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

A week later, Arjun was fit enough, so he decided to resume his college. Except Arjun and Pragya, remaining were going to the college after that incident.

Pragya also becomes fine as her fracture was cured so she can go to college. When Disha and bulbul told her to come there, she refused.

"Why you don't want to come?", Disha asked exasperatedly.

"I am not saying I can never come back. I will!! But day after tomorrow", Pragya replies looking outside the window.

"Why not tomorrow? What is so bad in coming tomorrow?", Bulbul asks confused.

Pragya sighs, "I don't want to talk about this anymore. I am coming day after tomorrow, that's it"

"You are being stubborn for no reason", Disha states irking.

"Let it be", Pragya shrugs continued to look outside.

"What's happening my dear sisters?", Abhi asks entering inside Pragya's room.

"You can ask her by yourself. She is so stubborn and illogical", Disha says exasperated and left from there.

Abhi turns to bulbul, she shrugs and follows Disha outside. Abhi looked at Pragya, who is still looking outside pretending to be normal.

"Now what happened, angry bird?", Abhi asks standing beside her when he saw her sad face.

Pragya sighs sadly and explained their conversation. "I don't want to come tomorrow. Please!"

"Is that something related to Shaurya?", Abhi guessed.

Pragya sadly nods, "His birthday"

Abhi exhales sharply and asks, "How long you are going to be like this? Why are doing like this? Try hard to move on, Pragya. He is no more, get that into your head"

Pragya's eyes filled with tears as she looked at him. She knows, what are all he said is the truth, she can't deny it. But she can't ignore her feelings too.

Pragya hugs him and sadly says, "You are right? I should accept and move on, for that I need to try hard"

"Good. So, you are coming?", Abhi asked hugging her.

"Yes. I am coming and you are going to have tough time in handling my bhai whenever I goes missing", Pragya replies grinning.

"Why the hell you will go missing?", Abhi asked her shocked.

"Simply", Pragya shrugs and runs out from there.

*******

Pragya, Arjun, Purab, Bulbul, Disha and Abhi enters inside the college campus. Pragya noticed many eyes on her, some were giving curious look, some were sympathetically and some were looking at her like an alien.

Pragya worriedly holds Arjun's hand. He turns to her and smiled understanding as he nods negatively. Pragya smiled and continued to walk towards their classroom.

"You three can leave now. We will take care of her", Bulbul said when they reached her classroom.

"Don't go alone anywhere, ok?", Purab instructs her.

"Bhai... I am not a kindergarten kid", Pragya whines.

"Even they are more mature than you", Abhi mutters.

"I heard that", Pragya glares at him.

Abhi smiles sheepishly and runs to his class before she complain about him to her brothers. Arjun and Purab too left after giving tons and tons of do's and don'ts.

During lunch hour, Abhi came to her class and asked Bulbul and Disha to leave saying he will bring Pragya.

"When you were appointed as my personal bodyguard?", Pragya asks him shocked grabbing her things.

"I am not. Are you willing to take me there, where you both took your first picture?"

Pragya turns to him shocked, "Wha... What?"

"I know... I told you to move on and try hard, but I didn't said to do it ASAP. You can take slow steps. So... Are you taking me there?"

Pragya smiles excitedly as she likes talking about her lost love. She takes Abhi to that place and she sits exactly where she sat when she and shaurya took the pic.

Abhi looked at her, who is sitting with a calm face by closing her eyes, reliving the moment. He unconsciously about to sit on Shaurya's place but Pragya stopped him.

"This place belongs to him, Abhi", Pragya says breaking Abhi's heart a little.

He know Pragya doesn't love him like he do and she still loves Shaurya, but he couldn't digest what she said just now. Anyways he doesn't want to take Shaurya's place in her heart, but he wants to create a new place in her broken heart.

Pragya turns to the empty place and found shaurya sitting there and smiling at her. She was dumbstruck to react, still her eyes managed to spit out tears.

"I was waiting for you here. More than an year, Pragya", Shaurya says leaning on the wall.

"I... You here?", Pragya sobs.

"How can I go before talking with you? That's why I am waiting here"

Abhi looks at her confused, because for him there was only Pragya sitting and talking alone.

"You are not going anywhere", Pragya says determined, wiping her tears.

"I have to go. I am not allowed to stay here anymore. I want you to send me off without tears because it is making my way so hard to leave, Pragya"

Pragya closed her eyes as she pulled back her tears hearing his words and quickly wipes it. She doesn't want to hurt him again.

"Pragya...", Abhi calls shaking her.

Pragya looks at him and turns left only to find a empty place beside her. "He was here, Abhi"

"Who?", Abhi asks confused.

Pragya turns to look at the empty place, she sighs, "Nothing. Come let's go. Bhai must be waiting for us"

Abhi nods and walks towards the canteen, with his heart still confused about her sudden weird behaviour.

"Your brothers are worried for your safety", Abhi says when they saw Purab waiting outside the canteen.

"I know, but...", Pragya shakes her head.

"What?"

"They care for me, they take good care of me. But still sometimes I feel like a caged Bird"

Abhi looks on while Pragya continues, "I have everything, except freedom. Ofcourse my family gives me freedom but not enough. Whenever I wanted to go somewhere, dad would allow me only if I am taking bhaiya or guards with me. Not alone. I wish I can spend sometime like you are doing"

"You mean to say, you feel like a bird in golden cage?"

"Something similar", Pragya smiles.

Abhi thinks and decides something to give her wings back and make her fly so high like she wished to.

******

Later that night, Pragya was sleeping by hugging her favorite teddy, covering herself properly with the blanket.

Abhi jumped onto her balcony without anyone's notice and slowly entered inside her room. Without making any noise and giving hint to her family members that some intruder was there in their princess's room, he moved towards her bed.

"Pragya... Pragya", Abhi whispers shaking her.

"Don't disturb me, bhaiya", Pragya mumbles and turs to other side continues her sleep.

"This girl is going to get me killed by her brothers", Abhi mutters walking to the opposite side of her bed.

He again called her shaking lightly, "Pragyaaa..."

"RV bhaiyaaa...", Pragya cries sitting straight on her bed having her eyes closed still.

Abhi quickly closed her mouth with his palm, "Shhh... It's me... Abhi. Don't shout"

Pragya quickly opens her eyes in surprise. Abhi removes his hand and glares at her.

"What are you doing in my room? How did you entered inside? Are you a trained thief? Oh my god, where are those security guards?", Pragya asks getting down from the bed.

"I didn't know that you were so desperate to see me in jail", Abhi says frowning.

"When did I said like that? Now tell me, why you are here, at this time and that too like a thief?", Pragya asks little loudly.

"Shh... I don't want to die so quickly by your brothers hands only because I thought to fulfill your wish"

"What wish?", Pragya asked confused.

Abhi ties his hand across his chest and replies, "You told me you want to spend sometime like me. That is what I was trying to do. By taking you out without your family's notice. But you just want to ruin everything"

"Really", Pragya shouts in joy and quickly closed her mouth when Abhi glared at her.

"If you Scream a little more, then I swear...", Abhi whispers sternly.

"Sorry... Now tell me how we are going? Where we are going? How long we are going to roam around and..."

"Stop stop... I haven't decided where I am going to take you. You tell me where you want to go, before that we have to leave from here without getting caught by the security guards. Can you climb down the balcony?"

"Ofcourse I can. Come", Pragya drags him and starts to climb down like a PRO surprising Abhi.

Without making any noise, they both reached Abhi's car and left quickly. Abhi was driving while pragya was looking outside excitedly.

"Wohooo... I am roaming around at night", Pragya shouts happily.

"Stop being so excited and tell me how did you climbed down so quickly?", Abhi asks driving the car.

"I don't know. I am just too happy to think about that, but I did", Pragya says laughing.

"You are crazily unbelievable", Abhi shakes his head.

Pragya laughs while Abhi smiles seeing her so happy, because all the day she was gloomy after they left from the spot where she and Shaurya took their first picture.

"Where you want to go now?", Abhi asks her.

Pragya suddenly went back to her gloomy mood. She asks, "Can you please take me to his farmhouse?"

Abhi applies sudden brake and turns to her in shock. He didn't think this would be coming.

Pragya turns to him, "Please?"

Abhi inhales furiously, "Don't know why the hell I couldn't deny your stupid wishes. Just like your dad and brothers, even I started to give into your wishes. Fine!! But I don't know about that place and I am really not interested in taking you there"

"I know the way. And thank you for taking me there", Pragya smiles sweetly.

"How can you be so confident that the farmhouse is still his? See the guards here. How we are going to enter inside?", Abhi whispers when they reached Shaurya's farmhouse.

"His brother was a don and no one has the guts to buy this property after what are all happened here. Now no more questions and follow me", Pragya whispers back and guides him to the way to enter inside.

Abhi sighs and followed her, they reached the back entrance and Pragya counts the windows and opened the fifth window and jumped inside.

Abhi jumps inside following her and whispers, "How do you know this way and about this window?"

"Shaurya told me that day to make me escape from that marriage. I told you, remember?", Pragya whispers back as she tried to open that room's door.

Abhi nods remembering her mentioning about that incident and helped her to open the jammed door. They stepped outside once the door was opened.

When Pragya enters the main hall, her mind was filled with that day's memories and slowly echoes of gun shot, Shaurya's voice, Arjun's shout filled her ears.

Breathing heavily she closed her ears to shut those horrible memories, not wanting to go through the hell for another time.

Abhi saw her like that and regrets for giving into her wishes and now seeing her suffering like this.

Abhi moved near her and about to touch her shoulder, that's when Pragya heard a whisper, "Pragya..."

She removes her hands from her ears and looks around in search of that person behind that whisper. Abhi looks at her confused, who was twirling and looking around for something.

"Pragya...", She again hears a whisper a little louder that previous time.

Pragya slowly turns and looks up the stairs and found Shaurya standing upstairs. "You are still here?"

"How can I leave before showing you something?", Shaurya asks leaning on the rail smiling at her.

"Then show me!"

"Come here", Shaurya says starts to walk towards a room.

"Pragya...", Abhi calls her when he saw her speaking alone again and moving upstairs.

"One second Abhi. He wants to show me something", Pragya replies and runs to that room.

Abhi quickly follows her not wanting to leave her alone when even he wasn't sure about her behaviour.

When he entered inside that room, he was astonished to see Pragya's painting hanging all around the room. His eyes roams around every portrait of Pragya's day to day life and that helped him to see the depth of Shaurya's love for her.

Coming out from his thoughts, he calls her again, "Pragya..."

Pragya doesn't move from there as she cries silently standing infront of drawing board.
Abhi moves near and saw an incomplete sketch of her and Shaurya, both were smiling at eachother dressed up perfectly for the wedding.

"Come out Pragya. We are getting late", Abhi tries to pull her out.

Pragya says, "Oh! Ok... Just wait, I have to take this all with me. Can you please help me?"

Abhi pulled her by her arm, looking into her eyes, he sternly replies, "We are not taking all these with us, Pragya. I am not allowing it"

Pragya shrugs his hands angrily, "I am not asking your permission. I am taking this with me. If you don't want to help me then it's fine. You can't dictate me"

"I am not dictating you, Pragya. You are not understanding what you are doing. Don't behave so stupid. What did you think, you will take all this with you and hang on your room and your family wouldn't have any clue about this? Come awake, Pragya. Come back to your sense", Abhi says shaking her.

Pragya realised what he was saying is the truth. She can't take any of these paintings with her and make her family worried for her. She whispers, "Sorry... I was just..."

Abhi hugs her feeling her heartbreak. "It's ok. It's ok... Come let's leave from here"

Pragya nods, she turns back to look at the room and the paintings properly and left with Abhi half-heartedly.

Finally they reached the backdoor, Abhi helped Pragya to jump the wall. He was about to jump behind her but his eyes caught Shaurya's memorial.

"I wish I could erase your memories and her sufferings because of you. At the same time, I don't want to. You came into her life, made her to love you and let her to suffer alone like this. You doesn't deserve her love yet she love you. I respect her feelings and I definitely don't want to hurt her like you did. Now I am promising you Shaurya, I will make her to forget you with my love. I don't want to see her in tears because of you. This would be the last day she was thinking about you. Good bye", Abhi promises by looking at the memorial and left from there.

A gentle breeze touched Shaurya's memorial and a whisper came out from there, "Take care of my Pragya", and slowly the breeze stopped.

After leaving from there, Abhi takes her to a long ride, then beach, he bought her kulfi, and also they had midnight snack from a motel.

"This was so amazing", Pragya says licking her finger as she finishes off her dish.

"Yeah! Even I am trying this first time. Thanks to you"

"See! I am always like this. Too good", Pragya proudly says.

Abhi smiles as he could able to bring her back to normal. Thanks to his extraordinary brain which gave him a brilliant idea to bring to these places.

"Where next?", Pragya asks wiping her hand with tissue.

"To your home. I will drop you and you are going to sleep because it's already so late", Abhi says pushing her from behind towards the car by her shoulder.

"Noo... I want to go somewhere else. Be a good boy and take me somewhere or else I will tell Rishi bhaiya that you kidnapped me", Pragya threatens him.

"What? Are you crazy or what?"

"I am a good girl, Abhi. Only if you take me somewhere else then", Pragya gives him her best innocent smile.

Abhi scoffs and asks, "Then tell me where you want to go. Because I don't know where else to take you"

Pragya thinks for a moment and asks, "What about your home? I haven't seen your home yet. It was you who always come to see us, why not me?"

"Now? Seriously?", Abhi asks in disbelief.

"Yes. Let's go?"

Abhi sighs loudly and walks to the car, while Pragya follows him jumping, squealing in joy.

To be continued...

With love,

Sweety