Shanaya was keeping her clothes inside the bag when she heard her phone ringing.
Picking up the phone from her bed, she answered it with a smile on her face" Hey, Saaransh."
She listened to him for some time and spoke in response" Yes, I am ready. When will you be here?"
Saaransh was supposed to pick her around 11 in the morning thought their flight was at two in the noon.
She had presents to buy for her parents and, she could not believe she was going to see them after a year. She had not visited them since she had started working with Vihaan.
"Okay, see you soon." ending the conversation, she tossed her phone on the bed and checking her bag to make sure she had kept everything, she left her room only to get surprised on reaching the hall of the mansion.
"Dee! when did you come?" rushing toward Avni, Shanaya hugged her..
Avni smiled and spoke:" Vihaan called me, saying he has something urgent to tell me. He practically made me run to be here within an hour!"
Anubhav's house was an hour away from Rathore's mansion but, it would take a little more for someone to reach on time, due to the hectic traffic.
"Oh" she remembered his words in the morning and, she wondered if it was related to her.
"No, he would not do it." talking to herself, Shanaya smiled when she saw Avni looking at her.
But, she was restless at the moment. She was smart enough not to take Vihaan easy and, somehow she knew it was related to it.
Shanaya turned her eyes toward the stairs when she heard Avni" Oh, there he is" and saw her looking toward the stairs.
Shanaya saw Vihaan looking at her with no emotions or expressions, for a second and then he was looking at Avni.
She blinked when she saw him sitting on the stairs instead of descending to the hall and heard him speaking while looking at Avni" Dee, you came."
Shanaya noticed he was still in his morning dress but, something had changed. The demeanour of his was of a cold person rather than the warm person.
Soon enough, she saw Vansh emerging out of the kitchen and, heard him speaking" What's the issue?"
Looking at Avni and, then at Vansh with a blank expression, Vihaan spoke: "Which one of you is going to object me with Shanaya?"
What the fuċk!
Shanaya had never thought, of listening to these words even in her dream.
"Don't tell me"glancing at Shanaya and then at Vihaan with narrowed eyes, Avni spoke with shock in her voice.
Vansh closed his eyes as if he was not expecting Vihaan to come clean and murmured to himself" Bro.."
Vihaan ignored her question and spoke without minding anything" How much do you know about Shanaya?"
Shanyaa had not thought the conversation was going to be around her a minute earlier, but now she had no doubt. Her heart was beating like never before and, fear of being caught by Avni and Vansh made her sweat.
"We know all she had told us," Avni spoke as if she too wanted to know where Vihaan was going.
Scoffing, Vihaan looked at Shanaa accusingly and spoke:" Do you know who is Saar?"
No! this was not happening.
"Vihaan, don't!" Shanaya found herself pleading and, she no longer cares how it was looking to Avni or Vansh.
"Vihaan, not this, please!" she walks toward him unconsciously and ascending the stairs, she stopped in front of him only to speak" Vihaan not this."
"Saar is" before Vihaan could complete it, he found Shanaya's hand on her mouth, shutting him off.
He heard her pleading, her eyes pleading" Vihaan no.." but he did not care.
Jerking her hand from his mouth, he made her sit beside him on the stairs with force while keeping her wrist in his right hand as if she will fly away from him.
Turning his face toward her whose eyes were wide with shock and horror, Vihaan questioned innocently" Do you want me to tell them about our kiss, then?"
But, she heard both of them squealing" Kiss!!".
"I...I didn't" but Shanaya could not complete it.
She was too afraid to say.
She had betrayed her best friend and someone she thinks of her as a sister and family.
"Don't worry, about it she did not cheat on Saaransh. It happened long before him." completing the sentence in place of her, Vihaan spoke.
But, not like he was going to get an award for it.
"Yes, back to the topic" speaking as soon as he sights Saaransh at the entrance of the mansion, Vihaan continued" Do you know the meaning of 'Saar'?"
He turned his face toward Shanaya when no one answered and spoke:" You are going to tell or should I?"
Shanaya spoke nothing more than "Vihaan, please do not." while looking at his eyes, pleading him not to do it.
Sitting beside Vihaan, she felt something wet on her cheeks and, she realized she was crying silently.
Neither Avni nor Vansh asked Vihaan to free her, for they were sensing they were in no position.
The shock was too much for them, and all they could feel was betrayal and anger, and they were too shocked to react.
"Fine, I will" breaking the haunted silence, Vihaan continued while keeping his eyes on
Saaransh" Saar means the same as 'Saaransh' does. It means 'the conclusion'. But unfortunately, Saaransh is not the conclusion of her life."
"So, the person was the conclusion of her life, her world. He meant everything to her." looking at all of them at a time, he waited for some time and spoke when he had their full attention" It was never a name, it was an emotion."
"Vihaan, don't!" trying to free her hands, Shanaya shouted.
Shanaya might have been weeping, but the anger in her for Vihaan was not less. She hated him at the moment as she had never hate anyone.
More the anger, more was she crying. She had this issue of crying when she would not be able to control her anger, and, it was happening at the moment.
It hurt him to see her tears, but he had to do it, for he knew Shanaya would never tell them anything.
And, that was not going to help him.
Masking his face with no emotions, he frees her wrist and, looking at her side, spoke while dropping the bomb" Tell them, Shana, I am 'Saar', your first love, and the conclusion of your life."
"What the hell!"
"Are you serious!"
"God!"
Shanaya heard them, but her mind could not process who said what.
Her heart refused to beat, and her mind refused to think.
But she felt only one thing deep inside, the feeling of betrayal from Vihaan and the anger for him.
And next moment thing no one had imagined happened.
Saaransh, Avni and Vansh became the witness along with the hall of the mansion of the unimaginable history, the history of Shanaya slapping Vihaan.
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