BEST FRIENDS

Chapter 62

As soon as four of them sit Ap and sumi starts firing question.
'So did they already know when you kids reached there???' Sumi asks and everyone nods.
'How did they react???' Ap asks and you can clearly hear insecurities in her voice of losing her son again.
Ragini sees Laksh and Sanskar flinching remembering the reaction.
'They reacted pretty well. Initially they were furious as Sanskar hid the truth but later they understood .....' Ragini trails off looking at Swara for help because only Swara was there with them after Mr. Mathur has slapped Sanskar. Swara takes a deep breath and starts telling them how they reactes, then blamed themselves that both of them did not try their best to find Sanksar's real parents then how she asked them to not blame themselves then hoe she proposed them to come and live in Kolkata so Sanskar could be near to both of his family and how they did not agree in starting but how they agreed later and then only Swara realizes that she has said about Mathur's arrival and looks at ragsanlak to help them but all 3 were busy looking at their plate and playing with their food. Traitors!!!!

'So Mathurs are in Kolkata???' Dp asks them in a cold tone that means no beating around the bush and direct answer.
All of them nod.
'That is what you guys were doing were doing for this long??? Wrapping their things and work up so they could settle here' Dp again asks in same tone and all of them nod again.
'You all have done your lunch. Go back to your room and don't come downstairs till one of us call you kids' Sumi orders in a no nonsense tone and everyone quickly scurries away, eager to run from the situation.

'That was epic!!!! Oh my god shona, you did it!!!!' Laksh exclaims and hugs Swara. 'You are the bravest one my sweet lado, none has dared to initiate the explanation but you' Laksh hugs her tightly and kisses her on cheek.
'Oh guys go get a room' Sanskar groans and throws a pillow at them but they just dodge it off laughing like maniac.
'Idiot we are in a "room" so you are not allowed to complain' Ragini says and kisses Laksh on corner of mouth just to piss Swasan off.
'Guys we have a serious issue to handle and you both are busy in PDA!!!' Swara exclaims and then only everyone notices her face gone all white as if she has seen some ghost, her fingers trembling and sweat forming on her forehead.
'Shona, what happened??? Why are you suddenly so pale???' Ragini asks and comes to Swara, helps her in sitting then gives her glass of water but Swara refuses it.
'Guys I just told them that about Mathurs arrival' Swara says in a tone that she can't even believe that she did it by herself.
'Yeah you did shona, that was kind of daring I tell you' Sanskar sits beside her and gives her a side hug.
'Yeah daring for you all but you all did not notice what I told them!!! I told them that I convinced Mathurs to come here, I did!!!!' Swara exclaims and everyone scrunch their nose in confusion.
'I don't understand!!!' Ragini huffs and shakes her head to understand why Swara is so scared.
'Don't you all know how much maa and Dp uncle hates it when we kids do something on our own and that too without telling them' Swara says and then everything comes in place for rest of them.
'Yeah I do remember when I informed maa that I will never dance professionally anymore she has given me her famous lecture that "I won't stop you but still you should have told me" and then silent treatment for 4 days' Ragini says and pouts as she is still feeling the hurt on Sumi's face.
'That was, when the decision was related to you. This time it is related to all of them so think about the hours of lecture and the days of silent treatment!!!!!!! Oh god I am royally screwed!!!!' Swara again exclaims and Laksh looks at her in a horrified face.
'Girls aunty will just lecture you but dad will kill me' Laksh frowns thinking about his punishment.
'Now that is an exaggeration!!!' Sanskar says thinking that all of them has gone mad.
'No topper you should have seen his punishment last time. Uncle cut his pocket money off for one month, he was grounded for one month then he got to do cleaning of whole house and gardening for one whole month and that too everyday' Ragini says trying to make sanskar understand that when their parents can punish them or lecture them so heavily for such small decisions then what will they do this time when they have taken such a big decision and did not even inform them. After all this decision is going to increase his parents' insecurities. They have found him just now and may be their decision will make them lose him. Although Sanskar has promised to balance both of his parents but they all know that Sanskar's number one priorities are Mathurs. The shine which Sanskar's eyes are having now were not there when he found out about being Maheshwaris his family. And every time their parents will realize that Sanskar is giving more importance to Mathurs than Dp and Ap, they will be disappointed of their kids.
'Oh that was not something big. I will do the works in punishment for all of you' Sanskar says and just shakes his hand thinking their friends has gone mad. But how all three should made him understand that they are not worried about shouting neither are they scared of punishment, they are scared to see that disapproving look on their parents' faces. The look which says thousand times more than words that their parents are disappointed on them. Their parents has never stopped them from doing anything but when they do not inform their parents, their faces fell as if they can't believe that their own kids did not tell them. They think as if they have left something in nurturing them that is why kids can't believe them enough to share their secrets and this time their decision is going to affect their parents.

'I don't even know what to say or what to do!!!' Ap says and Sumi hugs her. 'I thought I will give enough love to our Ansh and he would accept me as his mother and this family as his family again but all things just fell down'.
'We can't keep him away from his other family Ap. He can never forget them, he has spent such an important part of his life with them'
'Then what should we do???'Shekhar asks Dp, wanting to know what is going on his mind.
'We will accept Sanskar's decision. He wants his both family near him then we won't stop him' Dp tells his thoughts.
'I agree to him on this' Dada ji says and paths Dp's shoulder in pride.
'But how you both will manage with this arrangement' Sumi asks Dp and Ap.
'If Sanksar is happy with this then we manager' Ap answers but Sumi knows better. Ap won't be able to see her own son treating someone else as his mother. Sumi can easily guess this is going to create problem in future.
'But this was not the decision kids should take. They should have asked us' Dp says in a final tone and everyone agrees.
'We should invite them for dinner tonight' Dada says 'we can't be hostile to them'.

'Hello' Ap says on phone.
'Hello Mrs. Mathur this side'
'Namaste Mrs. Mathur. Mrs. Maheshwari here. Kids told us just now about your arrival and we wanted to invite you for dinner tonight. Only if you both don't mind' Ap says.
'Oh ofcourse. We will be there'