Raavi TS : Serendipity (Chapter 4 updated pg 9) - Page 4

Plss next update fast....

I'm glad raavi moved on from this toxic relationship. I hope viraj is nothing like shiva. I'm just waiting for your update so that I can log out of IF peacefully after seeing shiva and suman regretting (sorry if I'm sounding sadistic )

Wow a cliffhanger. Please update the next part soon. Eagerly waiting for it.

🥰💕Wow, what a surprise ending to this chapter, truly amazing 💕🥰…..omg does that mean Raavi’s husband is the investor 😳😳😳

Please when will you update. This story gives me a feel good factor since I am no longer watching the show. Please please update because its the only way i am keeping in touch with Shivi

Just read it and it's great.

I like how Shiva is suffering and raavi moving on.

Please continue soon

Please update the next part soon.

Pls do update the next part soon

Chapter 3

"Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right"

Shiva gazed at his reflection in the mirror. He looked handsome, he told himself confidently. Today he had taken special efforts to get ready like he did at the time of the ramp walk. He will show that Chipkali, that he does not care if she does not visit him. He was happy without her. He didn't care if she is happy without him because he is super happy without her...

He looked around his room and remembered Raavi's efforts when she was trying to get back into his life. With her constant efforts just to bring him back into their room till her Marriage Jaap...he opened the first two buttons of his shirt feeling suffocated.

Maybe he was a little harsh with her but even she behaved like an idiot at times. Why would she leave so suddenly if she loved him so much?

He had searched for her when she left, starting from roaming around Mami's home to enquiring his Mama. He even scared the living daylights out of Prafulla, just so she will contact Raavi and he will get to know her location somehow. Till that point he had a doubt, maybe Raavi was telling them the truth and Mami was really trying to break them apart. But the moment her Mausapa confirmed that she left on her own accord...

He started having self-doubts again. His insecurities made a comeback with full force. What if she left because she still loves Dev. What if she left because she deems him unworthy. To get back at her, he did the only thing he could think then, the trick that worked last time, the trick which made Raavi fight for him, agreeing to marry another girl. He knew somehow this news would reach her, either her friends, her Mausapa, or social media accounts...

A month turned to two and then three, but she didn't return. He couldn't look for her; he had promised his mother... Only if she had accepted all her faults and apologized to his mother a few more times, he was sure his mother would have accepted her... They could have still been together...

Now he is going to marry Disha. This time when Raavi will decide to pursue him to accept her he will ignore her, he decided. This time he will not fall for her charm. Let her get the taste of her own medicine...

"Shiva" Gaumbi knocked "Come let's go. Disha is waiting for you. Guests are here."

"All guests?" Shiva questioned as he adjusted the lapels of his coat

Gaumbi looked at him pointedly "If you are asking about Raavi, then no she is not here yet nor is Mami"

"Why will I ask about Raavi? In fact, it's a good thing if she doesn't come. It will save us the unnecessary drama, which is bound to happen if she makes an appearance" Shiva replied nonchalantly

"And even if she does make an appearance you will stay quiet" Gaumbi warned him

"Of course. It's her you have to worry about not me. Gaumbi what about the loan?" Shiva asked worried he was totally against this lavish party but if his mother sets her mind to something...

"I am working on it. Let's not speak about it right now." Gaumbi replied as Shiva followed him

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Raavi could not believe she agreed to attend Shiva's engagement party. Gosh, she was going to be the talk of all those nosy aunties. Already she had been questioned by many of them if she was here to claim her right? She was asked this question so many times that she started thinking if she should just hang the board outside her home -"Not here for Shiva" like she did last time trying to win back Shiva...that was humiliating and embarrassing. And she had no one to blame but her. She should have left when Shiva threw her out...

Did she regret doing all that? Not at all, given the circumstances, she anyways would have fought for their love.

But she knew herself. She was stubborn and when it came to love she used to become an idiot and reckless...she went to extremes sometimes which was wrong. And she realized this trait of hers when she met her ex-employer and now husband, Viraj.

"Raavi, are you ready?"

Her Maasi entered her room "Raavi, let me put some kajal. You just wait Pandya's they are going to be so jealous of you" she continued gleefully "wait till they see you"

"Maasi! You promised. You won't create any fuss over there. We will go, congratulate them and we will return back or else I am not going" she reminded her

"Of course. Why would I do anything? I am going over there because they invited us" Maasi dismissed her

"We are getting late" Anita entered the room and froze for a moment. "Who gave you this dress. It's so beautiful" her eyes gleaming

"Can't I purchase my own clothes?" Raavi frowned at her

"Uff Raavi why are you being so defensive?" Anita frowned at her

"Oh stop it you two. We are getting late. Anita go and see if your phupha is ready and then we will leave" her Masi interrupted

As soon as Anita left Raavi pulled Prafulla back grabbing her arm. Not a word about my marriage to anyone, not even Anita di. Not till Viraj is here" Raavi warned

"Sure, let's go now" Raavi saw her Maasi kept touching the bangles and gave her a wide grin

Raavi narrowed her eyes as she followed Prafulla. Something was cooking in Maasi's mind. She prayed to Somnath "please let this evening pass smoothly."

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Raavi clutched one end of her dupatta tightly as they neared Pandya Niwas. Since the day she came here, she had made sure to avoid this family, the house, or let's say anything related to them. And now she is here because of her Maasi's blackmail. "You will come to that party with me or else I can't guarantee what comes out of my mouth"

The day she told her Mausapa and Masi the truth of her wedding, it took a while for Maasi to accept the fact that she was indeed married. And it's been 10 months now. Her Maasi being the dramatic person that she is her reaction was loud and not so pleasant.

Luckily Anita di was visiting her friend...her Mausapa did not look pleased either. After she managed to calm them down. Her Mausapa demanded that they want to meet the guy.

Her Maasi on the other hand had other worries. What does he do for a living? Please don't tell me he is another uneducated and bull-like Shiva."

"Maasi! Don't bring Shiva in this. This is about me" even though she had her differences with that family she still did not like her Maasi insulting Shiva on that ground. He was the victim of circumstances. Now it was another matter altogether that he never tried to change his circumstances when he could...

"And for your kind information, he is well educated."

"Who is he?"

Raavi took a deep breath as she started explaining her story in bits and pieces...

"He wanted to come here with me, but I told him to wait. I wanted to speak to you first before you meet him. He will come here in two days. He has some urgent meetings scheduled..." She informed them at last

Her musings were interrupted as a car came to a halt before Pandya Niwas.

Raavi looked at the house which was her second home since childhood. Even though the one year of her marriage was not so pleasant, this home still held many precious memories for her.

"Let's go inside" Prafulla made a move

"You guys go ahead I will be there in a minute or two. I have to call someone from the office"

Mausapa dragged her not-so-happy Masi and Anita to the party venue.

Raavi exhaled deeply to compose herself. She turned around to enter the party when her phone rang, it was Viraj...

*****

Rishita saw Suman was enjoying the party. It had been quite some time now and still no sign of Raavi and her family. Rishita could clearly see that Suman thought of this as her win.

Rishita looked around upset, she really wanted to meet Raavi. She had heard a lot about Raavi in the last few days from all the neighboring aunties. This piqued her curiosity. Raavi who was madly in love with Shiva, somehow Rishita could not connect the girl who was this family's ex-daughter-in-law to the girl she had been hearing about.

"She won't come. She loves Shiva a lot and could not see them getting married" Dev stood beside her. He knew Rishita was excited to meet Raavi. She had told him on multiple instances.

"No one asked you" Rishita turned her face away from Dev

Dev shook his head. They again fought last night. For the last few months, Rishita wanted to move out of this house.

"Why should I make sacrifices all the time? It's time you do something for me. I am not against your family, but I just feel if we stayed away from them I can have more freedom."

One thing led to another and he said something which he regretted immediately.

"I did not ask you to marry me. You came and stopped my marriage..." To say Rishita was pissed would be an understatement...

Rishita's voice broke his reverie

"But...where is Raavi?"

Dev followed her gaze to note that Raavi's family had graced the party, but Raavi was not with them...

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Shiva annoyingly drank a glass of water as Disha introduced him to another set of her friends. It's been exactly 8 mins 38 sec since Mami entered the party, so where is Raavi? Obviously, why would she come? If she had the guts to face them she would have...

He could see Mami speaking to his Mother. He could make out his mother's angry expression. And why not he had noticed the bangles which she was flaunting before his mother.

He kept his distance or rather Gaumbi made him stay away. Whenever he saw Mami he could literally feel the fuse go off in his head. He always remembered all her wrongdoings, her taunts and then he just couldn't control.

He saw Dhara saying something to Mami, maybe he should interfere. He can handle Mami better than anyone...

He tried to remove Disha's hands from his bicep. Since he entered the party Disha had made sure to keep her hold on him. It was annoying...

Instead, Disha's hold tightened on his arm. He frowned and turned to tell her off when he saw her rooted to her spot. Frowning he followed her gaze and his heart skipped a beat.

Raavi was here...

He always knew Raavi was one of the most beautiful girls in Somnath. She didn't have to put in any effort and still, she looked gorgeous. One of the reasons why he always felt he didn't deserve her and she can never love him. She was educated, beautiful whereas he was an uneducated, non-stylish man who did not know how to speak basic English... Everyone always preferred Dev over him, they still do. And why not what did he have to flaunt...

Today Raavi looked angelic. She wore a maroon coloured ankle-length Anarkali with a golden design spread across her entire dress. Her dress flared in layers. It was a collared dress eliminating the need for a necklace. She wore a golden bracelet in her left hand whereas her right hand was covered with her dupatta. She wore two traditional jhumka as her earrings and her hair tied into a messy one-sided braid. He looked on enthralled as she moved gracefully towards Mami. She held two bags in her hand. He saw his mother and Dhara staring at Raavi, in shock. Mami was giving a triumphant smile.

He felt nails digging into his palm. He turned to look at Disha. She stared at Raavi with anger and did he detect jealousy??? This made him look around, almost everyone who had realized that Raavi had made an appearance, was looking at the conversation between Suman and Raavi with interest.

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"Namaste Suman Kaki" Raavi folded her hands with a polite smile. "Hi, Dhara di! How are you?" she inquired politely.

"Raavi" Dhara whispered and then cleared her throat. "We are okay. How are you?"

"Aee Raavi! Why don't you give the gifts you bought for them" her Mami interrupted

"Ahh, yes" Raavi picked up a box from one of the bags "Dhara di, this is a small gift for your home"

"My home?" Dhara questioned her

Raavi got the direction of Dhara's question but she ignored it. Dhara's home is what she said, till now she had always referred to it as her own home.

"She is not going to get married, it's my son. You should give a gift to him" Suman taunted her "Shiva! Disha! Come here. Look Raavi brought a gift for you." Suman gave a gleeful smile.

"Yes, Shiva, look here. Raavi is here to congratulate you" Mami called out

Shiva gritted his teeth and moved ahead with Disha, who still held onto him tightly.

Suman was keenly observing Raavi expecting some reaction from her be it anger, jealousy, or sadness but found none. Suman frowned unhappily.

Raavi glared at Prafulla grabbing her hand. "Maasi" she hissed at Praffulla.

"Hey, Raavi!" Disha greeted her with fake enthusiasm

Raavi's eyes locked with Shiva. The whole Pandya family was looking at them with bated breath. They gazed at each other for a moment before she turned to Disha

"Hi Disha, Hi Shiva, Congratulations!" she smiled at them

Disha narrowed her eyes.

"Ha yes, congratulations! Finally, Shiva found someone of his own standards, someone he deserves, and my R..." Prafulla started

"And we have brought gifts since we could not attend your original engagement. Here please take them" Raavi forwarded the bags towards Shiva and Disha and simultaneously stopped her Maasi from blurting the truth.

After a few moments of stunned disbelief on Shiva, Suman, Disha, and Dhara's part, Shiva's face twisted in anger "Gifts?" he gave a mirthless laugh "what is it? Another snake or maybe boxes of poison?"

Disha Snickered in the background. Suman continued further "True, last time this girl was here she almost managed to destroy our house with all the planning and plotting. God knows what is it that she has brought this time to take revenge from us."

Raavi's happy response was lost as the smile faded from her face. "So you believe that you did something bad with me that may warrant my revenge, right Suman Kaki?" Raavi asked her softly but there was an edge to her voice leaving everyone shocked.

"Aee, how can..." her Maasi started.

"Anyway, I will keep these" she lightly shook bags before them "with other gifts. You can check them after-party or throw them away." She shrugged nonchalantly. "Let's go Maasi"

"No, but..." Prafulla was upset. Nothing was working according to her plan. She was here to flaunt her happiness before these Pandya's, but Raavi was making it impossible.

"Aha look drink this. You look tired. It will affect your beautiful face" Raavi changed the subject as she picked up the glass of juice from the passing waiter. "See over there, your friends are calling you" Raavi pushed Prafulla away...

*****

Rishita saw Raavi sitting in a chair with a drink in her hand. She was sitting in the front row. Shiva and Disha were dancing on some romantic number with a few other couples. She thought at least then she would see some reaction. But Raavi was busy on her mobile phone. She was texting someone with a wide smile, for a brief amount of time she even saw her blush... That's it she had to speak with Raavi now...

"Don't" Dev held her hand. "Ma has strictly instructed, no one from our family will speak with her. "Ma will get upset"

"Can you tell me a time when your mother is not upset about something or other?" She taunted Dev

"Look Rishita..."

"I want to speak with her Dev. Can you see that she is the same Raavi who was madly in love with you and then Shiva..."

"She was never in love with me. She just wanted to be the daughter in law of this house" Dev quickly corrected her

"Okay, then what about Shiva. She has done so much for Shiva in that one year and now she is sitting there as if she does not care what he does? With whom he is dancing and when he is getting married??? What changed?"

Dev frowned. It's been more than 45 mins that our function is going smoothly without Mami's interference. Raavi is handling Mami really well. But I don't understand why she is doing all of this? This is a different Raavi altogether..."

"I think I do understand..."

At Dev's bewildered look she smirked "but it's just a hunch, let me confirm first" and against his protest, Rishita moved towards Raavi

*****

"Tired of handling Mami?"

Raavi looked up to find a smiling Rishita taking a seat beside her

"Yes, well keeping her away from Shiva and Suman Kaki that is my one mission for this party. Now that she is busy with one of the prospects of the groom's family for Anita di, I thought it was safe to let her be for a while"

Both stared at Mami and Anita. Anita looked annoyed but Mami held her hand in a tight grip.

Rishita's gaze fell on Shiva. He was looking towards them or let's say Raavi. After Raavi kept her gifts aside Rishita heard an announcement

Shiva declared that he would like to dance with his lovely fiance. It was a couple dance. Everyone moved away to give them space. Rishita could clearly see that he did that to arouse a reaction from Raavi. His focus was on Raavi for the majority of the time making him step on Disha's feet quite frequently.

Raavi was busy with Maasi.

Disha was insecure, she never left Shiva's side. And now when the event manager requested other couples to join the dance, Disha dragged him for another romantic dance once again.

Rishita wrinkled her nose. They were doing money management even at this grand party. I mean parties in the house? can't Gaumbi book a separate venue. She will have to do the extra work once everyone leaves...

"Not Ma but Kaki?" Rishita again initiated the conversation

"Well, I didn't receive any Ma type vibes from her at least in my case... I will stick to Kaki, it's better that way." Raavi answered back

"True, so where do you work now?"

"I am working with Sarthi as Senior Fashion Designer"

"What? I mean wow that's nice. Sarthi is a big brand. I owned one dress. My father brought it for me, but overall their clothes are way too expensive. So this is from Sarthi's collection?" Rishita pointed towards Raavi's dress.

At Raavi's positive nod, Rishita felt waves of envy rise in her.

"And where do you work now? Same place?"

Rishita hoped her voice was normal when she answered next "yes, same old place, same old me"

Fashion designer and Raavi...god she always prided herself for being better than Dhara and Raavi. Dhara was nothing but a housewife who did nothing but follow her dearest Sasuma and Raavi, it was more of a gone case. She was nothing but Dhara's minion and Shiva's stalker. It was her who always had a superior position even around Somnath compared to her friend circle.

And now it came to this, she envies Raavi...

"Just a second, I will be back. I have to take this" Raavi muttered and quickly went out to answer the call.

As she saw Raavi move towards exit her resolve turned more firm. Either Dev moves out of the house with her or he will have to sign the divorce papers which were kept in her cupboard

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"Really Viraj? This is the 3rd call in the last 1 hour." Raavi replied exasperated

"You didn't answer my second call" he huffed

"I am at the party. I have to handle Maasi and you are not making things easy. I will call you once I reach home"

"I am sorry if I am being weird about my wife visiting her ex-husband and his family..." His sarcastic comment was ready

Raavi quietened for a while. She knew he was against this idea of her visiting her ex-husband. And she agreed, she won't be comfortable if he decides to visit his past...but he agreed for her sake, that is what she loved about him. He trusted her explicitly. So when she told him about her visit to her ex-husband's family, Viraj who is possessive, attention-seeking, stubborn ass agreed against his wishes.

"How much more time do you need to stay at that place?" he asked in a controlled tone.

"Sorry. We will leave now. Even if Maasi is not ready I will leave with or without her. Bye," Raavi disconnected the call...

*****

Only a few guests were left, when Raavi re-entered the party. She came to a halt when she saw the whole Pandya Pariwar plus Anita di were staring at her. There was one emotion common in everyone's face Shock...Shiva looked livid, she looked at her Masi who was giving an evil smile as if finally she achieved her goal, Her Mausapa looked at her helplessly

It was Dhara who broke the silence finally "Raavi...you are married?"

*****

Note:

I know, I said this is the last part but there maybe more one or two parts pending

Hope you like the chapter😳

I absolutely loved it!! ❤️

So Shiva still expects Raavi to do everything. The guy gives a whole new definition to an overgrown man-child.

I'm really curious to know how the Pandya family is going to react to Raavi's marriage.

Also, will Viraj make an appearance in the next chapters?

Really looking forward to the next one!!