Karan: Come.. I'll show you.. (he shows her different photos on his wall) Ye hamara family photo hai jab Khushi ka janm hua tha, (Photo of Kriti Khushi Yash and Karan) ye hum chaaro ka pehla photo.. bachpan mein humari families saath mein trip pe gaye the.. uss vaqt ka hai.. phir ye.. meri Shiv aur Jannu ki saath mein pehli trip, ye waali jab hum Sweetie aur Meethie ko naye naye mile the.. ye meri pehli singing competition, ye wali jab hamne pehli baar saath mein perform kiya tha aur ye photo sabse recent hai.. tumhara big day ki.. tumhari pehli badi solo competition..

Kriti: bass ek photo reh gayi..

Karan: maine itne saalo tak bed ke upar wali space khali rakhi thi.. apni shaadi ki tasveer ke liye.. ab wo bhi lag gayi.. (smiling)

Kriti: par.. ye sab lagi kaise? I mean aap to yaha aaye nahi hai kaafi time se..

Karan: Haa par mere dost, mera staff to yaha hai naa.. mai photos bhejta hu, wo frame mein daalke laga dete hai..

Kriti: interesting!

Karan: Aur bhi kuch interesting dekhna hai?

Kriti: kyaa?

Karan: Balcony mein jaake bahar dekho

Kriti: kyu?

Karan: Offo.. jabse tumhari nervousness gayab hui hai na tum sawal bohot karne lagi ho.. (je holds her hand and takes her to the balcony which had a beautiful view and equally mesmerizing set up in the balcony to enjoy the view)

Kriti: Omg!! What a beachsious view!

Karan: Like... Wait.. what view?

Kriti: Oh I am sorry.. actually mujhe aadat hai indescribable feelings ko.aone man se words dene ki..

Karan: ok.. and what did you call this?

Kriti: Beachesious.. (he giggles and so does she)

Karan: Perfecttt.. aaj se iss balcony ko hum beachsious bolenge.. aur shayad ab mujhe khud ek dictionary bhi banani padegi tumhari baatein samajhne ke liye... Waise this beachsious thing.. you liked it?

Kriti: Liked? I loved it.. raat ko to aur bhi khoobsurat dikhega na?

Karan: bohot.. you sleepy?

Kriti: Not exactly.. car mein bhi soyi thi aur flight mein bhi.. par.. aap? You were driving all the wat.. why don't you go to sleep? You need some rest..

Karan: I am not sleepy.. flight mein neend ho gayi thi puri.. Yaha baithe thodi der?

Kriti: Suree... (Happily)
(Both of them sit in front of each other looking at the amazing view in front of them)

Karan: You love beaches, don't you?

Kriti: I did.. once.. not like I don't like them now par bohot yaadein judi hai.. aisi jo mai yaad nahi karna chahti..

Karan: (he looks at her concerned and holds her hand) Kriti.. ek baat puchu?

Kriti: hmm?

Karan: Ye.. aakhir baat kya hai? Maine Khushi aur Yash ko bhi kayi baar notice kiya hai..  kuch to hua tha jis baare mein hum me se koi kuch nahi jaanta.. tumhari diary.. mere accident ke baare mein tumne likha tha tab bhi tumne mention kiya tha Yash ke dard se tum relate kar rahi thi.. what was it? Yash ki koi girlfriend thi jiska accident hua tha, ya kya?

Kriti: wo.. wo sab.. I am sorry.. mai iss baare mein baat nahi karna chahti.. (teary eyes)

Karan: Isn't that the same reason Yash ko sea facing kamra nahi pasand?

Kriti: Can we please skip this? (She gets up to keave but he holds her back and makes her sit) Aap please..

Karan: it's ok.. tum nahi batana chahti to mai nahi puchunga.. I promise.. oar please thodi der baitho na
(She gets comfortable in her seat again) Waise mujhe thank you bhi bolna tha

Kriti: kis liye?

Karan: (he shows her the Om pendant tucked in his shirt) Iss liye..

Kriti: Oh god.. you know thatt...

Karan: (giggles) kaafi smart play kiya tha waise tumne.. but seriously.. thank you.. for entrusting your lucky charm with me.. (she blushes) aur ab meri boards exams khatam hoke 2 saal bhi ho chuke hai.. I want you to have this back (he tries to remove it but she holds his hand and stops)

Kriti: Ye maine aapko diya tha.. kyuki mai chahti thi ye aapke paas ho.. please pehne rahiye.. ise kabhi apne aap se dur mat kijiyega..

Karan: (teasingly) Kyu? Apne aap se bandhna chahti ho mujhe?

Kriti: (shows him her Mangalsutra tucked in her top) Why should girls have all the chains?

Karan: (laughs) you seriously said thatt?? (She looks at him laughing and laughs too. He controls himself and entangles her arm with his looking at the beach infinitely. And so does she as she rests her head on his shoulder. After a few minute, without looking at her he speaks up) Kriti.. I need to know something..

Kriti: (turns her head towards him) Kya?

Karan: Tum iss shaadi se Khush to ho na?

(Kriti leaves his hand and turns completely towards him and he looks at her too with question in his eyes)
Kriti: Where is this even coming from?

Karan: Kriti.. see I know what we feel for each other.. ye feelings.. ye emotions.. they are strong.. stronger than anything else par normally when people feel for each other, they date, they get into a relationship, they get to know each other, then they get engaged and then married.. we have literally skipped every stage of our togetherness and got married.. ek dusre ke liye jazbaat hona alag baat hai, par shaadi shuda hona.. bohot alag.. I need to know if you are happy with this "Married" thing..

Kriti: Are you?

Karan: (hopeful eyes) I am.. more than anything else.. I am sure about how deeply I feel for you, I am sure about us.. but this is not about me.. tumhara college abhi shuru hua hai.. you are young, smart, beautiful, intelligent, confident, talented.. you are perfect.. you deserve everything you want from life.. aur mai.. kisi bhi situation mein tumhe baandh ke nahi rakhna chahta.. I want you to fly high! And most of all, I want you to be happy.. Aur agar tumhe lagta hai mai ya ye shaadi tumhari growth ke beech aa sakte hai.. we can.. (turns away from her to wipe out tear) we can separate.. we can take a divo...

Kriti: Oh my god.. stop! Stop right now.. Are you seriously comfortable saying that word? Listen.. (she holds his chin and makes him look into her eyes) I will fly.. and I am Happy! I promise... Thank you for all those compliments but you need to know meri khushi jitni mere sapno mein hai utni hi aap ke saath bhi hai.. I will never want to choose one over another.. haa mere liye iss duniya mein apni identity banana bohot jaroori hai.. mai sirf Mrs Karan Sharma banke kabhi nahi rehna chahti par iska matlab ye nahi ke mai aapke bina khush reh sakti hu.. I trust you, mai jaanti hu you will never cage me, you will support me to fly high.. and I promise I will fly high.. but with you by my side.. and that word.. phir kabhi sochna bhi mat mere saamne wo word use karne ke baare mein.. kabhi nahi..

(Happy tears roll down his eyes and he suddenly shifts and pulls her into a bone crushing hug. She loses her balance with this sudden shift and gets pulled over on his lap and in his arms)
Karan: I love you Kriti.. I love you soo soo muchh!!
(He buries himself between her neck and shoulder and she holds him tight with her arms around his neck and her face buried between his neck and shoulder. She blushes hearing him and tightens her grip as tears of joy escape her eyes and she replies)
Kriti: I love you too.. I love you..

(Her words strike him and he breaks the hug while she is still on his lap)
Karan: shitt.. I said it.. you.. you said it? (Shocked, happy and confused)

Kriti: Shit? Aap bolna nahi chahte the? Ya.. sunana nahi chahte the? (Shocked with his reaction)

Karan: Oh god.. mai bolne ke liye aur sunane ke liye mare jaa raha tha.. par.. I wanted to do something special.. for our first time.. I wanted to propose you..

(She giggles)
Kriti: So.. what's stopping you?

Karan: matlab?

Kriti: Come on.. propose me.. I am waiting..

Karan: You mean.. now?

Kriti: Hum dono yaha hai, Saamne beach hai, romantic mood hai, emotional moment hai.. what exactly are we waiting for?

Karan: Mujhe ab finally wo bachpan wali Kriti dikhne lagi hai.. jisase maine pyaar kiya tha.. jo mere saamne kuch bhi bolne se kabhi hichkichati nahi thi.. bold, confident aur jo chahiye wo paane ki himmat rakhne wali.. you know tumhari uss stupid nervousness ne meri ye Kriti kahi ghuma di thi...

Kriti: Ohh.. aapki Kriti?

Karan: Any doubt?

Kriti: I.. don't think so..

Karan: Good.. mujhe tumhari angoothi do..

Kriti: Kyu?

Karan: Offo.. do na.. (he holds her hand and takes her wedding ring)

Kriti: Aree...

Karan: Shhh..

Kriti: Ajeeb jabardasti hai..

Karan: Ab jo hai yahi hai.. (he sits on his knees in front of her and forwards her wedding ring to her) So Miss Kriti Singhania, I know this is weird, hamari shaadi ki angoothi mai tumse hi lekar wapas tunhe hi dene ki koshish kar raha hu par kya karu? Abhi prepared nahi hu aur iss moment ko jaane bhi nahi dena chahta.. Kuch ajeeb se situations mein hamari shaadi hui thi.. aisi situation jisme hum dono ek dusre se pyaar karte the par sochte the ke dusra kisi aur se pyaar karta hai.. I hope aisi shaadi kisi aur ki kismat mein na ho.. par iss shaadi se tum meri zindagi mein aayi.. aur ab.. mai tumhe kabhi apne aap se sur nahi jaane dena chahta.. I love you Kriti.. pata nahi kab se.. but I have always loved you.. kya tum hamari shaadi ko naye sireh se shurvat karne mein mera saath dogi? Kya tum hamesha ke liye meri Kriti banogi? (She blushes and forwards her hand to him and he slides the ring in her Ring finger)

Kriti: I love you too.. hamesha se.. aur haa.. (she sits in front of him and cups his face) mai hamari shaadi ko naye sireh se shuru karna chahti hu.. mai hamesha ke liye aapki Kriti banana chahti hu.. (she takes out his ring from his finger and  again forwards it to him) Will you be mine? Hamesha ke liye?

(Nods, forwards his hand and she slides in the ring)
Karan:  Always and Forever!

Kriti: Always and Forever! (Both smile looking into each other's eyes and a drop escapes Karan's eye. She wipes that drop away and hugs him. He hugs her back)

(Meanwhile, Khushi walks in the garden after freshening up. Shiv was admiring the guest house and walking behind. Both were lost and bang into each other)

Khushi: Ouchhh... (She looks at him) Tum? Dekh ke nahi chal sakte?

Shiv: Aree.. tum bhi to dekh ke chal sakti thi naaa?

Khushi: Ughh.. anyways.. yaha kya kar rahe ho?

Shiv: Puri raat acche se soya hu mai.. neend nahi aa rahi thi so Guest house dekh raha tha.. aur tum? Tum to raat bhar jag rahi thi na?

Khushi: haa par mujhe din mein jyada neend nahi aati.. to bass ghoom rahi thi.. kaafi time baad aayi hu na yaha..

Shiv: Hmm... Baki yo ko aane mein time lagega.. Jannu ko acchi khaasi neend aa rahi hogi..

Khushi: Haa.. bohot drive kiya hai unhone.. waise ek baat puchu?

Shiv: ha?

Khushi: Jannu di kuch khoyi khoyi nahi lag rahi tujhe? I mean.. pata nahi kuch to off hai unke saath..

Shiv: Honestly, observe to maine bhi kiya par humne puchne ki koshish ki to wo ajeeb ajeeb bahane bana deti hai.. topic change kar deti hai.. god knows kya baat hai uske saath

Khushi: Try hard na.. tum aise unhe apne haal par to nahi chhod sakte na..

Shiv: Khushi.. didn't you notice, Yash is helping her to distract us from that topic..

Khushi: What? Par wo aisa kyu karega?

Shiv: Sach batau to I am clueless.. un dono ki aapas mein deal kya hai ye bhi mujhe kabhi samajh nahi aaya...

Khushi: What do you mean aapas mein deal?

Shiv: Shayad mai hi kuch jyada soch raha hu ya kabhi kisine iss baat par dhyaan hi nahi diya..  unka aapas mein ye jo jhagda chalta rehta hai, does that make any sense to you? I mean.. wo ek din tumhare aur Karan ke through milte hai aur unke beech Chudail aur Bandar bolke jhagda shuru ho jaata hai? Ab my common sense says.. mai kisi ajnabi ko dekh ke uske saath jhagda to shuru nahi kar sakta.. besides mujhe kayi baar aisa bhi lagta hai ke Yash can get through Jannu.. he can reach out to her in ways that me aur Karan can't even think about.. unke beech ye jo bhi jhagde hai.. but they have something.. they share something jis baare mein hum nahi jaante..

Khushi: Do you mean they feel for each other?

Shiv: Noo.. no.. I don't mean they feel for each other or they are in love or anything.. what they have.. its not romantic involvement.. its something else... Something.. we never tried to figure out..

Khushi: Hmm.. might be.. even I was surprised jab Jannu di Yash se baat karne gayi thi basketball match ke din jab wo bohot gusse mein tha.. par jab wo wapas aaya he wasn't mad or anything.. he looked quite good..

Shiv: See.. there is something dude..

Khushi: mai Yash se baat karke dekhu?

Shiv: Noo.. don't.. whatever it is.. unke beech ki baat hai and they obviously don't prefer talking about it.. unse kuch baat karke why spoil or jinx whatever it is.. they get each other, they support each other.. its more than enough to qualify as good friends.. isn't it?

Khushi: True.. let them be then.. I am sure agar Yash di ka saath de raha hai to he will handle whatever the situation is..

Shiv: Hmm.. tumhara birthday parso hai na?

Khushi: Yeahh..

Shiv: Excited?

Khushi: Pretty much.. But I will miss mom dad.. maine unke bina kabhi apna birthday celebrate nahi kiya hai..

Shiv: Mom dad ki yaad to aayegi.. par koi nahi... hum sab hai na tere saath.. aur mom dad ko video call kar lenaa..

Khushi: Yess... Oh shit

Shiv: kya hua?

Khushi: bags unpack karna bhool gayi

Shiv: Khushii..

Khushi: Ughh soo sorry.. waise tumhe abhi kuch kaam nahi hai na?

Shiv: nahi

Khushi: great.. help me unpack then

Shiv: bass kaam karwa lo mujhse.. (she giggles and drags him to her room and he helps her unpack bags)

(Meanwhile in Krian's room, they were hugging for a few minutes)
Karan: Accha Kriti..

Kriti: hmm?

Karan: bags unpack karne hai.. hum aaye tab se yahi hai..

Kriti: Oh shit.. Yash aa jayega.. (she leaves him and runs to the room. He follows her and they unpack their bags and freshen up)

To be continued....