Subhash and Shashank reached the Shiv Temple where Nikhila, Anitha and Deepika are also present

(So let's see if they're going to meet or not)

Shashank parked his car and both of them come out of the car

Girls start oogling at them after seeing them in traditional kurtas but they didn't care

Shashank started feeling something strange in his heart like something is going to happen he ignored it and looks at Subhash "Bhai I'm going to buy essentials just wait for me" Subhash nods and Shashank comes back after buying the temple essentials

(If anyone knows just comment what generally people carry in Shiv Temple

Ps - Author don't have much idea)

Both entered the temple and Subhash felt so calm for the first time hearing a pair of anklets sound and lost in thoughts. He snaps back as Shashank tugged his arm "What is it now?" He asked irritatingly as the anklets sound disappears suddenly

"Bhai, I'll take a holy bath and come just hold these till then" Shashank says and goes to the lake. Subhash stands there waiting for his brother to come back

Nikhila was searching for her best friend Anitha as she said she'll join her and Deepika after taking Parikrama (Pradakshina) but she didn't come back so Nikhila and Deepika are searching for Anitha in opposite directions

Nikhila walks to the lake side thinking that Anitha may come in that direction only to see Subhash was about to step on the broken coconut piece (she didn't see his face yet as his back was facing her) and runs to him and kept her palm under his feet so that he shouldn't have his feet injured. Her anklets sounded clearly which made Subhash to turn back to face her and immediately stepped back as he felt her palm under his feet

Nikhila's knuckles started to bleed a little as the broken piece was so sharp but she rushes quickly searching for Anitha and didn't care much about her knuckle injury

Both Deepika and Nikhila are searching for Anitha all over the temple "Did you see her somewhere" Nikhila asks Deepika panting slightly because of the continuous walk

"No need to search I'm here" Anitha says and stumbles back as Nikhila hugs her tightly "Do you even know how mad we went for you" Nikhila says with tears welling up in her eyes

"I know I'm sorry but let me tell you what happened" Anitha says hugging Nikhila and Deepika

"Please enlighten us Ms. Anitha Nair. What the hell has exactly happened?" Deepika remarks sarcastically

"As I said I will do Parikrama first while you both are inside the temple so as I was about to finish the third round I suddenly fell into the lake actually in someone's arms" Anitha sighs softly

"I think I disturbed his time in temple" Anitha looks down feeling guilty

"HIS" Deepika and Nikhila asks teasingly

"Yeah yeah yeah let me finish before you start your teasing session." Anitha blushes slightly but covers it quickly and reminds them which makes both of them nod like kids

"Yeah just tell us soon." Nikhila and Deepika says

"So I don't know how to swim I suddenly closed my eyes thinking that everything is going to finish but suddenly he caught me but I already lost my consciousness and he bought me out of lake and pressed me on my stomach which makes me regain my consciousness and I came back" She blushes slightly remembering Shashank's face but covers quickly not wanting to face Deepika's teasing

"So spill the details who is HE now" Nikhila asks calmly knowing that her bestfriend can't take teasing

"Shashank" Anitha says her voice is barely a whisper she got goosebumps all over her body when she says his name

"Now let's finish darshan and go home" Deepika says both the girls nodded and walked with her

Three of them finished their darshan and walked back to Deepika's house just then Deepika's bua (Divyanshi) just entered the house from Bengaluru

(Guys Divyanshi is a famous oncologist {doctors who treat cancer patients} so she has to travel to different places around the country)

"How are you kids" She asked them her voice is soft and filled with love. All (Deepika, Darshana, Anitha, Ashitha, Nikhila and Nikunj) hugged her tightly hearing her voice

"We missed you bua maa" all of them tell at a time

"I missed you too kids but work comes first right" She tells softly which makes them nod

All of them stepped back when they heard a picture clicking sound

"Not again" Deepika pouts as her parents (Divyansh and Devika) clicked the picture of Divyanshi and all the kids pictures which makes everyone chuckles softly

"What happened to your cheek, Nikku. Why is it red?" Divyanshi and Deepika ask her softly. The question makes Nikhila freezes but remaining youngsters angry

"What happened kids" Divyansh asks his voice is stern yet concerned

Anitha, Nikunj and Deepika are started fighting over who'll tell them first

"I'll tell" Nikunj says

"No I'll" Anitha says

"No I'll" Deepika says

"Actually what happened is ..." Darshana tells the elders everything while the three continue to fight. Nikhila was looking down fidgeting her fingers and tries not to cry

Divyanshi and Devika hugs her and rubs her back. Nikhila blink back her tears and Ashitha snaps at Nikunj, Deepika and Anitha "Darshu revealed everything" which made them look at her in disbelief

"How dare they to hurt my Nikku. I swear I'll break their bones" Divyanshi tells them but Nikhila stopped her and nods in no

"Please no bua maa" Nikhila requests and Divyanshi calms down seeing her pleading expression

"You know what Nikki akka, we should put fevikwik on your mother's mouth just like I did with my grandmother today" Ashitha says while smirking at Anitha

"Yeah we should try that atleast you'll get some peace" Anitha remarks

"Guys what's this fevikwik story now" Deepika asks curiously

"So what happened is when my paati (grandmother) is going applies venna (butter) on her lips I just added little fevikwik as she was telling Ani to not to join the college and she stopped talking meanwhile we finished admission process too" Ashitha says and everyone in the room bursts out laughing

"It's getting late I think we should leave" Anitha and Nikhila says softly

"I'll drop you" Deepika replies

"I'll also come" Darshana chimes in

"Take care kids" The elders said

"We will" The youngers replied

With that Deepika and Darshana dropped Anitha and Ashitha at first then Nikhila and Nikunj

At Anitha's house,

Anitha and Ashitha bids goodbyes to them and walked inside the house

As expected their paati (Arundhati) is glaring at them but she's still not talking after what Ashitha did in the morning

Anitha walks into the kitchen and Ashitha walks to her father

"Appa, is she still doing her Maun Vrat (a vow to keep silent)?" Ashitha asks mischievously which made Anitha and Aparna to choke on their saliva though they know that Ashitha has put fevikwik in the butter but they didn't imagine she'll talk in front of Arundhati about it

"Idiot, won't you let me drink anything in peace" Anitha asks frustratingly and smacks her forehead

"Sorry Akka but you know it's hilarious" Ashitha makes a cute face which melts their heart

"Let's have dinner now I'm so hungry" Ashwin says eyeing at the chicken biryani which his wife Aparna made

"Yeah yeah why won't you afterall it's me who made the biryani" Aparna smirks playfully at them

Anitha and Ashitha jump on her for hug and add "Thank you so much, Amma. You're the best" which made Ashwin and Aparna smile at them

With that everyone has their dinner and Anitha helps Aparna in washing dishes and other works meanwhile Ashwin and Ashitha went out to bring icecream

"Which flavour will you take, Ashu" Ashwin asks

"Dark chocolate" Ashitha grins

"What about Aparna and Ani then" Ashwin asks thoughtfully

"Amma will eat butterscotch most and Ani will eat malai flavour" Ashitha says opening her cone

"You won't change" Ashwin mutters watching Ashitha eating without paying bill and pays the bill for remaining icecreams

Ashitha sticks out her tongue and both walks back after buying icecreams

"Eat your icecreams before it melts" Ashwin says giving icecreams to Aparna and Anitha

"Where's your icecream" Anitha asks Ashitha

"She ate before I pay the bill" Ashwin says shaking his head in disbelief

With that they are their icecreams and retired back to their rooms and called it a day

At Nikhila's place,

Nikhila and Nikunj bid their goodbyes to Deepika and Darshana

As expected their mother Nalini is glaring at them and shouts "Didn't I warn you both to behave"

"Yes you did but we both felt so bored that's why we went out, isn't it true Nikku" Nikunj remarks

Nalini glares at Nikhila and she looked back and forth between Nikunj and Nalini "I'll get fresh and prepare dinner"

"No need for that Nikku/Nikhila" Both Nikunj and Naman said sternly which stunned everyone in the room as Naman didn't have a much say in household matters

"We'll order from outside you get some rest I'll call when the food arrives" Naman says his expression softens for a moment before coming back to his usual demeanor

Nikhila nods and walks to the room. Nikunj went to Naman and checks his forehead "Are you alright papa since when you started to give rest for Nikku"

Before Naman replies Nalini says "What the hell was that Naman. Why are you giving her rest. She's a girl she has to do household chores"

"Firstly she deserves rest more than anyone else in the house and secondly you're a woman tok then why aren't you doing any household chores it's your duty not HERS" Naman says shocking both of them

Nalini is furious as Naman again started to support Nikhila slightly and Nikunj was happy that his father is supporting her sister

"Nikunj, ask Nikhila what she wanted to eat I'm going to order what she says today" Naman says and walks into his room

Nikunj runs to the room and sees Nikhila was writing something in her book. He sighs softly and goes to her "Tell me what do you want to eat for dinner" He asks casually which made her eyes widen in shock and amusement

"Why are you asking me" Nikhila remarks as none asks what she prefers much

"Because papa said that he's going to order what you wanted to eat" Nikunj says as if it's nothing but Nikhila jaw dropped

"You're pranking right" Nikhila asks Nikunj and he shakes his head in no and replies "I'm serious, Nikku"

"Chicken lollipop and mutton biryani" She says causally but she hates mutton and everyone in the house loves it

"But you hate mutton" Nikunj says

"But you all love it" Nikhila says resuming her writing

"Fine then" Nikunj shrugs and goes to Naman

"What did she say" Naman asks Nikunj hoping that Nikhila has chose something she prefers

"Chicken lollipop and mutton biryani" Nikunj says nonchalantly

"She won't change" Naman mutters to himself and orders the food

The food arrives after an hour and everyone had their dinner in silence. After dinner Nikhila insisted on washing dishes but Naman and Nikunj didn't let her enter the kitchen and finish the chores themselves

On the other side, Nalini was fuming in anger as she was losing control of Naman and not letting Nikhila do anything

Nikhila walks back to her room and writes her diary and sleeps on her bed. After sometime, Naman entered the room takes the diary from hand and starts reading the diary

Dear Diary,

Today I'm sad and happy too

Sad - Because mumma slapped me

Happy - There are so many reasons

1. Nikunj stood up for me and fought against maa. I wish everything was like before but it won't

2. Papa got me admitted in the same college where my bestfriends are joining

3. I helped a person from not getting but my knuckles are hurt but I'm happy atleast I couldn't let him get hurt

4. Papa didn't let me do anything after coming back from outside he didn't even shout at me and Kunj for staying out late I don't know why he did that but I'm so happy

Anyways too much for today

Good night 😴😴😴

Take Care Nikku

Love yourself

With that Naman closed the diary and smiled softly at his daughter's antics

"I wish I could save you from that devil's games" Naman whispers to himself and kissed Nikhila's forehead silently retreats back his room

After dropping Nikhila and Nikunj, Deepika and Darshana started walking back to their house while walking Deepika saw a puppy was about to get hit by a car and rushes to save her but someone already catch the puppy but grabs that person by their tshirt as a truck was about to that person and that person holds her in a hug

"Are you mad what if something happens to you then" She shouts at the other person pulling back from the hug

"And why do you care so much for the person just you meet" That person remarks checking the puppy if it has got an injuries

"I'm not talking about myself, Mr. Stranger" Deepika retorts back

"Vaishnav... I'm Vaishnav" Vaishnav corrects her

"Deepika" She kept her hand forward as handshake

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Saviour" Vaishnav forwards the puppy's paw to her

"Same here, Mr. Stranger" Deepika says

"Deep, are you planning to become a midnight superhero by saving someone" Darshana speaks up startling Deepika and Vaishnav

Vaishnav and Darshana makes curious looks at eachother

"Mr. Stranger... Sorry Vaishnav this is Darshana my younger sister" Deepika says pointing at Darshana

"Darsh he is Vaishnav" Deepika says pointing at Vaishnav

"Nice to meet you" both says and shake their hands

"What you're going to do with this puppy" Deepika asks pointing at the puppy

"I'll take it to my home" Vaishnav says casually

"What are you going to name it then" Darshana asks curiously

"How about Snoopy" Vaishnav asks

"So boring. How about cherry" Darshana asks and adds "She's looking like a cute like a cherry. What say" Darshana asks them excitedly

"Perfect" Both Vaishnav and Deepika exclaims

"So will you let us meet cherry, Mr. Stranger" Deepika asks playfully

"Ofcourse, Ms. Saviour" Vaishnav remarks

"If Mr. Stranger and Ms. Saviour drama episode ends then can we leave now" Darshana asks

"Yeah I'm getting late too" Vaishnav says going towards his bike holding the puppy aka cherry and drives back to the apartment

With that Deepika and Darshana also walked back to home and ate their dinner and called it as a day

Finally finished writing the chapter

Started a week ago but couldn't finish due to stuck in some personal work

How's the chapter

Hope you like it

Remember guys Nikhila didn't see Subhash face yet

And also Naman isn't a negative character

Everyone (Deepika, Darshana, Nikhila, Nikunj, Anitha and Ashitha) calls Divyanshi as bua maa because she treats everyone as her own kids

And a big thank you to @aaniwrites with tamil terms

Male leads pov will be in the next chapter

Kindly ignore the grammatical mistakes...

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