Arnav Khushi's kids

3. Khushi's kids

This one is for Rosyberry, for her boundless love for CSD and AKK and her wish to see khushi's place in her kids' lives with growing years. Hope you all like it ❤

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The bond between a mother and her child is often placed as the most important, most special relation for any living being. And obviously so. A mother is the first person who knows of your presence when you yourself were just a mass of few cells! She is the first person on this earth to feel you, to nurture you and to hold you without asking anything in return! The most selfless bond!

Which is why it is given position of worship, devoutness by many people...

However, it is also the same person who is often made to bear the brunt of her child's moods, the changing needs as the child grows up and often times taken her love for granted. Maa ka toh kaam hi hai pyar karna, saath dena, har choti badi galtiyon ko maaf karna, hai na (It is after all a mother's duty to love, to be with you, to forgive your small or big mistakes, right)? What's the big deal in that? But perhaps there IS a big deal after all...

Khushi and her kids were also going through these stages of understanding as the year 2036 dawned over Shantivan. Her eldest child, Kavish was now a 20-year-old young adult while her twin daughters Shriya and Arohi were sweet-16.

And the dynamics between her bond with all 3 of them was evolving into new arenas.

It all began when khushi started realizing that her children had started forming their own worlds which didn't always need her presence, which were separate from the 'choti si duniya' she and Arnavji had built for them. Not that they dismissed their parents, of course not, but then there were times when they wanted to do their own things or talked in their own gen-alpha language which was so different to the words she taught them!

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It had been 2 years now, since pari started attending a regular school. She was back in Aru's class and both the girls were now in 11th grade. And if her intelligence while she was home-schooled for almost 10 years was always admired by her teachers, her horizons started expanding more in this new environment. She got access to many more subjects offered in the school, met more experienced teachers and interacted with her classmates with whom she had discussions on various topics. Of course, she didn't make any friends, and her interactions stayed limited to to-the-point sentences, but still, she had a different set of things to do now than Khushi was seeing her do until recently.

And as happy as Khushi was with her daughter's progress, she missed being the constant companion in Pari's life.

These thoughts bothered her even more when she watched Pari and Arnav interact. Because evidently, Arnavji was lucky to have one common topic of interest with their daughter on which they both could talk for hours to no end- business! Pari was fascinated with the world of running an empire! She would always watch business related news and shows, read countless books on strategies and planning and have many questions which she always asked her Dada who was more than happy to engage with her. Pari was proving out to be Arnav's daughter in this matter entirely! One would argue that Khushi too had been a businessman's daughter and wife, had run a dabba service back in the day and then ran a food business venture 'Gupta foods' which was successful, but she didn't have a formal degree in it. So, she couldn't talk in the technical terms her daughter used...

Like now for example, Pari had found them sitting by the poolside having their evening chai/coffee when she came there asking Arnav what red ocean and blue ocean strategies were and did he use them. Their discussion started intensifying and Khushi felt left out. Maybe she should leave from there, she concluded. And got up, taking their empty teacups while leaving the platter of jalebis and roasted channa as she knew Pari liked it.