Guilt, Guilt is all he felt right now. He had thought his ability to love any other woman died along with his Juhi. Then why does he feel miserable when Avni is angry with him, why would he do anything she wanted him to just to see her smile. If this is not love, then what is?
No No No! He cannot love Avni. He loved Juhi, and she was taken away from him. How can he love Avni when his heart still remembers Juhi right? He cannot move on when he still remembers what he felt for Juhi.
He looks at his sleeping wife and a warm feeling grows inside him when he realizes that she is moving towards his side of bed searching for his body to cuddle with. Neil caresses her cheeks and gets flashes of all the time he has spent with her. From trying to find evidence to arrest her to finding silly reasons to come close to her and touch her, he started falling in love with her. Love, thought Neil will disgust. Love only knows how to destroy a person, just like how Juhi's death nearly destroyed him. He couldn't let it happen again. No! He won't let it happen again.
He removes his hand from Avni's cheek, gets up from bed and leaves the room. He goes to garden to find some peace, when a pair of naked feet of someone come into his field of vision. Neil turns so quickly he nearly gets a whiplash.
There she is, standing in front of him. His first love, his life, his everything standing right in front of him. He is so shocked he couldn't even move. Juhi slowly steps forward and takes Neil's left hand in hers and move aside. Avni, smiling that rare smile of hers is standing in front of him, in a place where his Juhi was standing few seconds ago. From the corner of his eyes he could see Juhi watching him and Avni with that knowing smile of her's. She places Neil's hand in Avni's and looks at their adjoined hand lovingly. Neil's gaze moves from Juhi to Avni who is looking so gorgeous and is smiling so brightly at him he couldn't move his gaze from hers. Suddenly he feels Juhi's presence fading, still he couldn't move his gaze from Avni's face who is smiling a smile that could melt an iceberg and her face is alight with her love for him.
Neil suddenly wakes up from his bed and realizes all of that was a dream. He looks at Avni who is sleeping peacefully, her hand is in his, and she has placed their adjoined hands closer to where her heart lies. He looks at her lovingly and realizes that Avni was not only successful in breaking down his walls that he has spent years to build, but she has made him fall in love with her. He realizes that his love for Juhi as pure and true as it was, will always be there but that doesn't change the fact that he loves Avni. She has entered No! She has crashed her way into his dull life and has made it very exciting. He now feels he has a reason to live. And that reason is currently clutching his hand so tightly that blood flow to his hand is interrupted. He gently removes her hand from his, and looks at his Avni who is lady don by the day and a sweet angel by night.
"Miss Ajooba I am unconditionally and irrevocably in love with you and I know you love me too.
But you are suffering from a serious case of tube lightness. This tube lightness of yours while adorable is mildly frustrating sometimes."