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Raavi gave a huge smile when Krish pointed the camera at her. Then her Maasi pulled her to where the cake was kept. She looked at the cake, then at the camera, and blowed out the candles smiling. Everyone around her began to sing 'Happy Birthday' for her. She cut the cake and fed everyone one by one, Mausapa, Prafulla, Anita, Dhara di, Gaumbi and Dev. Krish put the camera on selfie mode and went to Raavi and opened his mouth to eat the cake, but Raavi didn't notice him. She straightaway walked to Shiva who was standing at a distance looking both annoyed and bored.

"Shiva cake!" Raavi showed him the cake, but Shiva ignored her. "Oh! Tujhse baat kar rahi hu. Muh khol!"

Dhara glared at Shiva when she saw Shiva not cooperating with Raavi. She gestured him to eat the cake. Shiva sighed and opened his mouth. Raavi shoved the whole thing into his mouth and Shiva had to stop himself from choking. He glared at the girl while she laughed looking at his face.

"Mujhe nahi khilayega cake?" Raavi asked.

"Nahi."

"Shiva, apni future bhabhi ko cake khilana chahiye. Chal khila!"

"Ae maami ki behen ki beti. Jaa kisi aur ka dimaag khaa jaake. Ek toh bhabhi zabardasti mujhe yaha le aayi aur tu alag chudail-giri kar rahi hai."

"Toh main Dhara di ko bol aati hu ki tune mujhe cake nahi khilaya. Phir dekhte hai!" Raavi warned him.

Shiva immediately stopped her by grabbing her hand, and fed her one piece of the cake. Raavi smiled at her victory, but stopped when Shiva smeared some cake on her nose. She screamed in anger and went to the washroom to clean her face. When she came back, she went to talk to her friends, and Krish gave up hope that she would feed him the cake. He went back to recording the party.

Raavi shyly went to Dev. He called her to the side, and Raavi's heart was beating loudly. Dev was gonna propose, she thought. But he was really shy so maybe he wouldn't. Dev gently touched her hand and Raavi blushed. He took her hand and placed a gift on them. Raavi was excited to see the red packet in her hands. She had already decided that it would the best gift, and it was going to be really special.

"Happy Birthday once more." Dev smiled. "I hope yeh gift tumhari help kare. Tumhari party bohot achhi hai aur main rukna chahta tha par mujhe ek bohot important kaam hai Raavi. Jana parega. Sorry."

Raavi's smile turned into a frown as he left. How was his work more important than her? She figured it must be extremely important otherwise he wouldn't have left. Raavi looked at the gift again and smiled. She wondered what it could be. It was quite heavy. Maasi would kill her if she opened the gifts before the guests leaving.

She walked back to the party where people had moved to food. Her eyes landed on Shiva and she smiled. Walking upto him, she tapped him on the shoulder, getting his attention. Shiva scowled as usual looking at her.

"Kya hai?"

"Mera birthday gift kaha hai?" Raavi asked.

"Birthday gift? Chipkali ko kaun birthday gift deta hai?" Shiva asked. "Bhaag yaha se!"

"Shiva not fair! Mera birthday hai!" Raavi whined.

"Usi ka toh dukh hai." Shiva said. "Tu janmi aur humse chipak gayi. Aaj tak bhootni ka saya hata nahi paya hu."

"Toh thik hai! Dev se shaadi karne ke baad tere khane mein extra mirchi daalungi. Aur karela khilaungi." Raavi warned.

"Jaise teri aur Dev ki shaadi main hone dunga!" Shiva said. "Tu ghar ke aas paas toh dikh. Dekhna main kya karta hu."

"Shiva, aaj bhi tu usse jhagra kiye jaa raha hai?" Dhara asked. "Birthday hai iska."

Shiva rolled his eyes. Raavi thanked Dhara di and stuck her tongue out at Shiva. Soon the party  ended and everyone left one by one. As soon as all the guests left, Raavi jumped in joy. It was gift opening time. She took all her gifts and went upto her room. At first, she just looked at the gifts and took in all the glory of it.

She took the first gift, which was from Mausapa and Maasi. Opening it, she found a phone. Raavi smiled. The old phone was barely working. She'd been asking for a new phone for months now. Next up she found Anita's gift box. It was a pretty A-line dress with a matching pair of earrings. Cute. She kept that aside.

Next up she opened the gift from Dhara di and Gaumbi. It was a huge teddy bear. Raavi's smile disappeared. It was nice. She like stuffed toys but Dhara di had been giving her stuffed toys for twenty years now. Didn't they realise she had grown up? It was slightly disappointing. Raavi kept the teddy bear aside and then looked it at. It was huge. Something you'd gift to a kid. Raavi sighed.

So she decided to open Dev's gift next. His gift would make her feel special. She unwrapped his gift, already blushing thinking what must be inside it, but her smile turned into a frown when she saw a history book with a note "Iss baar tum apne history exam mein zaroor pass karogi!" Raavi couldn't believe he said that.  He gifted her a book? That too an academic book? What was wrong with Dev. It made her feel terrible. She already knew this was the worst gift even without opening the other gifts.

She tore open Krish's gift which was a bunch of chocolates. Yeah it was fine! She was probably gonna have all of it just to forget about Dev's gift. Then she opened the gifts by her friends. There was a notepad, a pair of earrings, a lipstick and a mascara. Raavi sighed. Why was everyone being so disappointing? No one knew what to gift her. Atleast Dev was supposed to know. He was her soulmate! If he hadn't been her future husband, she would have thrown this same book at his head.

Raavi found a last gift in the bag. There was no name card and she didn't remember anyone giving it to her. It was a badly packed squared box. The wrapping paper tore open as soon as she pulled it. She didn't have any hopes from this one, but when she opened the box, she forgot to breathe. Her eyes widened and she literally felt her heart stop beating. Then she just sat and stared at it for a few minutes. She had no idea what to do. Neither did she know who gifted this to her.

She had to find out who gifted her this. Raavi called Krish and asked him to send all the videos he had recorded for her birthday. Krish immediately send her 28 videos and Raavi wanted to murder the boy. Apparently he had developed an interest in videography and now he was making videos of everything. There was one video of the cake shot at different angles, and one video which seemed like a house tour. Raavi sighed. She was so done with both Dev and Krish now.

About six videos were of people eating and the other two were of him eating on selfie mode. Then there was a video of her, and for sometime Raavi forgot all about her gift and began admiring herself in her pink dress. Prettiest girl in Somnath, of course.

Around the eighteenth video, Raavi found what she was looking for. While everyone was busy dancing, Shiva came up to where the gifts were kept and quietly slipped his gift along the others. Then he walked away with some more cake! So Shiva had gotten her a gift, Raavi smiled. But then she remembered what he'd gotten her.

Shiva had gifted her a set of green bangles. 

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