*Krithika Pov*

"Di! How is Khushal?" I asked entering his room and found him already awake.

"UK!" I called him and rushed towards him before holding his hand.

"How are you? Is it hurting? What did the doctor say?" I asked looking at him and he smiled before letting go of my hand and patted my head.

"I am fine! I even want to get discharged but the doctor said I need to get monitored for 48 hrs and so I am still here." He assured me while Sanjay cleared his throat.

"Then it's good, Bhai! Mom is really worried about you and I promised her that I will brief her about you." He mumbled standing beside me.

"No need for that! Dad just left for home and he will do it." Uk said shaking his head.

"How are the kids?" he added and I told him that we didn't meet them as we just went home after landing and then came here with breakfast.

I passed the breakfast bag to Di and they both started having breakfast while we both sat down on the chairs talking about the incident that happened.

"I hope he is taught a lesson for harming you like this. You are not letting go of this incident, right?" Sanjay asked looking at UK.

"After making my wife cry in worry? And also increasing the problems which we already have? No way!" UK commented while Di rolled her eyes.

"How is Rithika doing?" UK asked looking at us.

"Priya Di said she is fine and Kalyan would reach by evening." I replied and he nodded before they finished eating breakfast.

We walked out of the room to let him rest and passed the clothes I got for both of them. When I stepped out of the room, I found Priya Di on phone while hesitatingly talking about Ri's situation.

"We didn't want to stress you, Dad. Am I am not informing you both before she gave birth?" She asked back making me laugh.

Sanjay talked to Bharghav Jeeju and then walked back towards me before whispering in my ear. I nodded at him but didn't forget to pass Jeeju's clothes to him as he can change at Principal's house.

She needed nearly half an hour to calm them down and then cut the call in relief. She shook her head before glancing at me and looked around.

"Bharghav Jeeju and Sanjay went to Khushal's house to check on the kids as they must be worried." I explained and she nodded before leaning back.

"Why don't you go and freshen up, Di? I will stay with Ri." She nodded taking up the offer and we both walked into Ri's room.

"Even you are here? Where is my husband?" Ri asked and fisted her hands in pain.

"I can call him right now so that he can be here soon." Priya Di offered and she immediately shook her head.

I froze at the entrance seeing Ri like this and took a long gulp before walking towards her.

"What are you looking at? Next time it will be your turn." She mumbled closing her eyes in pain.

"Why... why is it taking this long?" I asked her and she sighed looking at me.

"Even I want to ask why is it taking this long. I am even ready for the operation in the evening and this baby better takes me as its favorite parent unlike Khushi as I am putting this much effort." She continued to ramble and I sighed before supporting her.

However, I couldn't help but think maybe I should wait longer to have a baby. I will talk to Sanjay soon about this and with that decision, I completely took care of her ignoring my own future.

*****

"Dad! Please stop scolding us as it's already been fifteen minutes." Priya Di said frowning at him and then glanced at Akhila who is standing with Mom.

"You can see how tired we all are and so spare us for now." She added and he sighed hearing those words.

"If you had contacted us ahead then you wouldn't be this tired, right?" he started again and Akhila walked towards him which immediately stopped his next sentence.

"We did it for you both and so stop saying these things." He immediately nodded while I turned my head away to not let them see my smile.

After they settled, we all stayed outside as not more than two people should be in Ri's room right now.

"He must have reached by now as it's been two hours since I had a talk with Kalyan." Priya Di commented and I nodded checking the time.

"Di!" we heard a voice and found him running towards us which caused a huge commotion.

"Wait! Don't go inside!" we stopped him before he can enter the room and he frowned at us.

"You don't seem like you freshened up after the match. Go and take a bath before meeting her." Akhila Di stated and took his hand.

"You can freshen up in Khushal's room." Adding that she dragged him towards UK's room while ignoring his objections.

"He looks so panicked." I whispered to Priya Di and she nodded sitting down.

"That's why Akhila made him freshen up in Khushal's room. If Ri seems that expression then even she will start panicking. We were not worried because Ri is generally strong but if she panics then it may affect her." Di explained.

"I will definitely panic." I mumbled making her chuckle.

"Don't worry! We three will train you and make sure to help you come over this situation." She assured patting my head and I sighed.

I will first talk to Sanjay about waiting and then will talk to my sisters. Also, this is not the right now to talk about my decisions anyway.

Within ten minutes, Kalyan stepped out of the room, and this time with a calm look on his face. Akhila Di walked out while giving us a nod and then walked back into UK's room.

"She must have given him a small talk." Di whispered beside me and I nodded thinking the same.

He took a deep breath and entered the room but we stayed back. After a few seconds, Mom and Dad stepped out of the room with surprised expressions.

"What happened, Dad?" I asked looking at him and Di asked Mom but Mom suddenly started chuckling and we both gave them confused expressions.

"He completely ignored our presence and rushed to hug her. Even Rithika forgot about us and so we calmly walked out of the room without making a sound." Mom explained and I chuckled hearing those words.

We were about to sit down but the door is suddenly opened and Kalyan glanced at us saying, "We need to call the doctor."

Sanjay immediately left to call the doctor while I glanced at Priya Di saying, "The baby must be really waiting for its Dad."

"You are right!" she whispered and held my hand as now we are excited to welcome the baby into our family.

*Rithika Pov*

"She is beautiful!" I whispered holding her and even though because of this long labor I felt tired, at this moment everything feels good.

"You got your wish." Kalyan whispered to not disturb her.

"Of course!" I mumbled holding her hand before passing her into his arms and he carefully held her with a smile on his face.

"My Ram will be really busy taking care of his two sisters now. My poor Son! Kri should make sure to give birth to a son to reduce his work a bit." Priya Di joked and everyone laughed at them.

I glanced up to stare at the people who were taking care of me for all these months and I am blessed to be their family.

If not for them then nothing would have been possible and no matter how tired they felt, they never let me realize it and took care of me for every second.

"Kayra!" I whispered glancing at my daughter.

Everyone liked it but slowly stepped out of the room as it is not allowed for so many people to stay in the room.

"Did your team win the match?" I asked and had to repeat second time as he was lost in smiling at our daughter.

"Match? I need to scold you for not calling me because of that match." He suddenly commented.

"You want to scold me for staying in labor for more than 24 hrs?" I asked and he immediately shook his head.

"I don't know whether we won or not as I didn't check my phone." He replied and I moved to take my phone from the table before checking his coach's message.

"You guys won!" I whispered and he just nodded without any reaction.

It seems like he went to play the match instead of me and I am the one who actually won the match and not him.

I shook my head but couldn't get irritated at all as who would when we can see how much your husband dotes on his daughter.

"Oh no! I can't tease Khushal anymore about the way he pampers Khushi as I think my dear husband will cross over him for sure." I commented making him chuckle.

"I want her to love me like Khushi loves Khushal Bhai but also make a mess like Ram. No matter what she does, I am her fan from now on." He whispered and I smiled shifting my hand to place it on her head but she shifted away to be closer to Kalyan.

Well, there goes my wish of her thinking me as her favorite as it seems she already choose him as her favorite. However, I didn't get mad and my love for both of them just increased to another level.