SUHAAGRAAT In SHEESHMAHAL...updtd PT 6 - Page 5

Arnav….Thinking back to the 10 days of the kidnap drama….those 10 days were the most painful days of his life…waking up every night with a cold sweat…screaming her name, spending every waking moment thinking of her…not knowing if he will ever set eyes on her angelic face again, if he will ever hear the tinkle of laughter again, if he will ever see the beatific smile again, …..

he instinctively drew her sleeping form to himself…holding her tighter…..and when he did see her after …even he was not prepared for the torrent of feelings and emotions that came rushing in to fill his heart and his head….for the first time ..he even looked past Di ……to catch her eyes….mirroring his own feelings, waiting silently in the wings …as she always does……then too he quickly shrouded his eyes…masking them briefly from everyone ….still not ready to share his pain with anyone……….

And with the truth out …after days of investigative work done by his team the reports of which came in just a few hours ago….culminating in what he just heard transpire between her and buaji………

He still had Shyam to handle…..and Di…..Di…he is still unsure as to how to break the news to her….with just 15 days to go for her due date……...until recently he believed that Shyam will be the one proven innocent and it was Khushi who chased him and is the villain in this sad saga……..so that he can restore his JIJAJI to his Di and his nanhi pari……..his precious Di forever Happy and content and all will be well in his world……….

He even cut Shyam out of his WILL in the hope that Khushi will lose interest in someone who does not have a dime to his name…..How did he come to believe that she was a gold digger….how foolish he has been….Khushi….whose face lit up like a diya when she found a silver coin in a detergent pack…or was it two coins he put in there? , Khushi ..who still travelled in autorickshaws even after having a host of cars at her disposal, Khushi …who started a Dabba service to repay his Rs.300/…..three hundred, ..for GOD's sake…… Khushi….who sold her bangle to buy him plants……he wouldn't have known if not for a chance conversation with Lavanya today morning……….It's the first time he ever heard Lavanya speak to him so firmly..…telling him in no uncertain terms what a fool he has been………Khushi…who was happy just being served a free Biscuit along with tea…why didn't he see that her needs never went beyond the simple, why didn't he see that she put on a smile for the rest of the world to be fooled..……but the pain in her eyes was for him alone…….she never hid from him…..it was real …he should know…he was the one who put it there time and again…..if he didn't wear his blinkers he would have seen that all that she does is for other people, be it his family or her buaji, amma, and even her mohallewalle……she was even ready to jump off a building so that he can marry Lavanya……

yes ..he told her time and again that she did not have a head….Well let's face the reality …so didn't he……but what she didn't have she made up by having a Heart… a large heart to fit in his whole world….and sadly he discovered that he didn't have a heart either……..

What a blinking idiot he has been…..

She stirred slightly…hearing the pilots' announcements of descent….Khushee…she heard her name whispered….in that husky voice…she'd recognize anywhere….her eyes flickered open to look into his chocolate browns….. covered partially by an errant flick of hair…… scanning his face…..sleepily…she thought tenderly ….."He needs a haircut"……..her hand involuntarily moving to brush his hair from his eyes and just stopping short….when realization of what she was about to do dawned on her………..she jerked up hitting him in the jaw…he grimaced …."easy Khushi…." She nodded …..still groggy…."aapko lagi toh nahi" she queried softly….

Arnav: he rubbed his jawline where her head him….…."not enough punishment for me "..he thought..

"Tum theek ho …? we are about to land "….he trailed off ..as the announcements continued to come in.

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