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2 | Going to Him

Aditya had a tough time dealing with his father's crankiness and his own confused conscience regarding the emotion the man driving the car was having for his mother! His constant glances were making Raman nervous. If he would ask something, he is going to slap him; Raman mentally prepared. How he planned things secretly but...! A flinching gasp escaped Aditya's mouth when he saw his father hitting the steering furiously, as if to suppress his apprehensions. "Papa," He called him out, as calmly as he could.

"Adi!" Raman groaned, in reply that zipped his lips up in no time. The car stopped near their apartment complex, making both of them relieved, to save their soul from the extremely awkward situation. "Tell Shagun that I'll pick up Pihu." Raman informed coldly.

"Why, papa?" Aditya mumbled quizzically and saw Raman gawking him nonchalantly. His father does not like his biological mother for reasons no one knows. She has changed. She is looking after Pihu, from when she was born. She has drastically changed and there was days when his grandparents wished if his father would marry her, consider her worthy of sharing the rest of his life with. All those days, he had expressed his grudge towards nuptial bond, but not the love that he was suppressing deep inside, that was overwhelming for his real mother, Ishima! If his mother is facing his father's anger, the other woman has never faced anything but coldness! Aditya looked on when Raman drove past.

"We're not going anywhere!" Ishita threw her vanity bag and shouted. Abhimanyu creased his eyebrows; a fear engulfed him. He had always faced rejection, and loss, when it comes to Ishita. He had been head over heels in love with her, professed it, and collected his broken heart when she repeatedly chose someone else; be it Subramaniam at first; or be it Raman Kumar Bhalla, who seemed to be having her heart forever. He does not want her to accept his love but be with him the way she is doing. However, her ex-husband, her real kids, nothing is going to go as per his wish anymore; he clinched.

"Ishu, what's wrong? Why are you getting hyper?" Abhimanyu came forward, to touch her shoulder but she stepped back and looked over her shoulder, indicating him to ask Aaliya. "Aaliya?" He queried calmly.

"Appa, Amma's ticket got cancelled, don't know how. Then Aditya came there. So, amma, she decided to stay back. She doesn't want to miss him, you know..." Aaliya managed that much and gulped in the part of Raman. She does not want to hurt her appa, does she?

"That's not it all!" Ishita quipped wiping her tears those were falling incessantly. "How dare him! How dare him, Mani!" She sat in the couch, looking down. Depressed; Raman does not feel any kind of happiness on watching her alive but anger! She better should have died other than facing this day in her life! After venting out all that has happened in the airport, she gazed Abhimanyu into his weary eyes. "He can't stop me from meeting my kids. They are my kids. I don't care how others will react but I'm moving there." She finalized.

"Moving?" Abhimanyu gasped. "To Bhalla house?" He could not compress his shock.

"Who am I to move into Bhalla house? I'm no more a Bhalla legally! Raman Bhalla got nothing to do with Ishita Iyer anymore. So I'm moving to some other apartment in the same complex, from where I can meet my kids whenever I want. He's no one to stop me! He's going overboard!" She was determined when she walked in her bedroom, leaving the luggage in the living room, as she wanted to take some rest before arranging her residence.

"Should we go with amma, appa?" Aaliya was confused.

"Let her decide." Abhimanyu trailed off, as he does not know if he has any rights to go accompany her without her permission.