The bus reaches near a valley… It stops….
The bus stops here daily for 20 minutes…
Everyone gets down….
There was a pipe… Rhea opens the tap and washes her face…
After washing her face, she closes the tap and looks around…
The sight was beautiful…
Suddenly, her eye caught the sight of a woman and two little boys…
She looked at them..
She heard the woman saying…
Woman: stay here, I will get tea…
The woman leaves…
Boy 1 took the toy boy 2 was having…
Boy 2:”This is my toy…”
Boy 1: No… This is mine… Appa gave it to me first…
Boy 2: But when Appa gave it to you, you told you don’t want it and gave it to me… Why are you taking this from me?”
Boy 1:”No… I want this toy now…”
Boy 2: Give it back to me…
Boy 1: no…
Saying this, boy 1 hits the boy and pushes him…
Boy 2’s hand starts to bleed…
Boy 2 cries…
Boy 2: I will tell Amma about you… I will complain…
The boy runs towards his mother…
Boy 1 looked tensed…
Suddenly his face glows up as if he got some idea….
He bites his own hand hard that the print of his teeth came on his hand and it was about to bleed…
Boy 2 and mother comes near Boy 1
Mother: Vijay, did you push Appu?
Vijay looks down…
Mother: Why did you do like that? Look he is hurt… His hands are bleeding…
Vijay shows his hand where he had bit himself…
Mother: what happened?
Vijay: I asked him to give the toy for playing for sometime… He bit me for that… When I couldn’t control the pain, I pushed him…
Mother looks at Vijay with a sorry expression…
Mother: Appu, why did you bite anna?
Appu: Amma, he is lying… I didn’t do that…
Mother: now you are telling lies too??
Appu: no Amma…
Mother: he is elder than you and you are hurting him??
“Excuse me..”
The woman turns to see Prachi…
Mother: yes…
Prachi: I saw everything that happened… it was he who snatched the toy from him and pushed him… When he came to call you, he bit himself…
Mother: is this true Vijay??
Vijay looks down…
Prachi: Vijay… You did three mistakes… At first, you snatched his thing… You could have asked him… Secondly, you hurt him and then you lied… You are a kid… Be nice to your siblings…
Pragya: PRACHI… RHEA…
Prhea turns…
Pragya: come… The bus will leave…
Prhea: okay…
Prachi: remember what I said… Be good children…
They leave from there…
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Aaryan reaches home… He goes to his room…
Whatever happened today flashes through his mind…
The Mehras leaving for Hyderabad… Him calling Shahana… Getting locked in the storeroom… Getting old albums… Shahana’s accident… Meeting Disha…
He opens the drawer where he had kept the album….
He goes to daadi’s room…
Aaryan: Daadi…
Daadi: haa beta… Come…
Aaryan enters the room…
Daadi: what happened??
Aaryan opens the album and shows the photo to her…
Daadi gets shocked…
Aaryan: Who are they daadi?? So mom isn’t dad’s first wife??
Daadi doesn’t respond…
Aaryan: tell me daadi.. there are many things that I don’t know about our family… I want to know…
Daadi: I think the time has arrived for you to learn the truth…
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Rhea was thinking about what she had seen…
What the boys were doing and Prachi’s advice for them…
When dad gave it to you… You have it to me…
You did three mistakes- tried to snatch his things, hurt him and lied…
These words lingered in her mind…
Rhea(in mind): What the boy did was wrong… But, even I am doing the same thing… Ranbir proposed me first, I sent him to Prachi… I hurted Prachi in many ways… But always played the victim card… Am I wrong??
No no no… Prachi is wrong… She snatched my Ranbir from me… She snatched my mom, my dad and now, my Ranbir… MY Ranbir…
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Sarita aunty: What happened dear? What are you thinking?
Disha: I will tell you…
Disha (in mind): if my guess is right, then Shahana’s life is in danger… I will take her to Mumbai once she gets concious…
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Aaryan: Tell me… Daadi… I know there are many secrets here that I don’t know… I don’t know about my own family!!?? What is this… Please tell me…
Daadi takes a deep breath…
Daadi: Tell me… What do you want to know?
Aaryan: Who are these ladies? Who is Sunny? My mom isn’t dad’s first wife?
Daadi takes the album from Aaryan’s hand…
She looks at Bulbul and Purab’s marriage photo… She becomes emotional…
Daadi: She(pointing towards Bulbul) is Bulbul… Pragya’s younger sister… She is Purab’s first wife. . They were in love with each other…. But…
Daadi sighs…
Daadi: But… She died… The chandlier fell on her and she left everyone…
There is a moment of silence…
Daadi turns the pages of album…
Daadi: She (pointing towards Disha) is Disha… She was to Pragya what Shahana is to Prachi… They were not blood related… But more than that… Their hearts were related… Purab was totally shattered after Bulbul’s death… It is Disha who brought him back… Made him laugh again… They got married and had a son… That son is Sunny…
Aaryan gets shocked…
Aaryan: I have a brother too?
Daadi nods her head…
Aaryan: What happened then? Why did they leave?
Daadi: I don’t know that… They had a fight and Disha left taking Sunny with her…
Daadi starts crying…
Aaryan tries to calm her down…
Daadi: This family got separated from three children then… First Kiara… Then Pragya left taking Prachi alongwith her… And Disha with Sunny… Prachi is back… But my other two children….
Aaryan calms her down…
After some time…
Aaryan: Then how did mom and dad get married?
Daadi: Two of his wife got separated from him… So Abhi suggested him to get married to Aaliya… They good married and..
Aaryan: … I was born…
Daadi: hmmm…