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Pragya nervously walks towards the reception. "I want to meet Dr. Mehra."
"Do you have an appointment, Ma'm?"
"No."
"Please fill this and do you have any medical card?" the receptionist asks passing her the form to fill.
"I am not here for consultation. It is personal." Pragya tells her.
"What's your name, madam?"
"Pragya Arora."
"Please wait a second, Madam." The receptionist says and takes the phone and dials a number. "Hello Doctor... One Ms. Arora is here to see you. She said it is personal... Okay Doctor." Receptionist hangs up the phone and turns to Pragya. "He is busy with the patients. He asked you to wait."
Pragya nods and sits on the couch nervously. He asked her to wait. She had expected him to come running out to see her. What was she expecting? What was she doing here? She should just leave and deal with this herself but then she will never be able to forgive herself if he was left unaware. Pragya sighs as she closed her eyes.
Three hours later, Pragya was still waiting and there was no sign of him. The receptionist had called him again and he had again asked her to wait. Today was a busy day it seems.
Pragya was feeling hungry; she hadn't had anything since morning. She wondered whether she should go to a restaurant and eat but what if he leaves when she is away. Pragya walks to the vending machine and puts in a coin to get a bottle of water.
"Pragya?" Abhishek calls her name surprised.
Pragya turns to him and was shocked to see his surprised look. Didn't he know she had been waiting for him for three hours now?
"What are you doing here? You alright?" Abhishek asks her. "Oh wait a minute." Abhishek walks towards the reception, "Someone was waiting for me, right? Did they leave or are they still here?"
"It was me." Pragya tells him.
"You?" Abhishek turns to her surprised. "Oh I didn't know it was you. They told me Ms. Arora and I didn't know your surname. If I knew it was you I wouldn't have made you wait. Sorry about that. Today was really hectic."
Pragya looks at him confused, God he talked too much. I hope our kid is not so talkative.
"Come with me." Abhishek says as he led her towards his room.
"You said you would call." Abhishek tells her as he closed the door.
"I just got back from home today." Pragya tells him.
"And you came to see me?" Abhishek asks smiling as he pulled up a chair for her and sits on the one next to that instead of the doctor's chair. He takes her hand in his, "I have been thinking about you. I did mean what I told you that day."
"That you are falling in love with me?" Pragya asks him.
"Yes."
"And you didn't know my surname."
"What is in a name?" Abhishek asks her.
"Are you like this with every girl you meet?"
"No... you are special... I fell in love with you the moment I saw you." Abhishek tells her. "Don't you feel like that, Pragya?"
"We don't know each other, Abhi."
"We'll get to know each other."
Pragya remains silent as she got lost in thoughts. What did she know about him? Nothing. Other than where he worked and that he is a Doctor. She had met him at a friend's party, talked to him and found some kind of attraction towards him and was ecstatic when she realized it was mutual and then throwing caution in the wind she had slept with him. Now she was pregnant with his baby.
"Didn't you think about me?" Abhishek asks her.
"You never tried to find me." Pragya accuses him.
"You said you need time and you would call me." Abhishek reminds her.
"Yes." Pragya mumbles.
"If you aren't here to tell me that you want to be with me then why are you here?" Abhishek asks her confused.
"I am pregnant." Pragya tells him.
Abhishek looks at her in shock.
"It's yours."
"You wouldn't be here if it isn't mine."
"I want to have this baby and I just wanted you to know." Pragya tells him, "I don't expect anything from you. I just wanted you to know." Pragya gets up and starts to leave when Abhishek stops her.
"What will you prefer then?"
"Prefer?" Pragya asks confused.
"Court marriage or a temple wedding?"
"What?" Pragya asks him shocked.
"Court marriage will take a month... temple we just need witness." Abhishek explains.
"I won't marry you."
"Why the hell are you being so stubborn? I know you love me. I don't know why you are so scared about it. If you didn't love me then we wouldn't have made love."
"We had sex."
"God! Pragya!" Abhishek says exasperated.
"I like you but I don't know if I love you."
"It doesn't matter. You are pregnant with my child. We will get married. You can get to know me and fall in love with me."
"What if I never fall in love with you?"
"Oh please! Give me some credit! You will!"
Pragya looks at him furiously."Let's just get married and take one day at a time. Okay?"
"I am hungry." Pragya declares as they sat in his car after their wedding.
"What are you in the mood for?" Abhishek asks her smiling.
"Chinese."
Abhishek watches in shock as Pragya hogged.
"What?" Pragya asks as she stuffed noodles into her mouth.
"Nothing." Abhishek replies.
"I am hungry! Pregnancy can make you hungry!" Pragya says defensively.
"I am a doctor." Abhishek reminds her.
"You are a neurologist not a gynecologist."
"Still I know how human body functions."
Pragya looks away flushed.
"Want anything more?" Abhishek asks her smiling.
Pragya shakes her head in no.
Abhishek was about to ask for the bill when "I want ice-cream."
Pragya walks with Abhishek around his two bedroom apartment getting acquainted with the place. Finally he takes her to his bedroom.
"This is our bedroom." Abhishek tells her.
Pragya nods her head.
"Why don't you freshen up?" Abhishek asks her.
"Do you have anything I can wear?" Pragya asks him.
Abhishek walks to his cupboard and goes through his clothes. "Will this do?" he asks taking a tshirt out.
Pragya nods and takes it from him.
"Tomorrow morning, we can go to your hostel and get your things."
"Okay." Pragya replies.
Few minutes later, Pragya comes out in his t-shirt which reached a little below her thighs. Pragya puts her clothes in the washing machine. She hears the main door opening and pokes her head out to see who it was.
"Hey!" Abhishek says smiling. "I went out to get grocery."
Pragya smiles at him. how couldn't she? He was being so sweet to her and her apprehension regarding her feelings towards him shouldn't be a reason to hurt him.
Seeing her smile at him, he smiles at her even more, "That is a change."
"Don't make me question it." Pragya tells him with a grin.
Abhishek chuckles, "I'll take a shower and come. Can you keep these in the fridge?"
"Yeah sure. Just waiting for my clothes to get washed. I'll just put it out for drying so I'll have something to wear tomorrow."
"Okay."
Pragya walks into the room just as Abhishek comes out of the bathroom. Abhishek was just in his boxers and Pragya in his tshirt. Pragya looks at the almost naked Abhishek, her husband and that one night of bliss spent with him comes flashing back to her. Seeing Pragya so scantily dressed Abhishek remembers the night spent with her. He walks towards her and stops in front of her.
"Pragya..."
Pragya looks up at him.
"I love you."
Pragya closes her eyes at his declaration.
"I know even you feel something for me. I have seen it in you, Pragya. I don't know why you are fighting it."
When she remains silent he continues, "All this while wasn't there a single moment that you thought about me? Or missed me?"
Pragya was getting disturbed with the way he talked, she did miss him, she did think about him. Hell he was all she thought about. She was upset that he never tried to reach her even though she remembered it was she who had explicitly asked him to not find her that she would get in touch with him. but she didn't believe love and happily ever after. Her family had already seen that how men fool women in the name of love. But he was still here, he hadn't run when she told him about the baby. If anything he seemed to be happy about it, he didn't have to say it or show it for her to see his joy in it. She feels his hand on her stomach and she looks at him.
"It's still a shock and little difficult to digest that our baby is here." Abhishek says smiling at her in wonder.
She was right, he was happy. She smiles at him.
Abhishek leans down and kisses her on her cheek. Feeling the closeness and his scent every though left Pragya as her hormone went wild.
"Pragya... did doctor ask you to refrain from love making?"
Pragya shakes her head in no as a blush crept up her cheek.
"Can we..."
Pragya cuts him off, "Hasn't anyone told you that you talk too much?"
Abhishek looks at her in shock then chuckling he says, "Everyone says that but I never felt as if I talk too much. Whatever is in my heart I say it out loud maybe that is why people feel..."
"Just shut up and kiss me, Abhi."
Gone was the patient and soft man and in his place was the passionate and very demanding Abhishek Prem Mehra as he kissed Pragya hard.
"God! I missed you so much Pragya." Abhishek urgently says as he kissed her all over her face.
Pragya closes her eyes happily as she devoured his frantic touch and kiss. As she got lost in the whirlpool of passion her guard breaks down and she lets her instincts guide her. Pragya pulls him up and kisses him soundly on his lips as she rolled over him straddling him. She drags her lips down kissing him while he enjoyed the sweet sensations she was causing him.
Having enough of the sweet torment he rolls her over and enters her in a swift motion and she gasps at the invasion. Once she got adjusted to him, she starts rocking against him as they tried to bring each other to fulfillment.
"Is this safe for the baby?" Pragya asks him a while later worried about the baby.
"Yes." Abhishek replies smiling as he leaned up to look at her. "The doctor said you can right?"
Pragya nods her head shyly. Seeing her blush Abhishek kisses her soundly and then settling himself next to her he gently keeps his hand over her stomach. Pragya keeps her hand over his smiling.
"When will we know the sex of the baby?" Pragya asks him.
"It's against law." Abhishek tells her.
"I know." Pragya sighs. "I just wish I knew. So I can start preparations accordingly."
"Preparations?"
"Yes... clothes... bedroom... toys."
"There is time for that." Abhishek tells her chuckling.
"Yes... but everything should be ready for our baby." Pragya says excitedly. "We can convert the other bedroom to a baby's room right?"
"Yes. But isn't there something we should do before that?"
"What?" Pragya asks him curiously.
"Informing our families."
"They are going to kill us." Pragya says sobering up looking away.
"No one is going to hurt you." Abhishek tells her.
"You wish!"
"Even my family is no less." Abhishek tells her grinning.
"Oh God! What are we going to do?"
"Should we go to Motihari and inform them face to face or should we do it over the phone?" Abhishek asks her.
"Isn't it strange that we are from the same place but we never met each other before that party?"
"I was away from home most of my life. Boardings, hostels and now work." Abhishek tells her.
"Hmmm... maybe our families know each other."
"What's your family name?" Abhishek asks her curiously then suddenly he looks at her in shock, "You said your surname is Arora right? What is your father's name?"
"Raghuveer Arora."
"WHAT?" Abhishek asks in shock as he sits up.
"What happened?" Pragya asks curiously seeing him going pale and he quickly gets up from the bed and starts wearing his clothes. "What happened, Abhi?"
"Pragya... I need a minute. I just need to think." Abhishek tells her and walks out.
"Think about what?"
"Family!" Abhishek tells her and quickly leaves while Pragya watched at the door in shock through which he had just exited.
Pragya takes her tshirt from the floor and wears it wondering what had happened to him. He had panicked hearing her father's name but why? How did he know her father? She had never heard of him from her father. His surname is Mehra and she knew only one Mehras. Pragya gasps loudly realizing why he had panicked. She hurries out of the room to find him sitting on the couch with his hands on his head.
"Are you related to Vishal Mehra?" Pragya asks him.
"He was my father's brother." Abhishek replies still not looking up at her.
Pragya gasps out loudly realizing that she had slept with her family's enemy, then got pregnant with his child, then married him and slept with him again, in that order.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Pragya asks him furiously.
"I didn't know." Abhishek replies looking up at her.
"Your uncle cheated my aunt!" Pragya furiously tells him.
"I know the history. Your Dad then killed my uncle for revenge!"
"Because his sister committed suicide!" Pragya accuses him.
"Trust me I have watched QSQT to get the story right!" Abhishek scoffs at her.
"What?"
"The backstory on family rivalry was inspired from us!"
"Huh?"
"Your father was released from jail right?" Abhishek asks her curiously.
"The day after I slept with you! That is why I had to go home!"
"Ah okay... Anyway, I think this is not the time to inform our family about our wedding." Abhishek tells her.
"We are not telling anyone anything. I want a divorce and I am having an abortion!"
"HAVE YOU GONE FREAKING CRAZY?" Abhishek furiously asks her as he marched towards her and gripped her arms.
"You would be the crazy one if you think I'll have your baby, a man who belongs to that family that destroyed mine. Our families are still trying to kill each other. Your uncle cheated my aunt. Got her pregnant and left her. all my life I have watched my dadi cry over her daughter and her son because of your family. My mother lived her life like a widow because Papa was in jail. You have a cheater's blood running through your vein!" Pragya tells him furiously. Then she furiously shrugs him away, "And don't touch me ever again. You have no right to touch me."
"I am your husband."
"Not anymore. We are getting a divorce."
"We are not!"
"We are!"
"SHUT UP! I don't give a damn who ruined whose family. All I know and all I care is that you are my wife and I love you."
"I HATE YOU! And I don't want your dirty bloodline to grow through me."
"That dirty bloodline you are talking about is our baby! A baby a few minutes ago you wanted to give the whole world to!"
"I don't want this baby."
"I want this baby. It is my baby and I want the baby. I will not let anyone harm my baby. I am not going to let my family or your family harm you or our baby, so you think I would let you stand against our baby?"
"I don't want your baby." Pragya tells him again.
"You are having my baby, Pragya. You have no choice."
"I'll have an abortion."
"You would need the father's signature for that." Abhishek tells her.
Pragya wonders whether she can go to a shady clinic or somewhere to get the baby killed.
"Don't force me to do things I don't want to." Abhishek tells her.
"What will you do? What can you possibly do?" Pragya challenges him.
"I can take you to court and get legal support. Which would make it a news and both our families will find out about it."
Pragya looks at him in shock, "Showed your true colors, didn't you?"
"Nothing is more important to me than my family."
"Then go to your family! They would be only be too happy to be rid off this baby."
"You and our baby is my family." Abhishek calmly tells her.
"I am not your family!"
"Mrs. Pragya Abhishek Prem Mehra!"
"I want divorce."
"Give me my baby first." Abhishek tells her.
"What?"
"Stay here and have my baby."
"Then you'll give me a divorce?" Pragya asks him.
"I'll do what you want to do after you give birth."
Pragya chuckles humorlessly, "You think that I will change my mind after I have this baby... don't you? You think I will start to love this baby."
"I know you more than you think I do."
"You don't. If you did then you would realize that for me this baby is already dead!"
"I am tired. Even you. You need rest. Go sleep." Abhishek tells her tired.
Pragya furiously walks towards the spare bedroom and slams the door shut.
Abhishek sighs as he sits down thinking how everything changed with one revelation. How had he managed to find that girl from the family that his family hates and fall in love with her? and now they were going to have a baby that she claims to no longer want. He knew she was talking in anger, she loved their baby just as much as him or maybe more. She could feel their baby and he couldn't, so she definitely loved their baby more just her anger was clouding her mind. The strangest thing was he could understand Pragya's anger and sudden hatred. He had always been away from his family, so the enmity hadn't really affected him except for hearing about it every now and then at every family gatherings but unlike him, Pragya was not so lucky. She was raised in the middle of the enmity and the after effects of it. All she needed was sometime and she will understand that they belonged together.
Pragya furiously wipes her tears as she thought of her family. Her dadi had raised her telling her never to love and never to trust men. They will take whatever they wanted from us and leaves us. She was starting to believe Abhi was different but he turned out to belong to that family which had taught her this lesson, and he also wanted something from her, the baby and her. Not even considering her feelings regarding the matter. Pragya closes her eyes in pain, she was so looking forward to this baby and now. Pragya was about to wipe her tears when she realized that she was caressing her stomach. She didn't want to care for this baby and she will not care for this baby. It is his baby. Not hers!
In morning Pragya wakes up hungry.
"God!" Pragya mutters as she rubbed her stomach and gets out of the bed.
Pragya opens the door and comes out of the room to find Abhishek sitting by the couch smiling at her. Her first reaction was to smile back at him then she remembered what had happened the night before and glares at him.
"Food is ready." Abhishek says pointing at the dining table.
"I don't want."
"My baby would be hungry. Don't do this to our baby. It is no fault of the baby." Abhishek calmly tells her.
Pragya looks away realizing that she had slept with Abhi not realizing who he was and they both were stupid to not use protection, then how was the baby at fault? But how can she go against her family and accept this baby?
"Eat." Abhishek tells her gently as he pulled the chair for her. Sighing Pragya sits down and starts eating the toast.
"Do you have cheese?"
"Are you craving cheese?"
"No. I prefer cheese to butter."
"Cheese can cause miscarriage. So it is better you don't eat it."
Pragya sighs then takes the tea and says, "What is this?"
"Tea."
"It stinks." Pragya says making puking faces as she pushed it away from her. Abhishek quickly takes it away from her. "Do you have juice?"
"What juice you want?"
"Orange."
"DANDHI!" Abhishek shouts.
Pragya looks up in shock seeing a man come out, "Who is he?"
"Dandhi... cook... and this is my wife, Pragya... she wants orange juice." Abhishek tells Dandhi. Nodding Dandhi quickly leaves.
"Whatever you want to eat, just tell him." Abhishek instructs her.
"Why the hell didn't you tell me he is here?" Pragya asks him in a furious whisper.
"Is there a problem?" Abhishek asks consfued.
"I am naked!" Pragya furiously says as she pulled her t-shirt down to cover her exposed leg.
"You were naked last night. Not now." Abhishek teases her.
"Shut up!" Pragya says turning pink and then furious realizing she was getting turned on remembering their night together.
Abhishek gets up and walks to the kitchen. Few minutes later, he comes back with orange juice. "You have your juice. He won't come here till we call him. He is ironing your clothes. You can wear that." Abhishek tells her.
Pragya was getting dressed when Abhishek knocks on the door.
"What?" Pragya asks him.
He opens the door and walks in. "I wanted to talk to you."
"What is there to talk? I'll have your baby. You can keep the baby and you will give me divorce and I'll go my way and you go your way."
"During the pregnancy, all your thoughts and emotions are going to have a direct effect on our baby. So I know it is difficult but please try to be happy always."
Pragya looks away not knowing how to reply to that stupid request.
"Please Pragya... our baby is very important. Try not to hurt the baby."
Pragya nods in reply.
"You get ready. I'll take you to your hostel to get your things."
Abhishek had taken a couple of days off as he took care of Pragya. Pragya could see his care but her loyalty towards her family was stopping her from accepting Abhi or their baby. Pragya was getting ready to rejoin her college the next day after her week long break.
"Pragya, you and the baby are very healthy, but don't over exert yourself." Abhishek tells her as he sat next to her.
"I know!"
Abhishek chuckles seeing her irritation and takes the magazine to read.
"I would have thought you would be reading baby books now." Pragya tells him disinterestedly.
"I am a doctor, Pragya."
Pragya rolls her eyes.
Abhishek chuckles seeing her, she wanted to care for the baby but couldn't and was relying solely on him to do that for their baby.
"DAMNIT!" Pragya furiously shouts as she hurried to the bathroom.
Abhishek softly starts laughing after she had closed the bathroom door. Lack of bladder control was pissing her off.
"STOP LAUGHING!" Pragya screams from inside the bathroom and he bursts out laughing.
Pragya furiously opens the bathroom door and comes to him glaring. "This is all your fault!"
"With your consent!" Abhishek winks at her chuckling.
"I hate you!" Pragya says furiously.
"And I love you!" Abhishek replies.
Pragya looks at him shocked for a second then a blush starts creeping in as what he said registers. Seeing her blush he starts grinning widely. "BLOODY HORMONES!!" Pragya furiously screams and marches off to her bedroom.
Pragya was going to college and Abhishek to the hospital and everything was going though not smoothly but without any hitch. Dandhi comes in the morning and prepares whatever Pragya wants for breakfast and lunch. She was not allowed have food from outside, Abhishek was very strict about that. Then they have breakfast, Abhishek drops her off to college and in the evening he picks her up and drops her home or Dandhi does according to Abhishek's shift. Then evening Dandhi would leave after preparing dinner of her choice. Then they would be alone after that. Abhishek would hang around her at times he would talk, at times he would remain silent and surprisingly doing both he manages to rile her up. She gets irritated if he talked and she got irritated if he didn't talk. He took everything in his stride with a chuckle. Still everything was going fine till the worst thing happened. Pragya started getting horny.
Pragya tried her best to ignore it but every time her handsome-hot-awesome in bed husband comes in front of her there was only one thought in her mine Rape! Finally not able to control herself, she decided to seduce him but she had to make it look as if he was the one who wanted it and was begging for it, and she just gave in because well she was kind hearted.
At night Pragya wore the sexiest night dress and applied light make up and blow dried her hair and left it lose. She looked at herself in the mirror and smiles approvingly. He would be begging at my feet. Now time for sex!
Pragya walks out of her room in attitude to find the living room empty. Where the hell is he? Usually he would be lying flat on the couch dreaming about me. She starts walking up and down making loud noises to get his attention but he neither came out nor called out for her. She couldn't just walk into his room then he would know. Stupid moron! Good for nothing! Never does anything right.
Finally having no other option, Pragya drops a bottle and screams out loud.
"PRAGYA?" Abhishek comes out running from his bedroom.
Finally! Now sex time!
"The bottle fell out of my hand." Pragya says as she very sexily bends down and took the bottle from the floor in slow motion. Then she looks at her husband who was looking at her with wide eyes. Success! Now begging!
"Did I wake you?" Pragya asks in a s**tty whisper with a sexy smile as she kept the bottle on the table.
"You are... you are looking... damn hot, wifey!"
Pragya chuckles as she flips her hair and then she softly bites her lower lip and Abhishek groans.
"I got scared when the bottle fell. Now I am fine. You sleep." Pragya says as she exhaled loudly keeping her hand on her chest. "I am also going to bed." She says as she leaned back on the table playing with the noodle strap of her night dress, slipping it off her shoulders and then playing with it.
Abhishek's shock turns to a smile and the he starts smiling ear to ear.
Why the hell is he gloating instead of begging?
"Your hormones are acting weird... huh?" Abhishek asks her grinning.
Pragya looks at him in shock dropping her seductress act.
"All you had to do was ask, Pragya." Abhishek tells her grinning.
"I don't want it!" Pragya says looking away.
Abhishek slowly starts unbuttoning his shirt, flipping open one button at a time as he walked towards her.
"What are you doing?" Pragya asks eyes going wild as the hormones started kicking in like never before.
"Nothing." Abhishek shrugs grinning as he walks towards her. "You remember our wedding night, Pragya?"
Pragya loses her control and she runs to him. "Your kid is making me horny! It is your fault and you should take care of it!"
"I am here for all your needs." Abhishek says winking sexily.
"Damn it!" Pragya says as she slammed her mouth on his lips kissing him senseless. "Nothing changes! You are just a sex toy for me!"
"Oh! Shut up! I am a man! I get to have sex and don't care whether you call it love making or sex!" Abhishek tells her as he slipped her night dress off. Then seeing her naked he groans, "God woman! I love you."
In reply Pragya kisses him passionately.
"Go to your room!" Pragya tells Abhishek as she sat up satiated now.
"God, woman! You had your way with me two times! I need energy to get up!"
Pragya blushes hearing him.
"Our child is going to be one hell of a sex maniac!" Abhishek chuckles.
"Shut up!" Pragya turns pink blushing.
Sighing Abhishek gets up from the bed, "Now that you have taken care of my needs, I'll go to my room."
Pragya's mouth drops open hearing him and she sat there like that even after he left.
Abhishek was sleeping when she shook him awake. "Pragya? What happened? What time is it?" Abhishek asks confused as he sat up.
"Strip! I want to have sex!" Pragya orders him.
Pragya was sitting in Abhishek's hospital room sipping water as they waited to meet the gynecologist.
"Let me know when your bladder is full." Abhishek tells her.
"Why does it have to be full?" Pragya asks irritated.
"When your bladder is full your uterus..."
"God! I know! I was just cribbing." Pragya says irritated as she continued to gulp down the water.
Abhishek chuckles every time she came for doctor's checkup she gets worked up as if she expected to hear that something was not right with the baby. He sighs; Pragya was still scared to show that she cared for their baby and him. He wondered whether he had to wait till she gives birth for her to realize just how much she loves their baby.
"I think it is full." Pragya tells him feeling her slightly swollen belly. She had started showing.
Nodding Abhishek calls up the receptionist.
"Dapddap.. Dapddap... Dapddap..."
"That is your baby." The doctor says pointing at the baby.
"Which?" Pragya asks confused.
"This." Abhishek says pointing out the baby.
"That is nothing." Pragya says disappointed.
Abhishek chuckles hearing her. "4-5 months more for the baby to completely develop, Pragya."
Pragya nods as she gently holds Abhishek's hand squeezing it as she looked at their baby. Her heart filling with love for her baby. It hadn't happened before. They have seen the baby before also but today was the first time they were hearing it's heart beats. According to the doctor the position of the baby had earlier prevented them from hearing the heart beats and it had caused her a great deal of worry and as if sensing her worry Abhi had reassured her it was normal but still she was worried. Now hearing her baby's heart beat she just couldn't control the love she felt for her baby. She had felt it the first time she had seen the fetus, it was no longer a fetus or unwanted thing or a mistake. It was her baby, the baby she made with the best man she had known in her life. Suddenly, seeing her baby in new light, she started seeing the man who had given her baby in new light. He was a gem of a person. Standing by her throughout, taking care of her and their baby and loving her without a question, giving in to all her tantrums with a smile. Why didn't she ever fall in love with him? Pragya wonders as she looked at him and he was staring at the screen looking at their baby then he turned to look at her with a hint of tears in his eyes and he smiles at her as he leaned down gently kiss her forehead and she realized she had asked herself the wrong question. The right question was why didn't she ever realize that she had fallen in love with her husband?
Pragya has her medicine and gives the glass back to Abhishek.
"You seemed lost in thoughts." Abhishek tells her concerned.
Pragya shakes her head at him.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"Tomorrow." Pragya tells him.
"Everything alright, love?" Abhishek asks her sitting next to her cupping her face.
"I did something my family is never going to forgive me for." Pragya tells him as tears filled her eyes.
"Baby?"
Pragya shakes her head in no.
"Marriage?"
"No."
"Then?"
"We'll talk about this tomorrow?" Pragya asks him.
"Okay... you sleep now. Don't worry about anything. I'm here." Abhishek tells her smiling. Pragya hugs him tight feeling his love and her love.
Abhishek gently eases her on the bed and covers her with the blanket. He leaves the bedside lamp on as she is scared of the dark and starts to walk out. He was at the door wondering whether he should do it. It was against law but if it made her happy and eased her mind then?
Abhishek turns to her and smiles, "It's a boy."
Pragya looks at him in shock as Abhishek watched on, her face breaks out into a big smile as happy tears stung her eyes. She gently keeps her hand over stomach where their son was growing.
"Good night, love."
"Good night." Pragya says smiling.
Next day, Pragya walks towards Abhishek's room and opening the door she walks in to find his getting ready for office.
"Was just about to come to your room. How are you feeling today?" Abhishek asks her smiling.
"I wanted to talk to you."
"Yes, tell me."
"Abhi..." Pragya starts and stops hearing his mobile.
"Pragya, it's Dad." Abhishek tells her as he answered the phone.
Whenever either of their family called the other remained silent not to give away their presence to their family. So she remained silent and still as he talked on the phone.
"Strange..." Abhishek says as he hung up the phone. "He called to check whether I was home or in hospital."
"Why?"
"I hope he is not planning a surprise visit." Abhishek says worried. "So tell me."
Pragya nervously looks at him wondering how to tell him what she was feeling after treating him like this for all these months.
Abhishek walks towards her and gently guides her to the bed and kneels down in front of her. "Tell me, Pragya. what is worrying you?"
"I don't want a divorce." Pragya tells him as tears filled her eyes, "I want to be with you all my life. I love you."
Abhishek looks at her in shock as what she said registered. He knew one day she would start to love him and he just knew it but nothing had prepared him for it.
"I love our baby too. I don't want anything to happen to our baby." Pragya says crying, "I don't want anything to happen to our baby. Please forgive me, Abhi."
Abhishek hugs her and whispers hoarsely, "I love you, Pragya. And I know you never meant any of what you said against our baby."
"Why do you love me? What did I do to deserve you?" Pragya asks him sadly.
"Because I know, Pragya underneath all this bluster and facade is the real you, who is a nice soul."
"You are mad. Since the moment you saw me you have been saying this."
"Well I am very smart and I can read people." Abhishek replies chuckling.
"You are just dumb but I love you." Pragya says hugging him happily.
Pragya opens the door hearing the doorbell as Abhishek was on the phone, he was taking the day off as they decided to spend the day together. Pragya's eyes widen seeing the people at the door.
"Who are you? Where is Abhi?" Tej asks her frowning.
Tej Mehra.
"Aren't you..." Jhanvi asks shocked recognizing Pragya.
"You know her?" Tej asks her.
"You are Raghuveer's daughter right?" Jhanvi asks her shocked. "What are you doing in Abhi's house?"
"Raghuveer's daughter?" Tej asks furiously.
"Pragya, who is it?" Abhishek asks as he walked out from the bedroom. Pragya runs to him and hugs him tight.
"Don't let them do anything to our baby." Pragya whispers to him frantically.
"Relax... relax." Abhishek calmly consoles her. "Dad, Mom... come in."
"What is she doing here?" Tej asks him.
"Pragya is my wife." Abhishek calmly informs him.
"WHAT?"
"And please don't shout... you are distressing Pragya. It is disturbing her. You see, she is pregnant." Abhishek informs them.
Tej and Raghuveer fumed as they paced the living room while Pragya gripped Abhishek's hand and their mother's cried. After Tej had found out about it, Abhishek had called up Raghuveer and informed him about their marriage and baby. Raghuveer and Sarala had quickly come over. Then they had told the family truthfully about everything.
"Okay... Pragya... whatever happened, happened. You come with me now." Raghuveer tells her.
"Come with you?" Pragya asks him shocked.
"Yes. If you want you can keep the baby too but you will not have anything to do with him." Raghuveer tells her pointing at Abhishek.
"WHAT? How can you take the baby? That baby is a Mehra! He will be with us!" Tej furiously tells Raghuveer.
"My daughter is carrying the baby!"
"My son is the father!"
"ENOUGH!!!" Abhishek furiously says. "I don't care about your family rivalry. Don't give a damn who is right and who is wrong. Neither Pragya nor I am wrong here. All we want is to be together and give our baby a family and a safe life. We are not going to get a divorce nor give up our baby. You all can be a part of ours and our baby's life as much as you want as long as you don't harm our family in anyway."
"How can you say that, Abhi? She is a Arora!"
"She is Pragya Abhishek Prem Mehra." Abhishek replies.
"He is an Mehra, Pragya!" Raghuveer tells Pragya.
"Did you forget what his family did to us?" Sarala asks Pragya in tears.
"I am a part Mehra, Papa. And a Mehra is growing inside me." Pragya tells them though with tears in her eyes confidently then turning to her mother she says, "He hasn't done anything to us. All he did was, love me and take care of me. And I love him."
"This is your decision?" Raghuveer asks her furiously.
"Our decision." Abhishek replies.
Few months later
"He is awake." Pragya says smiling on the phone happily. "Just a sec." she keeps the phone near their baby's mouth and says, "Ayaan, say hi to Dadi." Ayaan gurgles in reply happily making Pragya chuckle. After a few seconds, Pragya keeps the receiver on her ears, "Mummyji..."
"It's me, beta." Tej replies.
"Papaji... how are you?" Pragya asks him smiling.
"I am fine. When are you coming here?" Tej asks her.
"Abhi can't take any more offs now. So..."
"Let him stay there. You and Ayaan come here. and I know you stayed 3 days with them and only 2 with us." Tej grumbles.
Pragya rolls her eyes grinning. "Okay... this time, we'll stay 2 extra days with you."
"Ah good. You come soon." Tej tells her and hangs up.
Chuckling Pragya throws the phone on the bed. Even after Ayaan's birth their families didn't see eye to eye and kind of competed against each other for Abhi's, Ayaan's and her attention but luckily her family had accepted Abhi and Ayaan, and his family had accepted Ayaan and her. Abhi felt it would be a matter of time before the families accepted each other but knowing the enmity as well as she did, she had no hopes of that happening.
"Pragya... where is your that sexy night dress that you tried to seduce me?" Abhishek asks going through her cupboard.
"Why do you want that?"
"I want to get seduced." Abhishek replies grinning.
"All you have to do is ask, husband." Pragya tells him grinning.
"I don't even have to ask for that." Abhishek replies rolling his eyes, "But I want to give that botched up seduction attempt of yours a chance."
"My hormones are not running all over the place now!" Pragya tells him smirking.
"I miss being a sex toy." Abhishek says sadly. "Do I have to get you pregnant again for that?"
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