Hope you all are doing good😃😃
Well i had written an OS that one of my friends, Shivani, read and she persuaded me to post it here because she claimed that many people dont visit the FF section. So this is just for her....😃😃
Shivi...i listened to you...😆😆
CRICKET AND...A BUCKET OF POPCORN!!
Arjun quickly got out of bed. He had to go over to his friend's house to watch the cricket match. And he HAD to be on time. There was no ways he was going to be late. He showered and put on a light blue t-shirt, which she had gifted him, and blue jeans. He looked at himself in the mirror for longer than usual. After all he was going to HER house. Yeah, his friend, his love, his soulmate - Rati. Even thinking of her made him smile. She was going to be elated when she sees him wearing this t-shirt. He smiled wider. He silently thanked God for making his director and producer think of giving him an off this day.
Just then his phone rang. It was Abhishek calling.
He picked it up. "Hello."
"Hi Arjun. Where are you? You are coming over to Rati's place, I hope," Abhi said.
Before Arjun could answer, he heard Jas's voice in the background. "Of course he is coming, dude! This is Rati's house we are meeting at, remember?"
Abhi chuckled loudly.
"You guys are crazy," Arjun said, trying not to sound too excited on hearing that. These people were not supposed to know anything about him and Rati, and they did not, but they always teased him and Rati on each other.
"We are waiting for you. Come soon" Abhi said, still chuckling, and hung up.
Arjun shook his head and put his phone in his pocket before gathering his car keys and rushing out of the house with a quick bye to his mum and his puppy.
xxx
He reached Rati's building in a short while and quickly rushed up to her apartment. He couldn't wait to see her. He knew he probably would not get time alone with her considering their other friends were going to be there, but just knowing she is around him would be enough for him. He rang the bell and, owing to his good luck, the door was opened by Rati herself. He was already smiling and so was she but when they saw each other, somehow their smiles got wider. She noticed his t-shirt and gave him a look of appreciation. But when he saw what she was wearing, his smile turned into a frown. She was wearing a white top with spaghetti straps and blue jeans. The jeans was okay but the top, no ways.
"What happened?" Rati asked, seeing his frown.
"Nothing. Are you going to roam around like this the whole time?"
"Yeah, why? You know how I dress up when I am at home," she said, puzzled at his reaction over her clothes all of a sudden.
"Yeah, but there will be other people around and all and I feel you should just put on another top, please," Arjun said, not liking the idea of other guys seeing Rati like this.
"Which other people? There is just Jas, Ashwini, Abhi and Navina here apart from us and no one else is joining us," Rati said.
"Oh, okay," Arjun said, heaving a silent sigh of relief. "I thought you would have other people over as well."
"Of course not, Arjun. Now come on in," she said, putting her hand around his arm and pulling him in and closing the door with the other hand.
They went to the living room where Jas and Abhi were already lounging on the sofa. The match had not yet started so they were busy talking about other stuff and they looked up when Arjun and Rati walked in. Of course Rati no longer had her hand around Arjun's arm by this time.
Greetings were exchanged and Arjun made himself comfortable on a bean bag while Rati went to the kitchen where Ashwini and Navina were helping her make some snacks.
Just then Rati shouted from the kitchen. "Arjun, what kind of popcorn do you want?"
Arjun shouted back, "Any will do."
Jas and Abhi started laughing before Abhi shouted, "Rati, you are making the popcorn. That is more than enough for Arjun. He doesn't mind the type, I am sure."
Arjun felt himself blushing and he knew Rati must have also blushed because he heard Ashwini and Navina say something and laugh loudly.
Jas and Abhi were looking at him and laughing so he ignored them and pretended to go through his phone.
He logged on to his page on Hoonur and went through the fans' comments. He replied to a few before updating his status. 'Going to watch the match with a bucket of popcorn.'
He smiled, knowing his and Rati's fans would automatically assume that he was having the popcorn with Rati since she had mentioned buying popcorn for the matches in a recent interview of hers. And well, all he could say about their fans was, 'They had no idea how right they were.'
He logged off and talked for a while with Abhi and Jas about the stuff going on in life and all when Ashwini and Navina came in the living room. Rati was still in the kitchen.
Ashwini gave her bowl of popcorn to Jas and plopped down on the sofa next to him. Navina looked around for a place to sit on and Arjun noticed that. There was a bean bag next to him but there was no way he was going to allow anyone apart from Rati to sit there. So he quickly took out his phone and car keys from his pocket and threw them on the bean bag, pretending as if he did not know that Navina was looking for somewhere to sit.
Navina apparently noticed that and she laughed before saying, "I wasn't going to sit there anyways, Arjun. I know that place is Rati's." Then she sat down on the rocking chair that was there near the sofa so that she could share the popcorn with Abhishek.
Arjun realized that everyone else was looking at him with quizzical expressions and he quickly said, "No I just kept my keys and phone so that I could sit comfortably. I did not mean to..." he trailed off and looked down, not knowing what to say next, which had Jas, Ashwini, Abhi and Navina in splits.
And that was when Rati walked in the room with her bowl of caramel popcorn. Her fav and coincidentally, Arjun's fav too. She looked around for a place to sit when Navina spoke up.
"Arjun, remove your phone and keys off that bean bag so that Rati can sit."
Arjun quickly nodded and removed the phone and keys immediately. His heart was singing inside. He had planned for Rati to sit next to him and that is what was happening. He tried to control his smile and when Rati walked over to the bean bag and gave him an I-know-what-you-are-up-to-Bijlani look, he just put an I-am-innocent look on his face and smiled at her.
She shook her head and sat on the bean bag, putting the bowl of popcorn between them so that Arjun could eat also.
The match started just then and everyone got engrossed in it, cheering India, except one person-Bijlani, of course.
He was watching the match but he was concentrating more on Rati who was busy watching the match and munching away on popcorn. He had to do something.
When Rati put her hand in the popcorn bowl to pick some, he got hold of her hand. She looked at Arjun in surprise, wondering what he was up to.
Arjun gave her a naughty smile and winked. She motioned with her eyes to their friends and tried pulling her hand out of his grasp but he slightly shook his head indicating he won't leave her hand. She was smiling and blushing and suddenly she noticed Navina looking at her with a puzzled look. Navina couldn't see their hands as the bowl was completely covered by the bean bags they were sitting on. Before Navina could bend to see what Arjun and Rati were up to, Rati pinched Arjun's hand and he quickly left her hand.
"Ouch!" He shouted, holding his hand in the other and nursing it, giving Rati a hurt look.
She passed him an apologetic look and the others started asking Arjun what happened.
"Nothing," he muttered and at that time, India scored a four so everyone's attention was diverted to the screen which was lucky for Arjun.
xxx
When the half time came on, Abhishek and Jas asked for more popcorn and drinks. Navina and Ashwini went to get the drinks and came back. After a while, Rati came back with bowls of popcorn and handed them to Jas and Abhi.
All this while, Arjun had been very quiet and Rati was a bit concerned that she might have indeed hurt him more than she had intended to. But his next action proved her wrong.
As she was passing by Arjun to move to her seat, he put out his foot and she tripped over it, falling - straight on to his laps.
He obviously was ready to hold her since he had planned the whole thing and so he caught her easily, making her landing on him one of ease and comfort. He held her to him tightly and after she got over her shock, she looked at Arjun only to find she couldn't look away from his gaze. His eyes conveyed a lot of things to her - he had missed her - A LOT, he wanted to spend time with her - ALONE, he could not concentrate on the match - AT ALL and he was still missing her - once again, A LOT!
She tried to convey to him that she was feeling the same thing when she realized they had an audience and quickly tried getting up. Her sudden action made her fall once again on him and this time, he got hurt, because he had not anticipated her action.
"Ouch! Rati you have gained more weight it seems. So heavy!" Arjun said, a teasing tone in his voice.
"Yeah, right! How mean! Leave me then if I am so heavy!" Rati said, trying to bring anger into her voice, but failing miserably.
His closeness was having an effect on her because she was blushing to the roots of her hair and she knew it.
"I am not holding you, Rati," Arjun said, smiling mischievously.
She looked down at her waist and he had indeed moved his arms away.
She rolled her eyes and this time, tried to get up extra carefully lest she fall on him once again. She did not get any assistance from the others because they were busy laughing at Arjun and Rati. She scowled at them and walked away quickly to blush in hiding and also to prevent them from seeing the smile she could not fight any longer. She knew this had been Arjun's plan and well, needless to say, she had also loved being in his arms as much as he had loved holding her.
xxx
As she walked away, she heard the others tease Arjun and him trying to cover up, saying it was just an accidental fall. She smiled wider.
xxx
When she came back to the living room, things had calmed down, though Jas, Abhi, Ashwini and Navina gave her teasing looks and she was sure they would have teased her too but she was saved by the start of the second half of the match.
She gave Arjun a shy smile and he smiled back at her. But when she passed by him, she made sure there were no more feet in the way.
xxx
The match ended without any more major incidents that would cause teasing. Of course Arjun had continued bugging Rati by lightly pulling her hair, kicking her bean bag, sending her random I MISS YOU and I LOVE YOU texts and also throwing popcorn at her when she started ignoring all the other things. This went on until the end of the match when even Arjun was engrossed in the nail-biting finish and forgot about everything else.
Then their friends' group decided to leave for their homes. It had been a great day so far with all of them enjoying each other's company after long.
Arjun was planning to stay back for longer to spend time alone with Rati so he was lingering around when Jas spoke up.
"Arjun, planning to sleep over here or something?"
Everyone laughed and Arjun and Rati blushed hard.
"No, dude! There was just some stuff I needed to talk about to her and so..." Arjun said, but before he could complete his statement, Abhishek cut in.
"What kind of stuff? Something private?!"
More laugher and this time Rati tried covering it up.
"Come on, guys. What private stuff could we possibly have to talk about?"
"Really, Rati? If it wasn't so private, then he could have talked about it earlier. Right guys?" Navina said.
"Yeah," Jas, Abhi and Ashwini chorused.
"Okay, fine, guys. I want to propose to Rati and I need us to be alone for that. Happy?!" Arjun said.
"Oooohhhhhhh," the gang chorused and laughed and this time even Arjun and Rati joined in the laughter.
After a bit of more teasing, the gang finally left. Rati had just closed the door when the door bell rang.
"Goodness! Who is it now?!" Arjun said, in an almost-shout.
"Arjun, stop shouting. Let me check," Rati said.
She opened the door and saw her new neighbor, Rajiv. He was around 20 years of age and took Rati as his sister but of course Arjun did not know that. So the moment he saw Rajiv and Rati talking as if they had known each other for years, he felt jealousy streak through him. Rajiv had come to ask for some sugar and when Rati left to get it for him from the kitchen, Arjun moved into Rajiv's view. Rajiv, who had just been about to get in the house, stopped in his tracks when he caught sight of Arjun. He knew Rati Di had a boyfriend. It had to be this one, because he had this if-you-take-one-more-step-forward-i-will-not-spare-you kind of look on his face. And plus, he looked very much like the co-star in Rati Di's former show. He was just about to ask him that when Rati Di came with the sugar so he thanked her and, with a slight nod to Arjun, left as fast as he could. Nothing could be worse than a lady's angry boyfriend.
xxx
Rati closed the door and turned to Arjun but when she saw his face, her smile faded.
"What happened?" She asked, perplexed at his sudden change of mood.
He did not beat about the bush and came straight to the point. "Who was that guy and why was he asking for sugar from you?"
Rati smiled and walked over to Arjun. "Jealous?" She asked, putting her arms around his neck.
Arjun quickly changed his angry look into an i-don't-care look. "Of course not! Just curious!" He said, pretending he was not bothered about who came to visit Rati.
"Really?! I think I know you better than that, Mr. Arjun Bijlani," Rati said teasingly. "That scent can only be one of a jealous boyfriend and nothing else."
"Yeah right! I am jealous! Happy?!" Arjun said, moving her arms away from his neck and walking away.
She held his wrist, halting him in his tracks and moved closer to him. "You don't need to be. I belong to you and only you. And you know that very well, as much as I do."
"Yeah, I know. But I can't help it at times. I mean I have not spent time with you in ages and here you are, busy giving sugar to your neighbours," Arjun said, a sulk on his face.
Rati laughed her beautiful laugh that had Arjun mesmerized and smiling as always. He never seemed to get over how beautiful she looked when she laughed.
"Arjun, he takes me as his elder sister. He is just 20 years old and I am sure he would never even dream of having me as his," Rati said.
"I don't think so. Every guy on this Earth, or at least 90%, dream of having you as theirs."
Rati laughed again. "Hun, I really don't think that 90% of the male population even knows who I am. I am a TV star, remember, not a Bollywood one. And as for Rajiv," she moved closer to Arjun and put her arms around his neck once again, "well, he knows that I have a boyfriend. And since he is an intelligent kid, I am sure he has realized that you are the man in my life, because I don't normally have men around my house unless it's you, my brother or my dad and in rare circumstances, Jas and Abhi, in which case, Navina and Ashwini are always around also. So you see, Mr. Bijlani, people around here kind of know that I am all yours. They just don't have a confirmation from me."
Arjun finally came around to his normal self after hearing all this. Rati always knew how to calm him down. He smiled and, putting his arms around her waist, pulled her even closer to him, if that was possible.
"You know, baby, there is so much I have to talk to you about. So much I feel I have to tell you is when I will feel at ease," Arjun said.
"So talk to me yeah. No one is stopping you," Rati said. She went on her tip toes and gave him a peck on his cheek.
"Okay, but before that, how about you give me a hug? It feels like eons since I hugged you. You did not even give me one when I came."
"Aww," Rati said and hugged him.
It felt awesome to have her in his arms. He felt a certain kind of peace settle over him, like he always did when he hugged her. It had been like this even when they had been friends. And now, hugging her was like a drug to him. He tightened his arms around her and buried his face in her neck. He took a deep breath and felt all his worries and stress melt away. She also hugged him back tight and he realized she had also missed him though she did not show it out to him.
At that moment, he swore to himself that he would never let her go away from him, ever. They could not do without each other because they completed each other. Arjun was nothing without Rati and Rati was nothing without Arjun. In short, they were just MEANT TO BE TOGETHER!!
Enjoy😃
Amy😃
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Bade Achhe Lagte Hain
CID
