Chapter 77 - Guilty feelings

Standing outside of Shanaya room, Anubhav and Vansh looked at each other. Looking at his watch, Anubhav spoke:" When are they going to come?" and looked at the corridor.

"They said they would be here within five minutes" replying to his brother-in-law, Vansh roams his hand on his hair and pace around.

"Are you sure it would be a surprise for her?" questioning Vansh, Anubhav looked at him.

Vansh was the one to plan everything for Shanaya's birthday and, he was going to do everything to make it work.

"I did not even talk to her because of the surprise. Do you think she is intelligent enough to grasp the situation?" doubting himself after listening to Anubhav, Vansh asked him.

"Let's wish for the best!" motivating him, Anubhav winked at Vansh in a tease.

Inside her room, Shanaya laughed aloud on something her mother said when she heard a knock on the door and, she hung up the phone after thanking them and saying she would talk to them later..

Soon after she said the words" Come in", she saw Avni, Anubhav and Saaransh, coming toward her beaming and all she could do was to look at them with her mouth open.

They remembered her birthday!

"Happy birthday, sweety!" rushing toward her, Avni exclaimed and hugged her tightly.

Avni was so happy someone would have guessed it was her birthday!

On the other hand, all Shanaya could do was to control her sob. She was happy but sad at the same time. It was her first birthday in five years without her best friend. Deep down she had hoped Vansh to forget the fight and to be with her on her birthday.

"Happy Birthday, my little sister" hugging her like a child, Anubhav wished her and patted her head.

For Anubhav, Shanaya was her little sister and Shanaya too had never treated him differently.

Standing afar from them Saaransh gave his dashing and heartbreaking smile and walked toward her when Anubhav moved aside.

God, how much she loved his smile! If Shanaya would have an option of fulfilling her two wishes, she was sure she would have asked Saaransh to be her soulmate.

"And, Vihaan to be her life partner" she stopped the thoughts as soon as they entered and focusing on Saaransh, she smiled from her heart.

"Happy Birthday, love" hugging her Saaransh did the thing he had never done. He kissed her on her forehead and hugging her for a minute walk away.

'Love' was the nickname given to her by Saaransh and Shanaya had loved it.

"Thank you so much!! Thank you! You guys don't know how much it matters to me." on the verge of crying, Shanaya looked at three of them and gave a crying smile.

"I do not know what's happening with me nowadays! I am getting too emotional!" taking a long breath to be at ease, Shanaya gave them all another smile.

"It's okay you are our's precious Shanaya in every way" giving her a consoling smile, Avni spoke and spoke immediately " We have a surprise for you!."

Vansh would have loved the shocked expressions on her face.

Moving toward Shanaya, Saaransh take out a Red silk blindfold from his back pocket of the denim and spoke in a double meaning tone, understandable only to Shanaya" Should I?"

Shanaya laughed aloud on hearing Saaransh's words and nodded her head to permit him.

The bonding between Shanaya and Saaransh had reached to the point where they could talk to each other in double meaning and could laugh at double meaning jokes without hurting anyone's sentiments.

In one sentence, he was perfect for Shanaya.

Five minutes later, after walking with her eyes covered with the blindfold, Shanaya came to rest when Saaransh stopped moving.

She had guessed the destination to be above her room after she had ascended the stairs.

Standing on something she knew not, she felt the cool breeze and recognised where she was.

She was on the terrace!

She nodded her head when she heard Saaransh" I am removing the blindfold, okay".

The view in front of her was amazing, mesmerising and beautiful!

Adorned room in front of her was looking no less than some beauty.

The lights, flowers on the white curtains that were swaying and hanging photos from the ceiling was such a sight.

In the middle of the wall-less room, an oval-shaped glass table was placed, decorated with hundreds of red roses. In the middle of them was the cake.

Shanaya saw it all, admired all of it, but all she could look at was Vansh standing at the entrance of it along with Vihaan.

"I am so sorry, Vanshu. I promise I won't hide anything from you. I won't hurt you ever! Please do not stop talking to me." sobbing, Shanaya said all she could say, hugging him closer as if he will vanish in the air.

"Hey, look at me!" urging him to look at him, Vansh dried her tears and spoke:" I won't ever stop talking to you, okay."

"Happy Birthday, besty" engulfing her in a full hug, Vansh kissed her on the forehead.

After a while, they broke the hug and, Shanaya noticed Vihaan looking at both of them. She saw him looking at her but saw him speaking not a word, not even the birthday wish.

The same thing she had done on his birthday night, the same night she had been drunk.

She withdraws her gaze from him when she found it hard to look in his eyes, the words' It's your homework, Ms Shanaya' ringing in her ears.

But more than that, she was anxious, tensed about the result.

"What if she did something? What if something happened between them and that was the reason they were on talking terms?" her mind spun by the numerous doubts and, she turned her attention back to Vansh.

"Am I forgiven?" with a puppy face, she enquired to Vansh.

"Tell me the correct answer of one of my question and, you will be forgiven" Shanaya heard Vansh speaking the moment she closes the distance between them.

Shanaya knew it was a trick and, the question would not be a normal one, but, she nods her head.

She was ready to give him an answer.

"What's 'Saar' profession?" counting his luck, Vansh spoke in a whisper, the tone audible just to them.

The moment Shanaya heard the question, she looked at Vansh with her eyes in disbelief. She had excepted it to be related to Aniket or Ms kriti.

Another surprise for her from Vansh, the first being the birthday planning.

Looking at Vihaan, she saw him looking at her and, she felt the same sensation she feels every time he looks at her.

She liked his eyes on her!

"He is a businessman" answering Vansh, Shanaya looked at Vansh but switched her eyes back to Vihaan, as if he was a magnet and she was an iron.

"Oh!" was all Vansh could speak. Looking at everyone else who was waiting for them to finish the conversation and to start the celebration, Vansh spoke carefully, "You have no secrets anymore, right?"

Shanaya's eyes fell on Vihaan without her consent and, she spoke without hesitation "No, I don't have any".

But, the guilt stayed in her heart. She had a secret for which she would die, the secret having the power of destroying her relationship with every member present.

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