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- Mumbai -
- 2017 -

Om slowly broke the hug and smiled as he looked at Ori's happy face. She was smiling wide. Why wouldn't she, her father is here at last, holding her close to himself. She had seen girls in her nursery being fetched by their father and always longed for his warmth. Now, getting it all made her feel very much overjoyed.

'Papa! No clly. Olli no like teals', Ori reprimanded Om as she yet again wiped off his tears with her small delicate hands.

'Okay Ori! Papa will not cry. But see there your Mumma is crying', Om made her aware that Gauri was also in tears.

Ori immediately pulled her mother down by her skirt. Gauri knelt down in front of Om and Ori was on Om's lap, in between them. Ori slowly lifted herself from Om's lap and wiped off Gauri's tears. Gauri held both her hands and placed a kiss on them.

Ori, she lived up to her name from the day Gauri got to know that she was pregnant. Ori meant light in Hebrew. She indeed was the light of Gauri's life. When everything else was fading, falling apart and darkness began to crept in Gauri's life, Ori came as the light. She guided and gave strength to Gauri. Despite her mischievousness, Ori was always a great child. She never really demanded anything huge. She was happy and content with what Gauri had provided her. When she had asked Gauri about her father, Gauri had no other choice but to tell her about Om and why they can't live together. Despite being a child of 2 and a half years, she never asked Gauri about Om henceforth. She didn't even demand to meet him or throw a tantrum. She just listened to her mother quietly and smiled saying that's alright. "If God wants, then Olli meet Papa."

'Ori's trust won. God wanted you to meet your father bacha!' Gauri thought to herself.

Ori smiled and clapped her hands upon finding her parents no longer crying and pulled them both into a hug by their neck. Om and Gauri gave in to the hug and the trio felt at bliss, smiling ear to ear, being with each other.

'Ahem... ahem... we are also here!', Shivika made them aware of their presence.

'Oho! Olli folgot you both!', Ori exclaimed as she broke away from the hug and made her way towards Shivika.

'Hi Ori!', Anika greeted her first as she knelt down in front of her.

'Hi...', Ori replied as she turned towards her mother to know whom she was greeting.

'Ori, this is your Anika Phuphi, your father's sister', Gauri introduced her to Anika.

'Phuphi!', Ori called out and opened her arms for a hug.

Anika was overwhelmed by her gesture and pulled her into a her arms right away. She placed a loving kiss on Ori's cheeks and as soon as she turned away, Ori also gave her a kiss on her cheeks.

'Anika phuphi!', Ori giggled as she clapped her hands while breaking away from the hug.

'Yeah! That's right. Anika Phuphi! By the way, I have something for you. Do you want to see it?', Anika asked her.

Ori's eye's widen in excitement. She nodded as a few giggles escaped her mouth. Anika turned backwards and took the gift she bought earlier for Ori and passed it to her. Ori's mouth went in a O shape upon receiving the gift making everyone chuckle at the way she was doing a drama.

'Thankiu Phuphi!', Ori thanked Anika and received her gift gleefully.

'Wouldn't you open it?', Anika asked her.

She nodded in excitement and sat down right away fiddling with the wrapping paper. To everyone's surprise, she didn't tore the wrapping paper off, instead, she unwrapped the gift with much care.

'I told you she's exactly like you!', Gauri whispered to Om.

Finally, Ori managed to unwrap the gift with some help from Anika. She was so enthusiastic when she was the new doll. It was the doll that she wanted and had asked Gauri for it. But Gauri had promised it on her third birthday. Now that she's got the doll she always wanted, Ori jumped and squealed in excitement even though she was sitting.

'Did you like it Ori?', Anika asked her.

'Olli love!', she replied as she hugged the doll.

'Aww!'

'What's her name?', Anika asked Ori.

'Phuphi name Olli doll', Ori asked Anika to name her doll.

Anika agreed and thought for a while before coming up with a good name.

'What about MeiMei?', Anika asked.

'Olli like! MeiMei', Ori named her doll right away.

Shivaay now took his chance to meet Ori and sat opposite of her right next to Anika and greeted Ori.

'Hey beautiful!', he said with a wink.

'No! No beautipul. I am Olli!', Ori corrected Shivaay.

'She's definitely Om's daughter!', Shivaay thought to himself.

Shivaay held his ears and pulled a sad face in front of Ori.

'Sorry Ori!', he said in a childish voice.

'Okay... errr... ulncle!', she stammered pronouncing the word uncle.

'Hey, I'm not uncle. Call me Shivaay', he urged her.

'No names. Bad mannels!', Ori said with a cute pout and turned towards Om and Gauri.

'Ori bacha, this is your Shivaay Phupha. He's going to marry your Anika phuphi!', Gauri informed her.

Ori ecstatically tried to call phupha but she had had some real struggle in doing so.

'Offo! Phuhi! Phup... poop so hald. You ale Shivaay Phuhi!', Ori said cutely as she cupped Shivaay's face in her teeny tiny hands.

'Phuhi it is then!', Shivaay chuckled as he kissed her forehead.

'Phuhi brought you something as well. Want to see?', Shivaay intrigued her.

Ori nodded in excitement and jumped on Shivaay, holding him by his neck. Shivaay had to balance himself by placing his hand on the ground due to the force she had jumped on him.

'Alright! Here you go!', Shivaay exclaimed as he handed over his gift to her.

'Thank you Phuhi!', Ori said as she gave him a kiss on his cheeks.

'You're most welcome beautiful!', Shivaay replied.

'Offo Phuhi! Olli not beautipul!', Ori yet again corrected him.

'Okay Ori!', Shivaay said as he pinched her cheeks softly.

Anika couldn't help but to wrote the way her niece was bonding with her future husband. They just looked perfect together. Just then, Shivaay looked up at her and caught her adoring them. He winked at her with a playful smirk and passed a flying kiss to her.

Anika's jaw dropped at his sudden change of behaviour and got up right away. Om and Gauri were so engrossed in Ori that they didn't notice what Shivaay did earlier.

'Wow! Colouls!', Ori exclaimed making Shivaay's attention and gaze to be reverted towards her from Anika.

'Yeap! It's a hand-paint. Do you wanna try it out?', Shivaay asked her.

Ori nodded and was about to open the colours when Gauri had interrupted her.

'Ori, take your bath first before playing with them. Come!', Gauri called her ever sweetly.

She quickly got up and ran towards her mother but stopped in front of Om.

'Papa... gift?', Ori asked.

Om looked at her dumbfounded. He had bought her gifts of course. But since all of them were so huge, he had to leave them in the car. He knelt down to her height and wanted to explain but before he could say anything, Ori made everyone in the room speechless.

'Papa, kissy enough!', she said as she turned showing her cheeks to him.

'Kissy is enough? Really?', he asked her.

Ori nodded in excitement with a wide grin.

'Offo! Then what do I do with the gifts I bought for you which are in the car?', Om pretended to wonder while Ori's jaw dropped upon hearing that.

'Gift in the cal?', Ori excitedly asked.

'Yeap! Want to see them?', he asked her.

Ori nodded excitedly and ran towards the door to rush downstairs while dragging Om. Soon, they all went down and gave Ori the gifts Om had bought for her. She absolutely loved the huge teddy he got her and named it Dudu. The tricycle was a different delight for her. She insisted upon going on a ride but stopped by Gauri. When she saw the doll house, she got all eager to set them up and tried to carry it upstairs by herself and almost skidded as the box was obviously bigger than she was. But, Shivaay, her Phuhi came to rescue and carried the box up while Anika picked Ori in her arms. Gauri was about to go behind them when Om stopped her by holding her wrist.

'We need to talk, Gauri!', he said with a hopeful look.

Gauri nodded and stayed back once she saw Ori leaving with Shivika.

'Phuhi.. FIX! FIX! FIX! FIX! FIX!', Ori excitedly bounced as she clapped her hands. 

'Alright Ori! Come let's fix it!', Shivaay replied with equal excitement and began to open the box. 

Anika stood by the door and watched on as Shivaay and Ori began setting the dollhouse up. She noticed that they were doing it wrong and corrected them. Even so, Shivaay still end up getting the wrong end, hence she got a little annoyed and groaned 'How could you not know such a simple thing?'.

'Oh! Okay. Then maybe you should get here and do some real work instead of commenting plainly like this!', Shivaay commented sarcastically.

'Are you challenging me?', Anika questioned him with an eyebrow raised.

'Yes, I'm challenging you!', Shivaay smirked.

'Uuuuhhhh! Challenge!', Ori cooed.

'And your Phuphi doesn't loose any challenge Ori!', Anika indirectly boasted.

'We shall see! What say Ori? Who's team you're in?', Shivaay asked her.

'Phuhi team!', Ori grinned.

'Come here then. Come!', Shivaay called her and took her in his arms. They gave each other a Hi-Fi and booed at Anika.

Anika flipped her hair back and turned towards the dollhouse. She got engrossed in fixing them while Shivaay and Ori constantly distracted her by playing with some other toys and getting some snacks in front of her. Anika thought she was doing a great job until the basement crashed down which sent Shivaay and Ori into laughter.

'What happened Anika? Couldn't you even do such a simple task?', Shivaay mimicked her tone earlier before burst out laughing again.

'Accidents happen! This was also an accident! Urrghh! What was wrong with Om Bhaiya? Why did he buy a self set-up dollhouse when we can actually afford a ready-made one!', Anika growled as she began to kick the pieces away while cursing under her breath.

'So, you agree that you lost the challenge?', Shivaay asked her.

'It was a stupid challenge! I shouldn't have agreed in the first place!', Anika rebuked.

'Bad mannels Phuphi!', Ori commented making Anika go all embarrassed.

'Okay fine! I lose!', Anika admitted and took slow steps towards Shivaay and Ori but tripped over a piece of the dollhouse.

She was about to fall when Shivaay held her by her waist at the right moment. Upon having the skin contact, Shivaay and Anika couldn't help but to get lost in each others' eyes. Her grip on his collars tighten and he pulled her closer towards him. A million of hormones got awaken at that moment in both of them. Shivaay neared their forehead and let them rest on her forehead. Their eyes were closed, inhaling each others scent. 

'Olli not looking!', Ori said quite loudly while cupping her eyes with both her hands.

Shivika gained consciousness and broke away from each other. They couldn't help but to turn beet and Ori's statement just made it a little more too hard to handle. 

'We should set the dollhouse up!', Shivaay stated awkwardly.

'Yeah! We should. Come Ori!', Anika agreed and tried to get Ori.

'Olli not coming! Phuphi and Phuhi lomance!', Ori squealed and left the room calling out her Asha Didi.

Shivika stood there awkwardly and reverted their focus towards the dollhouse.

PRECAP : Same as yesterday's.

- To be continued -