KHUSHI MEETS HER RAKSHAS Oops! Sorry...ARNAV
OR
MY VERY FIRST RABBA VE SCENE
Place - Kothi at Lucknow
"What the!!", Arnav shouted into his phone. "Aman, tum ek kaam dhang se nahin kar sakte! Har cheez ke liye mera wahaan hona jaroori hai kya?" Arnav spoke while gritting his teeth. He cut the phone and glared at it as if it was source of all his problems. Why can't things happen properly for once! He thought. First of all, his Di and Nani threatened him into coming here, then the meeting with ladkiwallahs went wrong with the girl looking more like a model and less like a Raizada bahu material. Then his darling Jiju informed him that the reason behind the Puja which his Di organized for day after tomorrow was so that the Goddess would listen to her and get her Chote married. Arnav could not understand how some Goddess would help in getting him married. After all to get married he has to agree for it. And now, some problem cropped up in AR and he could not even do something about it because he was sitting here in Lucknow. He already was starting to have headache. He wished someone would give him some green tea. But he refused to ask for it because with his luck someone would add sugar in it by mistake.
Arnav was glaring at his phone when he sensed someone's presence behind him and then he heard cham-cham of the payals from behind him. He turned around to shout at the person who disturbed him when he noticed that there was no-one there. The wind started to blow into the room from an open window and the curtains around the room started swaying with the wind. Arnav shook his head. Nowadays, he started imagining things! He should get a check-up, Arnav thought. He started walking towards the door when he felt a presence to his left behind the curtains. He walked towards the presence and swiftly pulled the curtain aside. But there was no-one.
Khushi was scared. The guy sounded too scary. Luckily for her, the moment he turned she hid behind the curtains. She could see his angry expressions. He looked like he was about to explode. Khushi felt her heartbeat rising in fear. Already her eyes were threatening to tear up. She was alone in a room with a rakshas type of guy. By the time he had noticed the curtains and pulled them aside she had taken refuge by a nearby pillar. Her heart was beating so fast that she thought he must have heard it.
Khushi was taking deep breaths and trying to calm her heart down when suddenly someone caught hold of her hand and pulled her away from the pillar and she slammed into a hard chest. Khushi got scared of his anger. Without looking at his face she turned towards the door and ran with her right hand holding the bags containing the boxes of mithaai samples, when suddenly she felt her duppatta being pulled from behind.
Arnav was angry that someone was in the room and tried to escape him. He looked at the girl who slammed into his chest. He could not see her face as it was hidden in his chest. Suddenly the girl turned and tried to run away when her duppatta got stuck into his cufflinks. He tried to look at the girl's face and was about to yell at her for barging into his privacy when she turned. Suddenly a curtain came between and hid the girl's face from below her eyes leaving Arnav with only a glimpse of her face. He stared into her eyes, the only visible part of her face.
Rabba Ve'''.Rabba Ve
Ooo''..Rabbaaa Ve
Arnav felt like drowning into her eyes, eyes that showed so many emotions with fear being prominent. As he stared into her eyes, he felt his anger draining away and even his headache going away. Suddenly, he was reminded of a line from a song he heard when his Di was listening to it few days back.
Aankhen dekhi toh main dekhta reh gaya
Jaam dono hi do aur do aatisha
Aankhen yaa maikade ke woh do baab hain
Aankhen unko kahoon yaa kahoon khaab hain
At that time he had rubbished the whole stanza stating that how someone would have jaam in their eyes. Neither could he understand how eyes could be called aatish or maikade ke baab or a khaab. But today he understood those lines as he stared into her eyes. He felt his breath taken away and his heart skipping a beat when the curtain moved from her face and he noticed her whole face.
If it was upto him he would have stood there for eternity. Suddenly he was brought out of trance when the girl moved her left hand towards his left where her duppatta was stuck. He noticed her duppatta and fear in her eyes and smirked. Even though Maan always taught him to respect girls, not treat them in bad manner and never to intrude into their personal space, Arnav felt like ignoring those words of advice, especially the beauty, unlike the girls he had known, did not throw herself at him but was actually scared of him. He slowly twisted his hand and got hold of her duppatta and pulled her with a jerk. She landed right in his arms and looked fearfully at him as if he would gobble her up. "Kaun ho tum?" Arnav whispered. The girl whispered back, "Khushi." Arnav smirked and spoke, "Khushi? Kiski Khushi? Meri Khushi? Tum meri ho?" He tightened his right hand which was on her waist and pulled her even closer. Khushi's whole body stiffened with fear. "Humein chodiye", Khushi mumbled while shaking in fear. "Kyon chodoon? Mujhe tum meri baahon mein achhi lagti ho." Arnav replied. Khushi's eyes widened with fear. Yeh kaisi baatein kar rahe hain? Hey Devi Maiyya! Humein is rakshas se bacha lo. Thought Khushi as she struggled to get away from him. One of the strands of her hair fell on her cheek. Arnav untangled his left hand from her duppatta and moved the strands from her face. Taking the chance to escape, Khushi pushed him with her hands, pulled her duppatta from his hand, turned around and ran away.
Arnav stared at door long after she ran away. "Khushi", he whispered then shook his head as if the name did not suit her. "Afreen" he spoke out loud and smirked. Yes! For the world she must be Khushi but for him she was Afreen, the beautiful. Arnav thought.
P.S The stanza is taken from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Saab's song Afreen Afreen written by Javed Akhtar Saab in year 1996 from the album Sangam. If you want the song then while searching for it search for the remix version featuring Lisa Ray as that one is more cool with fusion of modern music and traditional music and lyrics.
IMPORTANT NOTE
For DFL Readers: Grandma is fine but I will be staying here for another week. I am in cyber caf and to pass the time I posted this as one shot. DFL will be back by next Sunday!
For Non- DFL Readers: If you really like this one shot and want to know what happens next, then read the full story by clicking this link: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/fan-fictions/2934978/destiny-fate-and-love-thread-1-chapter-1-42
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