Cupping his cheeks, Khushi brought his face towards her. Mesmerized by her honey dripping lips, he also leaned down ready to taste her lips once again. Their lips were millimeters away from touching each other when Khushi's phone rang causing her to pull away.

Taking her phone out of her handbag, she answered the call and said, "Hello.....Oh, you reached.... Well I am in the patio.... Oh OK. You come here. I will wait here..... Yeah, Bye."

Cutting the call, Khushi turned to Arnav and said with a sweet smile, "Sorry, Hubby. Gotago. My date  is here. He is such a sweetheart, you know. So can't make him wait, you see. See ya later. Bye."

Hearing that Arnav was hurt. "Khushi, Date???" Arnav asked with pain and helplessly.

"Oh common, hubby dearest. Why are you behaving like this? Common, be a sport. Now you didn't expect me to take you with me to party, did you? You know everything. Everyone has to maintain their standards. I mean look at you and look at me. I am the Princess of the Business world. Though you are a good businessman. Still we don't have any match. I mean I am the daughter of the king of the business world. I have to maintain my standards, no. I can't just go to a party with anyone. It won't look good for my image." Though Khushi said everything with a smile still Arnav could see the arrogance and sarcasm in her eyes.

"But Khushi. We... we were about to... you know..." Arnav tried to say something but failed.

"We were about to what? Kiss? Common Arnavji, it's nothing. It was just a moment. You see, old habits. Nothing to make an issue. Common it's not like we were about to kiss for first time. So why are you making it look something big. Leave it, no. Anyways my date is here." She said looking behind him with a smile.

Arnav turned around and saw Karan coming towards them with a smile. Khushi beamed at him. "Oh God. He is looking so handsome." She squealed like a teenage girl.

Karan

As soon as Karan came near them, Khushi went and hugged him. Smiling, Karan hugged her back. "You are looking amazing." Karan said with a genuine smile.

"You are also not looking bad." Khushi said with fake arrogance. Karan raised his eyebrows at her. Then both of them burst out laughing.

Karan then noticed Arnav standing there. He turned to Khushi and asked, "And he is.."

"Well, he is from the bride's side. Samar Bhai's fiancee's brother. Arnav Singh Raizada." Khushi said with a smile.

"Hello, Arnav. I am Karan. Khushi's friend." Karan said with a smile extending his hands for a shake. Masking his emotions, Arnav shook his hands.

Then Karan turned to Khushi and asked, "So shall we go inside, Milady?"

"Sure, my love." Khushi said with a mischievous glint.

"Wow, you look in a good mood today. What's the matter?" Karan asked with a smile.

"Nothing. Just having a good time." Khushi said shrugging.

"OK. Then let's go." Karan said.

Khushi wrapped her hands around his arms and went with him. Arnav stood there hurt and in pain. Before going inside the mansion, Khushi turned and looked at Arnav standing at the patio looking hurt. She took a sharp breath seeing that.

She was satisfied as her plan worked. In actual, she purposely approached Arnav for kiss, seeing Karan's car entering inside the mansion. She was sure Karan would call her in few minutes, so she lured Arnav for a kiss. She just wanted to give it back to Arnav for what he did to her on Diwali years back. And she was happy with the outcome.

Seeing her lost, Karan shook her. Coming out of her thoughts, she gave him a small smile and walked inside with him. The night is long and the party had just begun. There is a lot of time left.

***************

Seeing Karan and Khushi entered inside hand in hand. All turned to them. Some were happy seeing them together while some were hurt and others were jealous.

Samar and Payal walked to them.
"Hey Karan." Samar greeted him with a smile.

"Hello, Samar Bhai." Karan greeted back with a polite smile and hugged him.

"So you guys together?" Payal asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yes, he is my date for the night." Khushi said shrugging.

"Oh, Date. Huh." Samar and Payal exclaimed with a knowing mischievous teasing smile.

"God. Guys. Stop it. Just put a break to your thoughts. There is nothing like what you guys are thinking. We are friends. So for the party, I just invited him to be my date. There is nothing more. Don't make stories in your mind." Khushi said with a frown.

Karan smiled a little. Samar and Payal was slightly disappointed but soon covered it and gave a wide smile welcoming Karan.

Khushi and Karan walked inside. The Raizada siblings who saw the entire exchange were wotried for their brother. After few minutes, Arnav walked inside. He had a sad look on his face. Immediately Anjali and Akash reached there.

"Chote, are you alright?" Anjali asked worried.

"Yeah, Di. I am fine." Arnav gave a weak smile.

"Bhai, please don't be upset. Everything will be fine." Akash said looking at Khushi and Karan.

Arnav and Anjali also looked at them. "Yeah, Akash. Everything will be fine. I will make everything fine. I know she is doing all this to show me. So that I also go through what she went through. I am not angry on her. Just hurt thinking the pain I caused her. I won't say I am not feeling jealous. I am feeling that. But I trust her. I know behind all this anger somewhere she loves me still. So I am just going to hold onto that and forget everything else." Arnav said sighing and smiled slightly.

Anjali and Akash nodded. Akash gave a side hug to him.

Khushi and Karan were roaming around the party meeting guests and business partners. Arnav also started meeting few businessmen whom he knew.

After sometime, dance was announced and all the couples were called on the dance floor. Samar came and asked Anjali for dance. Though she hesitated at first, then she agreed when Samar reassured her. They both went to dance floor and started dancing slowly.

Akash asked Payal which she royally ignored and went to dance with a friend of hers. Karan and Khushi also went to the dance floor. Arnav felt hurt seeing them dancing.

A slow music was playing. All the couples were dancing elegantly. Arnav kept looking at Khushi. Khushi also looked at him through the corner of her eyes.

"It's him, right?" Karan asked startling Khushi. Khushi looked at him confused.

"It's him, right? Arnav Singh Raizada, your husband." Karan asked with a smile.

"Karan, I... How did you..." Khushi trailed off not knowing what to say.

"How did I know?" Karan asked laughing. "Khushi, you may not love me. But I do. I love you. I know how it is when a person is in love. Khushi, we are childhood friends. I know you inside out. I know the meaning of your each and every gesture. Though you are trying very much to show that you are not affected by him. But still you are. You were with me throughout the party but still your eyes were searching for him. You were looking at him throughout. You show as if he is not important to you anymore. You don't love him anymore but still you do."

"Karan, I... I am sorry. I didn't wanted to hurt you. I had no intention to use you. It's just I...." Khushi looked down ashamed.

"You wanted to show him that you are happy. You wanted him to know your importance. You wanted to hurt him and make him understand your pain." Karan finished with a smile.

"I know, Khushi. I was confused when you asked me to be your date. You know about my feelings still you called me. Then it's only because you wanted a friend on whom you could trust and at the same time who understand you. You wanted to show him my love for you and what he would miss if he remains to be so thick headed." Karan smiled.

"Karan, I didn't wanted to hurt you." Khushi repeated feeling guilty and embarrassed. She is feeling so bad for using him.

"Khushi, you don't have to feel guilty. I know your intentions were never to hurt me. On the contrary, I am happy that you trust me so much and called me when you needed a frined in spite of knowing my feeling." Karan said with a genuine smile.

Khushi smiled back at him.

"So he is the one. Your husband and the father of your four munchkins." Karan said.

"Yes." Khushi said sighing.

"And he is the brother of the bride. That's Samar Bhai's to be wife's brother." Karan said with a nod.

"Yes."

"So what are you planning to do? Break this marriage or..." Karan asked confused.

"No. As much as I want to break this marriage, I can't do that. Samar Bhai loves Anjali a lot and even Riya is so much attached to her. If this marriage breaks, both of them will be heartbroken. After everything that happened in Bhai's life, I can't let them get hurt more."

"Hmm." Karan hummed in understanding. "So what are you going to do with him? End everything?"

Khushi looked away. "Truly answering, I don't know. I just want to end everything between us but then..."

"But then your heart is not willing to let go, right?" Karan said.

"Yes. You know Karan sometimes I feel like banging his head somewhere or kill him. I feel like ending everything between us and throw him out of my life. But this treacherous heart, it just doesn't understand." Khushi said helplessly.

"I know. I can understand. I know that you will never love me back. I know that you are his and your heart will always belong to him but still my heart is not ready to accept. It just keeps on loving you. It is just not ready to let go of you and accept that you will never love me back. I can understand. How much ever he hurt you, your heart will always love him." Karan said smiling.

"I am sorry, Karan. I... I don't know what to say to you. You are a very nice man. A man who every girl would feel lucky to have in her life. But..  I... I just can't, Karan. Trust me, if I didn't met him in my life, then I would have fallen in love with you. Even now, I feel guilty and mad at myself, that why I didn't fell for you. Why I couldn't love you. Once I even tried to forget him and give a chance to you, but I just couldn't. As much as I want to forget everything and move on, I couldn't. My heart is just not ready to let go of him. It's just not ready to accept anyone else.

"I don't know what to do. I feel so angry and frustrated at myself. He keeps hurting me and my heart keeps finding reasons to forgive him. And on the other hand, you. You just love me without expecting anything in return. I feel so guilty." Khushi said with her eyes brimming with tears.

Karan gently wiped the tears. "Hey, hey, hey. Don't cry. Khushi, listen. I never wanted to make you guilty. I love you. It's truth. And I can't change it. But I never wanted you to feel guilty for that. I never wanted my love to hurt you anyway. So please don't feel guilty for that. You are my first love. You will always have a special place in my heart. I will always love in some corner of my heart. But I have also accepted that you would never love me back. As much as it hurt me, I have made peace with it. I have made myself understand that. So you don't have to ever feel guilty for not loving me back."

Khushi smiled at him. "You know this is what makes me admire you more. You're just too perfect to be true. God, why didn't I feel in love with this perfect man. Why I have to fall in love with that rude, egoistic, arrogant, stupid man?" Khushi asked groaning.

Karan started laughing. "Hush, lady. We are in a party. It's not very classy lady like to groan like this. And you know right now I am feeling so happy. I always felt jealous of that man for having you and those four cute adorable munchkins. But now I feel flattered by your compliments." Karan said smiling.

"You don't have to feel jealous of him. You are just too perfect. And he is a world class jerk. Stupid Laad governor." Khushi said twisting her mouth.

Karan laughed. "Laad Governor!!! Seriously girl. You have a very crazy way of naming people." Karan said laughing.

Khushi frowned at him and then shrugged. "It's just true. You know Karan. Three men had entered in my life saying that they love me. And all three of them had shown different type of love to me. One was Shyam, whose love had turned so evil and obsessive that he not only ruined himself, but everyone around us.

"Then it was Arnav, he loved me. I agree and even I loved him. But in his love, there was only love. He only love me, there was nothing else. No trust, no care, no concern, and above all no respect. He could only love me. He never trust me, always doubting and blaming me. He never cared about my feelings and emotions. There was no concern. I have cried tears of blood in his house but he never bothered. Sometimes he hurt me, sometimes his family and even outsiders. But he never cared. And Respect. Not even for once in our one year of relationship, he respected me. His family and he used to insult me so much. But never ever he stood up for me except two times. Once against Shyam and once against his Dadi. And both were the moments when he was almost about to loose me. Because if he didn't stood up then, he would have definitely lost me. But other than that never ever had he even showed a bit of respect or care. And I was always fighting for him and forgiving his mistakes."

"That was one love for me. A simple love with nothing else. And then third is you. A perfect love. A love which contains everything. Care, concern, trust, respect, understanding, and companionship. And you never demanded anything from me in return of this love. You just kept loving me. And I truly wish sometimes that atleast once in any life I love someone who loves me like you do."

Karan smiled. "Khushi, I don't understand these words of love and these emotions. I love you and I only know to love you like this. And I will always do that."

"No Karan. I don't want you to keeping loving me like this." Khushi said with a determined face.

"Khushi???" Karan asked confused.

"Yes Karan. I want you to move on. I want you to find someone who would love you as much as you love her. Karan, I can't give you a future. We will never have a future together. Even if I try, my heart would never love you. And I don't want you to spoil your life for me. I don't wish you to spend your entire life thinking about me. Please move on. Forget me and move on. Find a girl who deserves you and will love you. Please Karan. Get married." Khushi asked pleading.

"Khushi, I..." Karan hesitated looking down.

"Karan, do this for me. Give yourself a second chance at love. Otherwise I will feel guilty for lifetime for spoiling your life." Khushi said feeling miserable.

"No, Khushi. Don't feel guilty. OK. I will give myself a chance and try on move on. I will try to find a girl for myself and marry her. I promise I will move on. You just be happy." Karan said sighing and gave a small smile.

"Thank you, Karan. I owe you for this. And I want a little favour from you." Khushi asked hesitated.

"What?" Karan asked confused.

"I need your help in making Arnav realise his mistake." Khushi said embarrassed.

Karan laughed. "OK. Anything for you. Even I could take my revenge for snatching you from me. But let me tell you I am not going to make it easy for him. I am going to try all my tactics and once again try to woo you. If he wants you, he has to prove himself worth you. He has to fight a tough battle with me to win you. I am not going to be the usual sacrificing good man in typical love stories and let you have him. I will be the villain in his love story who he has to defeat to get his love." Karan said with a fake evil smirk.

Khushi laughed. "Hahaha. Yes, I also want that. Let that man try all tricks. Then only he will realise his mistakes. And Karan, in between all these, don't forget to find a girl for yourself."

"Don't worry. I will do it. I will find my girl. But your ASR, is going to have a tough time with me on the opposite side." Karan said smiling.

"OK. But for all these, you have to be here, daily. The marriage functions are going to start. Then only real drama will start. The Raizada siblings are in for a rollercoaster ride." Khushi said smirking.

"OK. I will be here. But why do I feel that you are planning something big for them. What is going on inside your head." Karan asked suspiciously.

Khushi laughed. "So much. But still few more things are left before the real fun begins. Let the entire stage get set. Then the drama will begin." Khushi said with a evil smirk.

"God. Girl, you are scaring me. What are you planning. Please tell me." Karan asked confused.

"I will tell you everything. Not now, later. Here, too many people are there and it's not good to discuss all these." Khushi said shrugging.

"First tell me who all are there in this plan of yours?" Karan asked.

"Well you, me and Payal Di are definitely there but the rest have not even entered the scene. So let's wait for that. Then we will start our plan." Khushi said.

"OK. Whatever you do, as long as you, Payal and kids are safe. I am in every plan of yours." Karan said smiling.

"Don't worry. Nobody will get hurt. Just want the Raizada siblings to have a taste of their own medicine and realise their mistakes." Khushi said.

"So you both are going to forgive them?" Karan asked confused. After all this are they forgiving them.

"No. We can never forgive them. They have hurt us and ruined us too much to ever get forgiveness from us." Khushi said with an expressionless face.

"OK. Relax." Karan said sighing.

***************

Arnav looked at Karan and Khushi dancing. There were smiling and laughing with each other. Not being able to see them together, Arnav left from there.

He came out and sat on a bench in the garden. He was feeling jealous and hurt. He just wanted to be in Karan's place. Dance with Khushi, crack jokes with her and have fun. But alas, he can't do it. All because of his own stupidity. He sat there thinking about everything.

After few minutes, he noticed two little figures sneaking inside the party hall cautiously. He chuckled seeing their cute expressions while trying not to get caught. His little baby boys are too cute and adorable. Chuckling, he decided to follow them to know what they are upto and to keep them safe.

Arsh and Arush entered the main party hall sneaking away from their nanny and siblings. They slowly moved towards their targets cautiously. Their small little weapon was tightly held in their little hands. The silver forks with sharp tips. They were all ready to puncture the bum of their target with the forks.

Target! Beware Little Raizadas are on mission.

The target, who is apparently a woman in early thirties dressed in near to nothing clothes and heavy jewelleries, was moving around in the party flaunting herself.

The little ones sneaked behind her ready to attack her. But before they could execute their plan, they were lifted into the arms of their father who was silently following them and had a fair idea of their plan seeing their gestured.

Soon they were brought out of the party hall by their father, without anyone's notice. No amount of fighting and wriggling from their side helped them to escape from their father's strong arms. Finally setting on the bench where he was sitting before, with his two boys on his lap, Arnav looked at them with narrowed eyes.

His sons looked at him with identical angry faces. Arnav felt like chuckling but he composed himself and raised his eyebrows. The two boys glared at him angrily.

"Nannav Sing Laijada, why you bling ush hele?" (Arnav Singh Raizada, why did you bring us here?) Arsh asked angrily.

"Before that you both tell me what you were doing? What you guys were going to do to that last? And why do you have these forks in your hands?" Arnav asked with raised eyebrows.

Arsh and Arush looked at each other thinking whether to disclose their little secret. They nodded their heads agreeing.

"She, Mrs Velma (Verma), she vely (very) bad Aunty. She made Mumma cly (cry). She shay bad wolds (words). She shay we no Daddy. She say we illeg...illegite (illegitimate). She shay bad wolds to Mummy. Mummy cly so much. We vely shad. (sad). We punish her. We hult hel (hurt her). We kill her." Arush said angrily.

"Hm. We kill her. We kill her bad potty bum." Arsh repeated taking him fork.

Arnav looked at them feeling sad and miserable. Because of him his wife and kids have to hear all these nonsense. Then he grew angry. How dare that woman call his kids illegitimate. She is going to pay for this. But first he had to calm down his kids. Though they are looking cute, their plan was dangerous.

"Hey, hey, hey, Relax. That bad Aunty told bad things to Mummy and made her cry right. Then we will punish her. I will help you." Arnav said with a evil smile.

"OK. Letch go and kill her bum." Arush declared taking his fork.

"No. No. No. No killing bum. We will do something else." Arnav said softly.

Arsh and Arush frowned at him.

"Look, if you kill, I mean stab on her bum with this fork. Then everyone will find out you guys did it. And then all will again say bad things about Mummy as you guys are doing bad things. And this party is organised by Mumma, if something happens in party, then party will be spoiled and it will affect Mummy's reputation. So we won't kill, I mean stab her bum. We will do something else. Something secretly. So that we can punish her and also nobody finds out and Mummy will also be safe. OK." Arnav tried to make them understand.

"OK. But What we do?" Both asked thinking.

"I have a plan." Arnav said smiling.

"What??" Both asked excitedly.

He shared his plan with them and they both agreed. Then they went to execute their plan.

So plan is they will scare Mrs Verma when she goes to toilet by acting as Khushi's dead grandmother. And Arnav will act as ghost and Arsh and Arush will guard the toilet from outside and also switch off the light of the toilet.

They discussed the plan and went to implement it. But for that first they needed a white sheet for Arnav to disguise as Ghost. So they decided to sneak into Khushi's room to get the sheet.

Arnav, Arsh and Arush silently reached Khushi's bedroom. Entering inside, Arnav was hit with the familiar Jasmine smile. He inhaled him feeling peaceful. He looked around. The room had lots of pics. Some childhood pics of Khushi and some pictures with her family members. But most pictures were of Khushi and kids.

He started admiring the photos. Some were really adorable. Some pregnancy pics were there. Some with Arav, some with newborn Arsh, Arush and Arshi. Some with all the kids.

Imagine Khushi, Arav and kids

"Nannav, Nannav, Nannav," he was brought out of his admiration section by his boy's call.

He looked at them. "Hully (Hurry), Mummy come, we caught." (Nannav hurry. If Mummy comes, we will get caught.) They said looking here and there.

Arnav nodded his head and quickly opening the walk in closet, started searching for a white sheet. After sometimes he got one. They quickly left from there.

Now next plan was to get Mrs Verma to toilet. Arnav had another brilliant plan for that which he didn't shared with his boys. He called a waiter and put some laxatives in a juice without his notice and ordered the waiter to give the juice to Mrs Verma. The waiter nodded and did as he said.

Soon Mrs Verma completed the entire juice. By the time, Arnav downloaded a voice changing app so that he could change his voice to a scary ghost like voice. No sooner Mrs Verma ran to toilet.

Arnav and the boys too went behind her. Mrs Verma started going in and out of toilet. They were laughing at her by hiding. After sometime, Mrs Verma stopped coming out. Arnav then instructed his boys what to do.

Arsh has to switch off the light of bathroom from outside after Arnav enters so that the entire place has a scary look. Arnav had a torch which would enable him to see and would give a ghost like look for his appearance. Arush's work was to stop anyone from the toilet.

It was a ladies's toilet. Arnav didn't wanted anyone else to enter and see him and get caught. So making sure everything is in control, he entered the toilet. He saw Mrs Verma sitting on the floor of the toilet holding her stomach. He checked whether all stalls were empty. Luckily there was no woman other than Mrs Verma. Arnav signalled Arsh to switch off the lights.

He switched off the lights. Arnav clad himself in the sheet as a ghost and with lightened torch approached Mrs Verma who was scared and looked around for a switch by her hands.

Standing behind her, Arnav called her in the scary voice. Mrs Verma turned back and seeing the ghostly figure screamed out loud falling on the floor.

"Mrs Verma..." Arnav again called.

Mrs Verma started crying in fear.

"Mrs Verma, do you know who I am?" Arnav asked with a devilish laugh.

"N...No..." Mrs Verma stuttered in fear. There was sweat beeds on her face. Her tears were running down her cheeks.

Arnav again laughed a devilish laugh. "I am Khushi's Dadi (grandmother)." Arnav said with a sinister laugh.

"But you died years ago, no?" Mrs Verma asked confused.

Arnav rolled his eyes. How dumb is this woman. "You fool. I am a ghost. So obviously I am dead. After dead only people become ghost." Arnav said.

"Oh yeah. I forgot. But Dadi, why did you come to me? What do you want?" Mrs Verma asked scared.

Arnav again laughed in ghostly voice. "Hmmph. I am very angry on you. You hurt my granddaughter Khushi. You said nasty things about her and her kids. You made her cry. Now I am going to punish you for that." Arnav said angrily.

"No. No. Dadi. Please don't punish me. I am so sorry. I will also ask sorry from Khushi. Please don't punish me. Leave me." Mrs Verma said scared.

"No. I won't accept your apology. You hurt my Khushi so much. I will punish you. I will kill you and take your heart out and stamp on it and make chutney of it. I will give it to stray dogs. Then I will cut your body into pieces and make a fry and feed it to animals in hell. You will then be resurrected and again you will be roasted in oil and fed to vultures. Yes, this will be your punishment. Come. Let me kill you." Arnav said scarily.

Hearing about punishment itself, Mrs Verma felt like fainting. When Arnav (Ghost) called her for killing, she got scared and started running around the toilet in fear. Arnav followed her trying to scare her.

Finally Mrs Verma ran out of the toilet in fear and locked it from outside. Seeing that Arnav was scared. Oh no. He got trapped inside the ladies's toilet. He tried to open the door but it was locked from outside. He banged on the door. No use. Mrs Verma stood outside leaning on the door closing it from outside.

Arnav was shocked and frustrated. He got locked inside a ladies's toilet. If anyone finds out, it will be the headlines of tomorrow. Arnav Singh Raizada caught inside Ladies's toilet. Then what will happen to his reputation. How will he face Khushi. His family. God. There won't be any bigger embarrassment than this.

How will he escape from this situation. Will his little boys be able to take him out. He knew Arsh and Arush are outside but would they understand the seriousness of situation and take him out. And what if they couldn't. What to do. Shall he call someone. Akash? But what will he say if Akash ask him what he was doing in a ladies's toilet. Di? No. It's bigger risk. She could bash him for entering ladies's toilet.

Hod he miss Aman. If he was in Delhi, he would have called Aman and took himself out of here. But alas Aman is in Delhi and he is here in Mumbai, that too inside the ladies's toilet in his wife's home where a full fledged high class party is going on. Getting caught inside here means lifetime embarrassment. Damn. What to do. What to do. Think Arnav. Think.

Outside
Mrs Verma stood leaning on the closed door scared. Arsh and Arush saw everything from their hiding place. They were worried for Arnav. They started thinking a plan to take Arnav out without getting caught. They remembered Arnav telling them that nobody should know about their prank. But what to do. The little two years were brainstorming trying to find ways.

Finally God decided to help them and send their saviour. Arav came there while searching for his little siblings. He was having fun with his friends when he noticed that his younger brothers were missing. Arshi and Akira were playing with their toys. But Arsh and Arush were not to be seen anywhere. He decided to search for them himself before alerting elders

He started searching for them, but not finding them in the kid's party, he came to the main party hall. He started looking around for them. After seeing the main party hall, he was roaming around when he saw both of them sitting on the ground hiding. They were seriously discussing something in their baby language occasionally looking somewhere with a worried look.

He looked where they were looking. He saw Mrs Verma standing there. His anger raised seeing her. He remembered how Mrs Verma insulted their mother last time when they met her. He felt like banging her head somewhere. But first he had to take care of his little siblings.

He went to them and called them from behind. Startled, they looked back and cried Bhaiyyu in happiness seeing him. They hugged him happily.

Arav hugged them back and asked, "What are you both doing here? Mumma asked you to stay in the party right. Then why you both came here. Come. Let's go." He said taking them.

"No. No." Both the boys protested shaking their heads.

"What? Come. Let's go." Arav said holding their hands.

"No Bhaiyyu. No go. We go. No help Nannav. He shtay (stay) inshide (inside)." Both hurriedly said stopping their brother. (No Bhaiyyu. We can't go. If we go, there is nobody to help Nannav. He will remain inside."

"What? What are you saying? Nannav? Where is he?" Arav asked confused.

They both looked guilty. But decided to say everything to save Arnav. Only their Bhaiyyu, their saviour, can help them now.

"Bhaiyyu, we play in gallen. We saw Bad Aunty. We lemembel she hult Mumma. We punish hel. We came hele. We kill her bum. Nannav saw ush. He took ush. He shaid no punish her. No kill bum. He shaid we punish her secletly. We plan. Nannav play ghost. Mummy's Dadi. We scale hel. She scale. She came out. Arnav shtay inside. We take out Nannav. We no take out Nannav. Nannav shtay inshide only." (Bhaiyyu, we were playing outside. Then we saw the bad Aunty. We remembered her hurting Mumma. We decided to punish her. So we came inside. We were going to kill (stab) her bum. But Nannav saw us and took us with him. He said not to punish her by killing her bum. We punish her secretly. Then we planned everything. Nannav played as ghost of Mummy's Dadi and we scared her. She got scared and she came out. But Nannav remained inside. Now we have to take him out. If we don't take him out, he will stay there only.

They narrated the entire thing in their baby language. Somehow Arav understood the whole scenario. Oh no. Dad is inside the ladies's toilet. He also started thinking of a way to take him out.

"Idea." Arav said suddenly. The other two looked at him. Arav told him about the plan. After discussing everything, Arav went to gather items for implementing their plan. Before going, he instructed both not to allow anyone to go to the toilet or near Mrs Verma.

Luckily nobody came there and soon Arav returned with everything they needed. Arav came to them. He lifted Arsh and made him sit on his shoulder. And gave him the lighted torch. Then just like his father, he covered them with the white sheet he brought looking like a ghost.

He instructed Arush not to allow anyone to come there and he went to switch off the light outside toilet with Arsh. After switching off the light, he went to Mrs Verma just like Arnav went. With Arsh in his shoulder, they almost reached Arnav's height and seeing them Mrs Verma thought the ghost had come out.

She again got frightened. Leaving the toilet door she fell on the ground and started crawling back in fear. Arav was not saying anything. But Arsh was giggling inside. In the dark and silent atmosphere, it was feeling scary to Mrs Verma. She started praying to God giving all sorts of bribes.

Finally to implement their plan, Arav took the chilli powder and threw it on Mrs Verma's eyes. Mrs Verma started howling in pain and jumping around. Taking advantage of her momentary blindness, Arav went and opened the toilet door.

Arnav who was pacing inside worried, quickly hid hearing door opening sound. Arav and Arsh looked around confused. They took off the sheet and started looking around. Seeing them, Arnav came outside. Seeing him, Arsh jumped on him happily. Arav also hugged him. Arnav hugged his sons happily.

They three came out of the toilet. Arnav saw Mrs Verma howling with chilli in her eyes. Arnav raised his eyebrows at Arav and Arsh. Arsh giggled happily while Arav had a sheepish smile. Soon Arush also came there. He also giggled seeing Mrs Verma.

But their eyes widened hearing sound of footsteps. Taking the sheets and torches, Arnav gave to Arav and then taking Arsh and Arush, he ran away from there with Arav. But not before switching on all the lights. They ran to the garden and sat on a bench. Then started laughing loudly.

"Wow, that was fun." Arnav said laughing.

"And did you Mrs Verma's face. She was looking so scared and running around." Arav said laughing.

Arsh and Arush nodded giggling. Then all three hugged Arnav. "Thank you Nannav." Arsh and Arush said happily.

"Thank you Dad." Arav said in heart.

Arnav looked at his boys and hugged all three and kissed their foreheads lovingly. Few minutes later, they saw Mrs Verma running out of the party hall crying with her husband trailing behind. They both went in car and zoomed off.

Arnav and the kids laughed seeing that. They started talking and having fun. Arnav started playing with them. After sometime, Khushi came there with Arshi in her arms. She looked worried but seeing Arav, Arsh and Arush safe, she relaxed.

"Where were you guys? I was searching for you everywhere." Khushi asked with a worried expression.

"Sorry, Mumma. We were playing here. We are fine, Mumma." Arav assured her seeing her worried face.

"OK. Did you guys had food?" Khushi asked smiling.

"Yes, Mumma." Arav nodded smiling.

"OK." Khushi hugged Arav. Then turning to Arnav said, "Mr Raizada, I think you should go in and have something. The food is already served."

Arnav nodded. "I will go in sometime. Now I am not feeling sleepy."

Khushi nodded and turned to kids. "OK. Babies. Now time to bed. Come. Let's go."

The kids looked at Arnav and smiled. Arsh pulled his arms and asked him to bend down. Arnav bent to their height. All three boys kissed him. Arnav was shocked but he smiled and kissed them back kissing their foreheads.

Seeing that, Arshi frowned. Our little miniature was jealous seeing all ignoring her. "Nannav" She called loudly startling everyone. All looked at her.

Arshi looked at Arnav and extended her hands indicating him to take her in his arms. Khushi looked at her shocked for a moment but didn't say anything and gave Arshi to Arnav who picked her up happily.

Arshi kissed Arnav all over his face and laid her head over his shoulder hugging him tightly. Arnav held feeling overwhelmed. He was also kissing her time to time. Khushi shook her head at her daughter's antics. Her baby girl is too much possessive. She loved everyone and loved all attention also.

Being the youngest, she is most pampered. She was a little weak when born, so Khushi always gave special attention to her. So she is a bit possessive and gets annoyed when people ignore her. But still she is adorable and loves her siblings very much.

After few minutes, Khushi said, "OK. Let's go." Khushi came to take Arshi but she averted her face looking away.

"Ashi." Khushi called her sternly.

Arshi pouted and said stubbornly, "No. Ashi no come. Nannav make Ashi sleep. Ashi sleep. Othelwise Ashi no sleep."

Khushi narrowed her eyes at her. Arshi also kept her innocent puppy dog face. Both mother daughter kept looking at each making the father sons worried. Finally, Khushi raised her hands and said, "Fine."

"Yaay." Arshi exclaimed happily.

"You are becoming stubborn day by day, Ashi. Mumma is not liking it." Khushi said with fake anger.

Arshi looked at her and seeing her Mumma upset, she felt bad. "Mumma." Arshi called leaning towards Khushi.

Khushi ignored her and looked away. "Mumma." Arshi again called with slight whimper.

Seeing her ready to cry, Khushi took her. Arshi laid her head on Khushi's shoulder and played with her long hairs. "Ashi lobes Mumma so much. Ashi good girl. Ashi Mumma's Princess. Ashi heal (hear) Mumma. Mumma no angry. Mumma Angry. Ashi said. Ashi cry." Arshi said with a fake sad face.

Khushi looked at her with raised eyebrows. "Really Ashi. Drama Queen. You are acting" Khushi said tickling her. Arshi giggled trying to save herself from her mother. "Mumma, no. Shtop. Mumma shtop."

After a tickling section, Khushi started walking inside taking Arush's hand with Arav and Arsh tailing behind. But before they could enter inside, Arshi stopped her. "Mumma shtop."

Khushi looked at her confused. Arshi looked behind and called Arnav. "Nannav, come."

Arnav looked at Khushi hesitated. Khushi sighed and said, "Come, Mr Raizada." She said and walked inside. Arnav followed her happily taking Arsh in his arms and holding Arav's hand.

They went to Kid's room without anyone's notice. Arnav and Khushi bathed the kids, changed them and put them to bed. Arnav read the toddler's bed time stories on Arshi's insistence while Khushi put Arav to bed.

After kids slept, Khushi left from there silently without saying anything to Arnav. Arnav also came to main party hall with a smile. He had the food and joined his family. Soon they bid bye and left to their home. If his family noticed his happy face, then they didn't asked him anything. They just let him enjoy his happiness.

So done with chapter 25. OK. I know all of you are mad at me for not updating this story for a long time. It is just that I lost the track of this story. I was busy with life and couldn't update it for long. So I just couldn't write it somehow. I don't know how this part came out. I hope I didn't disappoint you guys. Hope you all enjoy this chapter.

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