Malhotra Mansion

Neelam and Anand were sitting, Neelam spoke up "anandji, Aarav is angry with us, how can I explain to him seeing his condition what my heart felt?"

Anand calms her down "please calm down Neelamji, he will understand us we did everything for him"

Neelam then eyes upstairs and gets shocked, Aarav was coming downstairs with a bag in his hand.

Neelam asked him "Aarav where are you going?"

"Mom, I cannot live in this house especially when my parents are equally responsible for Manvi dismissal" Aarav answered her.

Neelam moves to him and scolds him "what are you saying Aarav? How can you leave us??"

Aarav explains to her "I am alive mom you can see me but Vineet jiju and Manvi's sister they cannot see her! So I am going may be Manvi will forgive me for my sin"

Neelam tries to stop him "how will we leave without you?"

Aarav answers her "Mom, I need to punish myself otherwise I will die in guilt for keeping me alive you separate me from Manvi and today I am also doing the same, I am going away from this house"

He walks out of the house, Anand says "let him go Neelamji" Neelam side hugs him and tears slips down her eyes.

Oberai Mansion

Vineet got the medicines for Ruhana and asked her to take it, Ruhana denies.

"Please Roo have it" he requests her. Ruhana finally takes it. Vineet then moves into the study room to do some office work.

Krishna enters inside and says "Aarav is at the door"

Ruhana looks on "get him in", she got up from bed and heads towards the hall. Aarav was standing and looking at Manvi's picture.

"Why are you here Aarav?" Ruhana questions him.

Aarav turns to her, he gets on knees and folds his hands "I know, you won't be able to forgive me because what I have done is not just a mistake but a sin"

Ruhana ask him to get up but he does not. Aarav continues speaking "I have hurt Manvi alot and seeing the pain of hers you must have also gone through the pain but now I want to do atonement of it"

"How will you do it Mr. Aarav Malhotra? By snatching something else from us!" it was not Ruhana who spoke this, they turned towards left, Vineet was standing there in anger.

He moves to him, Aarav got up and Vineet continues "with whose permission you entered my house??" shouts at him.

Aarav tries to explain but Vineet was not ready to listen to even a single word of him. He spoke up "out, I am not going to tolerate a murderer in my house"

Ruhana says "Let him say Vineet"

Vineet sighed and remained silent.. Aarav continues and says "I know I cannot bring back the two lose of your life but I want to live with you because I promised Manvi, I will be with you two and take care"

Vineet spoke up "not needed Aarav, we don't need anyone's support, please get out!!!"

Aarav tries to explain, he held Ruhana's hand "Di, please try to understand, this will be only my punishment otherwise I won't be able to live and Manvi will not forgive me please"

Ruhana thought for a moment and says "alright Aarav you can stay with us"

Vineet was shocked he asked her "Ruhana what are you doing???"

Ruhana answers him "Vineet, please I know what I am doing"

Vineet eyed Aarav and warms him "Aarav don't expect anything from me, you are staying her only because of Ruhana"

He walks back to the room. Aarav smiles lightly and thanks Ruhana.

"Manvi I promise I will fix everything" Aarav thinks in his mind.

Later in the night, Vineet asked Ruhana "Roo what will you have for dinner??"

Just then Aarav enters inside with food plate and says "Dinner is ready"

He keeps it on the side table, Ruhana looks at it "you prepared it??" she asked Aarav

Aarav nodes in yes. Vineet says "Roo, you have food, I have some work" and goes from there. Aarav sighed and gets upset.

Ruhana speaks up "Aarav, it is okay he will be fine soon"

Aarav smiled lightly but still Vineet's anger was bothering him alot.

As months passed by, Ruhana was coming back in her form. Vineet also started to go to office on Ruhana's insists. Aarav was there all the time taking care of them and most importantly, he was not leaving any chance to apologize Vineet. Aarav pushed himself fully into work, he started the company and named it "Manvi industries" and most importantly he was fulfilling his promise which he made to Manvi.

One fine day,

Aarav was inside the room, thinking about Manvi "10 months, 15 days, 8 hours and 25 seconds Manvi, I have been missing you alot"

He comes out and sees the servant accidentally drops the oil on the floor, he scolds him arrogantly "can't you work properly? If someone fall then??"

"Sorry, I will just clean it" the servant spoke up.

Aarav then sat on the couch, he seemed to be forgotten how to smile or live a life. The fun factor in his life was missing.

Neelam entered inside the hall and found Aarav sitting in still position, she moved and sat beside him "son, please come back home it has been months since you have turned up"

Aarav eyed her and replies "Mom, along with Manvi my soul had also left, in front of you is just lifeless body and I am not going anywhere"

Neelam eye's gets moist and she asked "why are you punishing yourself? The pain inside you is breaking you Aarav"

Aarav sighed and spoke up "mom please, the pain I gave to Manvi is nothing in front of this"

Neelam looked at him and asked "Aarav, if I would have told you the truth will you have accepted it??"

Aarav eyed her and thinks replies "may be no mom, you are right but atleast I would have tried to recall her anyways now it is too late for all this!! Please go, I don't want to talk about all this"

He got up and moved inside his room closing the door behind. Neelam sighed, Ruhana came with a cup of tea and said "Aunty, I will try to make him understand and he will come back home"

Neelam smiled a bit and then said "No Ruhana, he had forgotten how to live, the pain inside him is making him cruel from outside" she leaves from there afterwards.

Ruhana looked on, she started feel a bit dizzy. She was about to drop but Aarav held her. "Di, careful"

He made her sit on the couch and gave her water to drink. Aarav then says "I will call the doctor"

Aarav calls the doctor and informs Vineet about Ruhana.

Around after half an hour, Vineet reaches home and he scolds Aarav "you are at home for what?? I told you to take care of Ruhana! But why did i expect this from you, who never fulfills his duties"

Aarav was silent he did not dared to speak anything, Vineet went inside the room where Doctor was done checking up Ruhana.

Doctor smiled looking at him and shares seeing the worry on his face "well congratulations you are going to be a father soon"

Vineet was first shocked but then a smile came on his face. The doctor said "take good care of her" and left from there.

Vineet came and sit beside Ruhana, who sat up with tears in her eyes. Vineet wipes of her tears and says "hey, why are you having tears? This is great news Roo!"

Ruhana answers him "I just remembered Manvi"

Vineet pulls her into hug, Ruhana sighed and says "Vineet, why did you spoke rudely with Aarav? Please forgive him now"

They get apart, Ruhana continues speaking "he is staying with us and he is trying to bring our life back to normal please Vineet forgive him, it was not his fault, it was just destiny and we have to accept it"

Vineet looked on at her and sighed "Ruhana, I don't know but how can you forget Manvi had suffered a lot because of him"

Ruhana takes his hand and says "I have not forgotten anything Vineet but will Manvi forgive us for mistreating Aarav?"

Vineet thinks for a moment and replies "Roo, I think you are right" he moves out, Ruhana smiles. 

To be continued...