Episode 27
Day 5 - Saturday (Mehendi Ceremony)
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Preparations for Mehendi ceremony to be held at Buaji's house in the evening is slowly taking shape. Mehendi from groom's family arrived. Khushi woke up late with the sound of her phone ring. She looked at the phone with one eye closed and read the caller name as Arnav.
Hello, ArnavJi. Why do you call me so early. Let me sleep.
Khushi, I cant believe you are still sleeping. Its 11:00am. Dont you have to get ready for Mehendi.
11:00am? hey devi maiyya. How can I sleep so late. She started getting panic attack.
Relax Khushi. You are the bride. You can sleep as much as you want. And who knows you might not get enough sleep after marriage.
Why not after marriage?
That you will know after marriage.
Stop teasing me.
Alrite, on a serious note. Get ready and go out to check the mehendi cones.
Why, whats special?
I kept little secret in one of the cones and its your job to find out where it is and what it is.
But how will I find out which cone it is.
I dont know. Lets see how much you know me. Good Luck. He hung up the phone abruptly.
Khushi got out of the bed and hurriedly dressed for the hour. She bumped into Buaji.
Buaji: Hai re Nandkishore. This girl is going to kill me one day.
Khushi: Buaji, where is mehendi from ArnavJi...
Buaji: Huhhh?
Khushi: I mean from the groom's family.
Buaji: I kept it on the dining table. But why do you...
Before Buaji could complete the sentence, Khushi ran to the spot and looked at all the cones. All the cones are wrapped in yellow except 2 which are in red and green.
It cant be yellow because Arnavji knows its difficult to search in the similar cones. Remaining ones are red and green. Hmm...red and green.Khushi thought for a while and continued murmuring. Red is Arnavji's favorite color and Green is my favorite color. She almost reached for red cone but her hands grabbed the green cone. Holding the green cone in her hand, she let out a cherry smile on her face and ran to her room to open it.
She found a small chit wrapped in plastic pouch and it read We are having dinner together tonight.
How can we have dinner tonight? Today is mehendi ceremony and he is not allowed to come to the function then how is it possible. She dialed his number but no response. Khushi started worrying about him being caught in the function. I cant believe Arnav Singh Raizada is doing all these.
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In RM, NK spotted Arnav getting ready for the evening.
Nannav, where are you going?
To meet Khushi.
But Nannav, you are not supposed to be in Mehendi ceremenoy.
I am not going to for Mehendi ceremony.
You are not going for mehendi ceremony then how will you meet her?
Arnav let out a mischievous smile and picked up his laptop bag to leave.
Shocked NK stopped Arnav at the door. Nannav, do you care to explain me what you are going to do. You are going to meet KhushiJi but you are not going to mehendi function, and you are carrying your laptop bag.
Relax NK. I have some pending work in the office. So I am taking my laptop and regarding meeting Khushi. Thats top secret. Arnav continued his way out smiling.
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Gorgeous Khushi is dressed in beautiful green lehenga embroidered with white crystals crystals. Khushi is made to sit in between ladies and ladies started dancing entertaining Khushi. Khushi nervously glanced around the house looking for Arnav. She couldnt find him no where. She kept searching for him throughout the function. She tried calling but no response again. Its close to 10:00pm and she is very hungry. Amma asked her several times to eat but she refused. Guests started leaving one by one after blessing Khushi. Buaji asked Khushi to go to her room to change and also asked her to come for dinner. She politely said she is tired and is not hungry and left to her room.
She closed the door once she entered the room and reached for the switch to turn on the lights. Lights didnt turn on. She was about to open the door and call out her amma. Her mouth was closed immediately by a rough hand and soon she was pulled into an embrace.
Shushh, its me. Arnav whispered.
Arnavji, where were you. I was really scared for you. Khushi sounded absolute panic.
Shhh. Nothing to be afraid of. I am here now. Thats all matters. He gently kissed her forehead.
Are you hungry? He asked caressing her cheeks.
Alot. but I cant eat with my hands because I have mehendi.
Why do you think I arranged this dinner tonight?
She then understood that he is here to feed her on this special day. She is feeling overwhelmed with his gesture. She leaned onto his chest as he led the way to the small arrangement he made in the corner of her room. He laid out flowers on the floor where two of them are going to seat and in between he placed a small one foot height table with the candle on top of it.
He made her sit on the petals and started serving the food. She noticed that there is only one plate and she looked at him questionably. He read her question and replied.I dont think we need 2 plates to eat. I would like to share, would you mind?
She nodded no, blushing at her to-be husband. Both ate silently and this time they needed no words to converse. Their eyes did the talking.
After their dinner, they sat on her bed and Arnav noticed that Khushi is not wearing any dupatta and she didnt seem to mind it without the dupatta infront of him. She seemed much more comfortable with him than earlier. To his curiosity, he wanted to find out if she didnt wear it on purpose.
Khushi, doesnt this dress come with dupatta or did you forget to wear it on purpose for me? He mischievously asked her.
Huuut, ArnavJi aapbhi na. This didnt come with dupatta. Else I would have worn it.
He took her hands in his and admired the mehendi on her hands.
You always wanted perfect wedding, dont you?
She nodded yes.
He leaned down and kissed her palms. And this time A means Arnav and not Guptaaa I believe.
She smiled nodding yes.
You look very beautiful Khushi. Green suits you alot.
Khushi lowered her eyes blushing hard. Arnav moved closer to her. She moved away from him nervously. He moved more closer and they continued the game until Khushi hit the headboard. And she looked into his piercing eyes.
Khushi, How did you know that I placed the chit in green cone? he whispered softly looking at her lips.
Well, it cant be yellow because there were so many. Had to be red or green. If it was ASR, he would have kept it in red because all he cared was his choices and his likes. But Arnav always gave importance to my likes and dislikes over his so I had to pick green.
So tell me Ms. Gupta, did you fall in love with ASR or Arnav?
First time for the record, I am confessing to you that I fell in love with ASR but I didnt had any respect for him then. It was Arnav who earned my respect strengthening my love to Arnav Singh Raizada.
Khushi lifted her hands on either side to her chest level and looked at his hand approaching her body. He ran his fingers on her bare waist and pulled her to him making their chests collide in passion. His chest pressed hers real hard making her bosoms peek out of her blouse slightly. He admired the sparkling skin peeking out of her green blouse. He is not sure what he is feeling but he is sure that he never felt like that before with any woman. And this feeling definitely took him to an ethereal world. His expressions didnt go unnoticed by Khushi. She was nt feeling shy without dupatta until this point but she wished she had one to protect herself from his piercing eyes. She nervously looked down unable to control her blushing lips and she covered her sensuous assets with her palms. He tightened the embrace and pulled her more closer to him and whispered, the day you stop hiding yourself will be the day we make love, I promise.
And the day is not that far. Just 2 more days. She spoke softly looking at him.
I cant wait for the time to come.
Me neither.
Both blushed dreaming the special night that is yet to come.
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