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Anjali's eyes danced with joy as she watched her husband clean up everything after that morning's pooja. Throughout the morning, he'd insisted she only supervise the preparations and not exert herself. Or the baby.

Looking down at her flat tummy, Anjali smiled. Her baby. For whom she'd waited practically forever. Babies really were magical, like she'd told Khushi. The day before she'd found out that she was pregnant, she'd had a horrible argument with her husband but the good news had made all the negativity disappear instantly.

And now Shyam-ji was being a sweetheart. Taking care of her and everything.

Anjali's gaze strayed to her brother and sister-in-law amongst her miracle-baby reflections. Chote and Khushi-ji were acting very strange today, she'd noticed. They hadn't said a word to each other since they'd arrived and kept glancing at their phones, staring intently at the screen as if it held the meaning of life.

As she watched, NK bounded down the stairs and thumped Arnav on the back in greeting, who jumped in surprise and dropped his phone. Anjali frowned. That was very unlike her little brother.

Beside Arnav - who was now glaring at NK - Khushi's eyes shifted around restlessly as if she was a mischievous child, afraid of getting caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Anjali was convinced that the two were up to something. Both had been holding onto their phones throughout the pooja - something Anjali was deeply critical of - and every time she tried to reprimand them, she had to repeat their names twice to even catch their attention.

It would appear that they were talking to each other through SMS. One typed, the other waited. Then the other typed and the first one waited. But... why?

Anjali cocked her head as she studied them. Why couldn't they just TALK to each other??

"Earth to Rani Sahiba!" Shyam-ji interrupted her reverie. "Lost in baby-land?"

She forced herself to smile in reassurance. "Just wondering how perfect it would be if Chote and Khushi-ji had a baby too."

Shyam-ji chuckled. "Perfect? The baby won't survive two days if they stay as distracted as they are today. They'd probably forget it at the hospital itself."

Anjali shrugged. She didn't want to argue with him today.

But babies WERE miracles, no matter what Shyam-ji said.

She'd find out what was going on between her brother and his wife.

And she'd convince them that a baby WAS the solution.

She nodded in resolution.