A hate-love arranged marriage. ✅️

25. Decision

No one can understand the pain I am feeling right now of not having a family...The people I was with for so long were not my family and no one can understand this pain...." Avni says still sobbing against his chest.

" I can understand your pain, you have come to know the truth today that the people you were living with are not your family....Imagine a person living with a family knowing that they are not his family, how would he live among them..." Hearing his words, Avni suddenly gets lost in some thoughts.
she moves away from him and looks at him, she looks into his eyes, which are trying to tell her something.

" Today I want to tell you something that you wanted to know about me...." At his words she looks at him and Neil looks into her eyes.

Neil thinks that maybe the time has come that he should tell Avni about himself and that is why there can be no better time than right now.

" I can understand your pain because the family in which I have been living since childhood is not mine..." On his words she looks at him confused and to end her confusion, he speaks further

" Main iss ghar ka beta nahi hu." Avni gets shocked at his words and Neil looks at her calmly.

He remains calm because now it does not matter to him why he is living in this house, Yes, he used to feel suffocated in this house and that is why he wanted to leave this house but now maybe that feeling has ended somewhere, ever since, he has left aside everything else and started focusing only on the fact that he is living with Avni and where his Avni is, that is where he finds his peace, the peace that he never found here in this house before she came here.

" Though my surname is Khanna but Prakash Khanna has only one son and that is Abhishek, Maa married him when I was 5 years old and I've been here since that day," says Neil

Avni is still in shock, she can't believe what she has heard because she has always seen Prakash praising Neil but if Neil is saying all this that means he is also not lying but when Prakash loves Neil so much then why does Neil feel that he is not the son of this house?
And most importantly, who is his real father, where is he, what happened to him? Is he not alive, that is why her mother remarried or is there some other reason.

And before Avni can recover from her shock and ask something to Neil, Neil speaks further

" Yehi mera sch hai.... jaise tumhare paas koi parivaar nahi hai, mere paas bhi nahi hai....par....... Saying this he holds her hand and sits with her on the bed, till now both of them were standing close to the bed.

They both sit face-to-face on the bed, and Neil still holding her hand in his.

" Par ab hum hai ek dusre ke paas, chalo hum dono hi ek dusre ka pairvaar ban jaate hai, apni ek chhoti si duniya bnaate hai, jahan sirf tum, main aur humara..... He stops when he is about to say "their love"

" Aap, main aur humara kya ?" When he stops, she looks at him and asks this question, which brings a light smile on Neil's lips.

" Tum, main aur humari khushiyaan...We don't need anyone when we are with each other." Avni looks at him at his words.

And she doesn't know what magic was there in his words that suddenly all her sorrows vanished knowing that he is with her and when both of them are with each other, they don't need anyone else.

She is looking at him silently and Neil is looking at her

" I hope you got to know everything you wanted to know about me today..." he says

"But you haven't told me everything, I know..." She says because when Prakash is so nice then what could be the reason for Neil to think that he is not his father, why doesn't he talk to him and along with this there are many things which indicate to her that the truth about Neil is not just that he is not the son of this house, there must be some big reason behind his behavior because when the step father is so good then how can anyone not accept him?