Chapter 14
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[NOCOPY]
RECALLING ARNAV - II
Part 15
He lifted his head and looked down at her bemused eyes and parted pink lips. Her chest was heaving with the effort to drag in much-needed air.
"Our life is just beginning, Khushi," he whispered.
She nodded.
His fingers trailed down her silken cheek. She shivered at the sensations his touch aroused in her.
"Khushi," he began.
She looked at him, waiting for him to continue.
"I have to return to Delhi in a couple of days," he whispered, his lips touching her forehead, feeling the frown crease it at his statement.
"I will be back during the weekends," he promised, looking in to her troubled eyes.
"Stay in Lucknow, Khushi, till you are comfortable about returning to Delhi," he offered. "I will keep travelling between Delhi and Lucknow till you are ready to join me."
"If I don't want to return to Delhi?" Khushi asked, covering her yawn with her hand.
"I won't pressurise you, Khushi. I have done enough, more than enough to you. Stay in Lucknow. We will manage a long-distance marriage. Don't worry your head about it," he murmured, his lips pressing a warm kiss on her lips. "Now go to sleep. It is late."
Khushi yawned again. He gathered her in to his arms.
She went willingly to lie with her head in the crook of his neck. Her arms coiled around him, holding him close to her.
NK looked up to see the newly-wedded couple walk down the steps to the dining room for breakfast.
"They are here! Nannav & Khushiji are here!" NK shouted.
Akash choked on the sip of tea he had taken. Payal patted his back, trying to hide her smile at NK's excitement.
"Hein?" Buaji asked. "Why are you shouting? Had they gone to fight with lions during the night, Nandkisore?"
"Or on a phorein world tourwaa?" Mami asked.
All chuckled as Arnav and Khushi flushed at the teasing.
"Khushiji, you must buy Nannav a pink shirt," NK said.
Khushi looked at her Nanheji with wide eyes.
"Pink looks good on him. Dekho, dekho, Nannav is full of taaj and sharam," NK declared, chuckling.
"Laaj, NK bhai, laaj," Anjali clutched her tummy as she laughed.
Khushi stirred the kheer in a big vat as sweat dripped down her temple. Munna and Krishna were rolling laddoos as fast as they could.
"When will Kishorilal reach here, didi?" Munna asked.
"In one hour," Khushi said. "We have to finish packing and binning everything by then," she warned them.
"It will be done, didi," Krishna promised. He looked up and saw Arnav at the door to the shed. "Arnav Jiju? Have you come to steal didi from us?"
Arnav smiled at a pink Khushi. "No, to join you."
"Join us?" Munna teased him. He looked meaningfully at Krishna. "We can use some help."
"Sure," Arnav offered, expecting to be asked to pack the sweets.
"Sit down by us, Jiju. You have to roll the laddoos," Krishna laughed thinking of the condition of Arnav's fancy clothes after one hour in the shed.
Khushi hid her smile.
Arnav got over his shock and sat down gingerly on the ground. He rolled back his sleeves.
"Arnavji, chodiye," Khushi smiled. "I will make them."
"No, let me help you, Khushi," Arnav urged.
"Didi, Jiju is willing to dirty his clothes. Why are you stopping him?" Krishna asked, a naughty smile on his face.
Arnav manfully tackled the plate of laddoo mixture, taking lumps in to his hands and rolling them in to balls. The balls crumbled within his fingers and the mixture fell harmlessly in to the pan. Arnav stared at the golden yellow, perplexed.
"What the!" he exclaimed.
Khushi hid her laughter with great difficulty.
"Aaj mausam he suhaana
Ladoo banana ka he bahana,
Kya laddoo unhone banayi,
Ho gayi Arnavji ki dhulayi
Hum to he deewane
Masti ke doondhe bahane
What the, what the, what the..." she sang, her laughter making her choke on the words.
Arnav stared at her for a long moment, a smile in his eyes and on his lips.
He then attacked the mixture with zeal, compressing the soggy mixture to form balls.
"Waah, waah!" Krishna hailed his efforts.
"Didi, you can take the credit for turning a bada businessman in to a Lucknowi halwai," Munna laughed.
Khushi blushed as Arnav smirked.
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