CHAPTER 30
ROLI'S'S P.O.V
I don't know, but I woke up hearing a hell of noise around me. Initially it was all blur before my eyes and I couldn't figure out what's happening. Then I rubbed my eyes and looked and found Siddhant standing in front of me. "Happy Birthday!!!!!!" he screamed in the air. I was bemused. It was my birthday...Seriously... I instantly smiled and looked at him...The whole room was decorated with balloons and all that and the clock showed 12. "Happy birthday..." he said again. "And know what? Don't you need your birthday gift?" he asked. "Yeah of course..." I replied trying to hide how special I felt at the moment. He moved away and you would be surprised to know whom I saw. My parents!!!My papa and Ma were there, smiling at me. I instantly got out of my bed, tears again made my vision vague. I feared to go to them. I don't know how they will respond. I looked down with tears filling in my eyes. Ma and Jhanvi was also there in the room, Papa was still on business tour. They were also watching me, expecting me to go to my parents. And that was when I felt Siddhant's hands on my shoulders. "Come..." he said and he led me to parents. I tried to say no, but he just gestured with his eyes that everything was going to be alright. But I was really afraid. He now took me to my parents. I could see that my Papa and Ma were in tears. How I wished to wipe those tears of them and tell how much I love them? Siddhant spoke breaking the silence that was prevailing all the while. "Uncle...here is your daughter...I told you right...she is the same Roli who you have brought up lovingly...She never deceived you...So..." I looked him and my parents alternatively. Now my Papa pulled me to an embrace and hugged me tight...I felt heavenly. I felt his lips pressed in to my forehead and my Ma's loving hands on my shoulders. I cried. I cried aloud. I couldn't stop. "Roli...Beta...stop crying...Siddhant beta told us everything...Everything...Don't cry. we came to know that you're innocent. ..it was all our fault that we didn't listen to you...We misunderstood you...Please forgive us..." said my Papa releasing the hug and joining his hands near me. I felt too small and instantly stopped him from doing so and nodded no. Now Sujatha ma also came forward. "We are equally guilty in this...We all took things in the wrong way and hurried up...And we made you marry each other...Forgive me too..." "No Ma...Please...it wasn't neither our mistake nor yours...It was all someone's play and above all god's decision..." I said. Now my Papa turned to Siddhant and brought him close to us. "Roli...I was always unhappy with your marriage with Siddhant...But today when he fell on my feet for proving your innocence, I understood that he is the best ever thing that we had brought in your life...You're lucky to have a husband like this..." he said. I looked at Siddhant with all emotions. He was smiling. I knew that he might have gone to my papa and confessed all that happened. But he felling in my papa's feet for me, that made me respect him a lot more. "Truly Sujathaji...your son has a golden heart...We're lucky that he's our son in law..." I saw Sujatha Ma looking at Siddhant happily. "Roli is also not different Meenaji...Within this few days she had in fact become my daughter..." Ma added. Then I saw my papa coming near us. He took my hand and gave it to Siddhant's hands. "Siddhant beta...now I'm giving my daughter with all heat to you...Keep her happy...she's my biggest asset..." he said. I looked in to Siddhant's eyes and he did the same. Our eyes locked for a while not interested to look at anything else than each other. Then Siddhant looked away and said to my Papa. "Uncle...I'm promising you...I will keep your daughter happy...always...Till my heart beats I won't come any problem to touch her...Any hurdle will have to face me before it reaches Roli (Dimar...Not only you, but our Sid also knows top say this dialogue...but the difference is that he always keep it..Right Rosidians?) My Papa hugged him and he did the same with a smile. Seems that Siddhant was little bored by all these, he said "Areyy...now...birthday girl is waiting...Let's cut the cake..." He walked towards the side table and uncovered a big cake that was kept on a trolley. Her brought it to the centre of our room and said "So...This Girl is turning 19...So happy birthday...now cut the cake..." he said to me giving the knife in my hands. I looked in to his eyes and brought the knife. "Wait...Make a wish..." he said. I looked in to his eyes again. Then closed my eyes. And my wish was "God...Please make me lucky enough to stay beside this guy as his better half, his best friend and to get all the love from him and to return all that love to him..." Yes...I had fallen for him and now I want him beside me till I breath my last. I can't let this charming boy go from my life...I blew the candles and cut the cake. I took a piece of it and walked it to my papa. But he stopped me and said "Not me...Give Siddhant...He's the rightful for it now..." I was really happy. I too wanted the same to happen. So I walked up to Siddhant who was like a bit blushing due to the thing that my Papa had said. I forwarded the cake to him and guess what; the boy didn't forget mischief there too. He bit me fingers as I fed him. I instantly withdrew my fingers and rolled my eyes at him. He winked and that made me blush. Now he got the cake from me and fed me. I too bit his fingers. It's all tit for tat in our relationship. Elders chuckled seeing our gestures. I was too shy but smiled and then I got shocked by Siddhant's next act.
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