Forever and Beyond #1 Link to #2 on pg1 - Page 3

Entering the gates of Raizada Mansion Arnav stopped the car in front of the house and handing over the keys to the guard he walked to the main gate and rang the bell. HP opened the door for him and after greeting him left to finish his work. Arnav entered the hall to see his family sitting on the couches talking and laughing amongst themselves. No matter how much ever he might deny, this was always the best sight he was greeted with every evening. His Manorama mami, the "Fashion Queen" with the "Best English" known by a person was sitting with his Manohar mama and telling him about her new set of makeup kit and her new discoveries about how beautiful she was looking wearing a new saari with flashy colors and beads everywhere. Next he saw his beloved Anjali Di talking to his Nani about some upcoming kirtans that they had to attend. He loved his di the most, he could do anything to see a smile on her face. After their parents death, he had made sure to be his sisters protecter and her support. He did not even let her go after she got married. He had made sure that she and her husband, Shyam stayed with them even after marriage. Shyam was a well known criminal lawyer in town and so he was most of the time travelling. He was like a perfect son-in-law of the house. Turning his head he saw his cousins Akash and NK with Shyam playing on the PSP, NK was laughing at Akash.

"Akash you just lost again. Are you like ever going to learn how to play? I know its difficult to win against ME but come on you can't even win again Nannav." Said NK while giving a proud look.

"What the-" came my quick reply. "This guy will always have the potential to irritate me by what he says, actually on second thoughts, his mere presence is enough to drive me crazy. And what did he mean by that? Does he think he can win against me? Lets show him what it is to try to cross paths with Arnav Singh Raizada." He thought.

"NK what do you think of yourself? You think you can win against me? Since you do have such thoughts coming in your mind, lets get them cleared right now, right here" he said loosening his tie and coming to sit next to Akash.

"Nannav I'I was just joking. Ofcourse no one can beat you to anything" NK stuttered.

"Oh come on NK lets get this done and over with" he said snatching the PSP from Akash.

It took just 3 minutes for Arnav to win the game. He looked up from the PSP giving a smirk to NK which conveyed to him that he was ASR and there was nothing he could not do.

He finally looked at everyone sitting around him and noticed everyone was teasing Akash about his LOVE interest Payal. He turned around to see that Akash was blushing. "I cannot believe he is my brother. How can he just blush with the name of a girl." Arnav had seen Akash and Payal together once and god he swore that was the last time he would ever be anywhere near them when they were together. All they did in 15 minutes was looked at each other and blushed looking down. There were no words exchanged. Shaking his head he got up to go to his room.

On the other side Khushi was talking to her parents on the phone telling them about her job. Her mother, Garima wasn't very pleased with the fact that she couldn't ask both their daughters to come back anymore. They had made her promise that if they both got jobs in Delhi she would not ask them to come back.

"Mumma can you please stop worrying. We are absolutely fine here." she heard her daughter trying to reassure her.

"Khushi you know that Delhi isn't a safe place for girls and that also of your age. Haven't you seen the amount of crimes happening in the city" replied a worried Garima.

"Mom we are perfectly fine and if we do have any problems we can always ask Akash for help" she said.

Payal and Akash both were very open about their relationship. Everyone in both the families were extremely happy that the son and daughter of the respective families could get such wonderful partners. They knew that they had plans of getting married but they wanted a little bit of time with each other before thinking about taking their relationship to the next level.

"Khushi beta I hope you are taking good care of yourself and you jiji." She heard her father say.

"Papa everything is alright here, just please reassure mom that we are absolutely safe." She replied while getting into her blanket and finding a comfortable position. Before she could stop herself she yawned and started feeling extremely sleepy. She told her parents that she would call them the following day and after her final greetings she kept the phone.

She couldn't help herself from getting excited about the next day. No, it wasn't because of her new job, well maybe partially but most of it was because she would get to meet Arnav. She really wanted to know what happened to her today when she was in his cabin. She knew she was attracted to him, she couldn't deny that. She smiled thinking about him and slept off with a smile on her face.

Arnav on the other hand was no better. He still could not stop thinking about Khushi. He was extremely excited about the next day to meet her. He knew he had to take things slow with her and so all he could think of was trying to get her to warm up with him. He had to make her comfortable around him before he took a step forward. He smiled inwardly getting into bed to sleep and dream about his angel.