Hearing about the merger along with the news of handling the business in future, armaan riddhima were shocked along with the entire gang except Padma ananya and atul Anjali. It seemed they knew about this announcement. Billy continued further, “I request armaan and riddhima to come here and sign few documents for the merger”. Hearing this, armaan and riddhima looked into each other’s eyes. Riddhima whispered, “What should we do now?” Armaan smiled and answered, “what else come let’s sign the papers”. Riddhima felt something was wrong but failed to point out so she said “you sure we will be able to handle it?” Armaan smiled and blinked his eyes telling her ‘yes’ that they would be able to handle it. “Basket when you and I are together then we can handle anything this is just a company” armaan said. Hearing this, riddhima instantly asked him “But like school or college days you won’t give me the work to complete it right?” Hearing this, armaan tried to control his laughter and said, “When you know this then why are you asking me? Since childhood you are helping me in completing my work then why you think anything different will happen now?” Armaan started walking towards the stage without giving riddhima a chance to speak. After hearing armaan, riddhima’s mouth is opened she could not belief her ears. She looked towards armaan who turned and winked at her with a smile. She shook her head and started walking towards the stage.
Meanwhile, Padma and ananya came and stood next to shashank and billy respectively. Padma whispered into shashank’s ear “I feel you should tell the truth to children”. At the same time, ananya whispered to billy “You should announce the full truth”.Billy looked at ananya and said, “Not today, when time will be right then we will announce it. For now, let them sign the merger papers. Let them first come out of this shock, they are not prepared for the other shock right now”. On the other hand, shashank whispered to Padma “No, not right now. The other announcement can happen later when we feel they are ready to take the shock“. Padma looked towards ananya who shook her head. Ananya asked padma by raising her eyebrows and Padmaa shook her head. Both were sad but then smiled when they saw armaan riddhima coming towards the stage.
Armaan and riddhima reached on stage. Both were so happy that their smile could be visible to people who were standing far off. “Come kids take these papers and sign them” billy said and handed them the papers which they took smilingly. “I hope they don’t read the papers otherwise they will know everything. I am feeling scared ananya” said Padma while pressing ananya’s hand. “Even I am scared what will happen if they’ll read the papers? How will we explain them?” ananya said. Both were tensed yet were trying their level best not to show it on their faces. When armaan and riddhima took the papers they looked at each other. Riddhima whispered to armaan “do we have the time to read the papers?” Armaan smiled and shook his head in ‘No’. “But it’s a rule you shouldn’t sign any paper without reading” riddhima said. Armaan replied “I know but if we’ll start reading papers the whole evening will pass. Anyways they will be merger papers so chill”.
Shashank, Padma, Billy and Ananya sighed when armaan and riddhima signed the papers without reading them. Now only their destiny knew when and how the truth would be revealed to them about these papers. The moment they handed the papers to billy and shashank the audience clapped for them where as the gang whistled for them. Shashank took the mike and said, “As soon as the merger is legalized by the court we will have a big celebration then. Continue enjoying the party”. After papers were signed, shashank and billy were happy because armaan and riddhima didn’t read the documents. If they would have read it they would have got to know the truth. A truth, which was not supposed to be revealed now, but taking the signature was equally important for them. Padma said “I feel what we have done is wrong we should have told them the entire truth before taking their signatures”. Shashank replied irritably “We have talked about it lets not repeat the whole conversation”. Ananya intervened by asking “What if in future nothing happens as the plan then what will happen?” Hearing this billy and shashank thought for a moment. Billy said “Let’s leave thinking of future, present matters more”. Padma and ananya remained silent and then left to attend the guest. The party was now on full swing, the gang was on the dance floor shaking their bodies according to the tunes. “Guys I have an idea” armaan said and all others stopped dancing. In harmony, they asked “kya?” Armaan smiled and said, “I am not deaf, one of you could have also asked me. Anyway, why don’t we go to a disco tomorrow to celebrate riddhima’s and mine entry in the business world?” All were happy and were ready to go except riddhima. She was feeling uncomfortable after listening to disco plan because she hated the smell of alcohol. Armaan noticed her shock face and asked, “Oye basket what happened why you look so shock you don’t want go?” Riddhima said while pointing, “I don’t want to go to disco and you guys keep going so go but I will not go. Anyways what will I do there? I’ll get bored”. Hearing this everyone, tried to control their laughter but armaan could not.
Armaan started laughing like a maniac and riddhima after seeing armaan laughing at her, stared at him with anger. “Armaan why are you laughing so much I haven’t cracked any joke” riddhima asked in an irritated tone. “Oh really I thought it’s a joke” said armaan while laughing in between. “Haha very funny” said riddhima who was getting irritated with armaans constant laughing. She turned to leave but armaan held her wrist and pulled her towards him. She banged into his hard chest and looked into his eyes. Armaan stopped laughing and looked into her eyes. He said, “basket look stop behaving like a kid you are now in second year of college. Anyways you haven’t been to disco so how will you know how much fun it is and I promise you, you will not get bored all of us will be there with you. Trust me you’ll have fun“. Meanwhile riddhima tried to understand what he said and then nodded her head saying she would go to disco with them. When armaan saw her nodding her head he bent towards her ear and whispered “kissi ne tumhare saath flirt kiya na toh mien usse zinda nahiin chodonga tumhari kasam”. After saying that he moved back and winked at riddhima. “Oye ridzy now you will come with us right?”muskaan asked riddhima. Riddhima looked at her first and then at armaan. She nodded her head in agreement. They all hi fived with each other while riddhima thought, “When armaan was so close to me why I was shivering? We have hugged each other so many times but today when he was so close to me why I felt different?” she could not think further because muskaan shook her and raised her eyebrows asking ‘what’. Riddhima just shook her head saying nothing and they all started dancing again.
Shashank and billy who were getting congratulations from every one were smiling full heartedly. They were so happy today that their happiness could be seen to others as well. Other businessmen who were present in the party were trying to read between the lines. Merger announcement definitely meant competition was going to be tough but they were curious to know the reason behind the merger. They wanted to know how they could be affected or to which extend their business would get affected by this merger. Billy and shashank excused themselves after talking a lot on business to others. They went and sat down on the table.
“Yaar shashank maza aa gaya aaj ka din toh boht khaas ho gaya hain na” billy said and shashank just smiled after hearing his friend. “Billy my friend what we are doing is right, right?” Shashank asked who was thinking about ananyas words. “Why are you asking this?” billy asked, who had forgotten ananya’s wordings. Shashank reminded him of ananya’s words and that was when he realized why shashank was asking him this question. However, he had told ananya not to think of future but somewhere down the line, he felt what if children don’t agree with their planning? How would they react? Would they understand them? Though both shashank and him have talked about this many times and every time the conclusion was that they would reveal it only when time was right. Nevertheless, they themselves don’t know when that time would come but certainly today was not the time to tell them. “Its good we have got their signature on those papers and above all we should be thankful to god that they didn’t read those papers. If they would have read the document then I don’t know what would have happened” shashank said. “My friend we have talked a lot about this. I think we should wait for the right time and till then let’s enjoy this moment” billy said and again the talk was stopped on this. From their heart they felt bad that they didn’t tell their children but just prayed that they would understand them and wouldn’t react on it much.
It was time for ananya and billy to cut the cake so shashank and billy walked towards the stage. Shashank was standing next to billy whereas Padma was standing next to ananya. Atul Anjali were standing next to shashank whereas riddhima and armaan were standing next to Padma. Only the Gupta’s and Mallik’s were on stage whereas others were standing down including the gang. Ananya and billy picked up a knife and cut the cake together. They first fed each other with cake then billy fed shashank whereas ananya fed Padma. Afterwards, billy fed atul Anjali armaan and riddhima and ananya fed them as well. Everyone was clapping all this while. In background a music was playing, Dj had played the music congratulations and celebrations. A champagne was opened and the dinner was ready to be served. They all ate the dinner and finally the day was over, it was filled with loads of masti, fun and shock. Before leaving armaan reminded them that tomorrow in college they would decide which disco to go. They all nodded their head but riddhima was still in a confusion whether to go or not. She trusted armaan but she had never been to such place and did not even wanted to go. She stopped thinking and decided she would go with the flow.
Next morning, the alarm clock rang but armaan as usual did not get up instead, he switched it off and hid his face in pillow. He was very tired due to yesterday night’s party and thought he would bunk the first class by going late to college. Suddenly his door opened and ananya and Anjali walked inside. They saw armaan sleeping; they shook their head and walked towards him to wake him up. When he was not waking up Anjali brought a jug full of water from the washroom and threw it on armaan. He woke up immediately and sat straight on his bed with a frown on his face. “Kya hai aap logo ko itni subha subha utha diya mujhe” Hearing this ananya smiled and asked, “Don’t you have to go to college?” Armaan shook his head saying ‘no’. Ananya and Anjali looked at him with a confused look. “Ammy is there a holiday in college today?” Anjali asked.
Armaan smiled and said “meri pyaari maa or bhabhi yeh college hai school nahiin jo time pe nahiin pochoge toh darwaze band ho jaynge arey pehli class main nahiin jaonga second class se college attend kar loonga thodi der sone do na please kal kitna kaam kiya tha thak gaya hun” armaan whined like a small kid. Ananya smiled and said “you may want to attend the second class but riddhima would like to attend the college from the very first class. So, wake up and get ready”. She ruffled his hair. “Maa baal mat chuo (touch)” armaan said while moving his head away from his mom’s hand. She giggled and stood up. Before leaving the room, she said, “Get ready fast”. Armaan nodded his head. He cursed his luck, because of riddhima he had to get up and had to go to college now. Then, he smiled and thought he loved dropping her to college.
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When Padma heard about riddhima getting admission in a college she got tensed thinking how would riddhima go to a new place where she knew none? She rushed to mallik house to meet ananya and shared her worries with her best friend. After she heard her friend she smiled. Padma didn’t know, how to react. Here she was sharing her worries and her friend was smiling instead of consoling her. “Here I am tensed and you are smiling not done ananaya” Padma said.
“I am smiling because don’t you know armaan has also got admission in the same college. Also, their friends too got admission in the same college” ananya said. Hearing this, Padma sighed that her daughter would have a company and if that company was armaan then she had no tension. Armaan, who was coming down stairs to get water, heard Padma and ananya’s conversation. He came forward and said “aunty don’t worry nothing will happen to basket. I will pick her up everyday and we’ll go to college together”. He knew how much Padma worries for riddhima so he just gave her an assurance that he would be there for riddhima. After she heard this Padma smiled and sighed.
FLASHBACK ENDS
He remembered the day and smiled. He stood up and went towards the washroom. He came down and hugged his mom, anjali and atul. His dad was not here because he had some meeting so he had left early in morning. He said bye and walked towards the gupta mansion. He reached gupta mansion and asked Padma where riddhima was. She told him that riddhima had not yet woken up. He smiled and walked towards her room. He entered her room and saw she was still sleeping. When he walked towards the bed, he saw she looked like an angel while sleeping. He didn’t want to disturb her but realized because of her his mother had spoiled his sleep then how could he let her sleep peacefully. He used the same technique that Anjali used on him. The moment he threw water on riddhima she opened her eyes immediately. When she realized it was armaan she took a pillow and threw at him. Armaan caught the pillow and said, “Oh hello I don’t want to join the cricket team stop throwing things at me”. Riddhima got irritated with him and said, “Why did you spoil my sleep by throwing water? I will throw more stuff on you so practice catching it”. “Yeah whatever get ready fast. I am waiting downstairs for you” armaan said this and then left the room.
He was eating his breakfast, which Padma had made for him. It had become a routine now for her to make breakfast for armaan and riddhima. Soon riddhima came down and sat next to armaan.she started eating her breakfast. After eating, they hugged Padma and left for college. During journey, armaan reminded riddhima about their evening plans. He noticed her confuse look, he understood she was still in doubt. He repeated his words again and assured her that he would be there so she didn’t had to worry at all. She nodded her head and replied she would go to the disco. Upon reaching college, he realized he had to take revenge from that junior. He asked riddhima to go to the class and he would come in five minutes. He searched for that junior but then came to know that he was absent today. He cursed his bad luck and walked towards his class.
The moment college finished, they sighed and rushed back to their house. They all finished their assignment that needed to be submitted tomorrow. After finishing, they all slept for a while and then got ready to leave. They all had decided to meet in armaans house so they all reached there on time. Everyone was in shock after seeing riddhima’s dress. “Riddhima tum yeh pehnkar disco jaogi” muskaan asked who could not believe that riddhima would wear this and go to disco. Riddhima looked at her and then said “toh isme kya problem hai”. Boys just shook their head while nikki said “disco mien salwaar kameez pehnke thodi na jate hain buddhu”. She innocently asked them “then what should I wear please explain”. Guys tried to hold their laughter, after they heard her. Armaan controlled his laughter and said “basket don’t behave like a kid I know you are doing it purposely so that you don’t have to go. Now go and change we are waiting for you”.
She shook her head and said “no no I will not wear disco clothes and I don’t even have one. I will not go to disco”. Everyone just hit their fore head and thought now what would they do. They tried telling her that she could borrow the dress from Anjali bhabhi it would not be a problem but she kept on refusing it. They even told her they would not give her too much of revealing dress but she was too adamant and kept on refusing there idea. All this while, armaan’s anger kept increasing. He being a short-tempered person started losing his cool. From half an hour, they were trying to make her understand but she wasn’t listening to them. She was behaving like a small kid who kept whining and it was irritating him. He tried controlling his anger by closing his fist and eyes. Many of them didn’t realize it as they were busy making riddhima understand. Armaan shouted in anger and said “bas”. Everyone looked at him. They could see anger on his face. Seeing him like this, riddhima gulped down her saliva and thought now what would happen to her? Who would save her from his anger?
Coming up
Will armaan be able to control his anger????
Does riddhima agrees to go to the disco??????
A fight in the disco but why does it happens????