IPKKND SS: After Happily Ever After (09/09) COMPLETE - Page 2

Chapter 1: Q & A

Everyone but Anjili stopped eating their breakfast and stared in Anjili's direction. They couldn't tell whether she was being serious or she was just joking.

"Are you being serious Di?" asked Arnav.

"Why would I joke about something like that Chote?" she replied.

Everyone looked at her in despair and Naniji burst out crying.

"When?" growled Arnav.

"I don't know." Shrugged Anjili. "About a week or two after I went to visit Shyam in prison."

They all gawked at her and her ability to talk about something like this as if it were a conversation about the weather. They had all thought that she was fine. She was acting so independent that they all just left her to it. When ever they asked her if she required something, she would decline their help. They had agreed not to suffocate her or treat her like a child but no one could have predicted what she would do.

"Why?" asked Arnav in a broken voice while Payal tried to calm Naniji down.

"Because I didn't want to bring a child into this world who shared his genes."

They all knew who she was talking about.

"That baby was part Raizada!" protested Arnav.

"It was also part Jha."

"Di-"

"Chote, you don't understand and you never will. I will explain everything to you and the family once you've all calmed down and tried looking at things from my perspective."

"But Di, you've been going to the doctors regularly." Said Akash. "If it wasn't for pregnancy check ups, what were you going there for?"

Anjili took a deep breath before she replied. "I was seeing a psychiatrist."