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I cannot believe this ASR.. heights..

Part 25

The slap to Arnav was followed by silence and it only made Khushi more worried and shocked...How could Anjali slap Arnav? Why did she slap him?

Anjali proceeded towards Arnav and grabbed both his arms and shook him vigorously and angrily.

"Have you lost your brain Arnav? Do you even have a hint of the crime you were doing? Are you even in your senses?!"

Things suddenly started making sense to Arnav maybe his deeds were now no more a secret between him and Khushi. If that was so, Anjali threw the milk because she knew that it was a disguise...if she thought that Khushi had already conceived Anjali would never let Khushi marry Dhruv and that he wouldn't let happen at any cost.

"Di..."

"No Arnav not one more word I want to hear..."

Takk takk takk

The conversation stopped with knocks on the door. It were Aleisha and Karan.

"Chote, Khushi bitiya I want to see you I my room after the children sleep."

Nani and Anjali left the room giving the children one last glance.

The twins were going to Khushi taking the path where there was broken glass. Arnav quickly went to them and gave them a lift to climb bed from the middle.

Khushi, who had also started getting restless seeing them taking the dangerous path and was about to stop them was surprised. Maybe he had developed her habits of dealing with them, not even letting them take a risky path.

Karan stopped and sat at far end of the bed while Aleisha crept to her mother. She held Khushi's hand and keeping her face low so that Khushi couldn't see it began talking.

"Aap kal ja rahe ho...? (You are going tomorrow...?)"

"Hmmm" replied Khushi trying to figure out why Aleisha was hiding her face.

"...mat jao...please. (...don't go...please.)"

Khushi lifted her chin and brought her face in contact with hers totally shocked.

"Sssh...sssh..." Khushi whispered while rubbing the tears that were contaminating her daughters' moonlike face but Aleisha wouldn't stop crying and her tears continued.

Khushi pulled her into an embrace, "Aleisha, baby you are my bravest chillu then what has happened to you today? Stop crying please please stop crying..."

Chillu...a word Khushi derived from children. Cute and adorable as it was but it would always irk Aleisha and Karan. An incomplete ending it had, they would say. But with passage of time they'd got adjusted to it and today when Khushi said it all the annoyance the word "chillu" harbored seemed to have vanished.

Aleisha continued to snuffle and Khushi was forced to use the stern way.

"Aleisha if you won't stop now I'll punish you, I...I won't give you kitkat for two whole months not even the smallest bite you get that...now stop crying...please..."

Even though Khushi acted that she was scolding Aleisha, her order in reality seemed a beg, a plea as if Khushi was Aleisha and she was yearning for chocolate. That very hint of her mother being heartily disturbed made her gain control over her.

Aleisha loved her weekly KitKat and she did manage to stop but not for a chocolate, for her mothers happiness.

Karan came crawling to the mother daughter duo.

"Can we call you Mumma for now...for the last time?" he asked.

More than anything she missed these days were her children calling her Mumma. They had been forbidden was the sole reason they had parted from her otherwise she would be honey and they were two bees. She gave an assuring nod with teary eyes and both of them hugged her murmuring, "Hamari Mumma...Mumma...Mumma..." once and again together.

Arnav felt a slight pain in his heart. A pain that came because of causing grief to his own love and children, a pain that was because he felt that all his efforts to mingle with his children went useless.

Karan turned to Arnav and gestured him to come and complete their hug. Arnav was proven wrong once again and he was not disappointed at all because his twins had inherited their manners from their mother and Khushi understood value of love, it was only his misunderstanding that Aleisha and Karan didn't value him.

He joined them but half heartedly, not wanting to go too close and hurt Khushi again. He wanted her to forget that a person named Arnav ever stepped into her life. He wanted her to forget his existence, he wanted her to start a new life excluding him where she would get every joy and there would be someone who would value her and just not use her for their own needs. He wanted her to become independent and stop crying for a beast in form of a person.

As Aleisha's forehead came in contact with Khushi's shoulder, Khushi immediately parted with shock.

"Aleisha...!"

Khushi touched her forehead and arms once again.

"...baby...you are burning with fever..."

Aleisha began to look anywhere but Khushi and Karan too realizing that they falied to hide a disturbing fact from Khushi.

Khushi settled the pillow and then with Arnav's help made Aleisha lay down. Khushi wanted to bring towel and tub but Aleisha refused to let go of her hand. Khushi tried to convince her but then Arnav went and brought the required things.

Khushi dipped the towel in water and after squeezing it kept it on Aleisha's forehead once and again.

She asked Karan, "You knew she was sick?"

Karan nodded keeping his head low.

"Why didn't you tell me? What if her health deteriorated?"

"She forbade me, she said otherwise you'd get tensed."

Khushi smiled she caressed Aleisha's face, "So my daughter has become so understanding and caring hmmm?

Aleisha nodded with her eyes half closed. Aleisha reached out for Arnav's hand and rested her face on it, while holding Khushi's free hand.

"Main bhi (Me too) !) came Karan.

And he lied down with his sister to enjoy their parents love and care.

As soon they fell asleep Khushi kept pillows beside them to prevent from falling and then left for Nani's room.

As soon they entered, Anjali first of all closed the door.

"Chote you're marrying Khushi ji tomorrow"

"No Di I won't"

"Why won't you? Why?"

Anjali held Arnav and shook him she was serious this time.

"For the last few years you've been playing with her and her life, you have been using her for your needs and still you don't want to marry her?!"

Khushi sat down on the bed feeling tired of hearing something continuously...her ruined life's story.

"Di Khushi wants to and she will marry Dhruv tomorrow."

"Really...? When did she tell you her will? When she was crying or when you were making her drink the abortion pills in form of a disguise?"

D...D...Dis...sguise...

The words echoed in her mind...he did this...he tried to take advantage...of her state...

Her eyes widened in horror as she gulped the truth...he tricked her, and soon realized the reason Anjali had thrown the glass.

He was a wicked person, and evil too he fooled her and she easily became one.

"Di you don't know anything..."

"No I know, I know that you have a stone in place of a heart, but the woman who has given birth to your children has one!

What you did with her were night stands in your opinion but for her was basis for her future life!

If she ever knew that the man she loved would turn out to be this, forget loving you she would have never even crossed your way..."

"Di...it's useless to talk about this..."

"...no its not. Everything not relating to you is not useless. You have left us nowhere Arnav...its just as shameful to say to are my brother.

When Maa was expecting you I was extremely excited to have someone to play with but if I'd ever know that my brother would disrespect a woman to such extent I would have hurt Maa myself..."

Arnav felt a pierce now when he looked his Di's eyes. Hurt and shame. Yes she scolded him often but this time she was extremely a

shamed and he acknowledged his deeds. But he realized it was high time to tell them because he did not want to ruin Khushi's life.

"Di...Nani please don't let her be with me I would hurt her...I would misuse her...I would make her cry...I would ill treat her...I would betray her...I would trick her...why don't you understand?"

"Chote then is it her mistake? You need to adjust not her then why are you making her change when it has to be you?

Chote see me, you know I am not a fool, but I am still living with Shyam right? What do you think I don't understand his truth revealed few years back? Chote you brought him back for me...then I had my child but soon I lost it still I was with him. Chote I don't have any child but still I stay with him, you know why? Il have loved him, even though I know he doesn't share same feelings for me. I don't have his child yet I love him then how to you expect Khushi ji to start a new life with another man?

Is she a puppet for you to handover to anyone when you are tired of having it, or is she a ball to be thrown from one person to another?

Do you think it is that easy to marry someone else when another person has marked you his forever?"

"Di just because we were together years back doesn't mean that she is mine forever. Time has moved and she needs to move on too. She can't cling on to me forever, she needs to be independent..."

"No Arnav..." it was Nani this time. No matter how much Anjali tried to convince him he still stood stubborn as ever but Nani and Anjali wouldn't leave him easily too.

"...you think that she is not yours? What about the asset she lost for you? Will she be able to regain it? Will she get back a her most valuable treasure you stole? Then how isn't she marked by you forever?

Chote when a woman submits herself to a man it's not a joke. She trusts him with her and her life she believes him to remove the smallest piece of pin from her way. She wants to become a part of his life and share life's every sorrow and joy with him. And when she gets a child the bond of love between mother and father is strengthened.

She has nurtured your children for 7 whole years. She had not one but two symbol of yours with her day and night and you think she can even forget them?

Can she forget the two who she kept close to her like a breath? Can she forget the two whose one cry would disturb her sleep her night? Can she forget the love they showered on her and she on them?

Chote, had Khushi gone mad to bring your children in existence when she had a golden chance to renovate her life? She had your money, she could easily impress men but did she do so? Then why are you forcing her to marry Dhruv now?"

No matter how much he would explain they wouldn't understand because none of them knew the extent to which he'd reached. He was the most unsuitable person for this angel on earth. He walked to her and cupped her face with earnest eyes. It was a heart wrenching moment to see her red watery eyes ready to burst tears any moment. He broke her heart every time and this time he tore her heart pieces into rags by tricking her.

"Khushi tell them what I have done to you, they think that I should marry you tell them Khushi that what I have done, tell them not to punish you, you deserve to live a better life, tell them to give you your rights Khushi...tell them everything"

She stared at him in disbelief then she began to remove his hands cupping her face. She was just letting go his finger when straight a bullet attacked her on lower left side of her abdomen.

"Ahhh..." she gasped as her body started to give away.

Everyone was traumatized to react as everything happened as a gust of wind blew. They wanted to shout but whole body had gone cold.

And then was when an Arnav's Khushi fell in his arms when she did not want to.

Her eyes kept staring at him blinking dizzily and then finally closed...

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