Chapter 4
Then coming home and checking on everybody on how they are coping about the after-effects of his disclosure about shyam. Especially his di and nani making sure that they ate, and that di took her vitamins and nani was sleeping he had his dinner, and then slowly got up from his chair thinking of all the things that are pending and thought of re-checking the last minute details himself.
After making sure everything is going as per he instructed, he got up from the recliner came to his bed and laid on it. Closing his eyes and inhaling the jasmine scent of khushi's that still clung to the room, he began to think about the very first time he laid his eyes on her and sighed ..
To say, Arnav singh raizada had seen and bared so many things in his life would be an understatement. The betrayal, the hurt , the insults, the name-calling and what not, you name it he had faced it. So, for the ASR in him it was quite a jolt when he first laid his eyes on the pretty doe eyed innocent angel walking on his ramp, more like stumbling on his ramp.
It was difficult to imagine for him, this foreign emotion that started to raise, the moment he laid his eyes on her on the stage in his fashion show, in lucknow. With all the betrayal related to his chacha about sheesh mahal, his father's adultery and his mothers suicide never far behind in his mind , and not knowing the new emotion that started with the frantic beating of his heart, the dormant arnav that lay behind the facade of ASR started to stir, leaving Arnav singh raizada for the first time in his life panicked.
So, when the doe eyed angel literally fell in his lap leaving him incapable of coherent thought and loosing his famous control. Watching her biting her trembling lips 'Oh so temptingly' arnav felt the first bolt of desire so sharp that he literally shook and pushed the creature that lay in his arms so strongly, he himself had to steady her a second later. And suddenly arnav felt his anger rise
'How dare this girl' ?
'How dare she create this havoc in him !?
So he tooks her into his arms with a strong grip hurting her because she had made him feel something. Thus the ASR in him took control and she had paid the price for every frustration and every disturbed thought he had felt that day. And thus began the journey of "Arnav and khushi ".
Thinking about the journey they had went from there and all the mistakes and the hurt he had caused her until now, arnav silently made a promise to himself
" For all the hurt i have caused u khushi,
I will repay it thousand fold with my love ".
' I'm coming for you khushi, just wait love '.
And thinking of khushi, arnav suddenly began to smirk because he knew by now that nk would've told her what all had transpired and he knew that his crazy khushi would've understood what he was planning for her and that her brain would be going on 100 miles/per min speed making crazy plans to avoid him at any cost.
Then he whipered huskily into the silent night..
" Ah, khushi darling !! what all i have planned for you ".
Thinking of all the ways he is going to persuade her to give him a chance arnav had a sly smile on his face.
Khushi thought she is going to go crazy with the number of things that have to be done by tomorrow. She packed all her stuff, arranged for the packers to move her luggage and everything.
First thing she had done was submitting her resignation, then she had said goodbye to all her sweet students and her colleagues who had become pretty close to her the last year she had been here. It has been lot difficult than she thought it would be, she has grown to love all of them like they are her own and she is going to definetly miss sitting at the beach in the evenings on her weekends just listening to the waves crash and the wind rustling her hair.
She knows she is happy because she is finally going to a place that has always been a home to her, the place where she was born 'Lucknow'. Khushi doesn't know how much time she has before arnavji finds her, so she is going to utilise all this time to atleast be in a place where she can be happy and had known since she was a child. She has decided to go back to lucknow because, if she knows arnavji even a little bit, then it is a known fact that either hook or crook he's going to take her to shantivan.
So she decided atleast for the time being, she will stand on her terms, and live the way she wants to. And anyway she can't simply go back to shantivan and pretend everything is alright as if nothing happend. If anything it's going to be more difficult than before, di didn't hate or resent her before, but now she isn't sure about anything. She took a firm decision that without knowing what di is facing and feeling right now she is not going to step into that house even if arnavji is going to drag her there.
It had been hell for both of them her and di, without any fault of their own, they had been dragged into a situation by a man who is anything but evil and paid a heavy price in the process, leaving a strong scar in their life. Di had to deal with more because of her baby. Atleast now, khushi hoped di can live her life on her own terms looking after her baby.
Khushi let out a sigh, what a fate it had been. She loved a man, who stood hating her almost till the end of her marriage. And di has led a life thinking, she was loved by the man she married, leading a life completely based on lie. Maybe they both were the same, unlucky when it came to love.
Thinking of going back to lucknow has not been difficult at all, because going there she is going to start exactly where her family left off, their halwai business. Khushi thought she needs to start the business at their house first, with the money that she saved from the last one year. Later she can extend it or will think about renting a place or better convert the front part of her house, the first two rooms into a sweet shop.
With lot of possibilities running through her head, khushi finally has a plan now. She just needs to buy the stuff that is needed for the cooking and also the ingredients. She knows a lot of people who can help her.. ramu kaka, pinky chachi and shiv bhaiyya because her dad had been good and well known person at their place and had helped these people when they were in need so she is confident that she can atleast get some help when she decides to re-open her dad's shop.
It's a first step and that's a start, even if the time comes when she has to go back to delhi, she knows the shop is going to help her family financially. she just had to make sure the shop flourishes and has to hire someone to work there so that her family's burden will decrease, and her mum can look after her dad without worrying about the shop.This time khushi decided, she isn't going to step out of lucknow or her house without seeing that her family is settled.
Making plans about what all needed to be done once she reached there, khushi sat in her patio letting the already settling down sun fall on her face and took a deep breathe, continuing to drink her tea and relaxing for the first time that day.
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