Begusarai

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Times files when it is only the happiness one is surrounded with.

Niyati felt that everyday, day by day passed infront of her all filled with laughter of her family, sweet moments spent away from the world with him,and now the festival of the diwali bought the vacation hand in hand.

The children of the Mishra's family will run around the house whole day, cleaning the two houses took most of their time "also because you all are wasting time instead of doing actual work" Radha reminds them all the time as the children would put the song on the sound system and dance more than doing the chores.

Whitewashing of the both houses were done for the upcoming wedding as well as for the festival as well as the colorful lights are hanged on the terrace of every houses making them illuminates as the sparkling stars in the evening.

Special prepration of the Gujiya, murku, buniya are done by both Radha and Roopa along with homemade gulab jamun. Raghuveer bought each of the children gifts according to the likes of each of them with Shivangi, Niyati and Maithili each getting silver anklets and a watch for Ranveer.

On Dhanteras, Roopa and Radha went along with Raghuveer and Manorama to bought the silver coins and steel plates for the auspicious day. In the evening, Niyati, Shivangi and Maithili put the traditional rangoli motifs outside of the houses with colourful artificial colors. Small footprints of the Devi Laxmi were drawn inside the houses from vermilion and rice powder.

A grand rangoli made of up only rice powder was drawn outside of the temple by Maithili who finds the most joy in doing the work of art.

In the evening, Raghuveer lit up the Diya in the temple. The burning diyas are burnt ritually outside of the every house of the locality as few children ran outside of their houses with firecrackers in their hands.

With a warning Niyati ran outside of the house along with Ranveer and Maithili in her toe "Amu, be careful" burning the firecrackers and bombs giving heart attack to Shivangi who feared them as Shivangi run up and down with Niyati and her two minions after her.

"You three...I will see you later." Growled Shivangi hiding behind Raghuveer who was trying his best to not laugh as Maithili was keep indicating him to step aside. "Remember that."

"First you come out of the house..then we will see." Niyati provoked motioning Gola to go behind Shivangi as Maithili tackled Shivangi from the front and they all fall in a heap laughing and rolling on one another when suddenly Gola starts crying.

"What happened? You got hurt?" Shivangi asked frantically sitting up examining his head, face and body.

"I told you all to be careful..see now..come her Gola.." Radha and Roopa come from the outside where they were chatting with the neighborhood ladies but Gola didn't left as he hugged a flabbergasted Shivangi in the middle sobbing even harder.

"What happened to you beta," ask his sister tapping him as the other two of her siblings looked worried also.

When Gola said "Y-You..you will..be gone..dii- you won't be..be here next..year" Maithili gave one look to Niyati and then to Shivangi before colliding in her sobbing along with her brother.

"Dii..don't go dii..we will ask jiju to come here. He can stay with us. We will give him my room..don't go didi.." the little girl said hysterically as the eldest hold those two to herself, tears glistening on her face as well as on every other members.

The start reality that next year, Shivangi won't be here drawn on them. That their will no more yelling for Shibu across the house, no birthday celebration of her name, the chair of her at the dinning table will be empty for forever, that, soon Shivangi will have another family, people around herself to call her own, for she will have to forget the house where she spent her childhood, the house that will not be her anymore.