Next day...
New Delhi...
Aayan's house, 11 am..

Deepika walks inside the house, and sees Aayan, Ved, Jai seated in the drawing room, chatting among themselves...

Mostly Ved and Jai were talking, Aayan stayed quiet, as he did most of these days...

'Hey Deepika...' Ved smiled at her but she didn't return it, she had a wary expression on her face

'What's the matter...? Are you okay...?' Ved asked further

Now, Jai and Aayan too had their attention on her....

'I have something for Aayan...' she says looking at him and Aayan got confused

'What is it beta...?' Jai asked

'I am so sorry uncle, that I have to say this in front of you, but it's high time that Aayan should know this...' Deepika said to Jai and then turned to Aayan

'What's wrong Deepika ? Is everything okay...? Is Ananya....' Aayan began, but Deepika cuts him off in between

'Don't take her name ! She is fine and will do better, once she gets away from you !' Deepika snaps at him angrily and he sighed

'Deepika...!' Ved warns her angrily

'I am not scared of your rage anymore Ved, and I will say this, because he needs to know, that he is not the only one in pain ! Ananya suffered too, only because of him, he is toxic for her ! And I will say things to him today if you can't hear, you can leave right now...' Deepika countered and Ved glared at her

'I'll leave...' Jai says getting up and Aayan looks at Deepika questioningly, while she glares at him

'Ved, come with me...' Jai says to Ved, but he didn't budge, he was glaring at his wife all the time

Jai sighed and dragged Ved along with him upstairs and Ved didn't protest, but gave Deepika a warning look to not to say anything stupid...

Deepika ignored him and then turned to Aayan who stared at her in anticipation..

'Is Ananya okay...?' Aayan asked

'She is better.... But she won't be, once you get back in her life...!' Deepika says

'Deepika, I understand that you are angry because of what I did to her,  But believe me... I... I regret all that...' Aayan said looking down in guilt

'You know Aayan, what is a wife's worst nightmare ? To imagine her husband, to be with some another woman ! No matter how cool she acts in front of you, but deep down, she is horrified... You men call this insecurity or sense of dependency, but it's our love...! We love you, like you are our world, and if given a chance to hate, we do that too...!' Deepika exclaimed and Aayan sighed

'My best friend loved you Aayan ! She truly loved you, you were the only man she ever fell in love with ! And what you did ? Cheated on her...? Right on her face ! How heartless are you ?'  Deepika said angrily

'I am sorry for my deed Deepika, I just need one chance to explain everything...' Aayan began

'So that you break her heart for the fourth time ? She is a human damn it ! How much more can you hurt her ?' Deepika interrupts him and he looks at her shocked

'Yes you heard it right ! Unfortunately you are her weakness, she was in love with you, since the day you returned from the boarding school ! And no no no, you think you hurt her only by kissing your girlfriend...? No Aayan ! You have done that many times ! Still she loved you, like a fool... But not anymore, me, Papa and Vansh won't let you ! Enough is Enough !' Deepika glares at him and he didn't say anything and let that sink in...

'Deepika.. I.. Agree that I made a mistake... but trust me I did not cheat...! I can prove that...' Aayan said trying to pacify her

'What's the point now Aayan ? You already made her live the worst nightmare of her life ! You have no idea how shattered she must be from inside...! If I were in her place, honestly, I would've broke down right in front of Ved.... But my Ananya, she didn't ! Because she is no ordinary woman Aayan ! And you must have realised this by now...' Deepika repiled angrily and Aayan nodded in agreement..

'I just need to talk to her once... I agree that I was being unreasonable before, but I swear to god, that the accident, was not my plot...! I am not responsible for it...!' Aayan said helplessly

'I don't trust you Aayan..! If you can fool me with fake tears that you love her, and still carry vengeance for her inside ! It's easy for you to do that as well... Because you have been tamed to be heartless person by your parent's broken marriage, and your mother's selfishness...! And I am really sorry that it happened to you, but that doesn't give you any right to ruin Ananya's life !' She said taking a seat and Aayan sat opposite to her

Now Aayan was losing his patience...

'If I was behind the accident, why didn't police find anything against me... It's been 2 months afterall, and the culprits are being arrested as well...' He said raising his voice and Deepika knew that he will be pissed very soon

'Because, you may not have a heart ! But you are blessed with a brilliant mind...! You can fool anyone, plot against anyone ! And I won't be surprised if they don't take your name ! Because you have made all necessary arrangements to shut their mouths !' Deepika snaps at him

Aayan angrily throws away his phone and get's up angrily, Deepika who gets scared at this, stands too, but her expression doesn't change...

'I have a heart alright ! And that heart has loved only one girl in it's entire existence...! And that girl is my wife ! And no matter what you or your father in law or anyone thinks ! I don't care ! I did not try to kill my wife ! And once I come to know who did this ? I will rip that person into pieces...!' Aayan growled and Deepika flinched taking a step back...

Ved and Jai come running downstairs to find Deepika and Aayan glaring at each other

'What's going on....?' Jai asks looking at Aayan's pissed expression

'I told you not to say anything stupid...!' Ved scolds Deepika

Deepika loses her calm at this, she angrily drops the file in her hand on the table, and turns to her husband

'Why you all only care about what he thinks ? From the very day I have met this guy, I have only seen people around him saying, Don't do this, Aayan will get angry, Don't do that, Aayan won't like it...! Everyone is like Aayan ! Aayan ! Aayan !  Did you ever care what Ananya feels...? Yes I agree that your friendship bond is far greater everyone else's ! But there is something called as Blood relation ! And Ananya is related to you by blood !' Deepika exclaims

'You mean I don't care about my sister...?' Ved asks angrily

'Not only you ! No one here cares about her, all you care what this selfish man thinks...! She was being cheated upon Ved ! She was almost killed ! God knows how much this man would've humiliated her, when they were away !' Deepika accuses Aayan and he huffs in irritation

'Aayan would never disrespect anyone Deepika...! If you question him ? You are questioning my mother's upbringing ! And I will not tolerate that...' Ved growls angrily and she takes a step back

'Don't draw parallels here Ved, I didn't say anything about mom's upbringing here...' Deepika says lowering her tone, as she knows arguement will escalate her husband and Aayan's rage

'Then why are you here...?' Ved asked

Deepika picks up the file on the table and gives it to Aayan

Aayan takes the file and opens it, and seeing the paper, angrily glares at Deepika

'What kind of sick joke is this...?' He growls and Jai also glances at the paper

'Divorce papers...!' Jai exclaimed

'How dare you Deepika...!' Ved growls and marches towards her

'Papa asked me to get this papers ready and give it to Aayan....' Deepika replied calmly not getting affected by Ved's rage 

'Arjun has lost his mind...' Jai says pinching the bridge of his nose

'Why aren't Ananya's signature here...?' Aayan asks

'Don't worry about it ! She will readily sign them...' Deepika spat angrily

'Oo really...! Then give me this, when she signs it...' Aayan throws the file at her

'It's high time that you let her go Aayan...! If you claim to 'love' her, you will free her from your claws, because deep down, you also know ! That you are not good for her...' Deepika said

'I am not signing these...' Aayan said angrily

'Have some mercy on her Aayan, and release her from this hell...' Deepika begs

'Enough Deepika...' Ved growls and Jai tried to calm him down..

'Get her signatures and I will happily sign them...' Aayan said and walked away from there

Deepika quietly picks up the file and keeps it on the table and walks away from there without glancing at Ved...

Jai and Ved sigh and look at the papers and then at Aayan who was going upstairs...

Mumbai...
Vansh's studio...
2 pm..

'Khushi what do you do with these...?' Ananya asks pointing at a equipment

'Have you seen those scenes, when the hero and heroine hug each other and suddenly everything starts rotating around them...?' Khushi says

'Yeah...! I always wondered how fast the cameraman must be running around them to shoot that scene...' Ananya exclaims and Khushi laughs

'No, we use this... This small track like device is with attached cameras, this moves and the cinematographer sits on it... We are shooting one scene like that tomorrow... You must come and see...' Khushi informs and Ananya gets excited

'I would love to !' she says happily

'And thanks for coming with me to the NGO yesterday, the kids loved you...' Khushi smiled while arranging the stuff on the set and Ananya helped her too

'I loved teaching them too, You are doing a noble deed Khushi, it's really hard to find people like you now a days...' Ananya smiled

'Well they keep me occupied...' Khushi said and ordered to check the lights

'How did meeting with your parents, after the class go...?' Ananya asked and Khushi sighed

'They were sorry for leaving me with my grandparents and wanted to take me back with them to London....' Khushi said

'That's great ! Isn't it...?' Ananya says

'No it's not, they want me back because my younger brother moved to Canada for studies and married a Canadian girl, he won't come back now, so they remembered that they have another child as well...' she replied frowning

'So will you go back with them...?' Ananya asked

'Absolutely not...! I yelled at them for abandoning me and made it clear that my life is not their toy that they will play and throw away... They abandoned me, so I am doing the same...! I will never go with them...! And I still can't believe that I did that....' Khushi exclaimed happily

'I am so proud of you Khushi ! Atleast now you have a closure...' Ananya smiled hugging her

'It's all because of you Ananya, had you not persuaded me to talk to them, I would've lived my whole life in the confusion, whether I should see them or not...!' Khushi said hugging Ananya back

'Sometimes it's good to have clarity in relationships or they turn out to be bizzare...' Ananya sighed and Khushi looks at her and keeps her hands on her shoulder

'See Ananya, I don't know whether you will consider my suggestion or not... But you must talk to Aayan atleast once... No matter what world says, you should know him better than anyone....' Khushi said

'I will Khushi, once I convince myself that he can't do that, I will...' Ananya said and Khushi looked at her sympathetically

'You are a fighter Ananya... You are an inspiration to me, I am sure you will be out of this situation very soon, god can't be this unfair to you...' Khushi smiled

'You are so sweet Khushi, all I wish for you is that, you get a handsome and funny partner, who makes you smile all the time....' Ananya smiled and gestured towards Vansh who was instructing one of the assistants

Khushi blushed at this and Ananya smirked

'Soo... Did the things move ahead...? Or you are still admiring my brother from far....?' Ananya teased amd Khushi looked at her shocked

'What are you talking about...? I don't...' Khushi smiles uncomfortably

'Oo come on girl, look at your face, anyone can say you like my brother...' Ananya rolled her eyes

'Ananya we are just co workers, nothing more than that....' Khushi avoids the topic

'Hmmmm.... Just co workers... Then why Vansh bhai is your wallpaper...?' Ananya smirks and shows her the phone and Khushi gasps

'How did you...' Khushi tried to snatch the phone

'See, you have to confess your feelings to Vansh bhai or else I will do that...' Ananya says getting away from Khushi and she looks at her shocked

'Ananya... It's nothing like that... I mistook him as my favourite actor, that's why he is the wallpaper, let me change it....'  Khushi tries to explain

'You can lie better than this...' Ananya teases her

'Ananya... It's complicated, hear me out...' Khushi tries to catch her

'Nothing is complicated, you like Bhai and Bhai likes you too, so now you'll confess it to Vansh bhai...' Ananya says adamantly

'Ananya...' Khushi sighed

'Say it....'

'Okay...' Khushi gives up and Ananya grins, tossing Khushi's phone back to her

'You are really very obstinate...' Khushi sighs and keeps her phone inside her pocket

'Thanks...' Ananya grins and Khushi huffs

'You are taking me to that place for shopping tomorrow right...? From where you order costumes for actresses...?' Ananya asks and Khushi nods

'Absolutely, and hey...! Wanna go to that chinese restaurant we went last week...?' Khushi suggests

'Naah no chinese... I am throwing up from last week, this Mumbai food is not good for me I guess... I am falling sick very frequently...' Ananya sighs and feels puckish even at the thought of chinese..

'Really...? But your skin looks fairer than the last time I saw you, it seems that you are glowing... Did you change your cream or something...?' Khushi asks

'No... I didn't change anything... Infact...' Ananya began but their chat was interrupted by Vansh

'Annie...! Look who is here...' Vansh calls her and Ananya - Khushi look at his direction

Ananya's eyes light up and her mouth wide open as she sees Sameer standing along with Vansh, smiling at her

'Sammmyyy.....!!!' she exclaims happily and Runs towards him

'Annieee....!' Sameer smiles opening his arms for her and she literally jumps on him hugging him tightly

He was about to fall with the impact, when Vansh held them from behind, balancing them..

'Wow, you have gained weight in these months, see I can't even lift you up...' Sameer commented and Ananya hits him

'You have become weak...! I did not gain weight...' Ananya counters

'Actually you have...' Vansh comments looking at her and she gasps

'I have not... ! How mean you are...! Both of you....' Ananya says tears filling her eyes

Vansh and Sameer panic, seeing her cry over this petty comment and try to calm her down...

'No no no Annie... We were joking....' Sameer said, but Ananya now began crying badly, not herself understanding what was wrong..

'Annie nooo....aree yaar Papa will kill me... Don't cry please... We just said the truth...' Vansh said trying to calm her down

Sameer glared at him and then holds Ananya's hand
'We were joking... Relax... What's wrong with you, why are you crying on this petty thing...' Sameer asks caressing her hands

'I don't know....' Ananya sobs and Sameer-Vansh looks at her bewildered

'Do you think she needs a psychiatrist...?' Vansh asks Sameer

'Don't take psychiatrist's name in front of me....! Especially you and your brother...! It lands me into a grave troubles...' Sameer huffs and Vansh looks at him confused

Khushi comes running towards them seeing Ananya cry...

'Oh my god, why are you crying Ananya...?' Khushi asks

'I don't knowwww......' she hugs Khushi who hugs her back, getting worried

'Was she upset while talking to you...?'  Vansh asks Khushi

'No sir, she was absolutely fine, we were making tomorrow's shopping plan, she was excited....' Khushi replied carassing Ananya's head

'Aayan is going crazy there, she is going crazy here...! What do I do with these two...' Sameer mutters massaging his temples

'What are you blabbering...?' Vansh asks

'No, Nothing....' Sameer replies and turns to Ananya

'Annie we are sorry...' Sameer says and nudges Vansh to do the same

'Yeah Annie we are sorry...' Vansh says

'See Ananya, they are sorry, they won't repeat whatever they said....stop crying...' Khushi says softly to Ananya and she sniffs and nods

'Crazy girl...' Sameer muttered

'Come with me to my cabin, you two can chat there...' Vansh suggests and Khushi leaves Ananya

'Khushi, can you do me a favor...?' Ananya asks Khushi, wiping her tears

'Anything...' Khushi smiled

'I soo want to have that chocolate milkshake you brought for me, day before yesterday, please ask someone to get that for me...' Ananya says and the boys look at her bewildered

'No problem Ananya, I'll make it for you here... Give me 15 mins...' Khushi smiled

'Thank you...!' Ananya smiled and looked at her brother and Sameer who looked at her shocked 

'Do you want some...?'She asks but they don't reply

'Khushi, can you make some for them as well, or they won't let me have mine peacefully...' Ananya frowned and Khushi chuckled

'Sure...' she said and walked towards the staff kitchen

'Let's go...?' Ananya said and they composed themselves, as she walks past them

'One moment she is happy, one moment she gets sad and then other moment she wants chocolate milkshake... What's up with her...' Sameer says bewildered

'Girls do get mood swings during their 'That time of the month', I think it's one of them, which is weird because she never got moody, but okay... Whatever...' Vansh said and Sameer scratched his head

'I should've interacted more with girls to know that...' Sameer sighed

'Don't worry, I'll train you... I am an expert...' Vansh said hugging him by the shoulders

'No thanks, I don't wanna die single...' Sameer teases him

'Hey, we both sacrifice the girls we love to the assholes they love... We both will die single...' Vansh said sarcastically

'Brooo...' Sameer says wiping his fake tears

'Brooo...' Vansh hugs him dramatically

And then they chuckle leaving each other and follow Ananya to the cabin

15 mins later...

Khushi walks inside Vansh's cabin carrying a tray with their drinks and Ananya who was talking to Sameer about her days in Mumbai gets happy seeing her

'OMG...! Thank you, thank you, thank you Khushi...!' Ananya says excitedly and Khushi chuckles

She hands them their drinks and then Khushi and Vansh share a brief eye contact, which both Ananya and Sameer notice...

He was about to interrupt, but Ananya stopped him, giving him a goofy smile and he smirks at this too

'Ahemm...' Sameer coughs intentionally, breaking their reverie and earns a smack from Ananya

Khushi quickly composes herself and walks out of the cabin, while Vansh pretends to look at his phone...

'Soo Ananya.. You got a new bestie, I see...' Sameer said not looking at Ananya but Vansh

'Yeah, she is Bhai's favourite employee and very kind too...' Ananya teases Vansh

He looks up from his phone and then sees them smile goofily at him and huffs

'No one is my favourite here...' Vansh says sipping his drink, which he actually liked, though he hated chocolates...

'Sameer she works for an NGO too, and you know Bhai is funding that NGO...' Ananya says

'Oooo... NGO funding...' Sameer teases and Vansh glares at them

'Shut up both of you...' Vansh scolds them, while Ananya gets up to take a tissue from Vansh's desk, as she spills some drink on her dress

As soon as she gets up, everything in front of her blacks out and she falls on the ground, and then men gasp in horror...

'Annie...!' Vansh rushes towards her and so does Sameer, Vansh held her head and Sameer rubbed her palms to bring her to consciousnesses, but she didn't get up

City hospital, Mumbai...

Arjun comes running towards the ward and sees Vansh and Sameer waiting outside

'What ? What happened to Ananya...?' He asks panicking

'I don't know Paa... Doctor's are checking...' Vansh sighs

'Don't worry Uncle, she'll be fine...' Sameer assures him

'How do I not worry about my princess Sameer beta, she is going through too much from last few months... When will all this stop...?' Arjun sighs

The doctor comes outside, and they rush towards her

'Is my daughter okay doctor...?' Arjun asked

'She is fine sir, your daughter is 10 weeks pregnant and as she didn't start the regular medications, she fainted... I have written some medicines, get them for her, and consult a gynecologist ASAP...' Doctor says handing them the prescriptions

The men were stunned to hear this, Sameer was quick to compose and took the paper from doctor's hands

'You can see her...'  Doctor informs and walks away

'Congratulations Bro ! We are going to be uncles...' Sameer hugged Vansh, but he didn't react, he was too shocked to say anything, he looked at his father who was speechless too...

'Uncle, you'll be a grandfather...! Oh, Come on you guys....! It's a happy occassion...' Sameer tried to cheer them up, but they didn't say anything

'Alright, I'll get the medications...' Sameer frowned and then walked towards the elevator to go to the pharmacy

'Ooo my god...' Vansh said taking a seat

'I know...' Arjun says leaning against the wall

New Delhi...
Same time...

Have some mercy on her and divorce her from this hell...

If you truly love her, let her go...

He is not good for Ananya...

Deepika's voice rang in Aayan's ears and he started at the divorce papers placed on the table

It's true that she suffered a lot because of me...

I have hurt her in every possible manner...

Should I really let her go...?

If she is happy without me, then be it...

Aayan ran his fingers through his hair and then slides the papers towards him...

He stared at the papers and then sighed

He was searching for a pen, just than his phone rang, he looks at the caller and answers

'Hey Sameer...' Aayan says

'Congratulations Brother...!' Sameer exclaimed happily from the other side

Aayan got confused at this

'Thanks, but what happened...?' Aayan asks confused

'You are going to be a father, Aayan...' Sameer said and Aayan drops the paper... He was speechless

'What...!' he managed to say

'Yes brother ! You are going to be father...! Ananya is 10 weeks pregnant...' Sameer said from the other side

Oh my god...!

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A/N
Sorry for the Delay...