Hello everyone😇😇... Hope all are safe and fine🤗🤗...

I am updating this one after 5 months😖😖 extremely sorry for that...

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

Abhi inserted his key in the key hole of his house's main door while Pragya stood behind yawning. His small sweet house with a beautiful lawn aside, a swimming pool, a quiet corridor with a swing and some furniture. It was nice, thought Pragya looking around.

As he opened the door, Pragya excitedly stepped inside by pushing him aside. Abhi smiles seeing her anticipation and follows her inside his house.

Pragya looks around the hall and was quite impressed with the interiors. A elegant chandelier, teak wood furniture, a royal carpet and everything on perfect place. As she looks around, a beautiful painting hanging on the side wall caught her attention. Pragya walks to it while Abhi follows her.

"Wowww", Pragya exclaimed only to hear her voice echoed.

Hearing her echo, Pragya curiously turns to Abhi, while he shrugs. "What?"

"Didn't you hear that?", Pragya asked him.

"Your echo?"

"Ofcourse", Pragya replies irritatedly.

"It's quite common for me. Sometimes I had even heard my heartbeat so loud. This silence in this house... I just hate it. This place can turn as hell even for the people who wants ample of peaceful time. You know, too much of silence... It's just... Just drives you mad at times", Abhi answers walking to the sofa and dumps himself.

Pragya sensed that his mood was going off the track, thus she decided to work on that. "This painting is so beautiful. I can't take my eyes off from this"

Abhi smiles proudly and replies, "That is my mom's master piece"

Pragya curiously sat beside him and excitedly asks, "Your mom did paintings?"

"Yeah. A lot of. She did exhibitions too. The painting you saw is her master piece, she put up her heart and soul into it. Mom told me, this painting turns out more beautiful than her expectation. And it's her last one too", Abhi tells her with a sad smile.

Pragya pouts realising that he is getting sad, she suddenly complains, "You didn't give any refreshments to me. You are being inhospitable"

Abhi turns to her shocked and asks, "You just ate a lot, that too at this night and you still want something?"

Pragya frowns and replies, "Just for that, you wouldn't give me anything? Not even a glass of water?"

Abhi sighs leaning back on the couch closing his eyes, he says, "You go and get whatever you want by yourself. I am tired"

Pragya shakes him saying vigorously, "Come on, Abhi. I don't even know the kitchen. I want a coffee atleast"

Abhi opens his eyes and replies pissed, "You are such a baby! And you are not getting any coffee now", he declares and walks off to the kitchen.

Pragya frowns angrily and follows him, "Why? And I am not a baby! Hmph"

"See, you are. You are proving yourself as a baby", Abhi answers pouring juice in a glass.

"Ofcourse not! Don't call me that!", Pragya declares.

"Fine! Now drink this and cool down"

Pragya snatches the glass from him and walks out sipping it. They walked back to the hall, and soon Abhi dumps himself in the couch again as he had a very long day.

"What are you doing? Get up, Abhi", Pragya says.

"What now?", Abhi asks confused.

"Show me around. Come", Pragya says holding her juice in one hand while dragging him with her other hand.

Abhi walks with her sulking, and shows around his little house. The terrace, guest room, his music room and at last his room. Pragya kept the empty glass on a table outside his room and enters inside curiously. Abhi switched on the lights while Pragya looks around.

"What a boring room?", Pragya mutters comparing all the other rooms of his house.

"My room is the best. It looks bad because you have a bad taste. Atleast my room is much better than your pinkish fairy tale little princess's room", Abhi teases her falling on his bed tired.

"Hey! My room was designed like that when I was 4 or 5. And I don't like to change my things frequently as I was so attached to it. But bhaiya renovates it every 6 months", Pragya replies frowning.

Abhi rests his head on his hand and teases her, "That's what I said. Baby!"

Pragya scowls and looks at Abhi's parent's huge photo frame hanging behind his bed.

"Your mom looks so beautiful!", Pragya exclaimed.

Abhi sits straight and answers, "Isn't she? I always told her how awfully beautiful she looks"

"And your dad looks a little strict. Is he some kadoos types?"

Abhi laughs, "A little. But he was also sweet. He just wanted everything proper, practical and logical"

"You are more like your father, Abhi. But you have your mom's smile", Pragya says stepping close to that photo, taking in their features.

Abhi looks down and just smiles hearing her. Pragya comes back and pulls a chair as she sits opposite to him.

"You know, Abhi? When Rishi bhaiya's marriage talk happened, Neil dad shown him couple of photos and bhaiya liked one girl too"

"And that must be your bhabhi", Abhi guessed vaguely.

"No! That was some other girl. I saw her photo and didn't like her. So the talk didn't move further, after rejecting 19 girls I selected Madhu bhabhi and bhaiya also liked her. Now they are so happy!"

"Rejected 19 girls? You just saw their photo and rejected?", Abhi asks shocked.

"Not at all. I talked with them and I didn't feel they could carry their relationship for a lifetime. Marriage and love, both the relationship needs better understanding, Abhi. One should be willing to sacrifice for others happiness. If one falls, the other should hold and lift them. If one is furious, the other should remain calm and try to make them understand. That kind of compatibility, acceptance, mutual respect and patience wouldn't created, if it was not Madhu bhabhi."

"Exactly how old were you when your bhaiya got married?", Abhi asks her confused.

"I was in my school. Why?"

"Strange! You thought about all this in that age! Hard to believe"

"I told you, I am not a baby", Pragya smirks proudly.

Abhi shakes his head as he realised that she was telling him all those to prove that she was not a baby. They were talking few random things, mostly Pragya was asking about Abhi's childhood and soon she starts dozing off.

"Ok, come let's go to your home. I'll drop you and come back. It's almost 3.30 AM", Abhi says pulling Pragya by her arms.

"Ok. I am sleepy by the way", Pragya follows him quietly.

Abhi and Pragya silently drove to her home, and he stops the car when they reached her home's back door.

"You thought I told you about Rishi bhaiya's marriage and all, only to make you realise that I am not a baby, didn't you?", Pragya asks looking at him smiling.

"Weren't you?"

Pragya shakes her head smiling as she steps down from the car. Abhi quickly comes out and walks towards her.

"Then why did you?", Abhi asks her confused.

"To make you realise that I can able to sense what you are feeling and also the void created in your heart"

"What?", Abhi asks her in a surprised whisper.

"You may feel that you are all alone in this world as you think your only relation, that is your parents are no more. You may also think wherever you go, how far you search, you can't get that kind of love and care you experienced from your parents. But the truth is, many best things in life are free, Abhi", Pragya answers holding his hands in hers.

Abhi looks on, while Pragya continues, "No one in this world is alone. Everyone and every single thing belongs to this world has a companion, a partner. You know, if we get something as free, we wouldn't realise it's value and sometimes we would be holding our life's biggest happiness, the joy to fill up the void in our heart, but we wouldn't realise it just because we got it as free"

Abhi continues to look at her amazed while Pragya says, "Like... Look at the night sky. Not many people realise that sky doesn't exit alone, it has moon as a partner. If it is new moon day, it has stars and clouds. For instance, take rainbow. Life is like a rainbow, Abhi, you need both Sun and rain to make its colours appear. It reminds us that even after the darkest clouds and fiercest wind, there is still a beauty. Just like that, everyone and everything has a companion, a soul to hear our voice, to embrace us when we need, to mend us when we are broken. But we people hardly realise all this as everyone is looking the world through narrow glasses."

"Mom says, if we search for something with our heart and soul, we would get it. But keeping that in our hold by not letting it go far away from us, remains in our hands only. We should work hard for that. Maybe you got all you have searched, or maybe not. But I can surely say that You are not alone, Abhi. You have everything. You have best friends to support you, devil sisters to torture you and don't forget, you have this angry bird too", Pragya smiles cutely.

Abhi stood there surprisingly amazed hearing each syllable she uttered, he takes a step towards her as his heart brimmed with love. He leans and kissed her forehead and steps back only to see a very shocked Pragya looking at him with wide eyes.

"Good night", Abhi managed to whisper and then softly chuckles, "I guess, it's good morning. Go and sleep. Bye"

Pragya nods still in shock and walks to the door. She turns to look at him while Abhi waves his hand. Seeing that, she silently enters inside her house and quickly climbs the ladder to reach her room not wanting to use the doorway and get caught by her family.

Abhi drove away happily once he was sure that Pragya reached her room safely. While Pragya sits in her bed and touches her forehead still shocked because of Abhi's sudden kiss.

Shaking her head, she decided to sleep for a while. Even after tossing in the bed for a while, she couldn't sleep. So she starts walking in her room. Noticing the light on in her room, Priya, who came out to get water thought to check Pragya once.

"You didn't sleep?", Priya asks Pragya, who was walking to and fro.

Pragya sadly pouts. Priya smiles and sits in the bed asking Pragya to get on the bed. Pragya gets on the bed and keeps her head on her mom's lap. Priya closes Pragya's eyes with her hands and gently pats her head till she sleeps. Pragya sleeps in no time, and Priya left switching off the lights after covering her with blanket properly.

While on the other side, Abhi jumps on his bed happily and takes out his mobile as he scrolls to Pragya's photo. Kissing her photo, he closes his eyes to sleep.

*******

Pragya was sitting in a garden bench and was lost in thoughts. She sensed someone sitting beside her and finds Shaurya sitting beside her smiling happily, Pragya smiles seeing him.

"What are you doing here alone?", Shaurya asks her.

"Nothing"

"Hmmm... You look so confused. From whatever I know, my Pragya is so brilliant then how can she become confused?"

"You really think like that?", Pragya asks him.

"Ofcourse, because Pragya follows what her heart says. Then what's the problem?", Shaurya asks smiling.

Pragya looks at him helplessly, while he continues, "Do whatever your heart tells you to. Don't be afraid, because your heart will guide you to the right way"

Pragya smiles at him, Shaurya leans and kisses her forehead while she closes her eyes happily. Feeling him moving away, she opens her eyes and get shocked to see Abhi instead of Shaurya.

Pragya wakes up with a jerk and looks at her surrounding as she realised that it was a dream. She closes her eyes, calming herself that's when Disha barged in her room.

"You haven't got ready yet? Are you planning to skip college today?", Disha questions.

"Oh meri maa, please show me some mercy. Now itself you are behaving this much strict, don't know what will happen after you officially become my bhabhi?", Pragya mutters.

"You are the one, who was adamant in making me and Arjun to get married and you played the cupid role, right? Then enjoy. Now go and get ready fast", Disha orders her.

Pragya makes face and gets ready quickly. She runs downstairs and finds everyone already seated in the dinning table.

"Sorry, I was late. Good morning everyone", Pragya says chirpily taking her seat while everyone wished her.

"Bhaiya, I need to change my room interiors", Pragya says.

"Thank god. Finally! Its time to say goodbye to your princess room", Disha exclaims.

Pragya scowls at her while RV said that he will show the designs later so that she could choose whatever she likes. Ishani being an interior designer, stood stubborn that she only will do the designs for Pragya's room. Pragya was only happy to accept it.

*******

Arjun, Purab, Disha, Bulbul and Pragya reached college. They were walking in the corridor to reach their respective classes, that's when Pragya noticed Abhi, who was talking with a girl, laughing at her comment. Unknown to her, she started frowning at them.

"Oh ohhhh... Look who we found?", Bulbul says giggling.

"What? Who?", Pragya asks confused still glaring at Abhi and the unknown girl.

"Abhi's new friend", Purab says chuckling stressing the word friend.

"Maybe more than a friend. We are hoping for that", Disha comments and hi-fi with Bulbul.

Pragya fumes hearing all that. She was about to blast on them, before that Arjun asks, "When did all this happened? No one informed me"

"Oh sorry for that. When you and Pragya was not here, she became close to Abhi bhai. Or you can say that bhai got close to her", Bulbul says giggling with Disha.

"Hey!", They turned towards Abhi hearing his greeting.

Pragya noticed how Abhi excused himself from her and runs towards them. Abhi smiles at them and frowns confused, noticing Pragya glaring at him.

"Morning itself angry bird wala face? Not good", Abhi teases Pragya.

"Who is she? What were you doing with her?", Pragya asks sternly.

"She is our class mate. Meera! Didn't Purab inform you that?", Abhi explains confused at her sudden question.

"I am asking you. And I didn't saw her before in your class. You talk more than I do, then why didn't you tell me anything. Even yesterday, you didn't tell me", Pragya asks pissed.

"Fine! You want her details? Then hear it. She is Meera Tanwar. She was a new exchange student and We are in the same class. She studied at St. Martin's, I would have introduced you to her if she wasn't absent yesterday, now happy?", Abhi asks frowning.

"Why did you stopped? Go ahead, I am ready to hear everything. You must have known about her favourites, likes, dislikes and address too. Right?", Pragya asks throwing daggers through her eyes.

"What happened to you? You didn't eat anything spicy, right? Then why the hell are you blasting like a volcano?, Abhi asks glaring at her.

"I have classes. I am going, bhai", Pragya declares looking at her brothers and walks ahead to her class not before leaving Abhi a final glare.

"Even I have classes to attend. Got it?", Abhi shouts out to her and left to his class stomping his foot pissed.

Arjun, Purab, Disha and Bulbul looked at eachother as they silently gaped at the duo.
Half of the day went horrible for both Abhi and Pragya as they both were damn pissed from the morning. All gathered in canteen during the lunch break.

Pragya walks to the table and found her brothers, Abhi and Disha had already sitting in their places, noticing the only place left for her is beside Abhi, she exchanges her seat with Bulbul.

"What happened to you suddenly?", Bulbul asks her confused.

"Nothing. I just want to sit with my pyari Disha bhabhi. Muaahh", Pragya says as she hugged and kissed Disha's cheek smiling.

"Wah! Suddenly so much love for me?", Disha asks chuckling.

"And not for me?", Bulbul asks raising her eyebrows.

"Aww... Don't be jealous. Come I'll give you one", Pragya says as she kisses bulbul's cheek.

Arjun and Purab chuckles seeing their drama, while Abhi smiles. Noticing him smiling at her, Pragya says frowning, "You! You don't smile at me. Ok?"

"I'll. What will you do?", Abhi snaps at her and smiles showing all his teeth.

Pragya couldn't hold her frown for so long as she started laughing seeing his face followed by everyone. Abhi smiles seeing her laugh and pinches her nose playfully. Forgetting their fight, they both come back to normal and finished their lunch peacefully.

Evening, Pragya asked about Abhi to her brothers and found that he went to library and will come in a while. Pragya asked them to wait in the car and she will come with Abhi. As always giving into her wishes, they left and Pragya waits outside the library for Abhi.

Pragya noticed Abhi coming out with Meera, she doesn't like it even for a bit when some unknown girl roaming with him. Abhi saw her as he waves at her.

"Ok bye, Meera", Abhi says.

"But...", Meera tries to stop him, before that he walks towards Pragya.

"Waiting for me?", Abhi asks smiling.

Seeing him smiling at her, Pragya smiles. "Yes. Come let's go"

Meera looks at them as Pragya wraps her arm around his and walks away talking happily. Meera shakes her head and left.

"Shall we move now?", Arjun asks Pragya putting his coolers once they reached the parking.

"Ok", Pragya says and turning to Abhi she asks, "Where is your car?"

"I come by bike today", Abhi informs.

"Bike!", Pragya asks excitedly and turning to Arjun she says, "Shall I come with him, Arjun bhai?"

"Don't be silly. Go with him", Abhi says noticing how Arjun was hesitating to allow her.

"Why are you always saying no to me? If you don't want to drop me, then give me your bike and you walk to home", Pragya says with hands on her hip.

Abhi looks at her with wide opened mouth and sees Purab poking his head outside the car as he cheekily grinned at him.

"Ok ok. Abhi, can you please drop her?", Arjun asks her not wanting to hurt his sister.

Pragya excitedly looks at Abhi, seeing her smile Abhi nods his smiling while she jumps excitedly and hugs him.

Abhi handover his helmet to her and starts his bike. Pragya keeps on talking with him excited about her first bike ride, she asked him to stop and buys a icecream for her on the way. Paying for the icecream, Abhi again drives to the destination.

"Thank you", Pragya says happily getting down from his bike as they reached her home, giving his helmet back.

Abhi shakes his head wearing the helmet, he asks, "Why were you so pissed in the morning?"

"I don't know. Maybe because you didn't tell me about this new friend of yours. But I am not sure, it was just bulbul's guess", Pragya says shrugging.

"I would have told you if I remembered all that, right? Whenever I meet you, so many important and unimportant things comes up for us to talk, then how am I to remember all this? Leave all that, are you happy now?"

"Yes! So happy", Pragya says smiling.

"Good then. Bye", Abhi winks at her and droves away.

Pragya smiles shyly and runs inside her home hopping happily. She spots Ishani and twirls and dances with her, then leaving her, Pragya moves to Madhu and twirls her happily. Finding Rishi, she jumps and hugs him happily. Picking up Vivaan and Ryan from the couch who were playing, she kisses their cheek and moves to her room with them.

"She looks so happy!", Ishani says smiling.

"I wish, she always stays happy like this", Rishi says looking at her room.

"Pragya reached, bhabhi?", Disha asks entering inside.

"Yeah. In her room", Madhu answers.

"Ok. Bhabhi, there is some family function in bulbul's place. She asked me to join her. I'll be leaving in a while", Purab informs.

"Ok, I'll inform mom and dad. You go safe and come", Madhu replies.

"You two are not going?", Ishani asks looking at Arjun and Disha.

"No, I have some assignments to finish", Disha answers and Arjun continues, "And I have so many left over portions to cover. We have exams in 2 months"

"Fine then. I'll tell the menu for dinner to the cook and come", Madhu says and left to kitchen.

"Mom and badi maa are not home?", Arjun asks Rishi.

"Mom went to her NGO meeting and Chachi went to her hospital, some emergency case I think", Rishi answers.

All went to their respective rooms and started their work. Pragya plays with her Nephews till they fallen asleep. She looks at them for a while, then keeping the pillows around them she moves to her cupboard.

Purab had left earlier so that he could pick Bulbul from her place. Arjun comes to the hall and finds Rishi checking his video recorder. He sits beside him and enquires about the recorder. Just then they heard music and ghungroo sound as if someone was dancing.

"Bhabhi is dancing?", Arjun asked Rishi as Madhu sometimes practices in there whenever she couldn't go to her Kathak teaching classes.

"Did you heard the music? Who is dancing, Rishi?", Madhu questions curiously as she hurried out from the kitchen with Ishani.

"You are here? We thought that was you", Rishi answers surprised as she stands on his feet.

"Bhaiya, bhabhi, Arjun... Come with me", Disha comes to them running happily.

"What happened?", Arjun asks her, seeing her so happy.

"All of you come with me first", Disha says as she drags Arjun with her and runs to the lawn while the rest follows her hurriedly.

Disha gestures them to be quiet and look ahead. They saw Pragya, who was dancing happily. All of them looked at eachother's face surprised.

"Its been so long since she touched her ghungroo and danced like this", Rishi says smiling.

"Before that, she used to practice everyday. Such a bright student she is. But after that Randeep's incident...", Madhu stops hesitantly since she was the one who taught Pragya Kathak.

"No bhabhi. Don't take their names. It's all over and they have no place in our life now. Especially in Pragya's life. I am seeing my old friend after a long time", Disha exclaims feeling her eyes fill up.

Rishi side hugs her and turns to Madhu he replies, "Disha is right! Now no need to think about them. Wait let me record her dance first"

"Great! I'll video call Purab too", Arjun says as he quickly video calls Purab while Disha says, "I'll video call Ram uncle and Neil uncle, then"

"Then mom and chachi...", Ishani starts saying.

"We are here", they turns to find Priya and Ragini had already reached and seeing their daughter so happy.

Rishi begins recording the video while the video call got connected too. Ram, Neil and Purab along with Bulbul noticed Pragya, who was dancing without any worry after a long time. They have no idea why she stopped dancing after that incident, but now they are happy because Pragya is coming back to her form.

*******

"Why no one informed me?", Ranveer asked pissed as he couldn't see Pragya's dance.

"Sorry bhaiya. Zidh mat kijiye na... You can watch the video, right?", Disha coax him.

Seeing Disha's puppy face, RV decided to watch the video they had recorded. He was ecstatic to see his little sister happy. By then, everyone gathered in the hall and starts talking about today's incident, that is Pragya's happiness.

"Where is she?", Ram asks not finding Pragya anywhere.

"Sleeping, Ram", Priya answers.

"Did she had dinner?", RV asks.

"She did. Now everyone go to your room and sleep.", Priya orders gently.

Accepting her words, all left to their respective rooms and slept. Next morning, as usual everyone started their work after having an awesome breakfast from home. In college,

"You told me once that you were with your gaurdian. What's his name? Where he is now?", Pragya asks Abhi.

"Prakash Tiwari. My dad's trust worthy friend. He is in London now, handling dad's and his business simultaneously. He is a nice man, but he doesn't believe in love and relationship so that he never got married"

"Oh... Have you ever asked him about or maybe do you know any of your relatives?", Pragya asks curiously.

Abhi sighs and tells, "No. I never asked and he never told. And what is there to tell because I knew all those relatives were behind dad's money and property not our relationship"

"You can get diamond only after washing off all the impurities", Pragya says smiling and waves at Bulbul and Disha who were asking her to come.

"Think about it", Pragya tells him and jumps down from the corridor rail she was sitting on and runs towards her friends.

Abhi watches her for few minutes till she had gone out from his sight. He thinks for a while and decided to call his gaurdian, Prakash so that he could get some information about his relatives. He is not going to lose anything just by asking, if he  get some positive information then he will be lucky.

Finishing off their classes, the gang went to their respective houses and relaxes themselves. At night, Pragya was watching a movie in her room, suddenly her mobile rings flashes Abhi's name.

"Hi", Pragya says smiling.

"You asked about relatives, right?", Abhi says in a serious tone.

"What happened? Did you find anything? Who are they?", Pragya asks curiously sitting straight.

"Chachu. Dad has a younger brother.", Abhi answers unbelievably.

"What??? Tell me clearly"

"I called Prakash uncle and asked him whether is there any relative of mine who is not behind the money and only cares for our family. He told me about Chachu and also mentioned that he left home when I was 3 years old because dad didn't allow him to marry the one whom he loved. Chachu tried to make dad understand, even fought with him, but dad didn't understand. So chachu had to leave home because he couldn't betray his love"

"Why he did like that? This is not done, Abhi"

"I know. I told you, right? Dad wanted everything to be proper and practical. Chachi was chachu's P. A, and don't know because of some weird reasons dad had thought that Chachu and chachi can't take their relationship for so long. After years, he realised that he was wrong, so dad and mom went to bring them home"

"Who told you? Prakash uncle?"

"Yes. But I remember before they leave, dad told me that he was going to bring someone home and we all would live together. But he didn't come back, one their way they had met with an accident", Abhi says closing his eyes in pain.

"What is your Chachu and chachi's name?"

"Aadhav Mehra and Nandini Mehra. Prakash uncle also said that dad called him before his accident and informed him that he was going to bring his brother back home"

"Aren't you happy that now you have someone with whom you share a blood relationship?"

"What's the use? I don't know where they are. Uncle told me they were in Delhi lastly. Don't know where they are now. Even if I find them, who knows whether they would like to have any relationship with me or not because dad had abandoned them from his and ours life. With what hope I can be happy?"

"Fine. Let it be. Atleast you got to know that you have a chachu whom your parents loved, right?"

"Yeah. A kind of"

"Good. Now go to sleep. I am going to watch movie. Good night", Pragya says.

"Pagal... Good night", Abhi says and hung up.

Pragya thinks for a while and jumping down from her bed, she runs to Rishi's study. She opens the door and finds Rishi typing on his laptop. Hearing the sound, Rishi looks up and saw Pragya walking inside.

"Bhaiya, I need a favour", Pragya says.

"You can order me, princess. What's this favour and all. What do you want, tell me?", Rishi asks closing his laptop.

To be continued...

With love,

Sweety