The sound is evident in the messed-up home. It entered her home where she could hear the earthquake type effect from Siddharth’s room. Siddharth opened the door hearing Isitha’s voice outside. Looking at the red eyes filled with angry tears Isitha gets concerned.

“what happened bittu?” asked Isitha carefully consoling him in between with her soft hands massaging his shoulders.

“Nothing serious, it's just business tension” lied Siddharth. He can’t tell her about Arjun for sure. Isita would be broken completely. Siddharth can never let that happen.

"If you don't want to tell me, you can say that directly. As you know I hate lies." Snapped Isitha in her most annoyed angry voice. She can be very sensitive when it comes to lies. Siddharth sighed in defeat. whom he is betraying? Isita? She can find it in the blink of an eye even before Siddharth could even think to hide.

"Ok fine. Don't make this sulking face now. It's nothing. Nothing to worry about" he said, stressing the word 'nothing' and Isitha rolled her eyes in defeat.

"Dude! sister" Siddharth, and Isitha rushed downstairs hearing it.

"Mihir? Did you come back so soon?" Asked Siddharth amused with his arrival which will be after a week.

"That's not important right now. Look at this " saying so Mihir handles some documents to Siddharth in his tensed tone.

Reading the documents, Siddharth's eyes turned dark. His expressions become rigid. Fisting his hands till it turned white, Siddharth threw all the papers over the ground.

"How dare they?" Snarled Siddharth gritting his teeth harder.

"What happened bittu?" Inquired Isitha to pick up those documents from the floor.

Reading the papers, Isitha stumbled back. Siddharth supports Isitha at the right moment, helping her to stand straight.

"I have looked into all possibilities to terminate the contract but we can't just do injustice to Mr Kuber who was the first to trust us." Said Mihir sighing in defeat. Mihir, who knew about everyone in and out, thoroughly checked everything to avoid such a situation where the duo can come face to face to worsen the case. But nothing is in his hands now. The contract which they all signed 3 years back, now blackmailing them to work together.

"Mihir. I think you should meet kuber sir and sort out this as soon as possible" said Siddharth as if Mihir has no other options. Siddharth took Isitha to her bedroom.

"Bittu, what will happen now?" Asked Isha having void expressions on her face.

"Sister, trust me I won't allow that man to enter our life again," said Siddharth more to himself.

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"Relax Mishty, if you don't get a job as per your qualification, why don't you accept something which could help you to at least get inside the field?" Asked Garima, mother of Mishty, consoling her to her best.

"Areey it's a loss for that enterprise not to have you in their company" commented madhumathi, her aunt trying to ease the situation.

"Aunt, even I made Mum as a blind, and you as a heartless landlord who is giving us a hard time, and you can't imagine what I did with Jiji. I made her a mentally retard sister of mine. But those heartless people didn't listen to me" pouted Mishty like a little kid. Whereas Madhumathi and Garima started beating Misty.

"Maaaa" screamed payal when trying to escape from the bunch of kids.

"Jiji, what happened?" Asked Mishty in a panic tone, making her stand in the stable.

"Mishty… look at these kids, they lost the bet while still claiming that I should pay them chocolates, this is not fair is it?" Asked Payal in her pouting voice, making everyone giggle at her regular antics.

"Payal, can you for god's sake behave like an elder sister for at least once a year?" Asked madhumathi slapping her head in dismay.

"What is there to behave? I am already the one," said Payal proudly, making all sigh in defeat.

"Mishty lost her interview," said Garima, making payal come back to the reality zone from her dreamland.

Looking at Mishty, payal asked through her eyes to confirm the news to which Mishty nodded, making payal close her eyes in defeat.

"Relax Mishty, when this elder sister is here, no one should fear. Tomorrow I will surely get a job and you all will be suffocated to death as to thinking how to spend all this money to spend" said Payal in her chirpiest voice, making everyone smile at least by her positive words.

" I heard, you made me mentally challenged sister of yours?" Asked payal raising her eyebrows.

"Jiji. If anyone inspects our home for catching my lies. They won't get any doubt seeing you that's why I told a perfect lie for you" said Mishty winking at payal while she stood up ready to run away from payal.

Both the sisters fought with a pillow that soothes the worries of the home. They didn't care about the next day's meal which they had to earn by some means. All they do is live today with a smiling face. Madhumathi went inside to prepare sweets to sell those in the colony so that they could pass this another day with ease.

*****

"We left everything 2 years back. Now how can they demand something like this?" Asked Ishu trying hard to control her tears.

"I know Sister. But our contract was for five years. For the past two years, they managed with our old works well aware of our situation. They favoured us without disturbing us for the last two years. Now their company faces some problems. If we work with them again, their status will gain its position back. The least we could do for them is not to create any problem" said Mihir, trying hard to convince Ishu and Siddharth who are standing far behind to listen to their conversation.

"But, how can we all work the same as before?" Asked a curious Ishu as she now can understand the depth of the matter.