Sairat - life goes on

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Jeeva! Virat exclaimed. The whole family saw Samrat and were surprised. Virat ran towards Samrat and hugged him, with tears rolling down his eyes he said "I knew would return, I knew my Jeeva would definitely return back to us". Sai too got emotional seeing Virat happy and smiled with her eyes filled with tears. The whole family got emotional and were crying, "Samrat my son you are back" said Mansi crying. As Virat hugged Samrat but Samrat didn't hug him back, he broke the hug, gave Virat the side eye, went and hugged Mansi and touched her feet. Then one by one Samrat met all the family members and shared an emotional moment with each one of them excluding Virat and Pakhi. "Samrat you didn't meet your wife, Patralekha come meet your husband" said Bhavani, Pakhi who was extremely shocked on seeing Samrat did not know what to do and started coming forward just then Samrat said "This reunion and all can keep happening later also, I am very hungry, first feed me something and tell me why is the house decorated and you all so decked up, what's the occasion?" "It was Sai's baby shower today" Ashwini said, "Baby Shower? And who is Sai?" asked Samrat, "My wife" said Virat from the back who was still taken aback by Samrat's gesture. Samrat was now totally shocked and confused. Virat came to Samrat and said "Sai is my wife, I am going to become a Baba and you're going to be a Kaka soon, I missed so much my brother and I wanted to share everything with you but now that you're here I will tell you everything, Sai come here and meet my Jeeva", Sai came forward and smiled at Samrat, he smiled back "Hello Samrat Dada I am Sai your Shiva's wife, I am so glad that you're back and you're safe the whole family was so tensed for you especially Virat sir, he talks about you so much, I can't bend but I still seek your blessings please give me your blessings" said Sai, Samrat put his hand on her head and said "always stay happy, my blessings are forever with you." Samrat was very confused with all the information and asked Virat "when did you get married Shiva? That too to such a young girl and now you're going to have a baby" "Jeeva..." Virat was saying when Bhavani interrupted and said "all these explanations can take place later, Samrat go first eat something and take some rest you must be tired and I think now everyone should go back to their rooms, today has been a long day." Then Samrat goes to the dining room and Ashwini serves him food, Virat also escorts Sai back to their room as she's pregnant and tired.
After having dinner when Samrat entered his room he saw Pakhi sitting on the bed, upon seeing Samrat, Pakhi immediately got up, Samrat came near the bed, Pakhi got extremely uncomfortable and awkward, Samrat saw it and sarcastically said "don't worry Patralekha", took his pillow and went to sleep in the guest room, Pakhi just stood there shocked.
Few days passed, in these few days Samrat and Sai had grown a strong bond with each other as Samrat now considered Sai as his little sister, Samrat even noticed Pakhi's behaviour with Sai and how she was jealous of her. He even saw Virat's love for Sai but was still confused and was still a little cold to him.
Virat was trying to feed Sai and she was throwing tantrums just when they heard a knock on their door, it was Samrat who came bearing gifts for Sai and the baby, "Samrat dada please come in" said Sai, he came inside and placed all the packets on the table and said "look I come bearing gifts for you and the baby Sai", Sai and Virat came forward, "all of this was not needed, you did not need to get me gifts, your blessings are all that I need" said Sai, to which Samrat replied "how come was this not needed? It was, it is my niece/nephew and my little sister we are talking about, I have to spoil them", on seeing the love and care Sai got emotional and started crying, "why are you crying Sai?" asked Samrat "It's her hormones" replied Virat just then Samrat took a packet and gave it to Virat "this is for you" said Samrat, Virat got teary eyed on Samrat's gesture and immediately hugged him. "I need to talk to you,please come to the terrace with me" said Samrat, "yes sure let's go, I too wanted to talk to you my brother, I want to share everything with you" Virat replied. They went to the terrace and sat on the sofa, "what is all this Virat?" Samrat questioned, "what do you mean?" asked Virat, to which Samrat said "I mean when, how and why did you get married to Sai, I know that you and Patralekha loved each other then why?,first Patralekha married me when she loved you and now you have gotten married to Sai when you loved Patralekha, you shouldn't have married Sai, first you both ruined my life and now you are ruining Sai's life, wasn't betraying me and ruining my life enough? I didn't expect this from you, if you both loved each other you guys should have told me I would have backed out myself but no instead you chose to betray me." Virat was shocked on listening Samrat's words and with tears in his eyes he said "I did not betray you Jeeva, I did it for your happiness, I couldn't snatch away your happiness from you", "oh! so you think by doing this great sacrifice you've made me very happy" Samrat retorted, "and what about Sai why did you marry her, when you loved Patralekha?" Asked Samrat, to which Virat replied "I married her out of responsibility, Sai is the same girl I left you wedding for because I had to save her, she is my mentor inspector Kamal Joshi's daughter. Let me tell you everything from the starting, when I got posted to Gadchiroli, there I met Sai, I had asked Kamal Sir to postpone his VRS. There is a MLA Vitthal Mane and his son Jagtap Mane they are the biggest goons of Gadchiroli, Jagtap was after Sai, he wanted to forcefully marry and even tried to, when I came home for your wedding he kidnapped Sai and was forcefully marrying her, but I with the force reached on time and saved her, we almost caught him but he fled away. On the mission to catch Jagtap, I asked Kamal Sir to not join the mission but he was adamant on doing so, and during the mission, Jagtap pulled the trigger for me but Kamal Sir came in between and got shot, we took him to the hospital but he didn't survive, he saved my life. But before dying he took a promise from me that I will take care of Sai. And for Sai her Aaba was her whole world, she didn't have anyone else in this world except her Aaba, after his death Sai even tried to commit suicide, since she had no one in this world the villagers asked me to marry Sai, to which she bluntly refused, even I didn't want to marry her, we didn't even like each other, but the villagers pressurised her for the marriage and for the sake of my promise and responsibility I married her, but this marriage was just a compromise, I agreed to take her responsibility until she becomes a doctor and then she could leave this marriage. We had no relationship as husband and wife with each other." "Are you even listening to your own words Virat, you say that this marriage is a compromise and you share no husband-wife relation, then how did Sai get pregnant?" Asked Samrat. "I don't know how to tell you this but on Holi, Sai and I got intoxicated, and in our intoxicated state we got intimate and consummated which wasn't supposed to happen, I was so angry at myself for getting intimate with her that I didn't talk to her for a month, I couldn't even look into my own eyes then she got pregnant, I got even more mad at myself for impregnating her but after speaking to her she told me even though it was not supposed to happen but whatever happened between us wasn't wrong and now that she was pregnant with our baby we couldn't do anything so I promised myself that I will take care of my baby" "Do you love Sai?" Asked Samrat, Virat went silent for a moment and said "I don't know, but let me tell you something, I don't love Pakhi, I only see her as your wife and a friend""So what now Virat? If you don't love Sai, will you still let her leave after becoming a doctor?" Asked Samrat, Virat felt a striking pain in his heart on listening about Sai leaving, but still trying to divert the topic he sai "do you know Sai topped in all of Maharashtra in her 12th boards and PMT exam, she's very bright and will make a great doctor, I still remember how she came to me fighting about me postponing her Aaba's VRS, she used to fight with me so much still does and you know she even called me Gabbar, but no matter how much she fights, she has a heart of gold, she has nothing but love in her heart, and she's very brave too, she is the one who found Pulkit and got him and Devyani taai married even though no one trusted her but for Devyani taai's happiness she bore all the problems on herself" and on seeing Virat talk about Sai, Samrat said "oh my god! You're in love with Sai, you know when you talk about her your whole face brightens up, and your eyes shine, and I've never seen this kind of shine in your eyes before" Virat stood still wondering for a moment, and said "I am sorry Jeeva", Samrat hugged Virat and he hugged back, breaking the hug Samrat said "I forgive you Shiva, I just want to see you happy, and I know you love Sai you are yet to realise it, I just hope you realise your love for her soon" tapped Virat's shoulder and left. Virat stood there and questioned himself "Am I really in love with Sai?"