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Thanks for all those who spent their precious time in reading my works 😘😘... Now let's see our abhigya's journey 😜😜...

The next day, Abhi visited Arora mansion. Eventhough he is unknowingly jealous on Pragya's undivided attention on Shaurya, he couldn't hold himself back from checking her health.

As he entered inside, his eyes spots Priya and Ragini who are busy in setting the dining table and Madhu, who is playing with her and Ishani's sons. Rishi and Ranveer was nowhere found as well as Neil and Arjun.

Purab is sitting with his bade papa, Ram. And both were engrossed in their discussion. Disha and Ishani were coming inside from the backyard, with some flowers in their hands.

Everyone is present here, then where Pragya would be? Abhi wondered as he looked around his surroundings once again. He doesn't move further and started to think about his previous day conversation with Pragya.

He really felt bad for scolding her, when he himself started to talk about Shaurya. Abhi wanted to make a closure for Shaurya's chapter, so that Pragya could peacefully move on from the past and started to live her present. Now Abhi decided to talk with her and put a full stop for everything happened in the past. He is going to listen her patiently even if Pragya says about her likes on Shaurya.

"Abhi", he heard Ragini calling him.

Abhi turned towards them and smiled politely. Ram and Purab saw him and asked him to get inside. He walked to them and sits in a couch opposite to theirs.

"Hello bhai", Disha wished him cheerfully and sits beside him.

"What's up, Abhi? You are late today", Purab says.

"I woke up late. Today is really a lazy and not so good day for me", Abhi sighs.

"Is everything alright?", Priya asked as she gave him coffee mug.

Abhi takes that coffee and says, "Thanks. Actually you know aunty, yesterday I pissed off your dear Princess. And now looking for a way to pacify that angry bird"

"Stand on your feet and turn left. Climb the stairs and her room is there. Got the way?", Purab teased him.

"What an awesome joke!", Madhu says sarcastically.

Abhi and Disha silently laughs seeing purab's frowning face.

"Whatever it is, try not to make her cry, Abhi. I know you will take care of that", Ram pats his shoulder and left to his room.

"Where is Arjun and your dangerous big brothers, Purab?", Abhi asked after placed the coffee mug in the table.

"Rishi bhaiya and Arjun went to hospital as Arjun have an appointment today and RV bhaiya and dad went to office as usual", Purab answers him.

"And bulbul is with Pragya. Upstairs", Disha adds.

"What a miracle! You are not with them", Abhi asked her surprised. Disha, bulbul and Pragya is always one team.

"I'll tell you that", bulbul replies as he descended from the stairs frowning.

"Even you?", Disha asks laughingly seeing Bulbul's frown.

"What? Can anyone explain me?", Abhi asked curiously.

"We were bored and thought to play something. At first me and Pragya did cheating and Disha found that, so she left without playing. And then that girl started to cheat on me also", bulbul says irritatedly as she sat beside Purab.

"She is a kid", Madhu told them.

"Ofcourse, a twenty years old, fully grown up kid", Disha says rolling her eyes.

"Don't jinx it, Disha", Purab says.

"She just said the truth", Abhi side hugs Disha.

Disha showed her tongue to Purab while bulbul chuckles.

"Ok, let me see her. Don't know what are all she gonna do to me", Abhi stands up and moved towards Pragya's room.

"Bulbul, Disha, can you please take kids to garden? I'll come in a bit", Madhu requested them.

"Yeah sure. Come Vivaan, Ryan", Disha and bulbul walks out by holding kid's hands.

"Badi maa, Can I get a coffee?", Purab calls out to Priya as he moved towards the kitchen.

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Abhi slowly peeps his head inside Pragya's room and found it empty. He walked inside and looking around to confirm Pragya is not hiding somewhere to scare him by jumping infront of him suddenly.

That's when he heard a sound inside her wardrobe. He understood Pragya is inside and he called her from outside to indicate his presence in her room.

"Just a second, Abhi", Pragya replied from inside.

Abhi roams inside her room and accidentally pushed a book. Not some random book, it's Pragya's diary. And some photos shattered from the diary. Abhi bends down and took those photos and about to see that. Before that, photos were snatched from his hands.

Abhi quickly turns and found Pragya standing there nervously and clutching that photos tightly. Her this behaviour made Abhi suspicious and he tried to take that photos from her again. Pragya quickly hides the photos behind her.

"What's so special in that photos, Pragya?", Abhi asked suspiciously seeing her sudden change in behaviour.

"Nothing", Pragya lies and started sweating.

"Then give it to me", Abhi again tries to take the photos.

"I said it's nothing. It's my personal", Pragya replied as she slightly moved away from him.

"There is nothing wrong in keeping a beautiful personal memories, but when it started to scare and make us lie to others, it doesn't needed to keep that safely", Abhi tried to snatch the photo.

"I'll decide that. You stay out of it", Pragya replies angrily as she pushed Abhi away.

Abhi sighs and says, "What are you hiding, Pragya? From whom you are hiding this? You can share it with me because I can see you don't want to lose this because you are scared whether your family would take this photos away from you, right?"

Pragya's eyes starts to fill up and she started crying kneeling down on the floor. Abhi panicks to see her like that, just now she started to recover from the trauma. If his words made her to re-enter in past, then he can't forgive himself for that.

Abhi kneeled next to her and asks her, "What happened, angry bird? Share with me. I promise I won't tell this about anyone. Please don't cry like this, or else your brothers will kill me"

Pragya frantically wiped her tears as she turned to face him and asks, "You won't tell anyone, right? Promise me"

"I promise. You tell me first"

Pragya slowly shows him a photo and says, "You know who is this? This is shaurya"

Abhi saw the photo shockingly and looked back at Pragya and shocked to see her smiling through her tears and Pragya starts to tell about this photo.

Flashback...

Shaurya was walking in the corridor to reach his classroom and he sensed someone is following him. He quickly turns back and find no one, so he again starts to walk.

But this time he was so sure someone was following him. He decided not to turn back now, so he moved to a corner and waits to see who is following him and that person followed him to that corner unknown to his smart plan.

Shaurya was surprised and shocked as well to see Pragya, who is giving him a caught look.

"Hi...", Pragya says embarassed while shaurya keep on looking at her.

"Actually...", Pragya turns back and check whether someone seeing her and turns to him and says, "I want to take a picture with you. I tricked my friends and followed you for that. Can I?"

Still he didn't come out from the sweet shock. Pragya cutely asks him again, "Please. Pretty pleaseeee."

Shaurya smiles seeing her childish nature and nodes his head. Soon she asked him sit in a bench and she settled herself beside him after setting timer in camera. Pragya sensed he wasn't looking at the camera, she turned to look at him and the camera clicked their picture just like that.

"Oh my god", Pragya runs to her camera to check whether the picture is perfect or not.

She smiles seeing the good photo. Shaurya asked her, "How it came?"

Instead of replying him, Pragya showed him the camera and he smiles seeing the picture.

"Ok bye", Pragya starts to go.

"Why do you need my photo?", Shaurya asked her curiously.

Pragya turns to face him and says, "That... We both are wearing same coolers and sneakers. See. That's why. Bye"

Shaurya smiles hearing her lie and left to his classroom happily.

End of flashback...

"That was the first picture I took with him", Pragya says and quickly gives Abhi the next photo.

"This picture. It was at the sports day of our college. He gave me this bunny ears hairband. He said, I am just looking like a cute bunny. When we clicked this picture, I covered my face. But he didn't ask me for another picture. He said, he will be very happy if he get to click a picture with my silhouette also", Pragya says with a sad smile and tears continuously flowing from her eyes.

Abhi was just hearing every words of her like a zombie and his mind started to make a note on everything and he was too smart to deduce what Pragya gonna say atlast.

"And this one. This is the last picture I took with him. This was at our college fest. Purab bhai and Arjun bhai was performing, that's when we took this photo. It was his final year in college and... ", Pragya starts to cry even more remembering his death infront of her eyes.

Abhi quickly hugs her and she continued to cry bitterly. Abhi's jealous on Shaurya turned into anger. What was the need for him to enter in Pragya's life and ruin everything when he wasn't meant to be with her.

"You said, if he tried little more you would have accepted him", Abhi softly reminds her.

Pragya nodes and tells him, "He has temper issues. When he gets angry he will destroy everything which comes in his way. If he tried a little to control his temper then nothing would have happened like this"

"You liked him?", Abhi asks with little hope that his deduction should be wrong.

Pragya nodes no and says, "I loved him"

Abhi closed his eyes in disappointment. Damn!! He was right. Pragya loved him. But how?

"But bulbul said, you never liked him and..."

Pragya sadly smiles and tells him, "They didn't know. I never let them know. Even shaurya didn't know"

"He didn't know? How? You never told him?", Abhi asks her in confusion.

"You know, one day I saw him fighting with a guy in our college and thought he is doing his daily routine. But he was actually fighting with a guy, who tried to misbehave with his classmate. He didn't tell anyone about the reason and took punishment on himself for beating that guy. After that, I followed him to take a picture with him. Our first picture"

"He asked me the reason, but I lied. And the second time he gave me this hair band, I wanted to tell him that I liked him because he is not what everyone thought. But I stopped myself. And the last time, his final year, I couldn't tell him anything. And finally his brother blowed a storm in our life"

Flashback...

Randeep's goons kidnapped Pragya as Randeep tried marry her to his brother. Pragya was taken to the mandap and she was crying continuously.

Shaurya's heart skipped a beat seeing her in vulnerable state.

"Please don't cry, Pragya", shaurya whispers to her as he sat beside her.

"Oh, sorry. I was supposed to laugh hard when I was dragged to mandap and someone forcefully trying to marry me", Pragya says sarcastically.

"I never wanted this. But somehow I agreed to my brother's words. I don't want to marry you like this. Whatever might happen, I can't marry you without your wish. So now listen, I'll distract everyone here, and you run from here to the second room on your left. You can escape through the window of that room. No one will know about it. This is my farm house, Pragya. Apart from me, no one know about the exits.", Shaurya whispers to her.

Pragya looked at him in shock. He wanted to marry her, but not without her consent. This wasn't his plan, she misunderstood him once again. She fell in love with him at the moment he considered her feelings more than his love.

"You... Your brother. He'll do something to you also.", Pragya says shivering in fear.

"I don't care about that. Now I'll distract them and you run away. Please trust me, Pragya", Shaurya pleads her.

"I always trusted you", Pragya says.

Shaurya smiles and says, "This is what I wanted. More than your love, I wanted you to trust me. Thank you"

Pragya was about to tell him that she love him, before that all heard some blasting sounds outside. And everything ended in a blink.

End of flashback...

"My love ended even before it started. He would have lived somehow if I didn't cross his life", Pragya wails hugging Abhi.

"I couldn't tell him anything. He knows nothing. He doesn't know I never hated him, he doesn't know I have always liked him. He doesn't know I loved him", pragya cries more.

A girl, whom he never saw without smile, is crying uncontrollably now. She hided a big sorrow of her life behind that simple smile of hers. No one knows this, she never let anyone to know as she doesn't want her grief to affect others.

Abhi gently pats her head as he cries silently. He has no words to say, no words is enough to console her. It's better to remain silent in some situations.

Pragya gently pulled herself away from him and wiping her tears, she says, "I am sorry.
But please don't tell anyone. Mom, dad, bhaiya, everyone will feel bad. When you go out, if someone asked for me, tell them I felt tired and I am sleeping. Ok?"

Abhi nodes and gets up to move outside. He turns back and looked at her again, she was arranging the photos inside her dairy and wiping her tears. Abhi silently walked out. As she said, Purab asked about Pragya, and he lied to his best friend that his sister is sleeping.

Abhi left to his house with heavy heart and lots of thoughts. How can she hide all her sorrow by flashing her best smile? She doesn't let her sadness affect her family. Pragya's happiness is equal to her family's happiness, she did every duty as a daughter of that family to keep them happy.

Knowingly or unknowingly, Abhi is also become a part of her life now. He has the responsibility to wipe away all the sadness of her life and make happiness to shine. He vowed himself to pull her out from the page where she experienced so much of pain.

Next morning,

Abhi entered Arora mansion before his usual time, he couldn't control himself from meeting her after knowing about her fully. When he entered, he saw Pragya laughing with his brothers. Pragya noticed his presence and asked him to join them.

"I want to jump", Pragya declares.

"You are not fully recovered, princess.", RV told her.

"I don't want to participate in olympics, bhaiya", Pragya says pissed because of her overprotective brothers.

"Why you want to jump? To fracture the other leg also?", Disha asked her frowning.

"I want to check whether my leg is perfectly fine or not"

"We can consult doctor for that, Princess", Purab answers.

"No. I want to jump", Pragya says in finality.

"Ok Ok. My princess will jump and do whatever she wants. No one will questionn her", Rishi told.

"Thank you, Bhaiya. I love you", Pragya says as she hugged him while Rishi smiles.

"Stop giving into her wishes, rishi. You are spoiling her", Ragini says as she served them snacks.

"Just for one time mom. Pretty please", Pragya cutely pouts.

Abhi was looking at her admiringly. How did she do that? Hiding all the agony inside her and making her family happy! Only pragya can able to do this. He has never seen any girl in his life like her.

So refreshing, simple, beautiful, what not. And that moment he realised Pragya is the happiness he is searching  for. Pragya is the one, who is going to bring the lost colors and the joy of his deserted life. He no longer has to live a lonely life.

Because he loves Pragya and Pragya brings happiness.

To be continued...

with love,

Sweety