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Story: Tainted Bride

"Come on, show me your decorated room."

Avishla limps away from there with Aashi, but Prakram is still watching her go and suddenly utters a word.

"Beautiful….”

CHAPTER 16

*Avishka has tears in her eyes, and her parents sitting in front are continuously looking at her. Advait is just coming and looking from the kitchen door again and again and going inside again to do something. Reema starts crying a lot when she seesAvishka crying. Because of this, Kailash is sometimes looking at Reema and sometimes at Avishka. He is getting very upset seeing both of them cry, but he is not stopping them from crying at all. Finally, he says it a little loudly.

"If there is any competition, let me know; I will also take part. There is a lot of competition going on in both of them to get the first prize, and I do not want any kind of competition to take place, and I am not a part of it."

"Papa, don't talk nonsense at all; I don't want to hear anything at all right now."

"Okay, don't listen to me at all, but come here.”

Kailash immediately spreads his arms, and Avishka, wiping the tears from her crop top sleeves, comes near him, sits on his lap, hugs him, and starts crying even more loudly while hugging him. Kailash says when he sees Reema, who is still crying.

“Continue…”

When he spoke like this, Reema wiped her tears and started staring at him, while Avishka also started looking at her father with pouty lips. He kissed her forehead and said,.

"This was your first exam after your post-graduation, which you have given; just tell me how many people were there in your post-graduation with whom you had competition.”

Avishka looks at him, and he smiles, caresses her head lovingly, and tells her something.

"Sweetheart, this is not a school or college exam; it is a state-level and center-level exam, where lakhs of people come to give the exam who are more hardworking than you, and in such a situation only 50 to 100 people are selected. You are veryintelligent, and I know you very well. It was your first time; don't cry so much. All I can say is that you possess the inherent ability to triumph, and you will indeed do so. Promise me that you'll never lose and will always try to win. We control our efforts just as much as our actions.... Do you understand this?"

Her father's words affect her very well, and she immediately wipes her tears, looks at her father very well, and then holds his hands and tells him.

“I will do everything. Papa, I am strong.”

"So on occasion of solving the matter with a good solution, get honey chili potato fries from the hands of world-famous chef Advait."

Everyone turns and looks at Advait, who is standing with a very delicious honey chili potato. On seeing Avishka, she looks at her father, and her father immediately signals her, due to which she snatches it. She moves to sit next to her father, and they begin eating as quickly as possible, causing Advait to scream loudly.

"Mom, these two will eat everything, leave nothing for us, and attack quickly."*

Like every day, her sleep is suddenly broken, and there are tears in her eyes because she cries, remembering her family with immense love, without whom she had not even thought of living even once. Now they are also not around her, just thinking about it all makes her feel suffocated. They are definitely with her even today, but only in her memories and not with her like she used to always be with them.

She gets up suddenly from the bed and immediately sits down because of the pain in her legs. There are undoubtedly tears inher eyes, but they are not due to the pain but rather to the deep wound in her heart. She says yes.

"I tried to kill myself, but luck saved me. I understand that, no matter where you are, you always want to see me pleased, and I'm not sure why I feel so happy every time I see Aashi. However, my life has unexpectedly become centered around this innocent girl. Please pray that I will always remain happy to see Aashi happy like this, wherever you are. You always used to say, Never give up; I also don't want to give up and want to try to live again, which is very difficult now."

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Aashi is sitting on Prakram's stomach and is laughing continuously because Prakram is deliberately laughing too loudly because of her tickling, due to which Aashi is not stopping laughing at all. She says this while trying to scare her father by showing her fingers.

"One more time.”

"No please…”

Prakram immediately folds his hands and says this to Aashi like he wants to save himself, due to which she starts laughing even more loudly to tickle her father, due to which Prakram starts laughing even more loudly, and Aashi's laughter mingles with his laughter and resonates a lot. Avishka smiles lightly as she listens to their laughter. She has Aashi's food plate in her hands, so she stands outside. She does not want to disturb both of them, but she knows that Aashi is already late to eat. It is very late, so, forgetting everything, she knocks on his door.

"Sir, Aashi's food..."