"Aab bar or badhu fere ke liye khare ho jaye" the pandit says in between his loud chanting of mantras... (now the bride and groom can stand up for the phere)

The groom, the Sanskar Maheshwary stands up taking a big sigh... he waits for his bride to stand up and looks at her... she struggles a little to get up... her big bump is not helping her either... he noticed his mother and sister holds her by either side and corrects her saree... he noticed her reassuring his mother that now she can walk and complete all the rituals... soon with another sigh he starts to walk behind him, his bride is following his steps... he wonder whatever the meaning of this mantras, will it works for their life? The faith, the love, the promises... where are they? Soon his bride passed him to take the lead of the remaining 3 pheres...

She is holding her baby bump tightly with one hand and the other is on her side... and another 3 rounds of vows and promises,then asked to sit beside each other again... his mom and sister helps her to sit... and in another 10 minutes he was asked to put vermillion on her partition and then the mangalsutra around her neck... he hesitates a little and looks at his father for the last time... he is still standing there nonchalant looking at him with serious eyes... he could not understand why he did this to him... his own father...

"Sanskar?" his mother whispers with an urge... taking another sigh he fills her partition... and tie that sacred thread around her neck...

"Aj se aap pati patni hue..." the pandit says getting up...

He couldn't believe this happened to him, his life... he is now married to a heavily pregnant unknown woman standing just beside her in red simple saree and minimal jewellery...

"Sanskar, come here..." his father called him... "here sign this paper..."

He gives a quick look... "marriage registry"... so he made sure there is no path to escape...

All he knew his marriage talk was going on... shekhar uncle brought the proposal for her second daughter kavita... whom he met in laksh's marriage and had a huge crush on her... bade papa was readily agreed and so he was... she was looking so beautiful on the day of laksh's marriage, his eyes were refusing to leave her sight... he blushed a little when badi ma and mom asked about it... he agreed... and then the engagement day... and then his accident... and 3 years of his coma period when he finally wake up 8 months ago, he was still happy knowing how kavita wait for him, his recovery... how she cared for him... and then again 2 months before the marriage talk again going on and for the 1st time the unexpected thing happened in his family...

"Durga prasad ji, as you see sanskar is totally fine now and settled well in his business so i was thinking why to delay more, i know my kavita is eager to stay with her fiance..." Shekhar says with a smile on his face...

"We are ready shekhar ji... we also want kavita to come and stay here forever..." Annapurna says with a smile...

He and Kavita were sitting side by side, kavita had a shy smile... Sanskar was thinking something deeply... was he really ready for all this now?

"No bhaisa... this marriage won't happen..."

All looks at the door... There standing Ramprasad maheshwary and Sujata maheshwary...

"What are you saying ramprasad ji?" shekahar looked shocked...

"What are you listening to is true... this marriage won't happen... i want sanskar to marry someone else..." ram says calmly...

"Ram what are you saying?" Durgaprasad maheshwary looks at him angrily... this is the 2nd time Ramprasad maheshwary denying him...

"Whatever you heard, bhaisa, its true..." ram again says calmly...

"How can you do this with us... we waited for 3 years and now" Janki Gadodiya says with disbelief...

"Didn't we ask you to move on?" Sujata says to her with a frown...

"But we didn't, we waited and now you are saying..."

"As a father of sanskar i am cancelling this?"

Kavita was crying by now... Ragini holds her by shoulder...

"Chacha ji what are you saying... My sister loves him so dearly and Sanskar also..."

"Really? Sanskar also?" Ram says looking at Sanskar... "sanskar?"

Sanskar was too shocked with the happenings... he looked at his father flabbergasted...

"You LOVE her sanskar?"

"I... i... i like her dad..."

"Did you listen Ragini"

"He will love me after marriage..." kavita says while crying

"HE WILL LOVE HIS WIFE AFTER MARRIAGE..." ram says authoritatively...

"But chachaji... my sister how can you ruin her life like that... after all she has done..."

Ram and Sujata were looking at her silently...

"You know what?" sujata says gritting her teeth... "I don't want another mad psychic daughter in law in my house..."

"What do you mean by this sujata..." annapurna maheshwary asked in disbelief... how can her all time faithfull sister in law says like this...

"I meant what I said..." she says getting annoyed...

"Sanskar"

He was jerked out of his thoughts by his father... he looks at him...

"Sign it... you know your wife's condition right? I think she is very tired by now..."

"I am ok papa..."

He heard the voice of his newly wedded wife... he couldn't help but get angry how can she do this to him... didn't she feel one ounce of guilt before ruining his life... is not it her fault that she knocked herself by some bustard guy... and decided to go through her pregnancy and then suddenly she realised she can't do this alone she needs a husband...

"Sanskar... hurry up..."

His father's voice makes him look up... he looks at his still stern gaze and signs the paper with rage...

"Beta..." sujata cares her head affectionately... Then she signed the paper and thus she became officially and ritually Swara Sanskar Maheshwary...

Sujata is looking at the arti plate keenly if something is missing or not...

"Sujata, everything ready right?" Ramprasad Maheshwary asks urgently after getting a call from her daughter that they will be there in 5 minutes...

"Yes ji... i hope so..." she looks at her sister in law sitting on the sofa reading some magazine... she felt upset that whom she treated like her own sister is behaving this way...

"Sujata?" ram placed his hand on her shoulder...

"Ji... you know right I am not very efficient with these rituals and all... jiji always guided me... i don't know..."

"It's ok... your wish from your heart should be genuine.. This is all, nothing really matters..."

"Whatever you do devarji... but you remember that you have hurt Kavita and his family badly... and also your bhaisa... after what all he has done for you, you didn't show him minimum respect... chhi..." annapurna maheshwary says with a venom filled voice...

Ram stays silent... he always stays silent only... he only talked sorry, opposed his bhaisa two times... 1st time when his bhaisa asked to merge Maheshwary and karma after his son's accident... 2nd when they fixed his son's wedding to kavita...

"Mom..." both ram and sujata turn around and see uttara coming inside leaving sanskar and swara at the door...

"Mom hurry up... i think bhabhi is very much tired..." uttara says with a little smile...

"Yeah..." sujata rushed to the door istructing uttara to bring a red water plate...

When both came in, Sujata was holding swara, because she was looking very much exhausted...

"Swara beta... she is sanskar's bari ma..."

Swara looks at annapurna and goes to her slowly... then tries to bend to take her blessings...

"Don't touch me you characterless girl..."

"Bhabhi" Ram says coming forward... annapurna was seething in anger... "sujata... this introduction can be done tomorrow also... i think they are pretty much tired..."

Sujata nodes and looks at Annapurna with anger... then holds swara and slowly took her upstairs...

"Bhabhi, i respect you a lot... but that doesn't mean i will tolerate this kind of behavior for my daughter in law..."

"I can't believe you are behaving like this... for that girl... 1st you ruined my sanskar's life and now..." she starts to cry...

"Bari ma..." sanskar walks to her and holds her by shoulder... ram was looking at her rage filled eyes...

"Sanskar, go to your room... swara will be waiting for you..." ram says calmly...

Sanskar looks at his father...

"Sanskar"

Sanskar looks back and sees kavita standing looking broken and devastated... ragini is holding her by shoulder...

"Why you did this sanskar to me... you"

"What the hell is she doing here?" Ram says with an anger filled voice...

"Chachaji... my sister can't even stay in my house?" ragini says haughtily... ram throws daggers at her...

Sanskar looks at kavita sadly... he was about to step towards her but someone holds his hand...

He looks back at its uttara...

"Bhai... lets go... bhabhi is waiting..."

"You too uttara?" he whispered...

"Bhabi is good bhai... you won't regret..." she says with a pleading voice...

"Right i won't... because he wanted this... not me... if anyone will regret then its him and that girl..." he jerks his hand and walks to his room...

Swara looks around the room with a sigh...

"You will be ok right?" sujata asked...

"Ji ma... i am fine... and i will be..."

Sujata smiles and kisses her forehead lovingly... "you know right you have to be strong..."

"I know... for my little princess..." she pat her baby bump...

"You know it's a girl?" sujata caresses her hair...

"He wanted it to be a girl..." her eyes teared up...

"Ssshhh..."

"I am fine ma you go..."

Sujata nodes and goes outside only to dashed with her son... Sanskar holds her securely...

"Are you ok mom..."

"I am my chhora..." she says cupping his face... he talked to her after 1 month she guessed... Sanskar steps back and looks away...

Sujata wiped her tears, "she is 8 and a half month pregnant sanskar... she needs utmost care for now... don't do anything that can give her stress... she is a good girl sanskar..."

"I know how good she is... her baby bump and her presence in my room are enough to prove her goodness and innocence..."

"Don't speak like that sanskar... you don't know anything..."

"And i am not interested either... tell your husband that now i have obeyed him and married that girl... i should get my shares back..."

Saying this he stormed away from there...

Swara looks back listening to the bang sound and sees her husband standing there attaching her forehead to the door... she wanted to comfort her but it would be like putting head in lion's mouth...

She composed herself as he turned around... she looked at him and tried to find her Shaurya in him... no he is not there... what was she thinking when she was looking for her shaurya in him... she looks down... she feels him walk passed her... she again looks at his back... if it was her shaurya then he would have embraced her in second... when he was about to enter the bathroom...

"Suniye"

He stopped, his hand is still on the handle...

"That suitcase... my clothes are there... can you please help me to pick it up and put it on the bed..."

She literally heard him grinding his teeth...then he turned to her...

"Do it yourself or call that bastard who did this to you..." he pointed at her baby bump... she flinched under the rageful gaze of his...

A tear dropped from her eyes...

"What are you doing swara..." Shaurya shouted in a worried voice as she walked in the house with the grocery bag...

"Oh my god... how heavy is this... i told right we will go together when i will come.. Why don't you listen to me..."

"But you came late..." swara pouts massaging her wrist...

"So, I was meeting with the school committee... i messaged you..."

"I know..."

"You know what?" Shaurya asked, keeping the bag and pulling her closer by waist...

"I am not a temporary teacher anymore..."

"They gave you a permanent job?" she cupped his face...

"Yes..." he kissed her nose... swara squales in his arm...

"And don't say to me at night... shaurya please message my waist with warm oil..."

"I won't huh..."

But yet he himself used to massage her waist and feet with warm oil...

She jerks out of her thought as he closes the bathroom door with bang... he goes to the bed and lies down...

She with difficulty walked to her trolly and tried to pull it and put it on the table...

"I can't harm you..." she murmured, caressing her bump... she will sleep like this only how uncomfortable she feels...

She opens her hair and tries to decide where she should sleep...

She sees half of the bed empty... so she decided to lie down there only...

After 10 minutes...

She was not able to sleep the string of her petticoat and the saree is giving her pressure... her eyes filled with tears and a silent sob escaped from her mouth...

And then she sees Sanskar picking up her trolly and placing it on the table then opening it... she sits up seeing him...

He picks up one t-shirt and loose pants...

"Is this comfortable?" he asks, showing them to her...

Swara nodes slowly... he went to the washroom and soon came out...

"Come" he offered his hand... swara holds it looking at his face...

He helps her into the washroom and shows her everything...

"You will be ok? Should i call uttara" he says grumpily

"No... thank you..." she says with a small smile...

He has them... her shaurya's quality... she thought with a smile...

Freshening up she comes out and sees him sleeping on the sofa...

"You sleep comfortably... i will sleep here..."

Swara slept in no time... Sanskar was staring at her...

"Mom, barima told us we should shoo this dog away, that's why.."

"Beta see... she has given the baby there... she is already in pain and you are throwing stones... you know this is an inhuman behavior... you shouldn't do this..."

"She is in pain? Mom, an innocent 8 years old sanskar asked...

"Han mara chhora... giving birth to a baby is a very painful yet most beautiful process in any female's life... be it a female dog cow or human... don't give her more pain ok?"

"Ok mom..."

Sanskar closed his eyes feeling very tired....