Sidharth looks at Shehnaaz who was playing with Aadya. His mind was thinking about the chit he found in her purse. His mind was in clutter and he needed some fresh air to breathe.

Sidharth: Shehnaaz, I am going out for a stroll. Do you want anything?

Shehnaaz: Yes, Can you get some tomatoes and coriander?

He nods and leaves saying bye to both of them.
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Sidharth returns home after around an hour but he wasn't alone but there were two more people who accompanied him. He welcomes them inside. Shehnaaz passes a smile looking at the two strangers. She spreads a mat for them to sit and looks at Sidharth out of curiosity.

Sidharth: Shehnaaz, they are Gunjan's parents. I just happened to meet them on the road. They came here to attend a wedding of their family friend.

Shehnaaz folds her hands and greets them both.

Sidharth: Mummy and Papa, she is Shehnaaz, my wife.

Mr. and Mrs. Saxena were surprised to hear that. Mrs. Saxena looked at Shehnaaz from top to bottom.

Mr. Saxena: Good that you finally decided to move on in your life. We were very angry when we lost our daughter due to your irresponsibility, but you never came back to see us. I read in the newspaper that your house was auctioned and we learnt that you went bankrupt. You didn't for once informed us about your financial conditions.

Mrs. Saxena: When did you marry.. I mean re-marry?

Sidharth: Day before yesterday.

Mr. Saxena: Oh! Congratulations.. we were late by two days. We couldn't attend both your marriages.

Shehnaaz felt a bit uncomfortable at the way they spoke. It was more of complaining than talking. She excuses herself to get them tea.

Aadya comes out of the room and hugs Sidharth.

Aadya: Papa!

Sidharth: (smiles and lifts her up) She is Aadya, my daughter.

Mr. And Mrs. Saxena: (shocked) What? But you just married day before yesterday.

They notice at Sidharth and Aadya's face resemblance.

Mr. Saxena: Were you having an affair while you were married to Gunjan?

Sidharth: No! I met Shehnaaz a week back. She is Shehnaaz's daughter but since we are married now, she is my daughter as well.

Shehnaaz enters with tea.

Mrs. Saxena: Shehnaaz, you also remarried like Sidharth?

Shehnaaz: No!!..(She blurts without thinking and pauses, before continuing with the truth) I mean I was an unmarried and a single mother.

Mr. And Mrs. Saxena look at each other. Shehnaaz goes again to the kitchen to get some snack.

Mrs. Saxena: Sidharth, you aren't so bad that you choose to marry such a girl. What was the need to remarry as well? Going by your living conditions, she isn't rich that she would take care of your financials. She doesn't even look like a proper girl to me. I mean look at her hair, she looks like a boy rather than a girl. The worst past is she is a mother of an illegitimate child. You deserved better. How can your standards be so low? Where was Gunjan and where is her?

Mr. Saxena: Absolutely Sidharth, I don't understand your motive behind marrying a girl like her.

Sidharth: Please excuse me! You are talking about my wife. I thought it was coming from a pained parents who weren't yet got over the demise of their daughter but this isn't the words of a daughter's parents.

It's coming from a dirty society who speaks ill about a lady based on their presumptuous thinking even before knowing or observing the lady's true qualities.

I would have explained to you her goodness but I know how difficult it is to feed in something when your brains are already preoccupied with filth. There are certain things which are done motive less.

I guess, you might be getting late now and I apologize for wasting your time by inviting you to my house. (He folds his hand)

Mr. and Mrs. Saxena frowned as they felt humiliated. They get up and leave the house.

Shehnaaz came out with pipping hot pakoras, only to find Sidharth sitting with Aadya on his lap.

Shehnaaz: (surprised) Where are they?

Sidharth: Aaa.. They had some urgent work, so they left in hurry.

Shehnaaz: Oh!! They didn't even drank the tea fully. So much food got wasted. (Feeling sad)

Sidharth: We are here right, let us eat it together.

She gives him the plate and sits down beside him.  They sip on tea and eat pakoras.

Aadya: Mumma, what is ill.. illeg.. illegit mate child?

Shehnaaz's hands freezes and she looks up at Sidharth in shock.

Sidharth: (worried) Baby, it's nothing. How about we two playing with ball after we eat or pakoras?

Shehnaaz: one minute.. Aadya, from where did you learnt it? Who taught you that word?

Aadya: That old girl shed to papa. You look like boy and something illi.. illegit..

Sidharth stuffs a pakora in Aadya's mouth.

Shehnaaz understood everything. She was heartbroken, her eyes welled up and she got up and went inside her room.

Sidharth: Aadya, baby, please sit here and eat these pakoras and then play with these toys. I'll be back, okay?

Aadya nods and Sidharth looks the main door, gives her pakoras and all the toys and then goes to the room. The door was looked from inside, he knocks and asks her to open the door.

Sidharth: Shehnaaz, please open the door, sweetheart.

Shehnaaz: (choking voice) Give me some time. I will be back.

Sidharth: Shehnaaz, open the door. Don't scare the child.

She wiped her tears and opens the door. He goes in and locks the door. He sat infront of her while she stared at a blank wall behind him with those eyes which were red due to crying.

Sidharth: Sorry Shehnaaz, I shouldn't have brought them home with me. Gunjan also kept them away because they were not accepting our marriage. She was an independent girl.

I, genuinely thought they must be hurt because I was the cause of her death. If I hadn't agreed to teach her driving that day while she was heavily pregnant, then that accident could have been avoided.

Last time they had problem saying that Gunjan deserved better husband than me, this time they have problem that I deserved better wife than you. We cannot change such people's mentality. I asked them to leave myself. They don't know you Shehnaaz but I know you and I love you, isn't that what matters the most?

Shehnaaz looks into his eyes.

Shehnaaz: Aadya is not an illegitimate child.. (Shehnaaz says with a heavy and choking voice and she cries)

Sidharth: No sweetheart!! (He pulls her into a hug) She isn't. She is our child.

Shehnaaz pulls her head out of the hug and nods her head in disagreement with a crying face but he places a finger on her lips telling her not to speak as he didn't want her to cry.

He wipes her tears and kisses both her eyes. Then places a kiss on her forehead before kissing her lips. He wished to take away all her pain and for her to forget all the abuses and atrocities she had faced from the society all these years. He wanted erase the scars and overwrite it with beautiful memories. He made love to her and made her feel a part of him.

She was in so much mental agony that she forgot the physical pain she went through during the love making session. While she was calmed after it, Sidharth felt the world collapse infront of him. The red fluid on the mat shook him to the core. He looked at her with questions in his eyes but Shehnaaz wasn't aware of the question. Her knowledge was absolute zero about it. Nobody told her about it or rather nobody was with her to speak to her about it.

He immediately moved far from her and decided to question her clearly.

Sidharth: Whose child is Aadya?

Shehnaaz was shocked because just few minutes back he had said it's ours.

Sidharth: Why did you lie to me? You can't be Aadya's mom. Whose child is she?

Shehnaaz looked at him totally blank. Her head was spinning. What to explain and from where to explain, everything was so sudden that she was at loss of word.

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