I feel a little relaxed knowing that the kids are playing up on the terrace they can't go out from there.

"He's fine." Abir puts his arm around me as he presses a kiss on the side of my head. I nod and we both settle down at the table.

"I figured you would be someone who gets pregnant before marriage." Sara is saying teasingly to Sam.

"What do you mean by that?" Sam frowns. "That I am getting married now that I am pregnant?"

"You are not?" Sara asks unsure.

"I don't want him to be my husband." She turns to look at Ishaan sitting beside her. "Play the father role, that's enough."

We all planned to get together since everyone had something to share except Foziah and Asad who seem to have a balanced life.

Things still don't go well with Sam and Sara. Sam didn't even want to share she is pregnant with anyone except Shreya, Ishaan, and me. But Ishaan is Kiaan's brother and Kiaan will share it with Neha who I know will let everyone know. So, I suggested to her it would be better to have a conversation instead of it going around as a rumor.

It's good to know Ishaan is surprised, happy, excited, and nervous all at the same time but what makes me feel happy is he didn't make her feel like it was a mistake and gave her his support.

"And you are okay with it?" Neha asks Ishaan. "Just being the father?"

Ishaan turns to look at Sam and he holds her gaze for a moment before he looks back at Neha. "Of course. She didn't get pregnant by herself, I am not going to back off from my responsibility."

"That's my brother," Kiaan says as he smiles.

"Well, I thought we both would get married in the same home and kind of bond up as sisters-in-law if not friends." Neha grabs the juice as she looks at Sam.

"In-laws' relationships don't go well with me."

"And a friend?" Neha raises her eyebrows.

"I don't want any more friends." Sam sighs frustrated.

I know Neha is probably trying to make peace with her because the baby is going to be a part of her life too since it will belong to her brother-in-law too.

Sam looks uncomfortable with everyone and every conversation happening here. Shreya is with Kunal here so she gets along well with everyone knowing well everyone plays an important role in Kunal's life.

"Shreya, can you please finish whatever you wanted to say?" Sam looks at her. "I want to leave."

"There's no hurry," I say as I look at her. "You are staying here tonight."

She looks at me and rolls her eyes, she promised she'll stay because we are going shopping tomorrow. I smile as she sighs as folds her arms leaning back on the chair.

"You go first," Shreya says to Neha.

"No, whatever I am going to say is special. So you go first." Neha says as she blushes a little.

"Okay, Kunal and I are getting married," Shreya announces as she glances at Kunal who grins. "On 15th December."

Neha nearly chokes on her food and Kiaan laughs as he pats her back. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah." Shreya looks at her with a frown.

"Fuck! We are getting married on the same day." Neha yells out excitedly.

"That's true?" Abir looks at Kiaan.

"Yes." He grins putting his arm around her. "We are getting married on 15th December."

"We can do the planning together." Neha looks at Shreya. "It will be a big grand wedding of two couples."

"You are fine sharing the day with us?" Kunal looks at them.

"You are not?" Neha raises her eyebrows.

"As long as I will be getting married to her I am fine." Kunal shrugs and he smiles looking at Shreya who blushes a little.

"Same." Kiaan chuckles.

"I am a little hurt." Sara looks at Kunal. "I worked hard so much to find a girlfriend for you and you never approved one. And now you are all whipped over her." She teases them fighting back a smile.

"Your husband is whipped over you too." He says. "Besides, she was the one for me."

"That's cute," Sara says as Kabir continues to feed her.

Abir and I share a glance and we smile before he leans in and quickly presses his lips on mine.

"Can you please use your hands?" Sam says out of nowhere. I look at how irritated she looks and glance at Sara who frowns at her.

"Why do you have a problem with it?" She frowns. "He is my husband and we are used to this."

"Why is every couple so irritating." Sam makes a face as she looks down at her plate and just then Ishaan leans in to press a kiss on her cheek.

"I was just checking if what I do is irritating or what." He says quickly when Sam looks up at him. I try hard to not laugh when I see her attempting to glare at him.

"I don't have much time." Kabir grabs the attention. "I need to leave for the hospital soon."

"Yeah." Abir straightens up. "You were saying?"

"Roy is busy and he will be free within two or three weeks. He has an assignment going on." Kabir looks at him. "He will meet Shreya as soon as he comes back."

He glances at me before he looks at Sara who gives him a nod. "I think Mishti needs to have a bodyguard."

"Sorry?" I frown.

"I was thinking the same." Abir agrees with them.

"And I suggested the same," Shreya says after a moment.

"Why?" I let out a humorless chuckle. "You all think I can't take care of myself?"

Abir sighs beside me, we always have arguments over this.

"It's not that," Shreya says softly. "You are going to be pretty busy from tomorrow. You can take care of yourself but not your surroundings."

"A bodyguard will keep you safe and scanning the surroundings around you is necessary." Kabir looks at me.

I look at Abir who looks at me with hopeful eyes. I don't want a bodyguard but I know I need to agree with this. To make him happy, to let him relax when I am out.

"Okay," I mumble.

"Thank you," Abir tells me slowly as he reaches out to hold my hand and squeezes before he brings it to his lips and kisses it.

The gesture warms my heart a little and I smile at him feeling happy I made the right decision.

"I will look for a bodyguard," Abir tells Kabir.

"I have one." He says. "If you don't mind."

Abir hesitates a little and I know he doesn't trust anyone.

"We can't trust anyone around so it'll be my father," Sara says when Abir doesn't.

"Your father is a bodyguard?" I ask surprised.

"No. He is a police officer." She smiles. "Kabir and I had to share everything with him when we broke up."

"He agreed to help and he thinks if he will be your bodyguard things will get easy." She looks at me. "Imagine someday you are attacked, he wouldn't take a lot of time to hold the person and dig out everything about him."

"And they will get arrested on time," Shreya says. "Roy and I will not be revealed as Undercover cops and it is best to keep our identity secret."

"I like the plan," Abir says slowly. "I mean if a police officer and two undercover cops work together it wouldn't take a lot of time for them to get caught."

"Yes for that they will have to make a move." Sam nods. "And you can't wait for them to make a move. Try pissing them off."

"I have the plan going on for it," Abir says and I frown. "I want to get over this business event we have and we will all meet a person soon."

"What have you been doing?" I ask. I know he is hiding something from me.

"You'll know it as soon as we are done with this business event." He looks on seriously.

Even though I want to ask him to tell me what it is I stay silent wanting him to tell me at the right time. The table gets quiet after the serious conversation and Kabir leaves after a few minutes.

While everyone was busy sharing some or the other thing Foziah and Asad sat there peacefully eating.

"Is that all?" Foziah says as we finish the lunch. "Everyone is done sharing?"

"Look at how perfect your life is." Sara looks at her. "Free from everything."

"It's not perfect." Foziah frowns. "We just don't like to make a big deal out of everything and thankfully we don't have enemies. Otherwise, we have a lot of imperfections in our life." She smiles at Asad who puts his arm around her.

"You don't have anything to say?" I smile at her.

"Oh, yeah." She grins. "Asad and I planned a trip for all of us after Sara delivers the babies and before the marriage of these two couples."

"Where are we going?" Sara and Neha ask excitedly.

Foziah and Asad look at each other and grin. "How does Worlds of Wonder sound?"

"We are not going there." Neha shakes her head.

"It's the best one. I mean it has both a family zone and teen zone." Asad says. "An adventure park, go-karting track, and water park this all we need to have fun."

"There are going to be amazing rides and we can really have fun." Foziah wiggles her eyebrows looking at everyone.

"I am excited." Sara cheers up.

"Well, I am nervous." Neha sulks making everyone laugh.

"Sara will be nervous too. She always gets nervous whenever we see the rides." Asad chuckles.

"I don't get nervous," Sara says sounding offended.

"You are okay with it?" Abir asks me slowly.

"Yeah. I haven't been to amusement parks in years." I say. "It'll be fun." I smile and he nods.

"We are in," Shreya says and Kunal nods.

"Sam?" Foziah looks at her.

"Yeah, I am coming because you guys planned it and because you are the only couple so polite and good." She rolls her eyes.

"Thank you." Foziah smiles at her.

"It's not like I am given a chance to go on rides, am I?" She looks at Ishaan.

"We can go on safe boat rides." He smiles at her. "I promise to make it memorable for you."

She looks away from him mumbling something to herself and I laugh slowly.

"He loves her," Abir tells me slowly.

"He does." I nod.

Everyone leaves around five in the evening except Sam and Shreya. I spend some time talking with them as we make dinner together. It felt like old times as we cooked together and Abir gives us space to have our time as he stays with Arya and Aryan.

As I lie on the bed that night I am too nervous for the morning. I don't know how I am going to get through this but I know I should do my best. It'll be just some photo snapping and questions which I can answer.

Besides, I will have Sara's father with me as my bodyguard and I think he can help me clear the way and ignore some unwanted questions on my way.

It's going to be a long weekend with me being the CEO and Abir's birthday coming up on Thursday. This will be his first birthday after we have got back together and I want to make it special for him.

Abir puts his arm around me and presses my back against his chest. He kisses my cheek and whispers in my ear. "Good night, love."

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How was it?

I love it when all of them are together.

I hope it wasn't boring.

There won't be an update tomorrow. I have my last exam on Wednesday.

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