KHUSHI :
" jij"" please say something, do not stay quiet like this.
I cannot bear it anymore...enough...
Jiji????"
(She takes her face off the pillow and looks up...only to sink it back again...seeing ARNAV watching her from the door...)
KHUSHI :" oh!!! No..no...no...no...please no GOD!!! Do not let him hear it all!!!!"
" umm...Arnav ji! I thought it was jiji!!! Umm...when did you come? "
She climbs down the bed and with a faint and forced out smile takes the cup from him. Seats on the bed bed and looks at the fuming tea...trying to hide her tears...her feelings...her mourning from him...
ARnav :" KHUSHI!!!!!"
Khushi tries her best to look normal and with a lot of efforts speaks...
" hmm?"
ARnav :" KHUSHI !!!!"
without saying another word or waiting for her response, he walks to herm takes the tea off her hands and claps her hand in his...looks her staright in the eyes and kneels down beside her...inside of the bed...on the floor...
Leans on her...towards her right...and to the most wonderful gesture...he lowers his head down on her lap...
Khushi shivers up at the open declaration...at the unhindered feelings, let loose from his side...unknowingly...her fingers raise on thier own and starts to weave through his rough, dirty, mud stained hair...she tiuches his hair...his shoulders...his neck...
ARnav looks another look...and the next thing...either one of them remembers is the : warmth...the warmth of their skin...the touch of their souls...the declaration...
Khushi is weeping feverously , chanting only one name...only one name..."ARNAV...Ji.."...again and again...she repeats once sentence ..." I LOVE YOU!!! ARNAV JI!!!!!" again and again...she forgets how many times she said it...how many times her held her in his arms...how many times he wiped her tears off...how many times he held her in his heart...
A faint feeling churns un deep inside her..amidst all the chaos, blame game...negativity...a feeling of love, passion...something new stirrs her senses...
In return he kisses her...unknowing...involuntariry...in the heat of the moment..as if kissing her in the only way to make the misery shallow down...her hand. Her fingers...her eyes...her lids..her palm...her wrist..her hair..her...cheeks...lastly a last...last one on her forehead...
ARNAV claps her deep down in his arms...locks her forever in his sould..burries her deep down inside him...nothing in the world matters...enough damage has been done..enough bad has been commited...now it is time to build up...enough !!!!
Arnav ":
Khushi !!! I hearad it al...l...i love you..ok??? Did you hear me ?. I love you.. And that is the fact...what ever happened...it was meant to be...it was evil and ..it passed away..i am with you.. Forever..never..i repeat..never think you are alone in this...never..khushi..."
" do you understand me ? Never !!!"
Khushi
" but...Di ? Nani...rest of the family ???"
Arnav :
"I will take care of it. I am here ok.. You have doen enough!!! The family better appreciate it. I am here...i am alive because of you...i will be dead by now...if you havent shown up..."
Khushi:
"Please do not say stuff like that...nothing can harm you...i will die rager than..."
Before she can finsih Arnav slams her down back into his chest and kisses her again...tugs her on himself and makes her silent...Khushi finds herself embedded depp in hi...m...in his warmth...in his touch...in his peace...
She feels like home...
She feels like a new born...new human...a new woman...in love...in arms of her husband...her ARNAV...
Maybe the storm has casted away...
Maybe...this is the end...
Maybe this is the new start of his and her...new day...
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