ArHi FF When tables turned-NOTE pg 69 - Page 12

nice part...

it is so interesting
update soon
waiting for the update eagerly

Do update soon! Pretty please :)

nice one! waiting for next update

i really feel so bad for khushi. Poor soul. Her best friend betrayed her that too for the women who is responsible for her misery. Please update soon. I want to see Arnav begging for her love.

i really feel so bad for khushi. Poor soul. Her best friend betrayed her that too for the women who is responsible for her misery. Please update soon. I want to see Arnav bagging for her love.

Its true...Rajbir did hurt Khushi the most...
I'm thinking that he had some reasons of his own to what he did...
And i was happy to see Khushi's comeback at Anjali- True she should slap Anjali right now but she wouldn't because her conscience won't let her... Anjali is the reason her life was destroyed and she hasn't even apologized to Khushi, or done anything other than keep her eyes on the floor...
I still wonder why Arnav didn't try to find Khushi or contact her in all these years if he claims to care so much for her...
Please update soon!!!

Chapter three: And destiny pressed the rewind button..

A stunned silence followed as Arnav watched Khushi disappear into the darkness. He angrily untangled himself from his sister's strong grip and was in the process of running behind Khushi when he felt a hand on his arm stopping him. He turned around to see Rajbir looking at him angrily

"Don't you dare go anywhere near my Gudiya. Haven't you broken her enough?"

A haze of red passed in front of Arnav's eyes and he felt a fury like he had never felt before. The knowledge that he had hurt khushi more than anyone else had killed him every single day but the thought of anyone else hurting her made him angry enough to kill. He took a deep breath and looked towards the path which khushi had taken.

"NK stop khushi" he said . When NK gave him a look of disgust, he added "please"

Watching Nk go, the anger which he had toned down broke to surface. He held Rajbir's arm in his left hand and punched him hard in the face. The impact of the punch made Rajbir fall on the floor.

Nani closed her eyes in pain while mami held on to mama's hand. Arnav kicked the other man hard in the stomach, causing him to double up with pain. Anjali screamed and threw herself over her fiance but Rajbir pushed her away the very next moment Rajbir was on his feet. Arnav caught hold of his shirt

"You knew that khushi was my wife- that she had to go through so much because of us and despite of that you hurt her in a similar way all over again?"

Rajbir was breathing heavily just like Arnav.

"I lied." He raged back "I didn't know Khushi was your ex-wife or I wouldn't have been engaged to the sister of the person who destroyed my Gudiya's life. There was only one person in the room who knew exactly the identity of my ex fiance throughout and she decided to keep mum. If you want to blame anyone for destroying Khushi's life the second time, blame your sister."

Everyone looked accusingly at Anjali who was crying silently. Arnav looked at his sister, wanting her to deny what Rajbir had just said. But as his di looked at him, he could read the guilt in her eyes and he knew Rajbir had spoken the truth. The feeling of betrayal hit him like a tidal wave. Di whom he had placed above anyone else, gambled with his life, with his happiness- his khushi. Despite of knowing that destroying khushi would mean destroying him too, she hadn't given him a second thought.

The words khushi had said minutes ago echoed in his ears and rang true in his case too'.

Amongst all the people who betrayed me, yours hurt the most

*****

Cursing his own family to the worst pit of hell, NK ran towards the entrance of the hotel searching for khushi frantically. And then he saw her- a lone figure dressed in white walking with arms wrapped around herself. He ran towards her and caught up with her in minutes. Khushi looked at him for half a minute and then rushed in his arms and broke down completely. A tear trickled down NK's cheek as he held her shaking form. She then looked at him and asked him to drop her off to a particular temple. NK didn't know why she made that strange request and at that moment he didn't care. She could have asked him for the moon at that moment and he would have given his life to grant it.

He watched Khushi climb up the temple steps and knew that she wanted to be left alone. He waited for her, at a distance but made sure she was in sight. He flipped his phone and dialled a familiar number.

"Baby where are you?" he asked trying to sound normal

"Don't you baby me. Did that b***h of a sister tie your hands for the whole day that you are calling me now?" she asked him irritably

"Lavanya, something really serious has happened'" And then he narrated the entire tale to the girl who had once been Arnav's fiance and who had ended up being his life. He heard her curse profusely for five whole minutes and he knew that had she been in Delhi she would have been here this instant but she was in Bombay and the earliest she could get here was the next morning. She was quite for an instant and then she said something that shocked him to the core

"Let ASR take care of her tonight. I will be back by tomorrow and then.."

"Lavanya do you even know what you are saying?" NK exploded

"NK, we both know ASR destroyed her but you can't deny, in some weird way he loves her more than his life. You can trust him to look after her right?"

"yes- but"

"NK its obvious she has come alone from Lucknow. Payal and Akash are in US so the only friend she has around is you. If you take Khushi to your apartment and the media gets a wind of it, her name will be dragged into mud. ASR is still legally married to her. They signed the divorce papers but neither carried the proceedings. So it's the best if he takes care of her and knowing ASR he wouldn't let her out of sight tonight."

Nk sighed. She was right but after everything Nannav had put khushi through, was leaving her with him the right thing to do? When he told this to Lavanya, she replied calmly

"I know ASR has wronged her and doesn't deserve her but it is not for us to decide what he deserves. It is for khushi to decide what punishment she wants to give him. It is for her to decide if their relationship can be given a second chance. For all we know he might be her only chance to happiness. Though I hate ASR, I hated that he wasn't given a chance to redeem himself, to ask for her forgiveness, to make up to her, to fight for their love because others thought they knew what was the best for khushi. Even the worst mistakes cannot change the way we feel for someone and only the people who are in a relationship should decide the fate of the relationship because love doesn't end with relationships. It lives through distance and distance hurts."

NK knew she had a point and yet he couldn't help but worry about the situation

"La, what if he says something and hurts her."

Lavanya laughed wryly at that

"We both know why ASR stayed away from khushi all these years. Till that reason exists, ASR will never beg for forgiveness or demand anything from her. He will only love her from a distance as he has always done."

That put NK's fears to rest. Arnav hadn't contacted Khushi in five years for a reason. He had preferred walking on a path of self-destruction rather than contacting her and that reason would keep khushi from further hurt.

*****

Arnav walked out of the place ignoring her cries of 'chote please give me a chance to explain'. He needed to find Khushi. He wanted to be there for her, if only he could see her from a distance. Her pain would hurt him and watching her helplessly would hurt him more but that was his penance. He reached in the parking lot and got into his car. He removed his cell phone from his pocket and dialled NK's number, half expecting his cousin to ignore his call- the way he had done in these five years. But to his surprise NK answered the call.

"Nk where is she?" he asked, the pleading note was evident in his voice.

NK gave him the address of a temple and Arnav realized that it was the same temple in which, the same day five years ago, he had dragged her to forcefully marry her. He drove at a fast speed and pulled the car to a halt near the temple only to see NK give him a mock salute and get in his own car, driving away in the dark.

He walked on the steps, remembering how, five years ago on this very day, he had dragged her. Now khushi was here to seek solace and he had followed her, only to watch her from a distance. He saw how she was on her knees sobbing her heart out. Her pain hurt him a thousand times and yet watching her caused a deep sadness to take root in his heart.

Did the tears mean she loved Rajbir?

Had he indeed lost her forever?

There was no way he could answer all these questions. Even though every part of him screamed to pull her in his arms and console her, he could stand far and only watch her. How could he console someone whom he had hurt the most? He didn't know how long he watched her cry, silent tears pouring on his own cheeks. After what seemed like hours, he saw her body go still. Alarmed he moved towards her, the fear for her health overpowering every thing else

"khushi" he whispered.

There was no reply. He bent down and looked at her face. Eyes closed, breathing deep and regular, he realized that she had fallen asleep. He couldn't let her sleep here. Sleeping in an open temple in the delhi winters was giving an open invitation to pneumonia. He tried to shake her awake but was unsuccessful. The long journey and the emotional storm had taken its toll. She had fallen into an exhausted sleep.

He gently picked her up and carried her to the only place she would prefer. He brought the car to a stop outside Buaji's house and stepped out of the car to unlock the door. On opening the door, he was surprised to see Khushi's luggage inside the house. He had bought Buaji's house at four times the price because buaji had refused to accept money from him and had decided to sell the house. He guessed Khushi didn't know that. He was now glad that he never changed the lock of the house.

Leaving the doors wide open, he lifted Khushi in his arms and took her inside. He lowered her on the bed and removed her sandals. The bed sheets were freshly laundered and the house was spotlessly clean. The housekeeper had done a good job. Opening the wardrobe, he found a warm blanket and covered her with it. He then sat on a chair and watched her sleep.

Today he was looking at the face that haunted his dreams for five years.

Tonight he would watch her to his heart content.

He wished tomorrow never came.

*****

Rajbir stepped inside Anjali's room and locked the door behind him. He wanted Anjali to face what she had done. Mama and mami walked to their room without saying a word.They had in a way blamed Arnav and Anjali for their son and daughter in law living separately. But they had never shown it- until now. Nani had stopped to tell Anjali that though she had placed the majority of the blame for the wrong done to khushi on Arnav's shoulders, today by doing this, Anjali wronged khushi in a worse way than Arnav ever had.

It seemed as though somebody had pressed a rewind button. The same film was playing but different scenes. Another time everyone had wrongly accused khushi of destroying Anjali's life and now Anjali stood on khushi's place-only this time they were right.

Anjali was sitting huddled up on the bed, legs drawn to her chest and Rajbir remembered the time he had first seen her. Her eyes had been dead then but now they came alive at the sight of him.

"Rajbir I'm sorry. I will apologize to khushiji. I will fall at her feet'"

"Do you think that will make it all okay?" he asked. "Why Anjali?"

She stayed silent.

"I had told you about khushi the day I confessed my love for you. I told you everything about her. You were the only person who knew my fiance as Khushi kumari Gupta and not as Gudiya. I told you my reason behind not ending things with khushi right away. And despite of that'."

He felt a lump in his throat. He turned to the door but paused with his hand on the door knob and repeated the sentence that was said to him a few hours ago which had hurt him in more ways than one..

"Amongst all the people who betrayed me, yours hurt the most"

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