Chapter 49
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OS 2: Finding Khushi
Part 16
Section 2
"Don't you know what happened to me, Khushi Kumari Gupta?", asked Arnav softly, his melting eyes lingering on her genuinely perplexed face.
"No, I don't. I mean... Arnavji... what you were and what you are now... how... why... when...?", Khushi struggled to put her thoughts in words.
"Did you think love was all about running around trees and singing songs, Khushi?", Arnav smiled.
Khushi frowned at him. Scenes from movies she had seen flashed through her mind. Kajolji standing in a mustard field... Shahrukh Khanji looking at Kajolji from a moving train & Kajolji running to catch it... Salman Khanji smiling shyly at Sonali Bhendreji... like Jiju & Jiji...
"Did you think love was something comfortable, Khushi?", Arnav asked.
Khushi frowned at him.
"When did you become an expert on love, Arnavji? A few days back, you were twisting my arm behind my back and telling me that love does not exist...", Khushi raised her eyebrow.
"I couldn't pull you into my arms and carry you off as I wanted to, Khushi. That's why I twisted your arm behind your back. Lagi tumhe?", Arnav looked anxiously at her arm.
He caught hold of her arm, and ran his fingers down its length, caressing it.
Khushi pulled her arm out of his grasp with a jerk. The twisting was better. Atleast then, her heart hadn't threatened to jump out of her ribcage!
"And I hadn't realised that I had fallen in love with you then.", Arnav confessed.
"Falling in love...?", Khushi ruminated. "How can you fall in love? Is love a banana skin lying on the floor to make you fall?"
Arnav laughed.
"And in the great fall, you lost your anger, your khadoos nature, your akkad? Unbelievable!", she quoted him.
Arnav smiled at her.
Khushi looked at him with suspicion.
"Kya?", Arnav asked her, an amused smile on his lips.
"I am waiting for you to rise up, to fall out of love with me. To become what you were before. Laad Governor... Rakshas... Kans Mama... With steam coming out of your ears, shouting at me about my aukat and my lack of character..."
"Khushi...", Arnav whispered, feeling the pain behind her seemingly casual words.
"Because I don't believe that you can fall in love with me. I mean, Arnavji, your falling in love itself is a miracle! But with me!!!! That is just unbelievable!"
"Khushi..."
"We are too different... You have been telling me how different we are... ever since we met..."
"Khushi..."
"This is all a mistake. You will realise it soon and get up from where you have fallen.", she was adamant.
"You think I will regret loving you, Khushi?", Arnav asked, pain lacing his question.
Khushi nodded.
"And you think I will leave you, like I left you on Diwali night?", he asked to be sure.
Khushi nodded, staring out through the window.
"So you don't trust me to love you for ever, marry you, and stay happy with you?", he asked.
Khushi remained silent, looking at her fingers systematically shredding the ends of her dupatta. Now he would blow up. Shout. Break things. Throw a tantrum...
But Arnav surprised her.
"It all happened too soon, didn't it, Khushi?", he asked softly.
Khushi looked at him, and then nodded.
"We need time together. Time to know each other. Time for you to trust me, trust my love for you...", Arnav said softly, looking at her perturbed eyes.
Khushi had to nod.
"Six months?", he asked.
Khushi looked into his sincere eyes, and nodded.
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