FF Keeping Khushi Thread 9:Part 90 Page 138 - Page 11

Originally posted by: rulama

Smita,😊

Here is my interpretation for the Part 78.

A word of German origin sums up the entire update. ECHT. The update is filled with the outpour of genuine feelings, nothing withheld,

It is an honest expression of what is felt. It comes from the heart.

Aarti began writing her second letter,

"My dear Sunflower", she started.

"You asked me to marry you many times. I wanted to say 'yes' many times. But...

"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry" ~ Tom Mullen

I would be a devil of a wife.

Do you really want to live with a girl who has never been a girl? Never worn dresses and saris? Never put on makeup? Never had long hair? Never had girl friends? Never had ice cream before you bought it for her? Who doesn't know what marriage is? Who has never felt any thing for any man except contempt for her father and respect and affection for her co-workers? Who has never been touched by any man? Who does not really know what love is?

"Love is knowing all about someone and still wanting to be with them more than any other person..."

What is love?

Aarti who has been fed with just hate from her father knows only the love and compassion of Gopi Kaka who is the only other male member of her family. She is only able to comprehend the love and affection of her Gopi Kaka and her employees. Her mother who has become fragile loves her but needs Aarti's love and care more than what she can give Aarti. Aarti's insecurity made her refuse his proposal. She is unsure of her own feelings. She just doesn't know if her reactions and the feelings that well up in her when she sees NK amounts to being in love. So she spells all her inadequacies and pens her feelings to NK in her letter asking him what it means?

Is it wanting to see you when you are not before me?

Wanting to run away when you approach me? And at the same time wanting to stay and feel you touch me?

Feeling weak when I see the naughty look in your eyes as you walk towards me, planning to kiss me?

"Love is trusting him enough to tell him everything about yourself including the things you might be ashamed of..."

Wanting to share my thoughts with you? Talk to you about the amusing and ordinary things that happen in my life? Share something that Gopi Kakka said? Something that Amma mentioned? Tell you about the roses I planted, and how Amma smiled when she saw the first bud? The birds who visit me daily in the morning to play in the birdbath I made? The big fish in the pond who raises his head out of water if he hears my voice?

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it knowing that your full focus is on me even when you are talking to someone else?

Waiting for you to take hold of my hand at the first excuse?

"Love is feeling comfortable and safe with him..."

Seeing you hug Amma, and wanting to cry?

Seeing your Bhabis love you so much, and wanting to hug them for loving you so much?

Feeling respect for your Nannav and Akash for setting out to win the world for you?

Wanting to never leave when you are with me. Wishing that you would stay with me all the time?

Looking for you in every crowd, hoping to see you?

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people" ~ Victor Borge

Wanting to laugh at your broken Hindi even long after you are gone?

Is this love?

"Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive" ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

After noting all her feelings that are alien to her but now reside in her she talks about the known feelings. She has the innate desire for his company and would like to share her fears with him.

"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out"

~ Elizabeth Bowen

She wants to derive warmth and strength from his presence and his love. She is scared of loosing him too!

"Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds

and warming your soul.

Love reminds you that nothing else matters"

~Amy Bushell

I wish you were with me now. I am scared about tomorrow. Scared for Amma. Scared for me. Scared I won't be able to see you again.

"Give out what you most want to come back"

~ Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

If we don't meet again, will you ever know how much I cared for you? How much I longed to live with you? Watch you smile?

Or will you think I cheated you, broke your trust and my word?

"But how could she tell him that the reason she always acted so disinterested in everything was because of the worry that she herself wasn't all that interesting?" ~ Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here

Life is so funny. For 22 years, I didn't want to live, but had to...

Today, I want to live. With you. But...

"Love addicts you to its feeling. You never, ever want to lose that feeling. Sometimes the fear of losing love drives people to do crazy things. Make a phone call. Cry. Write. Laugh.

Because when you love someone, you really love them. You give them your whole heart. You trust them. You never want to be away from them. Sometimes, you don't even need their words. You just need them there" ~ Alysha Speer

I am so tired, my Sunflower. I need to sleep. Tomorrow is a big day.

I just wish...

I just wish I could have been your wife for atleast one day. Just one day. One day atleast...

Goodnight. Goodbye!"

"Love is such an amazing thing, and too many people take it for granted. If you're in love, don't let it go. Don't you dare let it go" ~ Alysha Speer

PS.

"You gave me my first kiss. My first ice cream. My first hug from a man. And this is my first love letter.

Thank you. For all the good memories. I didn't know that life could be something to look forward to.

Only yours,

Aarti"

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'"~ Erich Fromm

Arnav was trying to speed up his work to join his wife who was waiting for him on the bed. While leafing through the pages of a Fashion magazine Khushi wondered about Aarti's whereabouts.

"I wonder what Aartiji is doing now.", remarked Khushi.

"Trust her, Khushi. She will be back."

"I called her many times. She said that Amma is better. That we may not get her on the phone for the next few days as they would be travelling in rural areas."

Arnav frowned. "Travelling in rural areas without a mobile network with a sick Amma?"

"I will try again tomorrow. And maybe she has given NK Bhai some means of getting in touch with her."

Arnav's face cleared.

"Arnavji, we will talk to NK Bhai in the morning. You finish your work now.", Khushi comforted him.

Kushi and Arnav genuinely care for Aarti. For them she is not just a girl whom NK is wooing, but a fellow traveler who had to tread burning coals along the way. Despite the perils she faced every day, she has come out in glowing colours. They are her hidden backbone who are determined to make her choose, change for the better and not the status quo that she is trying to opt. They are her cheerleaders along with NK.

Arnav agreed and started to speed up his work. Looking at the pictures of models made her wonder about their slim figure. When she looked up she found Arnav concentrating on his laptop with frown and impatience!

The cute frown lines on his forehead, the strands of his unruly hair flopping over his forehead, his manly nose, his stubborn chin... The magazine fell from her hands on to the bed. Would their child look like him? Maybe they would have a son who looked exactly like Arnavji! Or a daughter as sweet as Di!

Thinking about it she slipped into her sweet dreams. When Arnav came to her she was smiling in her dreams reclining on a mound of pillows, quite an uncomfortable position to sleep long hours. While he was shifting her to a comfortable position, she woke up and smiled at him.

"Arnavji, do you know what I just dreamed of?"

"Kya?", he asked, nuzzling her sweetly scented, warm cheek.

"Love is like flowers blossoming in spring. When you think it ends, it'll grow again in time"

~ Primadonna Angela

"A room full of children.", she said, putting her arms around his neck and pulling him to lie close to her, hovering over her.

He frowned. "A Kindergarten?"

"No, an army. Of our children."

His eyes widened.

"Lots of boys like you. Frowning cutely and saying What the!"

Arnav looked at her with his mouth open.

"Standing and looking at me with cross looks on their faces, their naughty hair falling on their forehead..."

Arnav shook his head. "Khushi! You must be the only person on earth who wants a room full of cross children!"

"My children are like my husband. What can I do if I have been blessed with a cross husband?", Khushi teased him in return.

Khushi has accepted her husband for what he is and loves him despite his drawbacks! She wants her sons to be just like him and would adore them for being the replica of their father.By this she has shown that she sees and loves the actual nature of Arnav behind the facade he puts up.

"Only boys? How come we don't have daughters?", Arnav tweaked her nose.

"There were daughters too. Sweet. Smiling. Caring daughters."

"Like you?", asked Arnav, kissing her chin.

"No!", said Khushi. "Like Di."

Arnav rolled his eyes. "You are their mother. Don't you want them to be like you?"

"Be like me? What can I give them?", Khushi wondered, thinking long and hard.

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect.. I love her and it is the beginning of everything" ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Arnav kissed her forehead.

"Your courage. Your smile. Your laughter. Your strength. Your kindness. Your beauty. Your heart. Your music..."

Khushi stared at his serious eyes, astonished.

Arnav Singh Raizada, definitely knows how to please his woman! Giving her affection, attention, appreciation, listening to her and protecting her emotions. By listing out all her good traits he has shown her how he thinks about her now. He wants his daughters' to take after her! Kushi on the other hand is stunned realizing how she is seen by him! He who had propositioned and hounded her to be his Mistress in the beginning, is now admiring her for what she is and wants his daughters to follow her footsteps.

Arnav kissed her forehead, her eyebrows, her nose, her cheeks, and then her lips. Khushi ran her fingers through the hair at his nape, pulling him closer, sliding the fingers of her other hand inside the neck of his T-shirt, trying to touch his warm skin.

"Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. "Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing," he agrees"

~ Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

She kissed his eyelids and he closed his eyes. She moved on to his cheeks, his nose, his chin... She fondled his ears, and ran her fingers through his hair, loving their feel.

He smiled.

"The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change" ~ Taylor Swift

She touched his smiling lips with a curious finger. He gulped. She moved down to his neck, savouring the strained tendons with her lips as he arched to give her better access.

Arnav Singh Raizada forgot how to breathe.

"Love sort of envelops you. It covers you like a giant shadow, then pulls you in like a blanket. You are so warm. The feeling surrounds you, and no matter how you feel, it is always there. You can't escape it. But you wouldn't want to. You are so, so safe. You can't remember the last time you were this happy. Were you ever? This happy?"

~ Alysha Speer

The update is filled with the honest, genuine, real feelings of Aarti Mishra, Arnav Singh Raizada and his wife Kushi Singh Raizada!

It is ECHT!

That's it from me! Hope you enjoy it!