The wind blows while she lights another candle, she feels his presence and looks up to his admiring eyes. She stands up. A slights smile appears on his face as his heart fills with her beauty.
Even La's entrance wasn't enough to divert his attention off of Khushi, till she talks "what did you do? you've surrounded yourself between candles" she tries to get out, but has a tough time. La asks ASR to give her a hand, well he wouldn't say no to that!
He slowly makes his way into the circle, taking a closer look, he gulps down his attraction. By reaching her, symbolically he has completely made it into her heart, maybe at this moment she knows it's not acidity, or black magic, it's something else, its pyaar.
She has come a long way in understanding this Rakshas, she knows he's anything but. Today she willing to hold his hand and follow his lead. She will be ready to confess her feelings by that poolside later. He continues to walk her out, still mesmerized by her beauty, he can't take his eyes off of her.
Not used to high heels, she would trip and he would catch her...hamesha.
The way her hand fits into his, he's loving it, even looks at her to see how she feels. The beautiful journey comes to an end, but their hands linger in each others.
Actually things have felt just right with each other for some time, just like the red saari...another loud and clear message sent by DM. As soon as Khushi had opened the box, he had immediately fell in love "kitni sundar hai!"...like any girl would do, she walks to the mirror and drapes it across her shoulder with a big smile on her face. It was just a new sari and but i felt her smiling a bit wider.
It wasn't the saari Anjali had intended on giving her, but the it seemed to have chosen Khushi. e to give Khushi one, the girl who sheIts customary that the in-laws would gift the daughter in-laws a new saari for Diwali, but what made Anjali decid hired to train La? does the fact that it is from Anjaliji, Arnavji's sister, have her grinning from side to side? there was something special about this saari in the auspicious red.
When Khushi learns that the it was accidentally switched, she feels terrible,
"maaf kijiye Lavanya ji woh...hame pata nahi tha"
"i'm sorry Lavanya ji, i didn't know"
Beautiful the way CVs show how Khushi never intended to steal the red Sari, it was planned by some unknown forces...just like the man they both have in common, La's response is also telling of the future "Don't be so silly! it looks great on you" as that will be her reaction when she finally sees where Arnav's heart, also red, truly lies.
In this little journey of theirs was so much promise, everything was the way it was meant to be, everything was right, felt right.
For Khushi, within the last few days in the midst of her confusion, the sense of belonging with him never left. Taking care of him when he fainted, stopping his from leaving on a hungry stomach without a car in Nainital, running to his strong shoulders when life became too much to handle. "Arnavji" just like she pulled out of the oil when she stress made jilebi again, all of her being giving her sign, she felt close to him, somewhere he became special, special enough to sweetly wrap his sugar-free sukha halwa that she specially made for him. And when Payal asks "What's this?" she almost gives herself away "yeh Arnav ji ke ...unhe meetha mana hai na" she quickly changes her tone from caring to passive. Even when she handed the meethai to OP after reaching the RM, she makes sure to stress ""yeh dabba Arnavji ke liye, isme bina shakkar ki mittai"...i have a feeling she put some extra love and care into making that sugar-fre halwa.
Arnav also continues to stay lost in her essence, under her "jaadu tona" (spell). He has ebraced these feeling with open arms undlike the frustrated ones he used to have. He has completely let his guard down and now that he's has a strong sense of Khushi's "ulaj (tanglement)" the meaning behind that lone tear when he hugged La is clear allows him perhaps to go even more deeper. Not to mention he can also hear her "dhak dhaks."
Their oneness is surfacing within both of them, a sense of belonging to each other. The proof is in the diya(candle) that she made for his home, which he allowed her to use clay from this beloved garden ... 'whats mine is yours" right?...and when one of the diyas accidentally slips from La, he catches it, remembering that Khush made it he softly grazes over it with his thumb demonstrating once again his desire to feel her and to breathe her in.
They came a long way in just a few days, by the time this Diwali arrived, both have brought light in each other in the truest sense. Both seem to be on the same page now, longing and wanting only eachother. But then again its never easy with these two, A crossroads is upon them. With the help of a lost and found payal some jaadu (magic) and nasha (high) let us do a walk backwards till the crossroad arrives... in between some madhoshiyan as well
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