Sid watched as Dr. Niti's hands were painted with hena, the music and laughter filling his ears. He was suddenly hit with a handful of memories from his own weddings.
He walked away sadly, remembering the small details, like Riddhima's happy smiles at her own mendhi. Sid shook his head, trying to shake the memory out. He couldn't think about these things. Riddhima was not in his life anymore, and he needed to stop thinking about her.
Shilpa saw Sid walking out of the room. She followed him curiously, wondering what was bothering him.
"Sid! What's wrong?" Shilpa asked, catching up to hom. They were both now on a beautiful terrace that was bordered with flowers and a white two seated swing in the middle on which Sid was seated on. Shilpa sat down next to him.
"Nothing," Sid said.
Shilpa gave him a look and said firlmy. "There's something wrong."
Sid sighed. "I was...think about my wedding."
Shilpa looked at him sadly. What was she supposed to say to that? Sid had been so hurt by what had happened, more hurt than Shilpa had been. "Sid." She paused, thinking a little. She started again. "I know you miss her, and I understand that she meant a lot to you. But it's time to move on. You have to forget about her, and find someone new. Someone you love even more than Riddhima. And you never know, that girl might be right in front you and you just never noticed. Take that blindfold off and you'll see."
Sid look at her and smiled. "You always know what to say don't you?"
Shilpa smiled back. "Yes I do. " And Shilpa realized, it was time she started to follow her own advice, too.
"There you guys are!" The two looked towards the door of the terrace to see Nisha standing there. "Come on! Dr. Niti wants us to help out in the kitchen."
Sid and shilpa got up and followed Nisha inside, both feeling a little more relieved.
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"We need more water bottles!" Rahul yelled over all the chaos in the kitchen. Dr. Niti had a very BIG family and many, many friends, so they had a lot of people working in the kitchen, including the 6 doctors. "Really, how much water does a person need?"
"I don't balme them. Aunty puts a lot of mirchi in her food," Vineet stated.
"I'll go get it," Nisha said, going to the back room to get the box of water bottles.
Nisha looked around the room until she found a box of water bottles. She picked up, heaving a little,and started to walk back to the kitchen, not really looking where she was going. Suddenly, her foot slid on a skateboard. She gave out a yell and was suddenly caught around the waist by a strong arm.
Nisha dropped the box on the floor to see that the one with the strong arm was Vineet. They both looked at each other for a long time until they heard laughter. They both looked away hastily, Vineet coughing loudly.
Nisha looked at the sound of laughter to see two little kids hiding behind some boxes. the two were probably the ones who had planted the skate board. "What are you doing here? Go back outside!"
The two kids ran out of the room, leaving Vineet and NIsha alone. Nisha turned to Vineet and said, "Uh, thanks."
Vineet nodded. "We should go back out. I actually came to check on you, since you were taking to long. You always do."
"No, I don't," Nisha argued.
"You do. Now let's go."
Nisha followed after Vineet, thinking, What the hell just happened?
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So, first I wanted to say that the credit for the idea of Shilpa consoling Sid goes to navloveskw so thanks navloveskw!
second, I want to apologize for the short update, but there is a lot packed into it, so that should leave you thinking about what's going to happen hopefully. And i know a lot of you will be happy that SidShi is progressing. I know I am. I'm actually having butterflies in my stomach :D
So until the next episode, Comment/Like!
--<3 LaLi
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