when astha got to know that jhanavi is back in mumbai through raj. She couldn't hold herself back she asked him when jhanavi was coming to the office. And when he told her she was coming today she immediately got ready and arrived at the office early.
She didn't tell anyone, not sarth not anyone from her family and she even ordered raj not tell anyone. Because She didn't wanted anyone to spoil her plan of convincing jhanavi to come back in her son's life. She knew if sarth got to know about her plan he would be furious with her but if her one small effort was actually going to change things for her son then she was ready to bear his wrath.
She didn't know why jhanavi left this was the question which haunted her all these years, she always regretted that she couldn't do anything to stop her but now she was going to try again. Maybe this time she will would be able to change things.
Raj :- "Aunty are you sure about this?"
She could clearly see the tension on his face. Well who was she kidding even she was tensed but she had to do it and she was sure.
Astha :- "Yes I'm sure. I'm going to convince my daughter in law to come back."
Raj :- "All the best I hope you succeed."
Raj gave her a genuine motivating smile which boosted her confidence a little. She just hoped she would be able to do what she planned. While she was lost in her thought, jhanavi walked in the office.
Astha stood up from her chair, she felt her eyes well up after 5 years she was seeing her daughter in law. She slowly walked towards jhanavi who had the same expression as her, moist eyes and a happy smile on the face.
Jhanavi :- "Aai."
Jhanavi touched her feet, even after years, even after what happened, jhanavi still called her aai and this made astha feel truly happy. She pulled her into a tight hug and burst out crying.
Astha :- "I missed you so much jhanavi."
Jhanavi :- "I missed you too aai."
They both stayed like that for a minute then pulled away. Jhanavi wiped astha's tears and astha did the same.
Jhanavi :- "How are you?"
Astha :- "I'm trying to be better. But you tell me how are you?"
Jhanavi :- "Never better."
Jhanavi gave her a small weak smile which told astha how miserable she was.
Astha :- "Jhanavi Nothing is same without you.. Not me, not our family, not sarth ."
At this jhanavi avoided looking at astha, she looked anywhere but at her. Which made astha upset. See could clearly feel something was stopping her but what. She needs to find out.
Astha :- "Jhanavi please come back.. Please come back in sarth's life."
Astha pleaded with jhanavi she just couldn't see them miserable like this. Everyday she had to see her son pretend to be happy and now the look in jhanavi's eyes told her she did the same.
Jhanavi :- "Aai please I can't. I can't come back Nothing will go right if I did."
Astha :- "But why? What happened? What made you leave jhanavi and what is stopping you from coming back?"
Astha looked into her eyes with desperation for answers.
Jhanavi :- "Aai please."
Jhanavi hung her head low she avoided looking at astha which made astha more worried, she could feel her only hope fading away.
Jhanavi :- "Aai please nothing good will happen if I come back and besides sarth is happy with his daughter."
Astha :- "Jhanavi jiya is not sarth's daughter she is-
But before she could finish the door burst open and a angry sarth walked in.
Sarth :- "Jiya is my daughter aai! jiya sarth kulkarni Please lock this in your mind."
Sarth glared at astha and then at jhanavi.
Sarth :- "And please you don't have to beg someone to come back in my life. I don't need someone who will wall out and walk in anytime they want!"
Sarth glared at jhanavi, as he said this astha could feel that his bitter words had hurt jhanavi because her eyes were now filled with tears.
Jhanavi :- "Don't worry that someone is never coming back in your life. You can live happily without her mr.kulkarni."
Sarth and jhanavi glared at each other astha could clearly see the sadness in their eyes as they said the bitter words to each other but both were too dumb to understand that.
Astha :- "Stop it both of you!"
Now this brought them out of their trance, they focused their attention on astha.
Astha :- "Stop all this please Solve all your problems like an adult!"
With that astha strommed out of the room she just couldn't see them behaving like with each other, she just couldn't understand how things changed between them. They were once a happy couple but now everything was different. But she was determined to solve things between them.
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Sheetal (Chachi) was sitting in her room reading a magazine when her husband vinay burst in with a frustrated look. He removed his tie and threw it across the room.
Sheetal :- "What happened?"
Vinay :- "I'm so done with manish! He always takes all the business decisions on his own. he doesn't even thinks about asking me or including me in those decisions!"
Vinay slammed his hand on the wall in frustration making sheetal flinch a little.
Sheetal :- "He always does that you are the one who thinks he cares! Finally you got some sense."
Sheetal rolled her eyes at her husband and continued flipping through her magazine.
Vinay :- "I'm so done with him. He just thinks he is the king of the world or something, that everyone and everything should be the he wants!"
Sheetal slammed the magazine on the bed and glared at her husband she was done with him just ranting and doing nothing. If only he did things would finally change for them. They would get the respect they deserve.
Sheetal :- "Stop ranting and do something."
Now this made vinay stop his frustrated ranting, he smirked at sheetal like he knew exactly what he had to do. She furrowed her eyebrows.
Sheetal :- "Whats going on in your mind?"
Vinay :- "Well you will find out soon."
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Jiya :- "We need to go to this camp."
Yash :- "Yes it seems so fun!"
Aarvi :- "Yes but how to convince our parents? Aai will never send me alone!"
Aarvi, yash and jiya were currently on a call discussing about the camp that was announced today in their school.
Yash :- "Well my aai would agree but baba, it's hard to convince him."
Yash rested his head on his palm and pouted.
Jiya :- "Baba will be super worried all the time if I went alone."
Aarvi :- "Same with my aai."
The trio let out a long sigh, they began to think of a good idea to convince their parents. And after 10 mins aarvi seemed to find one.
Aarvi :- "I have an idea! Jiya you will convince my aai and I will convince SK. Then we both will convince rakesh uncle!"
Jiya :- "Perfect!"
Yash :- "This will definitely work!"
The trio grinned at their great idea to convince their parents. Finally they can go to this camp.
Aarvi :- "Mission camp!"
Yash & Jiya :- "Mission camp!"
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NOTE - English is not my native language so please forgive me if I did any mistakes.
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