[COMPLETE]His Journey Towards Euphoria-1 #5 See Page 76 - Page 34

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He felt safe, safe in a warm cocoon. A warmth enveloping him from all side and caressing his soul. Burying his face more in the softness, he sighed, feeling like a beautiful dream had just left him, leaving him in the magic of its aftermath. As he felt something move near his chest, he stirred awake from the magic he was breathing in. Lifting his head and opening his drowsy eyes, he saw that he was lying on Khushi's stomach, his heavy head on her stomach and chest crushing her soft thighs. He remembered waking up in middle of the night, waking her along with him and again drowning in eachother, knowing more secrets about eachother, revealing more secrets to eachother.

Coming out of the blanket that was covering them both, he looked at her dear face. Probing on one elbow beside her, he just stared at her angelic face. Her face looked tired from the love making, her breathing even, too deep in sleep. Taking a loose strand, he tucked it behind her ear, and kept staring. Last night was a dream; a dream he had known was his but still he had refused to believe. When had his dreams ever masked reality? It always vanishes as soon as it comes, leaving him withering in the pain of nightmares. But life did change when a timid girl, too scared of him, like a little deer, but still stronger than any women he had known, had entered his dull life; a life he had no expectations left from. And one by one, many nightmares of his life got replaced by a beautiful dream, a dream he had not dared to dream. But she, holding his hand in her soft warmth, had passed some of her courage to him, asking him to dream, and he had dared to dream, dream a beautiful future with her. With her. Lying down back, he took her in his arms, crushing her softness against his hard chest. Only with her! He reminded himself. There was no life before her and there will be no life after her. He is alive till she is with him. He had lived many nightmares, and had come out alive. But he will never come out alive if she leaves him. Feeling a warm liquid flow down from the corner of his eyes, he tightened his hold on her, holding her close to his heart. I love you! His heart whispered. He had not said these three words to her, and he don't know if he will tell her ever. He can't say her that, he can't. He cannot risk her. He cannot let Her know how much he loves the woman lying in his arms. She had always taken away the people he had loved the most, treasured the most. First his parents and then his Di, She had taken away all of them. He cannot let Her know how much he loves Khushi and again let Her snatch the person he loves.

Breaking the hug, he looked at her. Touching her cheek with his palm, he bent and kissed her soft lips. "Sorry... sorry, Khushi ... " he whispered against her lips. "I hope you can feel how much I ..." he stopped, swallowing the pain. "But I can't say ... sorry ...sorry, jaan ... Don't want to lose you ... never..." He hugged her, hurting at the mere thought of her leaving him. Anything to keep her close to him. Anything!

Laying her back on the bed carefully, Arnav stood up and wore the pant which was lying on the floor. He looked at Khushi, ready to leave for washroom, but one look at girl tangled in the sheet,dark clouds spread against the white pillow, looking more fragile and beautiful than ever, all the thoughts of leaving her fled from his mind. Slipping beside her, he again took her in his arms, loving the feel of her soft body against his hard one.

As he lay there, clutching his precious thing to his heart, he heard some murmurs , and knew instantly from where it was coming. He looked at the cot. Placing Khushi carefully on the bed, he stood up. Walking to the cot, he peeked inside to immediately look into two big eyes staring back at him, stopping all his other activities. He saw Abeer staring at him, unblinking and then two pearl like tooth peek from inside as he smiled at him. A sudden weight settled on his heart as he saw Abeer flashing his beautiful smile at him. As he kept staring at him, he saw him lift his chin in the air, smiling and throwing his hands in the air. Lifting his hand, Arnav picked him from the cot and held him close to his chest.

Abeer snuggled more against his Father's warm chest and kept his head on his bare shoulder.

Arnav held him with his both hand tight against his chest, not knowing what to feel about him. He knows Abeer is not at fault , still he is unable to forget that this is the same baby because of whom his Di is not with him. If not for Abeer, his Di would have been with him, hovering over him, caring for him, loving him, smiling at his every glare. Arnav closed his eyes as the pain started resurfacing again. He don't want to think on this, he really don't. But still this is the only thought starts running in his mind as soon as he sees Abeer.

"Amm...maa"

Arnav looked down at Abeer, his hands extended towards bed and eyes on his Amma. Walking towards the bed, he kept Abeer beside Khushi and laid himself beside them.

Abeer sat on the bed, just staring at his Amma for few seconds before squealing happily and crawling to his Amma to sit near her.

Arnav laid his head on the pillow and looked at the two in front of him, one in deep sleep and other surely not liking it. He saw Abeer squealing and then clapping, still not getting what he wants. A laugh died in his throat as he saw Abeer pouting, too sad at not getting his Amma's attention. And then to his surprise, he caught the blanket, ready to drag it down. Arnav leapt forward and caught his hand.

"Don't !"

"Aaa!" He again pouted and lifted his chin at his father . Falling forward, he laid on the bed, his right cheek resting flat against the mattress, butt lifted up and eyes still fixed on his father. Still in the same turtle position, he inched closer to his mother, his eyes still looking at his Father.

Arnav raised his eyebrow at him. "Really?" Trying to act smart with him?

Abeer squealed loudly and rolled flat on his back. Catching his toe with his little fingers of hands, he again looked at his Father. "Bu...bu...bu...bu..." Giving a teasing pout to his Father, he rolled and glued to his Mother's chest. "Aaa...maaa" circling his tiny arms around his Mother's neck, he clung to her, dropping kisses on her chin.

Khushi stirred in her sleep, feeling a sweet ache spread over her body. Opening her eyes, she blinked to fix her sight. And the first thing she saw was Arnav ji. His eyes open, but not looking at her. She frowned and followed his gaze, and a beautiful smile bloomed on her lips.

"Ebu ... My baby is up?" Catching him she pulled him up and rested his head on her pillow. "What is my baby doing?"

"Bu..."

Khushi smiled and kissed his pink lips.

"Ebu is doing bu'?" she pulled him close to her chest. "But that's not what I found you doing? You were doing something on by chin?" she looked at him. "Kissy?"

Arnav stared at them as Khushi talked more and more and her Son replied to her every question in the language only she understands. And then he saw her big almond shape eyes jerked up at him. He frowned at her, and then looked down. She had taken Abeer inside the blanket, and may be then had realized her state. Shaking his head at his pagal wife, he took his shirt from the floor and pulled the blanket over him. Inching closer to his wife and son, he lifted his right hand, which was holding his shirt, and took them in his arms. Lifting Khushi's right hand, he put the sleeve of his shirt up to her arms and then did same with the left one. Pulling Abeer little back, who was clinging to his Mother's neck, he buttoned the shirt.

"Ok now?" he asked, looking at the child-woman in front of him.

Khushi nodded, her eyes still big in shock

Catching her head from the back, he brought her close and kissed her lips. "It's ok ... he is too small ...hmm?"

Coming out from her shock state, she looked down at Ebu and then again at Arnav ji.

Arnav chuckled at her and brought them close to his chest.

Khushi buried her face in the crook of his neck, Ebu sandwiched between them, humming something softly against his mother's neck. "I was not wearing anything.." Khushi whispered, her cheeks burning.

"That's because we..." He pulled back to look at her. "You know ...?"

Khushi kept her gaze down, not daring to look at him. She remember ALL. It was like a beautiful dream imprinted on her mind, soul and heart, how can she forget that? Blushing more at the thought, she lifted her eyes to look at Arnav ji, whose caramel liquid was already at her. "You remember?" Khushi asked innocently.

Arnav kissed her little red nose. "How can I not?" Arnav asked. He felt his heart about to burst any second. He had never felt this warmth, felt this safe, encountered this happiness. Everything is settling back fine in his world. Happiness! Happiness was paving its way to him. He took his family in his arms, keeping them close to his heart. Should he be worried now? Happiness had never lasted long for him. But he closed his eyes, ignoring the question, not wanting to think on that, wanting to just feel the bliss he was living at the moment.

IMPORTANT NOTE(Please Read) :-

Hi everyone. I really don't know how to say this to you as I know no one was expecting this. But my last semester has started and I have 3 on going FFs. And I can't be regular with my updates with 3 on going stories, and it's not only about being regular, I want to reduce my work little, so I can concentrate properly on my studies too. So I have decided to end HJTE here, and start 2^nd season once I am done with Junoon', or if I am unable to finish Junoon till my last exam(which will end by May), then I will start HJTE-2, no matter Junoon is complete or still ongoing. Means you will get HJTE-2 by June, anyhow. Or if I am able to finish Junoon before May, then you will get HJTE-2 before May.

About 2^nd season of HJTE, it will be the continuation of 1^st season, NOT any new concept. It will continue with the same scared Arnav, same cute Ebu and same innocent Khushi. Any doubts regarding HJTE-2? Feel free to scrap me or PM me.

And now about previous update. I see many have their queries regarding previous update. All the doubts, queries , opinions are accepted. And now I would like to share mine too. Take it as my comment/views on my own story. So from starting Arnav was never a person who fears losing people to someone else, he always feared losing people to death. His parents died and left. His sister and brother-in-law died and left him. It's losing his dear ones to death what he fears, not his dear ones cheating him or leaving him for someone else. Thus we see he is scared, possessive, but is not much jealous of people whom Khushi loves. He fears that just like his parents and sister, Khushi could leave him. He doesn't fears that Khushi will leave him for someone else. He had known Khushi and knows she loves him, thus we saw Arnav understanding Khushi's love and care for Alagan.

Now coming to Khushi and Alagan's equation. Yes, she should not see Arnav and Alagan equally. And she is not doing that either. Alagan is someone in her life without whom she CAN live, but Arnav is someone without whom she CAN'T live. So she dare not weight them equally. But Alagan is important to her, someone who had always loved her, and whom she loves too. She knows Alagan is at fault. Then why did she fight for him with Arnav? Because she also knows that Alagan is not a bad person. If he wanted, he could have done many damage to her relationship with Arnav, but he never did that. Alagan's concern always was how he can show he loves her more than Arnav. He always wanted to show he is the person who can keep her happy, but never did something which can hurt her. He was helpless seeing his love with someone else, but still tried to cope with it, but at the end, just couldn't. And japonica, I agree we can't keep every person whom we love close to us. But we leave bad person, not a helpless person. And for Khushi Alagan is not bad, just helpless and ill. And she wants to help him. That's it.

I hope my views will throw some light on the characters and help you guys understand them better. And about abrupt consummation it was or not? I really don't know😆 I just felt they both are very much in love and needed to show how much they love each other.

And now I would like to thank each and everyone who loved this FF, read, liked and commented. It was my second story, I am happy so many people liked it. Your every appreciation really means a lot to me, so very very very very BIG thank you to all the readers of this FF. But don't worry, I will get back to you with 2^nd season soon. Sorry , not good with thank you notes, ..so just Thank you for reading this FF!🤗

Shivi :)