Valentine's Day

 "Aroo!! Stop baby!!", Shilpa kept running behind a chubby and naughty 1 year old girl.

Shilpa kept running behind her to feed her food but she didn't stop her little soft feet, and was enjoy annoying her mother.

"Arushi!!", Shilpa rolled her eyes and mocked to be upset in front of her daughter to blackmail her.

At which she stopped and took slow steps to come near her mother at which Shilpa smirked and trapped Arushi in her embrace, at which she grimaced defeating in front of her mother.

Shilpa fed her mashed banana and chuckled looking at her expressions which Arushi has got from her father and kissed her cheek.

And Shilpa left her on the floor to play with toys and engrossed in her work, but still her eyes were on her 1 year old shaitan.

Arushi, with the support of a chair stood up and started clapping her one hand on a photo frame which was placed on the corner table, near the bed.

Shilpa noticed it and run to her, "Shaitan ladki! Mumma ko pareshan karne ke tareeke chahiye"

And Shilpa took her hand away from the photo frame so she couldn't hurt herself. She took a seat on the bed and let her daughter seated on her on the bed.

"Bilkul papa pe gayi ho", Shilpa lightly rubbed her nose with Arushi's and said at which she clasped her hand as she was agreeing her mother.

And Arushi again pointed towards the photograph and pouted as she was demanding for it.

"No baby! My baccha will get hurt na", Shilpa tried to make her understand but the little girl made a gloomy face.

And the same time Armaan took the command who was witnessing the mother daughter duo.

"MY baccha has blessed something by her mother also, the stubborness", Armaan teased Shilpa while emphasizing the word MY which wasn't just a word but a feeling.

Armaan took a seat near Shilpa and made his daughter sit on his lap and pecked her cheek. Arushi jumped with excitement because she knew her daddy will grant her wish for sure, as always.

"What do you want my sweetheart?", Armaan asked to Arushi and lightly hit his head with her.

"Oo", Arushi replied pointing towards the photograph and popped her eyes out making innocent face.

"Mumma! Pass the photograph", Armaan extended his hand towards Shilpa.

"Armaan! Aur mat bigado use, she will get hurt", Shilpa scolded him and turned her back.

"Arey baba! When I'm here then nothing to fear.", Armaan replied with a wink reminding her the last year's kiss day's night, at which she blushed and gave him the photograph.

The little Arushi fell her little eyes on the photograph which has wrapped her mumma and dady in it, and she put her hand on it, as she was trying to caress it, at which ArSh's lips curved into a smile.

Shilpa was adorned in a beautiful lehenga and Armaan was attired in a fascinating sherwani and were looking at each other with love and passion.

Arushi stared at the photograph and then shifted her eyes towards her parents' and her face fell down as she was complaining that why she wasn't in the photograph at which Armaan and Shilpa laughed and Arushi glared them.

"Aru, want to know the story behind the photo?", Shilpa asked at which Arushi shrugged her head in affirmation.

Armaan and Shilpa again laughed as this girl of 1 was understood what her parents' were trying to say and asked. Seeing, their laughter Arushi rolled her eyes innocently.

And seeing, his darling daughter with a gloomy face Armaan embraced her and said, "Aww mela baby! Mumma ko hum bahut datenge"

Shilpa's mouth opened in a perfect O shape at which she replied, "Haan haan! Aur bigadlo"

Armaan pressed her lips and continued himself saying looking at her daughter, "If my baccha want to know the story then her dadda will narrate it huh"

Arushi smirked naughtily looking at her mother at which she patted her bum lightly, "Badmash!!"

And Armaan started narrating the whole story which was related to the photograph, exactly 2 year back on the day of love, the Valentine's Day when Niki and Abhi were going to get married.

The whole farmhouse was laden with flowers and lights. The colorful curtains and all the decorations were molded perfectly just like a wedding day.

"Yaar! Where is she?", Atul and Rahul said in unison on the stage, and were searching for their respective loves.

Armaan was adorned in a black sherwani and his eyes were searching for his love, Shilpa. He shifted his eyes here and there in her search and finally his eyes fell on an innocent face adorned in a beautiful lehenga, which belonged to none other than Shilpa.

Shilpa along with the help of Muskan, Anjali and Kirti was taking Nikita on the stage, holding a red chunni on her head just like a sky to let the bride away from every evil-eye.

But Armaan's eyes were not allowing him to not stare Shilpa with love and passion. He kept glancing her without blinking them, not even once and Shilpa helped Nikita to get her seat on the stage.

Shilpa finally noticed him and glared him not to stare at her like this in such a huge crowd but he didn't shifted them from her but came to senses when an old Punjabi lady opened her mouth.

The lady said to Shilpa, "Oye kudiye!! Tu to badi soni lag rahi hai aaj. Nazar na lage"

"Nazar to shayad lag hi gayi auntyji", Armaan replied with a grin and winked at Shilpa.

The lady scrunched her brows and said to Nikita, "Chal kudiye, kalire girane ki rasam to poori karde"

At which Nikita smiled and few of the unmarried girls sit near her, including DMG girls. Nikita shrugged her kalires and immediately they fell on Shilpa's head which curved Armaan's lips into a smile.

"Kya baat hai teri kismat to zordar hai ladke", the lady whispered in Armaan's ear and finally he realized that she understood his words.

Shilpa blushed when the another lady said to tease her, "Ab to isne hi dulhan banna hai"

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Nikita and Abhimanyu were taking pheres around the fire with the divine hymns, reciting by panditji. Armaan and Shilpa were standing aside, at which her lips automatically curved into an adorable smile. 

Armaan looked at her and her smile immediately forced him to smile looking at her innocent face. Shilpa was sprinkling the flowers on the bride and groom, during the pheres whereas Armaan's flowers have finished.

So Shilpa asked, "Oh! You don't have flowers to sprinkle, take mine"

Armaan sighed and encircled her from her waist and huskily whispered in her ear, "Who said I don't have flower? You are my flower, but I'm not going to sprinkle you on someone else."

"Shut up Armani! Koi dekh lega leave me", Shilpa blushed and tried to leave his hold from her, but failed.

"My darling! I'm not going to leave you like this", and he tightened his hold on her while feeling the fragrance of her long open hairs.

She elbowed her and crushed her teeth, "aaj tum pitoge"

"banda hazir hai", he rested his one palm on his heart.

Without losing the chance Shilpa immediately turned to get herself free from his hold and succeed but her duppatta tugged on something.

Shilpa turned her head as she assumed that Armaan has tucked her duppatta but found it, trapped by his watch.

"See!! The God is also at my side", and Armaan grinned.

She tried to free her dupatta but he held her palm gently and said, "Ahan! I'm not going to leave you like this"

He took his steps forward and whispered in her ear, "I want to grow old with you"

She blushed at his words but he knelt down on his knee and holding her palm continued himself, "I want to grow old with you because, I want to find myself in you and your love every day. If I need to explain my love one day, then I'll say just one word, YOU my Shona."

He stopped for a second bowed down infront of her and asked, "Will you make umpteenth babies with me? Will you marry me here in the same mandap?"

Shilpa blushingly hid her face with her palm which he removed, while standing and held her hands in his fist and finally asked, "Will you?"

Shilpa immediately shrugged her head in agreement and flung her arms around him, forgetting everything around them and they finally tied a knot to get one forever.

Armaan and Shilpa came to their senses after narrating their day of love to their 1 year old daughter Arushi, who was clapping sitting aside on the bed as she understood everything what her parents' narrated to him.

Armaan snatched Shilpa's arm and making her sit on his lap and hit his head with her.

"Happy 1st wedding anniversary wifey", Armaan said and peck her cheek.

Shilpa kissed her cheek forgetting that their 1 year old was sitting with them.

Arushi made some faces as she was totally ignored by her parents' and came running towards them on her knees and palms, at which they chuckled.

Shilpa embraced her daughter and giggled, "Insecure girl, like father like daughter"

They both kissed Arushi's either kissed together as she was the symbol of their pehla pehla pyaar. And she too snuggled in her mother's arm at which Shilpa teased Armaan.

Armaan scrunched Arushi's tiny button nose with his and teased Shilpa, "My little Shilpa! Dadda love you much more than Mumma!!"

At which Shilpa opened her mouth in a perfect O shape and they both chuckled.

Shilpa sit aside and let Arushi sit on her lap and she hugged both her parents' and tried to say something as she was wishing them on their first wedding anniversary.

Shilpa rested her head on her Armaan's head who kissed her back on her cheek and Shilpa wished him, "Happy wedding anniversary hubby"

And they kept sitting with their darling daughter in their arms, Shilpa's head on his shoulder and Armaan's one hand around his wife and one around her daughter.

And they kept sitting like this to the eternity while saying in unison, "I am proud of mera pehla pehla pyaar"