Ye Ishq Hai

ch-38

After a week:-

      Their life came back on normal track. Aditya has started going office regularly, but he used to come home on time in evening. Avantika was happy and used to spend her day with Malini, learning
new things and knowing about Aditya's childhood. Harsh and Dev had seriously started working for their new venture and were busy in that. Everything was going well.

      Today it was last day of the year. They were excited for the party, and everyone was busy in doing preparations for it. It was the first party going to be hosted by Diwans in their new home, so they were trying to make it most memorable and grand. Whole house was full of chaos. Malini was little angry with Aditya because today also he went to office despite her telling not to go. Avantika
knew Malini was angry, so she tried her best to distract her with work.

   Evening time:-

Sunset was done and preparations were almost on last stage but Aditya was still not there. Now Malini was fuming with anger because he was not receiving her calls too.

    " Ma, he must be coming, don't worry. Moreover, party is late night. So, he will definitely come before that. Now, I think we should go and take little bit of rest
and then get ready for the party. He
will also come by that time." Avantika tried her best to cool her anger.

  " Don't take your husband's side in front of me, ok? Today, I will not spare him. He doesn't listen to anyone and always do whatever he likes. I had strictly told him to come on time but see, again he didn't listen to me.Now, his phone is not reachable. I am sure, he must have switched it off."Malini was about to say more but stopped after hearing Arundhati's words.

  "Aditya, what happened to you?" Arundhati shouted in shocked voice after seeing Aditya at doorstep who had just arrived.

   After listening this both Avantika and Malini turned around and they stumbled upon their feet. There was standing Aditya Diwan,with messy hair, rolled up sleeves and blood stains all over his
white shirt. Before he could enter inside, his parents and in-laws rushed to him. Avantika was still standing on her spot like a statue.

    " Adi, what is this? What happened to you? Why there is so much blood? Are you ok? Why were you not receiving my call?" Malini said everything in one breathe with tears in her eyes while
checking upon him to see if he was injured.

   " Yes, Adi what is this?" Harsh asked in worried tone.

" Mom and dad, please calm down first. I am perfectly fine. Nothing happened to me, and these are not my blood, so
please relax." He explained to them.

  " What? Then what is this?" Dev asked this time.

  " I went out of the city for a meeting and when I was coming back to home, there was an accident happened on the highway. A man was lying on the road covered in blood and his 6 years old daughter was sitting there helplessly. They were from some nearby village, came to city for new year's shopping. When they were returning home, a truck had hit them from behind and went away without helping them. No one was there at that time. So, I stopped my car, took them to the hospital and was there only till their family members came. I was too occupied with all the hospital
formalities and when I decided to call, my phone's battery was dead. So, I could not inform you guys.This is the whole story. Now please stop worrying because I am fine, and that man is also out of
danger." Aditya explained to them, but his eyes were fixed on Avantika who was still standing there with numb expressions.

   After hearing whole story, Avantika ran away from there. Aditya looked at her helplessly.

    " Thank God. You almost gave us heart- attack by all these blood stains. Now I am relieved and happy to know, that man is also safe, but it doesn't mean that I am not angry at you.If your phone was dead, you could have called from hospital's landline, right? There were so much options but still you didn't bother and just came in front of us like this. This is not done.First go and change your clothes then we will talk. I can't see you like this even for a second." Malini instructed him.