"Mom. We are back" I put off my glasses, and shut the laptop, standing and stretching, I walked out to meet my furious son.

"What's up man? Why I am seeing a frown on my lil man" I asked, pouting.

"Mom. I want to join the football team" he said, I didn't miss the look of frustration he gave me.

"Ofcourse, you can, who told you can't?"

"Really??? I can? But Jac, said I can't be in the team, I know nothing about the game" he said, dejectedly.

"You know enough you are so into it, and you will learn everything from the coach, there, now stop being a panther, my lil man, go get ready for the dinner" I said turning around to head to the kitchen, I nodded at my mother, who was walking back into the kitchen itself.

"Mom? Where is dad?" Saransh's voice broke the eerie silence of the air. I stopped in my own tracks, and maa, too stood straighter, feeling the tension in the air.

I turned around and my eyes met with my six year old little son, who has grown speedily. He shrugged, giving me hopeful eyes, to get the answers. It's not the first time he has asked me about his dad, but it's the first time that he seemed pretty serious about his whereabouts.

"Baby, your dad, is at some secret mission, he will be back soon. But you need to be strong, we all need to be strong" I smiled, kneeling down to match him, although he had really good height at the age of six. I kissed his forehead and waited for him to speak, but he didn't for too long, that etched my nervousness even more.

"I understand" he spoke but didn't smile back at me, and soon he ran towards his room, yelling about some football he want to purchase, and some cheese sandwiches he want to have after the shower.

I made my way back into the kitchen, and met with maa's stoic stare. I rolled my eyes, walking straight to the kitchen island, taking out the bread and cheese veggies mix I always have in my refrigerator. I started preparing some for Saransh with salt and pepper.

"Don't you think this is so selfish of you to keep him away from his dad" maa's voice broke the thin air.

"Maa..."

"No, Sana, you are wrong in doing so. Sid deserves to be a father. Tell him atleast for Saransh's sake" maa said cutting me off.

I nodded, and gave her clipped smile, "I will think about it maa. Wanna have the sandwich?" I trailed the topic off Sid as swiftly as possible. She rolled her eyes, "you are not gonna change the topic now. Tell Mr. Malik , atleast. You talking to him almost every day, think about him. He would be devasted to know you hid his grandson from him"

"But mom, Sid is back to his normal self. He don't want me anymore. I tried reaching him when I found out about my pregnancy, you know very well, but he didn't allow me to be near him. He asked his securities, to not let me in, you wouldn't believe maa, I begged them on my knees, but he..." I stopped mid sentence when I heard a sob from the stairs, my eyes snapped and widened, when I saw my son with tears in his eyes staring at us.

"My lil man..."

"Dad don't know about me?" He asked ignoring me completely.

"What I told you about evesdroping?" I asked him with curt look.

"You lied mom. You always lied to me. I get punished when I lie to you. Why? You can lie but I can't?" He asked, I could see the hurt in his eyes and my eyes watered up in an instant.

"Baby, come we will talk--"

"I want to meet my dad" he said, wiping his eyes roughly.

"But Saransh..."

"Please mom, I want to meet him. Is he not a good man? Is he that bad boys who beat the woman, you told me earlier about?" I gasped at his explanations.

"No. He is a very good man. He would never beat a woman. He is...well..he..em... I hurt him bad one day, and he... couldn't forgive for that. I hurt him too bad." I muttered, wiping a few tears off my face, but being honest with him, not wanting to lie to my son anymore.

"But...mom. I will ask him for the forgiveness. I know the forgiveness is the best gift we give to someone. He will surely forgive you." He said, smiling brightly.

"You really wanna meet him, my lil man?" I asked him and he nodded enthusiastically, smiling as brightly as ever.

"Yes. Will he meet me, mom?"

"Ofcourse he will. Baby. Come have your dinner and then we will go meet him" I said, and he ran into my arms, I lifted him up in my arms, kissed his forehead and placed him on the kitchen island.

He smiled at me, wiped my tears, making me realise that I have been crying, kissed my cheeks softly, "I don't like to see you cry" he poured, making me chuckle.

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I walked into the studio, with a grin look on my face, I didn't have any choice but to be here as soon as possible. Once I came to know, Ridz was in London for the shoot at my studio, I was going mad because she didn't inform me yet again. I walked in my office and found her sitting at my desk playing with a paper weight.

"You are gonna get killed by me, very soon" I said as a matter of fact to make myself noticed.

She chuckled, and ran to me, hugging me ever so tightly, "I missed you so much, Sa" she said kissing my cheeks.

"You are insane, you know. If you are in London, you have to come at my place. And where were you, last week, Saransh thinks you don't love him now" I muttered.

"But. I was sure, you'd be over here. Why were you not in the office by the way?" She asked skeptically, seeming it was a Monday afternoon.

"I have brought him his favourite hot wheels for his birthday, sweetheart. He is gonna love me rather" she gushed, pulling off her jacket.

I smiled at her, she has been an angel in disguise for me since I left New York.

When Sid sent me the divorce the next day, I was sure, I was left with no one in the world. I knew, I have lost a huge part of mine with him, the part that was meant for him and only him, my heart.

I kept on thinking about us, but there was no chance left, especially when I tried to contact him but he never let me near him. I have been in contact with dad ever since I left, but he never talked about Sid to me and I never asked, it was the sense of maturity in either of us, I guess. He didn't want to upset me by bringing Sid, and I didn't want him to be worried by talking about him.

Although, dad was always there for me over phone yet we never met after that. I hid something from them, and I was too guilty to meet them now.

I sometimes feel that I have done a heinous thing to not only to Sid but to everyone including Saransh.

How will I even face them now?

I really want this to happen, atleast Saransh deserves to know who his father is. My lil man, is not a normal kid, he is really mature for his age. Believe me when I say this but his words were never wrong, he never stammered. As a kid, he would say the exact word even when he was learning. He never got less 100% till now, I have never seen him speak wrong or broken English. Apart from English he knows Hindi, which I myself am not fluent in, only maa knows Hindi in our house and she never talks in hindi with us only with a few of her Indian friends or relatives, so he picked up from those phone calls while playing or maa babysitting him.

He is an extra ordinary kid, as per the doctors, there are only 2% kids in the entire world, who are that different.

If I even wished to hide his father from him, he will at the end know, either we need to sort this out with Sid as soon possible or I just will have to let Saransh know the truth.

I needed to fix an appointment with Sidharth to explain him everything about Saransh, I need to do this as soon as possible.

On my way to the studio, I tried to contact his secretary yet again she told me Sir doesn't have any dates in the near future for the appointment.

I finally decided to ask dad about his whereabouts, and show up there, my son really want to meet his dad and for once I want to do that. It's now or never.

"A penny to your thoughts sweetheart" I heard Ridz voice breaking my train of thoughts, I shrugged but told her the truth, "Saransh wants to meet his dad" I muttered.

"Fuck. Really? You think it's a good idea. Seeming Sid is back to his playboy lifestyles. Would he really like to meet him now? Will he...shit...this is really not gonna be as simple as it sounds" Ridz broke.

"I know. He still didn't allow me to meet him."

"But why? Does he know that Sushant is not your husband, you didn't marry him? " She asked, sipping her coffee.

"I don't know. I don't know. Ridz." I replied honestly.

"Anyways, I am gonna be with you always. Actually, I have a brilliant idea, I will talk to Karan about this" she said.

"Karan, your ex-husband? " I asked suspiciously.

"Hmmm... We....we recently met, and sort of had a one night stand. Frankly, it was just a sex night, but...emmm...we ended up having it every weekend, and gross...but it's no strings attached sex. Trust me" she said, nervously.

I nodded, in a skeptical stare and let it go.

I loved her idea, though.

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