"I was searching my maa there."Kavya's words and her tears didn't let swayam sleep and he just turned on the bed twice or thrice.

"I shouldn't have released her hand at that time. How could she run that much fast? is she safe?"Swayam wondered , worried and regretted at the same time. He looked at the dark sky with a single thought."When will the sun rise?"

He needed a lot of answers but importantly he worried about her safety. After all, She was anamika to him. And, Aditya, was turning in his bed with the same thought,"When will the sun rise?"

After hearing a lot of praise about the Sharma family from his father, Aditya was much eager to meet them especially his to be wife. Though his father told him that swara had to decide, he believed that they won't reject him. He stared at his reflection at the mirror.

"I have the looks and strong also. Overall, who has the audacity to reject sengupta's proposal? And, her brother is working along with us."Aditya thought. Neither he or his father would mingle professional and personal life together. But, a word that Sharma rejected Sengupta's proposal would be much harmful to a newly struggling businessman like Lakshya.

"I wish the sun would rise soon."Both the friends muttered together and stared each other for a second then turned to opposite sides. Both needed their own space yet no questions were asked. Just silence was occupied again.

At Sharma's house,

Swara couldn't get sleep. Still, no one told her about the proposal so her concern wasn't about that. Her concern was about rudra's words at her village.

"I don't know how much you would trust me"Rudra's words ringed in her ears. She observed that in search of her former foster parents love, she hurt rudra and lakshya. Still, she wanted her answers but she couldn't risk lakshya and rudra's life. They won't let her suffer alone. She was much sure about it. And just for that single reason, she backed out when lakshya reminded her about her struggle inside the water fall. Not only she, he also risked his life to save her. He would do the same if its needed again. She walked inside lakshya's room to talk with him and apologize but saw him sleeping deeply. She couldn't wake him so she just stayed beside him and slept in the couch after some time.

"Take him with you, uncle." The boy who looked at around in his age around eight , said.

"You also come with us, arjun."A male voice offered.

"I can't give their position to anyone, uncle." The boy , Arjun , rejected simply reasoning his parents. The boy was looking a bit matured than his age.

"It's ok. We won't compel you about that, arjun. Just stay with us. You can be with your brother also. He will be also much happy."A lady tried to convince while kneeling on the ground to match the boy's height.

Arjun smiled and caressed his younger brother who was looking at him while sitting on lady's lap.

"bhaiyu" The five year old boy opened his hand and asked his brother to hug him. The lady let the younger boy stand on the floor and then arjun hugged his brother.

"Be good to them, Laku. You shouldn't disturb them regarding me."Arjun said in a strict tone unlike his age.

Lakshya nodded his head as he never opposed his brother command.

"Don't come here again."Arjun said while looking at the male and ran inside his room in the orphanage.

"bhaiyu!"Lakshya cried while the couple looked at each other with a sigh. The lady took crying lakshya in her hand and started to walk away while Arjun was staring at the retreating figure of his brother from the window.

"bhaiyu!"Lakshya sat on his bed as he woke up from the dream. Even in the airconditioned room, he was sweating badly.

"It seemed very real."Lakshya mumbled and gulped a glass of water which he kept on the table nearby his desk. He took a heavy breathe. The sun rays fell inside the room through the gap of curtains.

Lakshya walked over the window and opened the curtains then window with a thought of getting a fresh air. As the light flodded inside the room, swara pouted in sleep and turned forgetting she was in the sofa.

By hearing a small sound of swara, Lakshya turned and then ran towards her. Swara opened her eyes as he held her by her shoulders.

"Good morning, bujji."Swara said with a smile in a half smiley tone. Her smile soothed his tensed mind and he returned the same smile to her. As she tried to sit, Lakshya helped her to sit and then sat beside her.

"Now tell me what do you want to ask, Shona?"Lakshya asked as he knew his sister never came to his room unnecessarily.

"I am sorry."Swara said while the smile left her face and apologetic tone filled in her voice.

"You didn't do anything wrong, Shona. It's me who sow the thought in your mind."Lakshya held her hands and took the blame on him.

"It's not your mistake, bujji. I had the thought for a long time. I believed and when you and Papa reconciled, I just imagined how it would be if my parents reconcile with me."Swara said and gave a dry smile.

"But, my dream catalysed your thought. So, It's my mistake only."Lakshya argued.

Swara stared at lakshya and asked," Why are you always taking my side even when I am wrong, bujji? And, why did you save me on that day by risking your life? Is it because of that dream?"

"How many question you have in that little brain, shona?"Lakshya nudged on swara's head lightly.

" You are my sister. So, It's obvious to stand for you. And, I will correct you if you are wrong but I won't let others. I might have come to your village because of the dream, shona. Whatever happened after that, it's not because of that dream."Lakshya resumed and held his sister's hand on the left side of his toned chest.

"It told me that you are quite important to me as my father and losing you would be my life long regret. And, I knew I couldn't lose my little sister at any point of my life."Lakshya said while Tears cornered at both of their eyes.

Both wiped their tears while turning their face from each other and Rudra, who just came to his son's room, frozen at his spot.

"How could you love him, Nithu di? I mean he is looking like he would ask money to smile."Rudra said.

"I really don't know what made you dislike him, rudra."Nithila asked in a low tone.

"I don't know what made you like him."Rudra questioned back.

Nithila smiled softly.

"This heart told me that he is the correct one for me. Losing him would be my life long regret and I won't do that."Nithila said while putting the bangles on her hand.

"I don't understand a single thing."Rudra twisted his lips which made him look cuter for his teen age and Nithila chuckled loudly.

"Papa!"Lakshya and Swara stood from sofa by seeing Rudra inside the room. Hearing their voice, Rudra came out of his memories.

Swara walked towards Rudra and then held his hands.

"I always trust you, Papa. "Swara said while hugging Rudra. Unlikely, her words stinged his heart like someone piercing his heart with sharp pins.

"I know, Shona. Still, I thought knowing truth from your granny would be better for all of us. Leave the past, Shona."Rudra said softly.

"Shona, Papa wanted you to get married."Lakshya said in order to deviate the topic.

Swara smiled broadly and then sighed dramatically," Sorry, Papa. Now, Marriage is impossible. Even If I want, our nation's law won't permit it. How could you forget that I am just 17?"

Lines formed in Rudra's head. He forgot about her age according to register.

" Papa, Don't you think its quite early for me to get married?"Swara asked.

"This proposal is good for your future, Shona. That's a very good family."Rudra reasoned.

" If you think it's good, then I am also ok with this , Papa. But, I want to get married after my 18th birthday."Swara gave her nod for the proposal.

"Before forwarding the proposal, I will arrange a meeting with aditya. Tell me about your decision after that."Rudra said.

Swara and lakshya nodded then Rudra left the room.

At an unknown place,

Durgaprasad Maheshwari was pacing forward fastly in that place where a few police men were guarding with full alertness. After seeing Shantha Kashyap on his way, Durgaprasad Maheshwari saluted to her.

With a single nod, Shantha accepted his salute, saluted him back and then gestured him to get into case room. The room had a board in central and had a lot of photos with connected strings.

"Are you sure Swayam doesn't involved in any kind of investigations, Sir?"Shantha asked.

"I am sure, mam. Yesterday night also, he was studying busily." Durgaprasad certified sarcastically just to earn a single sarcastic smile.

"Yesterday night, Ragini sent me a GPS location. She felt the location was weird one and swayam didn't have any kind of work in that. So, she sent me and I examined the location, Sir. It's a mental asylum."Shantha said.

"Mental asylum?"Durgaprasad asked with a sharp tone.

"The same mental asylum where we doubted illegal activities was taking place in. Few days back, I already broke in and collected some of samples and patients photos. As per my investigation till, those patients were abandoned by their family and some of them don't have any family. They were used to test the drugs."Shantha resumed.

"And, yesterday when we seized the place, the workers were already poisoned. We saved almost all the patients yet the fire broke out in sudden."Shantha stood in her place and gestured durgaprasad to follow her.

"And we found Mrs. Sharma there."Shantha pointed unconscious Kalyani on the bed.

"Kallu!"Durgaprasad was frozen on his place by seeing her alive. Tears easily left his eyes .

"She is mentally unstable, sir."Shantha said further.

In a moment, Durgaprasad got himself.

"Does anyone know about her being alive?"Durgaprasad asked yet his voice was broken.

"Till now, no one sir."Shantha answered.

Durgaprasad took a heavy breathe.

"You would get case details from the records about drug testing on humans in which Mr.Rudra Sharma's father was involved . Find if there is any loop hole on that case and any connection to the present case; investigate everyone whoever is alive still."Durgaprasad ordered.

Shantha nodded her head affirmatively while durgaprasad fell in to deep thinking.

At Hospital,

Lakshya Sharma was waiting in the cabin of Vishal Arora, friend of his father.

"Sorry Laksh. Are you waiting for a long time?"Vishal asked.

"Not that much, uncle."Lakshya said with a smile.

"So, tell me young man. Are you fine?"Vishal asked.

"I am fine, uncle. Actually I want to meet the psychiatrist with whom I had sessions at my young ages. I couldn't connect with him."Lakshya requested.

"Sorry Lakshya, he  passed away few months back."Vishal said in sad tone and then continued,"My son is his disciple. I can forward you his profile. If you are convinced with his profile, then I will get his appointments for you. "

"Thanks Uncle"Lakshya nodded his head affirmatively.

"Are you getting the flashes of dream again?"Vishal asked being concerned.

"Not much , but yes. I am getting weird dreams. And, Please get me your son's appointment, uncle. I will give it a try."Lakshya confessed and then left the cabin.

At Medical College,

Swayam was restless after hearing the news of fire broke out in the mental asylum. He was sitting in his class . While everyone was waiting for the lecturer, he was waiting for kavya impatiently. All his cells yelled at him that they wanted to see her face once. He saw the shadow and his heart started to pump fastly. As soon as he saw her face, his face glittered like any other. Ragini wasn't aware of his expressions as she was busy in talking with Sanskar yet Sanskar noticed it. Swayam's expressions were crystal clear to Sanskar today and he didn't like it not even a single percent. His eyes travelled in the way of swayam's vision and saw Kavya who was descending towards her seat. Ragini looked at her friend who wasn't giving his focus to her. She travelled on his vision and saw Kavya. A teasing smile formed on her face.

"Isn't she beautiful?"Ragini asked.

"She is."Sanskar replied and then walked over to kavya's place. Swayam also started to walk towards her yet Sanskar bypassed him sooner.

"Hi, Kavya. I am Sanskar. Hope, you remember me."Sanskar said then showed all of his teeth in a smile and offered his hand for a hand shake.

"Hi Sanskar"Kavya said with a smile on her face but her red puffed eyes worried swayam a lot. As the lecturer entered , the trio had to leave to their place.

"Seems like, finally my buddhu has found his crush."Ragini murmured in his ear.

Sanskar brushed off her words with a single smile while his eyes stuck at swayam's face.

"Is she a friend of Mr.Right?"Sanskar asked.

"No. If you are wondering how to speak with her further, don't worry. I will get her into our study group anyhow."Ragini murmured.

"Thanks cutie."Sanskar thanked. Ragini started to concentrate on the class while sanskar started to observe the expressions of swayam. And, Swayam, he was much busy in gazing at Kavya's face.

"It shouldn't be what I am thinking."Sanskar thought then looked at his friend after glancing swayam's face once.

At a café,

Swara was sitting in a bench while waiting for aditya. She looked at her watch once again as he has been 15 minutes late .

Aditya came inside hurriedly and then sat opposite to her as he recognized her. Swara looked baffled at first then recognized him.

"I am sorry, I got stuck in traffic."Aditya apologized to swara.

"It's ok."Swara mumbled then the waiter came to attend the desk.

"One Pomogranate smoothie! One Cappucino!"Swara and Aditya placed their orders yet the silence took over again.

"She is looking much younger , like a kid."Aditya thought while his mind smacked him," who is telling that? A teenager whose moustache didn't even grow properly , is telling that. "

"Could you please tell your parents that you didn't like me?"Swara pleased.

"huh!"Aditya spilled some of coffee droplets on him yet he didn't recognize it as he was shocked with swara's request.

"One minute!"Aditya excused himself and cleaned himself with his handkerchief.

"What did you think? No one would reject you. Here, the girl is rejecting you upright."His mind taunted him.

"Could you please reject me? I am just 17 and I don't want to marry anyone now."Swara said , changing her words as she decoded aditya's expression.

"Are you seventeen? "Aditya stuttered in shock.

"But, Papa told me that she was eighteen."Aditya thought while Swara nodded her head in affirmation.

None of them were in correct age to speak about marriage. But their parents made them to go through this.

"You could have told your family."Aditya said.

"I wish I could. And, they won't do anything If I refuse. But, I am stuck up in a situation and I am afraid if they may misunderstand me."Swara said referring Rudra's statement on trust. She wasn't interested in any of this and that wasn't for her age also.

Aditya took a heavy breathe.

"Don't you like me or?"Aditya felt weird to ask this question and swara nodded negatively in a quick response.

"My father wanted to get me married in a year. And to be frank, I don't have luxury to say No. But, if I say yes to you, then the marriage would be postponed atleast for a year because of your age. We can buy time in this one year citing our studies and then we can say that we aren't compatible with each other. Are you ok with that?"Aditya asked. He wished she would say yes to his plan as it was only way to his escape with out hurting his father.

"But, giving hope to our parents and then breaking it, I don't feel good about it."Swara said in a low voice.

"Wish we have any other way, Swara."Aditya replied then took a sip of the cappucino.

Swara thought about it a lot. She couldn't trust a stranger and for some unknown reason, she didn't want to give a negative answer to Rudra. She took a sip of an empty glass being lost in her thoughts and aditya remained in silence.

Indeed, he pitied her in his mind.

"Who is getting their daughter married at the age of 17? Are they mad or what?"Aditya thought.

"I am ok with what you said. And, I have only one condition. Don't do anything for which my family have to keep their head down in future."Swara said in a pleasing tone.

"You can trust me on that, swara. Anyways, we would be meeting each other . Why can't we be friends?"Aditya said and offered his hands.

Swara gave him a hand shake then aditya handed her one of his card.

"It's my personal number. Message me your number. It will be weird if we say we didn't share our number. And whatever we spoke, please keep it as secret."Aditya said while standing up.

"I am sorry , I am getting late for my class."Aditya apologized.

"That's okay."Swara said. Both came out of the café after sharing their bill.

"Then, I am leaving. My house is nearby only."Swara said and aditya nodded his head and then both walked towards their destination.

"You should have offered her a ride to her house. Be a gentle man , aadi."Aditya scolded himself. As soon as he got into the car, his phone buzzed with his father's number. He touched the green call symbol on his phone.

"Does she like you?"Shekar asked this as a first question.

"Care to ask whether I like her or not. And for god's sake papa, she is just seventeen. She just looks like a kid."Aditya thought but didn't tell anything to his father.

"Seems like, she likes me, Papa. You speak with her family and let me know. I am on the way to my college."Aditya said in one go and then cut the call.

On other hand,

Swara was walking on her way to house. Her eyes stuck at the magazine which was kept in glass shelf of a shop. Her brother smiled in his tuxedo and was tagged as The Most Successful Newcomer in the front page of the magazine. She smiled and bought one copy of it.

"Today, We will tell about this to our papa, buddhu. He would be much more happy about this."Swara thought and then walked towards her house.

At Sengupta Industries,

Lakshya was waiting to meet Shekar regarding recent project .

"Mr.Sharma, Please follow me."Shekar's secretary guided him the way to shekar's room then left after getting a sign from shekar.

"I must say your presentation and ideas are very fresh and good,Mr.Sharma."Shekar complimented .

"I am thankful to you, Mr.Sengupta. From the first, you trusted on my talent and given me a chance." Lakshya expressed his gratitude as he was seeing shekar for the very first time as a business man.

"There is nothing to be thankful, Mr.Sharma. You have the potential. And, I always do the business if there is a win-win situation."Shekar said.

Lakshya just smiled politely and then they both about the new project and its work and profit sharing between both the companies. Then, Lakshya left the office of sengupta and drove towards his office. There was a question pestered him that Shekar's affectionate gaze on him. How much he tried to shrug it off, he couldn't and his mind wanted to decode the gaze.

If almost everyone was happy in Mumbai with their own world , things went upside down in swara's own village after her granny's demise. Her granny had divided the properties into four, leaving the house and some other properties on swayam's name and the remaining on lakshya's name keeping rudra as guardian. Rudra acquired all the properties without letting lakshya or swara know as soon as he heard the news.

Ramachandran was stunned when her will was revealed. He thought he won thought he wasn't in real. He stared the farm lands till yesterday which was in his possession.

"Ramu, Nithila is dead during her delivery. I already promised her that we would take care of her child."Granny said.

"It's you who promised her. I am not , maa. What would the villager say if they know about it. What would happen to my pride?"Ramachandran argued back.

"Pride? Here we are speaking about the life of your brother's child."Granny argued.

"If you want to keep her in my house, I will. I am not that much heartless. But, She will live as my daughter and you should give all the properties to my son."Ramachandran demanded and granny gave up as long as her elder son was ready to give the space for swara under his roof.

"What are you thinking uncle? How was everything suddenly went down?"A low voice ringed nearby him.

Ramachandran turned and saw a young man.

"Who are you?"Ramachandran asked though the face was similar to him.

"Don't you remember me, uncle? I am Arjun, your beloved younger brother's elder son." Arjun's voice drenched in sarcasm.

Ramachandran's eyes widened at the realization. His younger brother had two sons when he came to visit their village after his marriage.

"Are you really happy in all these years that you got everything? Everything is a delusion uncle. A Delusion which granny made you believe."Arjun continued.

"If only you didn't commit injustice against my sister, I would have given you everything you want. Yet, you chose to kill her. For that injustice, Shouldn't you be punished?"Arjun asked in a dangerous tone.

A fear was instilled in ramachandran's heart and arjun smiled while sensing that.

"I will come back to this village again, uncle. When I come back, you will be lost everything , your remaining wealth, your son, whatever you own, I will make you lose everything."Arjun murmured then walked away.

Ramachandran stepped forward and he tripped over a stone as his legs failed to stand. Seeing Arjun would be the greatest shock in his life after his mother's will and his mind couldn't process it. His legs and hand started to move uncontrollably while his mouth was getting twisted in opposite direction to his leg movement.

"Ramachandran is having stroke!" Someone yelled by seeing him on the ground. Soon, the villagers took him to the nearby hospital.

At College,

Kavya was walking on the corridors towards Library. And then, Swayam came and blocked her way.

"Kavya, we need to speak regarding yesterday's night."Swayam mumbled in a low voice while looking at the surroundings.

"It's not a correct place to speak about it, swayam. Anyone could hear us. Even, I want to know what you were doing there."Kavya replied.

"Lets go to nearby park."Swayam said and gestured the way. Kavya silently followed his lead and both reached the nearby park.

"What were you doing there? That place is dangerous ."Kavya asked crossing her hands.

"For both of us."Swayam finished the sentence while giving deep look to Kavya. Both stared at each other then Swayam decided to tell about his reason.

"Well! Do you remember Lakshya Kashyap who found organ trafficking gang?"Swayam asked.

"Yes, I remember! He was quite famous even he died in an accident."Kavya replied.

"It's a murder. And, I am trying to get a lead about it. I am blindly investigating all the hospitals and asylums which are in the news for medical malpractices or suspecting backgrounds. And, I got to know about the asylum in the same way. But, It's worst. They are treating humans as testing rats."Swayam said openly.

A Long tear strings left from kavya's eyes.

"Might be my maa faced the same destiny as them."Kavya mumbled as she wasn't able to keep her feelings herself.

"Your maa?"Swayam's voice held questioning tone. Kavya nodded her head positively.

"I thought I was an orphan. In the orphanage where I brought up, one caretaker always gave me special care. And, She told me that my birth mother was in that asylum when she was in death bed. She even gave mother younger age photo to identify her. I tried to connect with asylum people but they simply refused to give any details. Complaining to police wasn't fruitful. So, I tried to sneak in into that asylum myself. I wish I wouldn't have known about her. At least, I wouldn't have known what kind of injustice happened to her."Kavya said while believing that her mother wouldn't have survived in that scenario.

Swayam tried his best to control himself while seeing her tears. He reminded himself that he had a long road to go to find about his friend's murderer with his blind ways . His mind retorted to him that he was doing injustice to her.

"She is going through a lot. That's why she doesn't write letters to me nowadays."Swayam implied Anamika on kavya once again.

Not knowing how to console her, Swayam just sat beside her and then slowly held her hands. A lot of thoughts were running on her mind. How much she was happy when she got to know about her mother. A thought that she wasn't an orphan anymore; Another thought that she would meet her mother soon though the her mother's mental condition never bothered her at that time. She believed she could take care of her mother and all her wait to meet her mother and how it became mirage. She felt the waves of thoughts and her hopes was hitting her nerves more and then she wiped her tears.

"I am leaving , Swayam. And, be safe and careful."Kavya muttered and then walked fast. Swayam looked at the way in which she was leaving. He felt a lump on his throat and a weird , uneasy feelings arousing with in him. He walked behind her , not wishing to leave her alone though his mind told him that she needed her own space.

"Kavya!" Kavya turned back just by hearing swayam's loud yell then the next moment , she was pushed to the ground. Her eyes stuck at swayam who was flying in air after getting hit by high speed car inplace of her.

His body hit the ground hardly while Kavya was slipping from her conscious state after getting hit on her head and because of sudden shock. Her eyes stucked at swayam's eyes which just stared her. His eyes held a lot of things which she felt to decode at that time forgetting their surrounding space and time especially their state. Was it the warmth or satisfaction or longing or regret or love? Which kind of emotion his eyes held while looking at her? With the same question on her mind, she slipped into the darkness. And he, adding another regret to his regret list, he stared her while his own blood was trying to block his vision.

He didn't regret for risking his life to save her, he couldn't but he regretted one thing; for not confessing his love in his quest of justice for his friend's death.

"Swayam! Swayam!" Ragini, who yelled in between her tears after witnessing the tragedy, just came to the park with her friend sanskar at that time.

"I love you, Anamika!" Swayam murmured while his vision rooted at Kavya's face. Ragini was frozen hearing his confession for a moment. The confession wasn't for her, the love he held in his eyes wasn't for her. Yet at that moment, Everything he told was for her in Ragini's opinion. He loved anamika even at the brink of death, he thought about her , none other. And, she was broken with his confession. It wasn't the situation she expected to happen.

"Cutie! Be strong , nothing will happen to him."Sanskar tried to console her after calling an ambulance. The ambulance reached fastly as the hospital was nearby. After taking both of them in the ambulance, Sanskar informed aditya about the situation through a call and glanced at his friend's face.