Hello everybody. Back with this one. There is a change I made in this story. I replaced Adaa with Sita played by Mrunal Thakur because there's another love story apart from TejRan I want to add here, hehe. Happy reading ☺️.

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Pratha blushes as she hears Sita. They eat dinner silently. After finishing, they came to the hall after washing their hands and the plates. Sita and Pratha talk randomly sitting on the sofa and Karan talks with Ap while stealing glances of Pratha. Just then, a man came in. Sita smiles looking at him.

"Hello, Jay Bhai. So late you are coming, huh!" - Sita said and Jay smiled at her. The others look at him. He greets his mother and elder brother, Karan and his eyes fall on Pratha. His eyes widened in shock seeing her. Pratha gives him a normal look.

"You?!" - Jay said shockingly pointing at Pratha. The others were confused as in how he knew her. "Me?" - Pratha asked him. "Tum Tejasswi na?!" - Jay asked her. Pratha nods her head negatively. "No, Bhai. She is Pratha. My friend and Karan Bhaiyya's new P.A." - Sita said before Pratha could reply to him.

Pratha nods her head agreeing to Sita. "No.. No, she is Tejasswi.. She is a.." - Jay was cut off by Pratha. "No, sir. I'm Pratha. I don't know who are you talking about." - Pratha said confidently. Jay observes and lost in thought. "Jay Ji, who is Tejasswi? And why were you shocked seeing Pratha and saying Tejasswi?" - Mahhi asked him.

Jay looks at his wife for a moment. Karan came and puts his hand on his shoulder. "Jay, bol na. What happened to you and who is this Tejasswi?" - Karan asked him. "No.. No one, Bhai. She is my old friend and she is dead but this Pratha looks just like her. That's.. That's why I got shocked looking.. Looking at this girl." - Jay stutters in between.

Karan looks convinced and nods at him. Jay turns to Pratha. "I'm sorry." - He said bit still didn't believe she is Pratha and not Tejasswi. "It's okay, sir!" - Pratha said to him with a smile on ber face. Jay went in with Mahhi and Pratha looks at him while smirking.

"Okay, it's too late now. Go and sleep. Pratha beta, I had arranged the guest for you. You can sleep there for tonight." - Ap said caressing her cheek. "Maa, why guest room? Pratha will stay with me in my room. You okay na, Pratha?" - Sita asked looking at Pratha. She nods her head.

"Haah, see." - Sita said looking at Ap. Ap smiles and nods at them. "You going to regret for agreeing to stay with her in her room tonight. She is not going to let you sleep. She'll tell about her school love, college crush and all the nonsense!" - Karan said making faces.

"Bhaiyya!!!!!! I'm not like that okay! Maa, see na." - Sita whines at her mother. Ap glares at Karan and scolds him. "Karan, don't tell like that. This girl will even talk about her kindergarten love. What was his name? Haah, Shivin." - Ap said. Karan laughs and hifis with a laughing AP.

Pratha laughs listening to the mother son. Sita whines more and says - "Arghh, I hate you two. Come, Pratha." - Sita said and drags Pratha with her. Pratha turns and looks at Karan while walking with Sita. Karan looks up at her. She mouthed 'Good Night' to him. He smiles and nods at her.

Pratha smiles and turns back to Sita, who had already started with her kindergarten love story. Karan keeps looking at Pratha's disappearing figure. Ap observes him and smiles. "Mujhe is rishte ko manjoor hai!" - Ap said all of a sudden getting Karan's attention to her.

"Maa?" - Karan asked her in confusion. "She looks beautiful and indeed a good girl. So, it's a yes from me!" - Ap said and Karan smiles sheepishly at her. "But Maa, isn't it too early?" - Karan asked her. "Then, take it slowly. Good night, beta." - Ap said patting his cheek and left from there. Karan looks on. He also goes to his room.

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The next morning, Pratha and Sita came down after getting fresh up. Pratha borrows Sita's dress for today as she didn't bring any spare her dresses. "Okay, Sita. We will meet sometime later. I'll go to hostel now and have to go to office as well." - Pratha said hurriedly.

"Arrey, have breakfast and go." - Sita said holding her hands. Ap also came there. "Yes, beta. Have breakfast and go. I'm sure Karan won't mind if you go to to office lately." - Ap said. Karan, who just came there after getting ready for office looks at them. "Yeah, Pratha. You can take as much as time you want. I won't mind." - Karan said.

"In fact, you can even go to office with Bhaiyya. I'm sure you have your back with you and why the need to go to hostel? You have breakfast with us and go to office with Bhaiyya itself. Hai na, Bhaiyya?" - Sita winks at him. "Yes, I totally agree with her." - Karan said. All of them insisted and she finally gave up and agreed to them.

The three of them took their places on the dining and Ap started to serve them. "Aunty, you also sit and eat with us, na?" - Pratha said. Ap looks at her surprisingly. "See, Pratha. I have three children and none of them had asked me to sit and eat with them. All selfish. You are the only one who had asked me to sit with you all and eat. I wish you should've born for me." - Ap cried dramatically.

Sita and Karan rolls their eyes at their mother's drama. "Maaa!" - SitKaran irritatedly call her. Ap stops her drama and smiles sheepishly at them. "But am I not your daughter, Aunty?" - Pratha asked making Ap turns towards her. Ap smiles and cupped her cheeks lovingly. "It's not matter whether you born to me or not. You are my daughter from today on, beta!" - Ap said and Pratha smiles at her.

"But Maa, if she is your daughter, then she'll become my sister. If my sister, obviously she's sister for Karan Bhaiyya as well, na?" - Sita said. Karan chokes listening to her. "Even daughter-in-law is accepted as their own daughter just like Mahhi!" - Ap said winking at Karan. Pratha was like 'How did I get in this family?!'.

"Okay, we will see about me becoming your sister-in-law later one, Sita. Maa, sit and eat with us. Come!" - Pratha makes Ap sot with them. Pratha serves Ap and she smiles at her. Karan smiles looking at her love and care for his mother. "She's the perfect one for me." - Karan thought in his mind looking lovingly at Pratha.

They all eats while chit chatting. Just then, Jay and Mahhi came there. At looks at Pratha and quickly averts his gaze. Pratha looks on. "Maa, Bhai.. I'll leave now. See you all in night." - Jay said. "Breakfast Bhai?" - Sita asked him. "Mahhi had already fed me when I was getting ready." - Jay said while kissing Mahhi's forehead.

"Aww, lovebird!" - Sita said taking their nazar. Jay and Mahhi smiles at them. Jay leaves from there after asking a glance over Pratha. She messages someone in her phone and continues eating.

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After their breakfast, Pratha and Karan takes their leave after bidding bye to Ap and Sita. Pratha and Karan gets in the car. Karan buckles himself and turns towards Pratha who is struggling to pull the belt as it was about tight. Karan leans towards her a bit closer.

Pratha stops struggling and closes her eyes feeling him near her face. She clutches the seat and breaths unevenly. Karan smiles her reaction. He pulls the belt and he buckles her. He sits properly on his seat and starts the engine. She opens her eyes and looks at the belt and then to him. He winks at her and she blushes profusely.

He smiles and starts to drive. On their journey, Pratha turns on the radio. Duniya from Luka Chuppi plays in the radio. Then, she changes the channel. Ranjha from Shershaah plays. She keeps changing and it was all love songs were playing. She was awkward and off the radio.

Karan senses her awkwardness. "It's not wrong in listening to love songs." - Karan said and Pratha turns to him. He stops his car as the traffic light was red. He turns to her and they fell in an eye lock. His hands move towards the radio and he switches it on. Ranjha song the part 'Chup Mahi' was playing.

That song plays in the background and Karan was keep looking into her eyes. Even Pratha didn't avert her eyes from him. They were so into the eye lock and Karan didn't notice the traffic light. The car behind them honks which makes them to come to the world. Karan starts driving again.

Pratha turns towards the window and blushes looking out. Karan sees this and smiles while rubbing his nape. Like this they went to office and gets back to their works.

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That's all for this part. How was this part? Isn't it getting interesting? Thanks for reading and sorry for the grammar mistakes 🙏☺️.