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Thanks for all those who had spent their precious time in reading my works. Now let's see our abhigya's journey 😜😜...

Abhi and Pragya reached the puja hall and Priya makes them to do the aarti. After sometime, Ram moves to the podium and starts to talk with the press.

"Thanks to all the media people present here. I want to officially announce my son's marriage to the world", Ram signs Abhi to come towards him.

Abhi walks to the stage by holding Pragya's hand. Abhi stands beside Ram while Pragya nervously stands there.

"My son, Abhishek Prem Mehra and this his wife, Pragya Arora. Now officially Mrs. Pragya Abhishek Prem Mehra", Ram announced to the press people.

They heard some murmurs here and there and finally a reporter asked, "Rockstar Abhi, for how long you both know eachother?"

"More than an year. We are married for almost 7 months now", Abhi informed.

"Then why did you hide your marriage? Is that because you signed any contract remaining unmarried till the contract got over?", One of the reporter asked.

"Contract? No... I would never sign any contract jeopardizing my life. There was some problem in my kundali, that's the reason we couldn't inform anyone before solving it", Abhi answers them calmly.

Pragya looked at him shock as he was lying like a pro. Recovering quickly, she turns to the media.

"Kundali? You are Abhi The Rockstar, do you believe all this superstitions?"

"Well, no... I didn't, till something like this happened to me", Abhi shrugs.

"Whether it's love or arranged marriage?"

"A pure love marriage", Ram answers them smiling.

"Pragya mam, once Abhi sir told his girlfriend is no way related to his industry. Are you? How did you both met?"

Pragya nervously nods and replies, "I am a professor. We met in a garden center and..."

"And I became her stalker", Abhi finishes off.

Priya and Alia smiling at them standing near the stage happily. Pragya smiles seeing him so happy after what are all happened.

After few more questions, Ram send the media with a great news of Abhi The Rockstar's marriage.

"Phew... Finally!", Alia sighs as she dumps herself on the couch.

"We are going to our farm house", Ram informs the family members.

"When?", Abhi casually ask as he sipped the water. Pragya tiredly sits beside Alia and drinks water.

"Now", Ram answers him.

Hearing him Pragya coughs as the water choked. She asked him in dread, "Now?"

"Yes", Priya replies with a regretful smile.

Abhi asks, "Why? We just now informed the media and..."

"It won't be nice if we didn't invite any of our company share holders, your colleagues, friends and our business partners to your wedding. Since we couldn't do that, I arranged a small party in our farmhouse today and invited all of them", Ram justifies.

Abhi runs his hand over his face tiredly and he looked at Pragya, who is pouting sadly.

"Can't we postpone it to tomorrow? I am exhausted", Alia says.

"What you did to get exhausted? We are the one answering the questions and you were simply standing and watching the show", Abhi frowns.

"Why are you always arguing with her? Even she is tired just like us", Pragya defends Alia.

Alia showed her tongue to Abhi as she hugged Pragya.

"We can't postpone anything. Sorry ladies, you all have to get ready quickly and we are leaving soon", Ram gently orders and walked out.

"Ok, get ready soon or else he won't mind dragging you all without any touch-up", Priya gently pats Abhi's shoulder.

Sighing, all went to change and came back quickly. They reached the farmhouse soon and little later, the party begins and Ram got busy in introducing Pragya as his daughter-in-law to everyone.

"Why did you lied?", Pragya whispers to Abhi as they were standing little away from the guests.

"When?", Abhi asked as he turned to look at her.

"That kundali problem?"

"Oh that! That wasn't a lie. Actually I heard mom talking to some pundit ji and he was saying that I have some problem in my kundali, that's the reason behind all the problems"

"Oh! Do you believe all that?"

"Hmm... After what happened with us, I started to believe in that. Or else we wouldn't have faced such situations. Hell!! My screwed up kundali"

Pragya chuckles hearing his complaint. Abhi smiles seeing her chuckling so cute. He puts his hand on her shoulder pulling her close and that's when he heard his friend's excited howl.

"No call, no information, not even a message and got married directly!", Abhi's one of the friend came to them and excitedly hugs Abhi.

"How am I supposed to inform you when no one in my family was invited either?", Abhi says chuckling and turning to Pragya, he says, "He is my best friend, Dev. Dev Varma"

"Hello", Pragya smiles politely and shakes hand with him.

"Nice to meet you, Pragya ji. I never thought he will ever marry and that too eloped! Not even in my dreams", Dev jokes.

"Hey, don't go and tell around that we eloped", Abhi tells him.

"Fine fine. And Pragya ji, What is so special about him that you chose him? Don't mistake me, because everywhere in social media, his photo with some other girls would always be leaking tagging them as couple. I think almost every month with a new face!! Then how?", Dev asked curiously.

"How it could be true and how am I to believe that, when he was with me as my husband?", Pragya asks him cheekily.

"Wow, so much trust on him", Dev asked her.

"A little more than you imagine and moreover he is not that type to cheat on me", Pragya replies.

"I am warning you, don't start verbal war with her and don't blame me for not warning you earlier. You can't win her in that", Abhi says grinning at his friend while Pragya makes a face.

"No buddy. I learnt my lesson. And anyways congratulations and happy married life", Dev hugs Abhi.

"Thank you", Abhi and Pragya replies to him smiling.

"Where is Sona? Didn't she come?", Abhi asked Dev.

"No, she is stucked up with work. Some emergency case in hospital, that's why. She said that she will invite you both personally for lunch"

"Sonakshi Varma. His wife, she is a gynecologist", Abhi informs Pragya while Pragya nodes smiling.

Dev, Abhi and Pragya talked with eachother for sometime and Dev shared many secrets of Abhi to Pragya as a revenge for doing the same on his wedding day. And also narrated her, how they both met and become good friends.

Later, Dev left from the party once again congratulating them. Soon the guests are also started to leave and finally it was only Abhi and Pragya with their family.

"Here", Priya hand overs a cover to Pragya.

"Now what is this new thing?", Abhi asked suspiciously.

Pragya opens the cover and find two tickets to Manali. Pragya looked at Abhi in surprise and both turned to Priya for some answers.

"A honeymoon trip is a long-overdue, isn't it?", Ram answers making Pragya's eyes to pop out while Abhi grins cheekily at her.

"And the credit for this brilliant idea goes to Ms. Alia Mehra", Alia bows dramatically.

"You!", Abhi asked her surprised.

"Yes, me. You both got married in Manali, so I thought this would be great to choose Manali instead of some other places", Alia replies.

Pragya quickly says, "So soon? I mean, I just shifted here, not even spent time with you all..."

"You have your entire life to spend with us", Priya answers and adds, "And your flight is in next 2 hours"

"2 hours?", Pragya asks in surprised shock.

"Yes", Ram, Priya and Alia replied in unison.

*******

Bulbul was flipping through the channels sitting in the living room, bored and tired. She lazily stretches on the couch in half sleep and quickly comes awake when she heard the news.

"Buisness man, Mr. Ram Mehra has made a official announcement of his son, Rockstar Abhi's marriage. And it was also said that Abhishek Mehra has some horoscope problem so that they couldn't reveal his marriage till the problems got solved. And..."

Suddenly someone turns off the TV. Bulbul quickly turns back to look at the intruder and finds her mother standing behind her, standing so calmly with a spare remote in her hand.

Bulbul was about to argue but decided against it and started to walk towards her room silently. She walks past her mother and stopped in track when she heard her mother's words.

"There is no need to watch such news in our home. I don't want to hear even her name in our home. Hope you will understand what I exactly mean and don't disappoint me", Ragini says.

Bulbul nodes her head without turning back and silently left to her room. She was laying on her bed, lost in thoughts. She was feeling sleepy earlier but now!! Bulbul touched the place beside her and sighs sadly, she grabs Pragya's pillow and hugs it.

"I couldn't even see your photo in the news. I would have been happy and relieved if I could able to see you in that, Pragya di. I would have definitely found out whether you are happy in that house. You are happy right?", Bulbul thought hugging Pragya's pillow.

*******

Abhi and Pragya left to Manali and spent their quality time with eachother. They went for shopping, site seeing, and had lot of fun pushing the bad days of their life behind.

We need to take a step in the process of creating a new and fresh bond in every relationship. But at times, it wasn't so easy. Taking a first step is always a big and tough task, once we did, we would never able to stop ourself from taking the next step and making the relationship more beautiful and stronger than before.

At first, it wasn't easy for Pragya to take that step, when she did, everything seems so smooth and easy. She started to believe that one day her mother will surely forgive and forget the bitter memories and accept Abhi as her son-in-law.

Abhishek, maybe he was known as famous Rockstar and business man Ram Mehra's son. But to the people truly knows him, he was a good friend and they know all his strength and short comings. He can do anything and everything for his beloved ones.

The only time he regretted for being the rockstar and business man's son is, when he couldn't get his love. Abhi felt so helpless when he couldn't wipe Pragya's worry that her mother will never accept their relation.
Everything happened like she feared and he promised himself to achieve her mother's trust and unit their family.

He doesn't know how and when it will happen. Till then he is there to keep Pragya always happy and safe with him. No matter what, his first priority will be Pragya's happiness.

*******

Ram was talking with someone through phone, he seems little disturbed and confused. Priya sits beside him and asks once he ended his call.

"Any information?", Priya asks Ram.

"No. I doubt whether we will get some information or not. You know, I met him 10 years back. After that I don't know anything, not even his residence", Ram says.

"You can ask any of the members who attended the conference at Netherlands, right?"

"Do you think I didn't try that way? No one knows nothing about Neil. It is really a tough task to locate him. Don't know where he is?"

Ram and Priya were trying to find Neil. But he wasn't neither in Delhi nor in India. So it's really hard for them to find him after these many years.

"Mom, dad", Alia excitedly runs down the stairs with her iPad.

She stands behind their couch and make them face the camera as Pragya and Abhi video called them.

"Hi uncle, aunty...", Pragya calls them happily and they had some family moment.

*******

After a week trip, Abhi and Pragya returned back to Mumbai. Pragya was so excited to meet their family after a week.

Pragya excitedly runs inside her home while Abhi follows her smiling seeing her excitement. She spots Alia first and hugged her.

"Oh my god!! I thought you are returning tomorrow", Alia says as she hugged Pragya.

"What difference does that makes? Aren't you happy in seeing us?", Pragya asks back breaking the hug.

"🧐Which idiot said that? I am so happy", Alia squealed as she hugged Pragya.

"Oh oh... My son and daughter-in-law are back", Priya says entering inside the hall.

"Yeah. I missed you mom", Abhi says innocently.

"Is it? But I couldn't feel that, My son", Priya teases him.

Pragya quickly says, "Alia, come with me. I'll give you the gifts we bought for you all"

"Wait wait. First go and get fresh up and take rest for a while. You both might be tired because of the travel", Priya insists.

"Dad isn't home?", Abhi asks her.

"As usual. Office, meetings and clients", Priya shakes her head and turning to Pragya, she says, "I made strawberry cookies today. Go, fresh up and come. Go fast"

"Ok. Thank you", Pragya hugged her and left to her room happily.

"Even I am going. Bye ladies", Abhi follows Pragya after saying one of the workers to bring their luggages to room.

"She looks so happy than before. May god bless my kids with happiness", Priya silently prays.

All reached the dinning hall at dinner time. Ram, Priya and Alia was there already, Pragya was returning from the kitchen with dessert while Abhi climbs down the stairs by surfing his mobile.

Abhi takes his place and continued to concentrate on mobile. Pragya gives a irritated look and snatched his mobile.

"What?", Abhi asks annoyingly.

"No mobile in dinning table. And by the way, is it necessary to post every single thing in social media? Do you know how many unwanted attention I am getting because of you?", Pragya asks glaring at him.

"Ok sorry. But let me post this photo. This is the last one, please?"

Pragya sits in her chair and passed the gravy to Alia and warns him, "One of these days, I am going to send a request message to the official site of these social media requesting to block your account"

Abhi looked at his family members, who were trying hard to control their laughter seeing Abhi's shocked face and the way he was getting scolded by his wife.

Abhi scowls seeing their laughing and starts to eat silently while Alia and Ram hi-fies slyly.

"Actually, I was thinking to resume my job", Pragya starts to say.

"Oh that's great, when you have decided to rejoin?", Ram asks as he drinks water.

"I haven't decided yet. I'll let you know once I cleared everything with the college management", Pragya replies passing the knife to Priya.

"Clear what?", Abhi asked her.

"I haven't take neither any proper leave nor gave them reason for my absence. So I have to inform them my situation and resume my work", Pragya answers him.

"Ok then, even I have so many pending works. Actually I abruptly stopped designs in the middle because of the excitement of you coming home. Now I am loaded", Alia says sheepishly.

"Oh! So all are leaving to your work and I am going to be alone at home", Priya says shaking her head.

"I'll come home early", Pragya assures smiling.

"Oh, that reminds me, I'll inform the driver to drop and pick you up from your place. You just tell him your timings", Ram says Pragya.

"What is the need for a driver when her lifelong chauffeur is here?", Abhi asks sipping the juice.

"What about the day when you go for shoot, recording or concerts?", Alia teases him.

"I can go and come back by myself", Pragya says.

"No no. We can't take risk like that. Now many people knows you as Rockstar Abhi's wife, what if they flock you like they do to him? So you are taking driver with you, that's final", Priya orders.

"Your wish, our command my highness", Ram says bowing his head.

Everyone laughs seeing him like that and Ram also starts to laugh with them.

*******

Abhi was sleeping on his stomach and Pragya enters inside the room talking with someone on call.

"Yeah, I just mailed you my letter. Ok... Yeah sure, thank you sir"

Abhi's sleep gets disturbed by her talk. He lazily open his eyes and sees Pragya searching from the draw while talking on mobile.

Pragya sits in the bed and goes through her files and replies on call, "Yeah, I got it sir. We are planning to conduct the fest with some restrictions this time. I'll send you the rules with the attachment. Ok...Yeah sure..."

Abhi sits and hugged her from behind still having his eyes closed, resting his head on her shoulder. Pragya smiles and continues to talk.

"No problem sir, I will do it... Yeah that's fine... You can get the list from student's chairperson... Arnav have another copy with him... Thank you so much sir", Pragya cuts the call and pulled Abhi's cheek lightly.

"Good morning", Abhi murmurs in half sleep.

"This is afternoon, Mr...", Pragya chuckles.

"Let it be", Abhi says still closing his eyes. When the words hit his ears properly he opens his eyes coming awake fully and shouts, "Afternoon? Why didn't you wake me?"

"Oh my poor ears!!", Pragya says rubbing her ears.

Abhi turned to the clock and found it's 9 in the morning, he turns to Pragya and sees her cheekily looking at him.

"What? You are already late, now go and get fresh. You have an ad shoot after 12", Pragya says getting up from the bed.

"You also come with me to shoot", Abhi suggests getting down from the bed.

"What am I supposed to do when you are working there? I'll be bored", Pragya says with her hand on hip.

"I'll take care of that. So, you are coming", Abhi says moving towards washroom.

"No"

"You are coming", Abhi shouts from the washroom.

Pragya shakes her head as she know, once he fixed something in his mind then no one can change it, even herself. Pragya moves out to inform Priya and Alia about their plan after placing Abhi's shirt on the bed.

To be continued...

With love,

Sweety