A U T H O R's P O V —

Mostly all of the members of the family, along with the guests were present in the backyard of goyal house where the party for kiara's birthday was held. All of the members were her exept the two bestfrienda who were taking decades to come down. Don't know how long they are going to take more.

No one actually noticed but the deshmukh brothers were impatient to see their girls. Atharv was for shivika and arav for sonali. They both sighed for nth time while standing near the car counter.

Their eyes were fixed on the gate from which they will be entering the party area. Atharv glanced at his watch as the time read 8:30 pm. It was almost the time for cake cutting ceremony.

He was tapping his feet on the ground while leaning on the counter with a glass filled with whiskey in his hand, same goes with arav. Atharv was very excited to see shivika's look as it was the first time he was attending a party with her. Arav's situation was no less than him. He wanted to see how his soon to be wife would look tonight on the occasion. He knew that she was going to amuse him again by her enchanting beauty but still his heart craved for her one look.

They both were again glancing at their wrist watches when their eyes halted on the figures they were impatiently waiting for. Here comes the duo, sonali and shivika looking ethereal in the matching saree they were wearing. A wide smile that was dancing on their lips gave their face a natural glow. Both of them were taken off guard by the beauty of their girls.

Both of them gulped as a ticklish feeling stuck in their both stomach making them feel weird. Where arav knew what it was as he was already so in love with sonali, atharv was still busy giving a definition to it.

His heart beat went crazy as he, along with arav placed their hand on their chest, above their heart and mumbled,

"Haye, mein Marjavan!"

[oh,my poor heart!!]

Both spoke while looking at the girls who were now making their way towards the family members, hand in hand. They both looked as if beauty from heaven. The saree hugged their figure perfectly. Taking away both the men's hearts. They both were so lost in their beauty.

"Why did you do that?" Arav asked while looking at atharv, giving him a side eye. Atharv who was looking at shivika now shifted his gaze on his brother. "What did i do?" He said shruging off his shoulder. "That haye mein marjavan. I had readon but why did YOU do that?" Arav gave him a sharp look making him gulp. "Because you did that." Atharv said while avoiding his eyes. Oh god atharv, couldn't you speak in your mind? He scolded himself but felt his brother's gaze still at himself.

"You-"

"Arav ji!" Sonali's voice cutted arav off while he sighed at his brother.

Arav made his way towards sonali while atharv stood their, eyes not ready to leave her figure. Her laugh was his favourite music as he closed his eyes feeling it. Now he knew, shivika was all his heart needed, no one else.

His heart beated for her. His heart belonged to her. His heart was crazy for her. He was crazy for her. Experiencing the beautiful feeling for the first time in his life, got him alive.

Before her, his heart never felt alive as he would rather focus on his business, his work more than anything. He barely smiled but after encountering with her, he was totally opposite. He didn't knew what is changing him so much but he is loving it.

His eyes were not ready to leave her figure but had to as the time of cake cutting ceremony was beginning. Everyone had a bright smile on their faces. Especially kiara, the baby was enjoying the whole thing not even understanding some things. The day was indeed special for her, for her family and for her parents who were blessed to have the lakshmi itself as the fruit of their love.

"Atharv, come here."

He heard his mother's voice as he nodded and went towards the center place after keeping his glass on the counter. Shivika's eyes fell on his figure finally. The black tuxedo suited him so well that she couldn't take her eyes off his figure. Two top buttons opened as it gave a full view of his manly neckline making her gulp. The man looked fine as wine.

Feeling a gaze at him, atharv looked towards shivika, who was now caught staring at him. Her eyes slightly widened as she looked away while the crimson colour spread on her cheeks. He chuckled and shook his head at her cute antics. He loves how she just looks away after he catches her ataring at him. But her ears and cheeks says it all.

He loves that he is the only one she stares at. He loves how she blushs while he is the reason behind it. He sometimes scolds himself for behaving like a teenager who is in love but still it makes him happy and his heart feels warm.

Shivika avasthi is the oxygen to his heart, he knew it.

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"You love her, man le. (Accept it)" Atharv who was standing a little away with his whiskey glass looked at his brother who just came and stood beside him. He frowned his brows but understood what he was talking about. "Bhai it's not like that-" before he could say that line again, arav glared at him. He sighed and raised his hands giving up.

"Han shyad but i am not sure. " His eyes again landed on her figure who was playing with kiara making her giggle. She looked cute while playing with kiara which made him smile. Arav smiled and wrapped his hands around atharv's shoulder.

(Maybe)

"Not shyad, you are. " He says making atharv look at him. "How did you fell for sonali bhabhi?" Atharv asked while arav gave him, his all attention now, his ears turning red. "Han pehle blush karlo ap." Atharv says whilw rolling his eyes making arav laugh.

(Yeah, you can blush first!)

"Okay so when i first saw sonali, i felt something inside my stomach jumping. I didn't knew what that was but just like you, i couldn't take my eyes off from her figure. The way she smiles, the way she did those clumsy things, all became the reason of my sleepless nights and smiles. I used to think about her all day, all night in short, 24/7 she was on my mind. I didn't knew what to name all of it until one day i realised that this is what love feels like. It makes your heart alive. You feel like smiling all day when they are around you. You feel like wanna stare at them all day, all night and just everytime. Love is something which happens without your consent. It just happens and when it does, you can't help but to fall for that person more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. That's what i felt for sonali and i knew it was love all this time. "

Atharv listened to each and every word his brother said while the flashbacks hit in his mind. How his heart started beating so fast when she looked into her eyes for the first time. How he felt a ticklish feeling in his stomach when she tugged her hair strand behind her ears. How he never want to look away from her eyes.

How his heart feels alive when she smiles. How his ears love the music of her laugh. It hit him. Hard. All the time, he was in love? He was finally in love? The Atharv Deshmukh who was famous for his cold heart and grumpy behaviour, was in love?

His eyes landed on her figure again as he felt his heart beat rising. He was in love. A wide smile spread on his lips when he finally realised it. He can finally name the connection between them. He can finally name the feelings in his heart and stomach. He can finally claim that he was in love.

He was madly, deeply, crazily in love with shivika avasthi. The only girl for whom his heart beated, for whom his heart raised its speed, for whom his lips would turn upwards and for whom his mind started ignoring his work, for whom, his focus from his business diverted and who made him experience the so called beautiful feeling called love.

"Bhai, so i am in love? Mujhe pyaar ho gya hai? Shivika se?" Atharv's excited and happy voice rang in arav's ears as he let out a laugh and nodded while patting on his shoulders. "Finally you accepted it !" Arav said making atharv turn red as he looked away.

[i am in love? with shvika?]

God, he was behaving like a real teenager who realised he is in love for the first time.

He knew he was in love with her but was she in love with him too? Did she felt the same way he did? A sudden wave of nervousness ran in his body as he stared at her. What if she doesn't feel any of it? What if she had someone else in her life? What if it was one sided?

He was in his deep thoughts as he gulped the negative thoughts. Now that he knew that he was in love, he won't let his first love fail. He will do everything to win her love. He was ready to sacrifice everything he had just for the reason of his heart beat. He was ready to give everything she deserved be it anything. He was now determined to win her and make her mine.

Call him obsessed or crazy but for him nothing mattered before her. He wanted to win her and not wanted to force her to love him back.

"Shivika avasthi, now that i can name every bit of it which is between us, i will do everything it takes to win you. "

He says in his mind while looking at her deeply. Oh how euphoric it feels to be finally in love.

Another day came to an end with endless celebrations and a realisation of love which his heart was feeling since days. Call it cringey but when a person is in love, true love, nothing matters to them more than the one they are deeply in love with.

While two souls were getting tied in a visible knot of love, two others were getting tied in a knot that was invisible.

The knot of love.

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TO BE CONTINUED...

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