PART 24:
The wedding day went off without any problems....but all day the sisters felt the absence of their parents...Bani the most as she had spent the most time with them....
she looked towards Jai and a soft smile came to her lips...she was so lucky....she had found love, and today..he had been there for her....he was her strength....he had supported her so fully...never letting Rano feel that she had no parents to give her away....
she wiped the tears that were falling from her eyes....Rano and Sahil along with the other two couples had just left for their hotel....the house seemed suddenly quiet and empty....
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Jai felt Bani look at him....he turned towards her and smiled back....then he saw the sheen of tears and concern overcame him....
he wanted to go to her....to offer her comfort, but there were still too many people around... he silently offered what he could with his eyes....
a look that only bani could interpret and respond to....
a sign of how deep their feelings for each other were....
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the guests finally left and the family returned to their respective rooms exhausted....
Jai followed Bani into their room....her shoulders were slightly drooped as though the sheer exhaustion of the day's events weighed heavily on her shoulders...
"Bani, tum chinta mat karo Rano teekh hai...woh.."
Bani turned towards him frowning....her head was beginning to spin...
"Mr Walia...."
Jai caught her as soon as she began to faint.....worry etching evry line on his face...
"Bani?...Bani?...MAUSI!...JIGYASA!"
He carefully lied her down on the bed and ran out of the room...."MAUSI! ADITYA!..."
"Kya hua Jai?...Tum is tarah..."
"Woh...Bani...Bani...."
"Bani ko kya...?"
"Behosh....hospital?..."
"Haan...haan chalo...main ghari nikal tha hoon..."
Aditya raced down and brought the car to the front of the house, while Jai carefully brought his wife down....
"Munna...yeh sab...?"
"Pata nahin masi....bas ek minute woh teekh thi phir..."
"Tum chinta mat karo sab teekh ho ga....abhi hum hospital chalte hai..."
"Aap log yaha rahiye...agar Anu yah Rano...pia...Hum aapkp kahbar karte rehnge..."
"Teekh hai...."
Aditya drove as fast as he could towards the hospital...praying that it was nothing serious that had inflicted bani...but just exhaustion....
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They pulled up outside the hospital on Park Road....Jai didn't have the strength in him to worry about where they were.....the only concern for him was regarding Bani....
"Doctor....yeh meri biwi...."
the doctor indicated to a gurney where Jai laid Bani down, and then told the orderly to take her to the examination room.....
Jai and Adi paced impatiently up and down the corridor wondering what was taking the doctor so long....just then the doctor walked towards them....
"Mr Walia...aap ke liye ek khush khabri hai....aap baap bane wale hai"