~First Love can be anyone for him, but that one true love of his, can only be one~

-Affu-

In India

MruNi's Home

"Pops!" Mrunal and Nandini jumped on Mohnish, for a big-fat hug, who laughed out delightedly at the duo. "Yes! I am here, standing in all my glory hugging my two little girls." Mohnish chuckled, before breaking the hug and then kissing each of their heads.

"So you ditched Murthy saab for us!" Nandini grinned mischievously, and Mohnish rolled his eyes at it. "I'm going to have my funeral for that, you know." he replied, and the girls nodded.

"It's alright. I'll be the first person to attend it." Mrunal chimed in, and he narrowed his eyes at her. "Me too." Nandini joined, which resulted in Mohnish's gaze to shift towards her.

"Alright! Alright!" Mrunal jumped up, joyfully. "Time for story telling." she added, and Nandini nodded along, enthusiastically. "So, Mruno and I are leaving for the airport, at 10:30 pm, leaving you to stay in your house, which is the next one to ours. We go there, bring them home, as if you don't even exist in this world, and we're waiting for you to show up on my birthday." Nandini stated, and Mohnish frowned.

"Why am I not going with you to surprise him?" Mohnish questioned, and Nandini sighed. "You're here, so damn earlier than you're supposed to be, to destroy boyfriend machine." Mrunal said, and Nandini nodded in positive. "But that's unfair. I wanted to see a shocked Shekhar, who'll go all happy after seeing me in the airport receiving him." Mohnish whined out, and Mrunal stared on.

"Out of topic question. How old were you again?" Mrunal questioned, and Mohnish glared at her. "Honestly, Pops. You're here to help us control the angry Murthy saab when he gets to know about whatever we hid from him." Nandini said, grabbing Mohnish's attention, who got settled on a seat, before grabbing the girls to sit on his either sides.

"How are you, now?" Mohnish looked at Nandini, who grinned. "I always look the most beautiful, Pops. You should have known that by now." she replied, and he chuckled. "And it doesn't suit you to be all serious-looking." she added. "I don't think I've ever agreed on anything this badly." Mrunal stated, and Mohnish chuckled at it.

"I missed this." Mohnish said, while taking Mrunal's hand and enjoining it with Nandini's and then putting them in his palms. "Watching this friendship." he said, and they grinned at him. "And we missed this old-good looking-pal of ours." they said, in unison, and he grinned along.

"The heck! You here?" they turned around to see a shocked Cadbury at the living room's door.

"Hey Cad!" Mohnish greeted Cadbury with a happy smile on his lips. "Back with girls." he added, triumphantly.

***

"Oh my God! Oh my God!" Nandini was jumping up and down, while holding onto Mrunal's arm. "Appa and Ma are going to be here. I can't wait. I can't wait." she cried out joyfully, and Mrunal rolled her eyes.

"I'm telling you Bhai! You're getting into a crazy sh*t." Cabir said, while staring at Nandini and then shaking his head in misery.  Manik shrugged on. "Yeah. A beautiful crazy sh*t." Shravan said, dreamily and Manik smacked in his head.

"Shut up!" Manik barked out, and Shravan pouted while rubbing at his head. "Look! Bhai! Just because you happen to realize about your feelings doesn't mean that I don't get to drool over my crush." Shravan said, defending himself and the guys stared on.

"Crush? She's like an elder sister to you. In this case, a Bhabi." Abhimanyu pointed out, and Arijit began to roll up his sleeves till his elbow. "Excuse me? Who said she's my sister? I don't consider her as any sister or brother. Ew. She's like a teacher figure that I wish to have in my life, whom I have a crush on." Shravan explained his point, and he got smacked in his head again, but this time by Arijit.

"What? Do I look like some drums to you?" Shravan cried out, painfully. "Drums is my instrument. So stop comparing your idiotic head with that instrument." Cabir chimed in, and Shravan glared at his best friend.

"Here!" They heard Nandini and Mrunal screaming, and they looked up from their hiding spot, to have a look at two special people that they were here to see.

"Shekhar and his Mishti." Manik smiled softly at the sight. Shekhar holding onto Shamishti's hand, and a travelling bag in other hand, walking towards the girls with a very big smile on his lips.

"Appa! Ma!" Nandini rushed towards her parents and they took her in the middle hugging her close to their hearts. "I can't believe that I'm finally crying with a reason." Nandini mumbled under her breath, before breaking the hug.

"Welcome to India." She screamed delightedly, before Shekhar picked her up and started to twirl her around in joy. "I'm not letting my daughter go away again." he made her stand on her feet before taking her for a side hug, while Shamishti got busy in hugging and greeting Mrunal.

"I get that, Murthy saab." Nandini said, before blinking her tears away, and then walking towards Shamishti. "Missed me or you just missed him?" Shamishti asked while kissing on her daughter's head. "Oh I don't know about myself. But have you missed your gorgeous firecracker, Mrs. Murthy?" she stayed close to her mother, while staying in her arms.

"Um...let me think." Shamishti pretended to think, while wiping the stray tears away. "Nope! I don't think I could miss you." she said, and Nandini rolled her eyes. "You're such a bad liar, Ma. Nobody can stay sane if they're missing out on Nandini Murthy." Nandini shrugged her shoulders, and her mother tapped lightly on her cheeks.

"Yeah. So let's head out, Murthys. I'm getting hungry. Shekhar Uncle." Mrunal spoke, after greeting Shekhar and then staying by his side. "Yeah Mru?" he asked, turning towards her. "I don't know about you guys, but we haven't eaten anything for the past 2 hours because someone was high on cocaine." Mrunal said, shrugging and Shekhar chuckled out loud.

"I wasn't. Maybe it was hash brownies that we had in the evening and not just any random brownies." Nandini thought out loud, and the Murthy couple started to drag the girls away.

"Of course!" Shekhar said. "You don't believe me, Appa?" Nandini asked, while battling her eyelashes and then pouting. "I do, Shona. Mishti, our daughter is on drugs." Shekhar said, and Shamishti nodded. "I don't know these people." Shamishti commented, before Mrunal joined in.

"We just came to receive you guys from the airport." and the duo just started to listen to Nandini and Mrunal bickering with each other. 

But what they didn't notice was the 4 shocked pairs of eyes.

***

"That can't be." Sooraj muttered out loud.

"Chote?" Dayavant stared at the Shekhar, who was opening the car's door for Shamishti. The former had tears in his eyes. He was seeing his little brother fit and alive, after what, two decades?

"That's..Nandini." Dharmendhr couldn't believe his own eyes when he saw Nandini opening her car's passenger seat door for Shekhar, who was smiling and talking to her.

The same girl who Manik claimed to be his girlfriend is his little brother's daughter?

"Impossible." Sohesh murmured, while Sooraj looked at his father and brothers expecting an outburst.

"Bye and thanks, bade mustache wala uncles. Let's meet again. I mean, Home is still waiting for us." Nandini waved at the porter staff, and got in her car to drive.

Soon the car was out of the airport area while the Murthys looked on.

"It is possible." Yashjeet muttered our loud. "After all, an orphan's daughter she is." He continued, and the men looked at him, speechless.

But that mere sentence was more than enough for some people to lose the last bead of patience in them.

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Hey guys!

How many people in here? Can I get a wave?

So yeah, back with an update, after a long long time. Feeling a little weird because the chapter was half written before the break. Bear with me, peeps!

About the update, I'd like to say that I do not have a schedule because life has changed now. My routine, commitments and everything else isn't the same anymore, hence, I cannot have a schedule for writing.

For now, I'd like to complete this book. Hopefully I could do so!

So how was the chapter?

With love,
Affu.