Mallika didn’t realize that a truck was coming from the other side and their car and the truck clashed together causing the driver’s seat’s door because of which she fell outside banging her head on a big stone ruining her face falling unconscious. Shivaay got shocked and glanced at Anika who was sleeping peacefully. He kept her head on the seat and got out of the car. ‘Mallika di,’ he called her name turning her around, her face was covered in blood, there wasn’t a single place from where her face was undamaged. ‘Oh my God, Mallika di! Di!,’ he called out worriedly.

He called ambulance and till then he placed her on the front seat that had door. He kept glancing at Anika making sure she’s asleep as she won’t be able to bear it. He was pacing here and there near the car and felt a hand on his shoulder and as he turned, the person he saw was enough to boil his blood. ‘Daksh!,’ he punched him and he collided with the car catching a glimpse of Anika and an evil thought was awakened in him. He opened the door of the car and sat inside taking Anika in his lap.
Shivaay glared at him and slapped him hard as he looked at her lustfully. ‘Don’t do anything to her, and if you do, you’ll die by my hands, I swear,’ Shivaay said. ‘Oh, achha, ab tu dekh,’ Daksh said and held her hair pulling her face close. ‘Dekh mat kar, vo jaag jayegi,’ Shivaay said. ‘Wohi to karna chahta hoon,’ he said and started kissing her wildly. ‘Daksh chhor usay, chhor day,’ he said and Anika woke up and screamed seeing Daksh. ‘Shivaay, Shivaay please help, look he’s trying to rape me again, plz let me down.’
Shivaay was trying his best and finally succeeded in freeing her and took her out of the car. She hugged him fearfully shivering badly. ‘Relax, this time you’re saved, no one can do anything to you, and this time he will be punished, no one can stop him from punishment,’ Shivaay said as she cried. ‘Daksh, I liked you when you came and proposed me, even your shadow is a burden on me now, you go away, go away from me!’, she shouted and he got angry, he held her arm and pulled her, she moved away from Shivaay.
‘What did you say? I m a burden? You think you’re a piece of gold? No, you’re trash, who is raped multiple times,’ Daksh shot back. ‘Multiple times? What do you mean?’, Shivaay asked in a shock standing before her. ‘Me and my some escort friends raped her multiple times,’ he confessed. Daksh had tied Anika in his room and called his friends to his house and they did their work and went. Daksh came back and did the same to her and she fainted due to excess of pain. He then opened her up and picked her and took her to the kitchen and burnt the remaining piece of clothes on her body and left her there. When she woke up, she ran to her room before anyone saw her like that and got dressed in white clothes. Then she hung herself from the ceiling but fortunately Tia saw her as she had run away from the washroom in which Daksh had closed her so that she can’t do anything and saved Anika from suiciding, the next day she was closed in the dark store room and was saved from there as well. Shivaay boiled in anger as he said that and fisted his palms. ‘From the night we married to the last day she was in my house, not a single day was there when she was free of these tortures, one day Tia saw her gagged and bound to bed, she went and freed her but I stopped her and pulled her out.’

‘Why? Why did you do this to her? To an innocent soul? What did you get in return? What?’, Shivaay asked holding his collars. ‘A child, I got a child in return, my dear daughter Shivika, Tia became a mother the day she was born, and I became a father,’ Daksh said with an evil smile and got a slap in return. ‘What do you think of yourself? You’re nothing, kuchh bhi nahi hai tu, samajha! Bandar kahin ka, bandar ki yeh insult hai, saalay bandar bhi tujhse achhay hongay,’ Shivaay replied enraged.
‘Think before you speak, for who are you fighting for? This trash? What will you get by saving her? Do the same to her?’, Daksh said and Shivaay punched him hard and the ambulance arrived. ‘Shivaay, ambulance,’ Anika said and he turned. ‘OMG, where’s di?,’ Anika asked worriedly and her gaze went on the front seat.
‘Mallika di!’, she shouted and fainted, Shivaay held her. ‘I will see you later, I know you have done this accident,’ Shivaay said and shifted Mallika to the ambulance and got in along with Anika and they drove off. Shivaay had tears in his eyes for the innocent soul, how can someone be so cruel? Pity. Pity to the girl who was betrayed by marriage, pity to the one who was raped so many times, pity that she had tried to suicide and got saved, pity that she no more has a peaceful life anymore.
‘Anika, I m so sorry that I couldn’t come before, so much happened but I wasn’t there to save you, I wish I was there to save you, I wish I should’ve make you run away from this marriage and marry me, now one more shock, I hope Mallika di will be able to make it,’ Shivaay said while crying to unconscious Anika. He called Karan and informed him about the accident. The ambulance stopped outside the hospital, it was of his sister’s. Mallika was brought out on stretcher and Shivaay took Anika outside. Both were admitted in the hospital.
A girl came towards her. ‘What happened Shivaay bhaiya? You here?’, she asked. ‘Actually Prinku, I wanted to shift Anika to another hospital and thought to shift her here, on the way Mallika di met with an accident and her face got damaged, seeing her Anika fainted,’ he said in a go. ‘Are they here?’, she asked pointing to the OT. ‘Yes,’ he replied and she went inside. He kept pacing here and there, just then Karan came there running. ‘Shivaay, where’s Mallika?’, he asked. ‘OT, she’s being operated, her face has been damaged,’ he said. ‘But how?’, he asked.
‘She was driving and a truck came and clashed with our car and the door broke, she fell out and her face collided with a big stone,’ he said. ‘Oh God, no matter what, I don’t want to lose her, I haven’t seen her happy in my whole life, I saw her crying and sad all the time, I wish God doesn’t takes her away, how’s Anika?’, Karan asked. ‘Not fine, she fainted,’ he replied. ‘Its high time we should take action, we should get justice for Anika,’ Karan said. ‘It will happen, but before that we will need proofs.’
‘But how?’, Karan asked and Priyanka came outside with a paper. ‘Her face is full with wounds, she will need plastic surgery, please sign these papers,’ she said handing them to Karan and he broke down. ‘Don’t think too much, I know its difficult, but you’ll need to sign fast, else operation won’t be successful,’ Priyanka tried explaining him. ‘Yes, she’s right,’ Shivaay said and Karan signed the papers. ‘I will call Shanaya so that she can take care of Anika till then, and Anika won’t even know she’s not Mallika but Shanaya, Mallika’s twin who lives with Naintara aunty,’ Shivaay said.
Karan nodded and Shivaay called Shanaya. Prinku went inside the OT. Karan sat on the bench. After a long surgery, Prinku came out. ‘Congratulations, operation is successful, you can meet her after we shift her to the ward,’ she said and she was brought outside the OT, her whole face was covered with bandages. After two hours, her bandages were removed and she became conscious. ‘Thank God you’re OK,’ he said and cupped her face. ‘Who are you?’, she asked and he looked at Shivaay. ‘Don’t you remember me? I am your Karan, whom you married, remember?’
‘I didn’t marry anyone, and where’s my chhoti, she might be crying, how did this accident happen? And where’s Anika?’, she asked. ‘She will come,’ Shivaay said and got a call and excused himself. ‘Hallo…yes Shanaya, you have reached the right place, meet me outside OT…then I will tell you where’s Anika,’ he said and the call got disconnected. He felt a tap on his shoulder and he turned around. There stood a familiar face, she was identical twin of Mallika who was the best friend of Mallika as well. As their father shifted outside India, he took her as well as he couldn’t stay without them and Mallika stayed with her mother.
Anika wasn’t born at that time. ‘Shanaya, thank God you came,’ he said and narrated everything to her. ‘Now she thinks Mallika is injured and she doesn’t knows you and Mallika di were twins, you tie a bandage so she doesn’t have doubt, don’t tell anything right now, just go there as Mallika,’ he instructed and gave her bandage, she tied it around her head and he guided her to Anika’s room. He went as she went inside. Shanaya saw Anika laying with closed eyes.
Her face was full of tears as she was crying in sleep. She caressed her hair. ‘Chhoti, didi agai, tumse milnay, ro mat,’ she said in a comforting tone and she opened her eyes. Shanaya smiled and kissed her forehead. She sat up and hugged her. ‘Main bohat darr gai thi, Daksh aya tha, usne phir se wohi harkat karnay ki koshish ki, Shivaay ne bachaya, thank God you’re fine,’ she said crying on her shoulder and even Shanaya had tears. ‘I won’t die so soon, now stop crying,’ she said and wiped her tears. ‘Take rest,’ she said and made her lay again.

As soon as she slept, Shanaya started crying. ‘I m sorry chhoti, I m not Mallika,’ she said and cried. ‘I want to go and meet chhoti, call her na,’ Mallika insisted. ‘Please handle her, can’t take her there,’ Shivaay whispered. ‘Mallika, please, Anika will come, you rest,’ Karan said. ‘You’re no one to say all this,’ she argued. ‘We will make you meet her but sometime later, right now you rest,’ Shivaay said. ‘Promise na Shivaay?’, she asked. ‘Promise,’ he said and time passed by. Anika woke up and Shanaya made her eat. ‘Di enough na.’
Anika and Shanaya were having a fight, Anika didn’t want to eat more but Shanaya was adamant to make her eat. ‘Last, for me,’ she said and Anika swallowed somehow. ‘Now no more ha, paitu full,’ Anika said and she laughed. ‘OK no more,’ she said and they heard the door click open and turned. Karan, Mallika and Shivaay entered. Mallika was shocked to see Shanaya and they had a hug. ‘Di whose she?’, Anika asked leaving Mallika shocked, she couldn’t recognize her due to her changed face. ‘Umm, she’s my friend, Mahi, hi, meet Anika, my chhoti,’ she said.
‘Hi,’ Mallika said and smiled brightly. Anika forwarded her hand for handshake and she shook her hand with hers. She sensed dearness holding her hand. ‘Have we met somewhere before?’, Anika asked. ‘No,’ Mallika replied painfully. ‘Friends?’, Anika asked. She hmmed. As Mallika turned, her gaze went on the wall mirror and her eyes grew wide in shock. She couldn’t believe her eyes, her face had changed so much. She touched her face and got teary eyed and excused herself. Karan went after her. ‘Mallika, we didn’t got a chance to tell you,’ Karan said. ‘My face, its so changed, that’s why she didn’t recognize me,’ she said crying her heart out. ‘Everything will be OK, don’t worry,’ he assured and she embraced him unknowingly.
(Mallika after Plastic Surgery: Shiny Doshi)