Tu hai mere jeene ki vajah

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20 days had passed since their divorce. Life at the oberoi mansion was the same as usual for most of the people.

Like aaloo puri was no longer made, especially not by shivaay.

Gauri was holding up well now, she called Annika whenever she felt like talking to her. OmRu ensured Shivaay ate on time and took his medicines, after all they had promised her.

Subconsciously, Shivaay had started avoiding his room. He didn't realize he was doing it. He spent a lot of nights in Rudra's room, saying he'd give company to his single brother. But the truth was he didn't like sleeping in his room anymore or spending a lot of time there. He didn't know why but he just couldn't sleep there. He'd be restless all the time and then had to take sleeping pills just to get a few good hours of rest.

He did most of his work from home like earlier. And he worked a lot, the amount of money he had made just in the last 10 days was more than all his deals of the past 1 year.

The youngsters decided to take him out for a change. They were all at the mall and gauri took shivaay to a clothes store because she wanted to buy a shirt for omkara and needed his opinion.

[Annika - A, Shivaay - S, Gauri - G, Rudra - Ru]

Inside the store,

Aditya: Hey Annika's Shivaay, what's up

S: oh Hi Aditya

Being called Annika's Shivaay brought back memories of that night when he first met Aditya and how that night he had accepted her as his wife.

Gauri could see the pain on his face and before Aditya could notice she jumped in

G: hello, bade bhaiyya ye kon hai?

{{ hello, bade bhaiyya who's this? }}

S: ye Annika ka friend hai Aditya

{{ he's Aditya, Annika's friend }}

Aditya: acha or aap hai Annika ki gauri, bahut suna hai aapke bare me

{{ oh and you must be Annika's gauri, i've heard a lot about you }}

G: humne bhi aapke bare me suna hai Adi bhaiyya, bas dekha pehli baar hai

{{ i've also heard a lot about you Adi bhaiyya, just hadn't met you yet }}

Aditya: Shivaay tum yahan kaise, Annika ko miss kar rahe hoge na

{{ what brings you here Shivaay, missing Annika right? }}

Shivaay was confused, had Annika told Aditya about their divorce? No, Aditya wouldn't have addressed him as Annika's Shivaay then. Why did he ask that then?

S: hmm

Aditya: hum bhi. Pata nahi kya zaroorat thi use Delhi wale event ki responsibility lene ki, 2 din baad aaygi to khabar leni padegi uski. Vaise tum kab vapis aaye? Annika to keh rahi thi tum sheher me nahi ho isliye party me nahi aa paoge

{{ we also miss her. God knows why she took the responsibility of the Delhi event. When she comes back after two days, I'll give her an earful. When did you come back? Annika told me you were out of town so you wouldn't be able to attend the party }}