Epilogue
3 years had passed since the night Raavi and Shiva began on their new journey as partners.
Raavi resigned from her job in Hyderabad and moved back to Somnath to join Shiva, Manish and Rakhi. Over time, this team no longer worked in the storeroom of Pandya Store, they were able to rent an office space and now were a team of 10 people working on the app.
Raavi and Shiva informed their families about their relationship. The Pandya’s were excited but not surprised. Prafulla on the other hand, needed some convincing and she eventually came around.
Raavi and Shiva were also saving up some money to pay for a new room to be built in the Pandya house once they get married.
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One night, Shiva and Raavi went to the movies for a date night on the occasion of her birthday and later joined their families for dinner at a restaurant in Somnath to celebrate.
Shiva was going to propose that night.
He informed Krish, Dev and Rishita about his plan. He wanted to make sure Raavi was sitting next to him, but unfortunately he ended up sitting next to Prafulla at the table.
Krish who was sitting opposite Shiva kicked him from under the table. Shiva looked at him as Kirsh signed him to check his phone with his eyes.
Over text:
Krish: Tu Maami ke paas? Inta pyaar aa raha hai unpe?
Shiva: Oye! Kya karein?
Krish texted Rishita.
Krish: Bhaabhi! Raavi ko boliye mujhse seat exchange karne ke liye. At Least Shiva ke saamne toh hogi
Rishita: Haan. rukh mein try karthi hoon.
On the other end of the table, Rishita was sitting next to Raavi. “Raavi, tum yahan kyun baiti ho? Birthday haina? Jao apne boyfriend ke saath baito.” Rishita said.
“Arey aisi koi baat nahi hai Rishita, hum sab family ke saath aaye hai na. It's okay!” Raavi said.
Rishita texted Krish back.
Rishita: Nahi maan rahi hai yeh ladki.
“Arrey hum sab dinner pe aaye hai, aur tum log apne phones pe ho. No phones till the end of dinner. “ Gautam said as he snached krish’s phone.
“Mera plan fail hone wala hai pakka in logo ki wajah se” Shiva thought to himself.
Shiva grabbed a napkin from a table, took a pen from his pocket and wrote: ‘Krish, ask Raavi to switch with Rishita first and then with Dev and then with you.”
Shiva passed on the note to Krish. Krish responds “Okay” and passes the note back to Shiva.
Rishita sees the duo passing notes, takes a napkin, pulls out a pen from her tote back and writes “Should I ask Raavi to switch? What's going on?”. She passes the note to Krish.
After a couple of minutes since the notes went around, no major benefit was seen in the change of seating as Krish and Rishita exchanged places with each other.
Shiva had a facepalm moment. He took a fresh napkin, scribbled something and passed it to Raavi directly.
Shiva saw Raavi’s eyes widen and her face light up as she read the note and looked at him, stood up and said “Shiva! Yes! Of Course Yes!”. She came running toward his chair and hugged him.
Krish, Dev and Rishita began cheering and clapping. “Congrats!”
“Yeh sab kya ho raha hai” Suman had asked looking at the commotion.
Shiva took out the ring from his pocket and went on one knee and made Raavi wear it.
“Shiva, tu ne toh kaha tha ki tu school mein cheating nahi kartha tha, par yeh chits banana aur pass karna? Wah!” Raavi said as she admired her ring
“Woh main..” Shiva was about to say something while getting up but the entire family came over to congratulate and hug them.
“Oye tum dono, ek photo toh keench lo, iss moment pe” Dhara said.
“Haan Shiva, ek social media post please” Raavi said.
Shiva picked up his phone, opened Instagram and clicked a selfie with Raavi showing off the ring and the napkin with the words ‘Shaadi karlein?’.
He posted the picture with a caption: 26 years later.. She said Yes!
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Over the next 2 months, the extra room in the Pandya house was built, and Shiva and Raavi’s wedding planning was in full swing.
As the wedding was approaching, the families were sitting to discuss the booking of halls and other ad hoc items.
“Yeh #ShiVi kaisa hai?” Krish asked suddenly as they were chatting about potential hashtags for the wedding.
“ShiVi? That’s so cute! Fix karlo Krish,” Raavi said as she looked at Shiva blushing.
“Vaise Raavi, paach saal pehle tu ne kaha thi ki tu Pandya house mein permanent hojayegi. Finally ho raha hai!” Krish said.
Raavi looked at Shiva again and he could see her turn red.
“Yeh mujhe bachpan se jaanthi hai na. Itna kyun sharmati hai? Gadhedi '' Shiva thought to himself.
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A month later, Raavi moved into the Pandya house post marriage. Raavi and Shiva were both fully involved in the design of their new room. Raavi wanted a TV and photo frames with pictures of memories from the past 26 years. Shiva on the other hand, framed their college marksheet and the napkin he used to ask Raavi to marry him.
One night, the two of them were watching a movie in their room. Shiva was distracted as he was sending an email from his laptop and Raavi was sitting with a tub of ice cream and would feed Shiva with the same spoon every now and then.
“Shiva, yeh enemies to lovers ka trope pe tera kya opinion hai?” Raavi asked him.
“Pehle lagtha tha ki kaafi cliched trope hai. But hume dhekh.” Shiva said shutting the laptop and as Raavi fed him an other spoon of ice cream.
All was well!