Chapter 5
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[MEMBERSONLY]
rulama 2014-01-02 10:55:29
[NOCOPY]
Arnav & Khushi OS: I love you, Khushi
Part 5
Khushi cleared the dishes while ASR locked the door and switched off the lights. When she went to the bedroom, he followed her and locked the door.
Khushi threw her dupatta to lie on the back of her chair and went towards the window to shut it.
"Khushi, where did you go?" he asked.
"To a temple. The temple I prayed in last Teej," she said.
"Where I broke your fast," ASR reminded her.
"Ji. And Lavanyaji's fast," Khushi said.
ASR swallowed.
A moment later, he asked, "Khushi, I called you many times. Why didn't you answer the phone?"
"It was on silent mode, just as yours is when you are busy in the office." Khushi said, her arms crossed.
"Khushi, why didn't you let me or anyone know you were going out?" he asked.
"All were out. And you were supposed to return late. I didn't think you would miss me," Khushi said.
"Khushi! Khushi, you should have left me a note. Or called me. Or informed HP."
"Is Hari Prakashji my father that I have to inform him where and why I am going?" Khushi asked.
"Khushi! Did it never cross your mind that I would be worried?" Anger crept in to his voice.
"No. It didn't."
"Khushi!"
"Why did you return home early tonight? Did your Nina or Reena or whoever have better plans?" Khushi asked quietly, standing with her back against the open window.
"Khushi!" ASR opened his mouth to form and answer but found himself at a loss for words. "Khushi, I was joking!"
"I didn't find it funny. Nor do I think it was a joke. In fact, thinking back to the long list of girl friends you mentioned to me once, I think Nina was one of them, wasn't she?" Khushi asked, her blood boiling.
"Khushi, that was a joke too," ASR looked around, desperately.
"I don't think so." Khushi said. "I think you spent all your youth chasing girls. You and your girl friends! Seeing each other! Your meant nothing relationships!"
"Khushi!" he protested.
"And apparently marriage hasn't changed you." Khushi said bitterly.
"Khushi"Khushi, you have got it all wrong. It was just a joke," ASR struggled against the whirlpool sucking him in to it.
"Yes. And the joke is on me, the fool who believed you when you said that you loved me." Khushi swallowed her tears, hard. "At midnight, a new year will be born. Let us part tonight. I don't want to spend the rest of my life with you." Khushi managed to say.
"Khushi!" ASR's voice was a thin thread.
"I was a fool," she muttered. "A needy fool. No more."
"Khushi, you have got this wrong," He tried to undo all the damage he had done.
"I don't want to spend my entire life in fear, uncertainty. I have had enough of them in the last ten years. No more," she said.
"Khushi, listen to me." He tried to take a step closer to her, but she turned her head away.
"Go away. Go away from my life. I don't have the aukat to bear your treachery. Or the pain you cause me. Leave me alone," Khushi said, her low voice streaked with tears.
"Khushi, please listen to me. Khushi," he pleaded.
"I am too middle-class for you. Too ordinary. Too brainless to expect you to be mine and mine alone. I can't change myself and I can't change you. Go away," she sobbed.
ASR marched up to his wife, caught her by her shaking shoulders and pulled her close.
"I love you, Khushi."
"No, you don't."
"I can't live without you."
"You can."
"No, Khushi. I can't. My breath... I feel choked, Khushi, when you go away from me."
Khushi tried to push him away.
"Khushi, I was just teasing you. That's all. Please believe me, Khushi. Will I look at another girl? Can I look at another girl? Khushi!"
"I don't believe you."
"Come home with me, Khushi. You can have the proof."
Khushi looked at him suspiciously.
"I knew everyone would be out. So I got back early to spend some time with you, to celebrate our first new years' eve."
Khushi looked at him, silent.
"I arranged dinner for both of us. Cake. Balloons. A lehenga for you. Diamonds."
"I don't want your dinner, cake, balloons, lehenga and diamonds."
"Khushi, I was talking over a dead phone. It is a miracle that Aman didn't call at that time and make a fool of me. Khushi, how can I make you understand how much I love you?"
"You can't. Because you don't love me."
"Khushi!" He lost it. He hauled her in to his arms, locking her against him with his muscular arms.
"Chodiye hamein!"
"Never in this lifetime." ASR declared.
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