FF:Farak Padhta hai Khushi-CHAPTER:2B (22/2/14) - Page 3

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Super start to the SS! Arnav reached the terrace first,thank goodness the creep didn't. 👍🏼

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Yellow,red,green collided with each other and gleamed on the beautiful set of hazel,as its owner held a shy smile while tracing her delicate fingers over the fairylights that adorned every pillar and poles ever to be erected over the terrace of Raizada mansion.

What was about that message that was making her lose her mind...There had been fewer, far fewer moments which could come close to being intimate between them. All those times when his gestures had whisked her off her feet and had set her heart thundering off to some unknown finish-line...Those encounters had always made her entire being warm and given rise to a sense of belonging, weather to him; she had not known then, cause her mind had not given her permission to go near that hilarious possibility..

Belonging to him???

Warmth from him?

After receiving all the numerous tirades about her aukaad samajh and status, somehow he had successfully convinced her that she is indeed non-existent to him...

Tumhare hone na hone se mujhe koi faraq nahi padhta...

And that is precisely why she had stayed overly confused over the past few weeks and had pondered and pondered about the changed behavior of this Laad Governer (the namesake she loved to abuse) .Cause what hints would have been enough for any clear mind to see and comprehend, were not that obvious to Khushi.

Her heart and mind had been trained to expect anything but blunt rejection from Arnav Singh Raizada...and thus all the longings, the desires, the feeling of belonging, the craving for his care that he had ignited in her by his huskily spoken words, his innumerable touches, his teasing, his staring, his out in the open jealousy, his protectiveness, his possessiveness ,his kiss, over the past few days had been unceremoniously tagged under the category of increased acidity and increased dhak dhak by Khushi so as to provide herself with some peace of mind during the days and few minutes of sleep during the never ending nights.

But today was different. Somehow she was left craving for more after reading those few words...as if there was so much more to be understood from that message, that she was indeed stupid just like how Arnavji had teased her to be on Sangeet night and is not able to see and understand its full meaning..

The meaning which had the power to let loose the invisible shackle wound tight around her heart and would allow her to finally breathe normal and let be taken over by some unknown peace..

"I can see that you still have not taken those bangles off!"

Khushi was jolted back to present from her musing and it took her few seconds to get adjusted to her surroundings. In the very next beat her entire being trembled registering the voice, knowing that its owner was standing just few feet behind her.

And suddenly she was scared...Scared of the unknown that might get reviled now...scared that life as she knew it might change, that too for forever...

"Were you not hinting on taking them off the first chance you get?"

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"Didn't know that you could keep something this delicate intact for such a long duration" pressed Arnav simply to get any kind of response from her.

He had seen her stiffen on hearing his voice and she was standing the same way since. He gave her few more seconds to respond in any way or atleast turn towards him..

Damn it!!!

As it is he was all jittery and had no idea as to what to say and how to do what was required of him to do, and this..this nymph of a girl was giving him all strange signals.

During the past few weeks he had gotten to know her better. Thus in its course he had, had no problem ever to decipher what emotions had transpired in her mind, she had been like an open book to him, and being the manipulative man that he is, he had always used it for his own benefit. Twisting and turning her own thoughts, making her do what he had wanted her to. Be it setting her mind in a competitive mood or clouding her thoughts by complimenting her bashfully.

But now in these few minutes he was all lost and unsure.

And thus the mighty Arnav Singh Raizada found himself drowning further into the pool of uncertainty and it was that one ugly situation he had vowed to never be in since a very young age.

His mind stepped up and gave him a way out...

Get her to look at you...get her to respond...

Rile her up...

By the standards of Arnav Singh Raizada, this was a very Romantic solution indeed.

"Seeing how you had broken the ones bought by NK the very next minute" came from the smirking lips..

This got him the desired result, as he saw her exhale and then slowly turn to face him.

Only he was not prepared to see what he saw in those deep pools of hazel...Defeat. And unlike the other times she did nothing to mask it.

Arnav's smirk dropped and his throat went dry.

Did anyone say something to her? Is there any problem..with the wedding...finances?? He was baffled.

His puzzled mind went on an over drive to make some sense of the situation.

Is that why she came upstairs?? She is upset and wants solitude?

As panic kicked into his system he made to take a step towards her and saw her respond by taking one back. Her eyes had dropped and he could see it brim with tears.

Although this routine was not new to him, this time it stabbed his heart cause it felt in a way she was taking herself away from him. Denying him the right to make things right for her...denying him her personal space...

"Khushi" whispered Arnav

"Kuch kaam tha aapko humse?" she enquired in a quivering voice.

Arnav could understand that the question asked here was a hint, a hint that the guards which had come down in the past days were claiming their place back between them. Ignoring the feeling of helplessness which had started to creep up, Arnav tried again.

"Khushi..wo mai...tum thik ..." when he was cut mid-sentence by her

"Haan hum thik hai, aapko kya koi kaam tha humse?" she enquired this time with a slight confident voice.

Arnav stared at her stunned. Now he was seriously worried and equally baffled by her dismissals.

"woo..na..nahi" ... "mai to bas ye"...

But she did not hear the rest of it...nahi...is what drummed in her ears...

He does not want anything from her...didn't she know it from the start?...was she not expecting it?...

They have never had a proper conversation between them. Taunts,comments,accusations,challenges,sarcasms were the ones that could be summarized as being what had passed between the two of them till date. That was how they knew to be in each other's company. Always; with guard of words.

But somehow today when he had summoned her upstairs by jotting down those words exclusively for her using her lipstick, she had let her heart expect that they were done with all facades...she had hoped for a real him as she was waiting for him being the real her.

She didn't know what she had expected out of him...a straight confession with an ensemble of beautiful words? She had never stopped to understand exactly what she had wanted to hear but she was defiantly not ready for him going two paces backwards and consort to bangle talks.

Why now??...

Why? When yesterday he himself had dismissed the topic...by not giving her any definite answer as to why he had taken the pains to buy her new bangles...had not cleared the cloud of her mind.

How dare he? After everything? After calling her upstairs...

Throwing the ball in her court. Leaving her again, in the pool of confusion and doubts. Will this never end?

And she had found the energy drain out of her. She was ready to lose it, whatever that was she had been waiting for; she suddenly didn't want it anymore. She had turned to face him reacting to his last remark and looked him in the eye.

But again, being at the brink of another heartbreak her hopeless heart had made her ask him, drowning all fear for that one second, if he had wanted something out of her. And he had said NO.

"Then i think I should go now, jiji must be waiting for me" came an almost inaudible whisper from Khushi stirring some activity in the air which had gone absolutely eerily still in the last minute of her silence.

Its cause of me..!! Instantly his mind had drawn upon the conclusion, after watching her face with rapt attention.

But why? What had happened?...He didn't get much time to ponder cause he saw her sidestepping to walk away.

He immediately moved forward only to see in dismay that she hurriedly took few more steps away from him, all the while shielding her face from his view.

"Khushi?? kya hua? Tum thik to ho na? enquired Arnav with a dry throat.

This made her stop and then turn towards him. Her face seething with anger and eyes filled with tears. He was not able to place her anger and was panicking due to her tears.

"Haan hum thik hai.Aap bar bar humse ye kyu pooch rahe hai?" came her reply amidst few sobs.

"O..Ok..I get it..you are ok..But then khushi, why are you crying? Did anyone say..."

"How does it matter to you? ...she almost yelled

If im crying or not? ...

If somebody has said something to me or not?

If...If im there or not?" she whispered bowing her head down in defeat.

And that did it.

In no minute Arnav had reached Khushi, and had pulled her by her wrist with such force that she had crashed right onto his chest as his other arm came across her waist.

Not able to comprehend, Khushi immediately looked up at his face, and gasped.

He was looking right back at her, his face hardened with anger and lips forming a thin line.

The stillness had again settled into the surrounding, as two pair of burning caramel gazed intently into two pairs of wide hazel. The only sound to give away any human presence was of their mingled breathing.

It had been few minutes since but Arnav was still not able to shut his brain which kept on repeating her voice over and over again... If im there or not...

He squeezed his eyes shut in an attempt to get rid of her feeble whisper, and took few deep and long breaths to calm himself.

Khushi waited with bathed breath and then saw him open his eyes to meet hers.

The fury was gone, but she could make out that he was still angry.

"Maine phele bhi kaha hai, mujhse aise baat mat karo" said Arnav in a low controlled voice laden with anger.

Not being able to tear her gaze from his, Khushi gulped and said

"Why should I act as how you want me to?"...

"Aap iss tarah humpe haq kaise jata saktein hai?" she struggled in his grip.

This infuriated him more and involuntarily his grip tightened around her.

"Mai aapna Haq kisi se mangta nahi hu"...

"Aur ye baat tum bahut aache se jaanti ho Khushi Kumari Gupta"...

With that he bought her hand which was in his grip down before her eyes, and opened her palms.

Khushi's saw Arnav look at her palm intently for few seconds and then his gaze rose to meet hers, ordering her to follow.

Her eyes immediately feel upon her palm, and her breath caught in her throat as all that she saw was an "A" sitting snugly in the middle of an elaborate pattern of mehndi adorning her palm.

Followed by his proclamation, this "A" which till the last second had merely been a mistake on the artist's part to khushi; had got a complete new meaning.

Right now it seemed to hold all the words that she ever had wanted to hear from him. His gaze had turned it into the most important letter of her life.

Heat rushed into her entire being and she was again been taken in by the very familiar warmth. Her heart had already started racing, as she slowly very slowly raised her gaze to meet his.

His eyes devoid of its previous anger were looking at her with such intensity that for a second time she forgot to breath.

She saw him bend down slowly towards her open palm, and she melted as he left an open mouth kiss right on the middle of it.

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Fantastic update. Loved the way Arnav confessed to Khushi without actually uttering the words. Loved the chapter. Thanks for the PM :)