FF: A Walk to Remember- Chap-6 (06/09/13) - Page 3

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Like I has promised am back with the third part here.

Thanks a lot for your comments, you guys don't know but they make me want to update soon and come up with better chapters. Like I had mentioned that this is my first in life so do bear with me, as the story is still in its initial stage, and the romance part will take some time to happen.

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Chapter - 3

"Hey, how come you ran away yesterday Miss Gupta?"

Inhaling deep Khushi turned to look straight ahead into the caramel eyes of Arnav Singh Raizada. Times likes these is when you marvel at the speed in which your brain can absorb details, register them, process them, and give outputs. By the time Khushi had turned and stood facing Arnav she was shocked to realize that her brain was ready with a 3Kb database on Arnav and was continuously flashing the details to her.

Around 5ft 10' of height

Deep voice, with good voice modulation skills.

Expressive. Hell !!!! Over-expressive face.

Can lift one eyebrow

Hair is gelled and back brushed

Wearing a three piece suit in brown

Athletic physic

This smell, whatever it is; is good

Over grown stubble

And..

THAT SMIRK !!!

All the resolve khushi had made to hold on good; all by herself if she comes across Arnav today, got broken by this analysis done by her brain. What is going on? How the hell did I manage to grasp these details at this lightning speed? Was my observing power always this good? Why the hell did i not join some detective agency all these year then? How long have I been staring at him now?

Oh No!!! Words..words, pls come out. Anything, absolutely anything will do. But no matter how much her ears waited to hear her own voice, it never came. Although after few more sec she finally heard it.

" Itna bura dikhta hu kya mein, that u have gone pale?"

Finally finally I said something !!!! rejoiced Khushi in her mind. Phew!!! Thank god I did not make a fool of myself again, what a relief!! So now the ball is in his court, he is the one who has to answer. Huh, even he is taking time. Good, let him take as much time as he wants, let me breathe easy for a while now.

Oh he is looking intently towards me now, and his smirk is growing. Should he not be answering my question rather than smirking? Well so what was my question to him now? umm, am not able to recall what I said..ok..ok no need to panic.need to focus on last few sec.yes i recall !! something like 'bura' and 'someone going pale'. PALE!! that's strange? He is not looking pale at all. Why did I say pale? Ok let me focus again.

Khushi forcefully shut her eyes close and tried to focus, and not looking into his eyes helped her, as she could recall the exact line she had said a few sec ago 'Itna bura dikhta hu kya mein, that u have gone pale?' only the voice did not seem to be hers. It was manly.

Oh no.. Oh No!!! This cant be happening, khushi thought. It was his voice. Khushi realized that she had been standing and staring at him for this whole time w/o uttering a single word. CRAP!!

Am queen of AWKWARD MOMENTS thought khushi. Oh this is simply great!! even now my mouth is shut. How long has it been in total then? Who knows? For ages I suppose. But am sure that if I can continue this for few more sec's it will be 21^st dec, and after that I need not worry. Nature, will save me from this misery. The world will come to an end!! Well this is a cheering thought and then I will... Her thought stopped midway as she felt two hands grabbing her shoulders in a strong hold from front and she heard a husky voice say "are you ok?"

Arnav had seen khushi turn to face him and she was about to say something when she suddenly stopped and her face went blank, as he waited for her response he saw her turning pale. Just in order to get a response from her, he had made some comment about him looking dreadful. But still she had not said a word. And then she had suddenly closed her eyes.

Arnav was sure that she was about to faint, so instantly he had stepped forward and grabbed her by shoulders, but at that instant she had opened her eyes which reflected shock and confusion which Arnav could not comprehend as he was damn sure that she was about to faint. In a worried tone he had asked her if she was ok.

Khushi was shocked beyond belief. Why was he holding her like that and why on earth was he asking her if she was ok? And again, of course how did she even expect a single damn word to escape her lips.

Those eyes, she could see them more clearly now, cause now they were quiet near. Light caramel!! It was then that khushi felt warm. Suddenly; finding the source of this warmness became more important that finding her elusive voice. Thanks to her senses which were on high alert for some unknown reason, she gasped when she realize that it was due to HIM. His arms, which were holding her in a half embrace kind of position, were the reason of this warmness. And strangely she did not get repulsed by this proximity.

She then realized that Arnav was no longer looking towards her, but was looking sideways and saying "don't worry, I have got her, she was about to faint" .

Wait!! What? thought khushi. And before she could think of anything she heard her nani's worried tone "faint !! Oh god, khuku are you alright?"

Hearing her nani, stabilised Khushi, she quickly tried to free herself from arnavs hold, but in the haste of her action she stumbled on her bag which lying on the floor and was about to fall, but was caught by Arnav again.

This time Arnav was holding her by her right arm; gently yet firmly.

"Now, you take it easy young lady" said nani standing beside her.

"nani pls, im alright" retorted Khushi

"yes I can see that. You look pale, Arnav can you help her move to the drawing room area,she needs air" said nani

"yes ofcourse" said Arnav

Khushi who had no idea as to why everyone was so hell bent on assuming that she was about to faint, tried once again "im perfectly fine nani"

"Khuku aek dom chup kintu, aami ja bolchi ta koro" nani said sternly

"Ami bhalo aachi didu, amar kichu hoyeni, tomra ki bolcho?" defended khushi

Arnav just looked on as he could not understand a word that was exchanged between Naniji and her granddaughter, but decided to intervene as he got that nani was slowly getting agitated.

"Will you be able to walk? I will just support you" Arnav asked khushi

To which nani said "yes yes you help her to the sofa"

Seeing that, as of now there is no point arguing with these two, khushi gave up as Arnav directed her towards the door which opened to the living room area.

Khushi was walking at a hurried pace, which somehow irked Arnav, he pressed her arm gently which made her look towards him, and was taken aback. All this while khushi had seen just playfulness in those eyes, which now were gazing intently into hers as if trying to communicate something. In a beat khushi's pace reduced to match Arnav's.

She glanced upwards to look into his eyes again, he was looking down at the floor but his face was relaxed now.

"Strange!!" thought khushi.

As they reached the sofa, khushi sat down and saw nani hovering over her with a worried face. Most of the people had seen Arnav supporting Khushi to the sofa, and were gathering around them.

"What happened?" came the coursed question from many..

Khushi was about to tell Anjali that 'nothing happened', when she heard Arnav telling akash and others that, How he had seen her pale n stare blankly towards him and then her eyes closed shut, and she was about to faint.

What !! that is what he thinks happened? She just wanted to melt away.

"Of course she would have fainted, look at her!! She is so skinny, doesn't eat properly at all" khushi heard in horror as her nani rattled on in pure agitation.. "doesn't understand the 'n' of nutrition, orders tomato soup without tomato, look at her" nani was telling Anjali in exasperated tone.

"Can comfortably miss meals n number of times a day, and will say oh! I forgot nani..tell me who forgets to have their meal? Just look at her, she should be at least twice the size she is of now"

Such was the effect of nani's animated ranting that each time she said 'look at her', unknowingly everyone's head would turn in Khushi's direction stay on her for a sec and again move back to nani..

Well khushi was flabbergasted. As she was never ever discussed like this in public before. Her nani was excellent in public speaking, and when she spoke about anything with passion everyone just listened. And Khushi's health was always been a passionate topic for her nani at home. But here nani was going on and on.

"Once during her exams, she had not eaten anything for the entire day, she had explained to the maid for a good half hour; that she can't waste her precious energy for digestion, she wants to shut down the functioning of her lower body parts and channelize all the energy to her brain" nani said, her eyes gone wide with excitement of finding so many interested listeners around.

"Nani !!!" exclaimed khushi. But deviyani roy was in her flow.

Everyone around in the set was always interested in naniji's stories. For them the content never mattered, what drew them was naniji's expressive way of narration. She would use her hands, legs, eyes to create the scene. Many a times she would herself enact and show the various ways in which the characters of her story had actually reacted.

Sadly for khushi this time the sole character in nani's story was she herself. And was embarrassed to no end, as she saw nani imitating her.

"oh god that had scared our maid, she thought khushi was accomplished in black magic or something, to be commanding her body parts like that, can't forget how much I had to convince my maid out of her theory" nani said

"Didu ki korcho, chup koro" khushi almost begged

"Oh then once it was 12am in night and she had forgot her dinner, I went to her and asked sternly, when do you plan to eat? Oh my!!! The nerve, that this girl has!! She replied coolly without even glancing at me, 2pm- the day after tomorrow" exclaimed nani

Mostly everyone's face had turned red trying hard not to burst out laughing, they all so badly wanted to give in to the temptation, but one look on Khushi's helpless face and all they did was kill the laughter within themselves.

"can u believe it? Naughty girl!! She tells me 'day after tomorrow' , I just don't know what to do with her, JUST LOOK AT HER !!" said nani throwing up her hands in air.

And this time along with others even khushi was bewitched to give herself a glance

She was wearing skin tight jeans, with a tee and hoodie jacket

(her attire looked something like this)

Arnav just could not control it anymore looking at khushi checking herself out at the command of her nani. He just burst out laughing. And that just did it. Everyone else too joined him.

All that khushi could see was, a room full of people laughing like crazy. She got mighty upset. Well she did not understand as to what was so funny about the story that one could be laughing like this. Yes she was upset about nani tell all these personal things out in public like this, but she didn't consider it to be LOLing worthy.

Seeing the shocked expression on khushi's face, Arnav tried to deviate the topic a little.

"Here we all are always hungry 24/7" said Arnav

"yes, the person who is last coming on set always has to get food for us, we call him/her and place king size order" added Anjali laughingly

"Arnav to hamesha bhukha rehta hai, his most frequent dialogue is bahut bhook lagi hai yaar" said NK, slapping Arnav from behind.

"We keep eating the entire day, 'what to order' remains our prime agenda the min we enter the sets" said Akash

" In logoko khana khila khila ke humara budget aadhe mahine mein hi khatam ho jata hai, poori raakshas sena hai ye sab" said lata from the production team

"Yup, we have great producers, who always keep our stomach filled, so that we give our best shot" added Arnav, laughing hard.

"Oh u won't believe, we have to bribe them with food for various reasons like, to give a one take shot, or stay back a little late, people here will go w/o salary as long as they get free food" added the director Punit who was leaning on Akash.

The atmosphere had become so jolly. With everyone pulling each other's leg. This made khushi relax a bit as now she was no longer the center of attention.

Chotu came with a glass of juice and went to khushi, "didi aapke liye hai" he said.

Khushi was surprised, "I did not ask for..." before she could finish she heard Arnav say calmly, "I asked him to get it for you, have it you will feel better".

"yes yes, have it immediately no tantrums khushi, look at yourself all pale and all" said nani sitting beside her and bringing the glass up to her mouth.

"Ok Ok I will have it, don't have to feed me" khushi said quickly taking the glass off nani's hand not daring to look up at others.

"Now I think you should lie down for some time and take rest" nani said.

Khushi quickly grabbed the option and said "yes, I will go home and take all the rest that is required"

"NO, no going home business, you are staying in front of my eyes and taking rest, that's it" nani said and then she turned towards the gathered audience with full intention of starting with another of 'My Granddaughter gives me a hard time' story of hers.

"OH!!! Here we go again" khushi mumbled, which was caught by Arnav and he looked on at her face with an amused expression.

"You know once when she has just been discharged from hospital and was supposed to be taking plenty of rest, I found her climbing inside the house from the kitchen window at 1am in night !! I was beyond myself and confronted her, she calmly said that, I had just asked her to go to sleep, that I did not specify WHEN as in WHAT TIME she should sleep, hence I cannot hold her responsible for the loopholes that I had in my statement. can you believe it? this slip of a girl telling me I had LOOPHOLES IN MY STATEMENTS". nani concluded after narrating the entire thing, with help of hand gestures.

In order to put a stop to this 'Million stories, that would embarrass khushi' , khushi said "ok I will rest, tell me where?"

"You can rest in my green room, you wont get disturbed there" said Anjali smiling and kept a hand on Khushi's shoulder lovingly.

To which Nk said "but Sonali (the female lead) is sleeping there"

"Sonali! When did she come?" asked Anjali

"Her scenes are scheduled for second shift, she said she felt tired and I should wake her up for lunch" cleared NK

"Oh!! Ya she was working the whole day yesterday, she must be tired" then turning towards khushi Anjali added " we both share the same room here, so then where do we put you, as the common green room will be filled with people, u wont be able to rest there" pondered on Anjali with concern.

"She can rest in our room" suggested Akshay and added "Arnav and me we both wont be free till second shift , so she can rest there"

This made khushi highly uncomfortable, "No no as it is none of this is required, am fine there is no need to bother, really" she stressed

"Nothing doing, you go there and rest now, and will call doctor in the meanwhile" nani ordered

"I Don't Need a Doctor, this is just so ridiculous!!" khushi exclaimed and this time her voice was slightly raised which did not go unnoticed by all.

Seeing her getting agitated with all the attention, anrav suggested that maybe khushi needs some sleep , that's all. So they should let her rest as of now and she can have lunch with all of them later. Nani agreed to this and dropped the idea of calling a doctor.

Khushi heaved a sigh of relief, what would the doctor have said afterall? She knew this all was a misunderstanding. She was not fainting. It was not lack of nutrition that paled her, she had paled due to certain other things or a certain someone.

She got up and this time Akash led her to the room, as Arnav had his shot ready.

On reaching it she saw a paper saying ARNAV - AKASH pasted on the door, she walked in behind akash to find a small yet cozy room.

There were two beds kept at right angle, by the walls.

"No one will come here, you be comfortable, when its lunch time someone will come to let you know, and if u need anything do let me know or for that matter u can tell anyone here, Ok. Pls don't hesitate" said akash

Khushi smiled at akash. She was touched by his genuineness. Akash had this, bit of elderly protective kindda thing about him, which would immediately put the person at ease.

"thanks a lot akash, though none of this was required, but I guess im trapped at his moment , no point fighting nani , but thanks" she smiled and said..

"No thanks required re. You take care and rest. chalo see you at lunch, bye" saying this akash left.

Khushi knew she would have to kill time till lunch, and cursed for this situation she herself had brought upon. Damn she should have bought her laptop.

What was she goona do here? She looked at the beds and sighed, so it seems she would really have to sleep then.

God!!! Let this day be over soon, she prayed and climbed on a bed, put the ac on, and waited for sleep to come.

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