Arhi OS: The Glide

'Oh come on, tell me, please.' She begged for what seemed like the 100th time for him.

'Not now,' he said, pretending to concentrate on his laptop, merely trying to avoid answering. 'Can't you see I am very busy with these documents.'

Corner of his eye he saw her pout and cross her legs on the bed. 'Don't be such a wuss, Arnavji! I am just asking a simple question. Why can't you answer me. It's not that time consuming.'

'Ha,' he scoffed, turning to face her. 'Really? Whenever you say you want to ask something small, we end up having an entire conversation trying to close the loop holes, just because you ask so many questions!'

'Please, you're just scared to tell me the truth.'

A cord got struck at her comment. 'What?', he asked slowly, narrowing his eyes up at her.

Arching her perfectly shaped eyebrow, she shrugged. 'What, what? I am only stating the truth. If you cannot give an answer to a simple question, then obviously you're afraid to tell me. Why, are you scared that I might get angry with-'

In a flash she found herself pushed against the head board of their bed. Arms out stretched, trapping her in between, enabling her to make an escape. His dark brown eyes wildly narrowed as she inhaled sharply at the sudden reaction.

'Khushi Kumari Gupta. Don't you dare ever accuse me of being scared'. Warm lips brushed her tingling smooth ones. Chest heaving with emotions she placed her palm on his chest. The rhythm of his own heart beat against her palm.

'Then answer me. Did you know?', her innocent eyes looked up at him, whispering.

Sighing, he moved away from her space. Sitting himself beside her, he grasped her hands and spoke. 'Yes, okay. I knew. I knew it all along.'

Cuddling beside him, she waited for him to continue. Running his fingers through his hair, he went on.

'If you might recall, remember when I finally, actually returned the hug Lavanaya gave me?'

Khushi nodded an yes.

'Well, do you remember when a tear glided down your cheek. I saw how you wiped it off with a confused expression. Even myself couldn't understand why, until I kept thinking about it and thinking about it. Finally I came to the conclusion; you harboured feelings for me, which even you didn't know. I expected myself to rage at the mere thought, but none of those feelings came. Deep inside I was rejoicing about the fact.

You, Khushi Kumari Gupta had feelings for me- Arnav Singh Razaida. The man who treated you with such hatred. But when it all dawned on me I began to become afraid. What struck me was the thought of having to confront my feelings. I wasn't ready to admit that I have indeed fallen in love with you as well. For that moment, all I wanted to do was put this whole thing on you. When you told me about that god damn engagement, all I wanted to do was make YOU admit, how much it made a difference to you. I wanted you to scream it out at me.

Tell me, 'yes Arnavji, I do not want you to get married to Lavanya!' You have no idea how frustrated I was at you. Every time I took a step to push you, all you did was take another step behind. I did everything I can to hurt you so you'd admit, yet all I did was hurt you so badly, it killed me. The funny thing is I didn't know what I'd even say if you actually did admit to me. At that moment all what mattered was me getting you to confess.'

He shook his head with a smile. 'It sure back fired when I ended up almost kissing you. Words weren't needed, because that Diwali night I spoke through my actions towards you. The one before I turned in to a complete ass hole.'

Suddenly he felt her arms wrap right around his torso. Snuggling her head more in to his chest, he heard her whisper. 'Now look at us. Can you believe we came this far Arnavi?'

She felt his chest rumble with a quiet laughter. 'No, I never believed I'd become this way. Life is odd, Khushi, but I love every second of it, because I spend all these odd moments with you. My ajeeb wife.'

Smacking his chest lightly they shared a laugh. Gently he placed a kiss on her hair and they rested against each other, enjoying the silence.

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I just really wanted an explanation towards his reactions. Because it made me wonder.. did he know? We never really got clarification with dialogue so I guess I wrote this down. :P Not my best, meh.

thanx 4 pm

They didn't explain whether he knew she harboured feelings though right? I don't remember them explaining that part. But he admitted his feelings. They never clarified whether he knew about her feelings back when he saw her feel uncomfortable. They never had that discussion of Arnav knowing. No dialogues were given, just facial expressions, and asking her 'does it make a difference to you' he was implying that she had feelings, but he never straight forwardly told her 'you have feelings for me, admit it.' That's what I meant :)