SS/FF - With Or Without You - chp 38/pg144

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-RushTrip-

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Posted: 14 years ago

#231

Mariam

stop pushing..my buttons!!

oh alright..i shall go write another update..
you minx...you are getting me hooked..

be back soon...

but if you have to go sleep you do that..you hear!!

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Posted: 14 years ago

#232

LOL haha aww you do know you dont have to update soon
you update a lot anyway
and yes i will go to sleep if i am sleepy :p
but i doubt it, i'll be commenting as soon as u send me a pm!

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Raunika

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Posted: 14 years ago

#233

this part was really nice and mindblowing.

keep writing more.oh gosh , ab kya hoga?

Raunika

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-RushTrip-

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Posted: 14 years ago

#234

Raunika

sachchi bataoon!

mujhe bhi nahi pata...

mein apne dimaag aur dil ke dhaage..kheench rahi hoon!

hmm! shayad kuch soojh jaaye...

listening to some ronan keating...and may be some words..will come to me?

ha ha Mariam

you are incorrigible..

go sleep..it is late..and you did not sleep last night either!!

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bikerider

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Posted: 14 years ago

#235

waiting for the next one 😳
she slapped him, he deserves it 😆

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-RushTrip-

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Posted: 14 years ago

#236

Amru

you have lot of catching up to do my love...;-)

and lwfw...ah yes he surely did!

i am sure...in the next one...you will see a different shade of Arnav!!

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Sona

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Posted: 14 years ago

#237

Ch 15 - A puts 2&2 comes up with 5! Haha, not funny, poor A.
Pls V, get him to start using his brain, left one. Go K, I like her. She takes no prisoners!

-Sona

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-RushTrip-

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Posted: 14 years ago

#238

Chapter 17

Arnav's jaw worked and his hands clenched in tight fist as he resisted to punish her for her folly in manner he knew would get the best reaction out of her.

"Now you stay away from me and don't try to get in touch with me ever again. I don't want to see your sorry face." with that Khushi stormed out of the door.

Arnav mulled over what had transpired here. She was not immune to him that much was obvious. Their kiss ha fire that seemed to burn them right to their souls.

Why did she want to deny this? How could she deny this? How could she walk away?

It had been three weeks since she had walked away and he had never gone back to Lucknow, for memories of her had been too much to live with.

He knew world did not stop if you lost your love but his world had come to a stand still.

How was it that a chance meeting with someone could change your whole life even point of view?

But world around was hectic.

He had been a coward. He never did tell anything to Lavanya because his sister and Naani seemed extremely happy with his upcoming wedding. It was only a week away.

Yet there was nothing he felt. He knew he just had to probably work through this marriage for a few months. But he did not feel right. Why loving her had changed things for him so much?

He had also been waiting for something. Something important that would help him work things out. It was not fair that the investigation was taking so long. But old records were hard to find and he could not confront the one person who did know everything.

He had wanted to ask his Naani about his mother's twin. But never in the house were two things discussed the Mallicks and Maasi. Naani had made those rules years ago. No one was to rake up old wounds.

So he had done the next best thing. Got investigators to dig into Khushi Kumari Gupta and Garima Raizada.

He had gotten a call from them today and was waiting for the report.

He was in his favorite place in the Raizada Mansion. The terrace garden outside his room with a pond and trees that he loved to prune and pamper. One thing that had kept him sane through out his life. Gardening. It calmed him down. Allowed him to think.

Arnav Singh Raizada today was going to open wounds, old wounds that would bleed and burn his soul but he had to do this. He had to face his past then perhaps he could build on a future. What future? he scoffed. There was no future if Khushi did not figure in it.

He was cutting the thorns out of the rose bush as he let his mind wander into his past to the day when everything around him crumbled. His home, the life as he knew it changed. Completely.

He had been so happy to see Anjali's upcoming wedding. Everyone was happy. Mallicks were one of the affluent families of Lucknow and the marriage of their daughter to family of Bakshi who were one of the royals in Lucknow with the title conferred upon them by the Mughals. Mr Jorawar Bakshi was a proud man who had wanted to merge the two families as they were one of the biggest business houses in the City.

The alliance was mutually beneficial and agreeable. The Mallicks and the Bakshi's would then become a force to reckon with in textile industry in whole of Uttar Pradesh. A lavish function that would last for a week was planned.

But on the day of wedding things had gone wrong. First, his father and his chachaji had fought and his father had collapsed. The empire of the Mallicks was no more in control of Mr Taksheel Mallick, the elder of the clan and Arnav's father but now his brother through chicanery had gotten the control and had sold of the shares to a rival Mr Veer Bhadra Chaudhri.

The wedding which was then to be a merger had dissolved as there was no empire to speak of. His mother had shot herself as it was because of her that the brother had swindled the shares in his name and her guilt had killed her before she had even shot herself.

And all this had happened because of her, one woman who had ruined the family. Tanirika. His Chachaji's secretary and mistress. He had been swayed by her beauty and she had taken the money and fled leaving even his Chachaji. Served him right.

Chachaji on her insistence had thrown him and his sister out of the house, their home. His parents death on the same day had given a blow to the kids and more was to come in the next few days when they were not given food or drinks. They were not allowed to mourn their parents and were abused verbally by Tanirika who had moved into the house. Even before thirteen days were over, they were thrown out of the house and it was Naani who had taken them to Delhi, changed their names to escape notoriety and raised them in a low profile manner.

He had been sent to boarding school so that he could study undisturbed while Anjali had helped Naani with her business. The fifteen year old Arnav had then lost his smile, his trust and his ability to feel for anyone other than his sister and be grateful to the matriarch who had sustained them through the tough time. Arnav had worked had and gotten into the business of AR Designs which his Naani had established in his mother's name.

Nine years of pain which he chose to remember was what shaped Arnav Singh Raizada. He had chosen to remember the betrayal, the humiliation and the loss every day of his life so that he would never make a mistake of falling in love and be swayed by emotions that would ruin him and his family. Arnav Singh Raizada had now done the ultimate mistake. He had fallen in love.

Trying to shake off her memory, he pricked himself with a thorn. As blood formed as a reminder of his wound, he knew Khushi was someone he would never have to be reminded of. She was in his being. And the report will determine how he was going to deal with it.

As soon as the report came, Arnav leafed through it searching for the connection to Garima and Khushi's mother. However, the only thing that came up was that Garima had adopted her as the orphanage that she had been regularly working at as a volunteer was shutting down and only one girl who did not seem to get any home was left with the Orphanage. In order to help, Garima had taken the child home and raise her as her own. The paperwork pointed to that.

Just when he was about to close the file, there seemed a birth certificate in the end. Curious to see if there was the name of her biological mother.

The name that he never expected to see was printed in black - TANIRIKA.

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--Nargis--

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Posted: 14 years ago

#239

Damn good... A true raconteur you are... What a tale you have weaved... A perfect blend of reality with a healthy dose of romance and love all interconnected to reveal the mystery of Arnav's past! Superb! 👏
Now on to what Kameena will do... Marry La, and continue to stay away from the air that his lungs need to survive 😕 Or will he go to Khushi and tell her of her past... Of her Mothers, both, the one that raised her to be the strong and upstanding lady that she is, and the biological mother, whose blood she shares, and the penchant for wanting the forbidden... Like a married man!
God help these two, for they thought that they had gotten over their hurdle, but little did they realize it was merely the start to the journey of a life together!

Vrush... Loved both the updates... Sorry for posting late, my power is stilllout at home and typing this on this phone stinks!

Edited by --Nargis-- - 14 years ago