RM, New Delhi, India

Khushi rushed towards the balcony since almost everybody was there. The youngsters were enjoying the time playing and all as Oberois will be leaving this weekend and elders were relaxing. She was panting when she reached there and all looked at her hearing the sound

Kiran: Hey careful ... no need to rush ... we are not playing your part

All laughed at that but one look at Khushi's face everybody knew it was something serious.

Arnav: Baby ... is there any problem?

Manav: Yes Kiya you look worried ...

Shalini: What happened beta ... you have gone to fetch water, right?

Khushi: Nothing ... I ... I just wanted to talk to Lavz ...

Lavanya: (With raised eyebrow) ... what's wrong?

Khushi: (Looking directly in her eye) ... nothing to worry ... Annie called and ... and asked some doubt regarding a medicine ...

Kiran even though felt something fishy shrugged it away as she wasn't very good at remembering people's name other than who is close with her.

While Lavanya and Arnav frowned hearing it because there wasn't anybody with that name at all but they know there will be some reason why she is doing it so they played along.

Lavanya: Is it? ... I think I have kept my phone in silent ... come we will talk to her

Saying this she pulled Khushi to the poolside. And reaching there she immediately asked.

Lavanya: Now tell me ... what is the matter?

Khushi: Err ... Lavz ... Rasmin is a contraceptive pill, right?

Lavanya: Yes ... but why are you asking this? ... I mean you are against using pills

Khushi: And Sprintec? ... that can cause imbalances in hormone right?

Lavanya just nodded not understanding why she is asking all this but hear Khushi talking to herself.

Khushi: But why will she take those?

I am nowhere related to medicines and I only have the knowledge, Google providing me, so bear with me if I am wrong

Lavanya: Yes ... but why are you asking about those medicines?

Khushi: Lavz ... you had told me Payal, Akash, and the whole family is longing for a child, right? Then ... then why will she have Rasmin and Sprintec?

Lavanya: What?

Khushi: Yes ... I just heard her asking Akash to bring those ...

Lavanya: But ... Kiya ... they are trying for a kid for years now ... and that is the only fault mamma finds in Payal Bhabhi. Then why will she take those? And most importantly how does she know about those?

Khushi: Yeah ... you have a point ... but ... wait ... who is her gynecologist? Does she go to Raizada hospitals?

Lavanya: Yes ... in fact, both of them are taking treatment for years now ... but I don't know who treats her

Khushi: We have to find out who it is because he/she will surely have known about those medicines. Then we have to find out why the person is doing this? ... that too to the Raizadas itself

Lavanya: Yes ... I think you are right. Even if DR don't even acknowledge there are doctors in the family it is our duty as doctors. But I am afraid what will be Chachu's reaction if he gets to know this ...

Khushi: No Lavz ... don't tell him, no ... in fact, to anyone now ... we will tell them after finding the truth

Arnav: What truth you guys are talking about? ... and what are you two trying to hide?

Both of them turned back and saw Arnav standing there with folded arms.

Khushi: What are you doing here? ... I told right ... about our friend

Arnav: Cut the crap dude ... you don't have a friend named 'Annie'

Khushi: (Sighing) ... why do you have to know everything about me?

Arnav: Of course I have to ... after all, you are my better half ... so leave that and tell me what is the problem?

Khushi: (Without looking at him) ... nothing Arnav ... we were just

Lavanya: Kiya ... let him know ... he can help us ...

Khushi: (Sighing) ... Arnav ... I ... I heard Payal telling Akash to bring some medicines ...

Arnav: Okay ...

Lavanya: And as per the names it is some birth control pills and ... in some worst cases can even cause infertility ...

Arnav: What the ... then why the hell is he taking treatment if she is taking those pills? But ... he ... he so badly wanted to have kids ...

Khushi: That is why we too are confused ... maybe somebody tricked them

Arnav: But who?

Lavanya: Possibly the gynecologist ... because he/she will have understood this from the routine check-ups

Arnav: Perhaps ... but why to interfere in their lives, guys?

Khushi: Even if not as family but as doctors we have to make sure it is not any doctor's fault ... and yeah ... if it is I am not going to leave the person

Lavanya: Yes Bro ... especially when they are working in Raizada hospitals

Arnav: Hmm ... I guess you guys are right ... Raizada Hospitals is the result of Dad's hard work and I won't allow anybody to insult that. Okay ... let us do one thing I too will accompany you guys to meet the gynecologist

Khushi: Okay then ... let us act as nothing had happened for now

Arnav: You guys go ... (Showing his phone) let me finish the business call

Khushi: Oh that was your excuse ... okay then come, Lavz ... let us go

And they joined others smartly avoiding the topic of discussion.

Anjali smirked and walked away and Ravi ran towards Tania's room. He touched the door and was relieved to see it open but when he entered the room the scene inside was enough to break his heart. There ... his love was sitting in the bed hugging her knees and resting her head upon them, no doubt she was crying continuously. He slowly walked to her and sat on the bed near her but she didn't look up at him. So he whispered,

Ravi: Tani ...

But instead of looking at him she just turned around avoiding him.

Ravi: Tani ... please ... please look at me

Still, she didn't turn so he put his fingers on her face and made her look at him. The pain he saw in them shattered him as he was the reason for that. Because once she asked him whether he had any girlfriends in the past. And he had told her that he liked a girl but as she wasn't interested he left the idea and then as he got busy in the business he never had time for all that. At that time he wasn't ready to enclose the dark past to her but he should have told her ... at least after they confessed each other. Because now she would have misunderstood him ... of course, she will after the way she saw him with Anjali, who unfortunately happened to be his first love. But his thought process broke when he heard her whisper.

Tania: So it was Anjali? And ... and you just liked her? How ... how could you lie to me, Ravi? (Sighing) okay ... now I understood how important I am to you ... that's why I had to know this from others, right?

Ravi: Tani no ... please don't talk like that ... you are important

Tania: That's why you hid an important matter like this?

Ravi: Please believe me Jaan ... I don't have feelings for her anymore ... now and forever I love you ... only you. I know I should have told you it was Anjali but ... but at that moment I did not want to hurt you when you were so much happy

Tania: From where did that come from? Oh ... so, you think that I am crying because you loved a girl before me or the girl you loved was your bitchy cousin and seeing you with her was that hurt me? No Ravi ... never ... I know emotions like love can never be controlled ... and that is not what hurt me. What hurt me the most is you didn't consider me worthy enough to disclose such an important matter. It is true we confessed only today ... but for me, you weren't just my boss ... even in between all those silly fights I ... I considered you as a friend and I thought you did too. That's why I told you everything about me which I hadn't said to anybody else before. But you ... you didn't find it important to say to me that you were on the edge of losing your life back then ... even when you know what you mean to me. (Sighing) It is okay Ravi ... maybe I had expected too much

She wiped her tears and faked a smile but was stunned to see him in tears when looked up.

Ravi: (Hugging her tight) ... sorry ... sorry if I made you feel like that. But please ... never say that you are not important. You are the most important person in my life ... and you are right I shouldn't have hidden all these from you. And yeah you have always been a friend to me but when you asked me did I ever loved any other girl that day immediately after you said it is a special feeling to be someone's, first love ... I was afraid ... afraid to lose you. Yes ... I loved you even then also but I wasn't confident to talk about my dark past

Tania: Then leave it, Ravi ... I don't want to hear about it. But promise me ... promise me you will never think about ending your life

Ravi: (Kissing her forehead) ... you know when I think I can't love you more than I do now you will again do something that makes me fall more for you. And yeah I want to tell you about it from the time you told me you feel proud of yourself because the great Ravish Singh Oberoi fell for you only. But I wasn't sure how you will take it ... especially with Anjali around

Tania: It's okay ... leave it

Ravi: No today I want to talk ... and I insist ... so that I can feel free because I never had talked about it to anybody

Tania: Tell me if it will make you feel better. But hey ... I can't believe she rejected you and more than that drive you to death and still no regrets. Is she really Manav uncle's daughter and Arnav's sister? Or was that because she was in love with Shyam then too?

Ravi: (Chuckling) you will be amazed if you hear her capabilities ... and about Shyam, I don't know does she really love him even now. And you know what ... more than Manav uncle's daughter or Arnie's sister what I can't believe is she is Bua's daughter. I hadn't told you about her right? Hmm ... about her I haven't seen a more wonderful lady than her inside out ... always thinking about other's happiness ... helping the poor without thinking about money. You know she was even ready to leave Manav uncle so that Raizadas will be happy as they don't understand people by their personality ... all they can see is cast, society etc

Tania: Raizadas didn't like her just because she was Christian? (Seeing him nodding) ... then ... then how did they got married?

Ravi: Uncle made her understand that he can't live without her and then Kiya's parents ... Kabir uncle and Gayu Aunty helped them and after marriage, all of them shifted to abroad. But during vacations either they will come here or we will go there. And I and Anjali were best friends ... we used to call each other daily ... sending cards etc and she was this cute bubbly girl. But everything changed after Arnie and Rishi were born. While I was on cloud nine getting a brother she felt left out. No ... it wasn't Uncle or Bua's fault ... it was all Raizada's doing ... they filled her mind against the three of them. She used to complain to me and I tried my level best to change her opinion ... but what can I do when these people were hell-bent on breaking a happy family. It was simple ... they wanted Uncle to divorce Bua and marry their relative's daughter and they used Anjali as a pawn. But even then our relationship was always strong ... even though she won't obey me in case of Arnie she asked my opinion on every matter. And from our childhood, Bua used to tell that she wanted her Ravi to be her SIL and that engraved in my heart. But Arnie used to tell me that her behavior changed drastically after Bua's death. I took it as the aftereffect of that but she was changing ... day by day she became ruder and ruder. But she was always sweet towards me and with growing years we fell in love or that is what I thought. And you know the irony everything was a pretense ... a pretense to take revenge from Oberois who is actually her mother's family

Tania: What?

Ravi: Can't believe? ... but that was how it was ... Anjali started to hate her own mother after she started to live here with Raizadas. Arnie used to tell me that she seemed to be serious about the person with her marriage got fixed ... but the crazy lover inside me chose to ignore it as she wanted to keep our relationship with ourselves until she talks with her family. (Sighing) ... sadly that all was a pretense but I didn't know it ... then her engagement got fixed ... she called me and cried so much. But as I was abroad then I couldn't come ... and she told me to come with my family to take her with me before marriage. Again Arnie told me she seems very happy with the wedding preparations going on and that is what she speaks on phone every time she calls him ... but again I chose my love over my brother. I told my family that we were in love from long and her family fixed her marriage against her will and knowing the Raizadas everybody was with me. We reached here late and the scene here broke me ... she was happily getting married to Shyam while the other was expressionless. And the person who was with me before any other person was Arnie ... who just reached there from America equally shocked seeing the marriage along with Manav uncle. But composing himself he told me to go to the penthouse because he couldn't see me so broken seeing that as he knew I loved her. And also he didn't want us to get insulted but the broken trust and heart were so much in pain that I really wanted to know why she did all this. And when I asked her I got to know what my Anjie had turned into ... in front of the whole guests she made my love a mockery ... spat on my family name and told me it was all a revenge ... the last faith in my love broken there. Uncle told Arnie to take us out and we went to the penthouse. During the entire journey, I could hear Mom and Dadz crying ... Dad and my brothers looking me with painful eyes ... and all my thoughts were this all was happening because of me. I ... I found it too much to bear ... I couldn't even look at mirror due to guilt and I ... I chose the best way to end it all

Tears were continuously flowing from his eyes as he opened his heart after that incident for the first time and when he finished he felt a soft body hugging him. He looked down to see Tania hugging him in a tight grip. He hugged her back relishing her warmth and after some time he again started to speak.

Ravi: But I was immediately hospitalized so could save my life and when I was admitted to the hospital there was a commotion going on. Rishi and Arnie enquired the people there and got to know it was a rape case and nobody was with the girl ... and her mother was crying for help. They both were more than ready to help them so took their responsibility wholeheartedly

Tania: Who is that girl? ... do I know her?

Ravi: Of course you know her ... It was Priyanka Sharma or better Priyanka Singh Oberoi now

Tania: Prinku Di?

Ravi: Yes ...

Tania: But what happened to her? ... who? ... why?

Ravi: (Sighing sadly) ... do you know why Arnav hate Anjali so much?

Tania: Maybe because what she did to you ... because I had seen what you mean to him. Or maybe as she was against her mother ... because Kiya had told me what she means to Arnav

Ravi: Partly ... but it was another incident which made him loathe his sister and we all understood it wasn't Shyam who was manipulating her but it was the other way around

Tania: (Hugging his arm) what is it, Ravi?

Ravi: I and Di got discharged using our influence but we both weren't healthy to travel back so we went back to Arnie's penthouse. That night aunty thanked us and asked us can she leave as she can't pay all this back and don't want to burden us more. But Dadz and Mom scolded her for saying that and asked her to think us as their family. That night Aunty broke in front of us seeing our care when her own family disowned her. She told us how her daughter was in love with her childhood friend who too loved her deeply ... how happy they were almost planning their marriage ... how another evil lady came in their lives who was obsessed with the guy asked him to leave her ... got engaged to him lying that he had destroyed her dignity ... how he tried to break the engagement knowing the truth ... how the mad girl sent people to hurt them ... her daughter got raped and how her husband committed suicide witnessing all that ... how everybody blamed them for what happened with Di etc. At last Arnie asked who the hell that lady was as he wanted to kill her with bare hands ... we were also not less. But the answer shocked us all it was none other than the Anjali Singh Raizada. He apologized to both of them and told everybody that he don't want to keep her anywhere near Anjali. So she became our sister and Aunty our Mami but after almost one year Aunty too left us and she officially became Priyanka Singh Oberoi

Tania: (Horrified and with tears) just to get him she did that with a woman being a woman herself?

Ravi: (Wiping her tears) what to do ... some people don't know even the 'h' of humanity. Now don't cry over them okay? And Tani you know what ... now thinking about all that I am happy all that happened

Tania: (Confused) ... what?

Ravi: Yes ... that's why I got you, right?

Tania: (Blushing) Ravi ...

Ravi: Oh my god you learned to blush too ... now that is news

Tania feeling flushed altogether hid in his chest and hit him on his back for teasing her. He just chuckled heartily after years and was feeling relieved. He sighed and looked up and thanked God for sending this crazy girl in his life.

In Payash room

Akash entered the room after the meeting and the scene was again the same which broke him knowing he can't do anything about it. Payal was again sitting in front of Devi maiyya and he knew as always she will be praying for a baby. He looked at the idol and wondered how she can turn her back to her hardcore devotee like this. He walked to her and sat beside her and touched her shoulder. Payal wiped her tears and turned around faking a smile

Payal: Akash Ji ... when did you come? ... wait ... I will bring your tea

Akash: (Holding her hand) ... Payal Ji ... please don't shut me out. I know you were again praying for a baby

Payal: No Akash Ji ... I was just

Akash: (Hugging her) ... please, Payal Ji ... don't hide your sorrow from me

And she finally broke down with heavy sobs.

Payal: Why God is being this cruel to us, Akash Ji ...

Akash: Please don't cry ... God will surely hear our prayers. One day we will have our baby

Payal: And I am waiting for that day

Akash: (Thinking) Me too ...