"The door is not even locked. What an irresponsible guy," Drishti said as she found the main door unlocked."He must be too tired to come down and lock it," Siddhu said."Let's go in and check," Drishti said, and together they climbed upstairs.As soon as they entered the room, they found Siddhu on the bed, fully covered by the blanket."Oy Siddhu," Drishti called out loudly, making Siddhu groan."Go away," he muttered from under the blanket.Drishti pulled at his blanket, making him groan.Drishti dialled Anjana's phone number, and it was soon answered."Hello, aunty. Yeah, I'm with him," Drishti said."No, no, aunty. I think he is faking it," Drishti said, and Shravan gaped at her.Siddhu sat up on the bed with a scowl."Their professor had called up for some extra classes before the semester began. This is all his acting to escape the class," Drishti said.Siddhu coughed a couple of times and gestured to Drishti to get him some water from the table."Oh my god. He is doing melodram

Drishti took a deep breath and walked towards Shravan with a glass of iced tea."Here," she said and handed it to him with a bright smile.He took the iced tea and drank it in one go."Shravan, are you in a hurry?" Drishti asked."Nothing important. What is it?" Shravan asked, seeing the anxious look on her face."I want to tell you something. Something important," Drishti said."Tell me, Drishti. You have been worrying over this for a while now. It's high time you came out with it," Shravan said as he sat next to her.Drishti took a deep breath and blurted it out."I am selling D Love to VK."Shravan stared at her for a moment, not really comprehending what she was saying."What?!""Shravan, I am selling D Love," Drishti repeated."You've got to be kidding me. You are selling D Love to VK? VK??" Shravan asked in disbelief."Please listen to what I have to say," Drishti pleaded."You know why I never brought up the topic of D Love after our first fight during our flight? Because I und

5 years later...Drishti was exhausted. There wasn't really another word to describe the state a woman was in immediately following childbirth. The messy business was over. The doctors and nurses had cleared out, and the family went home. Now it was just Drishti and Shravan in a quiet hospital suite. Well, make that just Drishti, Shravan, and the brand-new Master Dhruv Maheswari in a quiet hospital suite. Dhruv made her arrival at 4:53 p.m., weighing three kilograms, plus a hundred grams, and shrieking with the finest set of lungs to ever debut at Sunrise Hospital, Mumbai.It had been a long day filled with excitement, nerves, joy, and pain. And now, she was enjoying a private moment she would remember for her whole life. Shravan was beside her in the reclining chair. Dhruv was bundled up in a white blanket with pastel stripes. He is perfect, tiny, and pink with Shravan's features. Dhruv had fallen asleep with her small hand clutching Shravan's pinky finger, content, warm, and sa

Little Dhruv certainly had a decent set of choppers on him.Drishti winced as the emerging teeth grated on the sensitive flesh of her breast as he hungrily fed.She shifted on the comfortable swing chair on the verandah, with the sunshine sprinkling down on them.Definitely time for solids.That would disappoint the little man in her arms.But she knew an older one who would be delighted to have exclusive access at long last. Drishti thought mischievously.Drishti looked across at sixteen-year-old Damini pouting at her brother-in-law, who refused to let her go for a night party at some pub.Drishti and Shravan had shifted to a two-storied house with a backyard after Dhruv's birth.Damini had come over to stay with her older sister after finishing her tenth-grade public examinations.Much to Damini's dismay, Shravan had started to tutor her with her eleventh-grade syllabus.Ten days after being tutored by Shravan, Damini was begging for permission to go to some college party held by he

"Ava Verma?" Drishti exclaimed happily."Yes. Oh my god! It's been so long, Drishti," Ava squealed happily and bent down to hug Drishti."Yes, yes. Never met even once after I left for the boarding school," Drishti said."Well, you cut ties with me. You refused to stay in touch," Ava said dryly, and Drishti huffed."That's because you cheated me," Drishti said accusingly, making Ava roll her eyes."I didn't cheat anyone," Ava said."You did. You said you would join the boarding school with me. But you didn't," Drishti complained."I said I would try," Ava defended."You didn't try hard enough," Drishti said.Ava let out a sigh."You never let me explain, Drishti. You just hung up the phone and never took my calls again," Ava said.Now when Drishti thinks about it all, it seems all silly. Her ego had come in between and ruined the beautiful friendship she had with Ava."I was just too angry back then. After Mom's death, that was when I first met Maa. I was finally becoming happy again,