Amore è vita

Chapter 21

Martyrs Gallery, Jallan Walah Bagh, Amritsar.

The place where the extravagant show of exquisite art and craft was about to begin. The place was 'The Dream Destination' for various artists residing in the political boundaries of the state of Punjab.

"This is it." Sahiba though while she sighed loudly to remove the tingling sensation in her belly indicating her nervousness.

"Why am I so nervous? I wasn't like this before." Sahiba whispered to herself and she closed her eyes to memorise the god again before entering the place which was like her temple and she came to worship her craft in here.

Angad placed a comforting hand on his wife's shoulder since he sensed that she is not in her usual self. He wanted to comfort her like his mom did to him when he was about to achieve something huge in life.

He wanted to be present for her while she achieves success in her experience of this opportunity like his mom did while he was about to enter any competition in school or college. Angad didn't want anyone to be distant to her like his father was with him due to his marital issues.

He never wanted anyone to experience that loneliness and especially not Sahiba considering her medical condition and the sadness surrounding in her life due this marriage setup.

He himself despised this because he didn't plan it. He wanted to spend the rest of his life with the companion he would have chosen for love not for duty to his family.

But now, it was time for him to step up and take responsibilities as a husband because it was his turn to do so and he wanted to do the same since Sahiba had posed as his loving wife without her consent and faced humiliation.

It was his chance to do something for her and he will not backout this time.

Sahiba on the other hand released a long breath again when she felt the warmth of comfort by just one gesture by her husband and she mentally thanked Angad for doing so.

A sweet thought appeared in her mind of actually having a loving marriage where his success would have been her success and his happiness would automatically become her happiness, where she would have hugged him thanking for his support. But she jerked coming back in the reality and then looked at Angad giving him a thankful smile.

Both of them went inside to which their family smirked because they wanted the couple to reconcile and live their life with loving each other. They now had realised how Sahiba actually became their good luck and a ball of sunshine of their house.

Yes she is still living in the store room but because she is so stubborn that no one could convince her otherwise. But Manveer had transformed that storeroom into an actual luxury bedroom but Manveer was still unhappy.

She wanted to pamper Sahiba because the latter deserved it so much. She gave them honour of being her in-laws by her hard work.

All of the family members except Jasleen, Garry and somewhere Prabhjyot as well were proud of Sahiba's achievements and they blessed her to excel in the field. Daarji even suggested her admission in a prestigious college for fine arts but this proposal was rejected by Sahiba herself because she wanted to grow her Art Gallery first.

Sahiba wanted to establish herself as an artist before and she had a perfect opportunity.

Prabhjyot whispered to Manveer, "Why are we here so early?" To which the latter responded, "Because the participants were called a few hours before so that they would help in the setup of their respective items and props."

Prabhjyot then just looked around and her eyes went to her daughter Yashika who was too involved with Sahiba which she extremely opposed because she still was sore about Sahiba's identity and Monga family's deceit.

Some where in her mind she still considered Sahiba as a bad influence but didn't act on these feelings ever because she got confused of the young girl's behaviour when she chose to comply to the wishes of the family.

Sahiba was helping the staff with her stuff and she had planned her days accordingly.

1st day was of paintings and she had selected her strength in paintings. She had brought her best work and was about to charm the hearts of people.

2nd day as she planned was mirror work and she had some samples of her stunning work as well.

And the last day was her biggest strength which was clay art.

Yashika was makings reels and stories on her Instagram which was her most used social media platform. She was promoting Sahiba which she thought would help her in this event.

She then professionally took some photos of the venue to grab the attention of the High-Class society so that they would visit the exhibition.

Sahiba was checking her items and Angad saw her struggling with some stuff so he went to help but then the first time he heard her whining like a little child for her diary where she wrote the schedule.

Angad found the dairy lying on the ground near her painting he picked it up and went to the whining girl. He tapped at her shoulder and asked hiding the diary, "What happened?"

"My diary is lost, Angad. It had everything I planned for today, tomorrow and day-after. How will I manage now?" She almost cried which amused the man and he forwarded his hand which had the thing Sahiba was looking for.

"You mean this diary?" He said.

Sahiba smiled relaxing which showed her 32 white teeth and Angad laughed at the sight in front of his eyes because his wife looked like a little child who got his favourite candy.

"Where did you find it?" She said hugging and kissing the diary.

"It was lying near the painting." He said trying to control himself from bursting in laughter again.

"Thank you so much, it means a lot to me." She smile and Angad notice baby hair teasing her nose.

He removed that hair and tucked it behind her ear saying, "No problem."

Both of them looked happy and content with each other but then remembered the purpose of the current situation and went back to their previous activities.

Angad helped Sahiba in setting up her stuff and now they were ready for today's endeavours.