Chapter9
Pratiek took his cell phone as it vibrated and checked the text message. The text message was from pankaj. It said "please come home now alongwith yash and aarti. It is very important. We are waiting"
Pratiek got confused with the fact that pankaj bhaiya called him urgently that too alongwith yash bhaiya and aarti bhabhi. They all know yash bhaiya and aarti bhabhi cannot come to SM due to the circumstances. Still the text message urged on the fact that yash bhaiya and aarti bhabhi should accompany them. So he tried convincing his bhaiya and bhabhi who were very relunctant initially but then finally agreed as pankaj bhaiya was continuously texting them to come to SM soon.
As they reached SM, vidhi and paridhi signaled them to go inside and they were keeping an eye on ishita..so that she doesnot come to know what is going on.
As the four of them (yash aarti pratiek and pankaj) proceeded towards SP's room, they could hear the heated argument going on between them.
SP : "do u know what u have done gayatri?"
Gayatri : "now what did I do?"
SP : "I m talking abt yash and aarti."
Gayatri : "I seriously don't want to discuss anything abt them. They are no more part of my family. His wife tried killing my son. I cannot see her"
SP : "no gayatri. It is true that someone tried to purposedly hurt aakash.. n it is a member of this family too. N that too ur own bahu. But that bahu is not aarti..but ishita who u trust..so blindly.."
Gayatri was confused to hear this. She started thinking about something and looking here and there as if she did not wanted to meet the eyes of his husband.
Gathering herself "I don't think ishita will do that. Y she will do that to her own husband?" cracking voice as if trying to hide something.
SP : "n if I say, I have evidence to prove that"
Gayatri's eyes widened. She was getting scared.
SP went ahead to show her evidence but instead of taking look at the evidence she just moved away bluntly..
SP lost his cool and started getting angry on her. Gayatri heard everything camly. But soon she lost her cool when SP started taunting her abt her behavior towards yash and aarti as she now knows that yash is not her son and shouted
Gayatri : "what do u want to prove ? the things which I already know.. yes..i know this stuff from very beginning ji. I know the real culprit is ishita. I know what she wants. I know everything" in tears
SP : "what? U knew everything? If u knew everything, y did u keep quite this days?"
Gayatri : " what would I have told u? abt ishita.. I knew everything..from the ery firt day she entered our house. I knew everything abt her. I knew she made those goons pour hot water on aakash ..i know she stole the ancestors necklace'I know she did everything..she used my aakash for her bad intention"
SP : "n still u were quite. Y ?" angry and confused
Gayatri : "for my yash and aarti. She is an evil lady ji. Her father is MLA. She can do anything using her father's power. N I did not want to put yash and aarti's life at stake. That's y i'"
SP : "so all this was a drama. To save yash and aarti"
Gayatri with tears in her eyes : "yes ji. It was all drama. To save yash and his small family. I knew I was very rude. But u don't know what I felt after saying those rude words to yash and aarti. I purposely made aarti responsible for that because I know that yash will never ever not trust his wife. He will always support her no matter what. N for that if he needs to leave this house..he will surely do that..n he did..i just wanted that yash and aarti stay away from this evil lady'that is y I did all this drama" turning towards and saw yash and aarti who heard their conversation with teary eyes'
Yash and aarti did not know what to say. They did not even realize that whatever gayatri did was only for them. They just sat down on their knees, folded their hands in fornt of her and looked down with teary eyes.
Yash : "I don't know ma. What to say. I just ..i just..please forgive us ma..please"
Aarti : "yes mummyji. Please forgive us. I don't know y I could not see ur concern for us behind ur fake anger. Being a mother I should have sent that in urs. But I also did not see that. And thought that u became biased towards aaksh bhaiya as he is ur son and not yashji.Please forgive us mummyji"
Yash : "today it is proven again that yashoda ma's love is always more than devki ma's love. We are really sorry ma. Please punish us ma. Please"
Gayatri was lovingly staring towards his favorite son and DIL with teary eyes and makes them get up. She wipes their tears and lovingly kiss on their forehead. She says "u both were never wrong beta. I was wrong. I did ignore ur pain when aakash misbehaved with u. I should have stopped him but I did not. I could see the pain in ur eyes'but I did not come to even ask u abt ur health and ur felings. The only thing I cared was for aakash. And that is what became my weakness and ishita started taking advantage of it"
Pankaj : "ma..when did u get to know abt her?"
Gayatri : "on the accident day itself. I heard her talking to the goons. I wantd to stop her and slap her. But then when I heard what she wanted, I was scared. She wanted u yash. N for that, she would ave gone to any extent..even if that means killing my aarti bahu. I know yash. U love her very much. and I knew she was ur strength. And if anything would have happened to aarti..u would have been broken forever. So I thought the only solution to this problem is to send u both away from this family so that ishita can realize..but that lady..she did not stop at all.she did not stop at all" sat down on her bed.
Yash went towards his gayatri ma and hold her hands and said "don't worry ma. She will not be able to ruin our happiness any more. We wont let her do anything wrong with our family. We all know her real face now. n I promise u I wont let her win. N I will not let anything happen to aartiji also"
Gayatri looking proudly towards yash " I know beta. My yash can do anything. I know" seeing towards aarti and calling her near her she continued "please forgive me beta for all the words that I used for u. I didn't really mean it.its just"
Aarti : "please mummyji. Don't make me feel more ashamed by apologizing. Whatever u did was for my sake . yashji's sake. N we did not understand that. I m sorry mummyji"
Gayatri : "no beta. U don't apologize. U were not wrong beta and u wont say a word against this now."
They get up and yash and aarti bends to get her blessings. Gayatri blesses them and wish them their 1st wedding anniversary.
SP pankaj and pratiek had tears in their eyes seeing gayatri's love towards. They went ahead and apologized to her for misunderstanding to which gayatri forgive them.
Gayatri : "now u guys should go. If ishita sense that we all know abt her intentions she can do anything. We really need to handle that psychopath carefully. N yash promise me. u will never leave aarti alone in the house. Ishita can do anything. Am I clear?"
Yash : "yes ma. Don't worry. I wont let anything happen to aartiji. Trust me"
With heavy heart yash and aarti take their leave and reach their home. They inform radha abt whatever happened. Radha was very touched by gayatri's gesture. She felt really proud of gayatri and felt like thanking her. They also informed her about ishita's truth. Radha was shaken hearing abt this side of ishita. She never in her dreams thought ishita would do something like this..n would go to any extent. Her anger started rising and her blood started boiling. She was all ready to confront her but yash stopped her saying that he would handle this situation in his way to which radha agreed half heartedly.
In SM pankaj and pratiek informed vidhi and paridhi abt their conversation with gayatri. Both of them had tears in their eyes and felt proud of gayatri. They both felt to apologize to gayatri for misunderstanding her. Gayatri happily forgived them and asked them to not to think abt this matter again.
Everyone retired peacefully at night. But not ishita. She felt something was not right. She was already angry on the kids spoiling her plan of destroying the painting. Even she was irritated as vidhi and paridhi were not letting her leave her room after they returned from aarya's place. She knew something was wrong. She knew something was going on. But she did not know what. But she decided to find it as soon as possible.
IN AARYA'S BEDROOM-
Yash and aarti entered their room feeling very happy and peacefull after having learn that gayatri still loves them very much. That today also gayatri stil considers them as her own son and DIl and the part of the family. They were touched by gayatri's concern for them and felt really guilty for not really understanding her fake behavior.
Aarti looked towards yash and both shared a cute stare with eachother. Suddenly aarti remembered aarti's words about ishita. She felt gayatri was right. Ishita can stoop to any level she can to get whatever she wants. Thinking about this, her smile faded away. Yash observing the change in expression on her face, understood whats going on in her mind. He just hold her by her shoulders and just looked in her eyes with lot of confidence. The confidence was promising aarti that nothing will come between them. Aarti really felt nice after seeing the confidence in his eyes and hugged him tightly. Yash hugged her back with equal fervor.
Both decided to retire for night. Yash and aarti slept peacefully in eachother's embrace. This embrace gave them "sukoon". The "sukoon" they were longing for so long. Gayatri concern for them gave them the most "sukoon". They both slept peacefully calling eachother as u r mine "dil ka sukoon".
Next day-
Yash was preparing to leave for his work when aarti stopped him from behind.
Aarti : "yashji, please wait"
Yash : "what happened aartiji?"
Aarti : "don't u think u r forgetting something?"
Yash: "ummm. Am i? I don't remember. Wait yes, I remember. The good bye kissy right?" having a naughty smile on his face
Aarti : "omg yashji. Ur mind works only in one direction. Here u forgot ur mobile. As usual."
Yash : "oh thank u aartiji. U are always a life saver.Now"
Aarti with confused looks asks him "now what yashji?"
Yash: "my good bye kiss"
Aarti : "uff yashji. U r still stuck on that. Are u not getting late for work?"
Yash : "if u will keep giving reasons to avoid the kiss, then I will definitely get late. " Trying to hold her by putting his hands around her waist.
Aarti : "omg yashji. What are u doing? We are not in our room. We are standing outside the house. Please control yourself."
Yash : "not until u give me what I ask"
Aarti finally had to give in. She pressed both sides of yash cheeks uing her right hand and kissed him on both cheeks.
Aarti : "happy now"
Yash : "ofcourse I m." he leaned forward to kiss her but aarti ran away giving him a teasing look. Yash just smiled at her child like behavior and left for his work.
Ishita who was watching this romantic moment from a distance got very jealous. She felt as if the fire of jealousy would kill her today. She just could not bear aarti in yash arms.
Vidhi paridhi and gayatri had decided to keep an eye on ishita, especially when yash was not around aarti as they knew her intentions.They knew she can do anything to aarti. They all decided to not let anything come in the way of yash and aarti even if meant giving their life for yash and aarti's sake.
But the evil ishita had slowly started smelling the fishiness in this situation. The way vidhi and paridhi stayed around her all the time was making it more obvious for her to know that they might know her intensions. Because of vidhi and paridhi, all her plans till now failed. That was giving her lot of frustations. The bigger shocker for her was gayatri also knew abt her and was planning everything against her. She got to know when she secreslt heard the conversation of gayatri, paridhi and vidhi. They did not have any idea abt ishita secretly peeping in their room.
N it is said when anger and frustations join hands in ones mind, that person completely loses the sense of what is right and wrong. She got so hyper that she decided to kill aarti by herself. She was looking for an opportunity when aarti is alone in the house. But it was difficult for her to get that opportunity as one or the other person would remain around aarti which irked ishita the most.
One day she found the opportunity. Radha ma had gone to mandir informing yash that until and unless she comes back, he should not leave aarti home alone. But yash suddenly got a call from his office regarding an urgent board meeting which he cannot miss or cannot be late. He did not wanted to leave until radha ma comes but on aarti's instance he left thinking radha ma will be back in sometime. Yash was unaware of the fact that it was a trap laid down by ishita so that she can find aarti alone in the house. Radha, on the other hand was stuck in the temple helping other fellow person who was enacting to be ill..
Ishita left the scindhia mansion taking care that no one sees her. Aarti was in her room, painting good scenaries. She was all lost in her painting when ishita entered the house. She had knife in her hand. She was slowly moving around the house trying to close every door and window so that neither aarti could escape from the house nor anyone can enter the house. As aarti heard the front door closed, she felt radha ma came back from the temple.
Aarti : "radha ma, are u back? Y did u take so long? I have been waiting for u." still lost in her painting.
Ishita was smiling wickedly as now she was very much close to her goal. After killing aarti, she will get her yash. But she did not know, that would be the biggest mistake of her life.
As aarti did not get any respond back from radha ma, she tried calling her again but got no response back. She felt she should check in the hall. As she came in the hall and looked around for radha ma but did not find her.
She started having some strange feelings of fear. She started walking back to her room when she felt someone was standing behind her. She turned back slowly only to find ishita standing behind her smiling wickedly.
Aarti was hell shocked seeing her. She had never feared this much before. Ishita seeing her said :"hello aarti, how are u?"
Aarti stammering in fear : "is.. is' ishita'u ..u .. he..here?"
Ishita: "yes aarti, just came by to say hi and a bye. A final bye"
Aarti in confusion and fear : "a final bye. What do u mean?"
Ishita started laughing wickedly and said : "u will soon figure it out soon, my dear..soon"
Yash was still on his way to office. But he had a strange feeling in his heart as if something was not right.
He called aarti's cell but she couldnot pick up as ishita had got hold of it. Worrying, about her he kept calling her which irked ishita. She asked aarti to pick up the phone and ask her not to reveal anything to him or else she will stab her right away. Aarti picked up the phone and ishita put the phone on speaker so that she can hear what they are talking
Aarti : "hello yashji" in fear
Yash : "hello aartiji, aartiji what happened? Are u alright? Why did not u picked up by phone?Y r u sounding so low?Is, is radha ma home ?
Aarti did not know what to say. She knew if she speaks anything right now, ishita will hurt her right away and something can happen to the unborn child and also her. But she also wanted him to know whats going on. She thought of any other alternative. She just kept saying "I m fine yashji for each of his question". Her same and constant reply to all of his question gave him an idea of something was not right. He right away cut the call and took a u turn towards home. When he was on the way home, he called sm to find out on ishita.
Gayatri picked up the phone : "hello, who is it?"
Yash : "ma, its me ..yash. ma.."
Gayatri : "yash. Beta .how r u? y r u sounding so worried? Is everything ok?"
Yash : "no ma. I think nothing is ok. Can u please check on ishita if she is home?"
Gayatri : "whats the matter yash ? ishita? Yeah. she should be home beta. Vidhi and paridhi are constantly keeping an eye on her."
Just then paridhi and vidhi came from behind and said, "mummyji, ishita is not home. We searched for her everywhere."
Gayatri : "what do u mean she is not home?"in fear.
This was heard by yash and he as sure aarti is in a big problem and ishita is with her. He was very scared for his aartiji. After losing arpita, he had no strength to lose his aartiji. He went as fast as possible so that he can save his aartiji on time. He was still on line with gayatri.
Yash : "ma, ma..listen to me. this is very important. I think ishita is with aartiji and also alone. I think she might hurt aartiji. Please go to my house asap. Please I m also on my way please do. I cannot let anything happen to my aartiji. Nothing"
Gayatri : "yes beta don't worry we r going and ask vidhi paridhi to inform their husband and also suraj. She continues "beta I told u to not to leave her alone. Y did u do that"
Yash ; "ma, it was a trap. I cannot explain u right now. Please u guys reach her asap".
All leave in anticipation.
Meanwhile, as aarti's phone was over with yash, she gave her phone back to ishita. Ishita started laughing. She said "I feel so bad for u aarti. But I m sorry to say. This is the last time u r talking to ur yashji.ahh..no no no..my yashji. He is my love"
Aarti : "no ishita. Yashji is not ur love. He is ur obsession"
Ishita got very angry with aarti's sudden answer. She went to her and hold her tightly by her shoulders and said "u will question my love. U. who are u huh? Who the hell are u? this is love. This is love. Do u understand?" and she pushes her realy hard. Aarti is about o fall but she saves herself with the help of wall support.
Aarti : "no ishita. This is not love. Had this been ur love, u would have always thought of yashji's happiness. And u r not. U r just thinking about urself. U r selfish ishita. U r selfish. N in love, one needs to be selfless. This is the main difference of true love and obsession ishita."
Ishita started losing her anger. She took the knife in her hand and tired attacking aarti. But aarti saved herself yet again by moving away. She continuously kept calling ishita selfish and ishita tried attacking her everytime but she failed. Everything in the house was in a mess as ishita dropped and broke all the stuff.
Atlast, she got an opportunity. Aarti was standing near the wall and she had no where to go. Ishita approached aarti as aan tigress approaching her prey. Aarti had no where to move. She was stuck. She knew may be she will not be able to survive this. In this situation, the only thing she prayed was to save her unborn child and also keep yash happy.
Ishita slowly raised the knife and was about to stab her. Aarti's eyes where still closed as she was praying. She felt something liquid on her forehead. She touched her forehead with her fingers and opened her eyes. She saw it was blood. When she saw up to find out whats going, she fpund yash standing in her way, holding the knife with which ishita wanted to stab aarti. .As the knife was too sharp, yash immediately got a cut and blood started flowing out from his hand. Yes, it was yash blood on aarti's forehead which was an auspicious sign that yash and aarti can never be separated.
Ishita was hell shocked to see yash. Yash was angrily looking towards ishita. His eyes were burning with fire. He took the knife from ishita's hand and pushed her. Ishita fall on the ground. He turned towards aarti to check if she was doing good. He just hugged her tightly saying nothing. Other members also entered the house. He kissed her forehead and asked her if she was doing ok. She took his hand to see the cut on his hand. It was deep. Aarti felt horrible seeing it and tore her pallu and covered his wound. Yash again just hugged her and said : "omg aartiji. I just almost lost u today. I m sorry. I should not have left u alone knowing what the circumstances were. I m sorry aartiji" and kissed her again on her ears
Aarti : "no yashji, it was not ur mistake. We did not know this was coming. I know if u had little idea about this, u would not have left me alone. It was me who insisted u to go. It is all my fault. I m sorry. But how did u come in? she locked every door".
Yash : "I came from the kitchen door. She did not know we had one their as it is always covered with curtain. In her overconfidence, she forgot to look over the curtain"
They just broke the hug. Family members were relieved seeing aarti fine. They angrily looked towards ishita who was still on the ground. She was trying to get up.
Gayatri just came to her and slapped her tight. "how dare u? how dare u try killing my daughter? How dare u? I knew u were like this. Because of u, I had to let go my son and his family away from me. I insulted them so much so that they can go away. So that even ur soul can never be near them. But u? u tried killing my aarti? She is pregnant. U tried killing their symbol of love. U tried taking my aarti's life. How dare u? Do I need to remind u that u r married to my other son. U tried ruining everyone's life. I feel ashamed calling u a woman. U r not a woman. If u were a woman, u would nt have stopped so low. U r the most digusting woman I have ever seen in my life " and she slapped her again
Ishita lost her cool and pushed gayatri out of anger and called "u bloody old woman. Stop ur nonsense"
Yash saved gayatri from falling and looked angrily towards ishita. He went towards ishita and slapped her. "how dare u? how dare u do this to my mother? How dare u do this to my wife, my brother and my family? who gave u this right? N how dare u try harming my wife? how? N what makes u think that u u kill my aartiji, u will be able to win me? no, never. Never ever. Aartiji is my love. She is my life. She is my everything. N what makes u think that after knowing ur truth, I will love u? u want to take revenge right? Revenge for what happened on the wedding day?"U know what ishita,, I always felt bad for u. I never ever wanted to spoil ur life. But it was a question of my sons's life. My ansh life. If he would not have been kidnapped, I would have never ever done this to u or any other girl. I was forced to do that, so that I get my son back safe and sound. We only knw, how much I and aartiji have cursed ourselves for that un fateful day. I have seen aartuji punishing herself for this. Because she knew the pain when one's life get spoiled for no mistake of their own. Every single day, she has prayed for u. for ur happiness. N u? u tried killing her. U tried killing my life. U or no one'no one can never ever take her place in my life. Do u understand?"
Ishita starts laughing and says "u joke really well yash. I know u love me. its because this aarti is holding u. that is why u r not coming to me. I know. See yash, if this aarti goes wawy, no will be able to come between us. N y do u say u cannot love anyone? Y do u say no one can take aarti's place in ur life? If aarti took arpita's place in ur life, I can easily take aarti's place yash. Easily. I will love u the most yash.the most"
Everyone was disgusted hearing ishita.
Yash came forward towards ishita and said "who told u aartiji took arpita's place in my life? Who told u? aartiji never ever took arpita's place in my life. Infact she never wanted to take her place in my life. She made a new place for herself in my heart and in my life with her love, care, affection and selflessness. I don't feel ashamed saying this that what I feel for my aartiji, I never felt this for arpita. Aartiji is my life. N if anything happens to her, I cannot survive. I only and only love her. No one else."
AArti had tears listening to yash.
Ishita : "y cant u love me yash? Y? y cant u love me? see, I m beautiful.
Yash : "if u think the outer beauty matters to me, than u r really very wrong ishita. N for every men, the most beautiful woman is his wife. n for me, my aartiji is the most beautiful person ever. N here I m not talking about materialistic beauty. I m talking about inner beauty. The beauty of her heart. The beauty of her love, her care, her affection, her selflessness. She is selfless. I only have reasons to love her. She is the one who gave motherly love and affection to my motherless daughters. Whatever she got from me, and this family, the only thing she gave to this family was love, love and love. She loved me when I considered her just a friend. She loved me when I hated her. She loved me when I insulted. She loved me when I was still loving my first wife. She loved me and supported me through every phase of my life. Once because of me, her life got miserable. But still she supported me. When she thought that because of her I m punishing myself, she left me so that I don't have to live a life full of guilt. She never once thought about her. The only thing she thought was for me and my family. Our happiness. She never forced me love her. Instead she was happy seeing me happy. She was happy when i was happy with my late wife memories. The only thing she wanted was my smile and nothing else. She did everything for everyone without expecting anything in return. She gave me the reason to live again, to laugh again, to enjoy this life again. She is like an angel to me, who came to me and took every pain and misery away from me. Even if her life is miserable, the only thing she will think is to how to keep everyone in her surrounding happy. I can surely tel u ishita, that if aartiji would have been at your place, she would have only thought about my happiness and would have left me happy with my family. She would have never ever interfered or did something like u did today. Ishita, aartiji has seen much more bad days than u have, she has been alone in tha t phase of her life, when one needs their parents the most. U had everything. U ahd ur parents, a place to live. But still, see the difference in u and my aartiji. After learning about her miserable life, my respect for her increased 1000 times more. Because even after having such miserable, the only thing she cares abt is one's happiness. I will and will always love my aartiji, no matter what. I will let no miseries come in her way. I will not let even a tear fall from her eyes, coz past years, the only thing she got from her near and dear ones, is pain. I m surprised even being brought up in a nice atmosphere u don't understand the meaning of love. In love, one only and only gives. Not snatch. Yes ishita. Whatever u felt was only obsession and not true love. I and aartiji love each truly and madly and even r ready to give our lives for eachother's sake. I just hope now u understand what true love means." Going towards aarti
Yash cupping her face continued "I love u aartiji. I love u" and aarti hugs him tightly and replies "I love u too yashji"
Every family member again feels proud of yash and aarti and their relationship. Ishita was staring yash and aarti with teary eyes. Pratiek had already informed police about this. They came in and arrested ishita for trying to murder. They take her away.
Everyone is relieved that this ishita's chapter was over. They all went towards yash and aarti. Yash insisted aarti to go to the room to take rest. As, they were started moving towards the room, aarti developed cramps'''
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