MishBir : Fool's Gold ✓

Chapter 21: Soon You'll Get Better

Hii. I am back with a new CHAPTER. Thank you so much for the responses on the previous chapter. P. S. I have never seen yrkkh so I don't know why Karishma left Mishti or what happened so this is all gonna be fiction and totally not related to yrkkh.
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Mishti stopped at her tracks and turned, "Then why don't you start with the explanation of you leaving your 13 year old daughter alone?"

" Then why don't you sit down as I'm sure it's gonna be a long night sweetie."

Mishti wanted to know why her mother was absent in her life's most crucial years. Why had she left her and Mr. Naman Agarwal? Where had she been all these years? She had a lot of questions and Karishma was ready to answer all.

Mishti sat down on the bed and Karishma started, "When you were 10, 3 years before I left you, your dad started drinking and coming home late. He used to disrespect his mom and me. But then, I did something to bring him back to tracks. "

" What did you do? "

" I told him that I was pregnant and that we were gonna have another baby. "

" Wait what? "

" No. No. I lied so that he would change and get his shit together. He promised that he would solve everything and leave alcohol and get a proper job. But-"

" But you obviously couldn't have continued this lie for a long time because you were actually not pregnant."

" Exactly. Naman found out that the whole time I was making him a fool. He was infuriated. He started behaving terribly with me. He used to shout at anything I'd say and bad mouth me. Our relationship began having troubles and he resumed drinking. This continued for 2 years Mishti. 2 freaking years I tolerated his words and bad behaviour." Karishma started crying.

" Did- did he ever hit you? " Mishti hesitated to ask and passed Karishma the corner of her dupatta.

" Not until those 2 years. But, after that, he- he did hit me. For the slightest of mistake I did, he'd torture me, abuse me, slap me and once he even tried to touch me without my permission. " Karishma had turned pale remembering the past memories. " But I handled it all Mishti... For you. I let go every slap, every abuse, just for you... Until my tolerance broke. I couldn't take it anymore. I felt like running away or dying. So that's what I did. I left everything and came here, to Mumbai. "

" Why didn't you take me? Why did you leave me with that horrible man? " Mishti screamed the question she had wanted to ask ever since the beginning.

"Because Mishti, I had nothing. I didn't have a place here, I didn't have any money to feed myself, how would I fill your stomach? I thought that the Singhania's and your dadi would take care of you and provide you with what I couldn't. I rented a room in Mumbai's girls hostel and tried to look for jobs and landed one as a secretary in Shekhar's company. "

" Shekhar, the man who's your husband now? "

" Yes. We fell in love with each other. "

" Does he know about Naman Agarwal or me?"

" He knows everything about my past Mishti. But what you don't know is that after six months, once I started earning enough money, I came back to Rajkot to get you. I knocked at Devyani ji's door, the same place I never wanted to be in but I went anyway, for you bachhe. I came to take you with me. "

" Then why didn't you? "

" She told me that The Maheshwari's had adopted you. And that you were happy with them and that you never wanted to see me or go anywhere with me. She even showed me a video of the three of you making a dollhouse. I thought you were happy beta and that's why I went back. I'm sorry Mishti. I should've taken you with me anyway. "

" You mean that? "

" I mean every word I've said today. Mishti I have been a terrible mother, but please give me a chance to show the kind of mother I could've been years ago. "

" How did you know about Abir and my marriage? "

" Just because I went back to Mumbai doens't mean that I never looked out for you. Remember the bouquet you found at your doorstep when you graduated college or the bracelet you found during your gordhana with Abir and the golden bangle at your wedding? " Karishma listed and Mishti nodded.

" That was you wasn't it? I always thought that Badi Ma anonymously gifted me those things. "

" Mishti you have always been my daughter and I will always look out for you. Now why don't you tell me the real reason you are in Mumbai? "

Mishti narrated the events that took place and Karishma was boiling with anger.

"Mene iss Varsha ko humesha se bola tha ki apni beti ko sambhal kar rakhe. Aur Jasmeet to ghatiya hai hi. Pata nahi meri best friends kese thi yeh dono pehele? Is kuhu ki wajah se meri beti ki zindagi barbaad ho gayi! "

" Mrs Kapoor it's okay. Aapki galati nahi hai. Agar mai kisi se gussa hoon to woh Abir hai. I just hope ki you are not expecting me to put everything behind us and immediately start calling you mom. It will take some time but I think Mumbai is a place of fresh start for both of us. You found your family here. Maybe I'll find mine too. "

Karishma nodded with tears in her eyes. " Fresh start. I like that very much." And the women hugged each other after almost 13 years.

Later, they revealed the Raizada's about Mishti being karishma's daughter.

"Oh My God! Matlab ab meri sirf ek nahi, do-do behene hai. Thank you mumma!!!" Pankhuri exclaimed and ran to Mishti, hugging her whereas Mishti was taken abaxk with her reaction. She thought that Pankhuri would behave like Kuhu and get angry at her for stealing her family but she did the exact opposite. Feeling overwhelmed, Mishti hugged her back.

"Welcome to the family Mishti. " Shraddha said and the three sisters hugged each other.

Tears flew out of karishma's eyes at the sight of her 3 daughters and she vowed in her mind that she'd never let the Maheshwari's hurt her Mishtu again.

"Meri Mishti bahut achhi hai Shekhar. Sach jaanne ke baad usne mujhe maaf kar diya. Par mai jaanti hoon ki mujhe in 13 saalo ki bharpai karni padegi. I need to win Mishti's trust and love again. I'm her mom and I'll prove that to her now. " Karishma said and Shekhar just nodded, embracing his wife who was still crying.

"Mumma, ab Mishti di humare saath rahegi naa? Please please please please?" Pankhuri started jumping on spot and looked at Mishti with puppy dog eyes.

" Haan bilkul Pankhu. Abse tumhari Mishti di humare saath hi rahegi." Shekhar replied, caressing Mishti's head and she just looked confused.

" Yayyyyy! Chalo aao di! Mai aapko apni drawings ki file dikhati hoon. Tu bhi chal Vansh. " Pankhuri said and dragged Mishti with her to a room across the hall.

"Jab se mai is ladki se mila tha, tabse mujhe laga ki iska humare saath kuch alag rishta hai. Aaj karishma bhabhi ki wajah se meri baat sach ho gayi. Mishti bahut pyaari hai. Mujhe bahut khushi hai usse humare parivaar ka hissa banane mai. " Vishesh said and Sumidha nodded.

" Mai aaj usse peheli baar mili par mil kar esa laga hi nahi ki woh humse alag hai. Aapne dekha nahi Pari kese uski baahon mai sambhal gayi. " Sumidha added and Ansh and Shraddha too agreed with her.

"Mai Pari ko dekh kar aati hoon Ansh." Shraddha said walking forward but felt her vision go blurry and everything fading around her as she started swaying down.

"Shraddha!" "SHRADDHAA!" The voices came slowed down as she turned lifeless on the ground, blood oozing out of her nose.
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A/n
Continuing with the flashback chapters, here's a new one. I hope you liked it and I as the story progresses, I feel like mailing this to DKP to show them how they could've added better potential tracks in the show rather than that surrogacy track and lower down our show's trp. Anyways, there is no use of being angry now. Don't forget to vote and comment.
Love,
Misha 💜