"Nannav Di gave me this responsibility and she will be very gussa (angry) with me if I don't make you wear this handsome sherwani like you!" NK said with a charming smiled holding the sherwani with his one hand showing to Arnav.

"The go and say to Di that you failed.I won't wear this, but my suit only.." Arnav said adjusting his tie in front of the mirror.

"No Nannav, please just look at this sherwani. Your bride will faint just by seeing you in this, you will be the most handsome groom ever in this world.. please say yes!!" NK pleaded desperate, only he knows how much Di will scold him for this.

"Like really NK?" Arnav send him a glare through the mirror, "Just get lost from my room with this
sherwani of yours!"

NK pouted and went from there.

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"Nahin.. Nahin.. Nahin..." Aashi chanted while running around the sofa from Anjali.

"Aashi just stop it! Come here and drink this milk like a good girl, otherwise I will be very angry with you.." Anjali said as she stopped running and stood behind the sofa waiting for Aashi to surrender herself.

"Nahin.." Aashi crossed her arms with a pout, "I want papa to make Aashi dlink milky.."

"Nani's doll.." Nani lifted her from behind, and made her sit on the sofa, "Today papa is getting
married na so he is busy, Aashi will drink milk okay.. Nani will give it to you.."

Anjali handled the glass of milk to Nani, who took it and placed near Aashi's lips to make her drink.

Aashi looked away.

"Mallied??" Aashi passed a confused look to Nani.

"Hmm.. Didn't Aashi want a mumma? Papa will bring mumma for you today" Nani smiled cuddling to Aashi.

"Aashi's mumma? Who?" Aashi asked as her eyes lit up in happiness, she always ask for her mother to her papa, but he always ignore this question of her, finally she's going to see her mother today.

"Sheetal.." Nani said pursing her lips. Anjali inhaled a sharp breath just by remembering the day Arnav announced he would marry Sheetal for Aashi, no one in the family is happy by his decision but they had to accept it and give Sheetal a chance.

"Sheetal aunty?" Aashi gapped blinking her eyes.

"Hmm.. now drink milk.." Nani said again trying to make her drink the milk.

Aashi looked away, "Aashi don't like milky.. Aashi don't like Sheetal aunty.."

"See Aashi doesn't like her.." Anjali groaned and sat on the sofa irritated, she thought that the day her brother would get married, she'll be the happiest person in this world but the reality is very far from that. Sheetal isn't the girl for her brother, and her heart keeps chanting this to her, not because of her modern looks, she really doesn't have a problem with clothes, as you can't judge anyone by their clothes, but the fact that Sheetal seems only interest in Arnav's property, fame and her modeling career, what attention she would give to Arnav and Aashi?

Arnav descended the stairs staring at three in the living room, he stood there with a deadpan expression, "I'm ready!"

Anjali stare at him, "You look more a guest than the groom itself!"

"And with your sherwani I would look more a clown than the groom itself.." he mocked.

"Chote!!" Anjali glared at him, "Every groom wear traditional clothes only in their marriage, they don't look like clowns!"

"I don't see men with sherwani in churches, do I?" he smirked.

Anjali shook her head in disbelief, "Aashi didn't like her new mother!" she added.

"Aashi is a kid only, she doesn't know what's good or bad for her. I know and I took this decision
carefully Di. Sheetal is a woman who knows what she wants for life and she shares the same thoughts as mine" he said getting serious, but somewhere inside his heart, he was insecure of his own decision.

"If you say so.." Anjali shrugged.

"Aashi come here.." Arnav called her, she climbed down the sofa and went running to him. Arnav
signaled Nani to give him her glass of milk. Nani obeyed him and hand it to him.

Arnav lifted her with one arm, and she giggled seeing her father holding her with one arm and the
other arm holding the glass of milk. He made her sit with him, and made her drink the milk which Aashi obeyed quietly drinking the milk like a good girl.

"Was milky good?" Arnav cuddled her. Aashi nodded sideways with pout, which made a small smile
appear on his lips staring at the face she made.

Akash and NK also came after getting ready to leave for the hall. Akash cleared his throat after seeing his brother with suit, "Bhai we are going to YOUR marriage hall, not for office!!"

Anjali and Nani busted out laughing, while Arnav rolled his eyes and stood up taking Aashi with him to the car.

"Even he's not interested in this marriage!" Anjali said sighing; her brother is one stubborn person.
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Few hours later..
At the marriage hall, two girls reached there running in hurry with boxes of sweets from their famous sweet shop.

"Hey Khushi run na! We can't lose our clients for carelessness.." Preeti shouted, as she was running to hand to sweet ordered by Anjali Raizada.

And Khushi was dancing happily to the sound of music and drums outside with the guests forgetting
about the order. As soon as she heard Preeti's shout, she bit her tongue and went running behind her friend.

"Tension not Preeti, even if we delay a bit they won't scold us because they won't find better laddo, jalebi, rasgulla and all than our sweet's shop!!" Khushi giggled as both friends entered in the hall.

Khushi and Preeti were awed by the decoration; it was so grand as if they are watching some movie
types of marriage.

"Wow.. so beautiful.." Preeti whispered to Khushi, widening her eyes in surprise.

"Who are you both?" the guard asked in the entrance.

"Ji we are here to give these sweets to Anjali ma'am, she ordered in our sweets shop!" Preeti replied, while Khushi rolled her eyes in disbelief, and muttered, "They order from us and still get suspicious!"

The guard asked them to wait, he went to confirm with Anjali to which she recognized and asked to guard to let them in.

Khushi and Preeti rushed to the kitchen side, and Anjali welcomed them with a smile on her face.

"Namaste.." Khushi and Preeti joined their hands greeting Anjali.

"Namaste.." Anjali joined her hands smiling, "Sorry for the trouble the guards caused to you both, actually it's my brother's marriage and he's very known person in the business world, someone may want to harm him and us, his family that's why this security is keeping a watch on everyone.." she explained apologetically.

"Tension not ji, we didn't felt bad at least this guard of yours was polite, there is one I met dressed in black suit who held me so harshly when I only wanted to help their boss's daughter who was lost! I wish I could give him a punch, but I'm not Salman Khan!" Khushi said cutely.

Anjali giggled: You're very cute!

Khushi smiled cheekily earning a glare from Preeti for talking too much in front of their client.

"Friend.." Aashi who was standing in the chair with her NK uncle, feeding her laddo smiled when she recognized Khushi's voice.

She peeked to see if the girl was really Khushi or not, and Anjali turned to her making way for Aashi to see Khushi clearly now.

"Hey baby.." Khushi waved at her smiling.

Aashi jumped down from the chair alone, making NK gasp shocked. He tried to hold her, but she went flying like a butterfly landing on Khushi's legs hugging her tightly.

"Aashi.." Anjali looked at her, then at Khushi confused as well as shocked, because Aashi doesn't
mingle to much with strangers, she only accept her family members and her father.

"Bua she's friend.. she helps Aashi in park.." Aashi pointed to Khushi with an excited smile on her face,
and held Khushi's finger tightly.

"Oh, so you're the one who helped Aashi when she was lost. Thank you, thank you so much for saving our baby.." Anjali patted Khushi's cheeks.

"It's okay, you don't need to thank me. By the way, your husband is very cruel ahn, he looked at me
as if he wanted to kill me when I was just helping.." Khushi said pouting.

"Husband? My husband is very good person, he doesn't scold anyone so easily.." Anjali asked confused with a smile on her face.

"Yes Arnav Chote!" Khushi said.

"Oh, Chote.." Anjali laughed, "He's my brother. Aashi's father.."

"Oh sorry! You said our baby, so I understood that.." Khushi hit her forehead, making Aashi giggle
staring at her.

"It's okay, anyways my name is Anjali, yours?" Anjali asked.

"Khushi.." Khushi replied smiling, meanwhile other workers from their shop placed the sweet boxes on the table.

"It's done Didi.." said a boy of 17 years old to Khushi.

"Okay Chotu, you can go now.." she said nodding, then turned to Anjali, "We'll leave now.
Congratulations to who's getting married.."

Anjali smiled, before she could reply came a woman all devastated and crying to Anjali.

Khushi looked at her worried, while Preeti pinched her arm indicating her that they should leave.

"Anjali.. thank god I found you.." the woman held Anjali's shoulder crying bitterly.

"What happened aunty? Why do you look worried?" Anjali caressed her cheeks wiping her tears, now getting worried too.

"Sheetal ran away.. we're not finding her anywhere, now how will this marriage happen??" Sheetal's mother said crying.

Preeti and Khushi stopped walking shocked when they heard that the bride ran away from marriage, they widened their eyes and uttered: What?!

"Oh no, why did she ran away? What kind of childish joke is this? Wasn't she ready for this marriage?" Anjali frowned.

"What the hell??" NK shouted angry, "How could she do something like this?"

"Actually, Sheetal only wanted Arnav as life partner for business issues and her career. She wasn't
ready to take care of Aashi as yet, still she gave a try since she didn't want to lose Arnav but.. I
think.." her mother lowered her head ashamed of her daughter actions.

"But yesterday night she thought she can't do this, so she just ran away without giving any
explanations.." NK gritted his teeth.

"I didn't knew she was going to do this.."

"Enough! What had to happen already happen. Now we need to find a solution for this, there are only 30 minutes left for the marriage to happen.." Anjali said.

"What? Di this is not possible, how will we find Sheetal in 30 minutes?" NK said frowning.

"Not Sheetal.." Anjali's eyes landed on Khushi and her mind travelled to what happened few minutes ago Aashi was happy with Khushi and she's sure Khushi will be a good mother to Aashi, "Khushi.."

"What???" NK, Sheetal's mother and Preeti widened their eyes and gapped.

"Meeee!" Khushi almost fainted, some bride ran away from her own marriage and now she has to be go in her place. No! No way!

"Haan please Khushi, only you can save us right now. I know this must be shocking for you all of
sudden I'm asking you to marry my brother.. but please help us.. I know you're the right person for
him.. please.." Anjali cried.

"How can you decide that after 5 minutes of our meeting?" Khushi made a crying face.

"Because my heart says so! Please Khushi.." Anjali held her hand tightly.

"I know I'm good person and I can't say no to anyone, but marriage? It's a big decision Anjali ji. I came to give you sweets, and I will go out like a bride? I never thought this could happen.." Khushi said totally confused.

"Haan, and she has her Dadu. No one would like to see their granddaughter married without informing him.." Preeti said.

Khushi held Preeti hand tightly, and whispered: Let's go out, I can't breathe here..

"Friend.. don't go!" Aashi said with a cute puppy face.

Khushi turned to her and gulped, Anjali also looked at her sadly.
Khushi covered her face with her palms, "I can't believe you put me in this situation DM!"

"Come with me!" Anjali pulled her to a room upstairs. She made Khushi sit on the sofa, and took a
seat beside her.

"I know this is shocking for you and I knew your answer would be no for this. I just want you to listen to me once.." Anjali said.

Khushi nodded gulping her saliva, seeing Anjali's worried face for her brother and that baby's cute face pleading her to not go, her so good heart was already trying to accept this proposal.

"Arnav is my brother and he lost his wife in an accident, and since then he's raised Aashi, his daughter alone. He thought he would be able to be Aashi's father and mother at the same time, but as Aashi is growing up, she starts questioning to him where's her mother. So we his family started convincing him for marriage, only for Aashi he agreed to get married but with the woman of his choice, and that's Sheetal. We all didn't like her, but what matters now is to find a mother for Aashi so we accepted his choice and now you see she ran away, you know if Chote gets to know that she ran away then he'll never accept to marry again. With lot of difficulties we managed to make him say yes for marriage, and now this had to happen. I know I'm being selfish with you, I'm just thinking about Chote and
Aashi, but my brother forgot what is to live when his love died, he isn't the same joyful, full of life,
simple, flirt (Anjali giggled sadly) and good boy he was, he turned himself into a heart stoned man,
ruthless and arrogant and hides his emotions from everyone, he was like an open book, but now we all fail to even read his eyes. And about Aashi, I badly want to find a mother for her, because I know what's to be an orphan, to live craving for parent's love. To wish your mother was there to feed you your favorite dishes, to sleep close to your mother, be pampered by her. All this I didn't had the privilege to feel, and I don't Aashi to go through the same. When I saw you with Aashi, I was so shocked and surprised that Aashi smiled to a stranger, called you her friend and even held your finger.
Normally Aashi doesn't accept anyone, she's only glued to her father and when he goes for work, she keeps missing him all day. Khushi I'm really sorry to bore you with my talks, I really just wanted you to understand why I asked you to marry my brother.. and if you don't want, feel free to say I won't
force you.." Anjali wiped the long tear slipping on her cheek and stood up.

Khushi's eyes were moist now hearing Arnav and Aashi's story, she could relate to it after all even she craved for her parents love, and she will not let Aashi have the same destiny as hers.

"I'll marry your brother!" she said and plastered a smile on her face.

"What? Really? Thank you.. thank you so much Khushi.." Anjali hugged her tightly, while Khushi smiled a little thinking about her Dadu who would scold her a lot for this.

Suddenly Nani, Shyam, Akash, NK, Mami and Mama barged inside the room to see Khushi.

"Wow.." they whispered with a smile on their lips.

"She's very beautiful more than Sheetal, I like her.." Mami said.

"Haan, and she wears our traditional clothes.." Nani said happily.

Khushi smiled nervously, his family accepted her and she accepted this marriage, but is Arnav going to accept this? After all, he's the only one who doesn't have a clue of what's happening behind him.