chapter 50

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Chapter start

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" Thank you for coming, bachha." These are the words of Avni which she says to Reyansh while placing her hand affectionately on his cheek on which Reyansh smiles because by doing so, Avni reduces the fear he feels while standing in front of Neil who is standing next to Avni and whose eyes are fixed on him while welcoming his family.

And there, Aaira standing behind her parents smiles at Reyansh and Reyansh also gives her a smile when he feels her gaze on him and these unspoken conversations between the two do not remain hidden from Ansh who is present there at that time but then, in order to not spoil his relationship with his sister, he decides to ignore Reyansh's presence as much as possible.

Then coming inside Priyal Vishal meets Aaira, they both hug her.

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" Shaadi mein to tumse achhe se mulaqat hi nahi ho saki aur ab aaj mil rahe hai hum." This is the word Simran says to Reyansh when Reyansh is about to sit with Aarav but before that Simran meets him and when Aarav sees that his mother is talking to Reyansh, he goes aside leaving them talking.

And there, when Simran meets Reyansh lovingly, Reyansh smiles at her gesture.

" waise mujhe nahi pta tha ye sharmila bachha itna bahadur bhi..." Simran says praising him to which Reyansh sees her

" Hmm, I am impressed that you made your girlfriend the girl from the house at whom boys are scared to even look, After all, it takes courage to steal the princess from under the noses of 3 bodyguards." Simran further says, well she knows that Aaira has only 3 bodyguards, Neil, Raj and Ansh, rest her Aarav is not like those three.

" By the way aunty.... is all Reyansh says when Simran cuts him off

" Aunty ? Call me bua or mami like I am Aaira's." She tells him to which Reyansh smiles

" Ok then I will call you bua because I have a maami but no bua." Reyansh says to which Simran smiles and says ok to him.

And seeing this lovely gesture of Simran and the sweetness of Avni, Reyansh cannot stop himself from asking a question to Simran.

" By the way Bua, if you don't mind, can I ask you a question?" Reyansh asks her

"Yes" says Simran

" You and Avni Maa are so sweet, why are both of your husbands so grumpy, why doesn't the sweetness of you both get transferred to them." Reyansh questions Simran, but before Simran can answer, her eyes widen when she sees Raj and Neil standing behind Reyansh angrily after hearing his question

" What did you say?" Reyansh's eyes widen when he hears Neil's voice from behind, his habit of always saying the wrong words at the wrong time will sink him one day.

He looks at Simran in fear who gives him a pitiful look but then he turns around and faces the two who are glaring at him.

" Are we grumpy?" Raj asks him to which Reyansh shakes his head in no

" No, I was just that.... Before Reyansh could say anything in his defense, Simran comes and stands in front of him to defend him.

" What is the problem of you both, you both keep scaring the poor child, and what wrong did he say, with growing age both of you are becoming grumpy, Just like the father in old movies." Simran tells both of them and before they can say anything, Simran silences them again

" And now go from here, we both are talking na, don't disturb us." She says this and then saving Reyansh from both of them and she takes him away from there, upon which both of them keep sighing.

"Don't worry, both of them are not grumpy, they are just crazy in love for their daughter, they do and say anything but in the end both of them do what Aaira wants." Simran tells Reyansh while answering his question to which Reyansh smiles.

Well, he also knows that Aaira's family can do anything for her happiness.

But he doesn't want everyone's approval just because Aaira is happy, but he wants everyone to be really happy to see him with Aaira.

And everyone is happy too, he just wants these three men to get impressed by him and then he doesn't need anything else. He thinks.

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" Neil bhai, I had approved the relationship the very day my 2 year old son asked your daughter to become my daughter-in-law." Vishal says teasingly to Neil to which Neil looks at him.

Well at this time everyone is sitting together but Ansh-Advaita, Reyansh-Aaira, Aarav have gone to the garden.

But here among the family, Neil and Priyal are having a different argument.

" And didn't I refuse your son for my daughter that very day?"

Neil replies to Vishal and reminds everyone.

Well, at this time Neil is also just joking with Vishal and Priyal as now he doesn't have any problem with Reyansh.

" But okay, if in future your son wants to marry my daughter then he will have to become a " ghar-jamaai". Neil tells his condition

" Huh, What is this, I also want a daughter for my house." Priyal protests

" Now that's your problem, ask your son what he wants to do." Neil says while teasing Priyal, somewhere knowing very well that Reyansh will do this much for Aaira, he will become a "ghar jamai".

And there, Priyal also knows that her love-struck son will do this as well, he will become a "ghar jamai" to marry Aaira.

" Huh, ok ok, you can keep your ghar-jamaai at your home...I will keep my ghar-bahu at my home, are you happy? Deal done ?" Priyal says further

" Ghar bahu kya hoti hai...ghar ki bahu hoti hai." Avni corrects her

" Ab "ghar jamai" ka ulta "ghar bahu" hi hoga na Avu." priyal says this to Avni on which she shakes her head in disbelief

And at the same time, seeing this senseless argument between them, rest shake their head in disbelief that when both the children will live separately after marriage, then why would they get married ?

" Have you both lost your minds, what are you talking about?" Avni questions them on their absurd talk

" No, but jiju has definitely lost it...what is this......okay fine let's make another deal, both of them will stay with you for 15 days, and then 15 days with me." Priyal gives the last solution

" No, 23 days with me, 7 days with you." Neil tells his decision and the others are really wondering if these two are really parents of a 19 or 20 year old son and daughter who are doing such childish things.

" Look jiju, you are getting too much now, don't take advantage of my goodness." Priyal further says to which Neil raises his eyebrows and gives her a look. Really ?

" All these things will have meaning only when they both get married, and why are you both arguing so much about things that are not going to happen right now." Avni again speaks between the two upon which both of them look at each other.

" Well now I understand, why that day you made everyone reject the proposal of making Aaira my daughter-in-law." Shalini tells Priyal to which Priyal smiles

" Bhabhi, you wants to see Aaira as your daughter-in-law, so she will become your daughter-in-law anyway, now what difference does it make if she becomes your nephew's wife." Priyal replies to her to which Shalini does not do anything but smiles.

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" Bhabhi, why do you want to wake up a sleeping lion, let it be." Aaira whispers to Advaita who is sitting next to her on the couch in the garden.

Currently, only Ansh-Advaita and Aaira-Reyansh are here.

Aarav did come here with them but then he went back inside the house when he did not feel like sitting with them.

And currently this work of making Ansh and Reyansh sit together has been done by Advaita with great difficulty by convincing Ansh somehow.

Advaita and Aaira are sitting together on a couch while Ansh and Reyansh are sitting on a single couch facing each other.

Both of them are just looking at each other silently where it is clearly visible on Ansh's face that he is not comfortable sitting here with him but he is sitting here only because of his wife and sister.

But now again Advaita is thinking something where she wants Ansh and Reyansh to talk and she shares the same thing with Aaira.

But hearing this, Aaira tells her that why does she want to wake up the sleeping lion (Ansh), both of them are sitting quietly so let it be where Ansh is not saying anything to Reyansh.

" Nothing will happen, I am here na." Advaita also replies in a whisper to reduce Aaira's fear.

" What are you two whispering about?" Ansh asks seeing them whispering to each other.

"Girls' talk." Advaita replies

" When you both had to talk to each other then why did you ask me to sit here." Ansh says to which all three look at him.

" Arre, It's not like that husband, we will talk to you too." says Advaita to which Ansh rolls his eyes slightly, and Reyansh looks at Aaira who is already looking at him and she gives him a smile.

" Ansh I was thinking why don't we all go for a movie after dinner? On a double movie date? Me, you, Aaira-Reyansh ( Saying this she looks at Reyansh who is a little scared at her words )

And Aadhriti is not here otherwise it would have been triple date but it's ok, Aarav will watch the movie alone today." Advaita speaks to Ansh to which Ansh looks at her and doesn't like her idea at all

" No, I have some work." Ansh rejects her idea

" Arre, what is this, you free today, don't lie." Advaita tells him

" No, right now I am free for the family but after dinner, I have some work of the hospital so that is why I cannot go anywhere." Ansh clarifies

" Well if that is the case then you stay in the hospital tonight, don't you dare to come back home." She says glaring at him, on which Ansh looks at her

" Well, I'm working from home tonight." He says, giving her a teasing smile, to which she rolls her eyes.

But before things get too much between the two, Aaira speaks up in support of Advaita's plan.

" It's okay bhai, if not the movie, we can go for ice-cream..." Aaira says on which Ansh sees her but before he can say anything, Aaira continues

" But no, why go out, we will enjoy ice-cream right here. Bhabhi, I will bring ice-cream for everyone." Aaira says while getting up from the couch and gestures something to Advaita, that let's go from here leaving these two alone to talk.

" Yes yes, let me also come with you." Advaita also stands up along with Aaira and before Ansh could stop them, they both start walking towards inside the house.

And after they leave, here Ansh looks at Reyansh who is already looking at him while fidgeting his fingers slightly.

Well, this situation becomes awkward for both of them where both are face to face but cannot understand where to go now.

Well the situation is not the same as before where Ansh scolds him when he finds him alone.

No, he has decided now not to spoil his relationship with Aaira, that is why he will not say anything to Reyansh now, no matter how much he does not like him.

Meanwhile, Reyansh is also watching him and perhaps even though it is not his fault, he thinks of apologizing to him.....Even if it was a small thing, but because of him there was a fight between him ( Ansh ) and Aaira, so it is okay that he will apologize to him for that thing.

And at the same time Reyansh also thinks that no matter how angry Ansh is, they both can't stay like this forever, so he thinks of taking the initiative by apologizing to him and when will he get a better time than this, when he is alone with him where both of them can talk properly.

On the other hand, Advaita and Aaira are hiding at the door of the house and looking into the garden and they keep waiting, looking at both of them, that one of them would say something to the other.

At least start the conversation with a fight. Living in a family, it is not right to completely stop talking.

On the other hand, in the garden, Ansh and Reyansh spend a few minutes thinking about all this where Ansh decides to get up and leave, so Reyansh decides to talk to him.

And then Ansh without thinking much gets up and seeing him Reyansh gets shocked losing his chance to talk to him but no, he will stop him

" Ansh Bhaiya." Reyansh stops Ansh saying this

And standing at the door of the house, Advaita and Aaira smiles, that at least someone opened his mouth

But Ansh gets irritated when he hears him calling him Bhaiya and unwillingly, he turns towards Reyansh to warn him not to try and develop any relationship with him, and not to call him bhaiya.

" Don't call me bhaiya, I am not your bhaiya." Reyansh feels a little bad on hearing his words.

" Ok so Ansh jiju... Reyansh is unable to say anything further when Ansh interrupts him

"Don't even call me that..." he says angrily to which Reyansh looks at him

" saala bolu ? Wo chalega ?" Reyansh says in his mind looking at him.

If he does not call him Bhaiya or Jiju then this ( Sala) is the last relationship left. He thinks

But Reyansh stops himself from saying this word because he knows that if he gets so irritated when he call him bhaiya and jiju then he will kill him if I call him Sala.

" And look, don't make all these useless connections with me and I know you are very happy that the whole family has accepted you for Aaira but remember this, I will never accept you in our family." Ansh says on which Reyansh sees him

" And yes, just because I am quiet for Aaira, doesn't mean that I will listen to anything you say...So keeping all these things in mind, don't try to talk to me again, otherwise.... Ansh tells all this to him which Reyansh listens silently and sighs

" I just wanted to apologize to you if I ever hurt..." Reyansh is unable to say anything further when Ansh interrupts him again

" Keep your apology to yourself, you have melted Aaira with your fake apology but it won't affect me..." Ansh says

And now Reyansh, after hearing Ansh words that he is faking in front of Aaira, he really starts regretting somewhere that why did he even think of taking the initiative. Leave it, he doesn't have to explain himself to Ansh now when Aaira is with him.

And further, Ansh also does not stop there and starts going inside the house and seeing Ansh coming inside, Advaita and Aaira first hide from him but when Ansh completely goes inside the house, Advaita and Aaira see Reyansh who's standing in the garden alone and after watching the conversation between them from a distance, it is not difficult for them ( Advaita & Aaira ) to understand that Ansh has scolded him again without listening to his side.

" Bhabhi, I told you earlier, let's drop this idea, things will never be okay between these two." Aaira tells Advaita.

" First of all you should stop saying these negative things." Advaita says to which Aaira pouts

" But yes, you are not wrong either, now I also feel that these two will never be able to become friends." Advaita says while thinking something.

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" What are you doing here alone, Sunshine." Aaira says hugging Reyansh from behind in the garden

But Reyansh immediately comes out of her arms and turns towards her, upon which Aaira looks at him with a little shock wondering what happened to him now?

Why did he separate her from himself?

"What happened?" Aaira asks and it is not difficult for him to understand why she is asking this question.

" We are in your house, somebody will see..." He gives a straight answer to which she looks at him but immediately gets an idea to tease him

" Can I kiss you? Can I give you my payment now?" She asks mischievously

And there Reyansh is a little shocked at first: everyday she throws tantrums to kiss him but right now she herself is asking for permission to kiss him

" Of course, this is also something to ask..." saying this he bends a little in front of her and puts his cheek in front of her, on which Aaira looks at him in disbelief shaking her head slightly.

And there once again he gets cheated by her, instead of kissing him, Aaira slaps him softly on his cheek and he looks at her

" Are we not at my house now? No one will see this? Refused to hug but agreed to kiss...huh." She says this while glaring at him but her these words immediately brings a shy smile on his face.

" Ab...wo....There is nothing like that." He says this while looking at her and when their eyes meet, both of them laugh at each other's antics.

" Will you play badminton?" She asks him next

"A big no." Reyansh says taking his step back.

" Why?" Aaira asks with the pout

" Playing with you means cheating in the game.

You start crying when you lose... No no, I will not play with you." he says to which she pouts

" I won't cry today, for sure, please let's play." says Aaira to which he looks at her unsure, no, she will cry for sure, he knows that.

Well, in the past few days, both of them have enjoyed playing badminton many times but every time Aaira starts crying when she starts losing to him or else she runs away leaving the game half-finished or Reyansh has to deliberately lose to convince her and give her the smile of victory.

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" Baby, I don't think your father will let you go anywhere outside Mumbai." These are Simran's words to Aaira.

At this time all the ladies are sitting together where everyone is sharing their things with each other and in the same conversation, the topic of Aaira's college comes up where Aaira shares that her internship might start from next month for which she will have to go out of the other city and on this, Simran's reaction came out that Neil will not let her go anywhere.

" Bhabhi Neil kya..., this time I myself won't let her go anywhere, don't know how she will manage everything alone in another city." Avni expresses her concern, to which Aaira pouts

But Priyal smiles during this conversation

" Avu, when my son is there, why are you worried?" Everyone except Aaira looks at Priyal confused on hearing these words.

" Now obviously, Aira and Reyansh have the same subject and their internship will also be in the same city, so it is better for both of them to live together rather than living separately.

So don't worry, my chef's son knows how to make everything so Aaira beta, whatever you want to eat, just order it and it will be in front of you..." says Priyal and Aaira smiles at this.

" And my son knows how to do all the other household chores too, so don't worry about Aaira with him." Priyal says to which Avni looks at her but then at Simran where she and Simran share a knowing look thinking something on Priyal words.

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" Have you eaten this? If not, don't eat it, it's spicy." Aaira who is sitting next to Reyansh at the dinner table, says this word to him when she herself eats the mushroom curry but it is a bit spicy.

But as Reyansh had told her that he doesn't like spicy food, so keeping that in mind, she warns Reyansh right now when she sees that things in his plate.

But there, in front of everyone, and even though Aaira did not say it out loud but seeing her care for him in front of everyone, Reyansh's heart starts fluttering with happiness.

" Wow, the one who never liked to see your face is showing so much care for you today...Oh my God, seeing so much love between you two, tears are coming to my eyes." Aarav says dramatically teasing him who's sitting on the other side of Reyansh

Sitting close to him Aarav hears what Aaira says so he teases Reyansh a bit on that to which Reyansh just smiles happily because this thing really matters to him, even though it is a small thing but it is very big for him.

" Well, what difference does it make, even if I eat this spicy food today, In dessert I will get my payment of sweetness for reducing this spiciness." Reyansh whispers into Aaira's ear, making her eyes widen a little.

Well she appreciates his courage, all these things like saying all this are fine but in front of everyone he leaned closer to her and said, so courageous?

She gives him a similar look where Reyansh just winks at her, surprising her more with his antics in front the family.

To be continued........