~Arhi FF~#3~The Hands of Time~ - Page 38

Loved the update
Can't wait to read further

It was indeed very beautiful update Sandhya 👏.

My comments on page 44.

Thanks for the pm!

Amazing update... nice .to see Khushi and anaarnav relation s getting openly...

Another feel good chapter.

I guess they have their secret garden.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading both Khushi and Arnav's recollections of the Top of the World.

Looking forward to more of their journey.

Well done Sandhya!! 👏

I will take those jelly knees any day knowing that my heart has melted and turned into this gooey elastic stuff that does not know how to stop jumping all around, since I read the update😃. Cheesy is not my mojo, but I will still say that you make hearts reach their melting point😉.

Coming to the chapter, I cannot believe how quickly Arnav went from barging in without a thought to planning his thoughts even before he walks in. I am kind of glad that Khushi was not at home because after the last chapter, there was no place else other than the "top of the world" that would have done justice to the beginning of the new journey.

The laburnum tree - Who knew that your characters are not the only things that we would be falling in love with😊. I am sure Arnav was planting a remembrance and hope when he planted that tree. And for sure as they say, when you plant a tree in your heart, a singing bird is sure to follow. Sometimes it may take some time and test your patience but the natures judgement always transcends time.

The walk back and the reading of the mind, the gaze, a little flicker of old times and finally "Arnav" on her lips - some things are to be cherished and not forgotten and just like Khushi, this belongs to a list of chapters that we would not forget.

Found your story and read all parts in one go. Love it. Looking forward to next part. Please update ASAP.

Originally posted by: DMGFan-2b-not2b

Darned and now I have to wait for another week ten days for the next update 😭

Sometimes it takes two people with a shared misery to help heal each other.

For Arnav, Anjali was a younger sibling, one with whom he had not spent a huge amount of time but one whom he loved and missed anyway.

However for Khushi, Anjali was the her other half and unlike Arnav, she is consumed by the guilt that it was her insistence to go out that resulted in Anjali's disappearance.

But they both have chosen to bottle it up and while Arnav has dealt with it much better, Khushi has been unable to move on... and who better to heal her than a man who understands her sense of loss and shares the same grief? And what better than their shared love for a lost child to bring them together?

While I understand Khushi being upset with her grandmother, does she not realize that it is her own attitude, her obvious unwillingness to move on beyond the tragedy that was Anjali's disappearance that makes her grandmother wary of telling her the truth. If she had the strength to deal with it and move beyond that, they would have felt her capable to handle the news.

I like the fact that Madhu and Uma have not held Arti's outburst against Arnav. Whatever may be Uma's reason for silence against Arti's attack, the Rao's willingness to move beyond that and to treat Akaash and Arnav with respect and affection speaks volumes for who really is upper crust and dignified between the two - for the Bengalis reading your FF, there is a term bhadro lok which describes the Raos! Though I do understand that Arti has had the loss of a loved child to deal with, but even her interaction with the rest of her family is a testament to her nature, and while you later amended it, I hold by your initial words - Arti is a bully.

I love Arnav's child like glee at Khushi's reactions to him...a thirty year old man and all weak-kneed courtesy the smile of one woman who is anyways bound to him by a strng emotional connect - it was so endearing!

Unknown to both of them, willy nilly they have started down a path which will heal them but also has the potential to ravage them in its wake.

Originally posted by: anera

pic of laburnum