Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Next day Neelam and Aarti were making some more sweets and other items. Radha was busy cleaning the Mandir. Yash and Kartik were fixing the lights.

Doorbell rings and Radha opens the door only to get happy to see Dadi maa.

"Maa" Radha welcomes her.

"Dadi maa" Yash came downstairs to see her there.

"Khush raho!" She blessed him wholeheartedly as he touched her feet. Aarti also came forward and unlike last time she touched her feet.

"Beta" Dadi was surprised.

"Ashirwad dijiye Dadi." Yash smiled. Dadi looked at him then at Aarti somewhere realising why he said that.

"Khush raho." Dadi blessed her. Aarti smiled and felt good that she accepted her as Yash already told her that Dadi liked her for him. Radha returns from the kitchen with glasses of water. Dadi sat in the living room.

"Suraj was out of the city for some work and he will return in two days so I can only stay here for two days." Dadi said.

"Ji" Radha avoided her eyes hearing Suraj's name. Yash also noticed it.

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In the evening Aarti and Neelam again kept diyas outside and inside the house.

Meanwhile Aarti comes to Dadi's room to call Yash.

"Yash maa ji ko aapse kuch kaam hai." She told him. He nodded and left the room.

"Beta come here." Dadi called her. Aarti smiled and sat on the sofa.

"Yash tumko bahut pareshan toh nahi karta na?" She asked.

"Nahi Dadi" Aarti shied.

"Bachpan se shararti hai woh, tumko pata hai mera Suraj bhi Yash ke saath bachcha ban jata tha kabhi kabhi." Dadi told then she went silent. Aarti noticed that sadness in her old black eyes.

"But some evil eyes destroyed our happiness." She said.

"Okay leave it, tell me when you accepted Yash?" Dadi snapped out of that past and questioned Aarti about their relationship.

"Actually when I was working in Suraj uncle's mansion." Aarti told her about how she came to Bhopal to visit her house.

"You're working in Suraj's mansion?" Dadi asked surprised.

"Not anymore, actually then I met my mother and now I stay with her, and I'm doing a teacher job in a school." Aarti clarifies.

"Uncle ji bahut achhe hai." Aarti continued. Dadi smiled at her.

"Your future father in law." Dadi teased her. Aarti gets so shy.

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Till evening the whole house was glittering with lights and all the decorations. Neelam soon came out of her room getting ready and saw Yash Aarti so mushy around each other. She again gets a chance to tease them but not in front of Radha as they haven't told her anything. Soon everyone sat for the Lakshmi poojan and later Kartik, Neelam, Aarti, Yash were cracking firecrackers. Aarti turns to go inside.

"Oh meri phuljhadi." Yash stopped her. She turned around.

"I mean please give me that phuljhadi." He looked at her with a teasing smile. Aarti blush picking firecrackers. Dadi, Radha and Jay called on some relatives' homes to give them Deepawali ki shubhkamnaye. Meanwhile everyone had a very special dinner.

Later Yash took Aarti to the terrace.

"Look there." He points at the sky. Aarti was astonishing as there were fireworks written 'I love you Aarti' she smiled with tears of joy in her eyes.

"I love you too." She whispered as he hugged her from behind. Yash lovingly squeezed her closer.

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In two days was Neelam's flight to her in-laws home. She comes to Yash's room dragging Aarti along with her. Yash raised head from his laptop.

"Bhaiya soon I'm going so I want you to talk to maa." She said. Yash Aarti gives her confused looks.

"About what?" He asked.

"About you two, your relationship." She told him. Yash Aarti looked at each other, they're not sure if this is the right time.

"I'm tense, what if Mom didn't accept Aarti." Neelam said why she wants them to talk now. This also tensed AarYa.

"I'll talk to maa." Yash decided.

"What do you want to talk about?" Radha entered the room, surprising three of them. Yash took a deep breath. Aarti looked at him astonished as he held her and walked toward Radha.

"Yash, leave her hand. Did you forget that a guy should not touch another girl, it's disrespectful for her." Radha told Yash strictly.

"Leave my hand." Aarti wriggled to free her hand but Yash didn't loosen his hold.

"I won't leave her hand." He says, his voice is calm, not at all disrespectful.

"Why?" Radha raised voice, getting angry.

"Because…" Yash starts to speak but Aarti holds his hand, gestures to him through eyes to not say anything now. He looked into her eyes, there was fear of rejection.

"Because I love her." Yash says without removing his eyes from Aarti's face. Radha's face brightens with a smile. Neelam, Yash, Aarti looked at her surprised.

"I had doubts about you both." She said, Yash looked at her astonished.

"The way you used to look at each other." Radha looked at Aarti.

"Maa" Yash came forward only to hug her in happiness. Neelam also gets happy.

"Aarti" Radha gestured her to come near. Aarti smiled, coming near and hugged her with tears of joy in her eyes.

"I want to meet your family." Radha tells as they parted.

"Ji" Aarti nods feeling like she got the world today. Dadi entered the room and noticed that Radha came to know about AarYa.

"Wow I'm so happy for you both." Neelam hugged both cheerfully.

In the evening Dadi left for bhopal.

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Next morning Neelam gets a call from her friend who invited her family to birthday party.

"Aarti, do you remember her brother Adi used to like you in college, he was in your class." Neelam says just to tease Yash who was standing near garden window reading a newspaper. Yash was alert when he heard about a boy liking Aarti.

"Which boy?" He asked, Aarti looked at him knowing how possessive he is for her.

"He was an introvert and used to talk to only Aarti" Neelam continued to see him already angry.

"Neelam" Aarti glared at her to shut up.

"Aarti, Neelam sach keh rahi hai?" He asked Aarti.

"He was just a friend." She nervously twisted her dupatta. For her relief he didn't ask anything.

"Why are you lying to my brother? Bhaiya, that guy proposed to Aarti." Neelam added the ghee in a calm fire. Aarti shockingly looked at her then turned to Yash who was ready to beat that guy if he ever came in front of him.

"Aarti" He came near her.

"But I rejected him." Aarti tells him, getting scared of his angry eyes. Neelam was looking at them as if she was watching a thriller movie.

"Oh" He calmed after hearing it.

"But bhaiya, they still remain friends." Neelam again tells.

"Neelam I'll kill you, you're not my friend but enemy." Aarti comes near her, all ready to struggle her neck but Neelam runs away laughing and hides behind Yash's back.

"Yash, move aside." Aarti tried to catch Neelam.

"Nahi bhaiya, yeh mujhe maregi" Neelam requested him.

"Yash samne se hatiye warna main aapko bhi marungi." Aarti tells.

"What?" Yash was shocked. Neelam laughed. AarYa glared at her.

"Sorry" She grinned before running away. Aarti also ran behind her to catch her. Yash shook his head then smiled remembering how Neelam was teasing him and troubling Aarti at the same time.

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At night Radha was tired so she refused to go to Neelam's friend's birthday party so Neelam, Kartik, Yash and Aarti leave for that party. Later they were returning but all of a sudden Yash's car broke down. They find a mechanic who told them that it will take two to three hours to repair the car. Meanwhile they reached a small hotel near where they could stay. Neelam and Kartik get a room and Yash takes a key for himself and gives one to Aarti.

Meanwhile suddenly it began to rain and the light went off. Yash comes to Aarti's room knowing she is scared of darkness.

"Yash" Aarti smiled to see him as he entered her room with a candle. She closed the windows as it was making too much noise because of the wild wind.

"Tum dari toh nahi?" He closed the door then kept the candle at the table.

"Bilkul nahi" She came near him. He dearly tucked her curl behind her ear which was teasing her cheek.

"Weather is so romantic." He says as his fingers graze her neck.

"Yes." She whispered, getting lost in his touch. Their breath mingled, Aarti desperately kissed him. He held her back of neck, hungrily exploring her sweet mouth. Soon he pulled away her dupatta, breaking the kiss. She was breathless, almost dizzy. His lips grazed her jawline, she held his shoulders as he nipped her neck. This darkness and thunderstorms make him wild.

"Yash." She runs fingers in his thick hairs begging for something more. He tightly grabbed her waist which made her soft front crush into his hard chest, then he snapped her kurti zip. She gasped and looked at him only to see his dark eyes. He bared her shoulder only to kiss it deeply. She closed eyes, giving into the desire. They move towards bed. Candle flame wildly flickers just like their hearts are fluttering right now. Soon their clothes were laying somewhere on the floor, and their groans and moans echoed in the whole room.

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Precap: Jay's truth.