So sorry guys... Let's have a look on our story after a long gap 😅😅...

Purab: Not just a bad incident, its a worst incident happened in our life...

Neil: Means???

                 Priya starts to say inbetween her sobs,

Priya: When she was 8 years old, me, purab and Pragya went out for a theme park. Our day wasn't good that day, someone kidnapped Pragya....

Purab: Actually it was me who should be kidnapped, Pragya di tried to save me. But she herself got kidnapped. Later we found that they were professional kidnappers when they asked for ransom money to leave Pragya di, they threatened dad not to involve cops in this or else we can't see Pragya di alive.

                 Everyone became sad hearing purab's statement, Khannas were seeing priya and purab who were in standing there with tears and narrating the most haunting memory of their life. Raghav pats purab's shoulder to give him comfort.

Priya: After giving them the ransom amount, they handovered her to us. But she was not the same Pragya after that incident. We found her fear for dogs within a day when we got her back, not only this she gets nightmares every night. She won't sleep peacefully, she will cry and becomes afraid whenever she gets to meet new people, we were almost going to loss our daughter. Then we decided to meet a psychiatrist.

Purab: Then we found out that the kidnappers used dangerous dogs to scare the kids whom they kidnapped, they used to kill some kids using those dogs whose parents took the help of Cops. They will throw those kids as a prey to their dog....

               Everyone closed their eyes in agony, how can someone be this much cruel only for money? How would have those kids felt when they were bitten by those sharp teeth of dogs? These were the questions ringing in their mind.

Ragini: Poor child... She gone through a lot, now because of us she is in this condition.

Purab: She is brave, aunty. She will overcome this too, I know...

                 Purab says with teary eyed, they paused there talks when they noticed Ram and Abhi coming towards them. Jhanvi and Raghav stood beside Abhi whereas ram consoled his wife and son saying soothing words. Suddenly all heard loud scream inside Pragya's room, all panicked more just then a nurse rushed out from the room.

Priya: What happened nurse?

Nurse: Please wait mam, I need to call doctor.

              Without waiting for a minute more she rushed towards doctor's cabin. All of them heard continuous scream which made them restless, Abhi can't take this anymore so he decided to go inside and check. Before he could move nurse reached there with doctor and both of them went inside leaving Pragya's worried family outside. After a couple of minutes, nurse came out and asked,

Nurse: Can anyone of her family member come inside? She is scared of everyone, we couldn't control her.

Priya: Ram you go inside. She will listen to you only....

                She broke down into loud sobs hearing her daughter's continuous screams which shows her that how much Pragya is scared and how much that past incident affected her... Immediately ram rushed inside with nurse whereas outside the room everyone is praying for Pragya's well being and Abhi is fighting with his threatening tears with much difficulty.

Inside the room,

                As soon as ram entered inside, his eyes fell on his daughter who is giving tough time to doctor. Ram rushed towards her and hugged her close to him and says consoling words to calm her down with tears.

Ram: Shhh... Nothing, nothing princess... See I am here.. Look at me...

Pragya: Dad.... Dad.... Please, please... They will kill me dad... You take me out from here.... Please dad...

               She cried continuously with her non-stop mumbles, now ram is emotionally breaking down. He hugged her closely and pats her head, when doctor found her calming down a little he put her injection using this chance. Pragya screams a little in pain but soon the medicine starts to work as a result sleep over powered her.

                 After she fell asleep, doctor instructed nurse to inform him immediately if again something like this happen and he walks out with ram who followed the doctor half heartedly.

Outside the room,

                 As soon as they came out, everyone started to bombard the doctor with their questions.

Doctor: Back to the square again... Her mind carried her to the same incident. We have to keep her under observation for 24 hours....

Jhanvi: She will be fine right?

Doctor: Usually patients having this problem will not have serious consequences like this. It depends on their worst incident with dogs, in Pragya's case, it's quite complicated. But she will come out from this, only if she is ready to take treatment.

Neil: Then what are you waiting for? Whatever the treatment is, start it as soon as possible.

                 Doctor sighs, Pragya's family know the answer to his question so they are keeping num, Jhanvi and Raghav looked at Abhi who is standing with expression less face.

Doctor: We can't do anything without patient's cooperation Mr. Khanna.... It will take some session and we can't cure it asap. But we can hope for best.... Even if we give her the best treatment, her curing rate depends on her will power only.

Purab: In that case she is very strong... She will overcome this fear too.

Raghav: When she will get discharged?

Doctor: Not for now... As I said earlier, we have to keep her under observation. After observing her recovery speed we will discharge her. Excuse me....

           Doctor moves out from there to attend his other patients. Khannas left from hospital after hearing Ram and Priya's convincing words, and also Neil assured that they will be available if any of their help is needed. Aroras accepted that with a small smile, since they don't want to trouble them. Abhi left from there half-heartedly.

At Khanna's home,

                   All are hell tired because of the back to back unexpected happenings, Raghav left their home after having lite dinner with them because of Ragini's insistence. Abhi directly went to his room and shut the door, even he didn't come out to take dinner. Jhanvi is more upset by his behaviour, after all he is her best friend. Abhi's this behaviour made her anger to turn towards Pragya. She started to think that Pragya is responsible for his sadness, if Pragya would have shared this with them this situation never occured.

             Before Jhanvi leave to her room, she stood near Abhi's room with the thought to check on him. But later she aborted her thought and left to her room to give him his needed space and privacy for sometime.

Next morning,

                         Jhanvi is sleeping peacefully after a long night and in tiredness. Her sleep starts to disturb, she lazily opened her eyes when she found her one day old puppy is sitting cutely in her bed and trying to wake her up. She smiles and caressed it's head, she takes her puppy in her hand and starts to think about yesterday's happenings. She looked at her puppy and thought....

Jhanvi's pov,

               What should I do now? Pragya is scared of dogs... Abhi loves Pragya... And I love my friendship... What can I do? How I am going to solve all this? This Abhi too behaving differently with me for the first time. He never sleep without saying good night to me. I agree last night was not a normal one, we all were in hospital, but still how can he? Don't know he wake up or not? He slept or not? I know one day Abhi will marry Pragya and she has fear on dogs... So she can't stay here because of you, my Sheero... And abhi can't leave Pragya too, if it is for abhi I have to leave you Sheero. It's all because of that Pragya, she is the reason behind all this mess. I will never forgive her for this... Ever...

End of pov

                   She dropped Sheero on the floor carefully and went to freshen up. She came downstairs and noticed everyone present there except Abhi.

Jhanvi: Maa... Where is Abhi?

Ragini: In his room!! He didn't come out from last night.

              Jhanvi frowns and scolds Pragya in her mind again for Abhi's situation. She noticed bulbul who is looking at phone, it seems she is waiting for someone's reply.

Jhanvi: What happened bulbul? You are looking at your phone often.

Bulbul: I messaged purab to ask about Pragya's condition, Whether she is ok or not?

                      Eventhough Pragya is elder to Bulbul, she calls Pragya by her name because neither she don't want to call anyone as " di " other than Jhanvi nor Pragya likes to hear " di " from other except Purab. For bulbul, Jhanvi is more than a sister same for Pragya, purab is more than a brother...

Neil: Wait for sometime and hope for positive response bulbul.

Ragini: They must be tired, don't know what they are going through.

Jhanvi's pov

                   All are thinking about Pragya only... I accept that she is not well and hospitalized but that doesn't mean they couldn't think about Abhi. From yesterday he is in room, he didn't eat anything, he didn't come out still. But no one cares about him. Pragya has her family beside her now, then what is there to fear about her. If I stay here more than a minute then don't know what will I do. First I should check on Abhi.

End of pov...

                 Without replying anything Jhanvi went to Abhi's room and found its unlocked. She peeped inside his room and found him sleeping by resting his head on his study table in a uncomfortable position.
She started to wake him softly, abhi waked up from his sleep.

Abhi: What are you doing here?  You didn't sleep?

Jhanvi: Sleep? At this time? Do you what time is now?

             Abhi checked the clock and found it as morning, he slapped his forehead and turned towards Jhanvi while smiling sheepishly.

Abhi: Sorry...

Jhanvi: Why are you sleeping here instead of your bed?

Abhi: I was searching something in internet, don't know when I slept.

Jhanvi: About what?

Abhi: Treatments for Cynophobia, best hospitals in Mumbai ... That's it...

               This answer of him made Jhanvi out of control. Already she is suppressing her anger for long time but now the Valcano exploded.

Jhanvi: Don't you have any other job other than thinking about her. I accept that she is not well and hospitalized, but that doesn't mean you have to think about her all the time. She has her family to take care of her, you need not to worry about her when she herself don't want to inform about her phobia. If she is in this condition now, then she is the only reason.

Abhi: What are you blabbering? I agree that she hided this from us and you are angry on her. Just only for this I can't stop myself from loving her and to care for her. I promised myself that I will never let any harm to near her and I will take care of her in every possible ways. You know that I never like to break my promise, so don't speak like this.

                  Abhi left to washroom leaving fuming Jhanvi behind. Just like jhanvi's fear, Abhi's love made a rift between them. No matter who is at fault in this, all she know is her friend is going away from her.

To be continued...

With love,

Sweety