ARSHI FS- FROM YOU AND ME TILL US THR 2 PART 8 UPDATED NOW - Page 8

PART 7

All Arnav Singh Raizada saw was red as he took in the smiling face of his so called brother in law sitting with his family doing all the sweet sugary talks.Rage filled his form,his jaw clenched,he wanted nothing but to beat him so bad that he won't even recognise his own face.

Though aware of an equally shocked Khushi in his arms and sensing her eager eyes on him,he turned her face towards her.He assured her that he wont do anything in rush.

"Saaley Sahab,Khushiji aa gaye aap dono,hum aapk hi ki baarein mein baat kar rahe the.aapki di ne bataya toh humein pata chala ,koi aapke saath aisa kaise kar sakta hai".(You and Khushji came,we were talking about you both only,I only came to know about what happened when your sister told me,how could someone do that to you?).Shyam spoke feigning innocence as soon as he saw them.

Hearing his lies and the false concern it took everything in Arnav not to punch that smile off his face,he was confident hadn't it been the presence of her sister,this man would not be standing on his two feet right now.Hanging on to the every bit ounce of patience left in him he bit out menacingly.

"Aap yahan hotey toh aapko pata hota naa jijaji,aap Di ko akela chodke itne dinon ke liye kaise jaa saktey hai"(You would have known,had you been here,how could you leave Di alone for so many days especially in this condition).

"Chotey".Came out Anjali voice seeing him react this way for the first time with her husband.Her brother was never disrespectful towards anyone.

"I was just saying Di,he should be here with you during this period not anywhere else,anyways me and Khushi are tired so excuse us everyone".Arnav spoke his eyes focussed on Shyam.

Not waiting for anyone's reaction Arnav led Khushi upstairs leaving Shyam seething in anger and everyone else smile at his action,their holding hands throughout not escaping anyone's eyes.

They entered the room and Khushi closed the door behind them.Seeing him so distraught hurting her more than him. She stood silent as he made the call to Aman.

"Aman,what the hell are these detectives doing,tell them I want it done at the first priority,time is not something we have liberty with here".The urgency of the situation clearly viable but he didn't let it show in his voice.For the world outside these four walls,he will always be ASR .

Life has taught him that lesson long back but in his heart,the brother in him felt apprehensive of his sister's reaction towards this all,her world will crumble in front of her eyes,the sister who has literally worshipped her husband,how would she deal with all this?.He knew with Khushi by his side they could face anything together but his sister.

The answer of which he found when his eyes met hers. She went into his willing arms and Arnav saw the same feelings mirroring in her eyes along with the trust and faith she had in them.Nomatter what tomorrow may bring they would handle everything together.

Anjali saw Shyam walk out from their room once again sighting that he needed to go out due to some work that has come up.Her hand inching the half-knit socks closer to her heart while her other hand caressed her belly unconsciously.She couldn't help but let tears escape her eyelashes seeing Shyam's indifference,it hasn't even been some hours since he has come home after so many days and he was again gone.

Wasn't he concerned a least bit about their child,off late she found herself asking this question a hundred times to herself.How can he claim to love their baby so much and yet be away for so long not worrying about how they were faring.

What a woman needed in these days the most was the only thing she did not had.He wasn't around when she suffered from morning sickness,he wasn't there to hold her in the times of need,forget handling her mood swings he for once hadn't sat with her and express his happiness of being a father.

Has it been like this since always or it was only now that the change has occurred.Feeling suffocated all off a sudden,she moved out of her room,deciding to engage herself in cooking to get her mind off from this constant feeling for some time.

About to walk forth,she caught the sight of her brother and his wife sitting at the dining table making her stood rooted to the far corner.She saw Arnav picking up the cup of the tea when he was stopped by a smack on the palm while Khushi handed him his sugarless tea.Arnav smirked at her reaction making Khushi round her mouth in a big O' while and then him whispering something in her ears making her blush.

Anjali didn't realise when a warm smile spread across her lips also seeing them like that.She has never seen her brother with as much ease with anyone as he was with Khushi,neither in all this time of knowing Khushi she has seen her behave the way she does when only Arnav was around.

Not wanting to disrupt such a beautiful moment,she left them in their amiable silence and walked back towards her room.Closing the door behind she stood near the window watching the sky turning darker.A part of her was happy and content seeing her Chotey finally getting the love he deserved,the girl for whom she has always wished to enter her brother's life has finally did in form of Khushi.

Though she couldn't help but realise with a pang in her heart seeing them like that what her own relationship lacked all along.How long it has been since she and Shyam sat in companionable silence and shared their thoughts.

For them it has always been cards and flowers and huge expressions of love flowing around which with time has decreased to a level when he was hardly home.True when he was around he actually made her feel like a queen like a true Rani Sahiba as he called her but then was it that only love was all about.

Arnav didn't voiced out her love for Khushi in loud terms neither had she seen him bringing gifts for her every now and then.Still the love he had for her was something that anyone could feel.Hadn't she been the one who has told Arnav that he himself didn't realise how much he loved Khushi,she had seen him the unadulterated adulation and adoration when he has confessed his feelings for her during holi.

It was in the way his eyes always searched for Khushi,they weren't the couple who never fought,they did but what was special the way they looked out for each other even when they were angry at each other.The fancy dress competition,their enactment of Heer-Ranjha has bought tears in everyone's eyes present there which was possible because of the sheer magic of their love that has come see through it.

The underlying understanding between them,how one could understand what other wanted to say without voicing it out,the way they talked with their eyes and the limitless love that existed which made them go to any lenghths for each other.

Anjali has not been oblivious to Khushi's state during Arnav kidnapping,the smile that has only returned to her eyes when Arnav has returned and seeing Arnav she had known he hadn't been any better in their period os separation.

The girl who stayed awake whole night because her husband's sugar level went low and the husband who present himself in bad shadow so that his wife didn't feel guilty.Their love was entrenched deep in their soul.

In her over 3 years of marriage she couldn't remember a time when she and Shyam has fought or when he has gone out of her way to depict his love for her and then as tears pooled in her eyes she chided herself for being so childish.It was her mood swings playing that she was thinking these things.The way people behaved in love was different with different people she tried to convince herself as she started to knit again.

Not realising that the mist which surrounded till now has started to clear finally making way for the actual light to make its way in her life.

Do let me know how was it through your precious words.

LOVE

ANKITA