Anika thought her marriage would be an end to a nightmare, But never expected it would be the beginning of her beautiful dream which never ends. It has been three years since they got married, It's still a beautiful dream. Shivaay took her to London as soon as they got married to introduce her to his grandmother and his uncle and aunty, His dadi was very happy but his uncle and aunt didn't look impressed especially after asking her about her family, But shivaay didn't give her a chance to worry. But stayed as her support, But she always feels like he keeps some secret away from her. But never opened it up to her. She wondered how her small wish of visiting the haunted haveli came along with her beautiful life. 

"Hey, What are you doing?" - He asked her while she was thinking about her life in these three years. She shifted her gaze to him who was leaning on the door looking at her for a long time. 

"Nothing. Just thinking of some beautiful names for our future daughter/son." - She said while caressing her baby bump. He walked towards her and jumped to the bed next to her. 

"Don't waste your time, I already decided the name for my daughter." - He said while kissing her baby bump which brought a smile in her face. She smilingly nodded and started to draft some papers next to her and moved towards the study table opposite the bed. Shivaay saw her writing since she got pregnant with her child. He asked her about that, But she didn't say anything to him and asked him not to ask anything about it at the early stage. And also, He never tried to read it.

"Am I now allowed to ask? What are you writing for 6 months?" - He asked her while staying in the bed. She attached the rest of the papers in a file and brought the rest of the file to him. He was confused. 

"Read" - She said to him. He confusingly opened the file and started to read. It was their story, their previous birth story, He was shell-shocked when he read the prologue of that story, He raised his head and faced her in shock. But she asked him to read the rest while she held his arms and rested her head on his shoulder and read with him again. 

"I don't know whether thakurayan and her friend got happ ever after for real but here in my story, they will definitely get their happily ever after but I got stuck in the middle. Just finished their childhood part, Don't know what to write in their teen stage." - She said in a low tone raising her head facing him while he finishes reading all the pages filed there. 

"Leave that to me, I will complete it." - Shivaay said with a smile. She loosened up her grip in his forearm and faced him. 

"But you're busy! How could you spare your time in finishing this story? I want it to be finished before the baby's birth." - Anika said in a slight low tone. 

"We have three months for that. Till then, Leave it to me. I will complete it and you do the proofread." - Shivaay said while intertwining her hand with her, In the corner of his heart, He was relaxed, That she didn't remember anything. 

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AFTER 3 MONTHS. 

"Just three centimetres dilated? How long we have to wait? My wife is getting tired!" Shivaay asked the doctor in a worried tone while holding anika's hand for support. She started getting her contradictions but didn't go to labour yet. 

"It's paining a lot!" - Anika started to murmur when she couldn't tolerate the pain, Shivaay couldn't do anything. He felt so helpless and on the other hand, he felt mean, If the baby has fifty-fifty per cent of genes from both of their parents, Then why the mother should go through these kinds of pain alone. Even the pain should be fifty-fifty per cent. 

"Stay strong, Dear. I am there. Next to you." - He said and held her hand tightly, Doctor asked them to wait overnight while anika's contradiction is monitored through the LCD screen next to her bed. But whenever a strong contradiction hit her, She held his palm tightly and released when she becomes alright. He decreased the temperature when she finally relaxed herself to sleep. But he stayed awake throughout the night looking at her face, All he wanted was she and baby should be fine and healthy. He kissed her forehead. 

"Everything will be fine, dear." - He said and the monitor screen showed a sign of contradiction, And she was all awake. 

"It's okay, Dear!" - He caressed her face when the tears crossed her eyes. 

"It's too paining!" - She again cried to him, This time his eyes welled up looking at her. 

"Anika, Remember about you story! I finished, Do you want to hear it? I can read it for you," - He said, A smile appeared in her face listening to him. He was relaxed to see the smile in her face after a long time. She was surprised when he started to narrate it from the start. She could clearly see the scene in front of her eyes when he was narrating the whole story. From the moment, Thakuraiyan stopped her husband from shooting shivaay and their friendship. Shivaay's protectiveness to her, In this story, Anika wasn't physically assaulted by her husband but shivaay narrated it as he has a serious affair with his sister-in-law and always didn't care about anika. He almost edited every single misery from her past and also wrote like Anika has been waiting for shivaay till he comes back from her studies, And they have their babies in a new city and happily lived ever after.

When he was narrating the whole story, Anika has gone through her labour but he didn't stop narrating the story, His story and the way he narrated the story kept her away from the pain she was going through, She felt so refreshing and felt like newly born. She starting living the story. 

"Ahh..." - Anika screamed in pain when she gathered all the left out energy and pushed. Shivaay couldn't believe his own stars when he heard his baby's weeping and the nurse handed the baby to anika, First. Shivaay was standing next to her, Still couldn't believe that their baby is finally here with them. He touched her little palms and rosy feet to make sure he was not dreaming, He could actually feel them. 

"My god!" He exclaimed looking at Anika who held the baby in her breast, Skin to skin. 

"A girl." - Anika exclaimed in happiness, She was in cloud nine, The tears never took the name of stopping. She cried looking at her baby again and again holding her close to her. Shivaay kissed her head and hugged her from the side holding their daughter on the other hand. 

"Name?" - She asked him when she finally went back to her senses. 

"Shivaani..." - Words escaped from his mouth while kissing his daughter's feet. 

"I am asking in the story, What did they name their baby?" - Anika asked him. He chuckled. 

"Same. Shivaani..." - He replied with a smile. Anika was still confused about the smile, But she never knew that this confusion will stay with her lifelong and he never going to open up the real story with her. 

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