SS:LivingAnightmare(LiveInRelations)P5UpdPg29(8/6 - Page 2

"I'll do anything. Anything u say, just please I beg u don't destroy my jiji's life. She didn't do anything wrong. Arnavji do anything u want to me, but please don't do this to my jiji"

And after starring at her pathetic form on the floor Arnav dragged her up from the arm she was clinging on to him and held her by the waist and trailing a finger along her cheek and asked her in a sinister whisper "So u will do anything?"

"devi mayya ki kasam anything, I'll give u anything u ask for just don't do anything to jiji"

"Ok let's go!"

"where?"

"shut up and follow me! And wipe ur face, or do u want me to advertise to all the people downstairs about what u did?" he said cruelly, and Khushi hastily wiped her face clean with her dupatta and let him drag her across the landing, down the stairs and across the corridor among the throng of people and out of the house to his car. And then he let go her hand and barked at her to sit in the car, and Khushi quietly followed. And he screeched out to the road even before she touched her seat belt and as she frantically fumbled with the catch of it he increased the speed of the car leaving Khushi ice cold with terror.

And after a while he stopped at a mandir and asked her to get out and he walked to a stall and bought two garlands, a mangalsutra and a box of sindur as Khushi looked on in horror and he dragged her in to the mandir and threw the mangalsutra at her feet and when she looked at him blankly growled at her,

"pick it up damnnit and wear it"

"but I..how"

"I said.. wear it!!" he screamed making a few passers by look around in alarm. And realizing that he was drawing attention, Arnav leaned towards her and said "khushi remember what u told about doing anything I told u, so do it"

And with numb fingers Khushi picked up the mangalsutra and put it over her head and around her neck.

Then he pointed at the sindur and asked her to wear it in her mang and without a word she did as he bid her to followed by the var mala.

"Let's go" he said and she followed behind him almost feeling as if this was a dream, no not a dream a nightmare, a nightmare she prayed she would soon wake up from.

But nothing like that happened and she limply sat on the seat and within seconds he was once again driving towards the Raizada Mansion.

Nearer to the house he screeched to a halt and turned to her, "And for all intents and purposes u r married to me, and that is for the world to see we were madly in love and got married. You will not contradict this to anyone, do you understand? Neither to ur family nor to that b a s t a r d Shyam of urs" he almost spat out.

Khushi nodded too choked up in tears to speak anymore, "and listen to this carefully, we r walking in to the house and you will keep quiet and listen to what I will tell them as to what happened. I don't want any interruptions and if u dare say a single word contradicting me ur jiji will leave this house and divorce papers would be served. And if u really think this is all I can do to u, remember the last time in Laknow, remember it carefully cz that was just trailer of what I'd do to u and ur entire family."

Arnav closed his eyes for a moment turning away from her tear stained face and thought of his di, his di's face when she said she was pregnant, and then he thought of the moment when he saw Khushi in jijaji's arms and his resolve hardened once again as he decided what exactly he was going to do to her, to punish her for even thinking of taking away his di's happiness.

She will go through exactly what his di will go through when she gets to know one day, except Khushi will pay more than that and today was just the start. And right now he can't directly touch that b a s t a r d. Then Arnav thought with savage satisfaction imagining the look on Shyam's face when he sees how his so called obsession married to me and when she becomes mine in the correct sense he will know what it is to really cross the my path Arnav thought with relish tightening his hold on the steering wheel imagining it to be that b a s t a r d's neck.

And he restarted the car and smoothly turned in to the drive way and stopped once again barking at her to get down and wipe her face clean. Khushi immediately got down and started following him inside, not exactly feeling as if this was not real, cz reality couldn't be so bad can it?thought a Khushi brokenly.

And when they walked through the doorway of Shantivan the music and laughter reached her ears, dragging her back from the temporary trance she was in. And she froze when she realized what exactly everyone was going to think when they see her with all the marital symbols with Arnavji.

Arnav who had walked ahead stopped when he realized she was no longer with him and he turned back and saw her almost petrified near the door, clutching at her lehenga. And he strode back to her and took hold of her shoulders again and tightened the hold until he heard her yelp in pain and said in a low menacing voice "I said walk inside with me do u understand? Walk damnnit walk" he growled when she still stood petrified.

And then he simply took her hand and dragged her behind him and reached the end of the corridor turning towards where all the activities were held.

He saw everyone chanting Akash and Payal's name and them messing with a ring, but he was hardly paying any attention to them as he dragged a limp khushi to his side.

And then they saw them. All conversation stopped as everyone gasped.

And then the first to disturb the shocked silence was the sound of the mobile falling from his di's hand. And that seemed to make everyone come out of their shock and suddenly everyone was shouting trying to ask them the same thing in different words.

And above all the other voices came 'titaliya what have u done?' and he turned his eyes to see Khushi's buaji scrambling to her feet and coming towards them. And soon everyone surrounded them demanding for answers.

Khushi gazed at all the commotion hardly registering a word anyone spoke as she was still in a daze after everything that happened. And then through it all she felt him let go of the death grip he had on her hand until then and that jolted her out of her trance and she looked bewildered as Anjaliji berated him asking why they had done it.

Arnav didn't even look at her and with his attention completely focused on his di "di I wanted to tell u. that is why I came to talk to u earlier. But after that u know what happened"

Everyone by this time had stopped their questioning and had stood still listening to his explanation. And all of a sudden Khush's mother held her and asked her,

"why did u do this? Is this what we have taught u?" and then again the list of questions started while a completely mute Khushi continued to stare, her eyes unfocused.

"Chote" his nani's authoritive voice rose above the stream of questions and everyone grew quiet as she came towards them and asked,

"What was the rush? Why couldn't u tell the families? No one would have objected had u done it in the proper way.."

"nani I don't care about all of that and YOU KNOW IT"

"But Khushi bitiya does! So why did u do this?" nani suddenly turned to Khushi and asked "Khusi bitiya why did u do this?"

And then arnav went for the kill knowing it was the perfect instance to break all that perfect faade that Khushi Kumari Gupta used to portray herself as innocent and pure.

"Nani I think we better talk of this when only the family is present. I don't think we need to talk of this now" he said the words knowing that his nani would demand an explanation right then and there in front of everyone. And he was dead on when a clearly infuriated nani asked,

"I asked u a question Chote and I don't think there would be anything to hide as u have already married her"

And then a numb Khushi heard him say,

"Ok I will. Nani 2 days back Khushi and I were, well let me say we lost control and that is why we got married so quickly" her eyes flew open and she started opening her mouth only to feel his hand on hers crushing her hand in a grip that she felt he might break her fingers if he held any harder and his pointed glare at her and then towards her sister.

Khushi closed her mouth as she felt tears prick her eyes, and Arnav thought with relish "taught her a good lesson. Now no longer can she be the hypocrite she was pretending to be so naive when in reality she was nothing but a typical characterless middle class girl" and then all hell broke loose as her mother lunged at her and started slapping her, cursing her while Khushi stood like a statue taking all the blows. And then somehow Anjali and Payal dragged her away from Khushi while Buaji simply stared at her, disappointment evident in her eyes though she refrained from the public display of her fury.

And while all these women finished their business Arnav coldly looked at the only person whose reaction he was expecting to see. And he was not disappointed as he felt the murderous rage and helplessness cloud Shyam's face.

The tables have turned. Just one hour back it was him who looked on in helpless fury as Shyam sneered at him, but now he gave a knowing smirk at the seething face and raised his eyebrows and mouthed 'she was a virgin' so only he could see.

And after a moment Arnav turned away from him to his di who was again asking another question from him, never noticing how all of Shyam's hatred was now focused on Khushi or how he mouthed to himself 'apne achcha nahi kiya khushiji'...

Part 3 : Click here for Part 3

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Originally posted by: CDlove

oh mannn what's he going to do? That sinister touch on her cheek is giving me heebi-jeebies 😕 Is he going to ask what I think he's going to ask?

Originally posted by: ccuteaangel

awesome start ! i really like it, arnav is so crueeel :( and Khushi is so silly sometimes, sounds alot like the show !