A few years ago.....
Riya's mom and dad had a love marriage. Both their families were against it, but when Ishika and Anurag did not give in, then both their families decided to get them married.
Ishika was a girl with a weak body from the beginning. So when both their families came to know that Ishika was going to become a mother, they arranged for Ishika and Anurag to live in a village.
Both their families were very supportive. They said they would help them in every way, but Anurag and Ishika wanted to do something on their own. So they decided to do everything on their own.
Although both were from normal families.there was a lot of love in both their families. They used to support them as much as they could.
When Riya was 6-7 years old.her parents shifted to the countryside. Their house was on top of a hill. the atmosphere of this village was peaceful.
everyone helped each other. Riya's father did not have much money but he was happy, he had a small but sweet family.
Riya, her mother Ishika and her father Anurag all lived together. Riya's father used to run his family by doing small jobs, but Ishika has never judged Anurag for this till date, and she used to support Anurag completely.
Ishika used to do embroidery and sewing work in the same village. Ishika used to help Anurag as much as she could.She did not want to put any more responsibilities on Anurag .SHe thought that she herself would earn so much money that otherwise Riya would not have to worry about small things.
This is how their days go by, full of laughter and happiness.
Once Anurag got an offer from a big company while living in that countryside, for which he had to go to the city.
The offer was very big, if Anurag accepts the offer of that company then he will never have to do such small jobs again.
He could have fulfilled all the needs of Ishika and Riya, but he did not want to leave them.
When Anurag came home in the evening, he told Ishika about the offer. At first Ishika got worried that now Anurag will have to go away from them and now they have a little daughter, who will also have to stay away from her father.
But Ishika was a very courageous girl. She supported him ,when Anurag was wavering. Ishika understood his point and packed his luggage.
They told this to Riya as well. Riya was also happy that her father had got a job. She also supported them.
Everyone was very happy. Anurag promised Ishika that soon he would earn so much money that they would not need anyone's support. After making this promise, he left for the city.
Now only Ishika and Riya were left in the village. Riya sometimes used to go to play under a tree in front of the house, she and her friends used to play there a lot.
Once, Riya was waiting for her friends like everyday, when she heard some sound from the bushes near the tree. Riya was small but she was a courageous girl. Instead of getting scared, she started walking in that direction.
Riya reached near those bushes and as soon as she moved the bushes aside, she saw a boy sitting there.
He was sitting quietly and silently. Riya went to him and said, "Who are you? And why are you sitting here?"
The boy ignored her. But Riya extended her hand towards him and said, "My name is Riya and yours?"
That boy did not reply again and was sad sitting on his knees. Tears were flowing from his eyes and were not stopping.
So Riya looked at him carefully. There were injury marks on his knee and blood was flowing. So Riya went in front of him to tie her handkerchief on his knee and she tied the handkerchief on him by sitting on her knees.
Now that boy looked at Riya for the first time. She was not able to see clearly because of the tears in his eyes and his eyes had also become red and swollen due to crying too much. Maybe he was crying because of pain.
Riya wiped his tears with both her hands and hugged that boy and calmed him down and after that she separated from him and blew on his knee and said "When it hits me, Mummy blows like this and all my pain disappears, you will also get well".
That boy was listening to Riya but was not giving any reply. He was just looking at Riya's face.
"By the way what are you doing here?" When Riya asked that boy, that boy again did not give any reply.
Then Riya further said, "I and my friends come here to play every day. If you want to play with us then you can also come!"
That boy did not say anything at first and then after thinking for a while, he just nodded his head in yes. Seeing this Riya was very happy.
After that Riya kept sitting near that boy and kept talking to him. Today Riya's friends also did not come to play, so she started talking to that boy.
When Riya came to her senses, she realized that it was quite late. Riya said bye to that boy and started leaving, then that boy said in a low voice "Aadi", at first Riya did not understand anything, then that boy said "My name is Aadi".
Riya looked at him and smiled and said, "Ok Adi, we will meet here tomorrow at the same time". And she went away from there.
Here Adi kept sitting there for some time looking at this Hanky and remained lost in the thoughts of that girl.
It was the first time he heard someone talking so much. Then he got up and walked towards his house.