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Shehnaaz changed her wet clothes and sat near the window staring outside. She wasn't expecting so much adventure in her life in one single day. Until morning, she had been thinking that she couldn't love Sidharth since she was married to someone else and now she learnt that he is the same person she married.

Amidst all this, you didn't get answers to any of your questions. You just threw him out of the house without knowing why did he marry you in first place and if he did, then why did he elope? Why did he return in disguise?

Good that you didn't ask him. How would you trust him and think that he would give correct answers? He is a cheater and a manipulator. None of his answers will justify the pain he gave you.

Stop it! I don't want to think about him anymore. He is gone and I don't even care about him.

Don't lie Sana. You do! Cause you love him.

Yes I do! But still I can't forgive him.

No matter how much she tried, she wasn't able to think about anything else than him. Shantiben comes into her room with tea for herself and Shehnaaz. She gives her the tea but Shehnaaz covers the tea cup with saucer as she didn't wanted to have it. Shantiben shakes her head in distress. She picks up her mobile lying on the bed and turns on a sad heartbreak video song.

Shehnaaz glares at her for sometime and then decides to ignore. Once the song was over, Shantiben plays another sad heartbreak song.

Shehnaaz frowns and glares at her but Shantiben doesn't see her.

Shehnaaz: Amma.. Amma..

Shantiben reduces the volume and looks at her.

Shantiben: Haa dikari, tame manēe bolaavyo? {Yes dear, did you call me?}

Shehnaaz: Tame aa shu kari rahyaa cho? {What are you doing?}

Shantiben: Just listen to sad songs dikri. You need it right now.

Shehnaaz: (perplexed) Huh? I don't need any sad songs. Just turn it off.

Shantiben: But, that's what heart broken people listen too. I am just helping you.

Shehnaaz: Amma, stop sounding filmy. I don't need any sad songs.

Shantiben: Okay!

Shehnaaz: Did he leave?

Shantiben: Who?

Shehnaaz: Who else amma?

Shantiben: Oh!! You mean your husband?

Shehnaaz frowns.

Shantiben: I don't know. Must have left! I didn't check. I am not interested in knowing about or looking at anyone else's husband.

Shehnaaz: Amma! Stop referring to him as my husband.

Shantiben: You've stopped addressing him with his name. So I thought may be that wasn't his name either. All you told me was he was the one who married you. And I only know that the man whom the girl marries is referred as her husband.

Shehnaaz: (irritated) Oh Hell!! Arggghhh.. Amma..

Shantiben: Yes Dikri.. (calmly)

Shehnaaz controls her irritation. She keeps quiet and resumes looking outside. Shantiben starts playing romantic song 'Te Amo'. Shehnaaz gets reminded about him again.

Shehnaaz: (frustrated) Ammaaa... You started again?

Shantiben: What? This isn't a sad song. It's a romantic number. See how nicely he is proposing her saying Me Te Amo..

Shehnaaz: What? What does that mean?

Shantiben: It means 'I Love You' in Spanish & Portuguese.

Shehnaaz: Huh? How do you know about it?

Shantiben: Unlike you, I watch TV and movies. They use different languages to say the same thing in most of the song. Like in Bengali it is "Aami tomaake bhaalobaasi", in Kannada it is "Naanu ninna preetisutene", Telugu it is "Nenu ninnu premistunnaanu", in punjabi it is "Main Tannu pyaar karda ha", in Gujarati..

Shehnaaz: Okay okay.. enough.. I know Gujarati.. Hmmm..

Shehnaaz was lost in her thoughts again. Shantiben looks at her as she lied to her the source of information. She got to learn the meaning of Te Amo from Sidharth few days back when he was listening to it.

Shehnaaz: Amma, I am shifting back to my room. Bye.

Shantiben: Okay!! (Smirks)

Shehnaaz picks up few clothes from the wardrobe and goes to her room. She gets shocked to see him sleeping on the bed covered in a blanket. She keeps the clothes on the bed and goes and stands near him with her hands on her hips.

Shehnaaz: Oh Hello. Hello Mister. Helloooo (screams)

He slightly opens his eyes.

Shehnaaz: What the hell? How can you sleep like this on my bed without my permission? Śhu tame tamaaraa saasariyaa'one samajyaa cho? {Do you think it's your in-laws house?}

Shantiben: Haa, te tenaa sasaraanu ghara che. {Yes, it is his father-in-law's house}

Shantiben walks inside her room with few more clothes in her hand and places it on the bed.

Shehnaaz: (frowns & glares) Amma.. I am talking to him. (Turns back to him) You! Get up and get going now!

He doesn't move but shuts his eyes.

Shehnaaz: Arey! Maan na maan mein tera mehmaan! {He is behaving like an uninvited guest}

She pulls his blanket and he curls up pushing his knees into his tummy further.

Shehnaaz: Huh?

She holds his wrist and pulls him up and finds him warm. She gets shocked and touches his forehead and the neck. It was burning.

Shehnaaz: (panics) Amma, quickly get the thermometer. His body is burning due to fever.

Shantiben turns around and smiles. Her plan was finally working as she could see the worry and concern on her face. She goes and gets the thermometer from her room. But before that she dips it in the tea which Shehnaaz had covered with saucer earlier. She checks the scale and it showed 105°.

She smiles and goes back to Shehnaaz's room and without giving the thermometer to Shehnaaz she herself pushes it in his mouth so that she doesn't come to know that it was already 105°. Shehnaaz waits by crackling her knuckles in tension for 2 minutes. She then pulls out the thermometer and gets shocked.

Shehnaaz: Amma, the fever is too high. We need to see the doctor immediately.

Shantiben: (nervously) What? Will treat him at home itself like the way he treated you last week.

Shehnaaz: Amma, mine wasn't so bad. We shouldn't delay.

She pulls the blanket over him and books the cab and calls the doctor. Shantiben and Shehnaaz help him to get inside the car and take him to the hospital where they do his test.

Shehnaaz goes out of the ward to call up the employees of her sweet mart telling them that she will not be available for few days and that they would keep the sweet mart closed for few days. She returns back to the ward and overhears Shantiben speaking to Sidharth.

Shantiben: Dikra, superb acting. But what do we do if the doctor tells her our secret. She will be mad on me as well. (Worriedly)

Shehnaaz: Amma? (Shantiben gets scared and Sidharth looks at her) I knew this always that you hate me and can never support me but you supporting this cheater over me was the last thing I expected. I don't know what he has told you to convince but you've lost my respect as well. I hate you both! (She cries and goes out of the ward)

Sidharth: Amma.. Sana.. (in sad tone)

Shantiben: Everything got blown up. I think we should go back home now.

Shehnaaz returns back with a sad face with few papers in her hand. Shantiben and Sidharth look at her.

Shantiben: Sorry Sana.

Shehnaaz: He has got typhoid.

Shantiben: Huh? (Shocked)

Sidharth: (sighs) Thank God!

Shehnaaz: (looks at him in surprise) I am not acting like y'all. The doctor gave me the report. You have typhoid. (Shows him the paper)

Sidharth: I am happy that I got ill in real. Because I don't want to go away from you.

Shehnaaz felt a sharp pain in her heart. She turned around and went outside to the washroom and sulks for sometime alone. She then washes her face and comes out strong. The doctors started his treatment by giving him antibiotics.

Sidharth: Doctor, I want to go home. I would like to be surrounded by my family instead of nurses.

Doctor: Yes, for sure. It isn't too severe as well that you would need hospitalization. If you get proper care, rest, medication and nourishment at home then you can stay at home as well. It will take you around 2 - 4 weeks to be fully recovered.

Sidharth: Can you tell my wife the same thing please and don't tell her that I asked you to communicate this to you.

Doctor: Okay! Will give her the instructions.

The doctor goes out of the ward.

Doctor: Mrs. Sidharth Sharma!!

Shehnaaz was dumbfounded to hear the name the doctor used to call her. She stood up.

Shehnaaz: Doctor, it's Shehnaaz Haathiwala.

All this years, she wished to be addressed with a normal looking surname which she would get from her husband. But now when she was a addressed as one, she chose to correct the doctor, to be called as her maiden name.

Doctor: Oh!! I am sorry! I thought you were Sidharth Sharma's wife.

Shantiben: Wife hi hai, bas thodha sa bhaav khaa rahi hai.. {She is indeed his wife, she is just throwing some  attitude}

Shehnaaz: (glares at her) Amma! (To the doctor) Yes, Doctor you were saying something.

The doctor gives her all the instructions and asks her to get Sidharth discharged. She goes to get the discharge formality done.

Shantiben: Sidharth this is your golden opportunity. Take the optimum advantage of it to convince her. I'll back you.

Sidharth: Thanks amma. This much support even my mom wouldn't have given.

Shantiben: Hey, do you have a family?

Sidharth: Yes Amma. I have 3 beautiful ladies in my family. My mom, my wife and my mother-in-law.

Shantiben: (shocked) Anarth thai gayo {We're destroyed} You are married already and have a wife and mother-in-law at home?

Shehnaaz: What? He has another wife? Yet he married me? (Shocked as she stood near the door)

He looks at both of them in shock.

Sidharth: What the hell! Noooo!!! Saasumaa, I was talking about you and Shehnaaz. You both are part of my family. If not typhoid, you are going to kill me with heart attack.

Shehnaaz and Shantiben: (in unison) Shut up!

Shantiben and Sidharth look at Shehnaaz.

Shehnaaz: (fumbles) Aaa.. aaa.. I came to take my purse which I forgot here.

She picks up the purse and goes away. They both look at each other and smile.

Sidharth: Did you see that Saasuma? My wife loves me so much. She is possessive and caring as well.

Shantiben: I don't have any doubts in it Gandho.

Sidharth: Huh? Saasumaa why are you abusing me?

Shantiben: When did I abuse you?

Sidharth: Just now. (Frowns) You called me Ga.. Ga.. Gandho..

Shantiben: Gandho in Gujarati means stupid. You are my son-in-law, learn some Gujarati now.

Sidharth: Hmm.. Tell your daughter to teach me. I can learn anything from her. (He blushes scratching his head)

Shantiben: Awww.. Stop showing those batheesi {teeth} now. Convince her first and you can nicely  play teacher teacher with each other later.

Sidharth: Hmm.. (makes a sad pout)

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To be continued.. ❤️❤️