At a café 

"...this feels so unreal?!!..." Dino muttered as he sipped on his Choco milkshake, while slumping down on the chair.

Benisha glanced at Prisha who chuckled at his sad state. Dino loved being in the mafia and had his thrill in doing the mafia work with so much enthusiasm that even shocked Vinay at times.

".... Relax Dude!!...it's not the end of the world!!...I mean it was going to happen...one day or the other...the sooner the better..." Sanal sat beside Prisha with a small peck on her forehead and raised his brow at his bestie.

"...even so...couldn't we just...you know...stayed like this...for another decade...I mean...what was the hurry?..." Dino tsked the nth time releasing his breath at the way the feline group was erased completely from the server, with no record anywhere.

"...it was necessary...you heard what Dad said?!!...it was better this way...at least now we can look in our own happy life without the worry of the next bullet piercing our body...hm?" Rajeev expressed his mind while scrolling through his phone for the most important message of the day.

"...come on, Dino...cheer up!...and moreover...it's not like we are going to be separated...we are still friends...and we will always be like this...with or without the feline group..." Prisha side hugged her bestie who pouted looking back to her and glanced to the other members who raised their brows.

"...*sigh*...guess I will be the rest assured being the main manager of the new café.... opened by my kiddo!!..." Dino smiled at Rajeev who looked back and pointed at himself. He shaked his index fingers negating his offer for the hundredth time.

"...Naha!!!...I promised Gaurav...not you...ok...so get that thing out of your head, hm?" saying so Rajeev walked out of the café calling his love.

Gaurav snickered looking at the wide-open mouth of Dino who felt betrayed by his teasing Rajeev. Mrunal did offer Dino for being the manager of her café as she wanted someone who was her Rajeev's favourite, as suggested by Rajeev himself.

He ran behind him to make the kid understand his worth in the pastry business that Mrunal had planned to open the coming week.

Prisha cuddled in Sanal's arm smiling at her silly friends and their antics. The four bestie's continued their take on starting the new business proposal by Benisha for a sports arena and club for the aspiring athletes.

Menon Mansion

"...Somi?!!...get the file from the room, please?...I forgot it..." Ram spoke to her as he put his shoes on to move out of the house for the business school.

"...here you go!...." Soumya rushed to him and took her bag to join him in the business school.

"...what are you doing?!!.... Appa is here!..." Soumya bend backwards as Ram went to take his kiss from her.

"...what?!!!...he can't see us!...and moreover, you ran off before giving my morning kiss...*pouts*..." Ram pleaded to her, who pinched his arms.

"...it's not going to work, let's go..." saying so Soumya ran outside leaving a disappointed Ram sulking behind her.

Nair Mansion

Mrunal was hurrying to get Meera wear her socks which the child was removing every time, getting irritated.

"...Bubba?!!...why are you doing this, huh?!!...you will surely get us late...fine!...lets go like that..." Mrunal gave up and picked up Meera on her right hand and clutched the hand bag on other.

"...Buji!...drink this milk and go...you didn't have your breakfast properly!!..." Sonia came jogging to the hurrying mother with the milk glass.

"...thanks, Ma...you are not going to the university?!!..." she enquired after finishing the drink and enquired.

"...not today...its tomorrow...and moreover, we have the party in the evening...remember?..." Sonia made Meera giggled with a light shake of her body while replying.

"...oh yes!.... thanks Ma, for reminding me of it...aiyoo!!!...I am becoming so forgetful...bye Ma...Raj is calling..." Mrunal zoned out on remembering the most important party of the household, the housewarming.

Sonia smiled at the way her Tulu north Indian daughter-in-law was slowly turning into a full-fledged Keralite.

"...what took you so long?...I was getting worried!!!..." Rajeev complained to her, while sitting on the driver's seat and watched how she made a pleading face to him.

"...what can I do?!!...you daughter here is the one to be blamed...not me!!!" Mrunal then cradled Meera who replied 'no' in response to her accusations.

"...I don't think so...my daughter can never be late...right Mimi?!!" Rajeev glanced back at his mischievous Meera who squealed the loudest at her handsome father.

Mrunal shaked her head smilingly at the way she was always sidelined by the father and daughter.

At the shopping gallery

"..." Rajeev looked back at his watch and the way his pouty wife was not able to select a dress for the evening party. 

"...this one is too flashy...how about this one?!!..." Mrunal then picked another one but put it back making a restless Rajeev shake his head with Meera babbling in her carrier.

Mrunal had already picked Meera and Rajeev's dress but was getting confused for herself.

"...lets go...we are done with the shopping!..." saying so Rajeev caught hold of his clueless wife who muttered '...what?!!!" and saw the way he paid the cashier with a smile.

"...but I didn't buy anything for myself?!!!...what am I going to wear for the party, huh?!!!...*tsk*..." she slumped back in the backseat with the sleepy Meera in her baby carrier fitted in the car backseat.

"...I am getting late for my meeting, Buji!!...ok?!!" saying so a frustrated Rajeev drove the car to Nair mansion to drop off the mother and daughter duo and then go back to SoVin industries for his Board meeting.

As Mrunal bid a sad bye to her husband, the maid came to help the mistress with the shopping bags.

In the evening,

"...Buji!!...are you ready?.... should we wait for you, huh?" Sonia voiced her from across the couch, adjusting her earrings.

"...No worries, Ma...I will come with Rajeev...he called me...he is on the way...you carry on!!!..." saying so Mrunal came towards the couch, with Meera being cradled by the maid behind her.

At 7 pm

Rajeev hurried inside the mansion and told the servant to make him some fresh juice before going to the party.

He went straight to his room to get Mrunal and Meera for the party, not before refreshing himself.

But the room was empty.

He thought maybe his angry wife would have left with his parents. Thinking ways to pamper his wife, he readied and went downstairs to move to his Maybach for the party in Gaurav's apartment.

"..."

Rajeev was stunned at the way his wife was wiggling her brows with Meera in her hand.

"...*scoff*...why aren't you wearing the one I bought for you, hm?" Rajeev asked his wife after pecking her chubby cheeks to which she slyly answered adjusting his tie. 

"...I don't want your special gift to be praised by anyone else...its only for us...and...I might have also bought something else as bonus...for our special evening...this weekend..." saying so she winked and sat inside the car totally puzzling the once Mafia Capo.

Rajeev raised his left brow wondering the bonus that his crafty innocent wife was talking about.

Gaurav's apartment

Benisha was smiling all the while serving refreshments to the guest pouring inside their new home.

"...Babe?...did you have the rolls?!!..." A tensed Sanal came towards his wife who was scanning the food dishes kept on the table.

"...No...why?..." as she picked the said roll, Sanal replied that it had shrimps which might give her allergic reactions.

Prisha smiled at his care and went to have the veggies ones, instead.

As the Nair youngest couple arrived for the party, Veena ran to get her Mrunal in a tight hug.

The pregnancy was making her slight emotional, totally alerting Xavier who for once would get concerned with her sudden cries for the slightest things.

Rahul was playing heartily with his cousins and friends near the play area being arranged surprising good by Benisha.

"...so, Dude?...what is the party about?...I know your stingy self won't spend so lavishly for a new apartment, hm...come on...spill the beans!!" Prisha nudged her bestie who was smiling while talking to her new friends.

She turned to face her bestie and winked replying "...coming up...in a short time..." totally confusing Prisha. 

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