Falling For You

The fictional world is much better than the Reality

After ordering their dinner online, Saanvi and Sakshi both started making Rice Kheer on the occasion of the result. Since they both were working in the kitchen, Sunil took that as a chance to talk about the situation with Sunita. Once he was in their room, he locked the room from the inside. Sunita, who was replying to all the messages from her friends and family, gave him a suspicious look.

"Why did you lock the door?" She asks. "Is something bothering you?"

Sunil sat on the mattress with a frown on his face. "Yes, I have to confess to you something." He says. "Do you remember the time when Choudhari uncle came to our house when Sakshi was born?"

Sunita remembered that vividly, because after Rahul Choudhari came to their house, Sunil was tense for so many days. When she asked him about the reason behind his acting strange for a week after that, he just brushed it off, saying that he was thinking about something.

"Yes, I remember that," Sunita replies calmly. "What about that?"

Sunil suddenly felt a fear, the fear that his wife might hate him after telling her the whole story behind the Choudhari family's relationship with the Meshram family. He takes an enormous sigh before telling her the truth that he had been keeping to himself for years. He was ready for her outburst once she listens to the whole thing, and he saw the way her emotion ranges from concern to anger instantly.

"Please, tell me that you are lying about this?" She asks him, still trying her very best to keep her anger in control. "Because if this is true. I will never let Sakshi go to Nagpur from now on. She will stay here, in Pune!"

Sunil makes his way toward her. He has his hands on her shoulder and he looks into her eyes while saying. "I am not lying at all. My hands are tied because it's not my doing, it's my dad's."

"SO WHAT?!" she whispers. "I won't let someone control my daughter's life because of some promise!"

He tries to control the tears that were emerging from his eyes, but he can't control his emotion. "I don't have a say in this. It's already been decided. I have tried to push this topic until Sakshi gets her job and now that she got her job, I can't push this topic anymore."

"No–" Sunita shakes her head. "They don't have a single right to do anything with her life. I have made her an independent girl, not for her to get married to someone she doesn't even know!"

"I know! I know that! But maybe that guy is good?" Sunil tries to convince her to which she retorts. "Good guy or not, I won't let her get married to someone she doesn't know. I had an arranged marriage because I knew you were a good guy with no bad intentions. But I won't let anyone come close to my daughter if I don't know their real intentions."

Sunil engulfs her in a hug and then tries to calm her as he caresses her hair. "It's going to be alright. Let's just wish that the guy is also good and hopefully Sakshi won't mind this," he says. "She is someone who knows how to make a decision. And if she doesn't want to marry anyone, I will support her no matter what."

"I hope you do, because if you don't–" Sunita backs away a little. "Our daughter's life will be at stake." She says to him and tries to calm herself down.

Outside in the kitchen, Sakshi and Saanvi had done most of the work of making kheer, and then they waited for their parents to come out of their room. Saanvi was suspicious of the way they were in the room but Sakshi, on the other hand, was cheerful, thinking that she can finally tell Sachit about her feelings toward him.

Ever since her result came, she finally felt at ease because, after finally suppressing her feelings for him, she can finally confess to him about her feelings. She wasn't an idiot who didn't notice how he looks at her, and yes, it was hard for her to ignore that and pretend that she didn't know anything about him looking at her with so much love at all. After waiting for a long time, she finally decided that it was time for her to make the first move.