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"Aray... this phone...!" Arnav's phone kept on vibrating  in her purse.  She had no time to answer the calls or go in search of Arnav to hand it over to him. 
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"Puttar, where is your husband?" Papaji asked pulling Khushi back when she hurriedly passing by....!
"Haan? Husband who?..." She asked stupidly.  Papaji sighed hopelessly.

"Haan...! Ok. Ok. Arnavji...! Yeah...! He is..." She turned around and then thumping her hands on her hips, said loudly.. "I don't know...!" Papaji went away...!  The Bidai time approaching with the sun setting and the atmosphere changing with the moods of the people around...! Khushi felt a knot and went in search of her husband so was Aakash and Raj were searching for Arnav desperately.  For more than an hour he was missing and Aakash had a grim thought that he had left all of them...!

"Bhai...!" he kept on asking everyone about Arnav and walked through the rooms calling his name...in vain...!  Arnav was no where to be found...!

The people from groom's side were hurrying up ...!
"Chote?" Anjali looked up for her brother. 

"Yeah... Di... he is coming...! How can he miss his Di's bidai?" Khushi tried to lighten the mood.  Anjali smiled shyly waiting for her chote ...  !
"Where is he?" Papaji now sounded panic.  Raj frantically tried to call Arnav.  It only buzzed in Khushi's purse which she had kept in her room. 

"God! He is not picking up the phone...!" Raj seemed frustrated.  Elsa  tried her best but it seemed Arnav was not around.  "Now that Di's wedding is over, he must have gone..." Aakash sat on the sofa teary eyed...! He had lost the opportunity to patch up with his bhai and explain him his position...! He didn't mean to oust his bhai from the business... he only wanted his bhai to understand that he too can take prudent decisions...!    People were waitng only for Arnav....!

"Khushi...Where are you going?" Elsa called her from behind but khushi had hopped into the car slamming the accelerator...!

"What is going on?" Elsa didn't know ...!    
"Where is Chote?" Nani asked but no one knew.  Everyone was busy packing and waiting for the Bidai...!

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He stifled, his muscles flexing....!  She just held his arm.
"Khushi..." he turned to her.

"Chaliye...Let's go!" she said.
"Woh Khush toh rahegi na?" he asked letting down his guard and allowing his emotions to gush out... She cupped his face.
"Haan... Bahut Khush rahegi...!" she assured him taking him in her arms.  He wept on her shoulder.  She kept patting him soothingly.      
  
"Chaliye... Bhai ke bina Bidai nahi hogi...!" she said holding him at arms length.  He sighed preparing himself for the duty.  Robindro Lake was again a witness to their emotional breakdown.  He had brought her here once and now she knew where he was at the time of his sister's bidai.  The evening golden reflections had filled the air.  She pulled him in her embrace. 

"Di kay pagal chote...!" she whispered and broke apart.  The emotions replaced with anger...
"I am not pagal..." he strode ahead and she followed grinning...!

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"Where were you?" Everyone asked and Khushi explained that she had taken him to the temple...!

"Chote...!" his Di called him hoarsely.  He hugged her patting on her back.  Papaji blew in his handkirchief sniffing loudly and Arnav broke apart from his Di,  and then turning his back went out to arrange for her Bidai...
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"What the..!" Khushi blurted taking out the phone and seeing 47 missed calls.  She regretted having kept his phone and forgetting it in her bag.  Absentmindedly she scrolled through the list and her eyes poped out seeing the number...! His phone rang and she pressed the phone to her ear...

"I am sorry, ASR...!" the phone went on stabbing her ....
"How dare....!" she screamed with her rage shooting through the roof.  Taking a few deep breaths she scrolled through the dialed numbers and sat on the bed shocked to the core.  Her tummy pounding, her heart went numb missing the beats.

"What the hell...!" she got  up clenching her fists and stormed out of the room calling his name ...!
"Arnav ji....!" she stood before him and he just looked up casually at her.  Every one had relaxed after the Bidai and having dinner in the hall....!

"What is this?" she showed him his cell.
"Oh! yeah... I forgot..." he held out his hand to get it from her.

"How could you?" she asked hurt.
"What? I told you... I just forgot the cell..." he said thoroughly confused.

"How could you call her...?" she screamed...
"Wha..t?" he asked again keeping his dinner plate down.

"Why did you call her...?" she asked.
"Call who, puttar?" Papaji sensed the danger and pressing his hands on her shoulder, he tried to make her sit on the chair.  She jerked away....!

"What is hell, Khushi...!" Arnav snatched the phone from her.

"You... You called Lavanya....!" she forgot her Lucknowi politeness...!

"What?" Arnav scrolled through the list.  Khushi was panting, clearly agitated....!

"Khushi...!" he opened his mouth... but then she screamed...
"No... not a single word...! You called her and she called you back ...!" she said framing him.  He gaped in mere shock.

"What?"
She was fuming... she hissed between ragged breath...

"You... you.. still are in touch with her....! Your X-girlfriend... or wait...a minute...! Is she still...your...?" She raised her finger accusingly...!

"What are you talking, khushi...?" Papaji jumped between the conversation...!

"What am I talking? Why don't you ask him, Papaji... What was he doing with Lavanya ji?"

"Sorry ASR... I couldn't answer your call... I miss you ASR... We must meet.... please ASR... I want to meet you....!" she mocked loathing.  Papaji looked at ASR from some explanation.   He stood up in rage...

"How dare you, touch my things, Khushi...!" he came on to her aggressively.

"Oh! Is it? I should not touch your things...?!!! Your wife?" she asked disdainfully. 

"Yes... I haven't given this right to anyone... not even you...!" he gripped her arm.  Papaji had to intervene and separate the bickering couple.  The relaxed party had turned stormy...! Khushi looked up teary eyes, thoroughly hurt, clutching her tummy. 

"Yes, right...! I should have known...!" she said trying hard not to show her hurt on her face.  She continued with chocked throat...

"I should have known... that you don't believe in this rubbish like marriage, wife, family....! you only know, business, money, success....!" she said blinking furiously. 

"Shut up Khushi...!" he yelled coming on to her furiously.  She held the table for support. 

"Yeah... right... I should shut up... Where are those promises gone, Arnav ji... you gave me with every step we walked together....! Where is that trust element, Arnavji...?" she asked and her face reddened with realization...!

"Of course... you had asked me about my trust level... you never mentioned why...! Of course... You were making sure that I remain loyal... You are free to do anything... Right? I am tied down in this relationship... Not you...! You go back to your girlfriend...! Indulging into worldly pleasures... sleeping with her...! Where did those dreams... that telepathy go Arnavji? drained down with Gomti....? Demolished with Gomti nivas? Where did all that we shared go, Arnav ji? " She asked painfully....

"Khushi Puttar...!" Papaji couldn't speak as Arnav held up his hand....!

"Khushi, you need some rest....!" Mummiji intervened and Khushi turned to her.

"Rest? Mummiji... you know? Di was getting married here and this... the great husband of mine.. Di's Chote, was trying to contact his girlfriend....! And...." she chocked with ragged breath...

"And... she was telling him, she missed him and he should meet her..." Khushi sobbed harder...!

"BIL?" Raj jumped into the fray asking his BIL.  Arnav looked at him daring him to speak more.  Raj gulped... but Papaji held up his hand.  These trivial conflicts between Arnav and Khushi were not knew to him.  He knew they will come around with the night gone by.  Khushi was tired and exhausted... Arnav was emotionally drained out with his Di gone to her husband's house.  Both of them had the only way to vent out, was yell at each other....But bringing Lavanya into the fight was a bit too much.  Someone must intervene and resolve...!

"So, when are you meeting her, Mr. Raizada...?" Khushi asked disdainfully and he exploded.
"Its, none of your business, Khushi...!" he barked and Khushi sat on the chair with a thud...!

"Look... Khushi... I had some...!" Arnav was interrupted when Aakash exclaimed...!

"Khushi... It's my mistake... I wanted to bring her on board..." Aakash said and Arnav turned to him angrily.

"Mind your own business...Aakash... I have nothing to do with your company now...!" he declared his disassociation with AR designs and Raj gaped in disbelief...

"BIL..." Arnav again raised his hand... The fight with Khushi was sidelined... Arnav felt cornered from every side.  His aggressiveness resurfaced....!

"It's between us..." he said hinting that no one else had any right to intervene...!
"Chote..." Nani called out sternly.  Arnav turned to nani...
"Nani... Let me handle it..." he turned to the crowd again...! Khushi was crying her heart out...!

"I had told you, Arnavji... that if you meet her... I will forget everything...!" she said getting up in a fighting mode...!

"What will you do, Khushi?" he challenged her staring at her swollen belly.  She clutched her belly protectively.

"I am going back... to my home... my amma babuji..." she said in a spur of moment and the penny dropped....! The realization.. the shock...and they saw khushi going away...! All of them ran after her...Payal crying her heart out holding Aakash's hand for support.  Fight always drained her out...She had lost her senses...! Arnav had left the mansion and no one had noticed...! Khushi had shut the door on everyone...! No one knew what to do next...! Now that the mediater, Anjali gone and her brother going out of his senses, Khushi was left all alone among her entire family... She was all alone... with her baby, kicking harder... !

"Khushi.... Please... open the door..." the frantic calls fell on deaf ears...! One couple became soul-mates and the destined soul-mates were separated...!!