"Di aap teek toh hai?"

"....."

"Di?"

"....."

"DI!!!"

" Ha"

" Kya hua di? Kab se bhula rahi hoon."

" Kuch nahi"

Sighs

" Please eat something di"

" No, I am not hungry"

" Kab Tak aisa chalega di, I gave you some space to recover yourself but you are becoming more gloomy day by day"

"....."

" Are you willing to talk about this? At least now?"

" Nahi mein iske baare mein koi baat nahi karna chaahthi Hoon"

Sighs loudly

" You are worrying about Armaan. Right?"

"....."

" I knew it"

" Di......baat karogi armaan se?"

" Nahi!!!"

" Kyun di?"

" Already bahut pareshaan Kar chuki Hoon usse, ab aur nahi"

"Di!!!......it's ok I will only call him and talk"

" What? No!!! Why????? "

"Oh God!!! Kya karoon mein Aapka di? teek hai call nahi karoonga"

" Hmm"

"But on one condition"

" Stop smirking and say what"

" Shilpa stop doing that wierd thing with your eyebrows it looks scary and your condition must be also scary"

" Hahaha......ok I will stop but accept the condition or else I will call armaan."

"Ughh......ok fine, I accept but stop that smirking you little blackmailer."

"Muaahaaaaaaa......... Ok the condition is you have to finish this whole plate of your lunch......NOW "

" What?...... Ok. "

Riddhima eats her lunch scowling at her and when she finishes,she glares at Shilpa who will be grinning .

" I knew Armaan always works" Shilpa says and pats her own shoulders in appreciation.

"You do this everytime. Yesterday you blackmailed me emotionally saying that you have promised armaan that you will take care of me and you made me eat 3 sandwiches" riddhima whines says pointing her finger at Shilpa who nods her head proudly.

"And on the other day you provoked me to eat whole 2 parathas saying that armaan said that I cannot eat them because of my indigestion problem and I ate it like an idiot cursing armaan silently" riddhima accused her and Shilpa laughs at her for which riddhima pouts.

Shilpa has done some tricks and plans on her to make her eat . Days are passing by in a blur and another week had also passed since Armaan left but riddhima was still left there only where he had left.

" Awweee......di.....you look so cute. What I have done is a duty of a sister."
Shilpa says smiling at ridz as she looks at her.

" Armaan actually warned me to take care of you and if he finds out that you are not eating,not taking care of yourself and not sleeping well he will kill me di and I don't want to die so soon under Armaan's wrath" Shilpa says acting like she is afraid which made Riddhima laugh.

" Di Aapko patha hai kitne din ke baad aapko aise hasthe hue dekhne ko Mila hai. Hamesha aise hi rahiye di armaan ko bhi achaa lagega. I am sure armaan will not like seeing you crying ,not eating and not sleeping. Please di at least for armaan please take care of yourself." Shilpa says seriously to riddhima who nods her head in yes.

Riddhima hugs her tightly and Shilpa also hugs her back praying that everything should be alright.

******

Sid tries to talk to riddhima many times but riddhima will be avoiding him successfully.

Riddhima will be in the locker room studying some files where Sid comes from behind to talk to her.

" Riddhima I am sorry......" Sid says and she turns around to see him.

"....."

"Please give me chance to explain riddhima.....please" Sid pleads but she stays quiet showing no emotions.

" I was mad riddhima,I didn't know what I was doing. Seeing you both together in newspapers and on television continously made me angry and I bursted out my anger without thinking."

"....."

" I know what I have done is wrong but please forgive me and give me one chance in our relationship "

" I don't know Sid. I may forgive but I cannot forget what you have done. You could have asked me,we could have talked but no you just jumped into conclusions accusing us for nothing....." Riddhima trails off as tears fall from her eyes.

" Riddhima please don't cry......I know I was wrong......please don't push me away."

" Sid please.....I don't want to talk about this now..... And I don't know I may forgive you or not and I don't want to think also about that at least not now.......so please leave me alone......" Riddhima says with tears and walks away.

" Please riddhima.....I am sorry....." Sid says grabbing her hand.

" Leave me......" Riddhima says sternly.

" Forgive me please....." Sid again says.

" Sid leave her hand" Shilpa says while coming into the locker room.

" Shilpa you stay away from this"Sid says seriously.

" No I will not" Shilpa says pulling away riddhima from his grip.

" Don't interfere in the matters which are between husband and wife" Sid warns her to which she laughs.

" You better don't talk about relationships Mr. Modi when you don't even know what is its meaning also. You lost that right when you have put husband and wife matters in front of whole sanjeevani." Shilpa says with venom in her eyes.

" Shilpa.....you don't have any right to say all this" Sid says angrily.

" SHE IS MY SISTER and of course she will have right on me." Riddhima hisses angrily at Sid and Shilpa feels warmth in her heart as ridz has accepted truly from her heart that she is her sister.

" One more thing Sid ,you accused her in front of everyone without thinking of her reputation and dignity but now you are apologizing her when she is alone around four walls. Wow......you are such an amazing husband!!!!!." Shilpa taunts him and storms away from there taking riddhima with her leaving embarrassed and furious Sid behind.

******

Everyone will be near reception reporting to keerthi. Riddhima will be checking some files of her patients surgeries. Keerthi will be talking to interns about some cases.

" Dr. Armaan Mallik"

Someone says and every head present there snaps to the direction of the person saying that name.
They see that he will be talking to the receptionist asking details of armaan.

" Dr. Armaan ab yaha nahi hai " keerthi says to him going near.

" Oh I have to hand these papers to him came by post" that person says.

" What papers? " Shilpa asks

" I don't know mam, actually I have gone to his house address to deliver but his house was locked and I came here as sanjeevani was given as alternate address." That person explains.

" Ok, but he is not here also you can give this to us" keerthi says but that person hesitates.

" Don't worry we are his freinds we will hand it over to him" Shilpa assures him.

That person nods and gives those papers to keerthi taking her sign and goes away from there.

Keerthi sees those papers and looks at riddhima who was eager to know what is in there. In fact everyone there are curious to know but Sid seems pissed off.

" Dr. Keerthi open and see what are there in it ,we can know how important these are so that we can send them to armaan" Shilpa says to keerthi who nods.

Keerthi opens the envelope and opens the folded papers. She begins to read them and as she finishes she looks at riddhima with wide eyes filled with amusement which made ridz worried. Everyone looked at keerthi confused and curious to know.

Shilpa took papers from keerthi and started reading them. At the end she looked amused,shocked, surprised,happy and overwhelmed.

" Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!" Shilpa started to squeal jumping up and down which scared riddhima so much as the matter is related to armaan.

" Shilpa what happened?" Ridz asks scared to listen what she will say but words will not come out of her.

JP takes the papers and read with wide eyes. Seeing his expression made Riddhima more worried.

" Di there is nothing to worry, it's a surprise for you not planned and also unintentional but it is a surprise that no one can ever dream of " Shilpa says happily.

" Shilpa please say what it is ,I am scared to read those papers also now" ridz pleads her.

" Ok di exactly before 4 months Armaan had registered your name for the brightest looking star in the sky. And these are the official papers confirming that a star is named after you" Shilpa says and pauses which shocked Sid and Riddhima.

" Yes! Di a star has been named after your name. " Shilpa concludes with excitement.

Riddhima has reached for the papers and started reading them and soon enough tears started flowing from her eyes not knowing to be happy or sad. Happy that armaan loves her so much that he wants to name a star after her and sad that he is not with her anymore to share this surprise with her.

" Oh my God! How romantic!!!!! I didn't know that a boy can love a girl so much that too to such an extent" Shilpa exclaims and Sid glares at her.

No words comes out of riddhima's mouth, she is too stunned to react. She folded the papers neatly again and puts them back in the envelope calmly. She turns and walks slowly towards the locker room in a daze full of thoughts.

Keerthi and Shilpa looks at her sympathetically while Sid gets irked as she gets so much affected by armaan even in his absence.

******

Riddhima places the envelope in her purse and walks out towards exit. She misses him even more now.

She walks to the basketball court and looks up to the sky and stops looking at the moon. She sits on a nearby bench,takes out the envelope and looks at it remembering all their memories.

She thinks all that armaan has done is to love her.......more and more but all she has done is to give him pain.......only pain. Tears flows continously from her eyes looking at the papers.

She smiles sadly with tears looking up at moon and whispers to herself closing her eyes -

" I miss you Armaan."

At the same time somewhere in a place Armaan sits in a lawn on a swing. He will be looking at the paayal of riddhima with tears and kisses it with full of his love.

He suddenly feels riddhima said something to him. He looks around and looks up to see the moon shining in the dark sky.

He smiles sadly looking at it with tears and whispers to himself -

" I miss you basket "

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

Love AR.