A Wait for Dawn

Chapter 13 B

Outside the changing room, Payal pumped her fist in air saying "Yes" happily. She was happy seeing her plan working. Manorama chuckled seeing her daughter in law's antics. But she was also happy as their plan worked. Smiling at each other, both of them remembered what happened.

Flashback

In the morning, when Payal peeped inside Arav's changing room, she heard Anjali, Sheetal and Arav planning to ruin Arsh's costume to make Arav win. After they went away, a plan formed in Payal's mind.

She went away from there. After kid's second performance, when Arav went to stage for cinematic dance competition, she sneaked into Arav's changing room and took Arav's fancy dress competition costume.

Manorama who came there to drink water, saw Payal sneaking inside Arav's changing room and taking something. Knowing that Payal won't do something wrong, she didn't say anything and silently watched what she was doing without alerting Payal of her presence.

She was confused seeing Payal taking Arav's fancy dress competition costume. But still she stayed hidden silently. Payal was about to exit the changing room with Arav's costume, when both Payal and Manorama saw Anjali coming that way.

Seeing her, both of them were shocked. Payal was sure that she was going to get caught. But Manorama came to her rescue. She distracted Anjali and helped Payal escape with the costume. After Anjali went away, Manorama confronted Payal who disclosed what she heard in morning and what her plan was.

Manorama also got angry on Anjali hearing about her dirty tricks. She offered to help Payal. Though Payal was reluctant, she agreed to take Manorama's help. Both then went to implement Payal's plan.

When all went to see kid's performance, they went to Babies's changing room and kept Arav's costumes in the place of Arsh's costumes. To make sure that Anjali and Sheetal ruin that dress itself, they kept it in an easily accessible place and even marked it as fancy dress competition. They then hid all other costumes of Babies to be double sure.

After performance, all Raizadas and Guptas went to have lunch straightaway from stage. It helped Payal and Manorama in their plan. As they expected, Anjali and Sheetal sneaked in at that time to ruin Arsh's costumes. Like they wanted, they only saw Arav's dress they kept there and ruined the dress without thinking anything and went away.

After Anjali and Sheetal went away to have to lunch. Payal and Manorama went to Babies's changing room. They took all dresses of Babies which hid and kept it in their respective place. And taking Arav's ruined costume, they went to Arav's changing room and placed it back from where Payal took it. They then went to have their own food.

After lunch, Raizadas and Guptas came back. They started getting kids ready without knowing anything. Anjali, Sheetal and Arav also went to stage directly to witness the success of their plan not knowing about the trick played on them.

Flashback ends.

Payal and Manorama were happy that their plan worked and Anjali, Sheetal and Arav couldn't harm Babies. They didn't wanted to ruin Arav's costumes but they didn't had any other choice. The evil trio didn't left them with no other choice. They went away as their work finished.

After five minutes, teacher came to call Arav. But seeing him not ready, she got angry and left after cutting his marks. Soon the results were announced. Since all students were performing, they were only given marks. No first, second and all. Arsh, Arush and Arshi got full marks along with few other kids. Other students also got marks according to their performance.

Next was the play. Everyone was excited for it. Arsh, Arush and Arshi got ready in the dresses designed by their mother. They kept the dresses designed by their father for the next section. Arav was also participating. After losing Prince's role, Arav got the role of evil magician (villain) due to Anjali's intervention as she promised teacher that Arav will perform well.