SS: Living Without You: Part 27 updated

"Khushi...?", he murmured, his husky voice making an endearment of her name.

She jumped up from bed, unable to believe that he was standing at the door to her room, looking in. Maybe it was a trick of the dim night lamp. She ran to switch on the bright light. He was still standing at the door. As she watched, he entered the room, closed the door, and smiled at her.

He pointed to the white shirt on her pillow she had been crying in to for the past couple of hours, and said sweetly, "So you found my white shirt!"

Khushi stood staring at him for one moment, and then ran to him. She caught hold of his shoulders and shook him.

"Where were you? Do you know how upset I was?"

He smiled.

"Why are you standing silent and smiling at me? Where were you? Why couldn't you pick up your phone?"

He smiled some more.

She shook him some more.

"What do you think of yourself? Who are you to walk in and out of my life without warning? Do you know how upset I was?" Tears leaked out of her sore eyes.

"Why, Khushi? Why were you so upset?", he asked gently.

Khushi looked at him, knowing the answer but unable to say it.

"Shall I say it for you?"

Khushi tried to withdraw her hands from his shoulders, but his hands held hers captive.

"Khushi, do you remember drinking bhang on Holi?"

"Ye...es..s..."

"Do you remember the question you asked me then?"

"Question? I asked you a question?"

"Yes. You were desperate for an answer. Can you remember the question, Khushi?", he whispered.

"N...no...", she stammered.

"You asked me why your heart beat increases when I come close to you."

She looked at him, stunned beyond words.

"You said that you had tried to understand it, but had failed. That you had tried to forget it, but had failed."

He stood waiting for her response. Finally, unable to douse the embers of hope in her heart, she asked faintly, "And did you give me a reply?"

Arnav smiled.

"Yes, I did. Would you like to know what I said?"

"Ye..ee..s..ss..."

"Sure?"

"Ha...an..."

(Thanx -Sunshine-)

He slowly moved her hand towards his chest, and held it over his heart.

"I said that when I come close to you, my heart too starts beating fast.", he said softly, looking in to her eyes.

Dhak Dhak, his heart beat in tandem with hers, picking up its pace.

"Our heart beats become one...", said his husky voice.

She looked at her hand on his chest, held there by his fingers.

"What you feel and what I feel are the same because ours hearts have become one...", he whispered in the still silence.

"Aap... Hum..."

"There is no you and me, Khushi, there is only us."

Part 19: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/fan-fictions/2990495/ss-living-without-you-part-27-updated?pn=16

Spoiler huh? 😃 Waiting to read more!!