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Abhi placed the tray on the side table and sat on the bed opposite to Pragya.

"What a miracle!! My lazy brother woke up early and brought coffee for us!! How sweet!!", Alia exclaimed and grabs her cup of coffee by jumping to the other side of the bed where Abhi kept the tray.

"First brush your teeth and drink, Alia", Abhi gently scolds her.

"Have you ever followed these rules?", alia asked and continues to drink her coffee.

"You don't brush before drinking coffee?", Pragya asked in shock while Abhi smiles cheekily.

"Sometimes. But not often", Abhi said.

"Liar. Don't believe him. He won't get down from the bed till he gets his coffee", alia adds.

Pragya glared Abhi while Alia showed tongue to Abhi who is looking at her furiously. He decided to deal with alia later, and now it's time to pacify his cranky wife. He touched her hand and found she was burning in fever.

"You have fever!!", Abhi told.

"Fever?", Alia asked and touched Pragya's forehead to check the temperature.

"You were sleeping beside her, right? How don't you know that?", Abhi questioned sternly.

"I don't know. I am sorry", alia said.

"Do I really have fever? I don't feel like that", Pragya asked clueless.

"You have. Wait let me call the doctor", Abhi said before leaving the room.

"Let me inform mom", alia ran behind Abhi.

"But...", Pragya tried to stop her, before that she left.

She touched her forehead to check whether she surely has fever, since she wasn't feeling like one.

"Called the doctor?", Ram asked coming downstairs followed by alia and Priya.

Abhi turned towards them and answered, "On the way"

"How she got fever? I mean, she was alright yesterday and sleeping right?", Ram asked.

"She was saying that she doesn't feel feverish", alia shrugs.

Something striked Priya's mind and she told them, "She was crying yesterday, right? Maybe because of that. She will get fever whenever she cries like that"

Abhi and Alia looked at her not understanding how she knows that when Abhi himself doesn't. Meanwhile, doctor came and checked Pragya.

"Fever is really high. I gave her injection, now she is sleeping. Let her take complete rest, fever will reduce quickly", doctor advised once she came out from her room.

"Thank you doctor", Abhi thanked her.

The doctor left from their house after prescribing some medicine for Pragya. Priya checked Pragya and found her sleeping peacefully, so she left from her room.

"How you don't know about her? I mean, about her fever and reasons", Ram asked Abhi.

"I never asked and she never told. I have never seen her sick like this from the day I met her. She is a closed book, dad. Infact she is a locked book", Abhi said.

"Maybe yes, but that book is locked from inside and you have to try to open it", Ram advised.

"And you have to enter inside through key hole and find the key to open that book, because the key to open it, also kept inside the book", Priya said by stepping down from the stairs.

Abhi and Alia looked at their parents in shock, while they left from the place to their room. Abhi and Alia looked at eachother confusingly.

"Are they really our parents?", Abhi asked alia.

"I doubt. I think we are adopted. They can't be our parents, bhai", alia said.

"You are right. How confusing they are!! Always talking in circles. God!! My head is spinning", Abhi holds his head.

"Leave that. Now let's go and meet my Bhabhi", alia drags Abhi.

"Correction sister. She is my wife first and importantly, I am not allowing you inside my room till she gets fine. Ok?", Abhi said smilingly by freeing his hand from alia's hold.

"What!!! Don't forget brother, if I didn't asked you to buy me some plants from garden centre, you wouldn't have met her and also I helped you to patch up with her. Mind it... Actually you owe me", alia replied arrogantly by keeping her hand on her hip.

Abhi smirked and said, "Whatever!! but now she is my wife, so I don't want you near my wife. Go, go. Go and do your work"

Alia fumed and replied, "Let's wait till she gets better, then I will show you who I am and what I can do!"

"You are still standing here?", Abhi tried to irritate her.

Alia stomped Abhi's feet and left from there while Abhi was winching in pain. Later he went to his room and waited till Pragya wake up by sitting beside her.

Abhi looked at pragya and thought, "On the first day itself you got fever. What are all I planned and how long I waited for this day to come to see my wife in my house. But now nothing is fine. Maybe I would have controlled my tongue infront of your mother. Still she found out about us right? Then she wouldn't have accepted us. Whatever happened is happened, now the responsibility to take care of your happiness is mine. So it will be better if I focus on that rather than feeling guilty for yesterday"

After 2 days, Pragya's fever got reduced but not completely gone, she was taken care by the family members very well. But she was still missing her mom and her sister, whenever she saw Alia near her, she would get the feeling of being with bulbul.

So, not wanting to show her sadness infront of the family, who accepted and loves her unconditionally, she tried to hide her sorrow by a fake smile. But the family members are not so dumb like she thought, they were smart enough to find her fake smile but still kept quiet not wanting to deepen the wound inside her heart, which is still fresh.

Eventhough they wanted to console her with soothing words, they don't want to make her cry again. Most of the time Abhi and Alia tried to keep Pragya engaged with stuffs to distract her from the feeling of being away from her home. Pragya sensed their efforts and went with the flow to see them happy.

On the other hand, bulbul was feeling miserable for her sister, while with Ragini, it draws a big blank. Bulbul tried to figure out about her mother's feelings, but she wasn't successful. Maybe her mother was way too intelligent in hiding her feelings.

One day, bulbul was crying silently inside her room by holding the picture of hers and Pragya's.

Purab thought to give bulbul her tea, who was staying with them from the day Pragya moved to Abhi's house. When he entered inside her room, he found her crying silently.

"Bulbul", purab calls out her, which gained her attention and she hurriedly wipes her tears.

"Yea... Yeah Purab? Need something?", Bulbul questioned him pretending to be normal.

"How long you gonna cry like this?", Purab asked her.

Hearing his words, flashes of that day when Pragya left home comes to her mind, unable to control her pain, she gave into her tears. Purab placed the tea cup on the table and moved towards bulbul and hugged her in a consoling manner.

"I wish she never met him. Atleast I would have lived with my sister and mother happily. I hate your friend for separating my sister from me", bulbul cries.

"I never thought you will behave like a selfish, bulbul"

Bulbul moved away from him and pushes him angrily, "What does that mean, purab? If wishing a happy life with my mother and sister is selfishness, then I am proud to be one. I don't need to give you any explanation, after all he is your childhood friend, right?"

"You are getting me wrong. You are speaking about your happiness, but I am speaking about Pragya Di's happiness, which lies on being with Abhi. Don't you want to see your sister happy?"

"See my sister? That is what my problem is. Your friend made all the ways as a dead end. Mom won't allow me to meet Pragya di and neither to talk with her. Didn't you heard what mom said yesterday, that not to contact di and not to talk about her in this house anymore?"

"I understand, but hating Abhi and talking like this is not a solution. Aunty will forget everything when time flies, just give her some time"

"I don't think that time is going to come in my life. I wish I could rewind everything and change the happenings", bulbul says tiredly and sat on the bed.

Purab sat beside her and says gently, "Just think that Pragya di is happy with Abhi and with his family, which is now hers too. Atleast this will help you to reduce your sadness"

Bulbul smiles sadly and replied, "I am living with this hope only. And I am sorry, I was rude to you"

"Were you ever  kind to me before?", Purab asked in shock.

Bulbul gasps in outrage and replied, "Stay here if you want to lose your life, Purab"

"I forgot, I was on my way to give this tea to your mom. But now it becomes cold and now I have to heat it again. I am leaving, bye bulbul", purab escaped from there by taking the tea cups which was untouched.

Bulbul smiles a little and sighs. She turned to the wall and spots the big frame of her and her sister's.

"I miss you di. Come to meet me soon", bulbul sadly whispers.

Purab entered inside ragini's room only to find her grabbing her things in hurry, he asks "Are you going somewhere, aunty?"

Ragini turns to him and replied,"Yes, purab. I got some work in NGO. I need to go now"

"Now? Are you ok with it?"

"Can't I be ok?", ragini questions back and continued to search her things.

Purab thought, "I can't understand whether she is trying to running away from the truth or from  her emotions. She is too stubborn to accept that she misses her daughter. Don't know when her heart is going to melt"

"Bye purab. I will be little late", ragini said and moved out from there, while purab nodes.

The next day,

Pragya and Alia was busy in seeing Abhi and alia's childhood picture album, while Abhi was busy in admiring his wife, who is returning back to herself.

He rested his chin on his palm, and continued to notice her mesmerized, when a lose hair strand keeps falling on side of her face as it caressed her cheek slightly and she quickly tucked it behind her ear only to have it fall again. He felt her so cute, when she repeatedly do that with an innocent smile, by flipping the pages of the album along with Alia.

To interrupt his mission admiring-his-wife, he heard a knock on the door. Sighing irritatedly, he got up and opened the door to find his servant at the door steps, who was told to inform him that is father is calling him downstairs.

Abhi went downstairs and spots his father and mother in a deep discussion.

"Called me, dad?", Abhi asked by bounding down from the stairs.

"Yes. I think it's high time to make your marriage official"

"Like how?"

"Simply, by arranging a press conference", ram shrugs.

"Not happening, dad. Pragya is not used to these lime lights and media"

"She have to get used to it, my son. She knows that she doesn't marry any common man but a rockstar", ram starts to move to Abhi's room.

"She is having fever", Abhi came up with another reason to stop him.

"She is much better than earlier", ram declares and starts to move again.

"Try to understand dad, she just left her home few days back and I don't want anyone to force her in doing things which she doesn't like"

"That doesn't mean she has to cry over for that her life long"

Priya was watching the father-son duo's arguments like an interesting TV program by sitting in the couch, but the only thing missing was, a popcorn bucket.

"I am not allowing you to trouble my wife", Abhi said by blocking his way

Ram sighs tiredly and called out loudly, "Alia, my princess"

After few seconds, alia peeps her head outside Abhi's room and asked, "Yes dad?"

"Can you come here for a sec?"

Alia curiously step down the stairs and stands beside Abhi and gestures her mother as what is happening, while Priya shrugs.

"Just hold my useless son till I get back. I am going to talk to my bahu regarding the official announcement of their marriage", Ram says by gesturing alia to hold Abhi.

Alia grins widely and held Abhi's both hands and locked it behind his back, "Okieee"

"This is not done. Alia leave me, dad its so cruel. Don't you have anything to say, mom?", Abhi questioned as he struggled to get out from alia's hold, as it was not easy for him since she is a karate champion.

"I am going to make pakoras for you all", Priya says by getting up from her place.

"Seriously mom?", Abhi shouts in shock while seeing his father moving towards his room.

"Yes beta. Don't you want pakoras now?", Priya asks with an obvious innocent look.

"I want, with my strong coffee", alia replied sweetly, while Priya nodes smilingly and left to kitchen.

Meanwhile ram reached Abhi's room and found Pragya was flipping through the album with a great interest. At downstairs Alia left Abhi's hand, after seeing him struggling so much.

"Now don't go and ruin anything", alia advised him.

"I am just worried"

"Too much for no reasons. She will agree, and I am seeing that you are overreacting for silly things nowadays", alia says by tying her hands across her chest.

"When someone have an innocent wife, they have to shift earth and heaven to protect her from bad people like you, right?", Abhi replied with a teasing smile on his face which irked alia a lot.

She sighed furiously and left to kitchen leaving the chuckling Abhi behind. Abhi looked up to his room.

To be continued...

With love,

Sweety