Once, we were home

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Prologue:

In Avalena's home. When Tara is 8 years older. Girls were sitting in the living room with the children and watching TV while the boys were in the kitchen.

Nayan: Hey, Harsh! (Harsh is soaking the rice in water.) Why does dal taste like water? (Offers Harsh to take a sip of the spoon.)

Harsh: (Tastes.) Big brother, it's tasteless.

Nayan: I know.

Raj: Then why did you offer him? (Cutting vegetables.)

Nayan: To know why it tastes useless.

Harsh: Because you didn't put the salt on it.

Nayan: Oh, okay. (Start to add salt.)

Raj: Or it can happen to test you, why are you so useless, Harsh?

Harsh: Don't just make me angry.

Raj: Sorry.

Nayan: Raj, have you finished cutting the vegetables?

Raj: Yes. (Puts the plate of cut vegetables in front of Nayan.) You should have seen my skill. How beautifully I cut those vegetables in a clean cut. Amazing.

Harsh: God! He starts again.

Raj: Starting what?

Harsh: I swear if he wasn't the father of my Naina's husband then I would have beaten him to death.

Raj: Then I got lucky. Otherwise, you both brothers would have taken that chance. Right?

Nayan: It's unbearable to stay with you two.

Harsh: Sorry, brother. But you should tell this to Raj.

Nayan: Didn't Rani tell you not to get angry, Harsh?

Harsh: That's why I am keeping calm.

Raj: This calm? This is calm then what is anger?

Harsh: Shut up. I don't know what happened to her after getting pregnant. She is like to make our son into a saint. She is making everything colorless. Thank God I am with my family, otherwise I would have to eat that tasteless food.

Raj: It's okay. She is nine months pregnant. It happens. We all have an amazing history with our wife's pregnancy phase.

Nayan: Yeah. At least she didn't run away from home like your sister-in-law, After listening to the pain of the delivery she ran away from the home.

Raj: Right. First, we got beaten by Dad for not taking care of her. We ran through the whole city to find her. My wife Gitali, cried for the first two months being overwhelmed by Gajraj coming. I didn't understand how she cried that much even being pregnant.

Harsh: That's why our children's mentality is on a different level. (Everyone smiles.)

Nayan: What about the errors that we were getting from the outside of the veil? Did you find anything outside the border?

Raj: We are near to that unknown error. We will find out who is making that noise from the outside. Strangely, it has been happening for a few months but we are still clueless.

Harsh: I am not feeling well. I feel like something bad is gonna happen.

Nayan: Think positive. We can't let anything happen to this city. We need to calm down first.

Raj: One second. Where has Tara been going recently? I am getting the report of her crossing this area's border. What's wrong with our children?

Harsh: What? She is going somewhere outside the frequency? Why didn't you tell me before, brother? What if something happens to her? If Tara is going there then Gajra, Akshar, and Ansh are also going behind her.

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