CHAPTER 16
*Avishka has tears in her eyes, and her parents sitting in front are continuously looking at her. Advait is just coming and looking from the kitchen door again and again and going inside again to do something. Reema starts crying a lot when she sees Avishka crying. Because of this, Kailash is sometimes looking at Reema and sometimes at Avishka. He is getting very upset seeing both of them cry, but he is not stopping them from crying at all. Finally, he says it a little loudly.
"If there is any competition, let me know; I will also take part. There is a lot of competition going on in both of them to get the first prize, and I do not want any kind of competition to take place, and I am not a part of it."
"Papa, don't talk nonsense at all; I don't want to hear anything at all right now."
"Okay, don't listen to me at all, but come here.”
Kailash immediately spreads his arms, and Avishka, wiping the tears from her crop top sleeves, comes near him, sits on his lap, hugs him, and starts crying even more loudly while hugging him. Kailash says when he sees Reema, who is still crying.
“Continue…”
When he spoke like this, Reema wiped her tears and started staring at him, while Avishka also started looking at her father with pouty lips. He kissed her forehead and said,.
"This was your first exam after your post-graduation, which you have given; just tell me how many people were there in your post-graduation with whom you had competition.”
Avishka looks at him, and he smiles, caresses her head lovingly, and tells her something.
"Sweetheart, this is not a school or college exam; it is a state-level and center-level exam, where lakhs of people come to give the exam who are more hardworking than you, and in such a situation only 50 to 100 people are selected. You are very intelligent, and I know you very well. It was your first time; don't cry so much. All I can say is that you possess the inherent ability to triumph, and you will indeed do so. Promise me that you'll never lose and will always try to win. We control our efforts just as much as our actions.... Do you understand this?"
Her father's words affect her very well, and she immediately wipes her tears, looks at her father very well, and then holds his hands and tells him.
“I will do everything. Papa, I am strong.”
"So on occasion of solving the matter with a good solution, get honey chili potato fries from the hands of world-famous chef Advait."
Everyone turns and looks at Advait, who is standing with a very delicious honey chili potato. On seeing Avishka, she looks at her father, and her father immediately signals her, due to which she snatches it. She moves to sit next to her father, and they begin eating as quickly as possible, causing Advait to scream loudly.
"Mom, these two will eat everything, leave nothing for us, and attack quickly."*
Like every day, her sleep is suddenly broken, and there are tears in her eyes because she cries, remembering her family with immense love, without whom she had not even thought of living even once. Now they are also not around her, just thinking about it all makes her feel suffocated. They are definitely with her even today, but only in her memories and not with her like she used to always be with them.
She gets up suddenly from the bed and immediately sits down because of the pain in her legs. There are undoubtedly tears in her eyes, but they are not due to the pain but rather to the deep wound in her heart. She says yes.
"I tried to kill myself, but luck saved me. I understand that, no matter where you are, you always want to see me pleased, and I'm not sure why I feel so happy every time I see Aashi. However, my life has unexpectedly become centered around this innocent girl. Please pray that I will always remain happy to see Aashi happy like this, wherever you are. You always used to say, Never give up; I also don't want to give up and want to try to live again, which is very difficult now."
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Aashi is sitting on Prakram's stomach and is laughing continuously because Prakram is deliberately laughing too loudly because of her tickling, due to which Aashi is not stopping laughing at all. She says this while trying to scare her father by showing her fingers.
"One more time.”
"No please…”
Prakram immediately folds his hands and says this to Aashi like he wants to save himself, due to which she starts laughing even more loudly to tickle her father, due to which Prakram starts laughing even more loudly, and Aashi's laughter mingles with his laughter and resonates a lot. Avishka smiles lightly as she listens to their laughter. She has Aashi's food plate in her hands, so she stands outside. She does not want to disturb both of them, but she knows that Aashi is already late to eat. It is very late, so, forgetting everything, she knocks on his door.
"Sir, Aashi's food..."
“Come inside…”
Aviksha comes inside; Prakram is lying on the bed; and Aashi is sitting on his stomach. He immediately comes to the couch with her, sits his daughter on his lap, and says this to Avishka.
"I will feed her."
When she hears him, Avishka immediately turns and walks away without saying anything. Prakram is watching her go. This girl neither turns around, asks any questions, nor says anything extra. This is bothering him in a strange way. Suddenly, Aashi says to him:.
"I don't want to eat."
"Aashu..."
"Papa…"
She starts tickling her father again, and Prakram is also laughing loudly, but he holds her hand and tells her.
"Now, all games later, food first."
"First Ashu has to play and then eat."
“Aashi is a very good girl."
“Aashi is a bad girl who wants to play."
Prakram knows very well that she will not listen to him easily, so he starts playing with her. After playing, she starts feeling tired, which leads her to rub her eyes with her small fist.
"Aashi, there is no need to do this; now eat quickly and then go to sleep."
"I want to sleep."
"Aashi no… nanny… nanny…”
Avishka was sitting in her room, searching through an old magazine for some content to read, but she was unable to find anything suitable. But as soon as she heard Prakram's voice, she went very quickly towards his room with her limping leg.
"Aashi has not eaten anything, even after trying hard, and wants to sleep. Feed her a little something quickly because she will fall asleep and then wake up from sleep and start crying due to hunger.”
Avishka nods her head and starts taking her plate of food, due to which Prakram gets angry that she will take the plate at one time and Aashi at another.
"What is this method? One time, you will take the plate, and the second time, you will take Aashi. Since I have informed you that she will sleep hungry, please feed her as soon as possible.
His loud voice scares Avishka so much that she immediately turns around, cautiously takes Aashi from him, and begins limping towards her room with the plate. Prakram's attention shifts to her leg. As a result, he begins to feel a slight sense of regret for the words he has spoken. However, he is not prone to regretting his actions, so he quickly dismisses these thoughts from his mind. With great difficulty, Avishka enters Aashi's room, sits on the bed, places Aashi in her lap, and starts cooing at her with her sweet words.
"If Ashu agrees to what I say, I will make her listen to today's very lovely fairy tale."
Aashi loves to listen to new stories, and as soon as Avishka asks her to give her her favorite thing, she rubs her eyes with her small fists and starts looking at her, which is why she drags up her scarf and keeps it only on her head so Aashi can see her properly and interact with her without any barriers, which she loves a lot. Her scarf is now on her hair bun, and she starts looking at Aashi with a smile.
"Do you want to hear the story?"
“yes..."
"So first, we will finish the whole meal and then listen to the story."
"We will hear the whole story while eating.”
"Yes, this is also possible, but you will have to finish eating completely."
"Ok…"
Prakram is sure that Ashi would be asleep by now, which makes him feel a little angry that he should not have listened to Aashi and played with her; he should have definitely paid attention to feeding her; he immediately came out of his room. He heads towards the nearby room, which is Aashi's, but his feet stop after listening to the conversations, so he starts looking inside through the window.
Aashi definitely wants to sleep, but she is smiling after listening to Avishka's words and is eating food very well. Aviksha has lovingly taken Aashi into her arms, and as she holds her close to her chest, she continuously smiles and speaks to her while feeding her properly. He appears to fix his gaze on both of them. After feeding Aashi, Avishka takes her in her arms more lovingly and makes her sleep while caressing her hair. The smile on her face is a sight to behold.
She realizes quite well that Aashi is asleep, takes her very carefully in her arms, and, as if embracing her lovingly, looks at her face and smiles even more. Her eyes are fixed on her angelic face, which she loves to watch all the time. Once she lies down on the bed, she carefully positions a pillow around her to prevent her from falling off if she turns. She also covers her well with the duvet, caressing her head and kissing her forehead. In all these things, Avishka's face remains constant, with a very small smile.
She turned to leave, and within a few moments, her smile vanished from her face, and she covered her face properly before leaving the room. Prakram continues to watch her walk towards her room, her leg limp with pain. Prakram starts looking at her feet, and within a few moments, she disappears from his sight. He turns and stares at Aashi. He comes into the room, puts his hands in his pockets, and starts looking at Aashi very carefully. The one who is in very deep sleep also sees the pillow and thick sheet on her body very clearly. He states.
“Impressive. “