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Life will never fail to surprise and shock you at the same time. Avi didn't come out from his room since the morning but never failed show his fake happy face to shivaay and Aru when they asked about him. He neither came out to talk to anyone about Khushi. He stayed in his room, The vision he saw in the garden was enough proof to prove to him that Khushi moved on in her life unlike him. He stayed in his room until it's banged by someone.

He keeps his feet in the floor from the bed to open the door for jahaan. But it was not jahaan. He heard her voice which he yearned for a long time to hear it once. The one with whom he can share anything without any hesitance. The one whom he missed to the core. He heard her calling him Pablo. He was shivering in confusion whether it was a dream or reality. Tears welled up in his eyes. But then too, He was rushing to open the door. He opened the door. He saw his mom in front of his door. He was surprised. The only thing running in his mind, Nothing should turn out to be his dream. But when anika widened her arms for a hug. He didn't wait for a minute. He hugged her tightly. 

"I am not hallucinating, Right?" - Avinash asked while hugging her. 

"No... You're not..." - Anika cried out in his arms. She never thought that she will once witness his son in this heartbroken state. 

"I missed you..." - Avi cried helplessly on her shoulder. He tried to control his emotions but everything went out of the control. He busted off when he got to hug her after a long time. 

On the other hand, Shivaay and Aru reached the Channel. Aru eyes straightly went to anika's cubical and searched for her mom. shivaay nudged her.

"I gave her leave today... So she won't be coming to the office..."  - Shivaay said to her. 

"Why?" - Aru asked her. 

"She isn't well last night... she is in her cycle... Thought she would need rest..." - Shivaay said casually, Aru felt slightly awkward when they were having these type of conversation with her father. She became spellbound. 

"What happened?" - Shivaay asked her. 

"Nothing... I was just stuck..." - Arushi told him. 

"Feeling Awkward to listen to this type of conversation from me..." - Shivaay asked her. She exhaled when she couldn't handle the weirdness. They moved towards their Cabin, Both seated in their seat. Shivaay felt it will be the correct time to talk about it. 

"See, Aru... When i decided to take care of you lonely, I made up my mind that i should be the person with whom you could share everything... It's nothing to give hype to it... It's nature happening to half of the population, What's there to hide? What's there to embarrass?" - He asked her. Aru got convinced and also she saw her perfect-man in her dad. 

"Yeah... But there are many men still who talk rubbish about it..." - Aru said. 

"Ritwik talks like this" - Shivaay asked her in a slightly changed tone. 

"No... chi... Dad... He's a pearl" - Aru said. 

"I see... Pearl..." - Shivaay smiled sheepishly. 

"Come on... It's getting awkward..." - Arushi signed off. 

"I wish Avi is fine..."- Shivaay said. 

"Yeah... Hope so... He was very low..." - Arushi shared her thought. 

"And tell me about your date, How it was? with mom? Actually Neel's first date with mom turned out to be your date..." - Arushi teased him. 

"Enough uh... Concentrate on your work... Many things are in the hold..." - Shivaay diverted her. she acted like concentrated in her work with a teasing smile. 

"What?" - Shivaay asked her. 

"Nothing but Very happy... Can you please state the reason, Accha?" - Arushi asked her. 

"You will get nicely from me..." - Shivaay enacted like beating her. She busted to laugh and started to work.

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On the other hand, Jahaan was sitting next to anika and Avinash was resting in her lap. No words were spoken but tears crossed from both of their eyes. Jahaan intertwined her arms with anika and lay on her hand stayed with her silently. She was caressing Avi's hair which made him so weak when he felt her touch after so many years. 

"Pablo, please don't cry, You know right, Mumma couldn't able to tolerate your tears..." - Anika spelt when she felt the wetness in her lap because of his tears. Seeing them crying, Jahaan stood up from her place, Moved towards avi and wiped his eyes. 

"No, I am not crying..." - Avi told it to Jahaan and stood up from her lap. Jahaan fell on him, He took her in his arms and made her rest in his chest. Anika was very delighted to see their bond. She ruffled Avinash's hair When he looked at her with helpless eyes. 

"Don't look at me like this, Pablo..." - She whispered. 

"I don't want to blink my eyes, Mumma... What if everything turns out as my dream and imagination..." - He asked her in return. She lifted his hand and made him cup her face. He wiped off her tears with his thumb. 

"Can't you feel me? I am here, right in front of you... It's definitely not your dream or anything, I won't fade away... It's my promise baby... Please don't cry" - Anika whispered. He engulfed her to a side hug. 

"Okay, No more tears... Tell me what happened? Everything which i have missed... I know about my baby, He has many things to share it with me..." - Anika quickly changed the topics. Avi chuckled with her tone.  

"Thirty years, Mom..." - He whispered to her. 

"Okay, Then i will start... Even i am having the habit of sharing everything to you..." - Anika said and pulled him close to her. 

"Shall i start from my birth?" - Anika asked him. Avinash couldn't stop himself from smiling. Only his mom has the capacity to change his mood.

"I am the first son in this universe to listen to his twenty-seven-year-old mom's story from the birth..." - Avi commented with a smile. 

"Twenty-seven-year-old mom... Young mom, right" - Anika asked him while winking her eyes. 

"Very young mom for thirty-five-year-old son..." - Avinash busted to laugh. Smile automatically appeared in her face when she saw him smiling like before. 

"Okay, You still don't want to say anything to me..." - Anika asked her. The smile disappeared from his face. He turned aside. 

"I can feel it, There are many things you want to share it with me... Please open up..." - Anika encouraged him. 

"Everything went wrong mumma..." - Avinash opened up. Both Anika and Avi shed tears at the same times. 

"It's my fault and I know i don't deserve her but why it's aching like this, Mom..." - Avinash asked anika while resting his head on his shoulder. Anika couldn't able to answer anything to him. On the other hand, She's feeling responsible for everything which he's facing right now. 

"No... It's not your fault, It's my fault... Because of me, You lost trust in love which leads to the confusion in your heart... Nothing is your fault, I am responsible for everything..." - Anika cried while patting his cheeks. Jahaan was still in Avinash's lap looking at them confused. 

"I am not confused, Mumma... I know i love her, In fact, I am madly in love with her..." - Avi opened up to her. 

"Then what's stopping her from going to her?" - Anika asked him. 

"You know what's stopping me? I don't want to drag her into the riddle..." - He asked her with teary eyes. 

"Why you are not failing to prove that your father is shivaay?" - Anika asked him. 

"Because he's my father..." - He replied. 

"You know your father took me to  Adalaj stepwell in Ahmedabad and proposed me... I was not sure then, But i was sure in something, that i need him in my life but i needed time to accept him as my life partner... Eventually, I accepted his proposal one day..." - Anika said while immersing herself in the past. Even though Avi knew about it, He stayed silent and listened to her. 

"I said people say Mahmud Beveda had been cheated because queen Rudabai committed suicide before they were about to get married. Even if queen rudabai forced to get married to Mahmud beveda, He would have been cheated by her every single day, You father asked me why?" 

"I said, It's difficult for any girl to forget their first true love. Even though he touches her, She could feel only her true love's presence... That moment is equivalent to thousands of knife stabbing at the same time in the heart... Every time, you feel the pain, You never get used to it...  Because it's impossible to erase the evidence of true love... You, Unknowly showed your love to her which make her very difficult to move on... Even now, She couldn't able to retrieve your heart from you... She's dying... You really want her to die each and every moment living in your memories... You don't deserve her, I agree... Did she deserve this?" - Anika asked her, He couldn't able to come out of her words. 

"I thought she moved on in her life" - Avi spelt. 

"Yeah, That's why she came to Rameshwaram just to be your support shoulder... she didn't expect anything from you, But she deserves love and definitely not pain. That too, For a lifetime..." - Anika said to him. 

"Even in this moment, She's ruling your heart... Don't be like your father and take years to realize it... I hope i own fifty per cent of your gene..." - Anika said. 

"What shall i do?" - Avi asked her. 

"Go to her, She's in just only one-floor distance... bring her back before she goes further away from you..." - Anika encouraged him. 

"What will i tell her?" - Avi asked her confusingly. 

"Tell her the truth... The full truth, About everything, About me and shivaay, About the secret, Everything... she deserves to know everything" - Anika told. 

"What if she?" - Avi stopped. 

"There's no What if in love... Your father accused me of having an extramarital affair and got my daughter custody... Then too, when he told me the whole truth, I accepted him because i somewhere loved him... People called me a fool to trust him again, But I was sure he won't break my trust again because there were no secrets between us..." - Anika told him. 

"So... Don't think about anything, Go..." - Anika encouraged him. He stood up from his place, Anika took jahaan in her arms and asked him to leave. He left but not before taking the promise from her that she won't leave this place till he comes back. 

Shivaay, on the other hand, felt something very bad. He couldn't able to figure out anything. Anika's father came back to his house and Called anika but her mother replied that she wasn't there in her house. He told her everything which was happened in the police station and how anika supported shivaay and Avinash. 

"Adi... What will happen if they call off the marriage?" - Anika's mom asked him. 

"No, they won't" - Anika's father replied to her. 

"How can you be so sure?" - Her mom asked him. 

"Because i called off the wedding... I can't force her to marry him just for us..." - Her father said. 

"What? Are you out of your mind?" - Her mom asked him. 

"She still loves shivaay and It's her life, She's going to live... We can't impose our decision in her life and spoil it... The way she protected shivaay was still in my eyes... She went against me and saved him today... If i didn't do this for my daughter, The love i showed her these years will go meaningless..."- Her father said to his mom. 

"What if he betrays her again?" - Her mom asked him. 

"I am not uniting her with shivaay, I am just clearing her way... She should feel free to take the decision, If anything happens, We should always there to support her..." - Her father said that to his mom. Her mom became spellbound. 

"Why you are doing this?" - Her mom asked her. 

"Because my daughter is my everything... I can't see her in pain..." - Her father said and moved to his room. Even her mom slightly felt happy with the news but she couldn't able to trust shivaay completely. She also wanted her to be happy but with shivaay, she's confused.

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The time reached ten, Shivaay and Arushi were still in the office. Shivaay still felt something is going very bad somewhere. Arushi forced him to leave the office. He listened to her words and wrapped up his work. They moved towards the exit. Shivaay feet got rooted when she saw anika's father emerging out from his car in a tensed state. Shivaay never saw him tensed like this. He was making his way towards the entrance, But he was stopped when he saw shivaay in front of him. His facial expression changed, He became calm. 

"Shivaay" - He called out his name calmly. 

"Yes, Uncle... Why are you so tensed?" - Shivaay asked him. Arushi stayed next to shivaay confusingly. 

"Anika is with you, right... Please call her... She didn't come to the house since morning..." - Her father asked him. 

"What?" - Both Shivaay and Arushi exclaimed in shock. 

"She's with you, Right?" - Her father asked him. This time tears emerged out from his eyes in fear. 

"... She didn't come to office..." - Arushi exclaimed in a tensed tone. Shivaay couldn't able to think anything further and instinct proved him right. Something very wrong going on. 

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