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Time skip to engagement day.

Rudra was in his room at Raichand Mansion. Manhar and Tara were with him, getting him ready for the engagement.

The Raichand Mansion was decorated with lights and flowers.

Aishani , Rahul and siya were helping the servants and checking if everything's okay. Keshavi , Hridev were with vachi at her home.

Meanwhile , nivan came to aishu and hugged her legs . Aishani saw him and took him in his arms.

Nivan held her cheeks in his small hands and said "anii you look bootiful ".

Aishani laughed at his pronunciation and replied to him saying "thank you my baby. And it's not bootiful baby . It's beautiful." and gave him a kiss on his cheek.

Nivan tried saying beautiful. Aishu smiled and kept correcting him.

Soon Tara came and took nivan with her to feed him as it's his dinner time. ( After eating his dinner nivan slept guys ) .

Soon , Rasha ( rudra's mom) came towards aishani and asked where is her mom Krupa ?!

Aishu replied that her mom is on the way. As already all of the woof squad's parents were present except the Rajawats , Krupa and hridev's parents.

Hridev's parents couldn't attend as they are in Australia for an impromptu meeting .

There was not a function done without Krupa as Rasha and Krupa are bestfriends and are from the same industry.

After an hour , The Rajawats entered. But siya didn't spotted vachi. So she looked at vachi's mom and said "aunty where is vachi bhabhi ?!".

Vachi's mom and dad gave an awkward smile to all of them and replied to siya "beta ,woh keshavi aur Hridev ke sath aa rahi hai". (Beta, she is coming with Keshavi and Hridev.)

Aishani sensed their awkward mood and slowly went towards vachi' mom and asked her if everything's okay . Vachi's dad replied that everything's okay and no need to be tensed .

Soon , Krupa also came and they all exchanged pleasentries.

As the muhrat time was coming closer, Rasha told aishu to call vachi and ask them how much time will they take to reach here .

Aishu went to a corner and began calling. But the line was coming not reachable. She tried like 5 times and took Rahul's phone and tried from his phone to keshavi's and hridev's . She got the same response.

So she went and said to the elders that they didn't lift their phone. All got tensed due to this. Tara said "maa aap tension na le , they must be struck in traffic. Aap toh jaante ho na Mumbai ka traffic."

( Maa,don't get tensed they must be struck in traffic. You know how Mumbai's traffic is )

Rudra got down with manhar and he did a namate to all of them. His eyes searched for vachi. As aishu understood him she looked at rudra and spoke "rudra , they are struck in traffic , they must be coming".

Rudra gave her a nod and began talking with his soon to be in- laws and all the elders.

Manhar came to aishu's side and asked where vachi , Hridev and Keshavi was. Aishu replied that they are not lifting the phone with a tensed expression.

The door bell rang and everyone were happy as they know it will be vachi. They asked mala taai ( one of the trusted servant of Raichand's ) . She obliged and went to open the door .

As soon as she opened she let out a loud gasp. Everyones eyes were on mala taii . Mala taai went to side and stood .

The view they saw left everyone shocked. Especially rudra.

There stood vachi and Hridev with garlands in their neck . Vachi in red saree and sindhoor in her partition . And mangalsutra in her neck .

Keshavi on their side.

They entered in the living room and vachi's dad couldn't take it and sat on the sofa with a thud.

Keshavi and Vachi had tears in her eyes. Hridev held her hand. Rudra averted his eyes from vachi's face to her hand which is now in hridev's clutch.

Soon aishani went and questioned them.

"ye sab kya hai Hridev and vachi. Is this any part of your movie scene Hridev ?!

(What's all this Hridev and vachi.)

Haha . It may be funny to you guys . But please step out of the movie guys.

It's time for vachi and rudra's engagement" by saying that aishani held vachi's other hand and began to walk.

But vachi didn't budge from her place and held her head down. Aishani turned and looked at them. She saw keshavi and called her with trembling voice "shavi , yeh sab ..." ( "Shavi , all this ...")

As aishani was about to complete her sentence Hridev spoke "humne shadi kar li hai . ( We have got married ) We are married. She's my wife, legally".

Vachi's mom walked towards them and asked vachi if what Hridev is saying is truth. Vachi nodded her head in a yes while crying silently.

Soon a thud was heard in the whole mansion. Everyone present there gasped. Vachi's mom slapped vachi hard.

Vachi held her cheek and cried. Hridev went and stood in front of her protectively.

Manhar came towards Hridev and spoke "tu jaanta bhi hai ki tu kya keh raha hai ?? Hosh mein toh hai na ?!" .

( Do you even know what you are saying?? Are you in your senses?!" )

Hridev replied "I'm not drunk manhar. She is my wife. And i hope everyone accepts the fact that we are married".

All this while , Rudra didn't spoke anything. He was just looking at Hridev and vachi silently.

Aishani went towards rudra and shook him and said "kuch bolo rudra."

(Say something rudra)

Rudra didn't budged .His eyes were displaying many emotions.

Anger, betrayal, pain, sadness that's what his eyes were depicting. His eyes became red.

Vachi's mom was crying loudly. Vachi's dad spoke for the first time "kyu vachi ?? Kyu Kiya tumne aisa ?!"

(Why vachi ? Why did you do like this ?!)

Vachi held hridev's hand tightly. And looked at her and spoke "kyunki i fell out of love".

(Because i fell out of love )

Hearing that keshavi closed her eyes. Tears sprang from her eyes. Aishani and the elders were looking as if they don't want to believe her words.

For the first time rudra spoke "kab? When did you fell out of love and why did you marry him ?!".

Vachi was unable to look into rudra's eyes . So she averted her gaze and replied " i didn't realised until last week rudra. I thought it's all just wedding jitters and began questioning things.

Then soon i realised that i didn't love you anymore. At some point in my life i was surely in love with you. But as the time passed i realised it.

I realised that i was falling for Hridev unknowingly. I didn't knew when and what exactly made me fall for him.

But I'm in love with him rudra. Uske bina jee nahi paungi. Woh mera sab kuch hai.

( I can't live without him rudra. He's my everything .)

I'm sorry rudra . Mein aisa kabhi nahi karna chahti thi tumhare sath. But Hridev loves me too."

( I didn't wanted to do this to you . But Hridev loves me too".)

Manhar went towards Hridev and questioned him if what vachi just said is true. Hridev nodded his head slowly in a yes. Manhar gave him a punch in his stomach.

Hridev landed on floor. Vachi shouted in panick and went to Hridev and made him stand up .

Vachi turned to manhar and added "Don't you dare manhar. He's my husband. I won't sit and watch if someone's beating him" furiously.

Everyone gasped in horror. Rudra didn't spoke anything. Aishani was too stunned to speak anything.

Vachi looked at everyone present there and added "Hridev has been loving me since childhood. It's just he didn't spoke anything to anyone.

And when i went to him few days back and confessed to him that i love him and fell out of love from rudra , he was too shocked. He couldn't believe it .

He didn't believe not because he has been loving me . He didn't believe because he thought about rudra first. He scolded me for falling out of love.

I couldn't take his scoldings . So i told him that I'll get out from everyone's lives and will never come infront of anyone.

I said to him that if i can't have him then there is no meaning to my life . Then he confessed to me that he has been loving me.

Then i told him that we should get married as anyone won't accept us. He first said no . Then i cried and cried and begged him as there is no option left.

Then he agreed to me. We got married in temple today morning . Infront of the gods."

Vachi went towards keshavi and took hold of the papers that keshavi was holding .

She opened them and shown to everyone saying "these are the official papers that declares that we are husband and wife .

First we did court marriage and then we went to temple to seek the god's blessings and got married there. "

Aishani took the papers from vachi's hands and began looking at the papers carefully to find anything that can say that this is fake marriage. But she found none .

Vachi's dad turned towards everyone and kept his hands together and said "mujhe maaf kar dijiye. Meri sharmindha hu apni beti ki harkaton ke wajah se " by keeping his head down.

( Forgive me . I'm shameful because of my daughter's deeds.)

Vachi's dad looked at rudra and spoke "ho sake toh mujhe maaf karna beta. I know it's not easy. I can't say anything more than this" with tears in his eyes.

Rudra looked at Hridev and vachi and uttered "GET OUT". All looked at him. All were shocked because he didn't even reacted to anything. He just questioned them .

Rudra again spoke " GET THE FUVK OUT OF MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW ."

Hridev clutched vachi's hand in his and began walking towards the exit . Vachi's parents followed them.

Rudra went upstairs with empty emotions in his eyes. Aishani just stood there witnessing everything.

Rasha held her head and sat with a thud. Sahil asked siya to get water. Within in two minutes siya bought water.

Sahil made her drink water and held her hand in securely. Krupa sat beside rasha and began rubbing her other hand.

Rasha turned to sahil and spoke "sahil ab kya hoga ? Mera bacha , i know how much he loves vachi . Mere bache Ka kya hoga ? Usne unn logon ko kuch kaha bhi nahi . Atleast unn logon pe gussa bhi nahi kiya. Bas sehta raha" and cried .

( Sahil , what will happen now ? My son , I know how much he loves vachi . What will happen to him now ? He didn't even said anything to them . He didn't even got angry on them. He just endured it)

Sahil assured that everything's gonna be alright and that his son will be fine.

Meanwhile , keshavi looked at manhar as if she wanted to speak to him. But mano just ran upstairs to rudra's room.

Aishani turned and looked at keshavi. Keshavi looked at her while crying continuously.

Soon , aishani went and hugged keshavi. Aishu felt how keshavi was feeling. Shavi was trembling. Her hands were shaking. So aishu just hugged her tightly.

Shavi hugged aishu and cried while repeating "I'm sorry , I'm sorry". Aishu didn't spoke anything.

Manhar came down and told his parents to go home and said that he will be home shortly. Within few minutes the Agarwal's went out .

Manhar didn't know who to go and speak about rudra as Rehan (rudra's elder bro) was with sahil and rasha.

Tara was consoling siya. Rahul was with nivan in his room.

So he went towards aishani and stood there. Aishani asked him with her eyes about rudra as keshavi is still hugging her.

Manhar replied "go to him aishu." Aishani broke the hug and started going upstairs.

Aishani went to his room and knocked on the door . She didn't heard any response . So she slowly opened the door and went inside.

She saw that all the things were broken and they were sprawled all over the room .

She saw rudra in balcony and went towards him and kept a hand on his shoulder and called him "Rudransh".

Rudra didn't spoke anything. So aishani tried to talk to him again "Rudra kuch toh bolo, please".

(Rudra , say something please)

Rudra turned and looked at her angrily. She feared his anger.

But if anyone saw her right now they would assume that she doesn't fear him . That's how good aishu is in hiding her emotions.

Though she feared him, she didn't wanted to show him that he made her fear. So she made her fingers into fist and started digging her nails.

His eyes looked so red that her heart started to beat fast.

But never once neither her body language or her eyes displayed that she feared his anger.

Rudra shouted " LEAVE ME ALONE. I NEED SPACE . ITNI SI BAAT NAHI SAMJH AATA KYA ?!" at aishu.

(LEAVE ME ALONE . I NEED SPACE . CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THIS SIMPLE THING !?)

Aishani took a step back and turned and started going. She didn't acknowledged the glass pieces this time as she feared him .

So , while she was walking , a glass got pierced in her feet. Aishani hissed in pain. Blood started oozing out from her feet.

Rudra observed this and took long stried towards his cupboard and searched for few mins and came to aishu.

Rudra made her sit on the couch and held her feet up and slowly started to take out the glass piece from her leg .

Aishani was trying to not make a sound . Because she feared that what if she makes sound and rudra shouts on her.

Rudra did first aid and kept a small bandage on her leg . Aishani muttered a small "thank you" and started limping to go down.

She went down limping . Manhar observed her limping and questioned her. She gave an excuse saying that she got sprain in her leg.

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