"Good Morning Bhabhi!!" Veer wished Akshita, side hugging her.

"Hey, she is my bhabhi," Trisha said, pulling Veer away from Akshita.

"But I'm Bhabhi's favourite, right bhabhi?" Avyansh said from the back hugging her like a child hugging his mom.

"Ohh hello! You go away you were going na, now shuu shuu.." Veer starts shooing him, and they start arguing.

Looking at the siblings behaving like this for her made her chuckle.

"See Akshita, they always become little children in front of you, who can say they are in their 20s" Rashmi said, shaking her head while giggling.

"She doesn't even need her own babies, she already has 3 right Akshita?" Bhavna smirked, making Akshita head snap at her with widened eyes.

Blood rushed to her cheeks, she was speechless, looking at her both ladies chuckled.

"What happened mom? What are you guys gossiping about?" Trisha asked in confusion hearing the chuckles, and the other two looked at them.

Rashmi looks at Akshita and then at Bhavna "Nothing! ladies stuff" she giggled and then left from there with Bhavna, leaving the statue of Akshita.

"Bhabhi what happened?" Avyansh asked.

"Huh? No..nothing you guys go I will come in a minute" Akshita said smiling nervously.

When they left she sighed in relief and turned back to go to the kitchen but stopped at her place in shock, she gulped hard looking at her dear husband who was now avoiding eye contact.

'Why he is red? Did he hear what chachi said? No! No! Akshita he didn't! how can he?' She averted her gaze and left the place without saying anything.

Ekansh muttered something under his breath and made his way toward the dining table where everyone was present.

After Akshita arrives inside the dining room she serves Ekansh first and then herself while others start having their breakfast.

"So when are you going to pick up Tara from her home, Avyansh?" Trilok asked his son.

"Just after breakfast dad then I will come to the office" Avyansh replied to which he nodded.

"In the Evening come to my Room along with Tara, her first rasoi's gift is still pending, I will give that as me and Gayetri promised" Adhiraj said.

"Ok Dadu"

After having breakfast Ekansh stood up and took his essentials. He started to move out to go to the office, looking at him going Akshita too stood up and went to the kitchen immediately.

She came back and made her way out to give him the lunch box.

"Rukiye!" She said in a soft tone when they reached his car, he stopped but didn't care to turn around.
(Stop!)

"Um aapka lunch box" she said
(Your lunch box)

"I don't need" he said rudely and was about to open the car door when she again stopped him.

"It's not good to eat food outside daily"

"You will not decide what's good or not for me, take it inside or throw it. I don't care." he replied harshly, turning to her.

"Please!" She showed her puppy eyes, he turned towards his car but stopped hearing her.

"You are angry with me, why are you throwing the anger on food?" Her voice choked a little.

"Why? When I was saying something yesterday you didn't listen then why should I now" He asked sternly, taking a step closer to her.

"I know but you would have been uncomfortable if you slept on the couch and..."

"And? And what Akshita?" He asked, coming dangerously close to her and looking straight into her eyes intensely, his breath was mixing with hers. The proximity was making her tremble but she managed to avoid eye contact.

'I didn't have any option you would have not liked if we were sharing a bed' She thought looking down.

'You would be uncomfortable sharing a bed with your husband?' He thought.

Her eyes become teary which does not go unnoticed by Ekansh. He mutters something in his breath and takes the lunch from her hand with a jerk and enters his car and drives off, all the time Akshita just looks at him.

She sighed heavily wiping her lone tear which came out of her eyes, she put a fake smile on her face and turned, her smile fell looking at the person in front of her.

"Av..Avyansh! Wh..when did you come?" She asked with hesitation and scared if he heard their conversation.

"Just a second ago, I saw bhai's car moving out, why? What happened? Should I have come before?" He asked in his usual tone.

"No, it's not like that, just asking, so are you going to pick up Tara?" She asked covering his questions.

He nodded.

"Okay then go and bring her fast I'm already missing her!" Akshita pouted, making Avyansh chuckle.

"Ok then bye bhabhi, take care, I will come soon." He replied giving a side hug to her.

Soon he also left and Akshita too made her way Inside the Mansion.

{{{{•}}}}

"What happened, Avy? You seem lost. Is something wrong?" Tara asked with concern as they sat in his car, making their way towards Raghuvanshi Mansion.

"You were Right Tara!" Avyansh said, focusing on the road but his face was pale.

"What happened Avy? You are scaring me, stop the car at the side and talk please"

He stops the car at the reserve area and looks at her.

"What happened baby?" She asked, cupping his face.

"There is something wrong!" He said.

"What's wrong? Tell me properly" she asked worriedly.

"Bhai... Bhabhi...there is something wrong between them" he said.

"Why are you saying that Avy? You yourself said to me that they are normal then why suddenly?"

"When I came out of the house to come here I heard bhai-bhabhi's conversation, they are not like a normal couple Tara, I was wrong, bhabhi was saying something about sleeping uncomfortably on the couch" His voice sounded sad.

He tells her the conversation happened between Akshita and Ekansh.

"We can't jump to the conclusion, Avy Relax! Maybe they fought"

"No! There was not a slight hint of fighting it was something else..I can't tell in words"

"Then how will we find what's between them?" Tara asked in confusion.

"Let's talk dadu, he must know. He asked bhai to marry Bhabhi, if bhai was not ready then dadu would have known, we will ask him in the night after I come back home" he said to which she nodded. 

In the Evening...

Avyansh and Tara knock on the door of Adhiraj's room, when he allows them, they enter the room to find Adhiraj and Gayetri sitting on their bed.

"Dadu dadi you called us" Avyansh said.

"Yes! But sit first" Gayetri said, they both sat opposite to the elders on the bed.

"Tara as your Paghfera gift. I want you to choose a place for your vacation with Avyansh and we will book the tickets and stay there." Gayetri said in her usual tone.

"Thank you Dadiji and Dadaji but we don't want to go anywhere right now." Tara Said in a very polite manner trying her best to not offend them.

"Why?" Adhiraj asked while Gayetri frowned.

"Our marriage took place just 2 days ago so we don't want to go anywhere right now, but when we want we will surely ask you" Avyansh replied.

"Fine!" Gayetri said and stood up from her place and went towards her closet and took out something.

"Take this Tara, it's my mother in law's bangles now it's yours as a gift" she said handing her the bangles.

"But Dadi, how can I take this? It should be of Maa or Badi Maa"

"I have already given them what they should get, I saved it for my grandson's wife." She replied.

"Fir toh inper Akshita bhabhi ka haq banata hai vo badi hai mujhse" Tara said.

(Then it becomes the right of Akshita bhabhi, she is older than me.)

Gayetri proudly smiles a little, making Tara shocked.

"What? I smile less doesn't mean I can't smile!" Gayetri said with a neutral face.

"I already have something else for her which I will give her at right time, I kept this for Avyansh's wife so it's yours"

Tara looked at Avyansh who nodded with a smile as she took the bangles from Gayetri and took her blessings.

"I'm going to close the mandir, will be right back" Gayetri told Adhiraj and left.

"Dadu we want to talk about something with you" Avyansh said with hesitation to ask him or not.

"Yes ask"

"Umm.. Dadu when you fixed bhai's marriage with Bhabhi were they happy..? I mean to say th----" he got cut by Adhiraj in the middle.

"So you guys noticed?" Adhiraj asked to which Avyansh looked down and nodded slightly.

"I will not rush around the bushes, Avyansh, you are now big enough to understand what's going on in your surroundings, and it has to happen someday."

"What do you mean Dadaji?" Tara asked in confusion.

"What I mean is...Yes there is nothing right between them." He replied seriously, making the couple shocked.

"Then why didn't we get to know about it in these months?" Avyansh asked in shock.

"Didn't you notice your bhai avoiding staying home?" Adhiraj's voice came out in sarcasm.

"They had an arranged marriage, it was my decision and I'm not a bit guilty of that, Ekansh was not happy with the idea of marriage, it was me who asked him or you can say order him"

"Dadu, how can you do that? You know na they are not happy together, why did you kill their happiness?" Avyansh asked, hurt laced in his voice.

"Who said they are not happy?" The couple frowned at his question more like a reply.

"Do you ever feel that they are not happy together? They will understand they are happy or not when they will stay close, it's nothing like that my child, it just they are strangers who are not trying to become known"

"Ekansh is thinking he lost his freedom, he had some expectations with his better half, but you tell me Avyansh can you get a better bhabhi than Akshita? Would we have got a better daughter-in-law than Akshita?" He asked to which Avyansh shook his head in negative.

"But Dadu what about bhai an---" Avyansh got cut in the middle by Adhiraj.

"Whether Ekansh accepts it or not, he is dependent on Akshita unknowingly, if they try, their relationship will work, but for Ekansh,being a perfect husband means fulfilling responsibilities. But I know Akshita doesn't want to be someone's responsibility only, because they are fulfilled as a work which a person thinks they have to do no matter if they want or not. But she desires a partner who willingly gives her opportunities and does things for her out of genuine desire, not as a burden."

"Ekansh is stubborn he can only be tamed by Akshita, his life is messed up which only Akshita can take on the right track"

"Trust me beta Akshita is far better than his expectations, the only thing is they have to realize it, I have seen them caring for eachother, Shlok told me about the office incident if Ekansh wanted he would have ignored but he didn't, they need to spend more time together then they will realize, time is great, magic happens in seconds" Adhiraj smile at them while they listen to his every words attentively.

Soon they heard the sound of the door knob and looked to find Gayetri coming inside.

"Arey you guys still here?" She asked, raising her right eyebrow.

"We were just leaving Dadi! Good night Dadu and Dadi" Avyansh said and they both left the room while Gayetri looked at Adhiraj with a questioning look.

"Nothing just gave ideas for a  better life" he grin and lay on his side, Gayetri shook her head in disbelief, she know her husband is lying but don't want to interfere as she know he will tell her when the time will come.

{{{{•}}}}

"Are you stressed about bhabhi and bhai Avy?" Tara asked him when they entered their room.

"What do you think Tara? Bhai has always been my mentor, he is my best friend, I can share everything with him so I feel bad that he didn't get chosen to marry someone he adores."

"But in these 4 months Bhabhi has pampered me a lot, I have seen true love and respect for us in her eyes, she always hides bhai's absence like nothing happened between them and no doubt she is best for bhai, but is he for bhabhi? Maybe Bhabhi too had some expectations."

"I feel bad for both of them, they are not happy together" Avyansh said, he was hurt that he didn't even know what was going on in his favorite people's life.

"Avy baby but what Dadaji said was also right, they need to work na, without trying they can't lose hopes, even we can't reach a conclusion!" Tara said cupping his cheeks.

"You are right Tara I know they are perfect for eachother, only bhabhi can make bhai a family man, they need to understand it but for that they need to come close and talk, but how will they?"

They both thought for some seconds.

"I have an idea!" Tara jumped from her place excitedly.

"What is it?" Avyansh asked curiously.