I Belong With You part 30 updated (Arsh ff) - Page 9

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part 10

Shilpa had the weirdest sensation as she woke up the next morning. Her hand was holding a warm, hairy arm, a strong body warmed up her back and a warm breath was brushing against her neck. As her eyes adjusted to the daylight and her brain woke up as well, Shilpa remembered. She had called Armaan the previous night but she fall asleep. She closed her eyes again and enjoyed the moment. It felt so right and heavenly to be in his arms and in the same time, it felt wrong and like hell. She had slept with his best friend- his brother, as Armaan had described his relationship with Rohan- and she was having his child without Armaan knowing anything about it. Shilpa kept telling herself that Rohan was part of her past now; a past, which would never return. He had signed the papers for giving Shilpa the full custody of their daughter, so he also signed his exit from her life. Rohan wouldn't tell anyone about the baby and Shilpa was too afraid of losing her only friend because of her mistakes. She didn't want Shona to lose her only friend.

Soft lips reached for her cheek and kissed her. "You're awake," Armaan's soft voice greeted her.

Shilpa closed her eyes and smiled as the kiss lingered on her cheek. Then she remembered. Her eyes popped open and she stood upright. She couldn't let Armaan be more than her friend.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him, now also wondering how he had gotten into her bed.

"You called me last night," Armaan explained, confused.

"I know I called you but what are you doing here?" she asked.

Armaan looked at her suspiciously. "You asked me to come here. Shilpa, have you been drinking?"

"No," she snapped, horrified by his presumption.

"Then why do you keep asking me what I am doing here?"

"What are you doing in my bed?" she asked him, frowning.

Armaan chuckled, ashamed. "I don't think I have a good explanation for that," he answered with a hopeful smile.

Shilpa wanted to smile back, but she forced herself not to. She couldn't look angry either or scold him for his gesture; she couldn't do that for a thing she had enjoyed herself with. Shilpa drew the blanket upper over her body and looked away quickly as Armaan got out of the bed and revealed his almost-naked body.

"I thought you were a doctor," Armaan chuckled teasingly at the embarrassment in her eyes.

"Don't be a smart ass," Shilpa grumbled. She stopped from glaring and listened. Something was not right.

"What is it?" Armaan asked her as he noticed her sudden change.

Shilpa looked at him, terrified, getting off the bed in the same time. "Shona."

"What about her?" Armaan asked, confused.

"Did you wake up last night to calm her down? Or this morning?" Shilpa asked as she slipped in her slippers.

Armaan thought about it for a second and then he shook his head. "No,"

"Oh God," she whimpered, stomping out of her room.

"Shilpa, what's wrong?" Armaan panicked and followed her into Shona's room.

Shilpa sighed with relief as she looked inside the crib and saw Baby Shona smiling and wriggling her legs and arms. She smiled and leaned down to pick her up into her.

"What happened to you?" Shilpa asked her, carefully rocking her back and forth and looking at her, analyzing each part of her. "What happened to her?" She asked Armaan.

Armaan shrugged, clueless. "I guess she has found out how great it feels to sleep at night instead of during the day," he laughed. "Or maybe she slept better because she knew I was here," he added, smirking at Shilpa.

Shilpa rolled her eyes, smiling. "You love yourself too much," she went and sat down in the rocking chair, cradling Shona to her chest. "Leave the room or turn your back," she told Armaan.

"Why?" Armaan frowned.

Shilpa glanced up at his still almost-naked body and quickly looked back at Shona. "You're not dressed decent for baby girl," she muttered.

"She's only a few weeks old," Armaan laughed at Shilpa's statement.

"Go put some clothes on you, Armaan," Shilpa insisted. "You've also stared enough at my breasts."

Armaan grinned smugly. "I will be right back," he said and walked out of the bedroom.

"Armaan?" Shilpa called after a while, when she noticed that Armaan wasn't hovering around her anymore. "Armaan?" she called again, a little louder this time. No answer came from Armaan.

Baby Shona was done with her breakfast, so Shilpa burped her. "Where is Armaan?" Shilpa wondered. She would have wanted to change Shona's diaper first and give her clean clothes if Armaan's disappearance wasn't such a mystery.

Shilpa walked out the bedroom, carrying a cranky Shona in her arms, and went into her bedroom. There was no sign of Armaan. Shilpa walked out in the hall and listened. Some muffled sounds were coming from downstairs. "Breakfast time for Mommy," she smiled at Shona and gave her a kiss. "Our weird friend is making me breakfast. I hope," muttered and headed downstairs.

Walking in the kitchen, a sweet smell of pancakes greeted her. Baby Shona seemed thrilled with the smell too as she giggled and forgot about whatever had made her cranky earlier.

As he heard Shona's voice, Armaan turned from the oven and smiled at them. "Hi. Breakfast will be ready in five minutes."

The smell was too dazzling for Shilpa to scold him or glare at him. "Pancakes?"

"Blueberries," Armaan smirked and turned back to the oven.

Shilpa grimaced as she heard that. "I am not really a fan of blueberries," she admitted.

"What?" Armaan looked at her, surprised. "How can you?"

"I have my reasons," Shilpa shrugged. "I will go dress Shona," she said and turned to leave.

"You are going to love my pancakes!" he announced proudly, receiving only a giggle from Shilpa as answer.

Armaan held Shona in his arms, playing with her and glancing from time to time at Shilpa. "I thought you said you don't like the blueberry pancakes," he said, smiling as he watched Shilpa licking her plate.

"I don't," Shilpa shrugged, mouthful.

"Then save the plate," he laughed teasingly.

Shilpa wriggled her nose, smiling at him as she stood up and picked up her plate. "My dad used to make me this," she said quietly, turning to the sink.

There were still so many things he didn't know about Shilpa.

Though she had her back turned to Armaan, Shilpa could feel his gaze on her. She turned on the water and the water spray streamed over her plate. "He left me when I was little," she muttered, answering this way to Armaan's questioning stare. "Bad memories," she sighed and turned off the water, placing the plate in the dryer. Shilpa rolled her eyes as she turned and met Armaan's compassionate smile. "I am over it," she grumbled and walked over to him, taking Shona from his arms.

"You ate my pancakes so … I can see that," he answered with a smile.

"Aren't you going to be late for work?" she asked him.

"No. I have the day off," Armaan answered.

Shona put her head down on her mother's shoulder and started sucking on her thumb as her mother swung her slowly. Shilpa leaned against the counter and gazed out the window. It was her first sunny morning in Seattle and the first sunny morning in Shona's life.

"It looks perfect for a first walk outside," his voice made her start as he came beside her.

She looked at him and smiled as she nodded in agreement. "We could do some shopping too, couldn't we?" she smiled at Shona. Shona smiled and kept sucking her thumb. "I guess you want to come," she said, looking at Armaan.

Armaan smiled smugly. "I came with the idea."

Shilpa giggled, but her smile quickly became thoughtful. "My mother was here last night. That's why I called you," she said.

"She was?" Armaan frowned, thinking she might have had another conflict with her mother. "What did she want?"

"She wanted some papers," she answered, gently rubbing her hand against Shona's tiny back. "She also met Shona."

Armaan could tell from the confused look in her eyes that the visit hadn't gone that bad. Probably it had been better than anyone expected. "You're ok?" he asked her.

She gave him a faint smile and nodded. "What were you doing in my bed?" she asked him, not wanting to let go that topic. Although, she had her suspicions as Armaan's kiss at the end of their dinner and the embrace she found herself wrapped in that morning were speaking more than any word.

Armaan made a step closer to her and gently brushed his hand against her cheek as he looked into her eyes, smiling. He leaned down and his lips barely brushed against hers, yet they left their flavor on hers.

Shilpa closed her eyes and shuttered as she felt the strong sensation inside her body, like a quake. "We should get ready for the walk," her voice murmured as she tried to shake that feeling. She didn't need any answer and her suspicions were real. Shona had her fist into her mouth and decided to poke her Mommy with her finger and help her came out of her thoughts. "Baby," Shilpa whimpered and caught her fist before Shona could poke her again. "The stroller is in the closet by the front door," she told Armaan, who had started cleaning the table. "It's unwrapped," she warned him and walked outside, taking Shona with her.

"Your Mommy likes to spend money she doesn't have," Armaan told Shona as he walked into her bedroom, carrying her. It was later that day and Armaan had bathed Shona. He had her wrapped her in a tiny white bathrobe, whimpering in his arms.

Shilpa was Shona's room, piling up the clothes she had bought for her baby that day. Dresses, pajamas, different costumes, hats and pairs of shoes and sandals were coming out from a bunch of shopping bags. She chuckled as Armaan walked inside and said that. "I still have some funds. Besides, it was our first day out so we had to celebrate it somehow."

"You bought a dress which might not fit her tomorrow," Armaan said as he put Shona down on the table Shilpa had for changing her diapers and dress her.

"You're point is…" she rolled her eyes sarcastically as she started gathering all the empty shopping bags, to shove them into a bigger one.

Armaan shook his head smiling. He knew there was no point in arguing with Shilpa over that subject. He also loved everything she had bought for Shona and most of those things had been his suggestion. Armaan smiled down at Shona and loosened the robe. Shona whimpered and wriggled her body as she met the colder air from the room. "Be patient," Armaan whispered to her. He put the diaper between her legs and carefully turned her from one side to another to wrap it around her waist. As he turned her on her left side, something from her waist caught his attention. A small red spot looked like a birthmark. It seemed to have the shape of a flower or a star. Armaan ran his finger across it, whitening it as he pressed but regaining its red color instantly. That sign looked so familiar to him; its shape, the place it was located. As he stared at it, Armaan knew why it looked familiar. His best friend Rohan had a similar sign in about the same place. Shocked by the discovery, Armaan slowly took her into his arms and looked closly at her face. Now he also knew why her features were familiar to him; she looked a lot like her father. Then he understood everything; Rohan's reaction at their conversation about Shilpa, Shilpa's refuse to talk about Shona's father and about the problems she had had with Rohan Sloan. Shona was Rohan's daughter.

"Shona has a small sign on her waist," he said, hardly keeping the control over his voice. He wanted to be angry, he wanted to be upset, he wanted to yell, but he couldn't.

Shilpa came to them and looked at Shona's waist, without noticing Armaan's stone posture yet. "I think it's a birthmark," she said. "It has started showing a few days ago."

"It is a birthmark," Armaan assured her and his voice sounded reproachful.

Shilpa looked at him as she heard the tone of his voice. She looked into his eyes as she processed herself their last words. She remembered too. As she understood that Armaan knew about Rohan, Shilpa took Shona from Armaan's arms, avoiding the eye contact. She put her back down on the table and started dressing her, while Armaan held his gaze on her. She felt the ground unsteady beneath her feet as she could feel his gaze was a reproachful glare. She swallowed the limp she felt stuck in her throat and tried to stay composed as she dressed her baby.

"Why didn't you trust me?" Armaan asked her, his voice sounding softer than the glare in his eyes.

Shilpa couldn't dare to look at him or say anything. She closed the buttons to Shona's pajamas and took her in her arms.

"She's Rohan's daughter," Armaan continued, his voice turning a little harsher now.

"She's not," she retorted, glaring.

"She is," Armaan contradicted. They tried to calm down as Shona started whimpering, scared of their shouts. "She is his daughter," Armaan repeated and held up his hand as Shilpa wanted to say something. "She is part of him so she's his, no matter what the law and you say now… or what he says."

"I don't want him in our life," Shilpa looked away as she mumbled.

"See? Here's the problem; you don't want him, but how do you know he won't change his mind. I think you have taken a rush decision when you sent him the papers for Shona's custody?"

Shilpa looked at him in disbelief. "You believe he would ever want to be Shona's father?"

Armaan sighed and brushed his hair with his fingers. "Rohan… he's impulsive. He acts without thinking at consequences, but… he is not a bad man, Shilpa."

Shilpa understood what he was saying. He wanted her to go back and try being with Rohan… for Shona.

Besides the anger and disappointment, Armaan also felt a sharp pain in his heart. He had hoped he would have Shilpa and Shona for himself, but finding out how Rohan was involved in their story, he knew he had to give up on that hope. "Why didn't you tell me?" He asked her, his voice was reflecting the pain in his voice now.

"What was the point…" Shilpa wiped the corner of her eye as her eyes started tearing. "Rohan does not want her. You say he could change his mind. When? When Shona will go to college? Are we supposed to wait for him until then? Life moves forward for us. We don't wait for him."

Armaan walked over to the window where Shilpa and Shona were and caressed Shona's blond hair. He leaned to Shilpa and kissed her on the forehead. "You should reconsider your decision. Talk to your lawyer and give him some time. Maybe you two won't end up together, but it's not just about you two here," he said and kissed Shona's head before he turned his back on them.

Tears were streaming down her cheeks now. She wiped her cheek, glaring out the window. "We're not even friends now?"

Armaan stopped in the doorway and looked back at them. "We're still friends," he reassured her. "Call me if you need anything," he said and walked outside.

Shilpa stayed at the window, crying as she gazed outside. Despite everything that had happened in only a few minutes, Shona was calmly sucking her thumb while watching her Mommy with curious eyes. Shilpa watched him leaving the house and heading to his car, catching just a glimpse of him as he glanced up at her window. When the car disappeared from her sight, Shilpa sniffled and wiped her eyes. "It's just Mommy and Baby Shona again," she smiled and kissed her daughter's forehead as new tears streamed down her face. "Just you and me again," she sobbed. "But we'll be fine."

Playing with her hands in the air, Shona's fist brushed against Shilpa's cheek, which felt like the most soothing touch.

I'm enjoying your story very much! Keep writing!

Nice part
Aww Shilpa crying and feeling lonely again but Armaan's reaction is justified.

I hope Armaan drops d idea of Shilpa- Rohan being together.

Pls keep Rohan away from Shilpa and Shona.

Continue soon

different and lovely.
plzz continue soooon.

awesoem part

Awesome
Mindblowing
Loved it
Hope ArSh can b 2gether soon
Glad armaan noes the truth
Con soon
Thanks 4 da pm

Oh noooooooo!!!!!!
I am almost cryinggg!!!!
How can Armaan even thinkn of Shilpa and Rohan????
but hopefully it is for da best!!
Pllzzz make them together soon!
I feel sorry for Armaan!!

Jinsz!

it was touching!!!!i just wish arsh get together soon!!!!!!!!