He sighed inside and again posed for the photos but still her mind was roaming around that stranger girl....

Meanwhile on the courtyard of her house...
That same girl was again talking to someone over the phone...

" Yes... That bi*** is really enjoying her engagement... neither guilty nor sadness was visible in her eyes..." That girl said while gritting her teeth

That person on the other side of the phone said something and she replied back..

" Yeah..I'll be here...you don't worry..I'll update everything...yeah ... bye..." She said and put her phone back to her shoulder bag and left...
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Niharika mind was not at all with her now...it's behind that strange girl...
She is getting very bad vibes from her glances...
Dheeraj noticed this and enquired what happened..
She just nodded her head in Nothing but actually it wasn't true...
Soon after that , everyone had their food, soon came the departure time....
Niharika stood at the balcony looking at them...

Darshan ,niteesh and Namish was busy in planning for the next day while Sangeetha, Maheswari and rekha was discussing about to today...
Dheeraj look here and there and he looked upwards as he felt a strong gaze on him... suddenly his eyes fell on her...
She was looking at him...

He got lost looking at her...
She smiled a bit nervously....
He understood that she's not feeling well...
He asked what happened through gesture...
She shrugged her shoulders and nodded in nothing...
He smiled a bit and asked her to smile ..
She smiled...
Then he signalled her to smile widely by stretching his index finger and thumb...
She giggled at his cuteness...
He too giggled seeing her....
She waved her hands and he too...
Soon they went ....
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Niharika came back to the room to saw Bhavini standing beside the window looking outside..her head resting on the wall beside window...
" Bhavi?" Niharika called and she saw bhavini wiping her tears..

" What happened?" She asked with concern and rushed towards her... hugging her tightly...

" No...no..nothing ...di...after tomorrow... I'll miss you..." She managed to say...

" Aww...that's the matter...i was scared..I'll miss you too but I'll come ..I'm not going so far dear ...." She said caressing her back...

She said nothing.. Bhavini just hugged niharika tightly and went from her room....

On reaching back home, Dheeraj recieved a call and that was Ashish's father Ankit's call...he called him to just inform that they are here at Mumbai to attend his wedding because Dheeraj already invited them for the wedding...

On hearing that he took his car and went to them...
It's only a 15 minutes travel from his home to theirs and it's alomst close to the street where niharika's house was located....
He reached there and saw them...
He took blessings from them...

" You told us na beta ...you want to take something from Ashish's room as he told you...go and take it..." Radhika said
Her eyes filled with tears...

Dheeraj just nodded and went upstairs to his room...
Dheeraj slowly opened his room...
Memories came running infront of his eyes...
It started to run like a film infront of him...
He closed his eyes and tears escaped from his eyes....
He went near a big picture of Ashish and stood infront of it....

" Ashish...as your wish , the day after tomorrow, I'm going to marry Sonu....i promise I'll give all the happiness and love to her...but before that, as a friend I want your prayers for our new life...." Dheeraj said in a broken voice...

He stood there for sometime and he moved towards his wardrobe..
He opened it and found his diary ..as he know where he usually keep his personal things...
Then he searched for his medical reports as hr already promised that he won't let anyone to know about his disease...so he decided to took that too along with the diary...

Finally he got that reports too....he took all in a cover and went outside....
Ankit and Radhika neither asked nor he said what's in that cover...
Soon he left the place and Ankit told him that they will come for his wedding.....
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Next day,
It's their mehandi and haldi day...
They arranged mehandi at morning and haldi at evening...
It's mehandi in morning...
Niharika was wearing a white salwar with silver embroidery works on it...
She just looked like a dove....
She wore matching silver earrings and a small nose ring on her sharp nose...
Her hair fluttered freely touching her back...

Dheeraj was looking damn stylish in his navy blue kurta and he get out the car which cool sunglasses...



He looked dashing in that costume...( I personally like this pic a lot😉)
Everyone was looking at him in awe... Every eyes followed him..but his..his Hazels were searching for those dark browns which he was always in love with.....

Finally he saw her sitting inside the hall with her hands stretched towards the mehandi artist...
She is saying something to her and she's smiling...
She saw him and smiled blinking her eyes...
He too smiled back....
He was talking with darsh and their other friends in college....
Guess who.. ofcourse our Pandava gang...
He constantly looked her from the corner of his eyes...
He slowly took his phone from his pocket and silently clicked her candid pictures...but this wasn't go un noticed by our Pandava gang....

" Arey bhai...why are you struggling much... take it straight.."saurav commented....Seeing his struggle for taking pictures of her ,

" Haathi yaar...chup kar.." he shot back , blushing...

" Ok done..." They heard the mehandi artist saying and women went near her circling her...

" So.. where's our honewali jiju ?" Bhavini asked raising her voice a bit...

" Here..." Vin held Dheeraj's shoulder and said

" Aao..aao...jijaji" bhavini smirked...
Dheeraj came forward...and took niharika's hand in his...

He started to search for his name.... but he didn't find it...
He again searched and almost 20 minutes passed .... Dheeraj got a bit annoyed now...

"Darsh bhaiyya ...give me a bed and pillow I'll sleep here only..if it's continuing like this then sure I'm gonna sleep here ..." bhavini said

But she added kerosene to the fire....now he got more annoyed and looked for name from each and every corner...
Niharika is just giggling seeing his Actions....

And finally....he saw it was written just below the right Hand's ring finger in her palms that too in hindi....

" Yes here it is .... I found it.." he yelled as if he won a war...

Everyone clapped....
Niharika was giggling looking at him...
He made a serious face and asked
" What's there to smile...I know..yeh sab na tumne hi kiya hoga...tell me it's you who said to hide it .. right? ."

" Ha...main hi hoo... because I just wanted to see your racoon face filled with tension... " she replied giggling...

" You ...khadoos .!!" He yelled and threw flowers which was kept there for decoration...

She stomped her feet in frustration as she can't do anything because her hands filled with mehandi...
But she didn't leave...
She kicked on his legs with hers...amd she started showing faces to him....
Darshan saw all these and sighed..

" Kal shaadi hai aur abhi bhi bachon ki tarah lad rahe ho.." he thought..
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Soon it's evening time and time for haldi...
Women brought niharika down for haldi..



she wore a brown yellowish lehenga with matching jewelleries..
First elders came forward and put haldi on her....
Then , bhavini , her other friends also came forward and put haldi on her....

And in Singhania mansion,
Darshan and Dheeraj's friends almost got bathed him in haldi....
His tip to toe was covered with haldi because his Pandava gang's craziness...
The day went well and tomorrow it's wedding...
Soon everyone went to bed and yes they send bride and groom early for taking their beauty sleep.. afterall tomorrow they want to look fresh..
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And the big day for dheeraj and niharika came ...
The large mandap at the centre of the wedding hall shone in lights ....
Everything looked just perfect...
Namish ran here and there to check if the arrangements are perfectly done or not...

Niteesh and Sangeetha stood there at the entrance of the hall to welcome their guests....
Rekha and bhavini was busy in making niharika dressed up...
Niharika looked heavenly beautiful in her dark maroon lehenga with golden veil...
Her golden jewelleries, lotus eyes filled with kohl , her beautiful nath hanging on her sharp nose...
She looked like a princess ...



She stood up from the dressing table slowly...
Rekha looked at her and waved her hands around her face and placed her knuckles on her temples...
She put some kohl behind her ears...
Just then Sangeetha entered the room to check whether she got ready or not...
Seeing her daughter in bridal attire, unknowingly Sangeetha's eyes filled with tears...
She hugged niharika and she too hugged back...
Niharika's eyes too turned moist....

At Singhania mansion,
The barat ( wedding procession) had already started....
Dheeraj sat on a well decorated horse and darshan was coming along with him...dancing and hooting...

Dheeraj just looked damn handsome as usual in his wedding sherwani..
His dark maroon shewani with golden pagdi made his just to look like a prince charming...

" Yaar darsh ..it's getting hot yaar...how will I handle this " Dheeraj said pointing his sherwani..

" Oh...you do one thing ...come, just go back home and change your dress into jeans and T-shirts..kaafi comfortable hoga tujhe" darshan giggled..
Dheeraj rolled his eyes...

Soon the barat reached the gates of wedding hall...
Hearing the sound of band ...bhavini slowly removed the curtains of the window....

" Nikku di...barat aa gya " bhavini said to which Niharika got a bit nervous...

She stood up and held bhavini's hands..
" Go and get some water please" she said

" What di...why so nervous? " Bhavi asked

" I don't know..it's true that I'm going to marry that racoon but still...." She said...

" Don't worry di..you sit here I'll bring water..ok?" Bhavini said and immediately left the room...

After sometime, she came with a glass of water and niharika immediately drank the whole glass of water in one go...
Bhavini hurriedly went down to welcome the wedding procession...

Sangeetha did aarti of groom...
She put thilak on his forehead and welcomed them...



( Did anyone noticed, both are wearing almost same colour)
But just before he could enter..
Bhavini , Shafaq and veebha ( niharika's other colleges friends) stood before him by stretching their hands...
Dheeraj smirked and took some money from his pocket..
He rounded the money above their forehead amd gave that to them...
They happily went with that....

At the marriage hall,
Pandit ji started chanting mantras and gave offerings to the agnikundh...
Everyone gathered around the the large mandap...
Soon pandit asked to bring groom...
Then , to bring the bride...
Bhavini went upstairs to bring niharika down...
Niharika took small steps towards the mandap with her head down...( You know usual bridal shy)
Seeing her someone's heart skipped a beat and guess who...
Yes our very own Dheeraj...
He looked at her from top to bottom...
She looked extremely beautiful and he felt like he was seeing the goddess of beauty herself infront of him...

And it's time for varmala, first niharika put garland on his neck and then he put garland on her neck...both exchanged glances and smiled..
Everyone threw flowers on them...

After that pandit asked both to sit in mandap..
They sat in mandap..pandit started chanting mantras...they offered flowers to agnikundh...
Dheeraj looked and passed a nervous smile to her..she too smiled back with Same nervousness...
Soon , pandit asked niteesh to do kanya daan...
He came forward...he placed niharika's hands into Dheeraj's hands...
Niteesh's eyes turned moist...
He stepped backwards and soon after that rekha came forward for gathbandhan...
She tied niharika's dupatta with his ...
Pandit asked both to stand and took seven pheras...
Pandit chanted mantras...first , Dheeraj took rounds around mandap and niharika followed him and after sometime, they switched places...niharika came forward and he followed her..
After taking pheras, niharika sat beside his left hand side...
Pandit asked Dheeraj to tie mangalsutra.. Maheswari streched the thal containing mangalsutra towards him..
He took that and tied around her neck...
She closed her eyes...
Rithika came forward, she moved niharika's head jewelry aside...
Dheeraj filled her center partition with sindhoor...
She stood straight and he too...
Both joined their hands ....

" Vivah sampann hua ...ab aap dono pati patni huye hai...jaake bado ke aashirwaad le lijiye" ( the marriage has finished..now you both are officially husband and wife now...go and take the blessings of elders)
Pandit said

Both stood up from the mandap and took blessings from elders...
Ashish's parents were also present there..
Both took blessings from them too and they blessed them wholeheartedly....

But suddenly again , niharika's eyes fell on the same girl whom she met during their engagement function..
She's looking at her at the same way she looked on that day...
Niharika frowed seeing the girl but suddenly that girl moved out .....
Niharika felt uncomfortable inside but she didn't show it ....

Soon the time to depart arrived...
Niharika took blessings from her parents..
Sangeetha and niteesh cried hugging their only daughter and she too...
She hugged rekha , bhavini and took blessings from Namish...

" Are... what's this sakhi.. you're not going anywhere...just a 15 minutes drive that's all..and you are crying....very bad"darshan saud just to lighten up the mood

" Sakha..." She rolled her eyes... everyone smiled

She sat in a well decorated car with Dheeraj...
She wiped her tears and he gave a tissue paper...
He held her hands and squeezed gently to console her..
She nodded and smiled a bit....
A girl is seen slowly stepped aback from the venue and ran through darkness...
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A boy is seen sitting in Ashish's room...
He is crying sitting in that dark room...
His eyes glistened with tears but got red with anger...
He took a small photo frame from his wardrobe..
He saw Dheeraj, niharika and Ashish's pic in it..
He suddenly threw that picture forcefully to the ground ...

" No...no..no.. niharika..I won't let to live peacefully with him....wait and watch ...how I'm going to ruin both of you and crumble your life like this " he said crumbling a red rose using his fists....

He just threw that flower away and came downstairs to see a girl about to come upstairs in darkness...
She had her mobile torch in her hands..

" Who's that " he asked

The girl lit up the torch to his face and her eyes widened...
She was about to scream..he suddenly placed his hands on her mouth..
She stared into his black brownish eyes and he into her black ones......
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Ab ayega maza...😉

Someone is ready to enter into their life and who is he...how is he related to Niharika and dheeraj...
Who is that girl and what's she doing in Ashish's house....?
Lot of questions..

Do you have any idea who he& she is...
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