OS: ARHI - See what you've been missing?

Originally posted by: sonia_92

Arhi OS

See what you've been missing? 😉

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"NK, I'm not sure" she said, wringing her hands together.

"Khushi, you need to relax! He's a decent man, I've known him practically all my life." NK tried to calm his best friend down, grabbing her hand and pulling her down on the sofa beside him.

"Besides it's not like this is your first date."

"But I've only met him once before on your birthday, which was - let me remind you - only last week and we only exchanged pleasantries" she said again, turning around to face her friend who was now busy texting his girlfriend and completely ignoring her little tantrum over the dinner date she had to go to in about three hours.

Snatching his phone away she gave him a death glare and threatened holding his collar, "you can play baby I miss you, baby I need you, baby I LOOOVE you with lavanya later, right now pay attention to me or you'll never live to discuss the names of your future children with your girlfriend!"

Scared, NK raised his hands in surrender and apologizing, indicated his friend to continue, who taking the que started ranting away.

"so I was saying, I've only met this cousin of yours last week, and all of a sudden he asks me out on a date? I'm not so sure if I should go"

Khushi's brain had started working in overdrive now and NK did not want her to refuse at the last moment, he had caught his cousin staring at khushi a few times during the party and his matchmaking brain had only started running faster when his cousin had called him two days later asking about khushi, hence he interrupted her rant by pressing a hand to her shoulder and asked just one thing, one he knew would distract her enough for him to convince her to go to the date. "Khushi, did you find him hot when you saw him at my birthday?"

"Unmmm, I guess he's okay" came the reply and NK pressed the question "Yes or no khushi? okay is not an option"

"Fine!" she said throwing her hands up in frustration. NK still looked at her as if waiting for an answer and she shouted "Fine! he's hot! I'll go on the date" then mellowing down a little "You don't need to make me feel shallow for agreeing to the date because he's hot"

This earned her a chuckle from NK and him a smack on his arm by khushi.

...

Two hours later, khushi found herself standing infront of her cupboard, in her bathrobe after a long nerve relaxing shower. NK had left after their conversation, reminding her the name of his cousin and wishing her luck. She recalled now, his exact words had been,

"Arnav is a gem khushi, have a good time!" and with a good luck and a parting hug he'd left!

Khushi had dated men, many at that! She wasn't normally the shy nervous types but this once she just felt odd, it was just that the men she'd dated earlier were of her own choice, ones she'd pursued after knowing them. This felt more like a blind date if not exactly that. She knew nothing about the guy except his name and that he was her best friend's cousin. But then why'd she agreed to go out with him when he'd asked through NK?

Well, there was something about the way he kept following me with his eyes at the party.

Brushing all thoughts off of her mind, khushi picked a royal blue dress from her wardrobe, paired it with silver heels and a diamond bracelet. applying minimal make up, she checked herself in the mirror and decided she was good to go. Just then the door bell rang and she almost ran to the door.

...

"Hi" he said with a smile

oh my God, he has a dazzling smile, thought khushi.

"Hey" she replied, smiling back.

"You're ready?"

"yeah just let me grab my phone" she grabbed her phone from her room and then left with him.

"He's a perfect gentleman" thought khushi as arnav held the car door for her. she gave him another smile and settled in, a minute later, they were both settled and arnav started towards their destination.

...

"So NK tells me you're a chartered accountant?" he half stated half questioned after placing the order for dinner. He'd brought her to charcoal, a pleasant restaurant by the sea, the right amount of privacy, not too posh nor very mediocre.

"Yeah, I always had a thing for accounts" she said humorously to which he chuckled and stated with a hint of amusement and already fawning over how smart she was "but you don't look anywhere near thirty"

She laughed at that.

"I'm just smart" she added with a wink after sobering up.

At that precise moment the dinner arrived and after the waiter was gone, the conversation continued.

"So what do you do? surprisingly NK hasn't told me anything about you" asked khushi while diving into her steak.

Arnav watched in amusement as khushi literally gulped the first piece of her steaming steak without chewing and ran her hands around the table till he handed her a glass of water.

"Hungry much?"

She just glared at him and continued eating while indicating with one hand to answer her question and he obliged

"I own a fashion house by the name AR Designs, I live alone, my parents live a half an hour drive away, sister is happily married with two kids, settled in London." At this point he realized he'd maybe said too much because the beauty sitting opposite him was staring at him.

"Is there anything else you want to know?" he asked, slightly confused but the second he uttered the words he saw her flush and he could see the faint red rise up her cheeks.

"Unmmm ... woh ... I mean , n..nothing"

Khushi was so flustered, she had no idea why she had been staring at him so shamelessly,what was he saying what was he saying? she tried to think and as soon as it clicked, she asked,

"why did you ask me out, Arnav?"

The words were out before she could even think what she was saying and as soon as she realized she clamped a hand on her mouth to stop herself from speaking rubbish further.

Arnav was taken aback by the sudden question and almost choked on his pasta but he recovered soon and gazed at her eyes which were wide as saucers at the moment, her mouth clammed shut with her right hand, and her cheeks had turned crimson.

She looks so adorable he thought. Then composing himself he smiled and took her free hand from next to her platter, in his.

At this action of his, khushi removed her hand from her mouth and looked down at her hand in his, then back up at him, her eyes lowering on their own accord as he placed a small kiss on her knuckles.

"Because I haven't been able to get my mind off of you ever since I saw you at that party."

Khushi's eyes flew up to his face at this. The look in her eyes incomprehensible, it was almost like she was staring at him in awe but then maybe she was just shocked or confused at this revelation. For a second he waited for her to say something but when she didn't, he continued.

"I'm not exactly a typical romantic man, khushi. I've dated my fair share of women, maybe more than that" he added with a soft chuckle "but I have never felt like this before. Cliche! I know. But I really don't know how else to put this. I really like you, khushi!"

He ended with his little declaration to find khushi staring down at their hands, as if trying to think hard on something. He waited and a moment later she looked up at him with a beaming smile which made him want to grab her and kiss her senseless.

"You know I was nervous about this date"

she said after a while and arnav waited for her to continue, still holding her hand.

"I thought it was weird of you to invite me like this, you know so suddenly, we barely knew each other. I've never gone out with someone I didn't know but NK really insis..."

"so why did you agree then?" arnav interrupted, pure curiosity dripping from his question.

she looked down then, shyly.

"its a little embarrassing"

"I'm very curious, khushi"

oh the way this man says my name, my stomach flips every time he utters my name from that gorgeous mouth of his.

khushi drifted back to the present as arnav pressed her hand lightly.

"I thought you were hot" she replied in a small voice, still looking down.

Arnav couldn't believe what he'd just heard and the second he registered that she had indeed said what he'd thought she'd said, he burst out laughing but the laughter died on his lips for a moment as he felt her extract her hand from his and glare at him angrily before he held his stomach and started laughing again.

khushi was embarrassed and fuming so bad she didn't even realize when she uttered what she uttered next

"What's so funny? You probably only asked me out because you thought I was hot too"

and arnav's laughter died then. They both stared at each other then, khushi's eyes wide as saucers again and just like sometime ago, mouth clamped shut with her hand.

After a moment, arnav smiled at her, leaned forward and eased her hand away from her mouth, brushed the back of his hand lightly across her left cheek and whispered,

"No khushi" he paused to see her reaction and as expected her eyes were wide in shock again, he chuckled inwardly but then continued rubbing his hand over her cheek and whispered in that husky voice which sent shivers down her spine,

"I asked you out because you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life"

Khushi gasped, then looked away, blushing furiously!

Not much was said after that. They both enjoyed the rest of the evening in companionable silence. While arnav continued gazing at her intently, khushi blushed more and more while also trying to glance up at his eyes - eyes she'd been mesmerized by all evening - every now and then.

Arnav paid the bill and they both left in arnav's car.

The drive back was rather silent, khushi had been humming along the song on the radio while looking outside the window whereas arnav was trying hard to control his thoughts and concentrate on driving and not the mesmerizing beauty sitting next to him, humming and biting her lower lip every now and then.

...

As they reached khushi's house, arnav cursed himself for not having driven at a slower speed but his attention came back to the woman with him when he felt movement on his left and found her opening her door to get out, he instantly jumped out of his seat, walked around to her door and opened it for her.

True gentleman, khushi thought again.

She got out and thanked him for the dinner but no sooner had she turned to walk to her house had arnav grabbed her hand, twirled her back and pinned her to the car. Surprised by his sudden move, khushi felt rooted to the ground till she felt him lean closer wanting to kiss her and just when he was about to press his lips to hers, she moved her head sideways, kissed him on his cheek and taking advantage of his surprise, jumped out of his arms and ran to her door laughing. Arnav soon realized what had happened and looked towards her door to see her smiling at him. He smiled back and saw her laugh again before she turned and rushed in but not before turning around and winking at him.

...

That night while khushi lay in bed, all she could think about was her date with her, and every time she thought about the almost kiss, she cursed herself for having fled from the scene.

If only I'd let him kiss me! Ughhh Khushi Gupta, you IDIOT

...

Two days had passed and there had been no calls or messages from the man - or more specifically the lips - that had occupied her dreams and pretty much her days too. She itched to talk to him, go out with him again, see him, kiss him but her stupid ego just wouldn't budge hence she just hoped and waited that he'd call!

NK hadn't been much help either, she'd tried to indirectly ask him about arnav's whereabouts but all she'd gotten was "he's a busy man khushi"

she had only told NK that the date was fine and that arnav wasn't all bad, that too after a lot of pleading from NK's side. For some reason she just didn't feel like disclosing her real feelings to her best friend.

In actual, all khushi wanted to do right now was grab arnav from wherever he was and kiss him,oh why didn't I let him kiss me! idiot idiot! ughhh

...

Two more days had passed the same way. Khushi had been so gloomy, it was very uncharacteristic of her and even her colleagues had begun to worry.

It was evening and khushi had just gotten home from office when the door bell rang. She had just walked out of the bathroom after a quick shower when she heard it, she quickly pulled on a pair of blue denim shorts and a plain white tank top and dragged her feet towards the door.

She opened the door with a tired sleepy face which soon turned into the typical Khushi expression of surprise and within seconds it had become one of anger and before Arnav Singh Raizada could even open his mouth to speak she had dragged him inside by the collar and was bombarding him with questions.

"Where the hell have you been? Why didn't you call me? Who the he..." Her words died on her lips as she felt Arnav abruptly close the door, swing her around and pin her to it and before she could register what was happening, his mouth descended on hers in the wildest kiss.

They broke apart after a while, gasping for air, still holding each other very close. Arnav pulled his head back from her forehead - where it was resting - to look at her, then he smirked - that signature smirk oh lord - and bent a little till his lips were brushing against her earlobe, and whispered oh so lightly in that same husky voice

"See what you've been missing?"

She threw her head back and laughed heartily before she pulled him towards herself and resumed kissing him senseless!

... THE END ...