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Hey,guys...Thank you all SO much for your appreciation of my very first OS.It's solely due to your encouragement I'm continuing with the second part.So anytime you want me to stop,you know what to do..Stop encouragingš
This part is specially dedicated to those who wanted Khushi's perspective.This has been fun to write,as she is such a loving & care-free soul!
There's just one last part of this OS that I'm writing..Almost done with it actually.I started it meaning for it to be a confession between lovers,but it came out more like a conversation between soul-matesš³If I feel confident enough after this one,I'll maybe take the 'leap of confidence' & post it.
LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Khushi entered her bedroom,hesitantly pushing the door open.She was actually looking forward to seeing her husband.She still shivered at how she missed him when he went missing without a trace.And although she & mamiji found him yesterday,there was just too much confusion,too many people there for her to atleast see him to her eyes fill.Then after coming home both of them were slightly injured and immensely tired to do anything but get ready for bed and slump down in their respective sleeping quarters.Though she did help in getting ready for bed and feed him dinner,but that wasn't enough.She wanted to see him in broad daylight and sooth her battered heart.
She had wanted to insist he took the bed.But he looked so peaceful at being in his room after so long & tired from all the commotion she didn't want to braoch a subject with the potential for an argument.
As she entered,she met with an empty room.For a second,an all encompassing, choking, horrible feeling of panic thretened to suffocate her.Where is Arnav ji?He is gone again?She is left alone without him again?She just can not go through with his absence again.NO!
She hurried inside the room,restlessly looking around the room.She spotted his white sweat-shirt discarded on the bed at the same time as she heard the water running in the bathroom.She instantly felt a relief so strong it weekened her knees.She sat down on the edge of the bed.
She closed her eyes letting out a few droplets of tears.He was here.He was home.& so was she..She was home.Yes,she knew it as clear as the day now,after being without him for more than a week.Home was where ever he was.
She almost went deaf,her ears longed so much for his yells.She smiled tearfully.He did yell a lot.The second he stepped inside home back from work,he yelled for one of the Praksh's.As soon as he entered his room..No,their room,she mentally corrected herself,he yelled for her,it didn't matter whether she was within sight or not.And when she has irrititated him to the tethers of his temper,he yelled for Di.
Still smiling to herself,she took his discarded sweat-shirt in her hand & hugged it to herself.It smelled of him.She inhaled deeply.She remembered how she had helped him put it on last night.For once Anjali had been too traumatized herself to care for her Chhote.Arnav,surprizingly,let her do all the things silently he usually let only his Di do.He let her feed him,give him his medicines,help him take off his sneakers & put his legs up on the recliner.She touched him repeatedly to her hearts content,only to reassure herself that he was here.He didn't seem to mind much too.
She turned as she heard the bathroom door opening and she saw him coming out,wiping his face with the towel.She noticed how haggered he looked.He has lost so much weight.There were dark circles around his eyes.And he has also wetted his bandages in the bathroom,she noticed with a sigh.Then she looked up at his eyes.And they were looking right back at her..
For you,thre'll be no cryin'For you,the sun will be shinin'
Khushi knew she was responsible for all this.Yes,he didn't believe her.He became judge,jury and executor for her without even trying to know her side of the story.She was so angry at him initially,deciding she wouldn't defend hrself to him at all,as it didn't make a differnce.She was already serving her sentence for the crime,didn't she?
But then saw the pain in his eyes.His pain reached out to her when he asked her, didn't
she find it necessary to at least tell him everything?..His pain over-shadowed hers,when at the airport he said,he wanted her to be proven right despite himself.
& I feel when I'm with you,it's alrighti know it's right
She was unwillingly entangled in a mirky,twisted association with of of the most important persons in her life.She knows how much he loves his sister.Loving her own sister similarly.She knows full well,how she would feel if something similar happened to her Jiji.So in the process,he was hurt by her too.She never wanted things to be this way.But now that they were this way,she'd have to live with them. She'd have to make herself live with all of it,because the last week has shown her,she couldn't live without him.
& the songbirds are singing like they know the score& I love you,I love you,I love you like never before..
She stood up abruptly dropping Arnav's sweat-shirt from her hands on the bed.Arnav stepped in to the room slowly,never taking his eyes off of Khushi.He threw the towel on to the recliner with a careless flick of his hand,and instantly winced with pain.His elbow joints were still swollen from being tied down to that wooden chair for so long.An involuntary cry escaped his mouth.Khushi was there standing before him in a moment.She cursed herself once more mentally for being the reason behind all these.
She stood before him,unsure of what to do next.She put out her hands to his elbow,but dropped them the next second.There were too many biiter words said,and so many sweet words unsaid between them.These words hung in the air now,etched in both their memories.Her eyes brimmed with tears of sadness at not being his wife in the truest sense of the word,so that she could comfort him when in pain with every authority to do so.
To you I'll give the worldTo you I'll never be cold& I feel that when I'm with you,it's alrightI know it's right
As soon as Arnav saw the tears beginning to spill over on her cheeks from her lashes,he reached with his left hand to catch them in his palms.Khushi was so shocked by the gesture,her tears stopped as she blinked her eyes rapidly.She looked on questioningly as Arnav closed his fist,wet with her tears,and held up his closed fist to her,as if saying-they are mine now.She felt her heart would overflow with love.She loved a lot of person around her a lot.But this is something she never felt before.
& the songbirds are singing like they know the score& I love you,I love you,I love you like never before
Then Khushi jerked back a step in shock when he held up his other hand which was paining now to her.She looked at his outstreched hands for a couple of moments,then looked up at his face.She wasn't prepared for what she saw written over his face.Uncertainty.Plea.Apology.
Khushi saw him starting to move his lips.So she moved quickly before he could utter a single sorry.Those words from his lips always wrenched her hearts painfully.She was in no mood for them now.She held his palm with her right hand,and cradled his elbow in her left.Her left hand massaging his elbow to sooth any pain he might be feeling.She felt SO restless knowing he was paining.& he must be hurting VERY much for him to actually show it by his bahavior.She made a vow to herself,much like the one she had made to herself that she'd bring him back to Shantivan,that if it was up to her,she would never let any harm come his way ever again.
& I wish you all the love in the worldBut most of all i wish it from myself& the songbirds are singing like they know the score& I love you,I love you,I love you like never before
She was not blind to his follies.She knew them only too well actually.But now she knew the answer to her question.How a person could be a monster a second with someone,& then a prince with someone else the next second?It's because,as Naniji said,when Arnav Singh Raizada gave love,he gave the very best of himself.& when he hated,or at least tried to hate someone,he gave the very worst of him.So if you wanted something from him,you should be prepared to go the whole yard with him.And Khushi Kumari Gupta SINGH RAIZADA was prepared for it,all of it.Khushi straighted her back,her eyes glinting with anticipation,as she remembered the ASR she had seen caring for his family,the Chhote concerned for his Di,and most of all the Arnav who cared for her,helped her,teased her during Jiji's pre-wedding rituals.That was a Arnav worth fighting for,she thought smiling up at him wistfully as Arnav watched the expressions play across her face curiously.
Song Courtesy: Songbird(Fleetwood Mac)..If I ever I love someone as Khushi seems to love Arnav,I'll definitely sing this song for himš³
First Part:Arnav's POV
OS: The Reason Is YOU
Last Part: OS: Northern Star
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