Chapter 61

Arnav: "I am trying my level best to find out what exactly had happened that night but the investigators are not getting any clue... that evening there were more than 1000 persons present in the to be wedding and the investigators have talked to most of them and also the servants who were working there but still they have got no clue... don't know what to do and what not to do."

Khushi: "The only person who can help us know what has exactly happened is Dadiji but we can't ask her anything at this time... she has recently recovered and if she tries hard to think something then it might affect her... we can't risk her health."

Arnav: "I don't want to risk her health in any condition... but can I ask you something?" getting a nod from her "Why is Mallick surname so important for you? I mean in any way the baby will be ours only. Why should the surname matter?"

Khushi sitting down on the bed: "You are asking me this question? Doesn't mallick surname mean nothing to you? Are you happy being a Raizada?"

Arnav sitting down beside her: "I... I... don't... know... I..."

Khushi: "You don't have to hide from me Arnavji... I know how it feels when you drop you parents surname and pick up someone else's name... I have faced that... the day I changed my name from Khushi Verma to Khushi Kumari Gupta, only I know what I have felt... it felt like I am killing myself... detaching my father's name from me was like dying thousands death." wiping the tear drop that had rolled down her eyes "Didn't you feel the same?"

Arnav: "To be honest that time, 14 years back I didn't feel anything... changing to my mother's name gave me a sense of satisfaction... but now when I think of it, it makes me feel suffocated... it feels as if my breathe has choked... I felt like I detached a part of myself from me... it..."

Khushi: "That is why I want to be back into your own identity when our child is born. I want him to take pride in being the grandchild of his grandparents... in being the child of his parents... feel proud on being born as a Mallick... I dont want the bitter past to affect our child."

Arnav: "I understand Khushi. Don't worry our child will have pride that it deserves to have... (resting his face on his hands) But I am not able to understand how we will find out the truth... every way seems to meet the dead end."

Khushi too sat with him thinking for some time and then all of a sudden said: "Arnavji... there is a way..."