She looked at Manvi and tried to wake her up "mannu uth"

Manvi opens her eyes and sits up straight, Ruhana adjusted the pillow behind her back.

"acha aaj hum shopping jaa rahe hai tum ready ho jao" Ruhana said with a smile on her face.

Manvi denies with "mujhe kahi nhi jaana hai"

Ruhana looks at her and says "zidd nahi karte chalo Anvi bhi ready ho rahi hai tum bhi ho jao"

She moves to her cupboard and takes out her clothes "yeh pehen lena aur haan kuch zarurat ho to bata dena main bahar hall mein hi hoon"

Manvi just shook her head, Ruhana goes out, she receives a call from Naina. She picked up the call and said "haan Naina jaisa tumne kaha maine kiya par use akele sab? Kuch kaise karne doon tum jaanti ho na" she was concerned for Manvi.

Naina replied "Roo, uska will power bahut week hai usko strong karna hoga Don't worry girke sambhal jayegi wo"

Here Manvi tries to get up from bed but falls and "ahh" escaped from her mouth.

Ruhana hears this, she hurried towards the room but stopped at the door. She looked at Manvi who was struggling to get up from bed. Ruhana wanted to go and help her out but controlled her emotions. When Manvi looks towards the door, Ruhana hides immediately. Manvi grabs the edge of the bed and gets down. She starts to walk towards the bathroom but misses her balance and drops on the floor. Ruhana felt bad about it, she thinks "mannu koshish kar tujhe karna hoga"

Manvi gets up again, she composed herself and starts to walk towards the bathroom, this time she was able to succeed. A smile came on Ruhana's face "sorry mannu par jabtak main rehti tu khudse nhi chal pati"

Anvi comes there and pulls her dupatta saying "mumma I am ready"

Ruhana turned to her and ruffled her hairs "are waah good girl aap jaake neeche khelo mumma maasi ko leke aati hai"

Anvi agreed "jaldi aana Anvi ko bahut shopping karni hai" she said in excitement.

Ruhana nodded, Anvi runs out of the house. Ruhana enters inside the room.

Inside the bathroom, Manvi removed her clothes and looks at the marks on her body. She closed her eyes, she could feel his lips touching her body, she shivered with this. She turned on the shower and starts to take bath, her tears washed away with water. Ruhana was standing at the door, tears brimmed down her eyes as she could hear silent cry of her sister.

She thinks "mannu mere samne kyun nhi roti hai tu.. kya ho gaya hai tujhe uss Viraj ne meri behen ki zindagi hi badal di meri hasti khelti behen mujhse chinn gayi"

Ruhana knew, she cannot break otherwise who will handle Manvi. She wiped off her tears and said in normal tone "mannu main wait kar rahi hoon"

Manvi turned off the shower, she wore the dress and comes out. Ruhana was surprised seeing her wear a different dress. She went into the past..

"ye kya hai mannu ready nhi hui tu?" Ruhana asked scolding her.

Manvi came and hugged from behind "Are Di aap nikal do na mere clothes aapko pata hai jabtak aap mere liye choose nhi karte ho main koi dress nhi pehenti" she placed a kiss on her cheek.

Ruhana smiled, hitting her head lightly "itni badi ho gayi hai ab toh sudhar jaa"

She moved to the cupboard, Manvi spoke up "jis din Manvi Khanna sudhar gayi hai naam badal dena mera"

Ruhana takes out her dress and said with a smile "toh ye pehenle favourite hai teri"

Manvi jumped on her toes "aapko meri choice kitne ache se pata hai aur mujhe na yeh fase na not so fancy dress pasand nnhi" pointing towards the black dress into the cupboard.

"toh isko uthake fhek de na" Ruhana said.

"nahi di.. collection ke liye rakhna chahiye" she said jokingly "main isey kabhi nhi pehenne wali"

Ruhana came out of her trance, she turned and let her tears flown out. Manvi who hated the dress is wearing it today.

Manvi said "chale di?"

Ruhana wiped off her tears with her hands and turned with a fake smile "haan chalo"

They walk outside, Ruhana locks the door and they take the lift to ground floor.

As soon as Manvi came out and the sunlight touched her she covered her face with hand. After a long period of time, she faced the sun.

Ruhana asked her in concern "kya hua?"

Manvi replied with pain reflecting in her eyes "kuch nhi.. Kafi time se dhoop ko dekha nhi na isliye aaj chub rahi hai ankhon mein"

Hearing this, Ruhana's heart pinched. Anvi comes and says "maasi aap yeh cap pehenlo aap beemar ho na nhi to aapko fever ho jayega"

Ruhana smiles at this, Manvi takes the cap and wears it.

They walk and many people were there, they looked at Manvi as if she was a criminal.

"are ye wapas aa gayi..."

"haan na jaane kaha hogi 3 mahine kya kya kiya hoga?"

"kiske saath muh kaala kiya hoga?"

"main toh kehti inhe society se nikalwa do hamare bacho pe kitna asar padega"

Ruhana looks at Manvi, who knew how to give a good answer to them but now only silence from her side. This change in Manvi worried mostly Ruhana. Ruhana stopped the auto and they sat in it, went away.

"Ye society wale bhi na.. bina sach jaane kuch bhi kehte hai" Ruhana fumed in anger.

Soon they reached the mall, Anvi smiled "hum aa gaye mall"

They get down and enter into the mall, Manvi looks and realises it is the same mall where they use to come every weekend and that day too how she planned to escape from Viraj's clutches but failed which resulted in more pain and sorrow in her life.

She thinks "agar uss din di aapne meri aawaz pehchan li hoti toh main itne bure haal mein nhi hoti aaj"

Ruhana kept her hand on her shoulder "chale upar"

Manvi just shook her head they moved to escalator. They get into a shop and Anvi orders them "mumma aap Anvi ke liye kuch dekho aur Anvi maasi ke liye dekegi aur maasi mumma ke liye dekho"

Ruhana agrees "yes boss"

Anvi smiled and started searching. Ruhana says "mannu dekho na"

Manvi starts walking, suddenly she felt someone is around her, she turned but no one was there. Was anyone actually here? Or it is all her hallucinations??

She moved to Ruhana and said "di main ghar jaa rahi hoon aap Anvi ke saath aa jaana"

Ruhana was surprised and said "mannu hum sab saath chalte hain"

Manvi denies and said in loud tone "main bachi nhi hoon chali jaungi khud"

she walks outside and starts to walk on the road.

Ruhana was tensed "ye aise kaise nikal gayi.. Anvi.." she looked at Anvi and called her "beta ghar chale??"

"okay mumma payment toh kardo" Anvi replied. Ruhana quickly makes the payment and moved out with Anvi. She took the auto to the home.

Manvi stops while walking, she starts to feel uneasy. She could feel everything is turning in front of her eyes. She grabbed the street pol and closed her eyes for a moment. She grabbed her head and soon collapsed on the road.

Shruti was walking, she saw someone lying on the side. She rushed and was shocked seeing Manvi. "manvi" she pats her cheeks.

"kya karoon?? haan Di ke clinic le jaati hoon" she stopped the auto. With help of someone, she made her sit in it.

"Neha Clinic le chalo" she said immediately. After sometime, Shruti reached the clinic and Neha checked up Manvi.

"Shruti ghabra mat teri dost thik hai" Neha replied.

Shruti nodded, after few hours Manvi opened her eyes. She looked around and found herself in a small clinic.

She sat up straight and found Shruti standing in front of her.

Shruti asked in concern "Tum thik ho na?"

Manvi nodes and asked "main yahan kaise??"

Shruti replied "tum sadak par behosh ho gayi thi wo to main wahi se jaa rahi thi tumhe dekha to yaha le aayi meri di ka clinic hai"

Neha (doctor) comes, she looks at Manvi seriously and said "maine tumhara check up kiya and reports are here.. Tumhe apna khayal rakhna hoga..."

Forwarding her the reports, Manvi took the report with trembling hands. She opened it and was stunned seeing it. The reports fall from her hand and tears escaped down her eyes.

To be continued...