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Third Person POV

It has been two months since I left his house and he did not even try to stop me. I know it should not bother me but it did. Trying to forget his memories, I opened my wardrobe and took out my clothes and got ready for office. While getting ready, I looked at my already showing belly and could not help but smile.

I got down and sat on the table to have breakfast with the rest of the family. Dada Ji and Dadi Ji were bickering and everyone was smiling hearing their cute fights even after 40 years of marriage. Everyone was looking so happy and seeing them laughing made me happy.

But as soon as Chachi saw me, she stopped smiling and returned to her usual angry demeanour. I sighed and joined them anyway. Everything about her changed since she came to know that I am pregnant. I don't know why but I know it hurts a lot.

"Misha lets go?" Avinash bhaiya questioned me while getting up from the table. Yes, he is back from the US along with Anu bhabhi. He was the one who gave me encouragement to leave Vivaan's house and return home and honestly I was so grateful to him. But I could not bring myself to tell him the truth about Vivaan and me. Everyone in the family still believes that this child is not Vivaan's and I did not correct them. If I did, then Avi bhaiya would go to war with Vivaan and then I don't know what will happen.

As soon as Avi bhaiya found about my marriage with Vivaan, he got very angry as he hates Vivaan and thought that there is something fishy. But I convinced him and in return he made me come back home.

"Hanji bhaiya, aap car nikaalo, I am coming" I walked back to my room to grab with office bag. On the way out, I bumped into Chachi.

"Sorry chachi" I looked down to pick up my bag.

"How long are you going to keep staying here huh? It has been two months since Avi brought you back and I could not stop him. But I thought you would be gone in a week but no! Yeh maharani toh yaheen rehne aayi hai. Do you even know, what everyone in the society is saying!? They are saying ki tumhare husband be tumhe chhod diya hai .... and meri pyaari beti ke liye rishte bhi nahi aayenge ab. Such a bad omen you are."

Her words struck me hard. "Chachi woh..."

"Enough! You better leave this house soon or else you will see the real me and I will not spare you" and then chachi went away.

Throughout the day, I kept myself busy trying to forget what chachi had said.

Within the last two months, it did come to my mind that I should divorce Vivaan but I couldn't because I don't want my child to be fatherless. Only if in name, Vivaan was the father of my child and not having a father will make my baby the target of mean comments and I don't want that.

At night, dadi ji came to my room. "Misha beta, kaisi hai meri beti?" she hugged me and I could not stop myself from smiling and cuddling her. She has been a mother to me after my parents left.

I rested my head on her lap "Dadi I am good and baby Is also good" smiling i looked down at my belly.

"Lovely beta! Vivaan se hoti hena tumhari baat?" just hearing his name, I felt hurt. In the last two months he never tried to contact me, never!

"Dadi woh actually..."

"Beta Vivaan tera husband hai ab. You will always be our daughter and you are more than welcome to stay here, this is your home. But you also need to give time to Vivaan.... let him form a bond with you and the baby" she stroked my head lovingly. How could I tell her that he is a monster. I couldn't, so I just listened to her and said nothing.

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Third Person POV

------- After two days -------

"Yes Misha all is good, you are healthy and you baby....." the doctor looked at the reports of her regular checkup again.

"Doctor all is ok right?" Misha asked the doctor.

"Misha you need to be more careful... you have not been taking the medicines on time and all you do is work every day. You need to take time out for yourself and take care of your body and not stress out yourself. Especially since you have a complicated pregnancy, I don't want you to take any chances, ok?" she looked at me with concern.

"Yes doctor, I will cut down my work hours" and then she left the doctor's office.

While walking out, she bumped into someone by mistake "Oh I'm sorry, excuse me.."

The person stood astonished, "Shalini??? tum yahaan? Delhi mein kya kar rahi ho and how is your baba?"

"I'm sorry you might have mistaken me for someone else" Misha tried to leave but the person was having none of it

"Shalini how can you forget me baby...mein Lucky yaar... college mein toh you never left me" he grabbed her hand and then noticed her baby bump, "I thought you never wanted kids huh?! but I guess you have changed a lot," he said while looking at Misha from head to toe. "Looking super classy babe" he tried to pull her closer

"Whoever you are, I am NOT Shalini and stay away from me you creep" she stepped on his foot and ran from there.

The whole night she kept thinking about this encounter, why would he mistake me for someone else, what a creep!!

The next day Misha was at the mall alone. Everyone in the family was busy but she had a huge craving for specific ice cream so she came by herself.

"Ma'am your order, double chocolate ice cream with caramel sauce on top" just looking at the ice cream made her feel elated. For a second she thought, how husbands or partners enjoy this pregnancy with their wives/partners but here she was all alone. She remembered the cute Vivaan who was her friend at the orphanage.

As soon as she started having ice cream, someone came and sat at the seat across from her. She looked up and almost gasped.

"Vivaan ??!! what are you doing here?" she tried to ignore him and tried to focus on her ice cream. It looked like this Ice cream was her lifeline, pregnancy and hormones she thought.

"Misha .. kaisi ho tum?" he sounded way sombre than usual. Just hearing the difference in his voice made her look up at him.

He looked very pale and seemed to have lost weight.

"You have no right to ask me how I am doing! You don't care, then why pretend Vivaan?" she wanted to burst at him for not being a good husband, for not being a good father.

"Misha I just wanted to talk to you. you have not been answering my calls or replying to my texts. You even refused to see me so many times I came to your office."

"What are you talking about? You never tried to contact me in these last two months, never and even if you had, you're right, I would not have answered. You are a monster Vivaan, a ruthless person. Now don't force me to make a scene here and let me enjoy my ice cream!!" she almost screamed at him but stopped noticing the stares they were getting from people around them.

"You will listen to me, Misha. Yes I was a monster, I agree but I just want a second chance." he seemed so different than the beast Misha had seen two months ago.

"I don't know what you want Vivaan, but I know you are acting once again. You acted your way into my life at the orphanage with your sweet talks and then I saw the real you. And now you are trying to pretend to be nice again ..." she left from the table after finishing her ice cream, trying to get away from him. While grabbing, her purse, her car keys fell on the ground. She bent down... but Vivaan got the keys before she bent down completely.

"Misha, what are you doing? You should not bend down in this state!!" he handed her the keys. But seeing her face, he was confused. She looked like she was in anguish.

"Wow! The great Vivaan! Such a nice person! You care about your child today but what about the times when you tried to beat me that night huh? what about the night when you used my body emotionless, knowing that I am pregnant. What changed Vivaan?" she was hurt by his changing personality. Suddenly he was talking nicely with her, he did not look at her with anger, he cared for his child. What had changed suddenly? Was he planning some other torture? she was very confused.

He closed his eyes as if something burned them. "Misha, I.. I didn't know you were... pregnant" he spoke in a pressured speech.

"Liar!! Liar!! You knew I was pregnant, everyone knew I was pregnant" she started walking away from him in anger, she did not want to see his face anymore.

Without saying a word, he kept on following her till she reached the parking lot. As soon as they reached there, he pulled her by her arm and pressed her body against her car and caged her with his body.

"Leave me Vivaan... just leave!!" she started wiggling and started moving her arms harshly, trying yo push him away.

"Misha.. stop it... Misha" he tried to control her but she didn't stop.

She kept on screaming words like Liar, monster, beast again and again. She was going senseless in anguish while trying to push him away.

"Misha !! Enough!!" he held her shoulders sternly and tried to bring her back to normal. Hearing his loud voice, she stopped.

"Misha you need to believe me, I did not know you were pregnant, trust me." she was about to say something but he stopped her "I know what you are going to say.. even if you would not have been pregnant then I had no right to .. to .. to be violent with you that night... I know Misha I was wrong, I swear on my mother, I know I was wrong to put up my hand with the intent of beating you" he looked down feeling ashamed.

Seeing his shame, she wanted to melt in his arms. She wanted to believe that this was her friend from the orphanage... someone she had started to care about and even maybe started to love... but she stopped herself. She pushed him sternly, and this time he did not stop her.

She opened her car and was about to get in.

"Misha I just need one chance to make it alright. I want to be there for my child, want to be there for you, please don't leave me forever" he sounded sincere

"I am not leaving you forever Vivaan. I will never divorce you but I will also never come back to live with you, never! My pride and my self-esteem is not dependent on your acceptance and care. What you did was horrible, just horrific. But I don't want my child to not have a fathers name and that is why I will never divorce you..... but be rest assured that you will never see your child, I will keep him/her away from a monster like you!" and with that, she got into her car and drove off.

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A few days later, it was Misha's Dadi's birthday and everyone in the family was getting ready for the party. Misha tried her best to forget about her encounter with Vivaan.

Unknown to Misha, her Chachi had invited Vivaan and his family in hopes of sending her away.

"Avi why don't you ask Misha to move back with Vivaan"Anu asked him.

"Anu, this is misha's house and she can stay here. She does not have to live with Vivaan. You know I don't like him. When I found out about it, you know how angry I felt."

"But Avi, Vivaan just saved Misha and your family's reputation by marrying her when her groom did not show up remember? I don't know why you still hate him, its just absurd" she whined, thinking how protective Avi was about Misha sometimes made her uncomfortable. Anu really liked Misha but when her husband stressed so much about his sister, that made her bit irritated but that's all.

"Anu leave it na! Its Dadi's birthday party. Let's go down."

The entire family was at the party venue and even Vivaan had reached with his parents and sisters. He was being very respectful to everyone in the family. Misha's chachu was happy to see this change in Vivaan.

"Bhai Sahab, Misha kahaan hai?" Vivaan's mother asked about her daughter in law whom she hadn't seen in two months.

"She should be here any minute" Misha's chachu said, "Oh here she is, I think she was talking to the caterers." He mentioned towards his niece.

Vivaan turned to see her and stood awestruck by her look. She looked so innocent and cute and her baby bump was showing slightly and that gave her a cute look.

He quickly diverted his eyes from her, he know he didn't deserve to look at her like that anymore. He was a monster who hurt this beauty and he didn't deserve her.

Misha was surprised to see her in laws and Vivaan at the party.

"Misha, how are you beta?" Her mother in law hugged her tightly and Misha actually loved the hug.
She felt so happy to see her in laws again. The only unwanted person here was Vivaan. Throughout the party Misha tried ignoring him.

The party was a success and everyone returned to Misha's home along with Vivaan's family. Misha's Chachi had somehow managed to convince them to come back home with them.

"Beta maybe you were missing your family a lot today thats why you came back to your home for so long. Our house feels empty without you." Misha's mother in-law said to her in front of the family.

Before Misha could reply, her chachi came forward " Hanji our Misha was missing us a lot but she herself told me that she was missing you all even more and that's why she asked me to pack her stuff by the time the party finishes so that she can leave with you all and that is why I have already asked the driver to put her stuff in your car" her chachi smirked 

Misha stood shocked not sure what to do.

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