Tera Mera Rishta
A/N: I know this OS sucks but this is what was on my mind at the moment and i would love to dedicate this to my dearest Aimmy on her birthday. May god bless you baby. Love you.
To say that Arnav Singh Raizada was in a deep mess would be false because what he was in was more than just a deep mess. His business was sinking!
When it had started happening two years ago he did not take it seriously thinking that the new guy in the business was no harm to him but the young lad whom he had under-estimated was on top of the market like never before and was on the verge of over-taking the Raizada empire.
Arnav sat on the recliner, rubbing his face with his palms and sighing deeply. For the second time in life Arnav Singh Raizada knew he would lose. He knew he would lose his empire and would just have enough to feed himself and his old nani for the rest of their lives. He thanked god thinking that Anjali was well settled with Aman in the United States while Akaash and Payal were happy in Lucknow with Manorma, Buaji and Payal's amma-bauji.
Aryan Singh!
That was his name wasn't it?
The young guy who was just on the verge of destroying Arnav?
The one guy whom he had only heard of till date?
The guy who was the reason for Arnav's distress?
Arnav didn't know why but he felt that this rift between Aryan and him was more than just a professional conflict. He felt as if he was really upto something because other than aiming any other brand name in India Aryan had chosen the Raizada brand.
Arnav walked down the stairs and sat on the dining table, although he didn't have an appetite today he knew nani wouldn't eat without him. Hari Prakash served the meal and they ate in silence until nani asked, "Arnav bitwa you look a bit disturbed. Is anything wrong?" she asked politely.
For a moment Arnav thought that he should tell her that everything was wrong! Every single thing in his life was wrong and he was going to be destroyed very soon, but Arnav just couldn't voice it out so with a small smile he replied, "No nani. Just tired."
Although nani was not convinced at all with his answer she decided to stay mum because she knew Arnav wouldn't tell her anything. She silently prayed to give Arnav the strength to tackle whatever was wrong in his life. She knew he needed encouragement, "Everything will be fine beta." She said sweetly making Arnav smile, afterall she was his nani, she knew him too well and he couldn't lie to her.
As Arnav lay on his bed, he finally made up his mind; he was going to meet Aryan Singh!
Arnav was waiting in the lounge for his appointment with Aryan. Today he wanted answers and he was going to get them. As he entered the cold conference room he saw a man well built and confidence evident in his posture turn around. As he did Arnav stood there with his mouth open as he got the shock of his life. Aryan Gupta looked almost same as Arnav did when he was young!
He greeted Arnav formally breaking Arnav from the trance and he shook hands with Aryan. Arnav sat down on the chair and Aryan was looking through a file and spoke without even looking at Arnav, "Mr. Raizada seems like you are very excited for the take-over that you wanted to meet me?"
"Why are you doing this?" Arnav asked bluntly getting a confused look from Aryan.
"Excuse me?" he raised his eyebrows.
"I know what you are doing is not just business. Who are you?"
Finally Aryan closed the file and smirked at Arnav. He looked at him with an impressed expression, "Well well Mr. Raizada I am quite impressed with your intellect. Even at this age you are good at figuring things out aren't you?" he replied making Arnav very confused.
"What are you talking about?" Arnav asked in a no nonsense tone making Aryan smirk again which was irking Arnav even more.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?" Arnav asked standing up and banging his hand on the table.
"Calm down Mr. Raizada this is my office and not your house! If you want to know then sit down, right now!" to be very honest Arnav was angry he felt like breaking something, how dare this guy talk to him like that? He wanted to leave but he wanted to know the mystery behind this misery so he sat down.
"Better." Mumbled Aryan before he stood up and called someone, "The reports?... Good..." and he kept the phone.
Aryan paced around the room slowly and began speaking, "Sheetal! Sheetal Singh! Do you remember her?"
"Sheetal?" Arnav whispered to himself. Ofcourse he remembered her and he could never ever forget her in his life. "Yes." He replied.
"I AM HER SON Mr. RAIZADA AND YOUR ILLEGIMTE CHILD DAMMIT!!!" he shouted loudly breaking a vase that was on the table. "I am your god-forsaken son whom you dis-owned for that witch Khushi Kumari Gupta! You left my mother when she needed you and you married that... That cheap woman!"
In an instant Arnav was around the table and Aryan cheek was red and the whole room echoed with the sound of the slap! Arnav Singh Raizada could tolerate anything but calling his Khushi cheap, he would kill that person. "Don't you dare!" Arnav retorted making Aryan give him a very angry look.
"Who the hell do you are? You will just say any type of shit and I will believe it?" Arnav asked him loudly.
"I will believe what is true and the truth is that I am your and Sheetal Singh's child!"
"She is lying!"
"She is not"
"Get her here and I will ask her myself!"
"I can't!"
"Why?"
"Because she is dead!"
"She lied!"
"And do you think I will trust you over my mother? After all that you put her through? You left her for another woman and she was left alone with me! You bloody cheat! You have no right to live. I am your son and if you want a proof then..." just then the door opened and the peon came in with some reports and handed it to Aryan.
Aryan opened the DNA reports and showed it to Arnav and it showed a positive match making Arnav shocked. "Do you need more proof?"
Aryan had always believed the DNA report that sheetal had shown him but he had never actually ahd the chance to match his reports with Sheetal so he thought of getting it tested but thinking that he was not trusting her, he never looked at those reports but today he wanted to show it to Arnav.
Aryan opened the reports and his mouth hung open as the report fell from his hand which Arnav picked up and read. Negative.
The DNA of Sheetal and Aryan did not match!
"What?...How? How can?..." Aryan mumbled in shock. "She said she was my mother."
And for the first time in so many years Arnav Singh Raizada smiled, "You are my son" he said happily getting a blank look from Aryan, "But Sheetal is not your mother. Sit down." He made Aryan sit on the chair and spoke to him in a love filled voice. "23 years ago. Sheetal came in my life when I was happily married with Khushi for 5 years and Khushi was 8 months pregnant. She took advantage of Khushi's innocence and stayed in my house so that she could get me and Khushi divorced, take all my money and me. However, I found out about her intentions and we warned her and she left the house promising us for a revenge..."
He paused as he saw that Aryan was no longer in his stern form and was more like a small child now, "Where is Khushi now?" he asked innocently making Arnav chuckle, "You want to meet her?" he asked and Aryan nodded.
Some 15 minutes later they were standing in Arnav's room in front of a very lively and beautiful woman's photo with a garland on it. "One month later when Khushi delivered. We were informed that the child was still born.." Arnav said almost choking and tears rolled down his cheeks as he continued, "Unfortunately my Khushi couldn't take the shock and she left the world!... When I saw her dying in front of my eyes, I fell in coma for three years."
"Then?" Aryan asked in an emotional voice and though Arnav was not looking at him, he could tell that Aryan was crying.
"Just last week when I took Nani to the hospital for check-up, I met a handicapped woman outside the hospital crying in pain, came to me and started crying. She told me that 23 years ago she had done the delivery of Khushi and had sold her baby to a woman for a lot of money and had lied about the child being still born. But she didn't know who the woman was. She said that the god was punishing her for the sin she had committed..." he told Aryan calmly, "But now I guess I know who the woman was right?" he further added in an attempt to smile and in the next instant Aryan was hugging Arnav tightly and crying bitterly.
"I'm sorry... Sorry... I believed her all these years and she told me to destroy you and I hated ma all life... I am sorry dad... I am so sorry.. I love you.. Please forgive me..." he cried his heart out making Arnav smile when he heard Aryan call Khushi ma and him dad.
After hours of crying and patching up they finally went downstairs. Arnav was surprised to Anjali, Aman, Payal, Akaash, Buaji, Amma and Bauji in the living room and then he remembered that it was Khushi's death anniversary today and they had all gathered like every year.
Arnav broke the news about his and Khushi's child being alive and right in front of them making everyone more than happy as they all hugged Aryan and started talking to him. Nani smiled knowingly at Arnav which Arnav knew she meant that everything was fine now.
As they all walked to the pooja sitting place Arnav turned around and looked up to the second floor and saw the familiar beautiful lady dressed in a simple white kameez standing, leaning on the pillar smiling at Arnav, as he smiled back at his Khushi and he knew that now her soul would finally rest in peace.
His family was complete now!
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