Zehra,
I am a happily ever after girl ...very much so...I love and live for happy endings but can I jut tell you I am so glad that I read HMH!
It has got to be one of the most fantastic mind-blowing stories I have read so far...you and Saiyyu should take a bow! Actually a standing ovation !
I actually went back and re read the entire story in one go to be able to marvel on the concept and your writing...never did I once think that Khushi was not a real person in the earlier updates...the conversations that you wrote between them, their meetings...the coffee date...everything.
Going back I see it was when Akash steps out that Khushi enters, when he calls his receptionist to send Khushi up to his room, she does not answer yes sir...instead she asks him what sir? Like she was asking him what he meant...And he does not offer any explaination but hangs up...the subtle hints were every where...
The waiter at the restaurant ...staring at the empty space he is looking at and talking to...no wonder he feels it to be a bad stare...and it was nit a waiter but a waitress...
you also wrote that no one could get to him without assign Akash that made me wonder how she did...? And no wonder Akash who follows him to the restaurant does not see see her...only sees him... Now the pieces all fit in to the puzzle...
It's no wonder that everyone especially Di and Akash so bothered and concerned about him...and his taking the medicines ...not leaving him alone...him losing weight !
I wonder if Payal was not in love with someone else would they have divulged the truth about his condition? Or just got them married...keeping them in the dark...
And it is so wonder the Raizadas take the entire marraige fhingy so personally...they know his condition and they want to ignore it at times and vented out trying justify it...
Khushi seems the dominant person, one he maybe aspires to be...just bindaas and carefree ...with no restrictions and impositions ...no one watching over him...
It's no wonder Akaash is always grouchy and angry...he has spent a great deal of his grown up life playing body guard and more...and wants to maintain privacy! And not allow foo many people access into their world...And is shocked to find out about Arnav at that wedding and that too on his own, and no wonder it was Anjali who volunteered to go and no one expected Arnav to go even though he works in AR and would have been the obvious choice...but not under these circumstances !
So Arnav conjured up his Khushi, maybe he just wanted to be normal and have a normal relationship, to be loved and loved and this was his desperate attempt...the phone calls,the gift, the proposal and the need to have her in his life...his escape route...
All the attempts that Anjali makes to find out about Khushi for his sake and also I feel so that she is in denial..afraid to face the reality that he might have relapsed...if there was indeed a Khushi in his life, they then might be permanently absolved from any future embarrassment and scandal..
I could empathise with Arnavs state of mind at not being able to actually find her...he has to face the reality if his life!
So Shyam holds Anjali and her father responsible or partly responsible for his condition ? I wonder why? And this was the big scandal that they feared...and went into anonymity and moved to the US...
Also love how you portrayed the reality of society, no one really knows anything about them, but just their social standing and money makes Arnav eligible to all the mothers and families out there...anjali so concerned by society, worried about what people will say and how they will have to move back with the fear of details about his condition leaking ...
At this point I am not sure how I want it to end...whether Khushi makes an appearance or not...I also leave it vague...am just dwelling at the perfection of this story!
This was not easy to write bit you have managed to, so effortlessly, every word I just loved it, it reinstated my opinion of your brilliance and your writing ! I like the fact that you experimented as a writer and took the risk...I think this is for sure a super success.
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