"What? But why are you moving out?" Avantika questioned her son who just happened to disclose his decision of moving out.
"May be bhai got a girlfriend for himself." Aryan commented while eying his brother suspiciously.
"Shut up, Aryan." Rey hushed his brother then turned to his mother.
"Mom, I will keep coming over to meet you guys." Rey assured his mother who was little emotional due to his decision.
"Avantika, I think we should respect his decision. We can't keep our kids tie down to us forever. And Its time when we have to let them go, they will learn to live on their own. And he is not going anywhere." Ranvijay said to his wife. Avantika blinked her tears away, she understood her husband's point of view.
"Urgh! I hate when three of you gang up against me." Avantika whined more like a child. Rey laughed at his mother's antics and pulled her in a tight hug.
"I want a daughter-in-law, who will be on my side." Avantika added, looking at Rey with hopeful eyes, but like every other time, he ignored the marriage topic this time as well.
"Mom, I am right here. If not bro, I will fulfill your wish and get you a sundar-sushil daughter-in-law." Aryan stepped forward and announced proudly which earned him a smack from his brother.
"Concentrate on your studies." Rey muttered under his breathe.
Ranvijay and Avantika shook their head at their sons, they called if off and they in room, leaving the brother behind.
"Bhai, now tell me truthfully. You have got a girl?" Aryan turned to his brother and asked him in serious tone.
"You are intelligent enough to know." Rey muttered under his breathe. Rey slumped down on the couch while his brother was shocked.
Aryan gasped at the new found information about his brother's life. But above everything, he was happy for brother. After what Rey's ex, Kiara betrayed him, Rey distanced himself from relationships & girls and engrossed himself in business, but like any other brother aryan would wish for someone to come in his brother's life and give him the love he deserve.
"Are you serious about her?" Aryan asked him excitedly.
"Its too soon to say anything. But i like spending time with her." Rey admitted to his his brother who had a wide grin on his face.
"When can i meet her?"
"I don't know, but you will know very soon." Rey mumbled, he doesn't know how will Taani react if he disclose about their live-in decision to anyone thus he chose to not to say anything to aryan.
"And one more thing, don't tell mom & dad about her. Mom will get heart attack knowinh i am living with a girl." Rey let out a chuckle, Aryan nodded his head in understanding.
"My lips are sealed." Aryaan grinned.
"Good!" Rey muttered before he got up and went upstairs in his room.
*
Taani look at the pleasantly surprised faces of her family members and narrowed her eyes. She knew they would be happy if she tell them about her decision of moving out of the house. They didn't cared to ask where she will stay from now on nor she cared to try.
"Thank god! Now i can get your room." Her elder sister, anjali squealed in excitement.
"Sure, bitch!" Taani snickered, she turned on her heels and walked in her room to pack her stuff.
*
"Hey, Reyaansh! Can you come to pick me up from my house? I have packed all my stuff-" Taani asked him over the phone call.
"Sure. I will be there in 15 minutes." She ended the call after she heard his response.
She picked up bags and walked out of the house. She was waiting for rey outside her house when her father, Rajesh came to her.
"Taani."
"Yes." She turned to him with blank face.
"I know you must be wondering the man who never cared about you, what does he want now?"
"When you know then why are you here?" Taani narrowed her eyes at her father.
"Taani, you are not my daughter." Rajesh disclosed the truth he had kept from her.
Taani wasn't shocked. She doesn't know why but she was much surprised to know. The way her family behaved with her all her life, she knew she wasn't their own.
"Your mother cheated on me with my elder brother. My elder brother is your biological father. Though i wanted to accept you, but i could not. Whenever i look at you, it remind me of your mother's betrayal. She chose my brother over me. Things are normal between us now, but it took time. I am sorry. I could not accept you." Rajesh explained about his side of story to her, Taani was shocked to learn about the new information regarding her parents.
"What is name of my father?" Taani asked him since she hasn't meet Rajesh's elder brother and her biological father, nor anyone in the family talk about him.
"Rishi shekhawat. He is in london with his family, and here it is his contact number. If you feel like talking to him, contact him." Rajesh said to her before he slipped a visiting card in her hand.
Taani look at the visiting card with numb eyes. She doesn't know how to react to the news. Should she be happy that she found about her father or be sad that he never tried to contact her or try to know about her.
"Does he know about me?" She held onto a last hope of getting parental love, but she knew she was hoping against the hope.
"He does." Rajesh answered. She felt sudden dissappointment seeped through her. But why was she feeling dissappointed? She should have been get used to the feeling of being unwanted?
"One more addition to the "I-reject-you' list." She thought bitterly then turned to Rajesh.
"Thanks for keeping me in your house for 19 years." She whispered without any emotion.
"I will take your leave now." Taani added when she spotted Rey's audi came to an halt outside the shekhawat mansion.
"Take care." Rajesh patted her back and went inside the house while taani walked over to the car.
Rey got down from the car and helped her with her luggage. She put up one of her best smile and masked her emotion well enough for him to not to notice. She doesn't wanna ruin his day with her sob story nor does she wanted to share about it. She wasn't ready.
"Ready to go in your new house?" Rey wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her in his arms.
"Yes! Lets go." She replied with a genuine smile. She wanted to get away from here, the place she spent all her life but in reality she never belonged there.
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