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Hello all...
Here comes an SS, the first in the series... As you guys know, both "From ..., with love" and "Hai re Nandkishore" started off as SSs and ended up being FFs.
But this one, I promise, will be short... and no, this is not Anjali's story... this one's all Arnav and Khushi... That'll make the Arnav-Khushi junkies who are my readers happy :-P
Well, hope you enjoy...and please do leave your comments...
24. Sirf Khushi ki...
Part 1
"Di...", the twin calls rang out loud in the empty great room.
"Do minute...", came the answering call from the kitchen, with Anjali muttering under her breath, "Hey Bhagwan... lagta hai Chotte aur Akash ko jaane mein humari wajah se der ho jaayegi. Humein pata hi nahi tha ki Khushiji aur Payalji ke na hone se in donon ke schedule mein itna problem ho jaayega!"
With the domestic help too bustling around, Anjali quickly plated up their breakfast and went off to the dining room where both her brothers were waiting impatiently for her. When Payal had expressed her desire to attend the early moring pooja at the temple and Khushi too had said wistfully that it she had never been able to attend it since her marriage, Anjali had gamely offered to take care of both her brothers for the morning and sent the girls off with her Naani. But she was now wondering if she would be so quick to offer the next time around. With Arnav's special diet and Akash's picky eating habits, it was not an easy chore.
Arranging everything on the table and having served both men, Anjali settled down with a sigh, happily watching her brothers eat, now that she saw on the dining room clock that she had only been seven minutes behind schedule. But looking at the two brothers, it seemed as if they were running very late, seeing how they were gulping down their food.
"Arre, aaraam se! Itni jaldi kya hai?", she exclaimed.
Not pausing even for a beat, Akash replied around a mouthful of poori, "Aap bhool gaye, Di? Maine kal aapko bataaya tha naah, aaj humare head-office mein Management Trainees aa rahe hai, for their orientation training. Toh hum donon ko wahan induction talk ke liye pahoonchna hai. We can't be late today."
Not used to keeping track of their business engagements and appointments as Payal and Khushi had proved to be experts at, Anjali could only nod as she tried to remember if she had indeed been told of his before. Letting it go, she quickly sent them both off on their way, thankful that she hadn't messed up much.
****************
"We're going to be just on time, Akash", Arnav muttered as he almost leapt out of his car and dashed up the steps, his younger brother right at his heels. He turned to glance back if Akash had remembered to take the file only to crash headlong into another soft body with an 'ooff'.
Dia was running late, that too one the very first day! A quick peek at her watch as she ran up the steps of her new office was all it took to crash into a solid body. Another pair of steadying hands making sure that she didn't tumble back down the steps, she looked up into the most glorious hazel eyes she had ever seen, and a husky voice ask impatiently , "You okay? Look where you're going, please."
Leaving her there, the two men rushed inside. "Must be here for the induction themselves", she thought, before she caught her breath and ran along behind them. Heaving a sigh of relief as she spotted the queue at the registration desk the HR had set up for the day and realised that she was well within time, Dia slowed to a stop and started taking out the required documents from the file, wondering were her friend and collegemate Fida was. "Ab tak toh pahoonch chuki hogi," she thought, thinking back on her conversation with Fida in the morning.
The formalities over in a few minutes, they were all herded into a large conference room with a split table arrangement, and asked to be seated in the larger of the sectors. With Mr. Aman Verma introducing himself as the representative of the Executive Board, the proceedings started, with each Vertical and Horizontal of the AR Group being introduced by their respective representatives. The introductory presentations taking place in the pre-tea session, Mr. Verma concluded saying that the next session would be a welcome talk by the Chairman & Managing Director, Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada himself, followed by the Deputy MD Mr. Akash Singh Raizada and the rest of the Executive Board, under whom each of the trainees would work for a fortnight each on rotation.
Stepping out for tea, Dia finally spotted her friend, and walked over to join her for tea. After discussing for a few minutes about the morning session with Fida and a group of other trainees she had been with, Dia turned to the side, sipping tea, while her eyes busily scanned the crowd. Spotting the expression on her face, Fida excused herself and wandered over, "What?", she asked, "What's with that look on your face?"
Not stopping her scanning, Dia asked, "What look?", only to have Fida pull her around firmly. "This look", she said, moving her index finger in a circle around Dia's face. "I have seen this before. In school, in college, when you're describing some M&B hero, when you stare at that boy in that vampire movie... yeh look yahaan kya kar raha hai? Kahin yahaan tumhari nazar kisi ladke par atak toh nahin gaya?"
Smiling beatifically at her long-time friend, Dia replied, "Yeh look thodi alag hai. I've met him, Fida... the guy I'm going to marry!"
Laughing now, used to her friends instant romances as she was, Fida replied, "Oh really? That was fast, even for you. Let me guess, you bumped into someone on the way, he helped you get up, and finally sat next to you in the morning session. Toh kahan hai tumhari latest hero?"
Pouting now, Dia tossed her hair, "Don't you make fun of me, Fida Ali! Yeh sachchaawala pyaar hai. You got the first two things right, but I haven't seen him since we sat down for the session. Fida, main mazaak nahi kar rahi hoon. Jab humari nazaren mili, toh I felt this 'zap' all over me. I'm sure he felt something too, his voice went all husky! Mujhe usko dhoondhna hi hoga...", she trailed off, still staring around, until the announcement to head inside made her troop back disappointedly.
***************
"... and with that, let me conclude my address and welcome our respected Executive Board members, please," announced Aman as the door opened and the office attendant ushered in the men and women led by the Chairman himself.
"Ooh...", Fida heard an excited whisper from her right and not wanting to turn, flicked her eyes to see a blushing Dia sit up straight, staring with starry-eyes at the dignitaries being led to the head-table. Following her gaze, she saw that the Board was led by two young men, with much too much resemblance to be anything but relatives.
Dia stared wide-eyed at the handsome man who she had bumped into on her way in, and realised that for all his youthful looks, he was one of the Executive Board. And a soft gasp escaped her when he was introduced as Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada himself. As he launched into his welcome speech, she sat gazing at him spellbound, and soon, his scanning eyes lighted on her, and stayed for an additional second as he noted the face of the girl who had crashed into him in the morning. Promptly dismissing the incident from his mind, he went on, not realising that for the infatuated girl in the audience, that one extra second's attention was more than enough to weave dreams over.
*****************
"I'm telling you, its fate, Fida... otherwise, why would I, of all twenty of us, be assigned to him?", gushed Dia as she lay on her bed in the staff quarters assigned to her, Fida and three other girls. The trainees had drawn lots over which Board member they would be assigned to first and as luck would have it, Dia had drawn ASR's name. All of Fida's warnings falling on deaf ears, Dia went to sleep, dreaming rosy dreams of her working with ASR, and after a long courtship, being crowned the first lady of Indian business, in a lavish wedding. Not belonging to Delhi, she was yet to hear about her boss's personal life. All that would follow the next day, with her dreams being wrenched away from her.
And miles away, Akash was recounting the events of the day at the dining table, and flicking a naughty glance at his quiet Bhai, he commented, "Aur Khushiji, aapko pata hai, aaj ek ladki Bhai se subah-subah takraayi. Aur baad mein humein pata chala ki woh humari nayi trainees mein ek hai aur woh hi rotation mein Bhai ko assign hua hai. Waise hi thodi starstruck lag rahi thi... ab toh woh Bhai par fida ho jaayegi!", making laughter sputter across the table.
Even as Arnav sat back, smirking at his brother, Khushi quipped, "Haan, haan... inko bus paanch minute ASR ki avtaar mein dekhne do, saari kwaahishen chodke bhaag jaayegi. Yeh humse zyada kisko pata hoga ki ASR aur humare Arnavji mein kitna antar hain. Sab ki bus ki baat nahi hai ASR ke saath kaam karna..."
While the table erupted in laughter, Arnav leaned over to murmur in his wife's ears, "Aur tum bhaagte bhaagte seedhe meri baahon mein chali aayi... iska kya matlab hain?"
Only to have her pull his nose and whisper back, "Ki aap par sirf aur sirf humara haq hain... samjhe aap?", much to his delight. Khushi in possessive mode was a passionate creature, and the night was still young.
Author's Note:
So? What do you think? :-)
P.S - Aruni & Sarada, I'll keep your request in mind, but I need to get a storyline that'll do justice to Buaji and Arnav... give me some time...
P.P.S - This is the last time that I'll be PMing each of the 149 ppl on my list... and I'll be deleting quite a few who have been not around, those whose PMs come undelivered, etc... You're welcome to bookmark my index and follow the stories at you leisure :-)
Here comes an SS, the first in the series... As you guys know, both "From ..., with love" and "Hai re Nandkishore" started off as SSs and ended up being FFs.
But this one, I promise, will be short... and no, this is not Anjali's story... this one's all Arnav and Khushi... That'll make the Arnav-Khushi junkies who are my readers happy :-P
Well, hope you enjoy...and please do leave your comments...
Part 1 - below
Part 2 - Pg 11
Part 3 - Pg 22
Part 4 - Pg 31
Part 5 - Pg 41
Part 2 - Pg 11
Part 3 - Pg 22
Part 4 - Pg 31
Part 5 - Pg 41
24. Sirf Khushi ki...
Part 1
"Di...", the twin calls rang out loud in the empty great room.
"Do minute...", came the answering call from the kitchen, with Anjali muttering under her breath, "Hey Bhagwan... lagta hai Chotte aur Akash ko jaane mein humari wajah se der ho jaayegi. Humein pata hi nahi tha ki Khushiji aur Payalji ke na hone se in donon ke schedule mein itna problem ho jaayega!"
With the domestic help too bustling around, Anjali quickly plated up their breakfast and went off to the dining room where both her brothers were waiting impatiently for her. When Payal had expressed her desire to attend the early moring pooja at the temple and Khushi too had said wistfully that it she had never been able to attend it since her marriage, Anjali had gamely offered to take care of both her brothers for the morning and sent the girls off with her Naani. But she was now wondering if she would be so quick to offer the next time around. With Arnav's special diet and Akash's picky eating habits, it was not an easy chore.
Arranging everything on the table and having served both men, Anjali settled down with a sigh, happily watching her brothers eat, now that she saw on the dining room clock that she had only been seven minutes behind schedule. But looking at the two brothers, it seemed as if they were running very late, seeing how they were gulping down their food.
"Arre, aaraam se! Itni jaldi kya hai?", she exclaimed.
Not pausing even for a beat, Akash replied around a mouthful of poori, "Aap bhool gaye, Di? Maine kal aapko bataaya tha naah, aaj humare head-office mein Management Trainees aa rahe hai, for their orientation training. Toh hum donon ko wahan induction talk ke liye pahoonchna hai. We can't be late today."
Not used to keeping track of their business engagements and appointments as Payal and Khushi had proved to be experts at, Anjali could only nod as she tried to remember if she had indeed been told of his before. Letting it go, she quickly sent them both off on their way, thankful that she hadn't messed up much.
****************
"We're going to be just on time, Akash", Arnav muttered as he almost leapt out of his car and dashed up the steps, his younger brother right at his heels. He turned to glance back if Akash had remembered to take the file only to crash headlong into another soft body with an 'ooff'.
Dia was running late, that too one the very first day! A quick peek at her watch as she ran up the steps of her new office was all it took to crash into a solid body. Another pair of steadying hands making sure that she didn't tumble back down the steps, she looked up into the most glorious hazel eyes she had ever seen, and a husky voice ask impatiently , "You okay? Look where you're going, please."
Leaving her there, the two men rushed inside. "Must be here for the induction themselves", she thought, before she caught her breath and ran along behind them. Heaving a sigh of relief as she spotted the queue at the registration desk the HR had set up for the day and realised that she was well within time, Dia slowed to a stop and started taking out the required documents from the file, wondering were her friend and collegemate Fida was. "Ab tak toh pahoonch chuki hogi," she thought, thinking back on her conversation with Fida in the morning.
The formalities over in a few minutes, they were all herded into a large conference room with a split table arrangement, and asked to be seated in the larger of the sectors. With Mr. Aman Verma introducing himself as the representative of the Executive Board, the proceedings started, with each Vertical and Horizontal of the AR Group being introduced by their respective representatives. The introductory presentations taking place in the pre-tea session, Mr. Verma concluded saying that the next session would be a welcome talk by the Chairman & Managing Director, Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada himself, followed by the Deputy MD Mr. Akash Singh Raizada and the rest of the Executive Board, under whom each of the trainees would work for a fortnight each on rotation.
Stepping out for tea, Dia finally spotted her friend, and walked over to join her for tea. After discussing for a few minutes about the morning session with Fida and a group of other trainees she had been with, Dia turned to the side, sipping tea, while her eyes busily scanned the crowd. Spotting the expression on her face, Fida excused herself and wandered over, "What?", she asked, "What's with that look on your face?"
Not stopping her scanning, Dia asked, "What look?", only to have Fida pull her around firmly. "This look", she said, moving her index finger in a circle around Dia's face. "I have seen this before. In school, in college, when you're describing some M&B hero, when you stare at that boy in that vampire movie... yeh look yahaan kya kar raha hai? Kahin yahaan tumhari nazar kisi ladke par atak toh nahin gaya?"
Smiling beatifically at her long-time friend, Dia replied, "Yeh look thodi alag hai. I've met him, Fida... the guy I'm going to marry!"
Laughing now, used to her friends instant romances as she was, Fida replied, "Oh really? That was fast, even for you. Let me guess, you bumped into someone on the way, he helped you get up, and finally sat next to you in the morning session. Toh kahan hai tumhari latest hero?"
Pouting now, Dia tossed her hair, "Don't you make fun of me, Fida Ali! Yeh sachchaawala pyaar hai. You got the first two things right, but I haven't seen him since we sat down for the session. Fida, main mazaak nahi kar rahi hoon. Jab humari nazaren mili, toh I felt this 'zap' all over me. I'm sure he felt something too, his voice went all husky! Mujhe usko dhoondhna hi hoga...", she trailed off, still staring around, until the announcement to head inside made her troop back disappointedly.
***************
"... and with that, let me conclude my address and welcome our respected Executive Board members, please," announced Aman as the door opened and the office attendant ushered in the men and women led by the Chairman himself.
"Ooh...", Fida heard an excited whisper from her right and not wanting to turn, flicked her eyes to see a blushing Dia sit up straight, staring with starry-eyes at the dignitaries being led to the head-table. Following her gaze, she saw that the Board was led by two young men, with much too much resemblance to be anything but relatives.
Dia stared wide-eyed at the handsome man who she had bumped into on her way in, and realised that for all his youthful looks, he was one of the Executive Board. And a soft gasp escaped her when he was introduced as Mr. Arnav Singh Raizada himself. As he launched into his welcome speech, she sat gazing at him spellbound, and soon, his scanning eyes lighted on her, and stayed for an additional second as he noted the face of the girl who had crashed into him in the morning. Promptly dismissing the incident from his mind, he went on, not realising that for the infatuated girl in the audience, that one extra second's attention was more than enough to weave dreams over.
*****************
"I'm telling you, its fate, Fida... otherwise, why would I, of all twenty of us, be assigned to him?", gushed Dia as she lay on her bed in the staff quarters assigned to her, Fida and three other girls. The trainees had drawn lots over which Board member they would be assigned to first and as luck would have it, Dia had drawn ASR's name. All of Fida's warnings falling on deaf ears, Dia went to sleep, dreaming rosy dreams of her working with ASR, and after a long courtship, being crowned the first lady of Indian business, in a lavish wedding. Not belonging to Delhi, she was yet to hear about her boss's personal life. All that would follow the next day, with her dreams being wrenched away from her.
And miles away, Akash was recounting the events of the day at the dining table, and flicking a naughty glance at his quiet Bhai, he commented, "Aur Khushiji, aapko pata hai, aaj ek ladki Bhai se subah-subah takraayi. Aur baad mein humein pata chala ki woh humari nayi trainees mein ek hai aur woh hi rotation mein Bhai ko assign hua hai. Waise hi thodi starstruck lag rahi thi... ab toh woh Bhai par fida ho jaayegi!", making laughter sputter across the table.
Even as Arnav sat back, smirking at his brother, Khushi quipped, "Haan, haan... inko bus paanch minute ASR ki avtaar mein dekhne do, saari kwaahishen chodke bhaag jaayegi. Yeh humse zyada kisko pata hoga ki ASR aur humare Arnavji mein kitna antar hain. Sab ki bus ki baat nahi hai ASR ke saath kaam karna..."
While the table erupted in laughter, Arnav leaned over to murmur in his wife's ears, "Aur tum bhaagte bhaagte seedhe meri baahon mein chali aayi... iska kya matlab hain?"
Only to have her pull his nose and whisper back, "Ki aap par sirf aur sirf humara haq hain... samjhe aap?", much to his delight. Khushi in possessive mode was a passionate creature, and the night was still young.
Author's Note:
So? What do you think? :-)
P.S - Aruni & Sarada, I'll keep your request in mind, but I need to get a storyline that'll do justice to Buaji and Arnav... give me some time...
P.P.S - This is the last time that I'll be PMing each of the 149 ppl on my list... and I'll be deleting quite a few who have been not around, those whose PMs come undelivered, etc... You're welcome to bookmark my index and follow the stories at you leisure :-)
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