OS:Priyanka

Priyanka was walking around the mansion searching for Dadi. It was time for her to have her medicines. She found Dadi in her old music room with Anika instructing the servants to clear the room.

"Dadi!" she spoke silently keeping her voice even.

"Pinku, just clearing the room for we would need it for Shivaay's Wedding." She spoke with a smile.

"All right. Here, have your medicines first and sit down. Anika and I will manage the rest of the clearing." She said.

She began to instruct the servants to clean and clear the music instruments carefully.

"What the hell is this?" Anika screamed in pain as she had hurt her foot against the Grand Piano which was covered with a dark coloured cloth.

"Are you fine, Puttar?" Dadi asked concerned. Priyanka rushed to get a band aid for Anika.

"I am fine, Dadi. Don't worry. This thing must belong to Bagad Billa, no wonder I got hurt because of it." Anika spoke gritting her teeth.

Dadi laughed at it, she wondered how these two could fight so much with just days to go for their wedding. She found it too amusing.

"Puttar, this is a Grand Piano and it belongs to Priyanka. She used to play it, she was excellent at it."Dadi spoke lost in the winds of the past.

"What do you mean, used to play? Why doesn't she play it now?"Anika asked intrigued. Dadi sighed and spoke walking towards the window.

"She was always nervous since childhood. We had tried many things and tactics to reduce her nervousness and stammering. It never bore fruit. But one day she heard Tej playing the Grand Piano .She sat in rapt attention taking in every note .She spoke her first sentence without stammering and nervousness then.

"Papa, it was beautiful."

Since then, Tej used to play regularly for her .She then began to take piano lessons from him. Together they would create amazing music and we would sit together as a family and hear them play." Dadi spoke turning to Anika with a sparkle in her eye, smiling lost in the memories of the past.

"But the happiness was short lived; soon the cracks in the marriage began to appear. There were fights, quarrels and all the happiness was lost somewhere deep down. Shivaay took Omkara and Rudra with him wherever he could. I would have Priyanka with me. She witnessed every fight and every battle which was waged between her parents. Tej had stopped playing and Priyanka's nervousness and stammering was back. The fairytale she had was broken. She never played the piano again."

Anika felt her eyes turn moist, she felt sad beyond words. Priyanka was her best friend and she never ever deserved all this.

"Anika, I have the band aid here." Priyanka walked towards her quickly to tend to the wound.

"Is it paining too much?" She asked worried as she saw Anika's moist eyes.

"No. I am just fine, maybe a bit overwhelmed about the wedding." She managed to blurt out."

Priyanka patted Anika tenderly, reassuring her with her eyes.

"Puttar, we have shifted everything away from the room except the Grand Piano." Dadi informed Priyanka subtly.

"Yes. I thought we could have someone play it at the wedding. I guess this is the kind of thing which Shivaay would love to have." Anika added.

Priyanka stared blankly at the Grand Piano while walking towards it. She ran her fingers over the smooth surface of the lid which brought back memories of her childhood. Her fingers moved to the full board as she smiled remembering how she used to sit on her father's lap and play the piano with him. Her mother used to smile lovingly at them while watching them play. It was their private time as the boys went out in the evening to play. Priyanka was an indoor person which suited her parents perfectly.

She pulled the bench and settled herself comfortably near the piano. She checked the pedals by playing a few notes and also the keyboard for they had been kept locked for years together. She smiled remembering the time she had played her mother's song as a gift on their anniversary. They waltzed around the room happily and kissed her for her lovely performance.

Dadi stared at Priyanka awestruck while Anika was feeling joyful seeing her friends return to something she loved. Priyanka felt the Piano as she had left it. Perfect. No friction, No missing keys, No problem in the pedals.

"Are you going to play it?" Anika asked unable to contain herself longer. Priyanka simply nodded at her and smiled at Dadi for only Dadi knew what it meant to play it, for her.

She flexed her fingers restlessly while Dadi and Anika pulled out Chairs for themselves to sit near Priyanka to listen to her clearly.

Priyanka took deep breaths and she started to sing as she played.

Tu mujhe chhod jaaye
Yeh nahi ho sakta, saathiya

(It was her mother's song which she had played it for her parents the first time. But her father loved it even more as he each time felt her mother in her. She was her father's princess. No matter what she would never go against him.)

Meri baaton mein tera zikr sadaa
Meri yaad mein teri fikr sadaa

Main jo bhi hoon tum hi to ho
Mujhe tum se mili apni adaa

(He was her savior. She was all because of him and his music. She smiled thinking of all those piano classes she had taken with him. )

Tej entered the Oberoi Mansion with his Manager by his side but soon stopped in the living room as he recognized the music. He asked the manager to continue the discussion later. It was her playing the piano and singing. It made him restless, anxious and uneasy. It brought him back the memories of the past, of Janvi, of the happy family they were. He hated it, hated it all with great fierceness. He settled resting his head with his eyes closed in the sofa in the living room; he wanted to be away from the music, away from anything which was rooted to the past.

Kyunki tum hi ho, ab tum hi ho
Zindagi ab tum hi ho.
Chain bhi, mera dard bhi
Meri aashiqui ab tum hi ho

(Priyanka continued to play and smile as she saw her father singing and twirling his mother gently as she blushed. They were so much in love .she watched in glee as they danced all around her only to disappear into thin air.)

Tej could not just tune the music out. It just affected him worse as much as he wanted to remain unaffected. It made him agitated, frustrated and opened all those wounds which he had guarded from the world .He felt a volcano build inside him waiting to burst.

Tum hi ho, tum hi ho
Arz bhi, mera marz bhi
Chain bhi, mera dard bhi
Meri aashiqui ab tum hi ho

(She continued to sing feeling lighter and happier than ever. She felt at peace, at home with her music.)

Tej could not take it any longer, it was driving him mad. He furiously barged into the room, with his might broke the lid prop and hit against the piano frantically .Priyanka grasped and moved away in shock. Anika and Dadi stood up numb with shock.

"Papa" Priyanka screamed crying and moved towards the piano to save it from Tej's wrath.

"Papa, stop it." She screamed crying. Tej continued to destroy the piano like a possessed man.

"Aah!"

Priyanka held her palm as it bled profusely sobbing heavily. As he saw her crying holding her bleeding palm, he dropped the prop and left the room.

Note:Part 2 depends upon the response to this part.😊I don't want to torture you guys. Also please let me know id you have a better name for the OS.