while caressing his heart.

Because even though he told all this to Ansh, he had really gathered the courage to talk to him like this because he never behaved rudely with Ansh, never spoke to him in a loud voice.

He always respected Ansh even though he always scolded him but today, after talking to Ansh like this, his heart beat has become very fast, which he is trying to compose.

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

I hope you all liked the chapter?

Next : Avni catches Aaira Reyansh red handed.