YEAR: 2023.

Gauri tapped the table continuously before starting the conversation with om. They were sitting in a table close to the hospital where Arushi is admitted. But she decided, She neither let shivaay to stay under the shades nor won't tell anything to her family. But breaking this information to Avinash and Arushi will be a great deal. And she thought breaking the information to om would be safe step compared to telling Arushi and Avinash. 

"Gauri... You said you want to talk to me, And now... You're silent? tell me what's the problem?" - Om asked her while keeping his palm above her tapping fingers which stopped her from doing whatever she was doing. She raised her head, Their eyelids matched. 

"What happened?" - Om asked her. 

"I was trying to say this to you for a long time... But..." - She took a deep breath. 

"What you want to say for a long time? About Jahaan..." - Om asked her. 

"Yeah, Even that..." - Gauri spelt while closing her eyes. 

"You're making me panic..." - Om expelled when he saw her reaction. Gauri opened her eyes but words stuck inside her when she saw shivaay entering the cafe with a calm face and nodding yes. He moved towards their seat, Gauri looked om and then shivaay. 

"Hi om..." - Shivaay greeted while standing behind him. Gauri's eyes locked with shivaay. Om couldn't recognize whatever he heard in his ears. He heard his friend's voice, He heard his soul brother's voice. Tears automatically welled up in his eyes. But he didn't turn around and faced him. Shivaay kept his palm on his shoulder. Both his brain and his heart assured it was him. He turned around with a weak heart. 

"How are you, man?" - Shivaay asked him in his old accent with teary eyes. Om became dumbstruck. He couldn't able to process anything. For a second, He didn't care about anything, how he suddenly came here or it was all a dream. but engulfed him to the tightest hug. This time, He had the only thing in his mind was he never let him go away anywhere. 

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Before Arushi could ask anything about Anika and her documentary proposal. She got the information that Mr Singhania fired her at the spot when she came all the way to Bangalore to explain about her documentary. 

"Why the hell he fired her?" - Aru exclaimed in shock over the phone. 

"It was too rude, Ma'am... Even Ms Sheshadri didn't speak anything after that... she looked very hurt" - Her PA said in a low tone. 

"Enough Ria, Just mail me the whole footage of the meeting...RIGHT NOW..."- Aru exclaimed in anger and rested the phone. Jahaan who sat next to her saw her anger side for the first time. But Arushi managed everything while passing a smiley face to her. Jahaan smiled at her back.  

Arushi got the whole meeting video and her instinct got proven when she saw anika, Her mom in the phone. Her legs gave up when she saw her mom in the meeting. She thuds herself on the bed with a heavy heart while connecting each and everything. From Dark chocolates to her mail which she sent before the accident. She really wanted to cry aloud and wanted to jump into her phone and give her mom a tight hug. But she couldn't do that. But Mr Singhania's rude behaviour towards her didn't fail to gain her attention. Even though she got hell irritated and disappointed with his behaviour, she paced herself.

"Baby! I am having very urgent work... I am calling Avinash... He will come and take you back home... I will come back home..." - Aru said while taking off her strings from her veins and moved towards the washroom to change her clothes. She called Avinash, as soon as, she reached ward in her changed clothes. But his line was unreachable. Having a little patience left in her, she called Gauri who was having conversation with shivaay and om on the other hand. 

"Can you please come to the hospital and take jahaan with you? I am having a very important meeting to attend..."- Aru said in a very hurry tone. 

"Wait, Ritwik came, I send her with him..." - Aru said in a hurried tone without even hearing what Gauri was saying in the other hand. But she held the call. 

"Thank god! You came... I have to go to the office! Some important things lined up... so can you please drop jahaan in house and stay with her till Avinash shows up..." - Aru asked while packing her bags without even looking at him. He looked confused at her. 

"Aru... You're not well, stay here..." - He requested but she didn't give ear to his words. Even the doctors couldn't stop her from leaving. 

"What happened to aru?"- Ritwik asked Jahaan who nodded no in a confusion. But he took her in his arms and moved towards the parking lot. There he came to know that Aru already left in his car. 

"Aru is unpredictable..." - Ritwik said to Jahaan, she cupped her mouth and laughed. 

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Khushi was waiting for anika in the hotel for the past three hours. She tried to call her phone but it went out of reach. Being stressed, She tried to call the office. But none had the correct and crisp answer for her question. Out of Patience, She went to her office which was thirty minutes away from her location. She reached the location before five minutes and straightly went to the reception and enquired about anika. But instead of answering, they glanced at each other. 

"I am asking something... Where's Ms Sheshadri? It has been three hours since she left... Can you please tell me where's she?" - Khushi asked her while calming herself. 

"Actually, Chief Producer fired her..." - They finally cared to give some reply to her. 

"Fired?" Khushi whispered in shock "when did the meeting get over?" Khushi asked them again. 

"Before two hours..." - They replied which shook Khushi to an extent. Without even wasting a minute, she rushed outside to search for her. 

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"So, Jahaan is your kid... And she's the same kid whom you saw in your dream..." - Om asked shivaay who sat next to him facing Gauri. He didn't say anything as he still didn't come out of the guilt that he did to anika before four years. He just left her, Abruptly. Like before. 

"I am asking something to you, shivaay, ANSWER" - Om thundered. 

"Yeah, you're right..." - Shivaay said without facing him while ignoring the tears in his eyes. 

"With Anika?" - Om asked him. Words stuck in him, Shivaay couldn't even say anything to him. 

"Yeah With Anika..." - Gauri took a stand, Replied for shivaay. 

"This means, Not only Shivaay but Anika also reborn..."  - Om asked her looking towards shivaay who was in no condition to answer anything. 

"Yes..." - Gauri replied in a low tone. 

"So, even in this birth, They both got married..." - Om asked him. But this time, Neither Gauri nor shivaay answered for his question, Instead stayed silent. 

"Can anyone please answer me?" - Om who lost his patience asked them. 

"We...we... we both got engaged..." - Shivaay cared for the reply. 

"He didn't know about her pregnancy... He broke the relationship on the same day when she called him to say about her pregnancy..." - Gauri said in a low tone. 

"Oh, crap!... And you repeat the same mistake again... By the way, You broke up with her before or after getting your memory back..." - Om asked him. 

"I never knew, I NEVER INTENDED TO REPEAT MY MISTAKES AGAIN... But i just wanted her to stay safe and peace... If she come to know about everything, She will intentionally drag herself inside this riddle... I don't want that... I just wanted her to live happily, without caring about anything..."  - Shivaay exploded to him. By that time, Arushi called gauri, Hearing to shivaay, Gauri didn't give much attention to him.

"But you caused her more pain more than anyone in this process" - Om replied to him which he gave him reality check.  

Before they could continue any conversation, Gauri looked through the transparent glasses of the door and noticed ritwik and Jahaan were approaching them. Gauri gestured them to stop and shivaay immediately wore his coolers and a cap. And nobody could identify him. 

"Mom..." - Ritwik exclaimed when she saw her. he greeted everyone, but he got stuck when he was about to greet Shivaay. 

"It's vineesh, My collegemate..." - Om introduced shivaay to him. 

"Collegemate... He looking too young for that..." - Ritwik commented which gain everyone attention at the spot. 

"Vineesh's son, Niveesh..." - Gauri corrected him. Ritwik got convinced with their lie. 

"Oh, Hi Niveesh..." - Ritwik greeted him. Shivaay nodded with a smile, But his eyes were on jahaan whom ritwik carried in his arms. 

"Actually mom, Your stubborn daughter went to the channel without any bodyguards and security... I tried to stop her but she wasn't listening to any of my words... so can you please take care of jahaan... I am going channel... i don't her to stay alone..." - Ritwik said and handed jahaan in gauri's lap. 

"But why she went? out of sudden" - Gauri asked by then the fact Anika was working in her channel came to her mind. Ritwik kissed Jahaan's forehead and waved everyone goodbye. But Gauri was struck. 

Jahaan smiled at Om but he didn't respond to her due to the tension in the atmosphere and when he was about to take cookies in anxiety. Jahaan stole it from his hands and put it on her mouth while smiling widely. Where shivaay looked at her with teary eyes, which was not seen because of the coolers.

Gauri felt his heartache when she decided to introduce shivaay to jahaan. Shivaay got a notification that someone sneaked into his house. He stood up from the place. 

"What happened?" - Om asked him.

"Someone sneaked into my house... And also accessed my laptop..." - Shivaay said in a panic tone. 

"I have to leave..." - He said, Om stopped him and decided to accompany him. But when he questioned about Jahaan. 

"We can't leave jahaan alone... We four come with you..." - Gauri said. Shivaay tried to deny it but soon, He had to came to the decision when jahaan pouted sadly at him. 

They reached the house in the next ten minutes. Gauri stayed with jahaan in the car, Om and shivaay went upstairs. They were shocked to see the door was open wider and the lights were switched on and the video which shivaay and anika recorded in their college was playing in a high sound. Suspiciously, Both shivaay and om went towards the room. they both got shocked when they saw Avinash looking at those videos with welled up eyes. 

"Avi..." - Om whispered. He raised his head and shocked to see om with shivaay who was spellbound looking at him, face to face. Avinash had many questions in his head but seeing his father in front of him after so many years. There were no words. But tears grouped in his eyes automatically. Seeing him, so close, shivaay really wanted to engulf him to a hug, But he stopped himself when he switched his vision from om to shivaay for answers. 

"Avi... Let me explain..." - Om started. 

"It means whatever i guessed was true..." - Avi tried to conclude. Om tried to stop him but he started to walk in anxiety. 

"Avi... Relax... It's huge to take in... But please calm down..." - Om asked him but Avi wasn't ready to calm him off. 

"So, He's the one to save my company..." - Avi asked him. Shivaay had no answers but stared the ground. 

"And Di wasn't lying... HE SAVED HER..."- Avi thundered. 

"Avi... It's also shocking for me... Even i came to know before an hour..." - Om said. But shivaay stay still at the same place. He couldn't able to say anything. 

"Where's my mom? What you did to her?" - Avi asked him coldly and thundered both om and shivaay with his question, They just looked at him shockingly. The question he posed, what you did to her? came with a lots of confusion but that shivaay concluded with one answer that Avi didn't trust him.

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"Mr Singhania, Do you have a minute to talk?" -  Arushi asked him in a cold tone while emerging to his cabin in an urgency. 

"Yeah, Arushi, Of course..." - Mr Singhania replied to her in an instant. 

"Thank you..." - Arushi sat in the seat facing opposite to him. 

"Arushi... Why did you come to the office? you need rest..." - He asked her in a caring tone.

"I thought i have trustable employees in this channel to take care of this channel in my absence...but i was wrong..." - Arushi said in a low tone. 

"What you mean, Arushi?" - He asked her in confusion. 

"Ria sent me this footage before a few hours... And i am very disappointed Mr.Singhania... Is this a way to behave with anyone?" - Arushi asked him while showing him the video. 

"Oh... You're talking about this... This stupid girl... came with some random things... Trust me Arushi, She didn't worth it..." - He said and Arushi clutched her fist in anger. But she didn't show them on her face. 

"If you remember, There was a rumour that world going to destroy on 21ST December 2012... Can you please tell me who insisted me to cover that news?" - Arushi asked him in a cold tone. He didn't reply because it was him who insisted her to cover that news during that time. 

"It was you, Mr Singhania... I didn't expect this type of behaviour from you... As a senior employee, You have to encourage them... But you insulted and the cherry on the top, You fired her, On your own... Who gave you this authority?" - Arushi asked her. he stayed silent. 

"I don't know, I rejected her resignation, She's still part of the company... And now i think, You're fifty and I think, its the time for your retirement... Think about it..." - Arushi said and left his cabin leaving him dumbstruck. 

She straightly went to her cabin and called the reception to connect her with anika. But she got her missing information in return from the receptionist. She immediately called Avinash and told him everything from the start and also told him about her missing.

Khushi tried her level best and searched for her everywhere but she didn't find her, With no other option left, She called Avinash for the help, But his phone was engaged. she immediately opened the chat and started to type. 

"Hi Avinash, I need help from you, My friend went missing, I searched for her everywhere, But i didn't find her... PLEASE CALL BACK... I NEED YOU..." - Khushi pressed the send button and thuds herself in the stone bench. within a fraction of second, Avinash called her back. 

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