Priya Sood was threatened by Mrs Nandini Kapoor. It made her feel vulnerable and her hands were tied that she couldn't even tell the truth to Mr Kapoor. So she intended to leave Mr Kapoor after the seven days and go far away from him. 

Until the day, when her daughter Pihu accidentally took Mrs Nandini Kapoor's depression medicine. As Priya fretted over in the hospital about her daughter's well-being. Priya was determined to never forgive Mrs Nandini Kapoor if something went wrong with her kid. 

Fortunately Pihu was perfectly fine but according to the doctor, Mrs Nandini Kapoor was a liar and a manipulator. Five years ago, Mrs Nandini Kapoor made Priya to be a liar by manipulating her as well. 

The consequences of that lie was still echoing in all of their life's. Priya still wakes up with regret everyday over the said lie and felt trapped by the lie. The fact Mrs Nandini Kapoor still threatens her with all her weakness ensured she would continue to live the lie forever. 

But she intend to have this lie of Mrs Nandini Kapoor exposed. Not because she truly believed this could change everything in her life, but it would be a start to ensure Mr Kapoor's is free from her continued manipulation. 

Priya can't fix everything that went wrong in their life, but she intend to fix this one at least. So she started to plan to expose Mrs Nandini Kapoor and Priya knew it won't be easy given Mr Kapoor's complete trust in his stepmom. 

Priya also meant to keep her hand in the exposure a secret because if Mrs Nandini Kapoor knows the truth that Priya was trying to reveal her truth than she would destroy everyone Priya loves. Ishaan, Pihu and Mr Kapoor would be affected by it and Priya refuse to let her destroy them again. 

So she planned and then planned some more. She took help from Krish as well and in the end, she had perfected her plan. 

Today would be the start of her plan and she hoped everything would work the way she wanted as she marched towards the dining table where Pihu and Mr Kapoor where having their breakfast. 

"Pihu, did you forget to take your pill?" Priya asked her daughter who immediately reached to her mint tablets with a smile. Priya didn't like having to use her innocent kid in this plan, but she had no other option. 

"Forgetting to take your Pill is wrong, no one else forgets to take their pills in the house except Pihu?" Priya spoke up waiting for her daughter to say just the answer she wanted from her. 

"Mr Khadoos's mom forget to take her pills too. Right Mr Khadoos?" her daughter asked Mr Kapoor and from that point her plan worked perfect as she expected. 

Mr Kapoor got concerned and asked him mom if she took her medicine today and Mrs Nandini Kapoor decided to pretend she forgot and asked Tarun to get her the tablets from the room. 

"Tarun is busy, I will go and get it for you. You just take a seat and have your breakfast " Priya offered and she knew it would be shot down, so she rushed away before Mrs Nandini Kapoor stopped her. 

By the time she returned back with the fake tablets. Mrs Nandini Kapoor looked anxiously at her, but Priya kept a smile on her face as she handed over the tablets to her then took a seat beside her daughter for breakfast. 

Priya waited till Mrs Nandini Kapoor began to eat and then started a conversation with Pihu that was meant to be overheard by her. 

"Pihu beta, you remember the promise you made right. You will never take Mr Kapoor medicine or his mom's medicine ever again. Because if you did then you will lose all your pretty  hair, you will become so thin and lose your adorable chubby chin and mostly you would lose you appetite and can't eat your favorite food. Because it would stop tasting good as before, these are some of the side effects the doctor told me that you would have gotten if your dosage was high and most importantly you would get sick and have to be admitted in the hospital again then the doctor will again inject you with the big injection for blood. So promise me that you will never do it again" Priya spoke up to her daughter and Pihu who looked really scared by the side effects agreed to never forget her promise. 

With Plan A set, Priya began to move on Plan B. She asked Mr Kapoor to drop her at the bakery on his way to the office and told Pihu that Krish would come and pick her up after breakfast. 

On the drive towards the bakery. Priya held on to the box of medicine she gave to Mrs Nandini Kapoor earlier and hoped her plan would work this time as well. 

"Mr Kapoor, I know you got lot of things on your mind and I am no one to advise you, but you need to take care of your mom better. She can't keep forgetting taking her tablets " Priya spoke up and she knew it would push Mr Kapoor to get angry at her, but she had no other way. 

"I know how to take care of my mom, Priya. There is no need to taunt me when you are the reason she needs those medicine in the first place" Mr Kapoor taunted her and while it hurt she knew it was going according to her plan. 

"I know Mr Kapoor. It is the reason I am concerned about your mom. You said you know how to take care of your mom. But you don't know Mr Kapoor. I didn't mean to but when I went to get her medicine, I noticed the box is still full Mr Kapoor. It means she missed out on taking the medicine often" Priya spoke up and waited for him to counter argue with her. 

"She might have gotten it just now. She has been on medicine for five years Priya. She still won't be using the first box" Mr Kapoor answered back angrily at her questioning. 

"No Mr Kapoor, this box of medicine expires next week. No pharmacist will prescribe an almost expiring box to a patient. So it means your mom had this box for a long time, but she hadn't taken it regularly hence it is full. If you don't trust me, here you go. I have taken the box with me to get her new medicine because this one is getting expired" Priya said and handed over the box to Mr Kapoor.  

As Mr Kapoor took the box from her to check the truth. Priya was thankful her guess had been right and Mrs Kapoor didn't change the box and kept reusing the same one replacing it with calcium tablets instead. 

"I don't understand, how I failed to notice it" Mr Kapoor answered back devastated that he failed his mom. Priya knew it would hurt him, but for her plan to work this needs to be done. 

"Mr Kapoor, I didn't bring this to your attention to make you feel bad, but to ensure you take notice of it in the future. Let us stop by a pharmacy first, so you can get your mom's medicine and this time make sure you give it to her every day. " Priya spoke up and he listened to her as she hoped because when it comes to his family, there is no one who can be as caring as him. 

Priya could see her plan unfold later that evening when Mr Kapoor told his mom that he went to the pharmacy and got her tablets because the current one was expiring soon. He also told her that from this day onward he would keep the pills with him and give it to her daily. 

Priya could see Mrs Nandini Kapoor trying to shut down the plan by saying she is capable of taking care of herself and she didn't want to burden her son. But Ram was adamant and made her take one pill right before him. 

Priya knew with that task done, she should move to the next set of her plan. She already made sure Krish got her a duplicate box of medicine filled with calcium tablets and she swiped it when Mr Kapoor wasn't looking. So technically Priya wasn't harming her with real tablets, but Mrs Nandini Kapoor didn't know the truth and that is what matters at the moment. 

The next day, she set the last step of her plan in motion. When she sneaked inside Mrs Nandini Kapoor room and left a sample of hair on her bed and in her comb. 

Then she set out for her next plan. She told Tarun that Mrs Nandini Kapoor needs to have less salt to no salt in her food per doctors advice and to make sure the food he prepares for her is bland and to give her the same with salt since she doesn't want any special food. She also asked him to keep it from Mrs Kapoor, because she might decide not to follow the doctor's advise. 

So over breakfast both of them got the same food. Priya complimented the food to be so tasty in front of Nandini later thus starting the cycle of her freaking out and when Mr Kapoor came down for breakfast, he brought her medicine with him. 

Mrs Nandini Kapoor began to protest stating several reasons like she got heavy headache and the medicine will only make it worse. But Mr Kapoor stood his ground once again and Priya could see it would be only a matter of time before his mom breaks down in fear. 

Mrs Nandini Kapoor lasted two more days where Priya kept doing everything over and over again until she couldn't deal with it anymore. It all happened few hours earlier over breakfast. 

When Mr Kapoor, tried to give his mom her medicine, she declined to take it rather adamantly and all his begging and pleading fell on her deaf ears and when he persisted she lashed back at him with the truth. 

"I don't have any depression. Stop giving me this pills and trying to kill me like Shivi. I won't take it. " Nandini Kapoor lashed at her stepson and walked inside her room. 

Priya saw how upset Mr Kapoor had been by those words and she wanted to even let it go seeing his pain, but she couldn't allow his mom to keep doing this for  years and destroying him. 

So she made his way towards him, knowing he was more than likely to lash at her, but he didn't lash at her instead he asked her for help to save his mom. That broke her heart more. 

Priya knew she had to be strong for both of them and can't fall back on her plan because Mr Kapoor was suffering. So she continued her plan. 

"Mr Kapoor, I am so very sorry. But forgetting taking her medicine is one thing, but not accepting she needs help that is not good for her. Also claiming you are trying to kill her means she is getting paranoid as well . Your mom needs constant attention and more help. And I don't think you can do it at home anymore. You need to get her hospitalised for few months until she gets better" Priya answered back and she felt the bitter sweet taste of victory when Mr Kapoor agreed to her words. 

Priya knew it won't be long for Mrs Nandini Kapoor to connect the dots if Mr Kapoor tried to send her to an hospital. 

As expected when Mr Kapoor broke the news to his mom, she became hysterical and calling him, her stepson hence he was discarding her and so on. It was hard for Priya to witness Mr Kapoor getting broken with her words, but she stood back and let it happen. 

Then as Priya feared, Mrs Nandini Kapoor connected the dots as she turned her accusation towards her. 

"It is you, isn't it? Why didn't I guess it was you all along. Do you think, you can win over me. Do you want Pihu to know your truth or do you want Ram to know everything, fine let us speak it all up now" Nandini Kapoor lashed at her and if she expected Priya to react then she was going to be disappointed as Priya looked at her unfazed. 

"I know you are mad at me, but Mr Kapoor is doing it for you. And I trust Mr Kapoor to not let you hurt Pihu and if there is anymore truth you need to say, do it. Tell him everything you want to say" Priya dared her and she knew it could  go either ways. 

Once Nandini Kapoor, realised that she walked straight into an trap. She pretended to faint because she had no other way to go. 

She can either claim that she got no depression and spill the entire truth to Ram and face the consequences or keep her silence and get hospitalised for her treatment. 

Priya asked Mr Kapoor to fetch the doctor and then waited till he left before turning towards Nandini Kapoor. 

"He is gone, you can stop pretending to be unconscious." Priya spoke up and the next moment Nandini Kapoor stopped pretending and stood up to confront her. 

"You think that you can get away with this, I won't let you win. I am Nandini Kapoor and I won't stop until I destroy you completely. " Nandini lashed at her as Priya calmly smiled back. 

"Life is a funny thing isn't it Mrs Kapoor. Remember five years ago, you came to meet me in jail and gave me two option. Lie to my husband and get reunited with my daughter two years later or stay in jail forever losing both of them. I choose the selfish decision, I choose my daughter and gave up on Mr Kapoor. 

Now five years later, I know there is no going back from that but now it is your time. What are you going to do? Continue your lie and get hospitalised to get treated for your fake depression  or tell Mr Kapoor everything including your fake depression and your manipulation that made him believe I cheated on him and Pihu wasn't his daughter. 

What is it going to be, you better decide soon before he returns back" Priya spoke up and she didn't find any pleasure in pushing Mrs Nandini Kapoor to the corner, but she needed to do so to protect Mr Kapoor. 

"I might get hospitalised for few days. But I will be back and when I do be prepared to face my wrath and see how easily I can destroy you" Nandini Kapoor answered back making her decision. 

"It won't be just days. I made sure you get minimum of five months at hospital. But you know what Mrs Kapoor, five months is nowhere near enough for the five years you manipulated Mr Kapoor or the five year you made me keep his daughter away from him. 

But I would allow you to continue your lie because it would protect Mr Kapoor from seeing your true face. Well that was what I planned to do when I started, but I changed my mind. " Priya answered back as she pointed towards the door where Mr Kapoor stood listening to everything. 

Priya perfect plan was executed well enough that she thought it would be over soon and she could go back to her life. Everything went according to how she planned, but when she dared Mrs Nandini Kapoor to tell Mr Kapoor everything and she fainted something changed in Priya's heart. 

She no longer wanted to hold on to the lies. At the sight of Mr Kapoor fear of losing his mom, Priya realised that protecting him from the truth wasn't the right way. 

Priya knew when pushed to the corner, Mrs Kapoor would choose to continue the lie and she felt just getting her away from Mr Kapoor for few months would be worth all her efforts. She believed that it would help him move on from his past, but she realised leaving an option for his stepmom to return back to his life would only keep him trapped always.  

In the end, she changed her mind because she realised that she made a mistake five year ago with the same intent. She lied to Mr Kapoor back then to protect him and she was doing the same mistake now as well, by making the decision for him. 

So she spoke out loud to ask Mr Kapoor to fetch the doctor, but signalled him to hide behind the door and then brought the truth to him. 

Priya didn't know what the future would hold for them, but this time it would be Mr Kapoor making the decision for himself, not Priya making it for him. Because it is the right thing to do. 

Priya knew he was broken up by the truth now. But he won't be living a life believing in lies anymore and that must be worth the pain he endures now. Because with the truth he can finally move on in his life and not remain stuck in the past. 

P.S:" The End. Let me know your thoughts and feedbacks. Hit the votes if you liked it " 

Juanita Reid.