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The nurse comes out of the labor room, announces looking at Prithviraj Oberoi, "It's a girl!"

Prithviraj smiles and turns to his three-year-old grandson sitting next to him, "Mubarak Ho, Om. Your wife is here."

Omkara looks at his grandfather and smiles happily.

A while later, Shakti brings his new born daughter to Prithviraj. "Baoji, your granddaughter." Shakti tells him smiling proudly.

Prithviraj quickly takes her in his arms and smiles happily. He had wanted a granddaughter, so that Om could marry her and all the wealth would stay within the family and not go outside. They were the richest family in the village. He had two sons, albeit adopted. Elder one being Tej Oberoi, who was Prithviraj's brother's son. He had claimed him as his own when his brother and his wife died. Then two years later, he had adopted Shakti Sharma who was his friend's son. He took him in when his parents had died. Now their children were going to marry. Prithviraj thought happily.

"What do you want to name her?" Shakti asks Prithviraj.

"Gauri... what do you think Om?" Prithviraj asks Omkara.

"Gaauureee." Om says excitedly.

Everyone starts laughing seeing his excitement.

"Om has approved his wife's name." Tej chuckles.

"Gauri." Prithviraj calls her lovingly. As he lovingly looked at Gauri, he sees a tiny finger touching Gauri's cheek. Prithviraj looks at Om and sees him watching Gauri in fascination.

"Looks like Om is in love." Jhanvi jokes seeing her son's fascination.

They grew up together, he was 7 and she was 4, and they were best friends, always together.

"Gauri, enough of playing. Come and sleep." Pinky tells her as she watched Omkara and Gauri playing.

"Later, Ma." Gauri replies as she continued to play.

"Don't make me angry, Gauri. Come."

"You sleep. I'll sleep later."

"I have been calling you for over an hour." Pinky reminds her.

"Om is not going to sleep now." Gauri says pointing at Omkara.

"That is because he is bigger than you, and he needs to sleep only at 9. It's way past your bed time, Gauri."

"I'll sleep when Om sleeps."

"Gauri, I am getting angry. If your baba comes home and finds you awake he will scold me."

"I don't want to sleep now." Gauri sadly pouts.

"GAURI!" Pinky starts to shout at her when Omkara jumps in between them and hands on hips he angrily says "You can't shout at her, Chachi!"

Pinky was a little taken back seeing his angry pose. She shouldn't be shocked; they were always standing up for each other.

Seeing him glaring at her like an avenging angel she couldn't hold her smile in, "And why can't I shout at my daughter?"

"Because she is my wife!"

"Your wife?" Pinky asks shocked, "How did she become your wife?"

Omkara frowns for a while and says, "Dadaji told me."

"I am Om's wife." Gauri says frowning from behind him.

Pinky sighs, she should tell her father-in-law to watch what he was saying to the kids. "Gauri, is your fiance Om, not wife!" Pinky gently corrects him.

"No, my wife!" Omkara tells her stubbornly.

"I want to be only Om's wife, not fee... fee... Fee... I WANT TO BE WIFE!" Gauri says angrily.

"Okay baba... fine." Pinky says giving up. "Now Gauri go to bed." When Gauri was about to object, Pinky turns to Omkara and tells him, "Om, ask her to go and sleep."

"Go and sleep, Gauri." Omkara tells her.

"I want to play with you." Gauri says pouting.

"We'll play in the morning." Omkara promises her.

"Okay." Gauri says sadly and walks to her bedroom.

After Pinky goes to the kitchen, Gauri closes her eyes to sleep. She feels her blanket being lifted and someone getting into the bed. "Ma?" Gauri asks scared, not opening her eyes.

Omkara starts tickling her stomach and Gauri starts laughing happily realizing who it was. "Om... stop."

"Don't shout. Chachi will hear." Omkara tells her giggling.

"What are you doing here?" Gauri whispers as she pulled the blanket over both of them completely.

"I came to play with you. You wanted to play, right?" Omkara tells her turning to face her and Gauri happily smiles at him as she turned to watch him.

Jhanvi comes knocking on Pinky's bedroom. Shakti opens the door for her smiling.

"Is he here?" Jhanvi asks.

"He slept." Pinky tells her as she lovingly caressed Om's hair.

"I'll take him to my room." Jhanvi tells them and was about to take Omkara when Gauri in her sleep throws her arms over him.

Pinky laughs softly, "Even in sleep she won't leave him. Let him sleep here, bhabhi."

"Okay." Jhanvi smiles watching their kids sleep hugging each other, and then she quietly leaves.

After 6 years, Gauri walks back into her family home happily. She was 14 years old now. When she was 8, her family had gone to US to look after the business there. After she had left she had never come here as every time they plan a trip to India something else would come up postponing their trip to the next year but this time, she had come back to India permanently. She had told her parents she wanted to study Classical Music and for that she wanted to move back to India and finally they had agreed. Gauri would stay back in their village while her parents went back to the US.

After talking to her Dadaji and chacha-chachi, Gauri finally goes to her room to rest. She was standing at the table when she hears her window open loudly. She turns back in shock and sees a man swinging inside effortlessly. He smoothly lands on his feet and looks at her smiling. Gauri's heart skips a beat when she sees his face. Om. After she had left, they had kept in touch occasionally through mails and phones.

"I thought you were coming in the evening." Omkara tells her as he accessed her top to bottom while he walked towards her.

She felt as if she was naked the way he was checking her out, not in a sick way but a naughty way. "Baba was planning to meet someone on the way but then he was away, so we reached early." Gauri finishes breathlessly as he was standing so close to her now.

Gauri nervously moves back and seeing that he starts grinning like a predator and takes a step towards her. Gauri nervously starts walking back and he keeps covering the distance.

"So what did you get for me from Amerika?"

"A sunglass." Gauri says gulping.

"Where is it?"

"In my bag. I'll get it."

"Later. Here this is for you." Omkara tells her as he took a pink diary which he had tucked into his jeans.

"Diary?" Gauri says frowning.

Omkara laughs. "I was looking for something for you, that is when I saw this. I thought you could write your poetry in this."

"Thank you."

"You are welcome." Omkara tells her as he continued to stalk her. "Why are you walking away from me?" Omkara asks her.

"Why are you coming close to me?" Gauri asks back nervously.

"Because I want to." Omkara replies and starts grinning victoriously.

Gauri hits the wall and realizes why he was grinning so happily. Before she could escape he traps her with both his hands on her side.

"What are you going to do?" Gauri asks worried.

"A lot many things." Omkara tells her as he leaned down so close to her that he was a breath away from touching her.

Gauri nervously holds her breath as she tried to push herself into the wall.

"Is this how one greets their husband in your Amrika?" Omkara asks her.

"Fiance." Gauri says frowning.

"Husband."

"I am just 14. I can't be wife." Gauri says frowning.

"I am just 17 and I am your husband."

"To be husband." Gauri corrects him.

"You were born my wife, Gauri. You belong to me." Omkara tells her.

Gauri sucks in her breath hearing his conviction. Omkara leans down to kiss her and before he could, she pushes him off and runs away scared.

Gauri used to get scared every time Om came close to her and she used to run away from him as he always tried to kiss her. Gauri used to literally hide from Om.

A week later, Gauri was walking to her room when Omkara pounces on her from out of nowhere. Gauri panics as he pushes her towards the wall, trapping her with his body pressed against hers.

"Leave me."

"Why do you keep running away from me?"

"Because you are always trying to kiss me." Gauri tells him as she looked down.

"And you don't want to kiss me?" Omkara asks a little hurt.

"I am scared." Gauri whispers.

"Why?"

"I don't know. I am scared." Gauri replies.

Omkara watches her for a while and asks, "Do you want me to kiss you?"

"I am scared." Gauri replies.

"You are scared because you want me to kiss you or you are scared because you don't want me to kiss you?"

"I don't know." Gauri replies confused.

"Then let's find out, shall we?" Omkara asks grinning.

He leans down to kiss her and Gauri starts pushing him. "No Om. Someone will see. I am scared. Om don't.."

"OMKARA!" Tej shouts his name angrily.

Omkara and Gauri quickly parts and looks at the sound.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Shakti furiously asks.

Both of them look at their parents and Dadaji like a deer caught in the headlights.
"Is this how we raised you?" Tej angrily asks him as he slapped Omkara.

"No chachu!" Gauri begs as she tried to stop him.

"How dare you misbehave with her?" Tej angrily asks him as he slapped him again.

"She is my WIFE!"

"WIFE?" Shakti asks shocked then turning to Prithviraj he says in anger, "it's your fault! Ever since they were infants you kept saying husband and wife! Now see what he thinks and he is doing!!"

Prithviraj sits down shocked and defeated.

"Gauri, go to your room." Tej tells her.

Gauri keeps looking at Omkara as she cried.

"Go inside, Gauri!" Shakti orders her.

Omkara turns to look at her and sees her crying. "Stop crying and go to your room." Omkara tells her in a calm tone.

Gauri silently leaves.

A while later, both the parents and Prithviraj talked about the situation. Pinky and Shakti who were worried about their daughter's virtue had told them that they didn't want Gauri and Omkara to stay together in the same the house before their wedding anymore. Finally, it was decided that Omkara would go to US with Shakti and Pinky to finish his studies while Gauri continued her studies and her music classes in the village. Omkara would leave the next day itself to Mumbai to take care of his visa formalities.

Omkara was sleeping when he felt water droplets fall on his cheeks. He opens his eyes to find Gauri sitting on his bed crying as she looked at him.

"Gauri, what are you doing here?" Omkara asks sitting up.

"I am sorry, Om." Gauri cries, "because of me Chachu slapped you."

"No, Gauri. It was not your fault. Pinky chachi told me that without reciting the mantras, taking saath phere and tying mangalsutr you won't be my wife. I grew up considering you my wife and these things didn't matter to me. But now I realize."

Gauri didn't like hearing that and she says stubbornly, "No, they are wrong. I am your wife!"

Omkara smiles at her lovingly "When I say yes, you say no and when I say no, you say yes."

"I don't want you to go away. I came here so I could be with you." Gauri tells him as she took his hand in hers.

"Be with me?" Omkara asks confused.

"I lied to Baba that I want to learn music so I could come here and stay with you. I was missing you."

"Then why did you keep running away from me?"

"I get nervous when you come near me." Gauri tells him. "Don't go Om."

"They won't let me stay here, Gauri. Now only at the time of our marriage will I be able to come home."

Gauri starts crying and she hugs him. "I don't like it when you are not with me." Gauri tells him.

"Even I don't like it, Gauri. But time will fly quickly." Omkara promises her.

Suddenly they here someone outside and Gauri quickly starts to leave, "Someone is coming. Om, will you come to the barn in the morning at 5 before everyone wakes up?" Gauri asks as she hurried to the door.

"Okay." Omkara replies smiling.

"I'll wait for you there." Gauri tells him and hurries out.

Omkara sneakily gets inside the barn and closes the door promptly at 5 and finds Gauri waiting for him. He walks towards her and sees her clutching the diary he had gifted her. "You wrote a peom?" Omkara asks smiling.

"It's about you."

"Can I see?" Omkara asks excitedly.

"I just started it. It's not finished yet." Gauri tells him.

"That's okay. Do you want to sing it to me?"

"Once I complete it, I'll sing it to you. Now you read it. Here." Gauri says as she passed the diary with a page open.

Thode Badmash Ho Tum

Thode Nadan Ho Tum

Haan Magar Yeh Sach Hai

Hamari Jaan Ho Tum

Omkara looks at her in shock and then smiling happily he opens his arms for her. Gauri runs to him and hugs him.

"Don't go, Om." Gauri begs him.

"I have to go, Gauri." he tells her sadly.

"Then promise me that you will call me every day unlike last time when I was in US."

Omkara looks at her sadly and says "I promised Dadaji that I will not contact you from there. He feels that whatever happened it was because of him and told me that till we are not married I should not talk to you."

Gauri's lips start trembling as she started to cry again.

"Don't cry, Gauri."

"You will forget me."

"I won't, Gauri. I'll never forget you. I don't care what everyone says, you are my wife."

"And you are my husband."

Omkara pulls her back and smiles "Then stop crying, biwi."

Gauri chuckles hearing that and wipes her tears. Gauri hugs him. "Om..."

"Hmmm"

"I want you to kiss me." Gauri shyly whispers.

Omkara cups her face smiling happily at her. "You sure?"

"Yes." Omkara leans down and takes her lips in his. They slowly start kissing. As they kissed passionately, Omkara without breaking off the kiss carries her to hay stack and lays her down and gets on top of her without breaking the kiss. Omkara kisses her as his hand felt her bossom and Gauri moans in pleasure.

They were lying next to each happily after their intense make out section.

"When will I see you again?" Gauri asks him as she held his hand.

"I don't know."

"I'll wait for you here." Gauri promises him.

"I'll come back for you, biwi." Omkara promises her.

That day evening he left to Mumbai and from there to USA.

Gauri happily runs around as she decorated the house beautifully. After nine years Om was coming back home. Their parents had decided to get them married as she was done with her studies and Omkara was winding up the business in US. She still couldn't believe that she hadn't heard his voice for the last nine years.

"Slow down... slow down!" Pinky says happily holding her.

Pinky and Shakti had come back to India 5 years ago as they couldn't stay away from Gauri any longer. So handing over the business to Omkara they had come back. Gauri happily smiles at her mother.

"Careful, stop running around." Pinky tells her smiling happily seeing Gauri's joy.

"You can't stop my bahu now, Pinky. My son is coming for her." Jhanvi tells her smiling as she hugged Gauri happily.

They hear the sound of the car and Gauri excitedly looks out. "He is here!" Gauri says breathlessly and starts running towards the entrance.

Gauri joins Tej, Shakti and Prithviraj at the entrance, and a few seconds later Pinky and Jhanvi joins her. The car stops and Omkara steps out. He smiles at everyone and then turns to the car looking inside he says "Come out!" a girl comes out from the car. He walks towards everyone with the girl in tow.

"Who is this?" Shakti asks frowning.

"This is Ridhima, my friend. Ridhima this is Shakti chachu, that's baba, dadaji, Ma, Pinky chachi and Gauri!" Omkara happily introduces her to everyone.

Then turning to his father he says, "Ridhima wanted to meet all of you. So she will be staying with us for a few days."

"You should have informed us about her. We didn't make arrangements for her stay." Jhanvi says in a disapproving way.

"It's okay chachi. She can stay in my room with me." Gauri says smiling; Om's friend was her friend too.

Omkara and Ridhima smiles at her happily.

By evening Gauri was getting depressed, Omkara hadn't said a word to her. He was busy talking to everyone except her. She had tried to get him alone to talk to him but he always seemed busy. Finally, it was time for bed and with a heavy heart she went to her room. As she got ready for bed, Ridhima also comes to sleep.

"Tiring day." Ridhima says drained.

"I can imagine after all the travel." Gauri says smiling.

"Good night." Ridhima tells her.

"Good night." Gauri replies and gets into bed next to Ridhima.

As they lay next to each other Ridhima says, "It's feel strange."

"What?" Gauri asks confused.

"Sleeping next to you instead of OSO." Ridhima tells her.

"OSO?" Gauri asks confused.

"Omkara only. I call him OSO."

"Oh! But why would you be sleeping next to him?" Gauri asks worried.

"Oh Shit! He had told me not to tell anyone at home!" Ridhima says biting her tongue.

"Tell what?" Gauri asks scared as she knew whatever she was going to hear, she was not going to like it.

"Promise me you won't tell anyone at home. Promise me you won't tell OSO I told you this." Ridhima says sitting up excitedly, happy to share her news.

"I promise." Gauri says worried as she sat up.

"We were living together in the US." Ridhima tells her.

"Why were you living together?" Gauri asks as she felt faint.

"We are in love. That is why I am here. He wanted me to meet all of you and get your approval for our wedding." Ridhima tells her.

"Wedding?" Gauri asks sagging in shock. What about Om's and her wedding? How can Om be in love with someone else? How could he forget her? she was his wife! No, she was not going to believe whatever Ridhima told her, she will talk with Om tomorrow and clear it up.

With that resolve she goes to sleep.

Gauri wakes up hearing whispers and sits up. She sees Ridhima at the door asking Om to leave. She couldn't make out what they were saying it seems like he wanted something and Ridhima was asking him to go away. Finally, she pushes him away and closes the door. Turning back Ridhima sees Gauri sitting up.

Shaking her head she walks towards bed blushing. "He is so crazy!" Ridhima tells her.

"What did he want?"

"He wanted me to go to his room. He is saying he can't sleep without me. He is just too much." Ridhima says blushing as she got into bed.

Gauri felt bile rising up her throat and few minutes later she was in the bathroom throwing up as she thought of her Om with Ridhima.

Gauri hears Om laughing and looks at his direction to find him and Ridhima in an animated conversation as they laughed happily. She was determined to talk to him but never could find him alone. Ridhima was always with him.

Jhanvi watches Ridhima with Om and starts frowning. She didn't like Ridhima. She sees Gauri going to her room and hurries after her.

"Gauri... Why is this Ridhima here?" Jhanvi asks her.

"I don't know, chachi." Gauri replies.

"I don't like her. She is not good news. Will you tell Om to send her away? If I tell him he might get angry." Jhanvi tells her.

Gauri didn't know how to reply to that. If what Ridhima had told her was true then she had no rights making demands to Om, her eyes welled up thinking of that.

"If you want to tell me something, then tell me. Don't drag Gauri into it." Omkara furiously tells his mother.

They turn back to find Omkara standing behind them.

"Om..." Jhanvi starts and he cuts her off. "What is wrong if my friend stays in this house? Is it that just because I was away from the house for so long that I have no more rights here?"

"You know it is not that." Jhanvi starts to explain and he cuts her off, "Ridhima is not going anywhere. She will stay here as long as she wants. You are insulting me when you say that my friend can't stay in my house!"

"Is there a problem?" Ridhima asks walking towards them.

"No." Omkara says as he angrily looked at his mother and without a glance to Gauri he walks away.

Gauri hurried to her room crying, everything was crystal clear.

For the next couple of days Gauri avoided everyone as she nursed her broken heart. She no longer tried to talk to Om as he was always busy with Ridhima.

"Gauri, tomorrow Pundit will be coming to fix your wedding date. Don't tell Om, it is a surprise for him." Pinky informs her.

Gauri nods and walks off as she wondered what will happen the next day. Will Om tell everyone about Ridhima when he finds out that the reason Dadaji had called him back was to fix their wedding?

Gauri silently walks out of the house as she thought about Om. Omkara sees Gauri leaving the house, he turns to Ridhima and tells her "I am going to sleep." And without anyone noticing he quietly follows Gauri.

Gauri opens the barn door and steps inside. Whenever she used to miss him, she used to come here and remember their time together in this very place. She closes her eyes in pain when she feels him hugging her from behind.

"I was starting to think you forgot about this place." Omkara says as he snuggled her.

"Om, what are you doing here?" Gauri asks freeing herself from him.

"What do you think?" he asks grinning.

"Very disappointed in you biwi, every day I wake early in the morning and come here to meet you and you never turn up." Omkara says sighing.

"You come here to meet me?" Gauri asks shocked as she took a step back.

"Why are you going back?" Omkara asks smiling "Are you scared again? Come here!" he holds her hand and pulls her towards him.

She comes slamming onto his chest. He caresses her cheeks lovingly and says "If I go any longer without kissing you I'll go crazy." Then he takes her lips in his and kisses her hungrily. "Oh God! I missed you so much, Gauri!" he says in between his kisses. "You still taste the same just the way I remember. But I see some things have changed, I like that." He says hotly and a moment later she feels his hand on her bossom.

Gauri quickly recovering from her trance she pushes him away. "How dare you touch me?"

"What happened, Gauri?" he asks confused.

"How could you touch me? You have no right to touch me now!" Gauri says crying.

"Hell I don't have the right! You are mine! Did you forget that?"

"You are the one who forgot me, not me!"

"What do you mean by that?" he asks angrily.

"There wasn't a day, a second that I didn't think about you. I was waiting for you here while you were sleeping with Ridhima!" Gauri says angrily.

"Have you gone crazy? How could you think something so disgusting about me?" he asks shocked and furious.

"Don't act innocent. I know everything!"

"What do you know?"

"That you love Ridhima and you were living with her in US."

"What the f**k?"

Seeing him so shocked Gauri suddenly starts wondering whether what Ridhima had told her was a lie. "Who is Ridhima to you?"

"She is a friend. But how can you think..."

"Why did you come to my room that night?"

"Why would I come other than to see you?"

"You came to see me?" Gauri asks shocked.

"Of course! But Ridhima didn't let me see you. She and her stupid bet!" he says irritated.

"What bet?"

"She thinks that you are marrying me because our parents had decided and not because you love me. But I know you love me and that is why you want to marry me. So she made a bet with me that she will prove me wrong. Till one of us proves the other wrong I was not allowed talk to you."

"Is that why you avoided me?"

"I avoided you in front of Ridhima. Without her finding out I used to come here hoping to catch you here!" Omkara tells her.

"Oh God!" What a fool she had been. How could she doubt Om? "I am sorry, Om." Gauri says as she walked towards him.

He takes a step back. "I answered all your questions now answer mine. How could you doubt me?" he asks in a heart breaking voice.

Ridhima was sitting happily with everyone when Omkara marches in dragging Gauri with him.

"RIDHIMA! Did you tell Gauri that you are my lover?" he asks her furiously.

Ridhima looks at him in panic and then at Gauri who was looking at her equally furiously. "No, OSO. Why would I say something like that?" Ridhima says acting shocked.

"She is lying!" Gauri says as she took a step forward.

"Not a word from you!" Omkara orders her angrily. "You did your talking now shut up and stand here!"

Gauri closes her mouth and steps back as she tried to control her tears, she deserved his anger.

Omkara turns to Ridhima and asks, "Why did you lie to her?"

"I didn't, OSO. Why would I say something like that? Why are you making up stories, Gauri?" Ridhima asks crying.

Gauri was about to defend herself when Omkara says without even looking at her "I told you to keep quiet, GAURI!"

"I didn't say anything." Gauri says offended.

Omkara turns to her wearily, "You were about to."

"Okay." Gauri says sheepishly and keeps quiet.

"I want to know why, Ridhima." Omkara tells her.

"She is lying." Ridhima says as she pointed her finger at Gauri.

Gauri gasps in outrage.

"I am so close to strangling you, Gauri! KEEP.QUIET!" turning to Ridhima he says, "Gauri will never lie to me!"

"You believe her over me?" Ridhima asks shocked.

"I believe her over myself."

"Really?" Gauri asks sighing happily.

Omkara furiously turns to her and says, "I still haven't forgiven you for doubting me!"

Gauri looks down embarrassed.

"Why don't you tell me why you tried to create problems between Gauri and me, Ridhima?" Omkara asks her calmly.

"Because she is in love with you." Jhanvi says losing patience.

"WHAT?" Omkara asks shocked, he hadn't expected that.

"Yes. That is why I said I didn't want her in my house. I could see it in the way she was looking at you." Jhanvi explains to him.

Omkara turns to Ridhima hopefully "That is not the reason, right?"

Ridhima's turns furious and says "YES! I LOVE YOU! And I am not ready to give you up!"

"He is mine! He was never yours to give him up!" Gauri says furiously.

"You should have told her that when she was making up stories about me!!" Omkara tells her angrily.

Gauri looks at him hurt.

"You haven't seen each other for 9 years! What do you know about him? I have been with him all these 9 years! I know him! I love him!"

"You don't know me, Ridhima. If you did then you would have known that Gauri is my life."

"I love you, OSO. You are my life!"

"That is not my problem, Ridhima. From the moment we met, you have known about my relation with Gauri. You had no right falling in love with me."

"What is so great about her? What does she have that I don't have?" Ridhima asks.

"His love." Gauri replies proudly.

Omkara turns to her and says with a hint of a smile "You have some nerve saying that after doubting me."

"I am sorry, Om. I was confused. I wanted to trust you but then she told me all these things, then you were ignoring me and was always with her. I just didn't know what I was supposed to do or think other than cry."

"You cried?" Omkara asks in a chilling tone.

Gauri nods.

Then turning to Ridhima he says furiously, "You made her cry!"

"She is just a mouse! All she did was cry all day long. She didn't even fight for you. I fought for you. Don't you realize I deserve you more?"

"I've never raised my hand on women, Ridhima. And that is why I am going to let Gauri do it." Omkara tells her and turning to Gauri he asks, "Do you want me to forgive you for doubting me?"

Gauri nods her head quickly.

"Slap her."

Gauri was only too happy to oblige.

After that Omkara had send Ridhima packing breaking off all his ties with her.

"You told me you'll forgive me if I slapped her." Gauri reminds him as she walked behind him.

"I forgave you but I haven't forgotten it." Omkara says in attitude as he walked faster.

"I am sorry, Om." Gauri says cutely as she ran behind him.

He ignores her and continues to walk out of the house.

"What can I do to make it up to you?"

Omkara stops and turns to look at her. "What could I have done for you to doubt me? After 23 years, this is what you were expecting from me?" Omkara asks her sadly.

Gauri's lips pull down and tears start pouring out.

"Don't cry." Omkara warns her unable to bear her tears.

"AAAHHH" and she wails.

"Stop it, Gauri! I can't see you cry." Omkara says as he hugged her.

"I am sorry." Gauri says as she hugged him.

"It's okay. We have been more apart than together. And it is my fault too for trusting that Ridhima and letting my ego about our relation come in the way and make that bet with her." Omkara tells her as he hugged her. "Now, no more tears. We'll just forget all this happened. Let's talk about something else." Omkara tells her as he kissed her on top of her head.

"Did you get anything for me from US?" Gauri asks as she wiped her tears on his shirt.

Omkara chuckles, "I got you an iTouch but never got you alone to give it to you."

"Give it then."

"It is in the barn." Omkara tells her.

"Why is it in the barn?" Gauri asks frowning.

"I thought you would meet me there and I kept it there." Omkara explains.

"Oh! Come let's go get it." Gauri says happily and starts walking towards the barn with him following her behind.

Gauri walks into the barn and excitedly turns to look at him. "Where is it?"

In reply he locks the barn door.

"It is not here." Gauri says nervously as she blushed realizing what he had in mind. He slowly walks towards her giving her a sexy smile all the while.

Seeing him walk to her she moves back as excitement ran through her body.

"Ma will be looking for me." Gauri nervously says.

"She won't come here." he replies to her.

"Baba might come."

"He is not at home."

"Chachu.."

"Went with him. Along with dadaji." Om tells her.

Gauri feels her leg touch the hay stack.

Omkara gives her a predatory smile and before she could run to another direction he grabs her. "I missed you, Gauri." he tells her as he looked into her eyes.

"I missed you too, Om. Don't ever go away from me."

"I won't ." he promises her as he started kissing her.

Gauri hugs him and starts kissing him back. He gently pushes her on to the hay stack and falls on top of her. Gauri was going crazy with the way he was kissing her, her pleasures intensified when she felt his hand on her bossom. She moans disappointedly when he breaks the kiss & moves down kissing her. Gauri felt as if she had died and gone to heaven when his mouth replaced his hand on her bossom.

Gauri looks at Omkara happily shyly smiling.

"You should go in before I start tearing your clothes off." Omkara warns her.

Gauri purrs as she snuggles him making him groan.

"I am serious, Gauri. A man has so little control." Omkara tells her.

Gauri didn't want to stop now, she wanted to be his wife with body too but she was too shy to tell him that.

"Go in before someone finds you missing."

Gauri sighs and gets up. She starts righting her appearance while he stretched on the hay with his hands under his head as he happily watched her.

"You are not coming?"

"I'll come after a while. If they find out we were alone, they might throw a pitch. I don't want to go away from you again."

"Maybe you won't have to." Gauri tells him smiling remembering that tomorrow the pandit would come to fix the wedding date.

Omkara gives her a confused look then shrugs it off asking, "Did you finish your poem?"

"You remember that?"

"Of course. So did you?"

"I did."

"When are you going to sing for me?"

Gauri smiles at him happily and says, "When I feel like it."

"6 months?" Gauri asks shocked.

"It's my grandchildren's wedding. I want it to be grander than the grandest." Prithviraj tells her.

"But I don't want Om going away from home again." Gauri tells him.

"He won't." Prithviraj tells her.

"You are sending away Gauri?" Omkara asks shocked. "I won't have it!"

"Nobody is going away. We have been away from you for so long we don't want you going away." Prithviraj says waving his hand in a dismissing gesture.

"We are going to trust you to maintain a decent distance from each other before wedding." Shakti tells them.

"Can you promise us that?" Tej asks them.

"That is insulting! I can't believe you would insult us by asking something like that." Gauri says offended and she walks off.

"That is so disgusting! Can't believe you asked us something like that!" Omkara says outraged and walks off.

Everyone feels ashamed for insulting their children like that not even realizing that both of them have managed to escape without making any promise.

Gauri shyly wears her kurta as Omkara watched grinning. They have been making out topless for weeks now and she still felt shy when she wore her dress after, only when she wore, it not when he removed it, she was strange.

"So you won't tell me why you are going to Mumbai."

Gauri shakes her head in no grinning.

"Does it have anything to do with my birthday next week?" Omkara asks her.

"I'll be back by tomorrow evening."

"So it has something to do with my birthday." Omkara says when she avoided answering his question. "What could it be?" he wonders out loud.

"Don't start guessing. You will spoil your surprise otherwise."

"Okay, baba. I won't." Omkara promises her.

Gauri falls on him and nuzzles him.

Omkara was sleeping when Gauri starts knocking on his door panicked. "Om, open the door fast! OM! Open!"

Omkara quickly jumps out of the bed and hurries to the door. He opens the door and "HAPPY BIRTHDAY OM!!!" everyone shouts at him.

"You scared me." he tells Gauri as she stood in front of him with a cake. He starts smiling happily, for 9 years he had missed all this, his family.

Everyone barges in as they laughed happily.

"Make a wish!" Gauri tells him excitedly as he started to blow out the candle. He looks at Gauri smiling at him and closing his eyes he wishes for her happiness. He blows the candle and cuts the cake. He takes a piece and offers to Gauri.

"Before marriage itself, he is offering her the cake first not his parents." Jhanvi says acting offended.

"She is my wife, Ma." Omkara shrugs, "Right, Dadaji?"

"I am not going to say anything." Prithviraj says making everyone else laugh.

After everyone had their cakes, Tej says, "Gift time. Why don't you start, Gauri?"

Gauri gives her gift to Om. "Don't open it now. Open it when you are alone." Om shakes the small gift and asks, "Is this a cd?"

Gauri ignores his question.

"Is this your song?" he asks excitedly.

"Yes, she went to Mumbai to record her song." Shakti tells him.

"BABA!" Gauri shouts angrily.

"Anyways he is going to find out." Shakti says looking away.

"You ruined the surprise." Gauri says sadly.

"Your song is the surprise, Gauri." Omkara tells her appeasing at her.

After everyone gives their gifts they decided to go and sleep.

"Gauri, go to your room." Shakti tells her as he waited her to get out of Omkara's room. Gauri rolls her eyes and walks out.

Omkara locks the door and opens Gauri's gift and puts the cd in the player to listen to her song. He was about to press the play button when he hears a gentle but insistant knock at the door. He opens the door to find Gauri. She pushes him aside and runs in.

"Lock the door."

Omkara does as she told him. "I was about to play your song. Did you come here to listen together?" he asks smiling and plays the song.

[}

Thode Badmash Ho Tum

Thode Nadan Ho Tum

Thode Badmash Ho Tum

Thode Nadan Ho Tum

Haan Magar Yeh Sach Hai

Hamari Jaan Ho Tum

Thode Badmash Ho Tum

Thode Nadan Ho Tum

Haan Magar Yeh Sach Hai

Hamari Jaan Ho Tum

Meri Saanson Ki Jhankar Ho Tum

Mera Solah Singar Ho Tum

Meri Aankhon Ka Intezar Ho Tum

Mera Imaan Meri Shaan Mera Maan Ho Tum

Thoda Beimaaan Ho Tum

Thode Shaitaan Ho Tum

Thoda Beimaaan Ho Tum

Thode Shaitaan Ho Tum

Haan Magar Yeh Sach Hai

Mere Bhagwaan Ho Tum

Thode.ummm um u mm m

Ummm Nadan Ho Tum.

Umm umm um u m ummm

umm Haan Haaan Haaan

hmhmm Badmash

Omkara listens to the song with a gentle smile on his face. "Your song is so beautiful." He tells her with a hint of tears in his eyes.

"I have another gift for you." Gauri tells him nervously.

"Really? What is it?" Omkara asks happy and curious seeing her nervous.

Gauri brings her hand forward with a small gift wrapped packet.

He looks at her hand shaking uncontrollably. "Why are you trembling?" Omkara asks worried.

"Take this. It is burning in my hand." Gauri says scared.

He takes it and asks. "Should I open it now or when I am alone?"

"There is no use if you open it when I am not there." Gauri snaps.

"Cool... cool down." Omkara says.

"Just open it fast." Gauri says worried.

He opens the gift and stares at it for a full minute. "Gauri, this is... this is..."

"You don't know what that is?" Gauri asks shocked.

"OF COURSE I KNOW!"

"SHhh"

"You are gifting me..." Omkara looks at it just to confirm again and then looks at her "Condoms?"

"No!" Gauri says outraged.

Omkara looks at the packet confused, no they were condoms. "These are condoms, Gauri. Did your real gift get somehow exchanged with this?" But how can it possibly even get exchanged?

"No. That is not your gift."

"Then why did you give me condoms if this is not the gift?" he asks confused.

"That is not your gift, you idiot!"

"Then what is my gift?"

"Me."

Omkara looks at her in shock and asks, "Gauri, you don't mean we..."

"It's been three months, Om and we are still stuck on second base." Gauri tells him nervously.

"I thought maybe you would want to wait till marriage." Omkara tells her.

"I am your wife, Om. I don't want to wait anymore."

"Here?" he asks shocked.

"I don't want to lose my virginity on a haystack!" Gauri says exasperated.

"I meant now." he quickly corrects himself.

"Yes." She replies then worry takes over her heart and says "Only if you want to. Do you?"

he raises an eyebrow at her with a seriously-are-you-asking-me-that look.

Gauri blushes as he walked towards her.

"By the way, I do think doing it in between the hay is kind of sexy. We should try it one of these days." He tells her as he lovingly cupped her face.

"You have to buy when this packet gets over. I won't buy it again." She tells him worried.

He chuckles, "How did you buy it?"

"When I went to Mumbai, I asked a friend to buy it for me." He nods.

"I don't think you should buy it from here before our marriage. Everyone knows us and if someone tells Dadaji, baba or.."

"I know, Gauri." Omkara tells her seeing her getting worked up.

She relaxes and he asks her a final time, "You sure?"

Gauri nods her head nervously. Having restrained himself for the last three months, he finally lets his control slip. He starts kissing her as he urgently started tugging her clothes off.

Omkara looks at her happily smiling at him. Seeing him watching her she rolls over to her back blushing. She feels him kissing her on her naked back and her whole body comes awake again.

"Gauri, do you regret it?" he asks worried.

"Why would I regret it?" Gauri asks frowning as she turned to look at him.

"We are not married yet."

"I am your wife, Om. Don't you feel like that?" Gauri asks confused.

"I do. But like chachi said mangalsutra, saat phere, mantra..."

"I was born your wife, Om. And marriage is just a formality. Don't you feel like that?" Gauri asks him.

"It is." he says smiling at her happily.

-The End-

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