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Jine ki wajah yahi hai
Marna isi k liye - So true

Imagine Neil Khanna in this pearl white business attire.

Neil just came out of his car, parking under the garage shade his pH rang. He was holding it already taking off the dashboard before locking his vehicle. He took a glance to have a look at the caller ID.

His heart jumped or hitched inside, whatever you say it, actually happened to him the second he saw her name dancing on his ph screen. It was Avni.

As he saved her number.

Aryan has given him, the day before his back home to India.

His reluctant hand somehow managed to bring his pH on his right ears. Caused his pounding heart almost cracked out his ribcage.

"Dadda!!!" Neil let out a loud gasp shutting his eyes closed. His heart got relaxed by the voice that has come out the speaker his pH has released. It would be lie if he says it didn't leave him a bit disappointed listening Arya instead of Avni.

"How are you baby!!" Neil replied under a deep breath, that he was holding. Then it replaced by his grin.

"Are you missing me or Mum more!!" Arya swung his legs dangling off the bed. With a pout on his lips he asked Neil.

"Ummm..." He made his voice sounds like he is in deep thought what would be his answer.
"Aryan, more than his Mum" Neil let out another gasp, chuckled this time. He leaned his back against the car his one hand folded over his chest that held his bleasure coat on supporting another.

"I'm missing you too...to the everest" Arya exclaimed. His voice sounded nothing close to excited like usually he does.

"Hey why are you sounding so low!!is everything okay there!!" His voice grew concerned listening to Arya's tiring tone.

"Because I want to see you right here" Arya stopped swinging his leg and replied in a melancholy tone.

"Then why don't you come to India and meet your dadda!!!" Neil made a playful tone wheras he wasn't less hopeful to know his answer in response.

"We will...this winter....we almost every year come to visit nanny there" his body straightened up by the statement from Aryan he had least expected.

"Really!!" this info got him excited, happy and the reason very known to him.

"Yes after or before Christmas... the date isn't confirmed yet" Arya stated. But on the other side it gave a little hope to Neil, may be this time he could get chance to explain himself with much clarity in a different way.

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"Listen stop calling my baby....
I don't want to see you around him...
Stop being faking your love over him..he is only a 4years old kid... Stop luring him with your false fatherly affection..
all I want you to be back off.."

"Back off our life..."

"We are happy, full, perfect as we are...we don't need you..."

"We don't need any Neil khanna to complete us..."

"You are none to him.."

"Avni Mehta hates you..."

"Nnooo nooooo listen to me Avni" Neil grabbed her hand. He begged and Avni stiffened.

"I apologise..."

"I will be a good father..."

"I want to be with you..."
With my Avni..."

"I was wrong"

"Wrong as hell"

"Trust me you won't cry again"

"I won't let you to.."

"Please please don't leave me"

"Please Avni look at me"

"I promise you won't get hurt"

"I will never hurt you"

"Please don't go..."

"Please.." Neil's eyes were glassy, pleading to her.

"Sorry Neil we can't be together" Avni looked at him, her gaze firm.

"I'm sorry.." she straightened her face, looked ahead away him.

"Say bye to Dadda Arya" Arya looked up at Avni, then saw Neil and gave him a cute smile.

"GoodBye Dadda.." Arya waved.

Neil shook his head clutching Arya's arms. His eyes pleading not to leave him.

"Bye Neil..." Avni took Arya in her arms and turned Arya away him and covered his face.

"Nooooooo..... don't leave me..
Please...."

"I will always love you Avni.."

"Please don't go....I need you...see I'm not anymore egoistic Neil khanna... remember L for lovable...your lovable Neil..."

"Avniii...."

His body jumped upright, his mouth released a loud gasp. He was panting, covered with sweat droplets all over his face.

"It's just a dream Neil, a bad dream you have ever experienced"He scrubbed his face roughly, blew out a loud breath. Leaning to his side he grabbed the glass of water and chugged it down. He put the glass back it's place and shoved his both hands over his hair, pulled them backward absently.  He looked up at the ceiling.

Neil inhaled then exhaled deeply and leaned to his bed. He closed his eyes and reopened.
To see the time he lightened his pH screen. It was 4 in the morning.
To divert off the atmosphere grew inside him, he opened his mail app and read some mails abruptly and within a minute or less put it down off.
Next Neil did he climbed down his bed grabbing the cigarette box off the bedside table. He walked to the attached balcony door. Opened it. The cool fresh dawn air hit his face. Before he stepped out he lit a cigarette pulling out of the box and rubbed his face before he took a deep drag of smoke inside his lungs and released it through his nose. It is still dark outside. The lamp inside their car garage created silhouette around the lawn.

He leaned against the balcony fence took another inhale from his cigarette. Released. And his eyes fell on the thing, hung at the corner away the balustrade. It is still there at the corner. He do not want to let his friends to get any idea about the thing so he kept it there away from any one could notice.

The Dream Catcher.

That ocean blue Dream Catcher.
As deep as ocean. As deep as his heart.
Did he ever know how much love he had for this girl somewhere inside his heart!!

His vibes, his aura, his persistence of deliberately avoiding her whenever she had been seen around. And to some extent his being self forceful incognizant towards her never let him figure out to know about the girl who gleamed his eyes the moment they had fell on her.His heart tried to say something beating faster by her name, everytime he found her staring at him.
It would be lie. If he would say he didn't like it.

The admission day in university. He had first seen her. No one knows it still. A girl was standing there quietly with a lady beside her. Most probably her guardian talking to the coordinator. Neil was there to look for their HOD. He had asked him to see Professor Sir in the office. He couldn't took his eyes off her for few seconds and he wouldn't be for some more time, if his professor wouldn't have called him behind. Avni was back facing him standing on the other side of the teachers' office. Her long overly silky dark hair caught his attention, instantly his eyes fell that direction she was standing farther. He tried to see her face turning his back once before going outside but failed catching a single glimpse of her. She just tucked her few strands of hair behind her right ear and nodded to Mam. That's it.

He recognised her the day she saw her at the University gate. She did the same, tucked her hair strands behind her ears and shoved her long hair slightly, moved her shoulder pushing them behind. Later Neil noticed no other girls in first year has such long lustrous hair as Avni had. So it confirmed she was the girl he saw him in the teachers' office room.

Days passed he started noticing she talked to everyone except him.

"Why!! am I the lion came out of his den or had I have any special features on my face that she stiffened getting around me!!" This thoughts used to made him mad seeing them hanging around.

His heart boiled watching her having great day with that kid Soham.

Yes he is a kid. A raucous kid.

He dared to apologise to Neil that, Avni didn't mean to hurt him!!

Who the hell is he to talk to Neil on her behalf!! Her boyfriend! Bloody crap.

Saying those words about her to Ali in the field he realised he said it to convince himself more than anyone else. That he wasn't falling for her and never will he. That was the stupidest lie he have stated being stubborn not to admitting his own heart over his mind.

If he wasn't liked her then Why he felt so uneasy under her gaze!! Why he couldn't shrugged it off her his mind as he used to do with any other girl approached him around.

Why he fell bad that day while making her eyes gleamed with sadness. Saying her to back off!! And then felt relief seeing her smiling again with her groupies in the canteen later.
Why his heart clenched that day when he realised he had made blunder judging her being impulsive. That was the worst day of his life. Still he regrets.
There were plenty of uncountable moments he felt entirely opposite he wanted to feel for her. Those are all pristine feeling for her, somewhere at the extreme corner inside his heart. Where no one has succeeded see through.

He was preventing his heart not to fall for a simple girl like her. But she wasn't that simple. She was special. She was too extraordinary, just next to impossible not to fall for her, whether if it would be for as arrogant guy as Neil khanna or any other guy around her. He did but denied to realise it to himself.

To divert his heart and mind away her he tried to hang out with all those girls his Dad used to introduced him in their family parties every weekend.
And the honest statement is that there wasn't any single girl could grew his interest to look at there faces atleast once.
The result was, this things made him more mad at the girl he avoided the most.

He considered her as an average because he knew from the first day she wasn't.
He just hate her guts.
The girl turning cold Neil khanna into something else. And that can't be happened just a blink of her long eye lashes or that mesmerizing smile of her innocent face.

She was never of his type nor he was into her. But he got fascinated,his heart affected, bewitched, everytime he saw her around.

His heart was in downright pandemonium of emotions pounding inside, the day he saw her again after so many years in his uncle's house. He saw her in one of his own places.

Later Her every word pinned his heart close to bleed when she said She hates him. She doesn't want to see his face. She doesn't want him around her baby even.

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Neil

Am I that bad? Am I not worth to get a bit of her attention?
Wouldn't I deserve a confession to be made atleast?

I was not a pleasing person in the past I always agree. Even I'm the same until I met her.
I am different person now. Avni Mehta has changed the conceited, snobbish, insolent Neil khanna into something else...

I don't know what I'm now...

Everything I love around me now. There is a look of contentment I carry. Even I have started responding my office subordinates' greets. That I never done before. I started interacting with people much better these days. I can feel a satisfactory smile on my board members face during the meetings watching me. Those who have ever seen me the way I have grown now.

She has transformed me into this.

I have remembered the day I heard her call me lovable.

I had smiled all day.

Yes no one noticed it until Bebe saw me at the dinner table and her eyes grew in askance. She smiled too watching me and I cleared my throat giving her a straight face and got busied having my dinner, avoided any eye contact with her further that day.

That day I dreamt something very strange.

I was holding someone but the person was slipping out of my hold. Someone's faint laughter far away...There wasn't any clear face I had seen. But that giggle was of a girl trying to saying me something in between her giggle but her voice was so blurry, so faint that it took my struggle failed to fathom anything clear...I so wanted to see that girl's face...I was about to...
If Mom's loud knock on my bedroom door didn't break me out of my state. It took me frustrated everytime I thought of it that entire day. Then as any other nightmares it has obliterated out of my mind totally by the days, months, years passes away.

Still I don't know who the girl was. But her giggle was much similar I have heard from Avni being with her in our university days. She reminded me of that nightmare so many years later.

Is that mean I won't be able to hold her...see her beside me ever!!

I'm not into believing this stupid nightmares or dreams what ever they say. I'm a very cold hearted person, a very practical one.
But everything has changed.

A girl changed me.

She is none other than the girl from my college.
The girl about who I had said "Neil khanna would never fall for"
That is what I myself have proved unreal, deniable.

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Neelama

"Listen Neelaji we like your daughter...and I have decided to make her my Bahu. The fact is there is something very important apart from this you should know before anything you agree to or disagree to" Swetaji finished and I was stunned.

I have never knew these things my daughter had went through. I was so angry by her Son Neil knowing the past.
How could he hurt my child using those words of humiliation, disheartening!!! Suddenly I felt disappointed of myself to listen to them and let Avni to be in a same car with Neil, that day they were leaving back to India.

Yes Avni says I trust people blindly. She is right. I really do.
But then Bebe said something that changed my opinion within a second for Neil. He said the whole truth to his Mom and also he tried to apologise Avni but Avni was heart break.

Heart break!!

Hey bhagwan.

Am I missing something!!

Did my child love him!

Is she love him still!

That's why she never fell for anyone else nor find anyone to settle abroad as well.
Because she had never forgetton Neil.

Ooh my bachha.

If it's true then. Do Neil know it.

"No Neil doesn't know it yet. Even he thinks she won't be able to forgive him" Swetaji stated and Bebe took a deep sigh sitting beside me I felt.

Then how could they know what I never could have!!

And again I got the answer immediately.

"Rea, her bestfriend told me once there is a girl in their University who likes my Tillu a lot. Rea had said the girl is a typical Bahu material. She will bring her to meet me soon...Rea also had told me they will come to our house to Tillu for some exam suggestions stuffs...then I could see her....I asked her that girl's name but she silented me saying that I myself would ask her the day she'll bring her to me,home....." Swetaji paused with a sad smile.

"But she never came....I asked Rea one day about that girl but she ignored saying she has misinterpreted, that girl doesn't like my son. Actually she didn't want to say anything against my son to me, so she moulded it other way" Swetaji heaved a hefty sigh.

"And that Bahu material was my Avni!!" Bubblyji chuckled turning her face towards Swetaji and then everyone joined her.
While I felt my eyes glassy. Sometimes we parents can't figure out, our children goes through. We only teach them what is good, what is bad.what to do, what not to.
We never focus on strengthen them how to rise back strong the situations they may have never planned to gotten themselves into.

No one planned the moment if we fall for someone.
It's happens. Just as we breathe, we inhaled, we exhaled. It's all about heart. That internal organ we are controlled under instead controlling it always.
It just happens to all of us once in our life or more than, sometimes.
Our hearts beat for a particular person who we barely know or sometimes closer around us.

My Avni went through a lot in that sensitive age.

If Neil really loves her this time I won't let Avni go away him. Because I know my daughter still love this man. The only man she hates the most.

Hates!!!

Why she hates even him still!!

Isn't it the only truth behind how much she loves him still!!

"We need to work on this if this is the truth" I said to them wiping my tears and then I found myself hugged by Bebe and blessing me.

"If we would have got a bit Idea about my Tillu. That he has been rejecting those chicks for your daughter then I swear we would have contacted you Neelaji years back" we all giggled looking at Swetaji's carefree face.

I can't assume the past. What they had shared to eachother, How bitter it had been between them.
But it won't be denied, within these few days during Juhi's wedding I have noticed_ only respect and love for my child in those eyes, Neil khanna laid on her whenever he stares at her.

I have seen there immense love, longings to hold someone closer. In his heart.

I can't be let these two souls go apart.

"We will get them together.... even Aryan is also in our team" Swetaji stated and my eyes grew wider in surprise.

Badmash...he didn't say me yet that he has got his Dadda finally.
Achha bachhu!! Then granny also has something for you so that next time you will think twice keeping secrets from her.....wait and watch you Mom and baby!!

An evil smirk made its way to appear on Neelama's lips but fainted when Bebe motioned her asking something and she nodded in assurance.

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Hi how's that 🙋
Did you enjoy reading 🤗
I enjoyed a lot writing the most, Neelama's part.
Really since days I was into Neelama's pov. I was blocked thinking how could I start the lines. What scenes I would put to make it finally published. As I have always the scene stored in my mind exactly when I would add it. But wasn't prepared by the lines she would react knowing AVNEIL's past. So it took me time to publish this particular update.
And the best part is I have written her lines within a single hour that I haven't expected I would have done this morning.
Miracle happens😂😂

Okkky chil I'm not saying something best I have done. Not at all I'm feeding my readers anything as such.
I'm just letting you know that I tried my best to give this update an interesting turn. That's it.

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