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Chapter 6- Because I Love Her

Around late night Arnav entered his room, having spent the entire day outdoors away from the crazy family. He had decided to do some shopping and most importantly buy himself some casual wear, inorder to get rid of the Khaki Kurta's.

Khushi jumped up from her bed as she saw him enter and came to an abrupt halt infront of him.

'What now?' Arnav asked exasperated. He had been expecting her to be fast asleep.

'What you said, is that true?' she asked with hopeful eyes. That's when Arnav noticed that she was in the same dress she had been wearing this morning, her shoes scattered at one corner, bag at another. Her makeup had come off at places but she looked fresh as if she had stayed indoors all day.

'Have you been here all day?' he asked placing his bags and spreading lazily at the recliner. It had been a tiring day, and his morning wasn't all that great given his argument with Khushi.

'As much I know that it will give you huge pleasure to hear a response in the affirmative, Yes I have been here all day thinking about your fantasy world'.

Arnav smirked at her response. 'Seriously Khushi when I said I don't wanna see your face, I meant that'

'And you would know me better Arnav, what makes you think I am gonna listen. Am done waiting, so about your fantasy world-'.

Arnav nodded his head lazily with his eyes closed. Khushi kicked at his shin and Arnav jumped succumbing to the pain. 'What the Hell Khushi!' he yelled.

'That's what happens when people ignore me' Khushi jeered in response.

Arnav stood up and towered over her. 'Get this over with alright, I said It's true, What more now? My world is not a fantasy, this place is some stupid alternate world! So Don't waste your time over me, I will be gone soon and this world will cease to exist!' he inwardly hoped with all his might.

Khushi tilted her head to one side as she studied him with curious eyes. 'Gone?' she scoffed. 'You think am stupid like your Khushi, If it were in your hands you would have been gone by now Arnav'

'Castiel will come and take me back' Arnav reinforced his words.

'I don't understand' she muttered softly stepping closer to him. 'Why are you so adamant about returning? You know Arnav I have always dreamt of a man like you in my life; Strong, smart, suave. Someone who can match upto me and it's you, I have got you now and am not letting you go'.

'I don't care' Arnav brushed past her, disturbed by what she had just said.

'You will have to Arnav' Khushi sighed pulling him by the arm so that he faced her. 'You have got it wrong, this is not an alternate world. This is your world, I am your Khushi. Think Arnav you might have wished for this! And now you got it!'

'I didn't wish for any of this! I will tell you the truth so get it in your head fair and square. Khushi wished for this, she wanted someone to knock some sense into me and it's not me who thinks so, Castiel said so'.

'Which only means she doesn't love you for who you are, she wants you to change your ways-'

'Enough of the talk, leave me alone' Arnav said crossly not having the energy to get into an argument again. He knew what she was trying to do, and he wasn't falling for her bogus words.

'Why can't you see it Arnav! She doesn't love you, why would you want to go back to her?'

'Because I Love Her'

'Fine! You have loved your Khushi all this while alright' Khushi seethed in anger disappointed that Arnav wasn't seeing things her way 'you have loved her even when you felt she was like me, Evil like me. So It's the same damn thing!'

Arnav sighed facing her knowing the only way he could get out of this conversation was plain talk 'No, it's not the same thing. What I think about Khushi is not what made me fall for her, not this face you proudly own, What made me fall for her was all that I could never see. You know why I want to go back so badly? I want to go back to my Di, my family who must be worried to hell right now, my Di who prays to God a million times a day only for me, to Khushi who stares at the stars by the window, I Love her because she loved me even when I was so mean to her, because she gave my family the respect and honour she never had to. Because even after all that I said, all that I did, she endured through it all. And most importantly, I want to go back so that I can make it all upto her, so that I can set things right. I don't want anything to do here because this is not my world, not my family and it's eating me up on the inside And trust me I will be gone from here, because I have learned my lesson.'

'Good luck with that' Khushi replied in a loathsome tone 'Coz as far as I know you are stuck with me'

'You don't love me Khushi' Arnav jibed. 'You still hate me and I know very well that you want to use me, coz the moment I leave, you will cease to exist. And you don't want that'

'Good that you learned it pretty quick' Khushi retorted. 'Didn't want you to think that I was begging for your love all this while'

Furious Arnav walked out. His hands trembled as he felt his blood surging through his veins; he swore he could have hurt Khushi real bad back in the room if he hadn't left. His legs trembled and he felt the urge to run, as fast as he could, and so he did. Keeping no track of time or place, he ran. He didn't know for how long he had been running, where he was headed, he just wanted to get away from this place, he wanted to get away from the light, from the city, from people. He wanted to go home.

As he ran he reached a point when all he could see was darkness around him, the grey sky with not a single star in sight and the city infront of him. Arnav realized he was at some sort of a cliff point and tried to will his mind to stop running, but his feet didn't seem to corporate.

Arnav shut his eyes as he felt his end coming near, when he banged into something hard. Rough hands steadied him and pushed him back.

'Whoah! you don't run with your eyes shut, genius ' came a sarcastic crisp voice.

'What the hell Cass, I have told you not to do that, where are we anyways?' the same man spoke seemingly annoyed.

Arnav's eyes flew open having heard the name this man seemed to be referring to.

'Castiel?' said Arnav roughly getting up. The angel looked the same as before, and the man with him, he looked like a biker going by his clothes, but he wasn't a junkie, his face was matured, and he was tough which gave him the edge of a soldier.

'You know this whackjob?' the man asked with a bit of humor etched in his tone.

'Dean?' Castiel spoke.

'Yeah?

'Shut Up'

Dean raised his hand in dismissal and watched the duo.

'Arnav' Castiel spoke in a grave voice. 'I see you are in no good shape'

'All thanks to you, You left me in this stupid world, Now take me back home!'

'Not yet' Castiel stalled 'There's lot more to this'

'I have had enough of it Okay!? I am not buying any of this shit about the lesson you wanna teach me, I HAVE had ENOUGH!'

'Seriously dude' Dean interrupted 'I don't know what's happening here, but I don't wanna go back deaf'.

'Just Shut Up' Arnav muttered 'Castiel?'

'Arnav' Castiel began 'I have been watching you, each and every thought that has crossed your mind has reached me. I heard you when you were yelling for me last night, I understand that you were disturbed but you weren't ready back then, you hadn't learned enough'

'What about now? am I still not ready, am I supposed to learn over my dead body? Coz sure as hell all that is left for me is to die living in this hell'

'We saw that' Dean jibed 'Few minutes back' he grinned staring down the cliff. 'Cass, is this the man you were talking about earlier?'

Castiel nodded in affirmative.

'Geez' Dean began staring at Arnav up to down 'Get him back home, we have got the world to save Cass, no time for chick flicks'

'Yeah right' Arnav yelled annoyed 'Think how would it be to be thrown into a place where your family is acting all plain weird'.

'Seriously! Shut up dude' Dean barked. 'Cass what are you waiting for?' he asked getting agitated now.

'Arnav would you like to know what happened to your family when you were here?' Castiel asked in a solemn tone.

'What? They were upset- right?' Arnav asked dreading the moment.

'Cass buddy, you aren't saying-?' Dean halted in his speech and nervously glanced at Arnav.

'It would be only wise, to have you see it yourself' Castiel sighed painfully and approached Arnav.

Dean looked around in alarm 'No! Not again! I am not going anywhere-'

But before he could finish Arnav felt his surroundings change and a horrible sensation seemed to be overwhelming his body.

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A/N: I had a blast writing Dean, and there's going to be more of it, now it's all on your guys if i managed to do them justice.

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