SANJEEVANI:

Everyone will be busy with their duties. Armaan will be in the locker room checking out some files and something caught his eye when he looked up. A locker was slightly open with something hanging out. He goes near that and finds that it was shilpa's locker. He shook his head for her carelessness ,opens the locker, puts the hanging out thing into the locker and when he is about to close the locker he sees a very much familiar pic in it. He takes it out, closes the locker and see that it was a pic of Anjali & riddhima's childhood and Dr. Shashank in it. He gets shocked why Shilpa is having riddhima's pics as that day also he has seen pic of riddhima in her purse.

After 5 minutes Shilpa also comes to the locker room where armaan will be looking into some pics.

" Hey Dr. Armaan, what's up?" Shilpa asks him seeing him sitting on the bench beside him.

" Nothing much just looking at some photos of all my friends" armaan says looking at photos.

" Oh can I also see them? " Shilpa asks him curiously to which armaan nods and gives them to her.

First pic will be of armaan and riddhima for which Shilpa deeply stares and says " I must say you both look very good together" for which armaan sadly smiles.

Seeing that Shilpa flips to other photos in which armaan and gang will be dancing, laughing, fighting....... Shilpa sees them and smiles .

" Wow these all were your friends ,you all look very happy and enjoying..........you must be missing them right" Shilpa turns to armaan and asks him.

" Yeah I miss them a lot, we used to enjoy, dance, play pranks,behave  childishly.......and also fight but we always used to be together. We used to help each other, always stood for each other in tough times but now everything changed." Armaan sadly says with slight smile on lips and tears in his eyes.

" It's ok armaan everything will be ok, don't worry" Shilpa says to him and flips to other photos in which one of them will be riddhima's childhood pic. Shilpa sees with a smile and armaan watches her reactions.

" Riddhima is very cute in this picture , hai na armaan" Shilpa asks armaan.

" Yes but how do you know that it is riddhima in that picture?" Armaan questions her for which Shilpa stays rooted with wide eyes not knowing what to answer.

" Ahhh.......umm...aaa.....mmm....I guessed may be........seeing her features." Shilpa says stuttering to which armaan narrows his eyes.

" Are you sure? " armaan asks her  actually in an interrogating way for which Shilpa looks away and gets tensed.

" Of course armaan.....how do you think I know? " She says without looking at armaan for which he understands that she is hiding something.

" Do you know riddhima before  joining sanjeevani? "Armaan asks Shilpa Seriously to which she gets tears in her eyes and looks away.

" Of course not? " Shilpa says and Armaan thinks that she will not disclose any thing like this.

" If anything is there you can tell me" armaan says to her concerned and she stays calm for which armaan sighs loudly.

" If nothing is there then what are the pictures of riddhima doing in your handbag and locker" armaan questions her in an authorative tone and Shilpa gets shocked how does he know.

" Dr. Shilpa Are you stalking riddhima?" Armaan asks sternly and Shilpa gets panicked with his serious tone.

" No no no......not at all " Shilpa says quickly and looks down for which armaan grabs her shoulders angrily...

" Then what's the matter ? And I want to listen only the truth." Armaan asks her by grabbing her shoulders angrily and tears rolled down her cheeks.

She understood that she had to share this with armaan now because he is not going to leave this matter at any cost as it is related to riddhima who is his life.

"I will say the truth armaan but not here." Says Shilpa while wiping her tears and Armaan nods .

After finishing their duties they both go to the terrace . Shilpa will be fidgetting not knowing how to say truth to armaan and Armaan waits patiently for her to reveal the truth.

" Don't worry Shilpa you can say , don't forget that we are friends now and I will not judge or blame you, I am just concerned about riddhima's safety you know right...." Armaan assures her to say the truth. Shilpa takes a deep breath and replies.

" Riddhima Meri badi behan hai" she says and closes her eyes shut and Armaan gets rooted in his place stunned if he had heard right or not and looks at her questionly.

" This is the truth armaan , Riddhima is my sister." Shilpa says facing armaan who comes out of his shock.

" How is that possible? Dr. Shashank has only two daughters........Anji and riddhima" Armaan says to himself and drowned in thoughts.

" It is possible armaan. Do you know everything about riddhima's past?"Shilpa questions him.

" Yes I know everything" armaan says looking at her and Shilpa looks at him to continue what does he know.

" I know everything about her, about her adoption, her parents.......infact I was the one who knows the truth first even before riddhima and everyone other than Dr. Shashank and Padma anty " armaan says to her sadly remembering how difficult was to console riddhima after she had found out the truth. Shilpa here is surprised that he knows everything even before riddhima.

" How are you related to riddhima then? " Armaan asks her when she will be thinking and she snaps her head towards armaan and replies......

" Our fathers are same armaan I mean our biological father.'' Shilpa replies to him who is shocked now.

" You mean to say you are the daughter of that person who left riddhima and her mother and married someone else." Armaan asks her unbelievably to which she sadly sighs.

" Yes armaan my father left them and married my mother. But he got his punishment for what he has done armaan they both died in an accident and left me alone in this world when I was just 13 years old. I was sent to an orphanage and grown up there." Shilpa says while crying sitting down on her knees and Armaan also sits beside her consoling her as he can understand how painful it must be for her to survive without parents.

" It's ok Shilpa I can understand how much you have gone through " armaan consoles her and she stops crying.

" Yeah it was very difficult but I have  my father's money which was sufficient for my education to become a doctor and for my accommodation in Mumbai now" Shilpa says with a sad smile and armaan listens to her quietly.

" Shilpa how you came to know about your and Riddhima's relationship ?" Armaan asks doubtedly to Shilpa.........

To be continued.........

Love AR.