You appear just like a dream to me
Just like kaleidoscope colors that cover me
All I need, every breath that I breathe
Don't you know, you're beautiful
You know that feeling when you have a nutella jar in your hand and a spoon in the other but as soon as you move in to scoop the delicious chocolate-hazelnutty goodness, the spoon the whooshes right through it. As if that jar was just a figment of your starved and nutella deprived mind?
That was exactly how Khushi was feeling right now. But the difference was, her nutella was Arnav. She, in a very weird way was missing Arnav. And every moment she wasn't doing anything she would replay that tiny peck over and over again.
It was just a peck! Not even on the lips, but cheeks!
She tried to not think about it but she had missed him. He hadn't been attending school for a week now. And if the rumours were to be believed- the Raizadas were on a vacation, more like a business trip.
The corridors were too quite for her and the bullying had stopped like it never happened. Dev and all other Arnav friends didn't miraculously come and apologize to her but they didn't mistreat her as well. They just kind of stayed a few meters away from her didn't bother to point out her existence.
Right now, Khushi was sitting in room trying to do her homework but far from achieving that thought.
"Khush!" Adin hollered from the room across the hall.
"What?!" She didn't mean to snap but Maths was frustrating and so was Arnav. And Adin just picked a wrong time to bother her.
"Come here, quick."
Acting like a 5-year old, she picked up Patches who was snuggles comfortably by her side on the bed and stomped to Adin's mess of a room.
Patches whined at being disturbed from doing whatever a dag does while staring in spaces. Khushi cooed softly to him and he snuggled more into her arms.
"What should we name our company?!" Was the first thing she heard upon opening the door.
Before she could even open her mouth the say anything, Adin started jumping on the bed while sitting like a person so high in the clouds to even realize he looked like a crazy monkey whose ass was on fire.
"I think we should name it "Kryptonite" or "Flash" or .." Khushi's eyes couldn't be any wider.
"Adin!" He stilled at once. As If someone just switched off' him.
"What?" He asked so innocently that would put even Patches to shame.
"We are 18 not 3. And our company already has a name that is very much human-like. Do not, in anyway think of making any life-threatening changes with that 3-year-old brain of yours." Adin started to whine about how Khushi was "no fun" and how he didn't want to work in a company that was named after him and how it would seem so "self-absorbed" to do so.
Khushi countered him with equally strong argument. As strong a argument can be made on that topic, anyways.
The banter between the twins went to and fro and unnoticed to them, their parents stood at the door deeply regretting the decision of handing over their business to them.
"They take after you." Garima said shaking her head while leaving the hall.
"Hey! You're no fun!" Shashi whined. Garima turned and raised an eyebrow questioningly while Shashi just reddened like a tomato.
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Arnav was confused. He thought all he did on Khushi's birthday was out of guilt and regret but the way he felling right now, miles apart from her said a different story all together.
He felt lonely in the most crowded place on eath. Even the noisy traffic and streets of Ney York couldn't ease his heart from feeling weird.
He had vowed to never loose he heart or let feeling com e in way of his life ever again after that incident but here he was, having second thoughts about a certain raven-haired, hazel-eyed beauty that would have probably been hating him from within for all he did to her.
Life was sly I that way. It would make you face the most precious person in your life and then snatch it away from you the very first chance it got. He had never thought that he would come to forgive life after what it had put him through but after coming home from her grave, he felt peaceful. More than he should have. And in that moment he decided, grudges were fools game. And want a fool.
Maybe a fool for a certain one, but he would never know.
Shiv Shakti
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