As soon as Abhay went out, everyone bombarded Sanskar with numerous questions.

"Guys, relax. If you care to be silent then I will tell you what happened", shouted Sanskar, and then as everyone became silent, he narrated what happened in the police station.

"Abhay is such a sweetheart", exclaimed Swara after hearing everything making Sanskar nod with a smile.

The next day, the three young ladies took charge of the house in making everyone ready for the evening function. Khushi has called the beauticians home and forced every member of the house to surrender giving all the rights to the beauticians. For women, it was more to deal with facial, manicure, and pedicure while for men, (A/N: you know how much they are obsessed with hair) they got their favorite hairstyles to go with their suit.

After trails, everyone selected their dresses from those brought by the designers and got ready for the big night. The boys as usual chose black while the girls chose the dresses based on their comfort.

All the couples entered the convention center along with Sanskar's parents and Uttara. They went in and took their seats after the photo session. Already a rumor started circulating regarding the girl who came along with Sanskar. 

After the arrival of all the guests, the host started introducing all the nominees and a small Av of each one of them is played on the big screen.

"As we have seen all the nominees, now it's time to know the star of the day. Let me call upon the stage Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada, who has been the brand ambassador for this award, winning it consequently for three years", called in the host and as Arnav walked on to the stage diligently, the host handed over the mike to him with a smile.

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen", greeted Arnav addressing the audience. When the crowd stopped the claps, he continued.

"It always feels good to adorn this stage and I really appreciate each and every nominee who have made it till here", said Arnav before signaling the girl waiting to hand over the parchment which contained the winner's name. 

"Okay, so the best entrepreneur of the year award goes to Mr. Sanskar Maheshwari", announced Arnav trying to be as formal as possible. Though he is very proud of Sanskar yet he didn't show it on the stage. With a round of applause, Sanskar walked on to the stage while Swara and Khushi had happy tears looking at their men together on the stage feeling proud of them.

Arnav congratulated Sanskar and gave him the award with a smile before walking down the stage handing over the mike to Sanskar. Taking a deep breath and smile not leaving his lips, Sanskar gazed around the hall before addressing them.

"Well, to be frank, I have never imagined that one day I would take this award from my mentor in the presence of my family and my loved ones. It really feels special and I have no words to describe what I feel now. All I want to say is thank you so much for each and everyone who believed in me that I could achieve something in my life", saying which Sanskar was about to hand over the mic to the host but the host stopped him.

"A quick question to you Mr. Sanskar Maheshwari, every girl here is curious to know about the young lady who walked along with you on the red carpet. If you don't mind, can we have the pleasure to know about her?", asked the host.

"Sure why not, she is my fiance, Ms. Swara Gadodia", even before Sanskar completed the sentence the hall was filled with disappointed sighs from girls around the place.

"Oh no, he is not single"

"Oh my God, why should all handsome boys be already engaged?" 

The hall was filled with such whispers while Sujatha lowered her voice to Swara.

"We need to find a place to hide this man"

"Yeah mom, I have seen a similar response in our college as well. Don't know how should I keep him away from all the eyes", replied Swara shaking her head in disbelief.

"For now stick to him until this party ends, don't leave him alone", suggested Sujatha. 

At that moment Sanskar walked over to them coming down the stage. First Abhay hugged his friend tightly patting his back followed by Piya congratulating Sanskar. Then he took blessings from his parents later moving towards Uttara, Arnav and Khushi. Finally, he came and hugged Swara when she murmured congratulations in his ear, she took kajal from her eyes and placed a black dot behind his neck below the collar hurriedly hoping that he wouldn't notice.

"Swara did you do something?", asked Sanskar feeling her slight touch on his neck for which Swara just shrugged her shoulders indicating nothing but then she gave a knowing smile to Sujatha who nodded at her understandingly. As Sujatha suggested, Swara clung to Sanskar all through the dinner. Though Sanskar found it weird, he thanked her in his mind as he didn't want to be surrounded by girls like always. 

Next morning,

"Khushi, did you ask Piya's parents to join us today?", asked Arnav coming into the hall to speak with the pandit ji whom Arnav called to talk about the two weddings of his brothers.

"Ya Arnav ji, they are on their way. They might be here at any minute", replied Khushi sitting beside Arnav. Shekar, Sharmishta, Ram, and Sujatha were already present in the hall with Uttara, Swara, Sanskar, Abhay, and Piya standing behind them.

"Pandit ji, as we wait for others, you can see their kundali and let us know an auspicious day for their engagement and marriage", said Arnav.

As the pandit was going through the panchang, Piya's parents too joined them.

"There is a very good muhurat after two weeks. If not you will have to wait for a year", said Pandit ji. Hearing which Abhay and Swara exclaimed loudly "One year!" making everyone smile at their desperate kids while Sanskar shook his head trying to control his smile and Piya smacked Abhay's hand gesturing him to keep quiet. 

"Okay then let's finalize the date which is after two weeks", said Pandit ji looking at the elders. 

"Sorry for talking in between but (turning towards Swara and Piya's parents) Uncle, aunty it's all up to you. We don't want you to take any kind of pressure", interrupted Sanskar and the fathers looked at him with pride.

After giving one glance at their excited daughters, the parents too agreed.

"Very well then, we can get them engaged within two days and later plan for other pre-marriage rituals", declared Arnav taking in the authority. 

"Oh my God, we need to start shopping right now", said Khushi getting up from the couch immediately.

"Yeah", shouted Swara and Piya joining in the excitement.

"Ladies, you should be quick. We would be leaving to Mussoorie right after their engagement as I have planned for a destination wedding for my beautiful sisters", said Arnav looking at Swara and Piya. 

"Oh my God, thank you so much Arnav bhai", exclaimed the two girls hugging Arnav.

"Now everyone get ready, we will leave in an hour. Khushi, should we start from buying the jewelry?", started Sujatha going upstairs along with Khushi. All the ladies went into their respective rooms to get ready while Arnav just sat there along with his laptop making few calls.  

Meanwhile, Shekar approached Arnav.

"Arnav beta, I just wanted to know...how much would it cost for everything in a destination wedding?", stuttered Shekar looking down.

"Uncle don't worry about it. The wedding is on me. It is a gift from Raizada's for the couples", replied Arnav with a smile.

"No beta, it's actually our responsibility", but before Shekar could continue Arnav interrupted holding his hands.

"Uncle, please don't mind. My wife has ordered me that every expense of this wedding should be spent by us but the boys (taking two credit cards from his pocket) took an oath from me that I need to spend their money only. That's one of the reasons for having two receptions so as not to disappoint anyone", replied Arnav. But still, as Shekar looked unsatisfied, Arnav continued.

"Uncle don't worry, you will get many more occasions going further", added Arnav with a smile.

Hearing which Shekar smiled and nodded. He is very happy that his daughter would be going into a nice family and would be surrounded by understanding people. Shopping was in full swing when Sanskar got a call from an unknown number. 

"Hello, can I speak with Mr. Sanskar Maheshwari please?", came in a male voice from the other side.

"Yeah speaking", replied Sanskar.

"Hey, this is Dheeraj...remember?", greeted Dheeraj.

"Of course...how are you Dheeraj?", asked Sanskar moving away from the crowd so that he could hear better.

"I am fine Sanskar. I got your phone number from your company's website. Though I was skeptical that the CEO's number is on the website, I desperately had to talk to you, so I couldn't help calling you without taking an appointment. Sorry if I am bothering you", replied Dheeraj.

"Not at all, you can call me anytime", said Sanskar with a smile.

"First of all congratulations on being the best entrepreneur of this year and I am really very sorry for being an asshole in our last meet. I didn't mean most of those things which I said", said Dheeraj feeling really bad for his behavior.

"I totally understand Dheeraj", started Sanskar but was interrupted by Dheeraj.

"Please Sanskar, let me complete. I couldn't gather the courage to directly apologize to Swara for all the texts and calls I have been doing to her in these last two years not bothering about her emotions. Now I think of it, she did care for me because she could have easily blocked me from all the social media accounts but she didn't and the fact that Swara was not completely at fault is killing me more. Actually Kavya told me that it is she who requested Swara to...you know act like that. You get it right?", asked Dheeraj not wanting to think about those days again.

"Hmmm", is all Sanskar could utter and he let Dheeraj speak further.   

"Knowing Swara I totally understand why she didn't speak about Kavya as she knew how much I love my sister. Also, I have never given her a chance to explain herself and that was not the first time even in our relationship, I have never given her opinion any value. Though Swara seems to be tough and bold in front of the world she really doesn't know how to say no to her close ones but her eyes do giveaway a lot of things and I really don't understand how did I miss that guilt which was evident in her eyes every time she was with me in the last year of her college. Maybe I was so full of myself that I didn't care for seeing the truth which is right in front of me", said Dheeraj and paused to take a breath.

"Do you want to speak with Swara?", asked Sanskar not understanding how to react.

"No Sanskar. It would be difficult to delete her from my heart all of a sudden but I am starting it by deleting her from my phone. Hope our paths wouldn't meet anytime sooner giving me as much time as possible to get over and move on. Just convey her my sincere apologies and tell her that from now she wouldn't have any trouble from me and also there is no need for her to worry about me as I am going to get back to my work and try to be a better human being just like she wished", replied Dheeraj.

"Sure Dheeraj and feel free to call me if you need anything", said Sanskar genuinely.

"That's so sweet of you Sanskar. Have a wonderful life ahead and take care of Swara as well as yourself", saying which Dheeraj disconnected the call feeling lighter.

Sanskar was lost in his thoughts conferring the recent conversation while Swara looked at him and gestured at him raising her eyebrows asking "What happened". Sanskar just shook his head indicating that there is nothing. Excusing herself, she made her way towards him.

"What happened Sanskar? You seem to be lost", asked Swara looking at him.

"Nothing Swara. Are you done with your shopping?", asked Sanskar.

"Almost half of it is done. I need to still buy the dresses for the sangeet and Mehendi. What about you?", asked Swara.

"Abhay will take care of that...see he is on it", said Sanskar pointing towards Abhay who was all busy with the salesman choosing the best outfits for Sanskar and Arnav.

"I will go and help him", saying which Swara was about to go from there but Sanskar stopped her.

"Swara, shall we go out?", asked Sanskar.

"For your kind information, we are already out Mr. Maheshwari", replied Swara taking it as a chance to tease her would-be.

"I meant...", taking a deep breath Sanskar continued, "Shall we go for a long drive?"

"Are you sure Sanskar?", asked Swara confirming that she heard right.

"Of course, just let me know when you are done with the shopping", saying which Sanskar left to the waiting hall to assist Arnav in the office work.

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Yup, so here ends today's part. Am I dragging it too much? Do you want me to finish it off as now hardly there is any suspense?

How is the part?

Now Dheeraj is moving on yippeee, and our both the couples are going to Mussorie for their destination wedding? Aren't you excited? Any specific scenes you want me to include?

Few words on Arnav? (Also Abhay and Sanskar wanting to spend their own money for their wedding)

Did you like Sujatha's suggestions to Swara in the award ceremony?

Thank you everyone for responding to my question in the last part. I will keep that in mind before writing any mature content.

Love you guys,

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