HOPE

CHAPTER 3

Next morning, Anika comes downstairs with all the boxes. 

Daadi asks her:- What is all this puttar?

Anika: – Daadi here, Please give this to whom these belongs.

Daadi:- Beta, what r u saying ? These clothes & jewelleries are for elder bahu & that is u. So these belongs to u.

Anika: – Daadi as u said these are for ur elder bahu but I am not ur bahu.

Daadi is shocked & till that time everyone gathers in to the hall.

Daadi:- Puttar, how can u say that? U married my billu, u took seven holy rounds around fire with my billu than how can u not be my bahu?

Anika:- Daadi how can u say that I was the one who married him. No one saw me while in mandap.

Om:- Anika but we saw the video it is clearly u to whom Shivaay forced to marry him. Then u were the one who entered the house in bride's get up as well.

Anika: – Yes, u are right but other than u guys, who else could tell with full conviction that I was the 1 who married your bhaiya. Also, now that Shivaay announced to the media Tia as his bride, then who will believe me to be the bride that actually got married.

Shivaay:- What the hell Anika, what r u trying to do?

ANIKA: – Actually Shivaay what I want to say is that we are not married & therefore I am leaving.

Daadi:- But puttar how can u leave , u are married even if there is no one else, there is still Shivaay who knows that he married u .

Anika:- Daadi ask ur billu that whether he believes in this marriage at all because yesterday he did not thought before announcing Tia as his bride. Then for which relation should I stay?

Daadi look towards Shivaay & sees him looking down & avoiding her eyes. Now she understood that her billu did not accept Anika as his wife at all, so she had to make Anika believe in  this marriage anyhow otherwise there would be a divorce in this house first time which she does not approve of.

As daadi opens her mouth, Anika hands over papers to Shivaay.

Shivaay with a questioning eyes look towards anika-" What is this ?"

Anika:– open it & u would understand.

Shivaay opens the envelope & gets shocked to see the papers. He remembers these are the papers he & Anika signed at mandap & then he himself gave to Mishra to register. Then how does these papers got here.

Anika:- Now u see we aren't officially registered & therefore not legally married . Now this whole fiasco can come to an end.

Om takes the papers from Shivaay & read it & understood & tells all the people that these are marriage registration form but are not officially stamped. Hence, they both are not married "legally".

Anika:– Now , that all of these are solved. I will leave right away. Now, u can officially marry Tia & no one would ever know about us. The bills of ur marriage is with daadi, I hope u would pay it as soon as u can.

Anika moves towards daadi & says – Daadi u told me that marriage is pure relation & cannot be broken but daadi does marriage only means completing all the rituals. Then what about the heart & soul. If a marriage is not acceptable by heart then how could I make efforts for this relation that was forced upon me.

Also Shivaay does not & can never accept me & therefore let this be the end of a non- existent relation that was never meant to be.

Daadi, I am grateful for your help & wish u & ur family all the good things ahead. Now let me leave. 

Saying this she turns to leave & look towards Pinky & smile with eyes showing gratification. Pinky smiles & nodes towards her. Then anika leaves with smile on her face & her heart filled with hope & desire for a bright future.

At Oberoi Mansion hall, Shivaay is standing rooted to his place & is oblivious to stares of all the people present.