Ishita and dushyant were asleep, unaware that someone had made their way to them, the knife all set to hit ishita, high up. Boy it would hurt from that distance.

Suddenly, the lights were lit, completely leaving the intruder off guard, as abhijeet appeared in front of it.

Dushyant and ishita woke up immediately, only for the black hoodie of the intruder to be removed, and revealed the identity of the intruder to be Jasmine, making everyone's jaw drop.

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A jittery and anxious jasmine, paced back and forth while hugging her knees, as she sat on the bed agitatedly. 

the door closed, as ishita looked over to dushyant with a concerned face, while dushyant looked over to abhijeet, sighing in tension. 

"dekhiye officer, bachi ki haalat bahaut nazuk hai, woh baat karne ki haalat mein toh bilkul bhi nahi hai...main aapko kisi bhi haal mein interrogation ke liye permission nahi de sakta." explained dushyant his stance to the officer, as abhijeet was only doubtful. 

"sir ji aap yeh kyun nahi samajh rahe hain, iss bachi ne abhi aapko maarne ki koshish ki hai...it's dangerous.." attempted abhijeet to explain his situation to dushyant, but was interrupted. 

"inspector, aapka ka kaam reported crimes ko investigate karna hai....humne koi report likhai aapke paas?" argued dushyant, his tone starting to rise, but still remaining calm yet firm in his voice. 

abhijeet understood exactly what he meant by not saying the things he really wanted to, so quietly pursing his lips, abhijeet took his queue to leave. 

Purvi and kavin, stood quietly by their rooms, observing all of this, as they contemplated on their next move. 

Dushyant eyed them once, before going inside Jasmine's room, as ishita opened the door for both of them to come in, entering first, and dushyant followed behind. 

They entered to a jasmine exactly a she was when she was left by them a few minutes, agitated and anxious, jittering her nerves away. Nihaal, who was sitting beside her, was eyed by dushyant and ishita to ask if she said anything, as he just shook his head in no, leaving them disappointed. 

ishita, walked over to jasmine first, sitting by her, touching her shoulder in an attempt of providing comfort, as she looked over to her. 

"jasmine,what were you thinking!" exclaimed dushyant, completely apalled at her behavior and actions. jasmine got even more agitated with dushyant's response, as ishita glared at him as if questioning, 'what the fuck are you doing', receiving only a glare of disbelief from him in return. 

"jasmine ab kya darr lag raha hai tumhe, apne attempt to murder ke liye toh maaf kadiya tumhe, unless tumne sahi mein murder kadiya hai....maaf kar hi denge...oh wait...inhone toh woh bhi maaf hi kardiya hai, right dad, mom?" remarked nihaal in the sincerest form of sarcasm, if there was one that existed. dushyant just glared at him, as ishita was seriously considering banging her head on a wall. 

"jasmine...dekho beta tum itni gandi tarah se fassi hui ho na iss situation mein ki tumhe isse nikalna is nearly impossible...so what i need from you is complete honesty, so that we can actually help you, because beta let me tell you very bluntly, jail is not for you..." stated ishita at once with utmost conviction and sternness. 

jasmine looked over to ishita with the same fear and hesitance, but she took a deep breath, before she started to confess. 

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Nihaal and saumya were near the gate of the singhania mansion, the smiles on their faces not at all fading away soon, nihaal had already taken one step outside the house. 

His gaze refused to move away from her face, as she raised her brow playfully at him, making him chuckle shyly. 

"kuch kehna hai, toh kehdo....kya pata kabhi phir mauka na aayein?" remarked saumya cleverly, as nihaal looked over to her as if it was for one last time. 

he shook his head in no, just scoffed, taking a last look of her, with a deep breath, he placed his hand on her cheek, as in his mind he thought, 'i love you', but didn't say it, maybe he didn't think it was the right time. she couldn't help but feel it, the small glance said enough, but could she really be sure before she heard him say it ? 

 His hand gradually slided off her cheek, as he smiled at her once, and walked away, not knowing that he'd be walking away carrying the biggest regret of his life. 

Saumya closed the main gate, entering the mansion back, only for her glance to fall upstairs, where arjun and jasmine were having quite the ruckus in the name of an argument. she shook her head, completely done with this daily occurrence, as she just quietly walked to her room.

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Saumya, who was catching up on her studies, skimming through a textbook in her hand, was disturbed by a loud bang outside her room, as she immediately went outside to look what was happening. 

the door had to be only opened for a second, when she witnessed a jasmine on the floor, holding onto her head, as arjun looked in glaring shock. 

"What have you done!" yelled Saumya, as arjun was even more panicked now. 

"Andar jao tum!  this is none of your business!" yelled arjun, in an attempt to make her leave. 

"you know what arjun? this is my house, everything that happens here is my fucking business...and let me make one thing clear, i am not going to tolerate this. who do you think you are? nothing but  a  fucking loser who has nothing to show for any achievement in life except for people he supplies drugs to and sleeps with!"

An enraged arjun, completely lost the senses to think straight, broke the glass covering the top of his dinning table, taking out a marble. The speed of the series of these actions and that followed was too fast for Saumya to comprenend anything.

Before she realised, her face was dishevelled by him completely. Only that was when arjun realised what he had done.
                      
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An upset and hurt saumya was walking out of the house, crying and angry at the same time, she looked around helplessly, covering one half of her face, which was dishevelled.

Only what she was unaware of that she was being noticed by Bani and Deepika, who were sitting there, drinking.

"Sun... " Called Deepika, as bani looked over to her in response.

"Woh saumya ko dekh rahi hai, lagta ladaai hui hai iski aur arjun ki.." Informed deepika, as bani just shook her head.

"Arjun se aur umeed hi kya kar sakte ho! Saari zindagi iske kaaran hi jhand hai humari.." Replied bani pessimistically.

"Haan, ab tumhare gambling debts ka bhi toh jugaad lagana hai...rakkam toh by god aisi hai ki kisiko kidnap karna pade..." Commented deepika, as bani chuckled, when her glance fell on saumya and arjun, as he pushed her to the ground and left in a fit of rage.

She saw saumya get up, enraged too at arjun, when something hit bani's mind.

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