Arhi FF: Tangent Worlds. New Ch-6 Updated, pg-16. 25/11/13. New! - Page 6

nice update...

Hey came across your ff. Really interesting and intriguing at the same time. Looking forward to it.

Originally posted by: taani16

nice update...

but where is payal now?

TANGENT WORLDS

Part: 4

Wrong-Right Right-wrong Choices

'The fateful day was here at last.' Garima thought with a wistful sigh. Standing still at the door, her eyes penetrated the darkness looking in the direction where her distraught daughter had disappeared not too long ago.

How many nights Garima, the mother had spent praying her Devi Maiya to never let her daughters face the question that had haunted her existence, since she developed that wretched faculty called brains.

"Amma, isn't Jiji family?" Khushi's voice resonated in her mind once again. Though wrapped in a new voice, the question wasn't exactly new to her, she had lived her entire life... denying it... fighting it... accepting it... all her life... with it. 'Her daughters had finally inherited her demons, and that was all she had to pass on to them.' she thought with a wry smile, how very delusional of her to ever think that Khushi and Payal had any chance at escaping it... how very delusional.

She didn't know how long she had been standing at the door of her room and finally as a sigh of resignation escaped her lips, she turned back moving towards her bed, her legs felt heavy as she dragged them across the room. But the next moment she halted in her tracks as hauntingly beautiful musical notes cut through the dense air around her. Her feet gave up and she sank at the foot of the bed. She was playing again... after months and Garima didn't know how to feel about it, relieved or apprehensive... content or miserable... as a whirlwind of long suppressed emotions erupted within her, once again, threatening to engulf everything... and she knew she was... scared.

Sleep was one of the few things that lay beyond the regime of Arnav Singh Raizada's dictatorship and tonight it seemed like she had decided to evade him entirely. And so a tall, lean figure could be seen standing near the French windows that opened towards the pool area in Shantivan. As the flashes of lightening speared through the winds at irregular intervals a pair of dark and dangerously stormy eyes could be seen, and through those windows, the storm that raged within.

Arnav descended the stairs, his mind still lost in the happenings of last night. 'Was it a figment of my imagination? Is my brain playing games with me? No it cannot be... but it seemed so real... the strings of music, the Piano. It was as if she was... No he couldn't let himself fall back in that dark abyss again, No! His family needed him.' and with his determination renewed and his mask back in place he strode towards the dining table... If only he knew that abyss he was scared of, lay within him, clinging to the numbness and thriving Despair it grew... a little every day.

Nani and Anjali were there and Aakash's absence was nothing new so Arnav didn't ask about it and no one bothered to explain' It was just easier to pretend that everything was fine. They all took their respective seats, Nani at the head of the table and Arnav and Anjali on her either side' and they waited. Arnav hated this, every single day that man would deliberately come late for he knew it would infuriate him but more than that Arnav knew that he just wanted to assert his importance, his position in the family. Arnav looked at their waiting faces once and started with his breakfast, he wouldn't force them to defy but that didn't mean that he would obey... Never.

And finally, Aryan Singh Raizada decided to grace those at the table with his presence. He sat at the farther end occupying the seat of the head of the family and smiled at everyone, finally giving his eldest son a look of contempt which was met with a look of pure loathing and so without another word the Raizada family started their breakfast. Finally Aryan broke the silence and with it the faint impression of peace that surrounded them,

"So how is the search going Arnav, for Anjali's husband... the Raizada ghar-jamai?" The sarcasm and scorn blatant in his voice and for a moment all activity around stopped, but then Arnav menacingly cut the omelet in his plate and resumed eating and the others followed his cue. Aryan was irate, but only for a moment, he was a man rarely deterred. And hence Aryan continued,

"You could have looked through some of my suggestions. I had some really good ones lined up there. But you wouldn't even take a look. I am..." he trailed off but again no one replied,

'You haven't ever given me a chance to trust you in my entire life and I am not going to start now.' Arnav thought with a finality that was visible in his visage as he passed him a cold glare and got off his chair.

And as Aryan saw Arnav leaving the dining space, he played his master stroke,

"Anjali, I was wondering if you applied for that All India Seminar happening next month." and it hit right at the point as Arnav stopped in his tracks, his back to the table he stood still. Aryan smirked in his direction and continued,

"I mean it shouldn't be a big deal getting in for you, considering AR is its chief sponsor." He then looked at Anjali's shocked face and feigned ignorance, "Oh you didn't know. Didn't Arnav tell you? I wonder why?" and with a satisfied smile he left the table.

Arnav still stood immobile and Anjali stared at his back, while Nani passed her a sad but reassuring look. Arnav had had his own reasons to hide this from his younger sister. He wanted her to be self-sufficient and not dependent on his position for achieving anything in life, and he also knew that if Anjali asked for anything, he didn't have it in him to deny it to her.

But it wasn't a lost opportunity that bothered Anjali... it was the lost trust. 'Did he really think that I would use his power and influence to get ahead in my life? Doesn't he trust me? Doesn't he know me?' and with that thought she got-up and moved towards her room, attempting to nurse her hurt self respect.

A group of school girls blushed and giggled looking at the tall, fair and handsome light-eyed man sitting on the park bench. What they probably missed though was the figure of the sad, dejected woman sitting by his side.

"Is it selfish of me to be happy to find that my sister is still alive... despite everyone's pain and suffering, I can't help but be a little happy that she is still somewhere, waiting for me. Am I a bad person Sumit?" her faint voice was a plea for reassurance and Sumit, her friend would give her just that. He cupped her face and turned her to face him,

"Khushi you love her and you are happy because your love for Payal is beyond and above everything else. Its pure, its unadulterated, its true. Its Khushi's love after all, it got to be crazy." and he was relieved to see her faint teary smile.

"Sumit I have to go to Delhi."

"But how do you know that she is there?"

"I don't, but I have to start from some where and she was last seen there, I might get some clue from there. I think I'll leave tonight itself."

"Khushi, are you crazy! We need to plan this through. If you leave tonight Sashi uncle will use all his sources to get you back, after all you are his last hope for a societal salvation and he wouldn't give up on that easily." seeing her worried expression, he caressed her face, soothing her frowns, "Khushi, don't worry, we'll be figure out something. Just give me some time, okay? And for now, you just go back and behave normally, okay? I'll call you tomorrow. Don't worry I'll take care of everything." And then as he looked in her eyes, he knew he wasn't going to like what came next.

"I am sorry Sumit, but... but I... I can't marry you." and Khushi looked deep in the eyes of her best friend and what she saw scared her, 'there was hurt and pain and was it... was it LOVE?' she shut her eyes trying to un-see what she had seen. His hands still cupping her cheeks, he was lost in her ethereal beauty and Khushi for the first time felt something different in his touch... in her best-friend's touch and she was scared to open her eyes... to look into his eyes and see a confirmation of what she had seen earlier... too scared to face it. But then his phone rang, breaking their trance, she straightened and got up and he answered it,

"Ji Sashi uncle, Khushi is with me. Yes, she was about to leave. okay I'll tell her. Ji." he cut off the phone and looked at her, her back faced him,

"Khushi, Shahi uncle called..."

"I know. I'll head back home then and I'll wait to hear from you again. Bye Sumit." and with that she moved towards the exit of the park, not daring to turn back even once...

He had smiled then, a charming smile, he couldn't help his charming smiles but this time it was accompanied by a hollowness in his eyes. He was never delusional enough to believe that she loved him, the way he did and yet it hurt, it hurt bad to see that terrified look in her eyes, terrified of never being able to reciprocate his love, ever. 'How was she so sure of it?' he wondered, but then reason and love haven't really been best buddies, have they?

"I am sorry Sumit, but... but I... I can't marry you." he could hear her say and all he wished was she had just added 'now' at the end, but alas!

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a very different yet interesting story...thank you for pm

Hmmm it seems to b getting deeper and deeper
Now I wonder if their paths have already crossed
If yes when
If no well then they shall and soon
So khushi is determined to find her sister no matter what
Well can we really blame her
Its her sister no matter what happened she will try till she finds her
Could it be that somehow arhi know each other from before
Okay so his father is alive in this one
But he is just as much pain had he been dead
Wonder what's the equation there in their family
Doesn't seem as if they have good relations
And is akash his cuz or brother
Hmmm so many mysteries to solve right
Why cant she marry her best friend after she finds her sister
Maybe because there already is someone else in her heart
Guess all mysteries shall be solved soon with time
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