"Thaddd"a loud sound of crashing the cups full of tea with ground and falling tray down, echoed into the room where two families were sitting and having talks about marriage plans of their children.

Everyone's attention shifted towards the noise. The, would be bride, who carried tea and snacks for those who might can be her future husband and in laws had dropped everything in her hand the soon her eyes caught the image of him, sitting there.

He stood up seeing her almost after a year. "Beautiful" he muttered under his breath admiring the breath-taking beauty standing in front of him dressed in a beautiful white anarkali. Her open long waist length hairs were perfect to give her final touch up.

He soon noticed the frown and anger on her face as he found her glaring at him. "Cute" he again muttered staring at her angry frown on her face.

"Mom, what is he doing here?" Akshara literally screamed, stepping towards Naira making everyone in the room to go stunned and shocked at her behaviour.

"Beta you know him?" Naira asked being quite surprised that her daughter knew the guy came to see to her. When she had tried showing picture of him to Akshara, Akshara had clearly refused to even hear his name, leave the photo aside. Akshara had sharply said yes for the marriage no matter who the person was.

"Abhimanyu Birla" Akshara uttered throwing disgusting looks at Abhimanyu. Her tone had nothing but hatred, anger for him. He smirked at her feisty attitude. She was still the same just as she used to be a year before.

"So good to see that you remember my name, Akshu" Abhimanyu said with a charming smile playing over her lips as he walked towards her.

"Stop right there Mr. Birla...dare you call me that again...you have lost that right before one year... it's Akshara for you...actually it's nothing for you..."Akshara corrected him pointing her finger at him not caring about their families who were witnessing an totally unexpected scenario. They were absolutely clueless about what was happening between their kids.

"Akshara I can explain..." Abhimanyu said softly, trying to make Akshara listen to him once.

"I don't want to listen...you better leave from here right now...sorry uncle and aunty...I do not mean to insult you but I can't marry your son" Akshara said before she left the house running outside.

"Akshara...Akshara..." Naira called out for her daughter, trying to stop her but she was already gone.

Both Akshara's and Abhimanyu's parents looked at each other with, absolute confusion visible over their faces. Manjari turned towards Abhimanyu. Holding his wrist, she asked, "What is this Abhimanyu? How you both know each other? And why Akshara reacted like this? Speak up" Abhimanyu made his mom sit down.

"Relax mom...I will tell you each and everything ...now I need to talk to Akshara" saying this Abhimanyu ran behind Akshara.

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"Akshara listen...Akshara" Abhimanyu ran behind her, calling her name but she was quick enough to increase her speed not wanting to have a faceoff with him, again.

Abhimanyu almost rushed chasing her. He stopped her from moving further locking her wrist in his grip. Akshara had enough. Turning back, she slapped him so hard. Abhimanyu felt a burning stinging sensation on his cheek where she had just slapped him on road. To his fortune, no one was there to witness that.

Tears brimmed in Akshara's eyes as her mind played flashes of her past, again.

Getting closer, Abhimanyu said cupping her cheek, "Akshu please listen baba...I can explain everything...I love you..."

That was enough for Akshara to jerk his hand and to push him away. Her tears soon changed into anger. "You love me? Hahaha...biggest joke of the century Mr. Abhimanyu Birla" Akshara mocked at him laughing bitterly

She turned to go but could not take even a step further after hearing his words. "You had loved me once right...can't you listen to me by trusting me once." Abhimanyu got her weakness. He knew after saying this she would definitely listen to him once.

"That was my fate...which I found you only to love...in my life!" Akshara turned to his side with a reflection of pain and hurt in her voice and silent tears in her eyes which she was trying her best to hold them back, to not let fall them in front of him. She didn't want to accept and present that he still affects her.

Abhimanyu's heart cried hearing that she believes that it's her bad luck to love him. Something tore inside him making him to go weak at his knees as his legs were ready to give up at any moment. But he held himself because he couldn't afford to lose her, again.

"She is not my girlfriend Akshara...she never was and she never will...YOU are the only girl I loved, I love and will always love, Akshu" Abhimanyu assured her and at the same time begged her to trust on him that he loves only her.

Akshara's eyes widen at Abhimanyu's statement. "Wh...what? What did you say?" she asked him, stammering over her words. Though she knew he was lying but she didn't want it to be a lie. Her heart wanted to believe whatever he said to be true.

Turning back, Abhimanyu said, "Aarohi is my cousin sister Akshara"

Akshara got one more shock which was clearly visible over her face. "Sister?" she mimicked his words thinking over them.

"Yes, cousin sister...that day...in coffee shop she declared that we were in relationship...was nothing more than a lie Akshara...she just wanted to make Neil jealous...with whom she was in love with...even I got a shock when she said all those things and kissed me saying I love you...but then she told me that it was her plan and she is my kiddo sister...I couldn't refuse her...see my bad luck...you came there and witnessed that drama...and when you asked me I couldn't say truth in front of everyone Akshara...that would have flopped Aarohi's plan and I can never see her upset...and you ran from there...after an hour, when I came to your hostel for telling you the truth, you had already left...I searched for you...EVERYWHERE...your roommates didn't tell me anything as you had asked them not to...You never told me where you belong...so I had no idea about you being in India...I tried my all contacts but couldn't find anything related to you...Finally Shefali told me about you being in India and your address...she had seen me going mad for you...she got it that I love you...and finally I found you"

Before a year, Akshara was in US and so was Abhimanyu. They were in same college and were together from two years. They fell for each other and got into relationship. They had almost finished their course as it was their last year.

Akshara never really mentioned about from where she was so when she left, Abhimanyu was clueless about her original home. After that coffee shop incident, Akshara left US within an hour unable to handle his betrayal which he himself had made visible to her. But he had no idea that she would take such an extreme step.

He had gone at her hostel, but could not clear things with her as she was not there to listen to him. She had already left US and came back to India. Abhimanyu searched her everywhere, but she had even told her friends not to tell him that she was from India. Abhimanyu too apparently was from India. This was unknown to Akshara as well.

Akshara didn't know how to react. She just stared at him blankly. Before Abhimanyu could say further, she lost her unconsciousness and her balance. Abhimanyu ran towards her and held her from her waist. Her head fell back. She had fainted in his arms. Abhimanyu patted her cheeks, asking her to wake up. He panicked seeing she was not responding. Within a moment, he picked her up in his arms and carried her back to her room.

At Akshara's room-

"Don't worry. She has fainted because she hasn't eaten anything since morning...I have given her medicines...she will be fine very soon...let her rest" Doctor assured her family who were too scared seeing unconscious Akshara. Everyone finally took a sigh of relief hearing that she would be fine soon and it was just because of weakness.

"Thank you so much Doctor...i will accompany you till your car..." Karthik said taking Doctor's bag. He smiled at Karthik who looked so grateful to him. As a doctor, it wasn't new for him...parents panicking about their children's health. He nodded and they went outside.

Abhimanyu was standing in a corner, leaning against a wall, with his eyes not shifting from Akshara for even a second. He blamed himself for her condition, from inside. He went blank when she fainted in his arms. For a moment, he thought he would lose her and that mere thought left him shaken all from inside and outside. He was numb from inside, looking at his life, laying their unconscious.

After almost a year, he had found her and his hope of getting her back. But what he never wanted was, to hurt her, in a slightest way. He could not bear even a smallest scratch over her so how could he bear that she fainted because of him. Though doctor had cleared that she fainted because of being empty stomach from morning but Abhimanyu believed it was him also, she fainted because of.

He came back to reality by the touch of Naira on his shoulder. He tilted his head towards her mom. She smiled softly at him. "Don't worry. She is okay and will get up soon" she assured him softly about Akshara.

Though Abhimanyu was yet to tell them how he knows Akshara, why she reacted like that after seeing him, what had happened between them, but Naira had seen through things. She had seen that no matter how Akshara was reacting, but this guy, surely loves her daughter more than anything else.

She had seen the depth of his love for Akshara in his eyes. The mother in her, was sure that no one, no one could love her daughter more than him. She didn't miss when he had brought Akshara home. He looked visibly tensed more than others. His concern for Akshara didn't go unnoticed by Naira.

He could only return a smile back to her. Naira had got by then that this duo certainly shares something. She was clear about Abhimanyu's love but she was yet to get confirmed about Akshara but the way Akshara reacted seeing Abhimanyu, it definitely gave her a glimpse that Akshara too feels something for Abhimanyu.

Moving away from Abhimanyu, Naira said turning towards everyone standing there, "I think we should let Akshara rest for some time...let us all go outside. "

Everyone nodded in approval. Abhimanyu, who was still staring at Akshara, broke his trance hearing Akshara's mom. He straightened himself, and glanced once at Akshara before he turned to make his way out of the room.

"Abhimanyu...you stay with Akshara here" Naira permitted him to stay with her. He was surprised. He observed her. Her mom was only smiling. She had given him a chance to be with her daughter.

She had given him a chance to sort out things between them because she was way too sure that no one except him could keep her daughter happiest. He walked towards her. Taking her both hands, he did nothing but silently whispered a thank you. She blinked her eyes in a nod before she left.

The room was alone with those two. Everyone had left the room. He rushed back to her, and sat on the bed besides her, holding her palm in a soft grip. "I never wanted to hurt you Akshara...I never wanted to hurt you!" he mumbled as he kissed the back of her palm.

His tears fell on her hand sending a life within her. Her fingers moved a little in his hand. He instantly wiped his tears as he felt she may wake up at any moment.

Her eyes opened slowly and she found him, sitting right next to her. He finally took a sigh of relief. She tried getting up but she was too weak to do that on her own. He kept her hand on bed and helped her to sit, with. He adjusted pillows behind her back, against bed post, making her sit comfortably. "Are you mad? Pagal ho tum? Why didn't you eat anything since morning?" his care came out with his scolding.

He was too scared to lose her. She was just staring at him. He hung his head down and within a moment, placed a kiss on her forehead, leaning forward. He walked little backwards from the bed. "Do you even know how scared I was?" his throat was almost chocking. His voice was all shaking. His expressions showed nothing but only fear and concern about her.

"You...you just leave from here..." she uttered turning her gaze away from him. Her words made him go mad.

"What?" He said, stepping closer. His eyes caught a tear which fell down from her eye which she quickly wiped not wanting him to witness. His eyes got closed momentarily as he got it what was on her mind that time.

"Do you really want me to leave from here?" he asked sending shivers down her spines.

No! She didn't want him to go. She wanted to melt in his embrace. She wanted to cry to him. No! She didn't want him to go.

"I don't deserve you Abhimanyu! You deserve someone better than me" her guilt spoke. She could not even dare to look at him. She could not even dare to look at her own. She herself could not forgive her own self for what she had done so how could she expect anything from him! How could she expect him to understand her! How could she expect him to forgive her!

That's it! Abhimanyu had got it when he saw the tear from her eye. He knew she was uttering it through guilt. He immediately sat beside her, and made her look at him, by keeping his hand on her cheek. She had fixed her gaze at down. She just could not gather enough courage to meet his eyes. "Akshu...baba, won't you even look at me?" his words were so sweet that it was a melody to her ears. She didn't uplift her eyes but tears started falling down from her eyes which she could not hold back anymore.

He closed his eyes seeing those tears in his sweetheart's eyes. He knew how sensitive she was. She must have been cursing herself from inside. He took no time to pull her in his embrace. She unknowingly clutched his T-shirt in her fist and started crying by hiding her face in his chest. His heart cried with her.

He kept caressing her hairs and whispering sweet nothings to her. "It's all my fault...it's all my mistake...i returned back just like that...I didn't give you..you...time to explain...ek sal...one damn year...you suffered because of me...I...I...am...I am sorry" she felt suffocating from her inner self. She didn't even realise what she was speaking.

He was just holding her, letting her say what she wanted to. He pulled her out, and cupped her face, wiping her all the tears. "Akshu...bas baba...meri Akshu ki koi galti nahi thi...tumne mujhe chance diya tha...poocha tha mujhse coffee shop me...wo mai tha jisne kaha tha ke mai tumse nahi Aarohi se pyar karta hu...wo mai tha jisne kaha tha ke tum nahi wo meri girlfriend hai...bhale hi wo jhooth tha leking wo tumhe thodi na pata tha...aur suffer sirf maine nahi kiya...mujhse jada tumne suffer kiya hai...iss sab me galat mai tha...to meri Akshu ki galti kaise hui?" He was neither right.

They both were at fault. No one was singly responsible for what happened. She had asked him in coffee shop and he had said that he loved Aarohi and she was his girlfriend. It left her broken. She could not bear it and came back to India leaving everything, leaving him. When he came to clear things, she had already left.

"See Akshara, we cannot change the past. We cannot change what had happened before a year but we can make our future. You shouldn't blame yourself...nor there is a necessity of you apologising to me...I don't need your sorry...I just want my Akshu ...and nothing else...and I can't let you leave me ever again...you are too precious to lose! YOU ARE THE ONE I LOVE AKSHARA" he had made it very clear that she had done nothing to apologize about and he wanted nothing but her.

She felt beautiful...something which could not be expressed in words. He made her feel like she was priceless. He made her feel special. He could have easily got someone in past one year and so as she...she could have also got someone else.

But no...he came all the way to India just for her. In past one year, she did nothing but only suffered.

She was not living... but was only breathing. She had said yes for the marriage for her family...who were getting worried by seeing her like that. But she had no interest in anyone. That's why when her mom tried her showing the picture of guy; she refused to see him. That's was the proof of the kind of love they shared!

It was beyond everything! Pure and sacred! Amazing and eternal! The love which even time could not lessen or weaken! The love which no one could break! The love which was too sacred and strong to get defeated by anything!

Hearing someone's footsteps, Abhimanyu get off from her a little, making presentable distance between them.

"Akshara, are you okay?" Naira asked who had come to look for her. Akshara turned her gaze to the door and nodded. Her mom saw a very different satisfaction on Akshara's face which she was longing from a year to see. She looked at Abhimanyu and took no time to understand what was missing in her daughter's life. It was him!

She silently blessed them together. "I will bring something for you to eat" Saying this; her mom went to bring some food for her.

"No mom..." Akshara said but Naira had already left. Abhimanyu made her turn towards him, by holding her arm. He asked glaring at her, "What do you mean by no? And why didn't you eat anything since morning?" Abhimanyu was angry at her for being so careless and playing with her health like that.

She bit her lower lip. She shifted her gaze from him. She answered without looking at him, "Wo...wo...It's my fast today..." He took some moments to register what she said. He shook his head, not understanding her.

"Fast? Which fast?" he demanded an answer. "Leave it naa...it's just like that" she tried changing the topic. She didn't want to tell him what exact reason was, behind her fasting. He narrowed his eyes at her. She avoided his eyes.

It made him sure about she was hiding something from him. And for some unknown reason, he felt she was hiding something which he should know about. Before she could realise anything, he held her hand and placed it on his head making her eyes to go widen.

"Now tell me for what you are fasting haa...?" he had made sure that she had no options of escaping from his question. She tried getting her hand off, but he held it for firmly letting her know, he was not going to leave the topic until and unless she answers him.

Akshara looked around. He had left with no other option. Her hand was on his head. She could not lie now. "Actually..." she stuck on words. She didn't understand how to tell him. He became more curious. His all attention was on her.

"Okay fine...remember we went to one astrologer when we were in US?" she finally gave up seeing he was not going to leave the topic. He closed his eyes to remember about the incident she was speaking. He took no time to remember it.

He strongly disliked such people who claimed to verdict someone's future. He never believed in such things. But Akshara did. She forcefully took him to an astrologer. Abhimanyu stayed there not more than five minutes and even dragged Akshara out of there.

"Yes.

What about that?" He nodded at Akshara but didn't understand how that thing and her fast were related.