After one month:

"Isn't it a good card Shivaay!" Anika looked at the card which she had designed at first place, "But Omkara didn't look excited for it!" She was upset getting a cold response from Omkara.

"You are thinking too much Anika. Omkara is not much expressive!" Shivaay lied to her.

One month ago Omkara had put the bomb of marrying Swetlana. In spite of several attempts by him and Rudra, he didn't change his decision.

On the other hand Gauri had somehow restarted her life. Within one week of her residence at Anika's apartment, she was back at Jahanvi's boutique getting back her job but on a lower position being a newbie.

Fortunately Jahanvi was unaware of personal life of Chulbul making it a little comfortable for Gauri, who was trying to forget that beautiful yet painful phase of her life.

Shivaay had also kept Gauri unaware of Om's decision, to not make her more guilty.

"Not even by mistake, talk about this marriage to Gauri!" Shivaay again warned Anika.

"I know Shivaay. Why would I hurt Gauri by talking anything related to Chulbul!" Anika assured him, but still Shivaay was feeling a bit restless.

._._._.

"See Omkara, our wedding card matches with my wedding dress!" Swetlana showed it to her fiancé who was not even an ounce excited for it. "Come-on Omkara. It's our wedding next week. Don't be such a bore." She tried to come closer to him while he was maintaining his distance by going away.

'His Brahmchari mind needs to be changed soon. Otherwise I will have to sleep alone on my wedding night!' Swetlana thought with a whimper.

"First time in life, I am seeing death-card of someone!" Rudra who had just entered the room made a comment, which obviously riled Swetlana up.

"Om! I am tolerating your friend doesn't mean I will bear his every taunt! Ask him to shut up!" Swetlana started complaining while he didn't react much, lost in some other thoughts. "Omkara!!!"

Om finally came into reality, while Swetlana was fuming. "What is happening?" He asked clueless, making Rudra to chuckle, and Swetlana to grit her teeth.

"My brother is working days and night for this marriage Om. Can't your friends help him?" She told him in order to make Rudra do some work. "Ask this friend of yours to at least distribute these cards!" Her tone was dominating.

Before Rudra could object, Omkara spoke, "Rudy, please! Distribute the cards!" Saying it monotonously, he went out, leaving a smirking Swetlana and a fuming Rudra behind.

._._._.

"Masala Bhaat is Om's favorite. Pair it with some curry!" Shivaay finalized the Maharashtrian Menu with the cooks, when Rudra sulkingly came towards him.

"Shivaay Bhaiyya, Omkara is not doing right. He is behaving so immaturely. Please ask him to think again!"

Shivaay sighed. "We have been trying this since last four weeks Rudra." He was tired of all this, having a feeling of being accused. "I think this is his destiny. Let it be."

But Rudra was not ready to step down. 'Sorry Omkara. But I can never let you marry that Chantomai.' He had to find some solution.

._._._.

"Jahanvi Oberoi!" Rudra read the name on the wedding card, as he reached her home.

Jahanvi was a kitty party friend of Swetlana. So the wedding card was to be delivered to her.

She was having her breakfast when the door bell rang. The maid informed her that there is someone from her office.

"Gauri? You don't have to work on Sunday!" Jahanvi told her new employee who was very efficient in her work.

"Actually ma'am, there were some amends to be made in that lehanga, which is to be prepared by tomorrow!" Gauri replied as she informed Jahanvi the needed changes.

As they were deliberating over the new neck design, Jahanvi noticed Rudra at the door.

"Yes??" Jahanvi didn't recognize him but Rudra had sparkling eyes looking at Gauri.

"Gauri! Hi!"

._._._.

"That's how I know Gauri!" Rudra informed Jahanvi as they enjoy the ginger tea while Gauri was getting uncomfortable with all the talks.

"You didn't tell me that you are Chulbul's girlfriend, Gauri!" Jahanvi was surprised with this piece of news. "I thought you were new in Delhi!"

"Uh ma'am..." Gauri was again stuck in that maze of lie for which she was ccursing herself. At least Rudra acted maturely and didn't disclose the secret of Chulbul not being a boy. "We have broken up!"

"Oh...!" Jahanvi reacted to the break-up news as she opened the wedding card. "It's good that Swetlana is getting married..." Jahanvi commented making Gauri more upset, 'Why didn't anybody inform me!' She thought.

"And as a friend of Omkara, you have to attend the wedding, Gauri!" Rudra had the plan running in his mind.

"No, Rudy Bhaiyya." Gauri denied instantly, "I mean I don't want to remember the past!"

"No way Gauri. Omkara did so much for you. Even got punches and kicks for you!" Rudy reminded her that epic incident, "You can do at least this for him!" He knew how to manipulate the girl.

"Oh come on Gauri. Breakups are common in this world. You shouldn't leave your friendship for that!" Jahanvi supported Rudra, "You are coming with me, that's final!"

Rudra showed all his teeth on his.

'Why is Rudy Bhaiyya insisting so much?' Gauri couldn't understand the weird game Rudra was playing.

"That's done then!" He smirked bidding bye to ladies.

'Now let's see Om, how you dare to get married in front of Gauri!'

._._._.

"Why didn't you inform me about Omkara's marriage?" Gauri asked Shivaay when he came to meet Anika, "I came to know from Rudy Bhaiyya!"

Shivaay sighed on her question. "It was futile to hide it from you!" He concluded.

"Hide? What is it?" Gauri asked him.

"Gauri, he is fulfilling the promise given by Chulbul!" He also narrated how he tried to make him understand, "That one lie has ruined everything!"

"I should have never come into his life!" Gauri got upset, "He is getting the punishment now!"

"It was no one's mistake Gauri but there is one more thing that you should know!" Shivaay didn't want to hide it anymore. "He likes you Gauri!"

The biggest fear of her life proved true as Gauri understood what Shivaay wanted to say.

'Rudy Bhaiyya invited me so that I could break Om's marriage!'

._._._.

"Omkara!" Rudra called his friend in a sing-song voice, who chose to ignore to ignore him, "Don't be so pricy. I need to talk something important!"

"You and important. That don't fit in one sentence!"

Getting such a rude answer from Omkara Rudra made a face but anyhow continued.

"You know what, I think Gauri was really used by Chulbul! Gauri is innocent!" Rudra's comment made Om look at his face.

"I thought you don't like Gauri anymore!" Om looked at him with suspicious eyes.

"But I have understood that it was not her mistake that Chulbul left us!" Rudra spoke, "Actually I had met Gauri today. Was looking very sad!"

"You met her!" Omkara jumped on his seat, "Did she ask about me?"

Rudra sat comfortably now as his plan was going successful.

"What can you do Om even if she asked about you. You are getting married in one week!" His comment was mocking Om who was speechless now. "Who knows maybe she likes you...but we can't do anything!"

"Why?" Omkara asked as he tried to clarify, "I mean, she told you that she likes me?"

"Who knows...maybe after Chulbul she could give you a chance!" Rudra put the assumption, "Now she is single ready to mingle!"

"Haan!!" Om thought, "And there is no chance of Chulbul now!" His sentence made Rudra look at him.

'Poor Chulbul!' Rudra saw how Om forgot Chulbul for Gauri. "Leave it. Anyways I have been invited her to your wedding!"

Omkara was frowning, "Why wedding? You should have brought her with you!"

"Would you have proposed her then!" Rudra was playing from both sides, "Tell me Om, would you leave Swetlana for Gauri!"

Omkara was in dilemma now.

"Rudra, being honest, I like Gauri!" He confessed finally what he had been thinking since weeks, "But...!" He was being shy.

"Oho Om!! There is no 'if or but' now! Pyar Kya to Darna Kya!" Rudra had a plan ready, as he started narrating it to Omkara.

._._._.

"Shivaay Bhaiyya, what should I do?" Gauri was helpless, "Swetlana is very mean. She isn't suitable for Omkara!" She pleaded.

"Do you like him Gauri?" Shivaay's question was straight without any twist, "Do you want to marry him?"

After deliberating for a minute Gauri spoke finally, "I do." She closed her eyes, "But I can't face him again...forget sharing a life with him!"

"Then you should stop thinking about him!" Shivaay spoke seriously, "Either clear all your secrets to him or just forget him!" Shivaay finalized before leaving Gauri alone to weigh the options.

._._._.

"Are you both crazy?" Shivaay scolded the two friends who were already deliberating on their new plan, "How could you even think about it?...Omkara... you disappointed me!"

The matter was that Rudra wanted Om to run away with Gauri while Omkara, being a good honest man, was planning to go to Kaali next morning and ask forgiveness that he couldn't marry his sister.

"Exactly Bhaiyya, Kaali would kill him on the spot if he confessed that he can't marry Swetlana!" Rudra explained the dangerous consequence to Omkara, "The only option left now is to run away!" He spoke proudly.

"Just shut up Rudy!" Shivaay looked at Omkara, "Didn't we ask you to think about this marriage before saying yes to Kaali!" But he had to maintain a good impression of Chulbul and now when there were only four days left, he was having two minds.

"But I didn't know that time that Gauri likes me!" Omkara spoke, "We should at least try na Shivaay. Maybe Kali will understand!"

"And who told you that Gauri likes you?" Shivaay asked patiently. As Rudra tried to intervene, Shivaay's glare was enough to silent him. "That girl doesn't want to even see your face!"

That was an eye-opener for Om as he heard the reality. Putting a sad glance towards Rudra he chose to go out when Shivaay have his piece of advice.

"Omkara, for Chulbul's sake forget Gauri! It's too late."

._._._.

On the D-Day:

It was the Omlana marriage today with the guests entering. Although Shivaay was strictly against the idea of Gauri attending the ceremony, Anika was not ready to listen.

"Shivaay now when Gauri knows about marriage, it won't look proper if she doesn't attend it!" Anika supported Gauri's decision to attend the wedding.

"Gauri, it's good for both of you if you stayed away from him. Leave him on his condition!" Shivaay suggested Gauri, who was in Pink lehanga paired with black Choli.

She was also against coming here. But that small wish in her heart to see him one last time forced her to come.

Omkara who for the first time in his life attending a marriage ceremony, was all ready in the brown Jodhpuri, and the beige turban. But his eyes were lacking that spark.

As suggested by Shivaay, he had left the idea of Gauri, though with a heavy heart.

Gauri was accompanying Jahanvi, both sitting in a corner, when the marriage ceremonies started, with Panditji calling bride and groom.

But Gauri was restless. 'Shivaay Bhaiyya is right! I can't afford to hurt him anymore!' She tried to ignore her feelings, as she had been doing last month.

"Gauri are you ok?" Jahanvi asked her, getting a nodd in return.

As a suffocated Omkara sat in the his eyes met those of Gauri's who smiled slightly, looking at him.

"Uh Anika Bhabhi, I have to thank Gauri for attending the wedding. I'll go and come in a minute!" Omkara asked.

"No Omkara, wait till marriage happens. You can't leave the mandap now. It would look improper." Anika replied making him sit quietly while Swetlana followed soon.

Gauri looked at other side, seeing Om and Swetlana exchanging garlands amid the claps of all guests.

As Pandit started chanting mantra, the atmosphere seemed to be dull with Rudra going towards his friend. "Omkara, you have the last chance. Run away please!"

"Shut up Rudra!" Anika took Rudra to be joking, while she did the Gathbandhan of both.

As Kaali proceeded towards kanyadaan, Rudra became more restless. 'Where is my Brahmastra?' He seemed to have planned something.

'Don't be late, you are my last hope now!' Rudra prayed and there on the gate of the function hall, there was his ray of hope.

"Omrya, kothe aahe re yedya? Samor ye!!"

._._._.

Well those who didn't understand the meaning of last sentence the next update will sure have the translation 😜😉

So OmLana marriage... isn't over yet so all my potential killers have to wait there🙈

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