SS-Blissfull life _ journey f all leads completed - Page 2

Part 6A

Life was going smooth for me once I accepted Anand as a friend.

I no longer had to do stuffs to avoid him. He never shied away in admitting his love for me, and last week we celebrated 'Ayaan's ' second birthday along with Ananya didi and her family, she came for 2 months vacation and will be leaving after celebrating new year with us. I got close to didi through chats and video calls but knowing didi in personal was altogether another experience. I never thought some one can be more naughtier than Anand, and her kids Dhruv and Diya along with Ayaan is already making Dida and Ma crazy by their acts. Life was never this cheerful for me.

Ayaan is on cloud nine nw a days , Ananaya Didi and Diya never leave a chance to pamper him and Rajeev Jiju has brought almost all the toys he asked from the mall when we went out.I am so happy for Ayaan ,I never expected he would get a big family..

But still now my relation vth Anand haven't progressed from friendship eventhough he repeats "I love u " seriously and playfully at times I just ignores t. der isn't a single person in our hospital who doesn't know about his Love for me. After Ananya didi's arrival things are in fact going haywire for me. It's not tat I haven't started to feel something for Anand but something in me is stopping me in going ahead .I tried but I cant figure it out.Today is Anands birthday and instead of me giving him some gifts, from morning i am getting Rose flowers from evy person I meet vth, be it patients, nurses ,sweepers, doctors all were giving me roses and I know the brain behind it the gr8 Ananya didi and her naughty brother who else. I feels lyk i am alone at one side and the whole world against me on other.I feel suffocated now I gave my charge to another doctor and rushed home.

I don't know YY tears are streaming down my eyes. I entered home to witness didi explaining ma about her plans. I stood there crying and dey noticed me.

"what happened Mauli" ma asked.

"Ma I know u love me so much, tat u wants me to settle in life vth Anand, but wat about Anand ma , yy evy1 s adamant in turning his life hell by tying me with him?"

I rushed to my room and lay on the bed pressing my face in pillow.

"wat u mean by I don't care for Anand, beta, he loves you .I am not compelling him for anything"

"Ma , please can I talk with her" i heard Ananya didi asking ma

"i vl check on kids and Rajeev " ma went out

Ananya didi kept her hand on my head and kneaded my hairs

"do u know wat relation I share with Anand? do u think i dnt think about his happiness?"

"it's not wat I mean didi"

"Do u knw Mauli, we lost our dad wen I was 6 years old, Anand was only 1 den. at least i ve some memories vth him ,Anand doesn't ve tat too.

Ma had evy to support her brothers ,parents my papa siblings evy1 still v missed papa a lot, no one can replace a father nt even mother, the sense of security v ve wen our papa is der ,no one can match tat.

Ma earned a job and she was an independent lady , she took us to the city she works.I was the one who took care of Anand from the age of 6 after school, wen ma gets busy vth kitchen and making flower baskets which was ma's source of extra income. Anand is no way less than Diya and Dhruv for me. He is my first child. His happiness means a lot to me and His happiness lyes in u and I know he won't get a better girl than u. do u want Ayaan to go through wat we went through "

"di u r not understanding, I am a divorcee vth a 2 yr old kid, Wat will the world say ?tat I trapped a bachelor?"

"who cares what this people says Mauli? were they the ones who took care of u wen u were broken? arent they the same people who blames evything on women wen a relationship fails? does there thoughts really affects u?"

"didi, please even I don't care wat dey says but wat f it affects him later.What if he regrets marrying me? he will get an unmarried beautiful girls and he would be happy to forget Ayaan too once he gets his own offspring,what if his love fades off"

"does being married and a mother make u inferior to other girls? do u thnk he loves ur body nly"

Anand entered hearing us and said

"you can go for tubal ligation ( a permanent pregnancy control method for women) if that's wat is troubling u. I don't need another child let me be Ayaans father that all I asks u for. I started to love Ayaan even before he was born Mauli. I ve been vth u from the day u urself knew about Ayaan, I dont know wen I started to love him, I cant live with out him. I fall for his mother much later Mauli. For the sake of Ayaan please let me in Mauli.I promise u I wont ask anything more.And for me beauty reside in a persons mind and der s no one mre beautiful than u"

his eyes were glistening with tears and voice chocked with emotions .Di took Anand out with her.

Ma came with a sleeping Ayaan and I simply laid there with him till evening thinking about all my memories about Ayaan and Anand .The joy in Ayaan's eyes wen he sees Anand. Anands tension when Ayaan falls ill. Anand tagging vth me for all Ayaan's vaccination and turning his face away wen needle pricks him, scolding the nurse fr his cries. Being a 2 yr along vth Ayaan.

Am i doing justice to Ayaan? I just wiped my tears and took plain white paper, squeezed some water color tubes to a plate , woke up ayaan and pressed his hands on the colours , he was gigglling ,then pressed his hand on to the card and wrote

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA"

We both den headed to the lawn with the card where Anand was lying on Ma's lap and didi was in Jijus arms . kids were playing and dey shouted 'Ayaan come her"

Now evy1 looked on us .I gave the card to Ayaan and asked him to give to Anand.

Anand looked at the card and then he hugged him tightly and tears started flowing down his eyes and he mouthed "thank You" to me.

Ma too looked at the card and hugged me, evy 1 was crying and smiling

Didi was so happy tat she gave a tight kiss to Rajeev Jiju infront of us and then turned red.

We celebrated Anand's birthday by cutting cake, and on didi's insistence he feeded me and Ayaan first.

Didi wanted the marriage to take place soon as she will be leaving next month and vl take another 2 yrs to return. I was not ready for a sudden marriage but couldn't say anything seeing their happy faces. i excused and escaped to the swing placed in the lawn ,on reading my thoughts Anand came to me and kneeled dwn infront of me and said

"I know things are going so fast for u, but I promise i vl never tie u down in an unwanted relation and v vl take t slow. I can wait fr u this whole life just be my side evythng will fall in place and i ve a lifetme to make u fall in love vth me" he kissed on my forehead ."I LOVE YOU,Thanks for making me a part of ur life"

We opted for a simple court marriage .I felt bad for Ananya didi and Anand as i knw like any sister she had plans fr her brothers marriage but I just couldn't go thru all again i no more believe in such customs. v gave a small party for our hospital staffs nd didi insisted to complete sme of the rituals. we(me, ayaan dida and ma ) shifted to anands home and later didi went back after newyear.

Precap: Kunal seeing a happy family

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