CHAPTER 78
Ranveer stops the car at an apartment… They get down from the car…
Ishu: Why we are here, Ranveer??
Ranveer: My old house is here, Ishu… I need to take few things from there… You stay here with Om while me and Priyanka will go and bring the things… Ok?? (Ishana nods and PriVeer leave from there)
Om: Ishana, let us wait for them inside the car… (Opens the backdoor… Ishana agrees and get in the car followed by him… Omkara holds her hand and looks at her sadly… She looks at him confusingly…) Ishana, will you listen to me if I say something??
Ishu: Of course I will listen to you… You can say it without hesitation…
Om: Ok… Whatever you are going to see or face in a while, you should not break down or become weak…
Ishu: (confused) What?? I don’t understand… What are you saying??
Om: No, Ishana… I don’t have the courage to say it to you… But, you have to do it… Please, Ishana… (She feels bad looking at him pleading at her…)
Ishu: (holds his hand) Ok… I promise that I won’t fall weak or break down… Hmm?? (Omkara smiles sadly at her)
Ranveer’s House
PriVeer enter the house and walk towards his room… Ranveer opens the door of his cupboard and takes a bag… He cries looking at it… Priyanka hugs his shoulder…
Prinku: You only said that these things need to be removed from Ishu bhabhi’s life… Now, you yourself are falling weak… How we will be her support if you break down like this??
Ranveer: No, Priyanka… I recall the time she handed over these things to me… That moment is still fresh in my mind… You know something?? My heart hurts more than my sister’s death that time… (He takes out ‘thaali’ from the bag) This is her mangalsutra which Dev wear for her that day… I still remember this rope… It is dried now but that day it was wet because of the turmeric paste… She cried saying the paste is still not dry but he left her forever… Do you know how I felt that time?? (Priyanka’s eyes are filled with tears listening to him… She just hugs him consoling him…) Now, I’m going to give these things back to her and ask her to eliminate these from her life… That’s why I still keeping them with me… I hope she will listen to me…
Prinku: Don’t worry… We will convince her… She will understand… Let’s go now… They must be waiting for us… (PriVeer leave from the house)
At the car
IshKara are waiting for PriVeer…
Ishu: Why they didn’t come yet??
Om: (smiles) They must be on the way now… (Turns and sees PriVeer coming towards them with a bag) They are here ready…
Ishana turns towards them and smiles… Her eyes caught the bag on Ranveer’s hand and she knows what bag is that… She looks at Omkara who is also having tears in his eyes… She understands why he said like that just now but she confused why PriVeer are bringing that bag… IshKara get down from the car… PriVeer go towards them…
Ishu: (pointing towards the bag) Ranveer, why do you bring this bag??
Ranveer: This is the time to let Dev’s soul to rest in peace… You have to remove these things from your life, Ishu… That’s why we brought you with us… (Ishana closed her eyes and her tears drop from her eyes… She recalls her marriage with Dev…) Please, Ishu… Don’t refuse us… You have to do it…
Prinku: Bhabhi, we know how you are feeling right now?? But, you have to do it, bhabhi… For Dev’s peace and for your future… Please, bhabhi… (Ishana doesn’t say anything and just cries… Omkara feels bad looking at her…)
Om: If she doesn’t want to do it, then it’s fine… We don’t need to force her… She will do it when she feels to do it… Ranveer, keep this back at your house… (Ranveer nods and about to return to his house but stops hearing Ishana’s voice)
Ishu: I’ll do it… (The trio look at her and she just nods at them) I’ll do it…
Om: Are you sure, Ishana?? You don’t have to force yourself…
Ishu: No, I’m not forcing myself… I will do it… I need to remove the burden from Ranveer as well… How long he will keep these with him?? I need to free him too… (Ranveer hugs her… Omkara just pats his back… They leave after a while… Omkara asks Priyanka to sit in front, while he sits with Ishana at the back seat… He hugs Ishana’s arm while she lies on his shoulder and closes her eyes)
RAICHAND MANSION
The guys tell the girls what they talked with OmVeer just now…
Swet: Ranveer still keeping those things with him… That’s really sweet of him…
Nivi: I never thought Ranveer who love to pull our legs is having pain hidden inside his heart…
Tia: Just to keep his promise towards Ishu baby and our happiness, he hides everything from us…
Mithra: Now, he too will be free from this pain… Ishu is going to get married to Omkara… His main goal is going to be achieved soon… (Karan side hugs Mithra)
Madhu: Exactly!! Ishu too accepted her love for him… (Thinks something) Why you all didn’t go with them??
Arjun: We wanted to follow them but Ranveer refused us…
Sid: Yeah… He said we won’t be able to withstand our emotions if we saw those things… That will weaken our Ishu…
Karthik: That’s why he took OmPri with them…
Dush: Om will be Ishu’s support and Priyanka will be Ranveer’s support…
Raghav: Exactly… I just hope everything goes fine… I don’t want Ishu to be broken again…
Karan: That won’t happen… Om is there for her… He won’t let our Ishu to fall apart… (All smile nodding their head)
Inside the car
Ishana fall asleep lying on Omkara’s arm… She feels someone caressing her face… She opens her eyes and surprised to see Dev beside her…
Ishu: Dev!!
Dev: (smiles and nods at her) Yes, Ishana… Dev… (Ishana’s eyes are welled with tears looking at him) What happened, Ishana?? You are feeling guilty that you are going to throw those things away from your life?? (Ishana nods her head sadly… Dev cups her face) Don’t feel like that… You are doing correct only… Actually, you supposed to do it earlier itself… But, you are doing it now… You have to do it, Ishana… Then only my soul will rest in peace… In these years, I’m not in peace for a single day thinking of your life… I always pray that you should get back the happiness that you deserve… I felt guilty for making your life miserable… I wanted to soothe your pain by marrying you but I myself become the reason in increasing your pain… I want to give back your happiness to you but I don’t know how… And, that is the time when Omkara entered into your life… The moment I saw the effect you both are having for each other, I understand that you both will be perfect together… He is in the same pain as you and you both will become the healer for both of you… Ishana, I’m very happy that you found your love again… Your heart knows how much you love him… If you want to continue your life with him, you must throw all my remembrance from your life especially those wedding stuffs… I know it’s very hard for you but you have to do it for yourself and Omkara… That doesn’t mean you forgotten your love for me… I know my Ishana will love me forever… My place in your heart will remain the same… But, Omkara made a new place in your heart… Both of you need happiness in your lives… Another soul is desperately wants to see his happiness… Both of your happiness are important for us… (Kisses her forehead and disappears from there)
Ishu: (wakes up in jerk) Dev!! (OmPriVeer are surprised to hear her shout… Ranveer stops the car and looks at her)
Om: What happened, Ishana?? (In a worried voice)
Ishu: Nothing… Just a dream… (Ranveer takes a water bottle and gives to Omkara… He makes her to drink the water… Priyanka rubs her back calming her down…) I’m fine now… Thank you… Ranveer, you continue your driving… (Ranveer nods and continue his drive… Priyanka too turns in front…)
Om: Did you dream about Dev??
Ishu: (looks at him in surprise) How do you know??
Om: You shouted his name just now… (She looks down guiltily… Omkara pulls her chin up) You don’t have to feel bad… I can understand… Hmm?? (Ishana smiles at him… He hugs her arm again… PriVeer smile at each other looking at them)
Ranveer stops the car nearby a river and ask them to get down…
Ranveer: Ishu, you… (Ishana stops him)
Ishu: I know what to do, Ranveer… Give me the bag… (Ranveer nods and gives her the bag… Ishana takes out the things from the bag which are related with her wedding with Dev… Tears started to make their way out from her eyes seeing all those things… OmPriVeer too feel bad looking at the things and her… They wipe their tears and pretend to be strong in front of her…)
Ishana controls herself and takes those stuffs towards the river… OmPriVeer too go with her… She thinks something and stops a while…
Ranveer: What happened, Ishu??
Ishu: Ranveer, hold these for a while… (Ranveer holds them… Ishana takes out the jewelleries and gives to Priyanka) Priyanka, keep them with you for a while… (Priyanka takes them and looks at OmVeer confusingly… Ishana takes her mangalsutra and tries to take out the gold sacred pendant from the string… She feels hard to take it out because it is tied strongly… Omkara helps her and they manage to take the pendant out from the string and she gives it to Priyanka as well…) Keep this too…
Ranveer is about to say something to Ishana but Omkara stops him… Ishana continue walks towards the river… Three of them follow her from behind…
Ranveer: Why she took the jewelleries and her mangalsutra?? Why she doesn’t dispose these as well??
Om: Maybe, she wants to keep some of his memories… It’s ok, Ranveer… Let her do what she wants…
Prinku: But, bhaiya, if she wants to keep something as his remembrance, she won’t take these jewelleries… She could have taken anything else…
Ranveer: Yeah… Priyanka is right… Ishu doesn’t like jewelleries…
Om: (thinks something) Ok… We will talk later… Let’s go to her… (They walk towards her who is looking at the river and the sky… They stand beside her…)
Ishu: (looking up towards the sky) Dev, you can rest in peace now… You don’t have to worry about me anymore… I’m going to move on in my life as you wished… But, my love for you will remain the same… (PriVeer look at Omkara while he just smiles proudly looking at Ishana) I’m going to dispose all of your remembrances from my life… But, you will always stay in my memory and heart…
She wipes her tears and steps into the river with the bag… OmPriVeer too follow her… Ishana stumbles because of the torrent water flow but Omkara holds her… She smiles thanking him… Ishana takes out the things from the bag and puts them inside the water… She just sees the water drifting away those things until it disappears from their sight… Omkara understand her inner turmoil and he just hugs her… Four of them leave from there…
Ishu: Ranveer, drive to orphanage… (Ranveer nods and drives to an orphanage)
HAPPY HOME ORPHANAGE
IshKara and PriVeer reach there… OmVeer take out the boxes from the bonnet and four of them walk towards the orphanage… They meet a lady in her mid 40’s who is in charge of the orphanage and hand over the boxes to her…
Lady: Thank you very much, Mr Oberoi for your generosity… These means a lot for us…
Om: You are welcome, madam… Actually, we are only having adults clothes at our house… We don’t have any kids clothes… We saw a lot of children are here and these clothes will be too big for them…
Lady: (smiles) That’s ok, Mr Oberoi… Don’t worry… I know a centre which is specifically for the abandoned young girls… I will give these clothes to them…
Om: Thank you… We are leaving now… (About to move but stops hearing Ishana’s voice)
Ishu: One minute… (All look at her while she looks at Priyanka) Priyanka, can you give me the jewels that I gave just now??
Prinku: Haww!! I kept them in the car…
Ishu: Ranveer, can you get them for me??
Ranveer: (confused) Sure… I’ll go and get them… (Leaves to the car while OmPri look each other confusingly)
Ranveer returns with the jewels and give them to Ishana… Ishana takes them and give to the lady… The lady looks at her confusingly including OmPriVeer…
Lady: Mam, these jewels….
Ishu: My late husband bought for me for our wedding… But, our fate didn’t let us to be together… (The lady feels bad towards her)
Lady: I’m sorry, mam…
Ishu: That’s ok… I don’t need these jewelleries anymore… Sell them and use the money for these children here… They need these more than me… (OmPriVeer look at her proudly)
Lady: But, mam, you can keep them as your late husband’s memories… Why are you giving here??
Ishu: His memories are always in my heart… I don’t need these to remember him… (Looking at OmPriVeer and back to the lady) Not only his organs, I don’t want his efforts to go waste too… I know how much he has struggled to achieve his success… That’s why I didn’t dispose these with other things just now… (Looks at OmPriVeer) Am I wrong?? (Ranveer hugs her with tear filled eyes)
Ranveer: No, Ishu… You are not wrong… And you won’t do any wrong… Our Ishu is simply unique… (Kisses her forehead)
Prinku: Exactly, bhabhi… Like Rudra bhaiya said, no one can be like my Ishana bhabhi… It’s hundred percent true… (Hugs Ishana too… Omkara and the lady just smile looking at them…)
Lady: You have a great heart, mam… The God’s blessings will always be with you… He will definitely show you a way to reach your happiness…
Prinku: Actually, mam, he already shown the way for her… Oops!!! I mean for them… (Signing towards IshKara)
Lady: You mean….???
Om: Yes… We both are going to get married soon… (Hugs Ishana’s shoulder… The lady smiles at them)
Lady: That’s really good… You both are looking perfect together… (IshKara smile and bend to take her blessings) May God bless you both… (Placing her hand on their heads… IshKara straighten themselves…) You both will lead a happy life…
IshKara: Thank you… (Ishana looks at PriVeer and turns back to the lady)
Ishu: Madam, both of them are getting married too…
Lady: Aww!! That’s great… (PriVeer smile and take her blessings as well)
Om: Ok, madam… We will be leaving now… You can call me if you need anything… (The lady nods and four them leave from there)
Four of them are walking towards the car… PriVeer are walking in front while IshKara behind them… Omkara holds Ishana’s hand and entwined his fingers with hers… Ishana looks at him and raises her eyebrows but he just shakes his head gently… They continue to walk holding each other hands… Omkara feels something on her finger and takes her hand… He looks at the ring on her finger… Ishana too looks at it…
Ishu: Oh, no!! I forgot to give this ring as well… I’ll go and give it… (About to go but Omkara holds her hand)
Om: This ring…..??
Ishu: My engagement ring… I should not keep this too…
Om: Give the ring to me… I’ll keep it with me… (Ishana looks at him questioningly) I want to have his remembrance too…
Ishu: Why??
Om: You are wearing this ring these years because you feel it is giving you strength in yourself… You feel Dev is with you… (Ishana looks at him in surprise… Omkara just smiles…) You are surprised how I know it, right?? (Ishana nods) Because, I too felt the same by wearing this ring… (Showing his ring which is on his finger) This ring gifted by Gauri for my birthday… I felt she is with me whenever I saw this ring… That’s why I didn’t take it out after she died…
Ishu: Ok… But, why do you want this ring??
Om: Because I want Dev’s strength to stay with us always… Not only his, Gauri’s as well… You don’t have anything belongs to him… At least, let me keep this ring with me… Will you give it to me?? (Ishana smiles and about to take out the ring but Omkara stops her) Not now, Ishana… When the time comes, I will remove it from your finger… Till then, you don’t have to take it out… Hmm?? (Holds her face)
Ishu: (nods) Hmmm… (Both of them smile)
PriVeer reach the car and turn to see IshKara who lost in each others smile…
Prinku: Should we wait for them??
Ranveer: I don’t mind but it’s already very late now… All must be waiting for us… So….
Prinku: So…..??? (Ranveer smirks and press the car horn making IshKara come out from their trances… They see PriVeer already reach the car… They too go towards them and leave from there)
Precap: Shivaay is feeling guilty… IshKara to go for dinner… Annika is not well…