28. Bottled up emotions!!

                                    

                                          

                            

                                
                            
                              
                                  
                              
                              
                                
                                  
                                  
                                
                              
                             
                            
                            
                          
                          
Shivay quietly left the stage. Ishan, aadhriti and tanya noticed but they didn't say anything. They knew he needed time as they all knew shivay had always liked nitya, or you can say he loved nitya.
They were helping him preparing for a surprise proposal for nitya in ishan and aadhriti's wedding but now suddenly nitya introduced her fiance out of nowhere. Well her fiance introduced himself. 
Shivay left from there. Nitya also looked in his direction at his retreating figure but didn't said anything.
Aadhriti ishan sat on their places and rest of the family members applied haldi to them, Nehal came forward and applying haldi on aadhriti's cheeks she kissed her forehead muttering, "Kitni pyari lag rahi hai meri bachi."
(How beautiful my daughter is looking!)
Aadhriti placed her hands on her chest, making an angry pout she asked ,"Bua ab aa rahe ho aap, aap mujhse bilkul pyar nahi karte na.?"
(Aunt, you're coming now, you don't love me right?)
"Naa betu ase baat nahi hai, you know i was busy dealing something important", nehal explained.
(No child it's not like that).
"Mujse zyada important?", aadhriti questioned again.
(More important than me?)
"Okay baba sorry, now i won't anywhere", nehal said to which aadhriti smiled widely and hugged her bua.
Nehal went out of india after aadhriti's engagement due to some work and she came back today at her haldi function. She also had boutiques of clothes in various parts of the country and she was planning to expand her business abroad also,  that's why she went out of country. Being a divorced women she had faced a lot but she never lost courage and her belief in herself. As a result she was here, a single parent, divorced and a successful business woman.
Nehal stepped back after applying haldi and just then anirudh and agastya came with a huge plate full of marigold flowers and threw them on ishan and aadhriti . The flowers stick to the paste of haldi on their bodies and the families laugh looking at their faces.
Nehal came to abhay and hugged him, then she went to pallavi and also hugged her parting from the hug pallavi asked ," Where's siddharth didi, woh nahi aaya?"
(Didn't he came?)
"Bhabhi he is in london, he will come on wedding day, you know how he is, all the things that happened on that day in the past, he blamed himself for that ", replied nehal.
"When this boy will stop overthinking the matters and until when he will continue to blame himself for all the things? ", pallavi asked being a bit sad.
"I have told him bhabhi but you know him", nehal replied and pallavi just nodded and hugged her sister-in-law sympathetically 
On the other hand shivay never came back to the function. He just left. He wanted some time alone to process what just happened with him.