Third person's pov!

"What the hell are you doing here, Mukul?" Sid roared at the poor man, who was gobsmacked by what just happened.

"I- file- Nidhi-" Mukul stammered.

"Get out," Sid roared again and Mukul ran for his life.

Mukul barged into Parth's cabin without even a knock and Parth was shocked for a moment.

"Mukul? What happened? All okay?" Parth asked, adjusting his spectacles, as he took in the very confused and lost Mukul.

Mukul plopped on a chair and took deep breaths.

"Water.." Mukul got the words out somehow and Parth quickly opened the mineral water bottle and passed it to Mukul.

Mukul gulped down half the bottle of water without a break and Parth stared at him with mouth open.

"What is it, Mukul? You look so lost" Parth said, anxiously.

"Sid.."

"What happened to bhai?" Parth asked with a frown.

"I don't know. Something really happened to him. Or maybe something really happened to me. I am confused." Mukul said, confusing the hell out of Parth.

"Mukul, don't confuse me by talking in circles. Tell me what happened?" Parth asked in exasperation.

"Sid is behaving weirdly. Totally out of character." Mukul said and Parth looked at Mukul in worry.

What could have happened to his brother. Even in the morning when they left home, he looked absolutely fine.

"He behaves in an odd way whenever Nidhi is around. Earlier, whenever she is within a mile radius, he would scream his head off, giving her hell. And now.." Mukul trailed off, not knowing how to explain.

Parth sagged in relief.

"That's it? You scared me, Mukul." Parth said with a chuckle, as he leaned back into his chair with a sigh.

"You wouldn't sit like this if you saw how he behaved. You would be more shocked than me." Mukul said.

Parth chuckled. More shocked? No way! He got the shock of his life that night when his brother indirectly and unknowingly confessed in front of their entire family that he is so madly in love with Nidhi. Nothing could shock him more.

"Well, Mukul, gear up then. More shocks are awaiting you in the near future," Mukul said with a chuckle and a knock on the door garnered both their attention.

"Come in," Parth called out and Priya walked in with a file in her hand.

"Priya.." Parth greeted with a bright smile and a vague blush on his face. Mukul stared at Parth in wonder.

"Parth ji, here are the designs you asked me to submit." Priya placed the file on the desk.

"Oh, I told you to submit them tomorrow, Priya. You didn't have to hurry." Parth said.

"I will be on leave tomorrow, Parth ji. So, I thought I will submit them today itself." Priya said and Parth's face fell.

"Leave? Why?" Parth asked with a long face.

"We are visiting a temple. There's some pooja and fasting." Priya said.

"Which temple, Priya?" Parth asked and Mukul clutched his heart for a moment. He was having a deja vu moment.

"The one near the huge banyan tree," Priya mumbled awkwardly. She was not comfortable with Mukul staring at them as if they were aliens who just landed in their spaceships.

"The one where we met a few days ago? When you wore a green dhavani?" Parth asked with heart in his eyes.

Mukul felt like he would faint any moment.

What's with these Raichand men, temple and the Vyas girls...

Definitely time to book a bed at the Agra mental asylum.

Priya mumbled some excuse and hurried out of the cabin, and Parth sagged against his chair sadly. When he looked up, he saw Mukul staring at him in shock. He had actually forgotten Mukul's presence in his cabin.

"Why are you still here?" Parth asked the same question his brother asked a while ago, but in a much milder way.

"My thoughts exactly. Why am I still here? It's high time I reached Agra." Mukul mumbled and left the cabin in search of Ansh, leaving Parth confused.

****

NEXT DAY

Siddharth stared at his laptop with a heavy heart.

When he takes one step forward, Nidhi is taking two steps backward. How is he going to make things alright between them?

He felt like pulling all his hair out.

A knock on the door startled him out of his thoughts.

"Sid? Are you free?" Bhavna asked.

"Yes, Bhavna. Come in. What's it?" Siddharth asked.

"Here's the schedule for our new calendar shoot," Bhavna said and extended a file towards Siddharth.

"Go ahead with the schedule" Sid said, going through the schedule.

Bhavna got up to leave, but stopped when Siddharth called out for her.

"Yes, Sid?" Bhavna asked curiously.

"I.. I am sorry, Bhavna. For everything." Siddharth said and meant every word of it.

Bhavna was shocked. Not once during their so called relationship, had he ever uttered these magic words. Not even when he had hurt her beyond anything. And now he is apologising. And she knows very well who is behind it. The only person in the world who can make Sid do things he doesn't actually want to do.

Parinidhi Vyas.

"It's okay, Sid. You had always told me you didn't believe in marriages and committed relationships. It was me who broke the rules of our relationship." Bhavna said softly.

Siddharth cringed.

How is he to say that he now believes in marriage and committed relationships. And it's not her who he wants all that with..

Nidhi is right. It has only been a few weeks since their break up. How will Bhavna take it when she comes to know that he is in love with Nidhi and that he proposed marriage.

Maybe it is better if she came to know from him, rather than anyone else. He opened his mouth to speak, but he was startled when someone opened the door and barged into his cabin.

"What the.."