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"I'll go directly to my room, the shopping was really tiring. Meher and Prerna you both can come to my room as well to take some rest after dropping Manisha's things in her room", Ashika stated.
"Okay", Maher agreed.
"I'll spend the afternoon with Dada ji and Dadi, I can take some rest in their room they would be happy", Prerna replied.
"As you wish Prerna", Ashika said.
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Afsa giggled looking above at the mickey mouse helium balloon, the thread loosely tied to Manisha's wrist.
"My baby liked it so much, Haina?", Manisha smiled at Afsa's ardour. she strode towards her room with Afsa in her hands followed by Prerna and Meher, who were holding lots of shopping bags in their hands.
Manisha opened the door and went deeper inside the room. Abhishek was lying on the bed, using his cell phone. He quickly sat up when his eyes fell on them.
"When did you both come?", Abhishek  asked.
"Bhai, Manisha called us to join her for the shopping, she would tell you the rest of the details", Meher yawned. "I'm tired, I'll go and take some rest".
"See you in the evening bhai", prerna said and left the room with Meher.
Manisha settled down on the bed beside Abhishek. Afsa was busy staring at her balloon.
"Look daddy what has Afsa bought for herself", Manisha said in a baby voice. "Come on Afsa show your balloon to daddy".
Afsa looked at Abhishek, pointed towards her balloon, and chuckled. Abhishek smiled, he stretched his hands forward and took Afsa in his hands. Manisha undid the knot around her hand and tied the thread of the balloon to the headrest of the bed.
"Umm I see, Afsa is getting all girly", He wriggled his eyebrows and pursed his lips in delight. "Did she really buy it for herself?", he turned his head towards Manisha.
Manisha nodded her head. "There were so many cartoon characters but she kept looking at the mickey mouse. I assumed she wanted to buy that one", She leaned on the headrest. Abhishek smiled and kissed Afsa's tiny button nose.
"I called Prerna and Meher to join us for the Diwali shopping. And they helped me a lot while deciding what to buy for everyone".
"Everyone?", he gave a quizzical look.
"Yeah, I'm almost younger than most of the family members so I decided why not buy gifts for everyone like I used to give to my family. Do you think it would look good? I'm still confused", she stated while playing with her fingers.
He was surprised by her words.
He cleared his throat and said, "It's very thoughtful of you".
"Should I show you the things I've bought?", she asked hopefully.
He nodded his head. Her eyes lit up with happiness. She grabbed the shopping bags from the table, placed them on the bed, and sat beside them.
She showed him the gifts she had bought for the entire family.
"Do you think they will like the gifts?",
"Of course, they will love it",
"Where is my gift?", he asked. He was propped against the pillows.
"Uhuu,, I'm not that stupid to show you your gift now", she shook her head.
"It means you accepted you are a bit stupid", he smirked.
"I'm not", she stuck out her tongue, he laughed.
"Look Afsa bought a bag for herself", Manisha unpacked a black fur mickey mouse backpack. "And these are her storybooks, color pencils, and notebooks".