Hi All!

Thank you for the wonderful response on shot#1. I shall soon get back to u with replies to the cmnts.

I am so into writing this one that I can't wait to write the next part and I have been posting without proofreading (now u knw y der r hundeds of typos & grammatical errors🙈)

And that's why the delay in replies.

Now I want u all to read this before the update.

Here in my TS/SS (depends on my writing spree😜) I am going to skip the face off part just because I feel I cannot write it better than what the CVs had written.

Yeah u heard it right.
The CVs gave us more than what we wanted to see and the actors just raised the bar with their brilliant expressions.
DT to expressions queen hai hi but Abhishek pleasantly surprised me.
He stole the show completely.

I am not very good at reviews so I am not going to write more about it.

I just want to tell u all that if by any chance u hv missed the episode, plz go & watch it.
The episode of 29th April, 2016!!!

Ok now this story progresses from the point where the episode ended.

So this is going to be the aftermath of Adi seeing Ishita.

Song: Maa Tu Bata
By: Neha Kakkar & Tony Kakkar

Chapter dedicated to AwesomeFreak112 and akanksha_98

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Meri Maa

Shot#2

"Hamara Adi bhi itna hi bada hogaya hoga na. Mujhe uski bahut yaad aati hai" he heard his IshiMaa say when he was about to step out of the room.

Oh how he wanted to turn back in that instant and tell her "Mai hi hoon aapka Adi" but he was bound by the promise Mihika had given him.

"Tumhe tumhare IshiMaa ki kasam hai" Mihika had made it impossible for him to back off from the promise by mentioning IshiMaa.

He clutched the door for support closing his eyes tightly at his helplessness of being so close to his mother and not being able to tell her.

He rushed back to his room afraid that if he would stay there for another second he would give away a lot to her.

"IshiMaa zinda hain?" He asked himself replaying the scene at the hospital when he saw his IshiMaa after 7 long years.

"IshiMaa zinda hain!" He confirmed overjoyed.

"IshiMaa zinda hain!?" He repeated as realisation struck him that his IshiMaa was alive all these years, yet never did she try to contact them.

"Akka kisi se nahi milna chahti" Mihika had informed him when he asked why she didn't let him meet his IshiMaa.

"IshiMaa humse nahi milna chahti?" he had mumbled.

Although he had said humse , in his mind he meant mujhse.

His IshiMaa was alive for 7 years yet she had chosen to keep away from him.

Rejection was what he felt in that moment.

The same feeling of Rejection that he had faced time and again since his childhood.

The same feeling of Rejection which had led him to have suicidal tendencies in his adolescent years.

The same feeling of Rejection he had got used to all his life.

The same feeling of Rejection that had stopped him for accepting Ishita as his IshiMaa initially.

Adi had been wronged all his life.

As a child, his mother kept him away from his father for her own selfish reasons. Back then, he was too naive to understand her motives.

His father, in an attempt to give them a comfortable life that his mother desired for, worked day and night in return having no time to spend with his family, especially Adi.

His father loved him the most but he had no time to express his love due to his extra working hours. But Adi was too young to understand the unexpressed love of his father.

That's the reason how Adi got distanced from Raman and came completely under Shagun's control.

His mother, whom he relied and depended on for every little thing, was too busy with her extra marital affair that she did not give Adi the much needed attention.

And when the innocent Adi would ask her the reason for her behaviour she would just shed some fake tears and blame it all on Raman. She would tell him that because his father is not earning enough for their living, she had to do most of the household chores and even work outside at times as they did not have maids to help them. It was all a part of Shagun's plan but poor Adi believed every word that she spoke.

She had made him believe that if they moved with Ashok then they would have a better life and she could give him more time and more attention.

When Shagun had left Raman for Ashok, she had taken Adi with her. Although Adi was not very close with his father, he still expected that his father would come to take him.

But his father was so broken by the betrayal that he did not know how to handle the situation.

With little Ruhi in his arms, Raman had a huge responsibility on his shoulders of bringing her up on his own.

Raman had not made any attempt to get Adi back in his life for Adi's well being as he thought that Shagun could take care of him in a better way.

Shagun saw this as an opportunity and began to fill venom in Adi's mind against his father. She had said that Raman had chosen Ruhi over Adi as he thinks that Adi is a spoilt kid and he will not be able to handle him.

Rejection! Adi felt for the first time in his life. Rejection from his father!

Once Shagun had come to Ashok, she sent him to the boarding school. All the promises she had made to him was all a lie. Adi was left all alone to deal with his heartbreak of being kept away from his father and also his mother.

Shagun even manipulated Adi into giving a false statement against his father.

The distance that had already surfaced between him and his father now had a legal stamp on it.

After about 6 years, Ashok had brought him back home. His joy knew no bounds as he got to know that he would not be going back to the boarding school. In that moment he had admired his new Papa to be and considered Ashok as his savior.

Adi had no clue that he was being used against his father by his new father to be. He had accepted Ashok as his father and blindly followed every instruction that his Ashok Papa gave him.

Later Ashok had ditched Shagun and threw Adi out of his house along with her.

Rejection he felt for the second time in his life. Rejection from the one he had chosen over his own father!

When Shagun had exchanged Adi for Ruhi's custody, it was hard for him to believe that his mother could do something like that with him. His mother had fed him many cooked up theories. Although his mind warned him of believing her, his heart that loved his mother the most had urged him to have faith in her.

Later during the fire incident, his mother had left him burning to save her own dear life.

Rejection he had felt for the third time in his life. Rejection from his mother!

He had been used by everyone, wronged by everyone and rejected by everyone.

Now when he saw Ishita, a nobody to him, shower him with the love he always craved for, his heart rejected her.

He was so scarred by life in such a young age that he was left with no strength to bear the pain of rejection yet again.

He wondered if she too wanted something in return for all the concern and the love she showed for him.

Itni Fikar Kyun Karti Hai Tu
Itna Pyaar Kyun Karti Hai

Although he had tried to resist her love with his hatred for her, which was a result of his mother's manipulations and his own share of pain he has faced in life, her behaviour towards him had made him question his own theory.

He had seen Ishita stay awake for him which his own mother had never done for him. Most of the times his mother was busy partying outside or if at home, she would already be asleep under the effect of alcohol.

Now when Ishita stayed up for him, it was quite strange and beyond his understanding.

Raat Mein Jab Tak
Ghar Nahi Aaun
Tab Tak Kyun Jagti Hai

As much as he wanted to stay away from her, he felt himself inclining towards her.

His heart knew that he was accepting Ishita gradually as his IshiMaa but he never let anyone know about it. He was afraid that if in future, Ishita too left him like everyone else did, who would mend his broken heart.

Maa....
Tu Nahi Hogi Toh Bata
Meri Kaun Kare Parwaah

He had left no stone unturned in shielding himself from her love and on the other side she had done everything in her capacity to unshield him.

She had given up on her rights just to bring a smile on his face, when she had urged Raman to celebrate his anniversary with Shagun.

Yet he stopped himself from acknowleding her efforts.

She had almost given up her life to save him from the fire.

That was when all his shields, hatred, resolves had given up in front of the fear of losing her.

When he had seen her on the stretcher almost lifeless, he realised how much he loved her and needed her in his life.

IshiMaa he had mumbled declaring to himself that he had accepted her as his mother.

Maa....

He was afraid to imagine the consequences of her departure from his life.

'No...no....no...IshiMaa ko kuch nahi ho sakta. IshiMaa ko kuch hoga toh mujhe koun sambhalega. Please bhagwan meri IshiMaa ko theek kardena' he had prayed lying on the hospital bed.

Tu Nahi Hogi Toh Bata
Meri Kaun Kare Parwaah

-----To be continued-----

Tired for today...
Next shot hopefully tomorrow...