Chapter 5

Author's note:

                           

                [ As you guys were asking for longer updates, i'm trying to make them a bit longer, are you guys satisfied !? Anyhow!! on a completely off topic, do any of you guys watch korean dramas ??  

If you do, please suggest me some dramas that are not recent, because i think i've covered all the recent ones lol. And if you don't, you should yaar, you should !! They are soo damn awesome, i tell u..       

           Anyways I'm trying to make the story not so long, but it keeps on going lol. Hope you guys are enjoying the story. And  for the meeting of arnav and khushi to happen, u guys don't need to wait too long.

And guys, if i make any mistakes or if u have any suggestions regarding the story you are more than welcome to share with me, but please.. not too harsh yea ? 

Thank you  😉. ]

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Anyway here goes ..

Chapter-5:

               

                    Arnav, after settling the matters with aman about the upcoming fashion show, told him to book his tickets to mumbai for the next day. 

               

                    Aman who already had an idea about why his boss is going to mumbai, silently began to thank god thinking if khushi bhabi comes home then everything will be alright. And after seeing arnav work day and night without taking any rest and not having his food regularly, aman truly began to get concerned over his boss's irregular eating and no break work habits.

                

                    Making sure aman gave him the right address to khushi's apartment and arranged someone to pick him up from the airport, making reservation to the nearest hotel, arnav left for the check-in and got settled in his seat in the plane, seeing the early morning sun raising from the darkness arnav began to close his eyes thinking how apt the scenario suited for him. 

                     After arriving to his hotel and ordering some food he began to freshen up. Having his food he called his driver and gave him the address making sure he knows where the exact place is, he locked his hotel room and began to go to bring his khushi back.

               

                     At khushi's place, arnav suddenly felt nervous, after a year this is the first time he is going to see his khushi, but he is also excited, so with all the mixed feelings in his heart he went into the elevator and pressing the button, told himself firmly to behave, he is ASR for godsake not some teenager to feel butterflies for seeing the love of his life after so many days. So, after reaching the fourth floor and making sure he looked presentable.

                

Arnav stood infront of khushi's flat hand rised up to knock on the door, 

He knocked once , then twice, then getting frustrated that she is not opening the door he began to call khushi's name loudly telling her that he knows she is there, and she should open the door and he will not leave the goddamit building if she doesn't open the damn door. 

                    Seeing the ruckus he was making, the old lady who stays besides khushi's apartment came out asking why is he shouting loudly? Reluctantly arnav told her about khushi asking if she has any idea where she was? 

                     

                   Looking at the fine specimen from head to toe thinking why she doesn't get any visitors like this gentleman the old lady sighed and thought if only...

And told arnav how khushi left the house last week telling her that she is not coming back. 

                    Arnav who thought he was one step forward than khushi, slowly closed his mouth which had been hanging open, when he listened the information told to him about khushi already leaving last week, and started to grind his teeth.

           

                     Beginning to question where khushi would've left, arnav lifted his hand and ran it through his hair frustrated, dialling aman and asking him to check khushi's whereabouts  ASAP.

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                      Khushi who had already began her day running here and there arranging all the stuff that is required for her to start her day , began to slow down after listening to her mother call her from inside the kitchen asking her to eat her breakfast. 

                       Listening to the word breakfast, her stomach began to start grumbling, keeping a hand on her tummy khushi began to pout saying ..            

              'Hey devi maiyya, how can i forget about my tummy' ?

             Talking to her tummy and patting it, she promised saying..

       'Don't worry,  i'm going to fill you up with lots of breakfast and jalebis that u will forget all about food.

then went inside smiling and thinking about the work that should be done suddenly remembered the first day she arrived here.

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[On the first day she arrived lucknow ..]                

                  

                       Khushi came to lucknow the next day afternoon, by the time she reached lucknow she was full of nerves thinking about her parents and what if they were in lucknow and praying that they are still in delhi. Because she was not ready to face them, and she has no answers ready for the questions that are going to raise once she reached her home.

                       Seeing her home for the first time in two years khushi's eyes tear up and starts to think about all the times she had played here with payal in their childhood, all the cricket matches she had played with the batcha party with buaji scolding her after she reached home with all the muddy clothes,

all the holi she played in the backyard and how she had learnt to make bhang,

how her amma somedays pampered her more, then she remembered her babuji sitting in the chair outside in the lobby laughing out loud when khushi played pranks on buaji.

                         Khushi suddenly slumps on the front stairs of the lobby with the memory assualt and tries to stop the sob that is emerging from her, when a hand gently settles on her shoulder whispering her name, she knows that it's her Amma and suddenly everything that she has bottled up from the last year comes out in a rush, turning around hugging her mother tightly, khushi lets out all the tears that she has not shed till now, out freely. 

    

                           After letting all out she simply stands there hugging her mother, with her amma patting her head whispering everything will be alright, khushi feels the exhaustion of everything suddenly claiming her body and slowly begins to feel drowsy. when her mother asks her to go to her old room and take rest that they will talk later, she simply reaches her room and keeping her bag on the side of her bed with a thud falls on her bed and goes to sleep feeling emotionally and physically drained. 

                           In the evening after freshening up khushi goes to the living room, where her parents were watching tv with buaji sitting near the table. 

Looking at them she simply runs and hugs her babuji sitting near his feet and crying, with her father consoling her and her buaji's hai re nand kishore's in the background. Khushi for the first time after a long time felt like she was home with her loved ones.

                       After the emotional re-union, she begins explaining them where she was this last year, what all she did, what had happened in her life. Telling them she had worked as a school teacher had been a proud moment for her.

And finally after all the explanation are done, she begins to tell what she planned to do about the sweet shop and how she can use the money she saved. Listening to all this, her parents become emotional saying how they are very proud of her. With buaji calling her nand kishore and saying her sanka devi is all grown up. 

                  And thus the very next day,the preparations to start the shop begins with all the help that is available for her. After 3 days of planning everything to the T, khushi started her business selling the sweets with a minimum staff of two boys, and by making it in small quatities began her first day as a business woman. 

                  Smiling and content thinking about the past and with how the business is going, khushi began to start humming and dancing skipping her steps ran to the breakfast table and started to eat, thinking about all the things that are left to be done today.

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                   After making sure the everything is clean, and all the orders that were placed that day were received, khushi began to call it a night. Closing her sweet shop started to go into the living room about to have her dinner, when the doorbell rang stopping her musings, thinking it to be someone who came for the sweet shop she began to open the door to tell them the shop is already closed and they have to stop by in the morning. 

                     When suddenly the sight infront of her made the words she was about to utter get stuck inside her throat, with her mouth starting to form an O' she , for the first time after a long time felt the loud dhak dhaks' of her hearbeat more sharper than the sound of crickets in the background.

                      Khushi, who is still muddled with the shock of what is happening whispered a  husky 'Arnavji ' into the darkness,

                    and thus, the silence between two hearts began to fade away..

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until next week..see ya.

shravyarao2016-10-09 18:55:26