The third day they went for Kayaking, the teams were dividing in such a manner that the partners were rivals.

While Sid, Naveen and Vicky's wife were in one team; Naaz, Karan and Vicky were in other team. Naveen's wife had to look after the kids hence she decided to become a referee!

Naaz: All the best Kullu!!

Sid: Iski tumhe jyada zaroorat padne wali hai!! Kyuki hum toh jeetne wale hai

Naaz: Achcha?? Humko halke mein mat lena.. mana ki tumhare bade dole shole hai, par yeh team work hai..

Sid: Tumhe kaise pata meri team weak hai aur teri strong?

Naaz: Wahi toh dekhna hai ki kaunsi team strong hai aur kaunsi weak!

Sid: Dekh le jeetunga toh main hi..

Naaz: Dekhte hai.. Aur mein jeet gayi toh kya milega?

Sid: Woh tu decide kar waise bhi tujhe hi haarna hai!

Naaz: Achcha Ji!! Okay teek hai, agar main haari to mein apne haaton se khana banake khilaungi aur tum haare toh tum banake khilana!

Sid: Mujhe khana banana nahi aata par haarne wali toh tu hai toh mein accept karta hoon challenge.

Before the race starts, the teams talk about the strategies.
Sid: Dekhon we have to win this task, lets just be in sink while we maneuver the kayak. We are all amateur in this so team work is important. I will sit in the front and Naveen you take the back, let the lady be seated in the middle.

Sid looks at Naaz being busy on phone, having a headphone on. He smirks and thinks this girl is listening to music at this time also. They are not even making any strategies to win the race.

They all gear up by putting on safety jacket, Sid though in opponent team, makes sure Naaz has safely secured and tied her jacket. He quickly hugs and pecks her on forehead while she kisses him on his chest.

The two team takes their position as decided Sid's team's sitting arrangement was Sid sat in the front followed by Vicky's wife and then Naveen. Whereas Team Shehnaaz sitting arrangement was lead by Naaz, Vicky and then Karan.

On the count of three they start the race, Sid's team gains pace and lead by few inches in the start but as the race progresses, their pace decreases as Vicky's wife gets tired and couldn't keep up with the men.

Naaz's team however maintains a steady pace from the start of the race until the end and thus manages to reach the finish line with few seconds apart.

Naaz team high fives and scream on top of their voice and Naaz also performs a small victory dance while Vicky and Karan whistles and dances with her.

Sid is disheartened on losing and his face clearly showing the disappointment. Naaz hugs him and he pushes a fake smile.

Naaz: Kullu mein jeet gayi..

Sid: Pata hai!!

Naaz: (feels the tension on his face) Mein jeetu ya tu jeete, celebrations are more important. Mein teri hoon na? Toh meri jeet bhi teri jeet huyi na?

Sid: (smiles) haan darling, congratulations.. (kisses her forehead)

Winners are asked to give a small speech and Vicky moves forward to speak for his team.

Vicky: Since we are all amateur in this sports, we were totally clueless as to how we are going to do but we had a mastermind in our team, Shehnaaz. Ladies really know how to collect information, she went on to google and watched videos on the maneuvering tips.

We had two strategies - first, sitting arrangement where the stronger and heavier person sits at the back and second moving your whole body along with our arms when we paddle, this wouldn't strain our arms and helped us to maintain the pace.

Her mantra was simple, if you have 10 hours to cut a tree, invest 8 hours in sharpening the axe and 2 hours in cutting. So this win is for Shehnaaz!!

Everyone clapped and appreciated Shehnaaz. However, the loudest clap and whistle came from Sid who was proud of his girl and it didn't stop even though others stopped.

Naaz runs to him and hugs him. They have team lunch and decide to take rest before they visit Raja seat garden. In their room, lying on the bed.

Naaz: Sidharth, kya soch rahe ho?

Sid: Mein soch raha hoon, since mein haar gaya, mein kaise khana banaunga kyuki mujhe toh kuch aata hi nahi hai?

Naaz: Haan na? Haara tu aur saza mujhe milni hai.. ab toh Ram hi bachaye mujhe! Waise, main jaise jeeti waise tum bhi khana bana lena, Youtube dekh ke. (Both laugh)

After a short nap, they both join the entire team to go to Raja seat garden. They explore the royal garden and watch the enchanting sun set where the entire sky turns red like a newly wedded bride in her veil.

At 7pm they head towards the musical fountain show. As the fountain danced on the music with colourful lights, Naaz looked at it in awe with her mouth wide open. Sid on the other hand was dumbfounded admiring her. The colourful lights shone on her face which changed from red, blue, green and yellow. She danced with excitement on the music which played.

After 15mins when the show was over, they headed back to the resort where they sat around the bonfire. SidNaaz wrapped a shawl while sitting in each other's embrace.

The group starts to play Antakshari. Shehnaaz gets excited to see Karan's guitar. She remembers learning it from her friend during her college days. She borrows the guitar from Karan and starts playing it as they sang. Her eyes are glued on Sid who is lost admiring her.

Finally it was Shehnaaz's turn to sing and the letter was 'Ka', and she was on top of the world since her favourite song starts with the same letter. She starts singing

Kacchi doriyon, doriyon, doriyon se
Mainu tu baandh le
Pakki yaariyon, yaariyon, yaariyon mein
Honde na faasley
Eh naraazgi kaagzi saari teri
Mere sohneya sunn le meri

Dil diyan gallan
Karaange naal naal beh ke
Akh naale akh nu milaa ke
Dil diyan gallan haaye
Karaange roz roz beh ke
Sacchiyan mohabbataan nibha ke

Sataaye mainu kyun
Dikhaaye mainu kyun
Aiven jhuthi mutthi russ ke rusaake
Dil diyan gallan haaye
Karaange naal naal beh ke
Akh naale akh nu mila ke

She stops and there was a pin drop silence since everyone was lost in her melodious voice. They cheer her and ask her to continue singing. She looks at Sid and he says "please..." She smiles and agrees.. Everyone say "Awww.." as she agrees to Sid's request within a second. She bushes and continue..

Tenu lakhan ton chhupa ke rakhaan
Akkhaan te sajaa ke tu ae meri wafaa
Rakh apna bana ke
Main tere layi aan
Tere layi aan yaaran
Naa paavin kade dooriyan

Main jeena haan tera....
Main jeena haan tera
Tu jeena hai mera
Dass lena ki nakhra dikha ke

Dil diyan gallan
Karaange naal naal beh ke
Akh naale akh nu mila ke
Dil diyan gallan...

The couples in the group start dancing slowly while SidNaaz's eyes interlocked.

Raatan kaaliyan, kaaliyan, kaaliyan ne
Mere dil saanwle
Mere haaniyan, haaniyan, haaniyan je
Lagge tu na gale

Mera aasmaan mausamaan di na sune
Koi khwaab na poora bune
Dil diyan gallan
Karange naal naal beh ke
Akh naale akh nu mila ke

Pataa hai mainu kyun chupa ke dekhe tu
Mere naam se naam mila ke
Dil diyan gallan
Karange naal naal beh ke
Akh naale akh nu mila ke
Dil diyan gallan...

Everyone claps, hoots and appreciates her.

Karan: Wow bhabhi, aap toh bade talented nikhle. You sing, play guitar, win competition with strategies, and dance. What other talents you have?

Sid: She cooks well and she takes care of her loved ones very well. She also bagged best employee award for last two finanicial years and I am sure she will win it this year too..

Shehnaaz face falls listening to it as she remembers quitting her job few days back and she realizes that she hasn't told him or her parents yet. Sid couldn't see her expression as he was talking to Karan.

Karan: Sid, I am jealous of you, you've hit the jackpot!! Bhabhi, you don't have any sisters na?

Naaz comes back from her thoughts and she nods in No..

Karan: My bad luck!! Agar aapki koi saheli hai jo aapki 50% quality bhi possess kare toh please bata dena..

Naaz: (her eyes shine as she remembers her best friends in punjab) Haaye Sacchi!! Batana kya sidha milwa deti hoon. Waise bhi aap sabko aana hoga shaadi mein, it's in Punjab na.

Karan: Wow!! Dil lelo mera aap! Mummy ko bhi saath leke aaunga, mil gayi toh ussi mantap mein phere laga lunga..

Sid and Naaz laughs at his sentence.

Naaz: Dil aap apne paas hi rakh lo, waha kisiko dena jo hai.. Aur accountant mein hoon par paise bachane ke idea aapko jyada hai..

Sid: Hoga kyu nahi? Marwadi jo hai..

They laugh and crack jokes until they were tired and went to their respective rooms to call it a day.

After all the events during the day, Sid proudly kisses her forhead and they sleep in each others embrace.

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I loved Shehnaaz holding guitar and wanted to use it somewhere. Pics credit to the creators, since I picked it all except one (Sid's DKKA pic which I edited) from google.

I have the feeling that people are not liking this story of mine since the views are less and less turnaround compared to my other story. 🤧 Though this story is my first and very close to my heart.

Sometimes I feel like discontinuing it but there is one comment everytime which stopped me from doing it. But today I found that user also deleted her account. 😭

She always commented for next update even though I update almost regularly.

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