ArHi FF ||Imprisonment|| (dis-continued) - Page 6

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Chapter-1

Even before the rays of the sun entered in Shanti Van, she woke up early, as usual. And once she was awake and ready, it took no time for the other family members to wake up from their sound sleep, and join her in the morning prayer. After all, it was Anjali only, whose nightingale-like voice sweetly disturbed the sleeps of the family members and persuaded them to join her.

"Meri aankhon mein tu muskuraaye

Mere dhadkan pe hain tere saaye

Meri aankhon mein tu muskuraaye

Mere dhadkan pe hain tere saaye

Poojti hain nazar, tujhko aathon peher

Kaun tere siwa yaad aaye

Zindagi ke karam tujhse

Har khushi har gham tujhse

Waade aur kasam tujhse

Har khushi har gham tujhse"

Once she finished singing the prayer, she gave a slight bow of head in front of Devi Maiyya's statue, and turned back, after opening her eyes. She smiled, seeing her family standing with their hands joined in prayer and her husband Shyam smiling at her lovingly. She blushed slightly, and then walked to give them Aarti.

"a….. Hello hii bye bye, Anjali bitiya, why do these sweets seem to be much oily?" Manorama questioned, after receiving a small piece of laddoo from Anjali. "don't worry mamiji, these are not that oily as they seem to be!" Anjali replied.

After the prayer was over, everyone moved on to their respective works, when Shyam noticed that Anjali was quite tensed regarding something.

"What's the matter Rani Sahiba?" he asked worriedly, "why are you so tensed?" "Anvita! This girl is the main reason for my tension!" she replied, "I just don't understand what to do with her!" "She's still a kid Rani Sahiba…….. So how come she is the reason behind your tension?" Shyam asked. "I said her to wake up early, atleast till all the wedding arrangements are done, and see, yet she's not out of her room! When will she grow up and understand her responsibilities?" "Relax….. Stop worrying about her. With the passage of time, she'll learn to take up her responsibilities and also to obey your orders! And these are her days to enjoy……. So let her……"

"Even you are no less than Chhotey….." Anjali cut his sentence in middle, "you both have pampered and spoiled her so much!"

"Are, I have only one sister-in-law, and can't I lend a small helping hand to Saale Sahab to spoil her?" he smiled, "and you stop thinking about all this, or else, our baby too will develop a habit of too much thinking you know…."

"I'll go and wake her up!" Anjali smiled and left from there.

Anjali went upstairs, and entered in Anvita's room with slow steps. All she could see was a messed up room, as usual; her dresses scattered on the lounger, bed and even on floor, her novels arranged carelessly on the table, and cell phone buzzing with 7-8 alarms!

"Oh God….. This girl is impossible!" Anjali muttered to herself, as she was about to tip and fall due to one of Anvita's dresses, which got stuck in her shoes.

She stood beside her bed and smiled at the sight of her young sister sleeping like an innocent kid. Anvita was a true copy of Arnav, by face, and by words……. But the only main difference between them was that Anvita was similar to Anjali by nature, and Arnav was not!

Coming out of her thoughts, she sat on the edge of the bed, and gently caressed Anvita's head, "wake up my little sister…!!" She slowly pulled off the blanket from Anvita, but an irritated Anvita again pulled the blanket to herself. "Wake up princess!!" Anjali called out again. "Humphh….. What is it Di?" Anvita murmured clumsily. "Well, if you remember, I asked you to wake up early in the morning…….."

Anjali could hardly even complete her sentence, when Anvita threw the blanket on floor and sat on the bed with a jerk, with her eyes popped out in shock after looking at the clock.

"What the f….."

"Anvita!" Anjali glared at her. "Oops, sorry…… I mean that….. It's too late na Di?" Anvita asked innocently, pulling up the blanket to her chin in fear. "No, not at all…. Infact, I suggest you to sleep more!"

Anjali stood up in anger, and started setting the things properly in the room. Sensing that her Di was angry, Anvita stood up, and walking behind Anjali, she hugged her tightly from back. "I'm sorry Di….. Really very sorry….. I tried my best to wake up early….. See, I even adjusted several alarms!" Anvita apologized, showing the alarms set in her cell to Anjali. "Exactly, and you know what, the entire house could here these alarms, but you yourself did not even bother to wake up and look at the time…!" "I said na I'm sorry…. I promise, tomorrow I'll try to wake up early!! Now please don't be angry with me Di….. please?" Anvita asked politely. "Fine, get ready and quickly come down for breakfast…… and please, for God sake clean up the mess of this room…… It seems as if this room belongs to a 5-year old kid!"

Anjali went out of the room, while with a sad face, Anvita started cleaning up the room quickly. No, it was not that she was scared of Anjali, but she respected her, and wanted to see her happy. And moreover, Anjali was pregnant, so Anvita tried her level best not to trouble her.

Meanwhile, the servants prepared and served the breakfast on table, while Anjali was helping them. Naniji settled herself for the breakfast, along with Mamaji and Mamiji.

"Anjali bitiya, I've told you several times that you should take rest…….. Atleast for the next 4 months. There are servants to do the work!" Naniji said, making Anjali sit beside her on a chair. "Nani, you know that whenever I don't work, I feel something missing from my daily routine!" Anjali replied back. "But bitiya, even Chhotey had warned you not to work so much…….. And if he sees you working then……"

"See, Arnav bitwa has a long life…….. You took his name, and he is here!" Manorama smiled widely.

Naniji and Anjali moved their gazes towards the staircase, from where Arnav was coming down for breakfast, properly clad in his maroon shirt and black Armani suit, a laptop bag in his hands and his lips moving in a conversation with Aman, one of his employees in AR Corporation. Anjali gave an irritated look to Arnav, when she saw Arnav settled for the breakfast, but the Bluetooth still glued to his ears.

"Chhotey, can't you atleast have your breakfast without fixing any business deals?? That stupid Bluetooth is always glued on your ears as if you were born with it!" Anjali frowned, trying to get off that electronic device from his ear. "Stop it Di….." Arnav moved away from Anjali in irritation, while others seated there giggled looking at the scene. "Ya, business deals are more important than your family, isn't it?" Anjali taunted, when Shyam joined there too and smiled at his wife. "Why so much of melo-drama Di??" Arnav looked at her in amusement. "Saale Sahab, I thought that by now you must have got used to the changing moods of your sister!" Shyam commented, as he chewed the piece of paratha, "This melo-drama is nothing, but just a part of her changing moods!"

As Shyam finished speaking, others laughed, while Arnav began eating the breakfast. Of course there was a glimpse of happiness on his face, that finally his elder sister will have a perfect and complete family. After all, she too had gone through the bitter past. But now, no more thinking about it.

"Arnav bhai…!!!" Anvita came down happily, and gave a hug to Arnav from behind, while he too smiled slightly at her. After Anjali, if there was any person who had an importance in Arnav's dark life, so it was his young sister Anvita. Though he hardly showed his soft side to Anvita, but there was immense love for her in his heart. She was a darling sister to him, and to some extent, she was a bit more special to him than Anjali, as he had brought her up, when they three were living the life of orphans. Infact, at the age of around 8 or 9, Arnav had held the new born Anvita in his own hands…….. So how could he not have any emotional attachment with her? And this is the reason why Anvita never came to know about their past life, as Arnav did not wanted her life to have any worse impact of it.

They all were having their breakfast, when Anjali cleared her throat, looking at Arnav, and then made an announcement, "Chhotey, today you have to come home early." "And why is that so?" asked a perplexed Arnav. "Because Buaji has invited us for dinner, and she wants all of us to come tonight!" She replied, giving more emphasis on the word 'all'. Hearing this news, Anvita's face brightened with a wide smile, while Arnav had no expression at all! "I'm not going to come; I have an important meeting today in evening."

"Stop lying Chhotey! I've asked Akash, and he ensured me that there is no meeting today….. So you better stop thinking of any other excuses and get back home early!" Anjali ordered. "But di…" "Yes Arnav bhai, please come with us na….. It'll be great fun!" Anvita jumped happily, cutting his sentence in between, "And it would seem to be rude if you don't join us!"

As she finished speaking, she noticed that all were looking at her in confusion, including Arnav.

"hello hii bye bye, Anvita dear, why are you so eager to go to their house??" Manorama questioned, making Naniji and Anjali a bit frowned.

"Umm…. Mamiji… .. Don't you know, that Khushi and I are very good friends, and I would love to have dinner with her!" Anvita smiled, trying to change the meaning of her sentence.

Arnav threw his signature 'unbelievable' look at this, while others continued to eat, but Anjali looked at Anvita with slight doubt, that there was something which she was hiding from everybody. Of course Khushi was a good friend of hers, but not that good that she was so much excited to meet her!

"I'm done, and I think I should leave now." Akash stood up, wiping his hands on a tissue paper. "I'm coming with you Akash!" Arnav too stood up. "Chhotey, if you have even slight respect for your to-be sister-in-law, then you have to come with us!" Anjali said, before he made his way out of the hall. "Di, I said earlier that I won't come." He replied and left for office with Akash. "I'll see, how you don't come early…. If Khushi ji becomes the reason, then you'll not even bother to go for work!" Anjali thought and smiled naughtily to herself. "Mamaji, I think we should also leave now……" Shyam suggested, once he was finished with his breakfast. "Atleast you can come home early na, so that we all can go together?" Anjali pleaded innocently to Shyam. "As you say Rani Sahiba……and for your sake, I'll even try to convince Saale Sahab to join us!" He smiled. Anjali smiled widely at this, and Anvita still sat there, lost in some other thoughts! "Di, I'm done!" Saying this, Anvita ran from there quickly towards her room, before giving any chance to Anjali to speak something. "God knows what's going on in her mind!" Anjali thought.

On reaching her room, Anvita locked the door knob behind, and took her cell to dial a number.

"Hello?" Said the voice on other side. "So you did not even tell me about the dinner plan?" Anvita questioned straightly. "What do you mean?" "I mean, that we talk to each other everyday, and you did not even bother me to tell that there was a dinner get-together at your house tonight?" she said angrily. "Come on Anvita, even I did not know about it…. In fact, if Jiji would not have been thinking what to wear tonight, then I could not have even guessed about the dinner get-together!" Saahil replied innocently.

Saahil is the person, whom Anvita loves very much. Though being completely opposite to him, she loves his every trait, every habit, and mostly, his honesty and loyalty. She hardly gave any notice to his financial status, or else there was only a thin line of difference between her and her brother Arnav.

"Ooh, so Payal bhabhi is excited about what to wear…. Like to impress Akash bhai?" Anvita smiled naughtily. "Forget, jiju, she's trying to impress your hello hii bye bye mami!" Saahil grinned. "Mami?? Why?" "Because she wants to impress her to-be mother-in-law, as jiju is already impressed with her!" he replied. "Hmmm…… but you know, Arnav bhai is not at all ready to come along with us!" she said sadly. "Why so?" "Don't you know? Your sister is the main reason!" "Hey, don't say anything to Khushi. What's her mistake if your brother behaves rudely to her?" Saahil said. "Achha fine…. I agree that he is rude…. But please don't ask now why he is like that! I'm searching for the answer since childhood!" Anvita frowned. Hearing her speak like this, Saahil couldn't help himself, and he laughed out loudly, "Well, no doubt that you're too much scared of him, isn't it?" "Yaa…. I mean, I don't know how I'm going to talk to him about our relation…… You know, he'll kill me even before listening to the entire thing….."

Saahil was lost in a deep thought after Anvita said that. He too sometimes wondered that how would Arnav behave after learning about their relationship, which started even before Akash and Payal met each other!

"Hey, where are you lost?" she called out. "Umm….. nowhere. Anyways, I'll talk to you later. Bye love you!" saahil smiled slightly. "Love you too saahil!!"

He cut the call immediately, and the first name which popped out in his mind was, of course his young sister's name, Khushi, as he shared his all problems with her. He walked out of the room.

Since morning, Buaji was in the balcony, sitting on a chair, with a paper and pen in her hand. She was preparing the list of dishes that were needed to be prepared for tonight's dinner, and as she thought of some interesting dish, she wrote it in the paper, and also noted down the ingredients required for it. And beside was her niece, Payal, who was busy putting the wet clothes on the rope to dry them.

"where is Khushi?" saahil questioned, sitting on a chair beside Buaji. "Don't you know? She's with Shashi in sweet shop! Don't know what's up with this girl….. yesterday some customer placed an order for 3 KGs of Jalebis, and she quickly ran towards the sweet shop!" Buaji sighed, while Payal smiled at this, "But why are you asking about her? Is there some work? She'll come back home sometime in afternoon, so you tell me……" "No jiji, there is no work!" Saahil replied, cutting her sentence in between. "I'll go to the sweet shop! And from there I'll go to work, so you guys no need to wait for me on lunch!" "But come quickly in evening babua…. You know na that there is dinner get-together with Raizadas….." "Of course I remember Buaji…. And don't worry, I'll be quick!"

Saying this, saahil walked out of the house.

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Precap-:

Saahil- Khushi, I'm requesting you to behave properly in front of them… especially Arnav bhai.

Khushi- why don't you ask him to behave properly in front of me? Why does everyone always keeps on blaming me!

Buaji- because you're a brainless creature! And don't forget that he is Payal's to-be brother-in-law…. So you should have some respect for him.

Khushi- I can respect even the servants of that house…… but that Laad Governor…. Never!!

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