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Chapter 29
Aakash had called Payal to check on her and Khushi and informed her that her parents were on the way so that she could come home. Aakash then prepared breakfast for her and took it to his room. He set up a table for two and put cucumber and tomato sandwiches with steaming pot of coffee. He had found some cookies and placed them on a plate. He was not much of a cook but he knew the basics but his breakfast was a toast with butter and he did make the effort for her. "Well," he thought, "its the thought that counts, right?"
He had checked on her minute she had come back home and told her to come to his room, for a surprise awaited her. Payal had been surprised that he had peeped in the minute he had come. Payal could not believe meeting someone like him was ever possible. He was a fun loving guy but it was a wonder how he was a friend of Arnav who always behaved like a grouch except for the previous night when she had seen a shocked man on the verge of desperation. She had felt a bit jealous of his emotional display for Khushi and knew she had wished for someone to care for her that much. Such passion and no one had ever seen that till that point. Khushi's injury had opened his wounds and he had bled as much as Khushi had. He did not carry his heart on his sleeve but yesterday was a momentous day. She had tried to tell Khushi in the hospital but Khushi had blocked any talks of Arnav as if she was defending a goal in FIFA World Cup in extra time where win or lose was a difference of one goal.
But she came back to the present to the man who was different from Arnav and equally vocal about his thoughts. He had given her the look right from when she had been introduced to him at the dinner. Then had wasted no time in taking her out for a stroll. He had asked her prodding questions which had somehow made Payal who was the reticent one open up for a change. He was a natural at drawing people out. Seeing him and Khushi together looked like they were meant for each other, but perhaps their natures were too similar and they seemed to get on like house on fire but there was no spark between them which she had seen between her and Arnav.
Well, truth be told she had taken one look at his open charming face and knew that a stable yet easy going guy was whom she had been waiting for all her life. She did not want great intensity but his eyes did look as if she was the most beautiful woman around and that was strange to her for Khushi was the beautiful girl. He had conversed with her easily and was not tongue tied like her but slowly over the half hour they had spent, she had practically told him everything about her.
He had there after made it a point of hovering around her all the time and held her hand on the puja day once in the kitchen when he had come in on some pretext. She had been taking something hot off the gas and he had come taking her hand and said, "here let me." And picked up the heavy pot.
She had felt a sweet sensation run up her spine. He also had the habit of coming very close and talking to her and that had sent shivers through her being. But it was last night that had made a shift in their relationship. That spontaneous kiss from him had made her melt at the tenderness and the warmth he had sufussed in her. Her worries had melted away as he had wound his arms around her and made her feel protected.
The warm feeling still stayed with her helping her cope with the worry of Khushi. They both had been shocked at the way Arnav had yelled her Khushi this morning when they had woken up and decided to check on them. She did not understand this man could be sensitive one minute and rude the next. It had taken Aakash to handle the situation. She had felt better that Aakash had been around, else she would have probably worsened the situation by giving him a smack. Brother or no brother, her sister was more important to her than this new relationship that she had with him.
She knocked on Aakash's door tentatively, wondering why he had called her to his room. She had almost hesitated but last night's tenderness had made her not question too much. She did trust the man after all. He had been very supportive last night. On hearing his come in, she entered the room.
It was a simple room with palest lemon walls, matching pastel curtains, a huge kingsize bed with matt gold bedcover draped half way on the bed with white bedsheets and pillows. She gave it a cursory glance and then took her eyes away to where he seemed to be directing.
A white table with two white chairs, yellow damask table cloth a white single flower vase with a peach rose, two bone china plates, a plate of sandwiches, cookies and coffee and he said, "Breakfast" smiling at her.
She was touched. She smiled at him openly and walked to the table where he pulled one chair out and indicated for her to sit. She sat and he sat opposite her. Giving her a broad smile he served her sandwich with ketchup and placed some cookies. He then poured coffee and asked, "kitni cheeni?"
"Thora kam hi leti hoon. ek chammach, par aap ye sab kyon kar rahe hain?" Payal replied softly.
"I felt like doing something for you. Toh dekho sandwich is all i can manage, ya toh phir khichdi, jo abhi toh mein tumhein khila nahi sakta." Aakash explained.
"Lekin, mere liye kya jaroorat thi itni mehnat karne ki?" Payal quizzed.
"thora impress toh ho jao mujhse please? question mat karo just eat." Aakash implored.
"Mein toh pehle se hi' i mean' " Payal stopped and blushed looking into her plate. Aakash, leaned forward, tipped her chin up till she met his eyes and asked softly, "Pehle se kya?"
"You know'" she said, trying to move out of his grasp. He just ran his finger on her chin and said, "Toh mein aapke mummy daddy se baat karoon ki unki beti ne mera dil chura liya hai aur ab mein usse unse churana chahta hoon.?"
Suddenly feeling shy of the proposal, Payal got up from the chair and ran towards the door. He came behind he and held her wrist as her other hand reached the door.
"Toh mein kya jawaab samjhoo?" Aakash asked.
Payal turned and leant back on the door, with on hand on the knob and other still held by him but now he was closer.
"Haan!" she said shyly.
He tilted her chin yet again, and said, "I love you Payal. You are the most beautiful woman i have ever seen and i want to wake with you every morning for the rest of my life."
Payal blushed profusely and looked down biting her lip. Aakash tugged her hand and pulled her to him and nuzzling her neck murmured, "Will you marry me Payal Gupta and do me the honor of being your husband?"
Payal replied softly, looking into his eyes, "Yes."
Aakash then gathered her closer held her head and gave her a passionate kiss that seared her through to her soul and melded them together with a promise of things to come.
Nani gave an austere look to Lavanya and had entered the study and said, "Chote hamein aap se kuch baat karni hai."
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