

KAHANI...Teri Meri
By: Mysticaldivine
âWhen I look into your eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find there just for you.â ~Unknown~
Arnav Singh Raizada was in love with Khushi Kumari Gupta, but he never wanted to confess, yet he wanted her to understand without words. He wanted to play hide-and-seek and give her and this entire world all the cues that she was the one who was ruling his heart.

He couldn't breathe without seeing her happy. Her tears were like the arrows to his heart. She closed her eyes on the mercy of the circumstances created by this destiny, where Shyam was tearing her soul every other second. Maybe destiny had another plan for her to send her a true saviour, the one who was carrying all the armour to cut the throat of Shyam, not letting him even utter her name. Ironically, ASR had no idea of anything yet; all he had in his mind was to show her the way back to his heart.

He felt the pain to his core on the night of Diwali when he was wrong. But he knew and was happy when she forgave him and looked into his eyes before shaking hands for his sister's sake. He wished he'd known her forever, keeping her by his side and hearing her voice in his ear. Today, he wanted to feel her skin on his skin, elevating the soul connection through heartbeats. The ones they both could hear and understand without words. He wanted her to feel the very same way how he was feeling.

He danced in front of every eye of this world, keeping her so close. His eyes focused on her all this time; he forgot the entire universe and every eye, yet all of her. He remembered her in his arms, feeling her close, listening to her heartbeat. He lifted her along the length of his body, letting her sprawled hair cover his visage. Nudging the side of her face orientally and letting her know she was gorgeous. He pulled her towards his chest, almost hugged her when she felt anxious and held her when he felt hurt. He wanted her to know when he smelt her and offended her when he touched her. He royally wanted to confess that he knew when she whimpered being next to him. He wanted her to understand that every dribble on her skin that disappeared into her heaving chest had his name on it. Smothering into her that night, he wanted her to melt along. Yes, he was in love with her, and every eye could feel it and melted with them seeing this unconditional love of two hearts in front of them.

How could she resist? Her heart could not handle this much love, but she could take his eyes off or refuse to turn his eyes away from what his heart was aspiring to. She'd never rejected him but wondered who he was but accepted him anyway. She wanted to tell him about the tree angel enchanted forest boy, her Laad Governor, who flew across the ocean because he loved her and wrote poems on her skin. She wondered why he didn't believe her on Diwali night and had a deep feeling that she couldn't find words for it, yet she rejected it, and he rejected it.
All he could deliver was a rim of tears and an apology, saying through his eyes that he had always had this belief from the first time he saw her and wandered all this time thinking his life was empty without her. He wanted to be clear that he knew what she wanted and felt when she was losing herself on Diwali night, but now he trusted that she was safe with him and believed that he would try to give her the best of him because she didn't deserve any less.
Yet he didn't say I love you, or she reciprocated the same, but their hearts knew and believed in everything their eyes said tonight.

âSometimes you want to say, âI love you, butâŚâ
Yet the âbutâ takes away the âI love youâ. In love, there are no âbutsâ or âifâsâ or âwhenâ. Itâs just there and permanently. No beginning, no end. Itâs the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heartâŚeventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brains and the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day until death.
To say âI love you, butâŚ.â is to say, âI did not love you at allâ.

This is what he said at the airport through his actions. He went away, leaving her there thinking of the worst, but the distance from her brought him closer to her than ever.
Being abducted, he wanted to say this to her: "I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become a part of my heart and soul. I love you as only you could love a man like me. Without fear. Without expectations. I want nothing in return except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart so that I may always know your strength, eyes, and spirit, which gave me freedom and let me fly like no one out there.â

Finally, he understood that it was love in its purest form, and in these last few days with his silent surroundings without her around, he had felt her voice as surely as he had heard the music spilling from those stars at a distance. He imagined every moment of Teri Meri's dance night when he held her so close last time, as if there was no tomorrow. He pulled her firmly with a fear of losing her again. He met that fear more than ever, yet she hugged him tightly, this time ensuring she was there and would be with him forever.

âI love you slowly. I love you deeply. I love you quietly. I love you powerfully. I love you unconditionally.ââ Brittainy C. Cherry,
There was unconditional love between them. Inseparable. They heard that a lot, but it was real for them. She loved him despite everything; She had saved his life more than once. She has always been there with her love, undoubtedly making him forget the pain for a long time. When it got dark, everybody was gone, and the lights were turned off; it was just him and her and that one belief that unconditional love was a truth that stood tall all this time, whether they were close or far from each other. This was what their love wasââa sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other thoughts, heartbeats, smells, and voices within and beyond this universe.

Edited by Mysticaldivine - 6 months ago
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