Hlo darlings

This epilogue wasn't planned. But some of you wanted this. So this is dedicated to all those who asked me for an epilogue. A big bear hug to all those who have always been there with me💕💕

New characters -

1. Jannat Shivaay Singh Oberoi (26 ).

2. Shivjeet Shivaay Singh Oberoi (24 ).

3. Neil Omkara Singh Oberoi  (23)

4. Ahaan Rudra Singh Oberoi (20)

5. Rihaan Sidharth Rana (24).

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Sometimes happiness brings fear, of loosing it. Despite everyone's assurance Anika's heart cried in pain as she dreaded to loose her baby. Painful memories of past never leave someone. They do come back at some point of time to scare you.

Finally Shivaay had to step ahead to talk to his jaan, to comfort her and to assure her that now nothing would ever snatch their happiness from them. He pulled her in his embrace as the family left them alone.

Shivaay : Have you forgotten what I had said, Anika ?

Anika looked at him with her teary eyes and nodded in a yes. She herself didn't know why this fear wasn't ready to leave her mind.  May be because she was the one to bear the pain of loosing her baby the most.

Shivaay : Don't cry. I had told you right ? That our little princess wanted more time to prepare to make our life beautiful. So now she is ready. She wants to come to us, to love us and to be loved by us. So we should also prepare ourselves to pamper her a lot.

Anika nodded her head as he wiped her tears and asked her to smile. A new chapter of their life is going to unfold and this time, they would write their happiness with their own hands. None would be able to smear the ink of sorrows on the pages of their life. No one.

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"No way. I'm not a fool who would keep listening and believing what you all are saying. It's all a lie." A blue eyed, 26 years old girl closed her ears with her palms.

"But we are saying the truth, Jaanu." Said her Rudy chachu who looked a perfect business man in his white shirt and grey pants with specs on his eyes.

"And why don't you believe me ? You know I don't lie at all." Her Ommie Cha said as he Sat beside her.

"No. Still I can't believe it. I know you don't lie. But it's also true that any one of you don't deny Badi dadi's demands. And that's why you all want me to get married as per badi dadi's wish. " Jannat said as she looked at her Badi Dadi, Kalyani Singh Oberoi who was smiling like nothing happened.

"You all should take a stand for me. You all had a love marriage. I also want to experience love in my marriage like you all, especially like Ma and Dad. And I won't believe that Ma and Dad didn't have love marriage. That's impossible." Jannat looked at her Chachus (OmRu ) and chachis (Gauri and Bhavya ), Dadi ( Janvi ), Badi Dadi, and Bua (Mallika ) and Sid Uncle.

"I still can't believe that you all are lying to Jaana Di just because you all want her to consider Arrange marriage." Said Neil, Om and gauri's son.

"Nobody is lying to your jaana di, Neil. We are saying the truth. Your Badi Ma and Bade Papa had an arrange marriage unlike us." It was Bhavya who tried to make her niece understand.

"Impossible." Ahaan, Rudra and Bhavya's son spoke and sat beside Rudra who smacked his head. "Ouch ! That hurts, Rudy." Ahaan spoke in his usually cool attitude and reminded everyone of their young Rudy.

"I'll see you later. Let us solve this matter first." Rudra said to Ahaan and he shrugged it, as usual. Ahaan only listens to his Badi Ma ( Anika ). Like father like son !

"But how is it possible for a couple to be so much in love despite having an arrange marriage ?" Neil looked confused, curious and much more.

"Exactly. Ma and Dad love each other like.. like... like... hell ! There's no comparison." Jannat looked frustrated as she couldn't compare her parents' love to Laila-majnu, Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet and anyone else because their (Shivika's ) love is beyond everything.

"Have you all ever noticed, how Badi Ma gets panicked if Bade Papa has a headache. She tucks him to bed like a baby. And Bade Papa, don't even talk about him. Remember how he took Badi Ma to hospital when she had cut her finger while cutting vegetables. The cut wasn't even visible and he panicked as if there was a thunderstorm. And after that, he was carrying Badi Ma in his arms like a doll. How Romantic that was !" Neil stated dreamily as everyone smiled. This was indeed true. Nobody could love someone as much as Shivika love and care for each other.

"Does anyone remember when my friends came home with me ? Kunal had just complemented Badi Ma that she looks beautiful in Saree and looks so young. Bade Papa heard that. He scared kunal so much mere by his looks, that after that day, Kunal leaves the place as soon as I take Bade Papa's name." Ahaan told everyone and it was not new for anyone. Even the walls of the mansion know how possessive Shivaay is when it's about Anika.

"And still you people say they had an arranged marriage." Shivjeet, Shivika's son and Rihaan, Mallika and Sidharth's son spoke in unison and sat beside their elder sister Jannat.

"Hey wait, where are the two who we are talking about ?" Ahaan roamed his eyes here and there to look for the love birds of Oberoi family.

"What's happening here ?" Everyone turned their faces towards the source of the voice and there stood the most talked about couple of the century.

"Come bhaiya, Bhabi. Your daughter isn't ready to believe us. They think you both had a love marriage and Jannat wants to have a love marriage because she wants a happy life like you both." Rudra stated the matter and Shivika smiled looking at the confused faces of younger Oberoi siblings.

"I think you don't know yet that your Badi Dadi is the one who brought both of us together. You are right, we didn't have an arranged marriage. In arranged marriage, people atleast see each other once before marriage and talk a little. But we couldn't do that. Both of us had no option but to get married to each other." Anika spoke and everyone listened quietly.

"But we realised it only after staying with each other that, we are made for each other. Then there came a time when staying without each other started to feel like something impossible, something wrong. That's when we realised how much we love each other. And, we would always be thankful to your Badi Dadi for that." Shivaay said to his dear princess and then looked at his Dadi gratefully.

"Jab Sahi Humsafar mil jaaye, toh Manzil zaroori nahi hoti. Kyun ki tab, saath chalte chalte raaston se hi pyaar ho jata hai. Humsafar ke saath chalne mein jo Sukoon hai, voh manzil par pahunchne mein kahan ?" Jannat listened carefully what her Badi Dadi said.

"We love you very much. You know, that we would never ask you to do something that would be wrong for you. Arjun is a gem of a person, I've met him. He would be the best for you." Anika caressed her little daughter's hair and she hugged her tightly, which meant a yes from her side.

"Ok then. We'll fix your meeting with Arjun. Talk with each other once if you want." Shivaay took out his phone to call Arjun's parents but Jannat stopped him.

"I don't want to meet him. I also want a love story like you both." Jannat said with a Cute pout on her face and Shivaay kissed her for head as her every action is similar to his wife. They named their daughter 'Jannat' perfectly. She indeed made their life Jannat.

At night, Shivika's room

"Where are you lost when I'm here ?" Shivaay asked and was taken in a hug by his wife immediately.

"We came such a long way, Shivaay. It still feels like a dream." Anika said and he smiled.

"I don't know if it's a dream or reality. Whatever it is, it's beautiful. You are with me, here in my arms and that's all what matters to me the most. One thing that I'm not sure about is the way I should thank God and Dadi for bringing you in my life. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me." Shivaay said and kissed her for head. In these 29 years of marriage, not even once they broke this routine, him kissing her for head and and sleeping in each other's embrace.

Tere saath sab hai, tere bin kuchh nahi...

Tu meri bandagi tu hi mera rab hai...

Har dard chhota hai jab tu mera Humdard hai...

Zindagi ka har safar asaan hai, Jo Tu Mera Humsafar Hai...

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**THE END**
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