Avneil FF

Chapter 9

After father-daughter, time for some mother-daughter bonding! No avneil romance in this one! But I hope u'll enjoy nevertheless.

Avni and Neil had been enjoying a happy married life! They had their share of nok-jhok and fights now and then but they had created a rule that they would not go to bed without settling a fight! And they had managed to quite successfully handle the few issues now and then. And even though technically they were nearing 2 years of marriage, to them they it felt like they were newly weds because apart from close to 1 month in the condo when they had lived alone and gotten to know each other their entire married life had been way to crazy. It was only now 4 months after avni was back from jail that they were really starting to settle down into a routine. Things were good at home, avni had a full time job, neel was busy as ever with his cases- thankfully nothing related to his family anymore. And no psycho criminals like vidyut and RP anymore!

Neela ma's birthday was coming up this weekend and Avni had been very excited. She wanted to celebrate this birthday in a grand manner and she was extremely pleased that bebe and shweta had offered to host the part at home when she mentioned to them 2 weeks back about neelama's birthday. So the D-day was arriving and avni had been planning a major surprise for her mom. She wanted to make this birthday a special one for her because avni knew that she owed her new family, neel everything in her life to neelama. She had kept her entire agenda a secret even from neel and the family. All they knew was that she was having a party at home with few close friends with cake and dinner and the usual lights and decorations like neel had planned for avni's first birthday at the khaanna house but avni was working on a secret project of her own. She had all of them contribute to it without disclosing the full reason.

Avni had delegated roles to everyone. Shweta and Bebe supervised decorations, ali took care of the lighting, prakash ji was bringing the cake. Neel was supposed to pick her mom up and bring her home for the party in the evening. In the morning everyone had called to wish neela- bebe, shweta, prakash neel had all wished her. Avni ahd driven to see neelama with her handmade gajar ka halwa- neela's fav sweet dish and wished her mom. They went to the temple together and had come back home late afternoon. And after that avni had taken her leave asking neela to meet her at khanna house for a family dinner.

Later in the evening when neel picked up neela she was expecting a quiet dinner with family but she was in for a pleeasnat surprise when she got there and took in all the arrangements. The lighting was in shades of blue fairy lights that neela loved, there were elegant drapes hanging in the hall. It was all decked up like it was a shaadi reception just as per her taste all supervised by avni ofourse and ably assisted by shweta and bebe.

Neela was very happy to see the decoration and got warm wishes from ali, DD, all the khannas and even some of her NGO colleagues whom avni had invited

Next it was time for the cake cutting- Avni had arranged a 2 tier chocolate cake which was neela's absolute favourite. Once cake cutting was over and cake and snacks had been served, avni announced for everyone to settle down.

Avni- so as you all know, aaj ma ka birthday hai so now that thodi si pet pooja hogai hai, its time for a special birthday gift!

So this one is for you ma- she said and put on the AV on the large flatscreen TV in the khanna living room.

It was a video compliation of beautiful messages for neela from her work colleagues, ali, DD, khannas and neel. It had been going on for about 5 minutes now and everyone including neela was waiting for the last message from avni. But the video just drew to a close after 5 minutes and although everyone had applauded and neela was overwhelmed with emotions with all the nice things people had said she and everyone had been waiting for avni's message. And suddenly as ali turned on the lights they all noticed avni sitting on a stool, with a guitar in her hand.