RagNa Love Stories: RagNa SS: Anyone can fall in love anytime Chapter 42

Kalpana starts preparing for her entry on the stage and checks if her dress and makeup is up to the mark.

Priya comes in with Sushant and first goes to meet Kalpana and wish her. Sushant hesitates to meet Kalpana remembering their last encounter. He still gets scared as he remembers how Raghav was about to strangle him and thinking about it, he starts walking away. He notices Raghav greeting the foreign delegates and he stars panicking and rushes towards Priya who keeps calling his name.

"I won't go in. Raghav is standing outside. He may again try to strangle me if he sees me with Kalpana." Sushant says in a low voice.

"Nothing will happen Sushant. I am there for you. Nobody will harm you. In the afternoon too you were getting scared to wear a tie as well." Priya starts recollecting those moments.

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FLASHBACK starts...

Priya got ready for the function while Sushant was still confused on what to wear. They had shopped the earlier day for the function where in Priya purchased a blue and velvet gown and Sushant had bought a blue shirt, black tie and a black pant to go with it.

Priya dressed up and went to check if Sushant as well is ready but she saw him all confused. She told him to wear the clothes they had purchased earlier but he was in no mood. After insisting, Sushant put on the blue shirt and black pants. Priya took the tie from the bag and decided to herself put the tie for him.

"No, I am not going to wear this." Sushant screamed and jumped on the bed.

"It's just a tie. What's wrong baba?" Priya tried to explain him.

"No. After what happened yesterday, I am hating these ties. I will go like this only, without a tie." Sushant said in his defense.

"But that was a misunderstanding. Raghav won't harm you today as Kalpi has already sorted it out." Priya said trying to calm him down.

Sushant did not agree and rushed inside the bathroom, thus locking it from inside.

Flashback ends....

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Sushant notices Raghav walking towards them and he hides behind Priya.

Raghav notices Priya and Sushant standing behind her. He walks towards Sushant angrily and grabs him by his hand and starts shaking him. A nervous Sushant says "I'm sorry. I dint do anything. Sorry."

"Then what are you doing here? You were about to enter Kalpana's room right? How dare you?" Raghav starts growling at him.

"No, I'm really sorry. I won't enter her room, in fact I will leave the function right now. Forget the function, I will leave this city and go. Please forgive me. Please." Sushant starts pleading before him.

"What are you doing? Whom are you saying sorry to?" Priya says in a worried tone.

Sushant's trance breaks and he looks at Priya and then at Raghav who is still greeting the guests. " Thanks God it was a dream." He says to himself.

"Dream? What dream?" Priya asks confusingly.

Sushant is about to answer when he notices Raghav walking towards him and this time for real.

He grabs Priya by her hand and hides behind the wall. Priya does not understand anything and Sushant says "Shushhh!!! Let him go." Sushant tells Priya.

They both go in a corner and sit so that they are far away from Raghav's eyes.

Kalpana checks her outfit and removes her duppatta and keeps it outside. She enters the washroom and shuts the door from inside.

Manish starts hosting the show and first introduces his ethnic collection. The guests start cheering as the models start walking the ramp. Each model wears a unique dress design and Raghav captures these moments in his camera but his eyes keep waiting for the moment when Kalpana will walk on the ramp.

Suhana tries to approach Manish and Raghav to ask if she can be the show stopper but they both keep avoiding her throughout the day.

Suhana dresses up with the other models. The models start gossiping about Kalpana saying "She is so lucky to be chosen in the place of Pam else who gets the chance to be a show stopper?"

"She got the chance because she is Manish's favorite." One other model says.

"No. She is Raghav's wife and because Raghav is a close friend of Manish, hence he chose her as the show stopper." Another model interrupts them.

Suhana hears this and starts getting frustrated. She crushes her sari and thinks to ruin Kalpana's image as it was because of Kalpana, that she was given the most ordinary outfit to wear and now Kalpana herself was the show stopper of the show.

Suhana enters the dressing room of Kalpana and notices Kalpana's dupata kept on the table. She takes it and goes near the oil lamp. She puts the end of the dupatta on the flame and tries to burn the edge. She checks if Kalpana is still inside or not and keeps burning the edge. She hears Kalpana opening the knob of the washroom and rushes outside.

Kalpana comes out and notices her dupatta in flames and almost 3/4th of the dupatta had got burned. Tears start forming in her eyes and she wonders as to who must have done it.

Kalpana walks out of the room in frustration and notices Suhana standing outside pretending to talk on the phone. She gets the idea of her being responsible but since her entry is in few moments, she could not spend time in arguing with Suhana. Kalpana ties her dupatta in the form of a sari and hides the burned portion in her ghagra.

Finally the moment arrives and all the eyes keep watching Kalpana. She makes her entry on the stage and Suhana and the other models watch her as she walks the ramp alone. John comes on the stage and holds her by her arm and they both walk hand in hand.

Vikram, Sunaina and Sammy cheer as they watch Kalpana walk the ramp and Sammy tells his parents that Kalpana is Raghav's wife. They both smile and Sammy takes out snaps of Kalpana and John.

Raghav takes out her snaps and avoids taking out John's photographs with Kalpana. He takes out an individual pic of John instead.

Kalpana gets conscious as she does not want her dupatta to come in anyone's eyes.

Manish joins John and Kalpana and introduces his designs to the crowd. He tells the other models along with Suhana to come in front. Kalpana keeps her eyes on Suhana and Suhana too gets jealous as Kalpana's dupatta looks perfect and she keeps wondering as to how Kalpana has hidden the burned portion very smartly.

While looking at Kalpana, Suhana misses a step and falls on the stage. Her sari tears from the side and the crowd starts laughing at her making her feel embarrassed. Kalpana too starts laughing but then notices her sari torn from the side and she goes towards her, helping her to get up. She whispers in her ear "When you dig the grave for someone else, you yourself fall in the grave. I guess you have understood what I meant to say." Kalpana winks and Suhana gets irritated as the crowd keeps laughing at her.

"Sorry." Suhana says.

"What did you say? I dint hear." Kalpana says.

"Sorry." Suhana speaks louder.

"Hmmm....I hope that you are saying this from your heart Suhana."

Raghav notices Kalpana talking to Suhana on the stage as the crowd applauds and appreciates Manish's and the villagers work.

The crowd move to Manish's store where the outfits have been displayed.

Kalpana changes and comes out in casuals to greet Sammy's parents.

Two days pass by...

Sammy's parents choose a date when Samar and Sunaina have to get married and Raghav tells Vikram to chose the same day for his marriage with Kalpana as well.

Kalpana tries to stop him but Sammy and Sunaina agree to Raghav's words and finalize the date which is two weeks later....

Manish informs Raghav that all the dresses of the store have been sold and they have made a profit of about Rs. 50 lakhs from the fashion show. They received 2 contracts of Rs. 1 crore and 75 lakhs from famous retailers and this was just a start for them. The profit was distributed equally among all the villagers who put in their hard work and effort in the dress materials and the designs.

A week passes by...

Guests start visiting the Singhania house and Sunaina's parents stay there for the marriage preparations.

Sammy gives his room to his parents and Sunaina gives her room to hers and so Sammy and Raghav sleep in one room and Sunaina and Kalpana sleep in the other.

Sunaina's mom calls a dancer to teach Sunaina and Kalpana bharat natyam as they need to perform for the sangeet ceremony. Sunaina being a trained dancer finds it easy to learn while Kalpana being untrained finds it tough.

"Who dances a classical dance for their sangeet ceremony?" Kalpana grumbles in Sunaina's ear.

"Shushhh! It's just a dance. You'll manage Kalpi." Sunaina tries to console her.

"But why me? What wrong did I do to your mom that she is torturing me? She woke me up at 4:00 a.m. and now for 7 hours we are only practicing while I did not manage to learn even a single step till now. The ghungroos are hurting me."

Precap: Kalpana and Raghav and Sunaina and Samar get married...

Disclaimer: The character names in the story are fictional characters and owned by the creators of the show "Ek Mutthi Asmaan" on ZEE TV.