My arranged wedding

Fingerprints

Surjeet looks sideways to ensure no one is paying close attention to him before entering the room. He holds an envelope in his hands as he walks up to his wife and son who are patiently waiting for the results.

"Well what did the result say?" Ria asks suddenly impatient.

"At least keep your voice down." Surjeet shoots back and announces "The substance in the bottle was poison."

Ria's eyes widen as she imagines the pain her mother must have gone through before giving up the ghost.

"How will that help us find the murderer dad?"

"They claimed to have found some fingerprints on the bottle, we need to get Raj or Khushi's fingerprints as soon as possible if we want to crack this case."

"But how?" Ria sighes exhausted at the ordeal "It won't be easy."

"Let's tell Aniket maybe he'll come up with something." Surjeet says.

"No Surjeet." Ria protests at the thought "You know my brother, he will not only get angry when he finds out what led to this, but if he finds out that we suspect someone, that person won't walk a free man much less Raj and Khushi. He'll blow things out of proportion."

"I think mum is right dad. I haven't seen as much hatred as the one uncle Aniket has for Raj and Mrs Khushi." Shekhar agrees with his mum.

"Have you forgotten so soon how Aniket reacted when Raj left Shalini on the altar. They've lost everything and Shalini doesn't even know of that, she shouldn't even know about this right now...we must not tell anyone in the family until we can prove that they are the culprits."

"I understand,It will only stay between us." Surjeet nods.

The Maheshwaris decides to host a dinner at home to mark preparations for Holi.

The Bhopalis couldn't miss any of such events and Rachna invites Raj and Khushi again.

The Garodia's were happy at this special invite and made plans to get some fingerprints from the party.

Chetan and Swamini move back and forth serving the guests while people stand around talking about the day's affair.

Shagird and Asha are up to their mischievous ways as he steals some oil from the kitchen and pours it on the floor.

As expected Shalini walks into it and falls helplessly but Vedant comes to her rescue almost immediately.

He catches her right on time as Asha throws a basket of rose petals from upstairs making the scene look romantic.

To the couple it all happened in slow motion as their eyes were fixed on each other. The guests look on with admiration but as Khushi sees the act being displayed s her face morphs into that of disgust.

"They are only trying to get people's attention, what a worthless display of love."

Rachna is however pissed as she peers closely and sights oil on the floor.

"Who poured that on the floor?!!!" She shouts and that brings Vedant and Shalini back to the present as they stare away and put some space between themselves.

Rachna receives no answer despite repeating her question twice.

"Calm down Rachna they are alright. You don't need to get so angry." Manish chortles.

"It's not right sir if it were any one else in their place ... I mean what if Vedant got hurt." Rachna stops as she realises what she had just said and tries to fix her mistake "What if Shalini also got hurt, the wedding would have been postponed if it were something serious and we know the two lovers wouldn't want that to happen. Loon at them ." Rachna continues with a small laugh.

"Leave it, someone will take care of the mess, we all understand your concern." Vikram replies and Rachna keeps quiet.

"Here's our chance now." Surjeet whispers to Ria.

She calls the guests and tells them that she wants them to participate in a small activity. She instructs Chetan to share sheets of papers to the guests with ink.

She looks on as everyone does a stamp on their paper.

"Ms Harish you haven't done yours yet." Rohan beckons to Khushi who stares at the paper and mumbles to herself "All this is useless but I'll do it anyway."

Ria thanks everyone for their participation once it's over and collects their prints with Swamini and Chetan's help.

She seperates and labels those of Khushi and Rajs' with their names, cups used by Raj and Khushi are also given to Surjeet who leaves the house to submit the work for further investigation.

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